Bleecker and Fulton Ferry Railroad From 14th street and Tenth avenue, along 14th st., Hudson, Bleecker, Crosby, Howard, Elm, Reade, and Centre streets, Park row, to Beekman and South, to Fulton Ferry; returning Fulton, William, and Ann streets, Broadway and Park row, Centre, Leonard, Elm. Howard, Crosby, Bleecker, Macdougal, Fourth, West 12th, Hudson, and 14th streets, to beginning. ..40 Jacob Sharp. Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad From 51st street and Seventh avenue, down Seventh avenue to Broadway, University place, Eighth street, Wooster and Canal streets, West Broadway and Barclay street, to Broodway; returning through Barclay, Church, Greene, and Eighth streets, University place, Broadway, and Seventh avenue, to beginning; thence to 59th street and Seventh avenue--entrance to Central Park; with a branch to Broome street and Broadway; also one running down Seventh and Greenwich avenues to Eighth street, Macdougal, Fourth,Thompson, and Canal streets, West Broadway and Barclay street; returning the same to beginning; thence to 59th street and Seventh avenue-entrance to Central Park. .95 John Kerr. From 42d street and Eleventh avenue, along 42d street to Tenth avenue, 34th street, Broadway, 23d street, Second avenue, 14th street, avenue A, Houston and Cannon streets, Grand street Ferry returning Grand, Goerck, Houston, and Second street, avenue A, 14th street, Fourth avenue, 23d street. Broadway, 34th street, Tenth avenue, to 42d street Ferry. Dry Dock, East Broadway, and Battery Railroad Company-avenue D line.. From Depot 14th street, down 14th street, avenue D, Lewis street, Grand street, East Broadway,] Chatham street, Park row, to Ann street; returning, Park row, Chatham street, East Broadway, Grand, Goerck, and Houston streets, avenue D, 14th street, to Depot. W. Richardson. Avenue B line From 34th street Ferry, down First avenue to 23d] W. Richardson. • Grand and Courtlandt street line [From Grand street Ferry, down Grand street to W. Richardson. Grand street line. From Grand street Ferry to East Broadway, New Canal and Canal streets to Broadway; return same route. } W. Richardson. DISTANCES ACROSS THE DIFFERENT FERRIES FROM NEW YORK. South Ferry..........1,066 yards. Jackson Street Ferry.. 935 yards. ....6,418 yards. 44 NEW YORK GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. Office, 157 and 159 Hester street. Chartered 26th of March, 1823-unlimited in duration. J. H. Adams, President. OFFICERS. Charles C. Mowton, Manager. The pipes have been laid in all of the streets of the district south of Grand street, under its contract with the Corporation of the city, requir ing about 130 miles of mains of various sizes, from eighteen-inch to threeinch diameter. The works are situated on Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets, from First avenue to East river, with buildings and suitable apparatus for manufacturing, washing, purifying, and distributing the gas. There are now in operation six large telescope gas-holders at that station. MANHATTAN GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.' Ofice, corner of Irving place and Fifteenth street. Charles Roome, President. Samuel H. Howard, Secretary. OFFICERS. Floyd Smith, Vice President. George Stancliff-Superintendent of Street Mains and Lamps. Walter Roome, Superintendent of Gas-works in Eighteenth street. William Combe, Superintendent of Gas-works in Fourteenth street. This company supplies that portion of the city which lies north of Grand street. South of Thirty-fourth street they have two stations or works; one at the foot of Eighteenth street, near the North river, containing six large gas-holders and six hundred retorts, and capable of supplying two millions cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours; and one station at the foot of Fourteenth street, East river. The Fourteenth street works are now producing four hundred thousand feet of gas per day; when finished, they will contain six iarge gas-holders and nine hundred retorts, equal to a production of three millions cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours. The company have 430 miles of street mains; light 30,000 street lamps, and supply gas to over 50,000 stores and dwellings. In 1863, they manufactured 1,900,000,000 feet of gas. |