Heird & Blackwell. ROUTE-From Coenties slip, up South street, to Gouverneur street; up Gouverneur and Madison streets to Goerck street; up Goerck street to Third street; down Third street to Avenue D, and up Avenue D, to the Green Point ferry, foot of Tenth street, E. R.-S two-horse stages. Joseph Churchill. ROUTE-From Thirty-second street, up Broadway to Manhattanville-5 twohorse stages. Oscar T. Marshall* ROUTE-From the corner of East Twenty-third street and Avenue A; through Avenue A to Essex street; through Essex to Division; through Division to Chatham street; through Chatham street to Broadway; through Broadway to Fulton street; through Fulton to Washington; through Washington street to Cortlandt, down to the Cortlandt street ferry-16 two-horse stages. J. T. Mills.* ROUTE-From the foot of Thirteenth street, North river; through Thirteenth street to Avenue B; through Avenue B to Clinton street; through Clinton to South street; through South street to Coenties slip, to the South ferry-10 twohorse stages. O'Keefe & Duryea.* ROUTE-From Houston street ferry, through Second street to Bleecker street; through Bleecker strect, to Broadway; through Broadway to Cortlandt steeet, to Jersey City ferry, returning the same route-21 two-horse stages. Total number of Stages licensed for the year 1858. RATES TO BE CHARGED BY CARTMEN. Extract from Ordinance of Common Council, approved December 19, 1853. Oils, molasses, liquors, and all wet casks containing less than 25 gallons, Of 100 gallons and upward, for 100 gallons. Sugars, tobacco, copperas, and all dry casks of under 1,000 pounds weight, 0.50 Of 2,000 pounds, andu pward, for every 100 pounds.. 0.05 And other ponderous articles of 1,000 pounds weight and upward, at the Oil floor cloths, in boxes or loads of less than ten feet in length.. 0 33 For loading, unloading, and housing furniture in the removal of families, Chain cables of under 1,000 pounds weight, per load of 1,000 pounds Fish, dry, per load.. And for every load of goods, wares, merchandise, or other things, not enumerated... 050 0 28 Provided, That when the distance exceeds half a mile, and is within a mile, one-third more shall be added to the above rates and prices, and in the same proportion for any greater distance. And if any public cartman shall ask, de. mand, receive, take, exact, or extort any greater rate, price, pay or compensa. tion, for carting or transporting any article or thing whatsoever, than is mentioned, allowed, expressed, and limited as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for him to receive any compensation for the said carting or transportation, and such asking or receiving shall be deemed a violation of this ordinance. It shall not be lawful for any public cartman to neglect or refuse to carry and transport a good and sufficient load, as much as can be conveniently and safely stowed on his cart, or is reasonable for one horse to draw, nor any article of less than two thousand pounds weight, when required so to do, unless he be then actually otherwise employed; and every public cartman and public porter shall be entitled to be paid the legal rate of compensation allowed and provided in this ordinance, immediately upon the carting or transportation of any article or thing; and it may be lawful for any such public cartman or public porter to retain any article or thing so carted or transported by him, for which he is not so paid his cartage, and to convey the same, without delay, to the office of Chief of Police, and he shall be entitled to the lawful rate of pay or compensation for the so conveying. All disputes or disagreements as to distance, or rates of compensation, between the public cartmen or public porters, and persons employing or owing them for cartage or transportation, shall be determined by the Mayor. It shall not be lawful for any public cartman, or any other person, to cart or transport through any of the streets of said city, any poles, plank, spars, timber, or other thing exceeding thirty feet in length, except on a suitable truck or other vehicle, and such plank or other thing be placed lengthwise thereon, so as not to project at either end beyond the line of the side or width of such truck or other vehicle; and all persons so carting or transporting any such poles, plank, timber, spars, or other things, in any other manner, shall be deemed guilty of a vio lation of this article. It shall not be lawful for the driver or other person having charge of any public cart, dirt-cart, or any other vehicle, to be off or away from any such cart, or any other vehicle, while the same is moving or passing along any of the streets or avenues of said city; nor shall it be lawful for any public cartman, while waiting for employment, at any place assigned for his cart to stand while waiting for employment, or at any other place, to snap or flourish his whip, or to be away from his cart, unless from necessity or on business, or to sit or stand about the door-steps or platforms in front of any house, store, or other building, to the annoyance of the occupants thereof. It shall not be lawful for any person who has been licensed to keep public carts, or to be a public cartman, and whose license has been suspended or revoked by the Mayor, to keep, drive, or use any public cart in the city of New York under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such offence. The stanchions of every public cart employed in the transporation of any firewood shall be shouldered with a band of iron around the part which enters the mortice, and the mortice cased with iron, so as to prevent the wearing of the stanchion or mortice; or, at least three feet distant from the floor of the cart, there shall be fixed across, from one stanchion to the other, an iron chain, so as to prevent the stanchions from spreading, and no public cartman shall cart any firewood in violation of any of these provisions. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep, drive, use or employ, any cart› wagon, truck, dray, or other vehicle, other than such as are licensed as herein provided, for the transportation or conveyance of any article or thing, from place to place, in the city of New York, unless the name and residence, or place of business, where such owner can be found, [of the owner thereof,] be fairly and distinctly painted with red paint, on a white ground, in plain letters and figures, at least two and a half inches long, in a conspicuous place, on both sides of such cart or other vehicle, so as at all times to be easily seen thereon. AN ORDINANCE RELA TIVE TO PUBLIC CARTS. Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonally of the city of New York, as follows: SEC. 1. Every cartman who shall be duly licensed in the city of New York shall be permitted to place and leave his cart, when unemployed, in front of the house or premises where he shall, at the time, reside, or in front of the stable where he shall, at the time, stable his horse; provided that such cart shall be placed on the street upon the carriage-way thereof, in close proximity to the curb-stone next to his said residence or stable, and shall not extend beyond said curb-stone any greater distance than the width of such cart; nor beyond the line of the lot on which his said residence or stable is situated; and provided that such place of residence or stable shall be specified upon the license for such cart. § 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to any vehicle other than public carts in the city of New York. Adopted by the Board of Councilmen, May 16, 1856. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, May 23, 1856. 16 |