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Barrett, Justice, 165
Bartlett, Justice, 163
Beach, Judge Miles, 175
Beadleston, Ebenezer, 133
Belmont, August, 106, 219
Belt Line Railway Corporation,
112, 186

Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry
Railroad Company, 119; exten-
sion, 119; incorporated, 121;
lease of, 124, 125, 129, 208; di-
rectorate, 128

Bloomingdale, 14

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Boodle" Board, 168, 172

Boston Post Road, 14

Brady, Anthony N., 201
Bribery, 46-49, 66-67, 97
Bright, Osborne, 163
Broadway, 14; fight for, 78-107;
railroad on, 78; opposition to,
78-80, 82; resolution for, 79; in-
junction against, 79-80; offers to
construct railroad on, 78-79, 85,
102; first attempt to acquire
franchise for, 80-81; second at-
tempt to acquire franchise for,
84; Senate bill (1860), 86; pro-
test against, 87; third attempt
to acquire franchise for, 94-99;
fourth attempt to acquire fran-
chise for, 99-100; fifth attempt
to acquire franchise for, 100-
103; municipal road proposed,
104; proposals for, 104-106;
perpetuity of, 107

Broadway Railway Company, 134
Broadway Railroad Company, 159,
161, 162

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Broadway and Seventh Avenue
Railroad Company, trackage
agreements, 118, 163; incorpor-
ated, 119; lease of, 121, 207;
extensions, 126; allied with, 142;
motive power, 170

Broadway Surface Railway Com-
pany, 159, 160, 161, 163, 167, 168
Bromner, Henry, 71

Bronx system, 193, 200
Brown, William, 97
Butler, John, Jr., 109

Cable plan, 179

Cantor Act, 183, 184, 190, 193, 200,
202, 234

Carter, James C., 167

Central Crosstown Railroad Com-

pany, 129, 137, 140, 218
Central Park, 40, 146

Central Park, North and East
River Railroad Company, 108;
extension, III; trackage agree-
ments, III, 118; lease of, III-
112, 198, 209; receivership, 112;
mortgage foreclosure and sale,
112; reorganization, 112; oper-
ating agreement, 112

Chambers Street and Grand Street
Ferry Railroad Company, 173,
207, 208
Christopher

and Tenth Street
Railroad Company, 118, 129
Citizens Union, 66

City Reform party, 48, 49
Civil War, 143, 144
Clark, Myron S., 109
Clinton, Mayor Dewitt, II

Columbus and Ninth Avenue.

Railroad Company, 158, 201, 211,

212

Commerce, 15

Commissioners, II

Conkling, Roscoe, 167

255

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Cornell, Edward, 112

Franchises, grants to:

of

Coulter, James E., testimony of,
46

Curtis, Charles, 114

Dartmouth College Case, 168
Devlin, John E., 114

Dewey, Horace M., 47

Directorates, 128, 219
Doan, Horace A., 189
Dolan, Thomas, 206, 216
Donohue, Judge, 162

Dry Dock, East Broadway and
Battery Railroad Company, 114;
extension, 116; court decision,
117; trackage agreements, 118
Durant, Charles W., 109

East Side, 144, 145, 150
Edson, Mayor Franklin, 126, 128,
162, 166, 175, 179

Eighth Avenue Railroad Com-
pany, 41, 44; profitable line, 46;
lease of 53, 213; attempt to ac-
quire Broadway, 95, 98-99
Elkins, W. L., 206, 216
Ely, Mayor, 149

Erie Canal, 16

Erie Railroad Company, 175

Fassett Committee, 171
Flagg, A. C., 45

Flynn, James W., testimony of, 47
Foreword, 9

Forshay, James W., 170
Forty-second Street Crosstown
Railroad Company, 149
Forty-second Street and Grand
Street Ferry Railroad Company,
112, 114; trackage agreements,
118; lease of, 198, 209
Forty-second Street, Manhattan-
ville and St. Nicholas Avenue
Railroad Company, 118, 147, 148;
extension, 148, 151, 152; track-
age agreements, 152
Franchises, auction sale of, 89;
power of legislature to grant,
57, 89-93, 108; general, 147, 165
Franchises, grants to:

Avenue C Railroad Company,
132, 133

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Dry Dock, East Broadway and
Battery Railroad Company,
114, 115, 116, 117, 118
Eighth Avenue Railroad Com-
pany, 41, 44; violation of, 45;
validity of, 46, 50-52
Forty-second Street and Grand
Street Ferry Railroad Com-
pany, 112, 113, 115
Forty-second Street, Manhat-
tanville and St. Nicholas
Avenue Railroad Company,
147, 148, 150, 152

Fulton Street Railroad Com-
pany, 192-193

Houston,

West Street and
Pavonia Ferry Railroad Com-
pany, 134, 198

Hudson River Railroad Com-
pany, 33-35, 36-38; perpetuity
of, 38

Lexington Avenue and Pavonia
Ferry Railroad Company, 198
Metropolitan Crosstown Rail-
way Company, 195

New York Cable Railway Com-
pany, 183

New York and Harlem Rail-
road Company (1831), 17-19;

(1832), 19, 21-23, 24, 25, 27-32
Ninth Avenue Railroad Com-
pany, 72; validity of, 73-74,
75-77

North and East River Railroad
Company and the Fulton
Ferry Railroad Company,
189, 196

Franchises, grants to:

One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Street Railroad Company,
135-136

Second Avenue Railway Com-
pany, 54-55; validity of, 56
Seventh Avenue Railroad Com-
pany, 93

Sixth Avenue Railroad Com-

pany, 41-43, 44, 53, 54; valid-
ity of, 46, 50-52

South Ferry Railway Company,
141, 142

Third Avenue Railroad Com-
pany, 59-61; legality of, 64-66;
Kingsbridge extension, 63-69
Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown
Railway Company, 179
Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and
Eleventh Avenue Railroad
Company, 177, 178

Thirty-fourth Street Railroad
Company, 176-177, 179
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
Street Railroad

185, 186, 187, 195

Company,

Twenty-third Street Railway
Company, 130, 131

Fulgraff, L. A., 160, 161, 169

Fulton Street Railroad Company,
189, 192, 193

General Railroad Law

(1850),

112; (1884), 154, 173, 183, 184,
185, 187, 196

Grace, Mayor William R., 178, 182,
186, 192

Grant, Hugh J., 160, 170, 199
Greater New York, 117, 221, 224,
235

Greenwich Village, 14

Gridiron bill, 89; opposition to, 89

Hamer, John W., 189
Harlem, 14

Harris, Sidney S., 167

Haughton, Nicholas, 105

Haven, George C., 159

Heppenheimer, William C., 189
Hill, Richard L., 148
Hoffman, Mayor, 30, 100
Horse cars, 23

Houston, West Street and Pavonia
Ferry Railroad Company, track-
age agreements, 118; lease of,

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