Identifier: streetrailwayrev11amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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terest-ing information 2 miles to New York, and this stone, so the sion of Broadway, and whose drivers in their reckless efforts tocapture a possible passenger converted the street into a wild jimgleof buses and vehicles, through which the pedestrian made his wayat the risk of his life. In 1850 Jacob Sharp commenced his efforts for securing a streetrailway franchise on Broadway. It took him 35 years to overcomethe obstacles that were placed in his way, but he finally obtainedhis franchise and the story of how he did it is an important chap-ter in the political history of New York. The franchise wasgranted late in August, 1884, by 19 of the city aldermen, who metat 9 oclock in the morning in response to a quiet word which waspassed along the line the night before. A committee appointed bythe Legislature to investigate all the incidents connected with thisaction, aided by the late Roscoe Conkling, reported that Sharp hadallowed his enthusiasm to get tlie upper hand and had brought hini-
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A (II.I.MPSK OF NKW YORKS SHUlINd-SOUTII ST. .\NI) R.\S) RIVICK. Story goes, was in evidence as late as 1840. There were a fewshops on the west side of Broadway at Canal St. in the 30s, butin the main the avenue was given over to two and three storybrick residences occupied by the elite of the city. In a modestframe house in Greenwich Village (now Varick and Charlton Sts.)the first Italian opera in America was given and was enthusiastic-ally patronized by the fashionable set of lower Broadway. Broadways first transportation company was organized to runa single cart drawn by four large oxen from the Battery to theoutskirts of the city somewhere below Houston St, This was in 1746. Shortly thereafter, several regular lines of omnibuses were es-tablished and so rapidly did the citys trade and population in-crease that by 1850 Broadway had become overcrowded with ve-hicles, and at certain hours of the day was a place of excessiveconfusion and danger attended by detention of travel and inju

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