Abstract

The Week

The article discusses several issues related to transportation in New York. A meeting, rather thinly attended, of the merchants and others interested in the transportation problem, was held in New York City on Wednesday week. A good many speeches were made, and a long string of resolutions passed. The speeches were mainly devoted to an exposition of the injury inflicted on the commerce of New York by the want of sufficient means of communication with the West, and by the bad management of the existing railroads and canals. It seems to be acknowledged on all hands that Boston, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland are drawing to them a larger and larger proportion of the Western produce, owing in part to cheaper or, what is the same thing, more rapid transportation, and in part to the want of better facilities for unloading and shipping at New York.