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 violation 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 offense. The stanchions of every public cart employed in the transportation of any fire-wood shall be shouldered with a band of iron around the part which enters the mortise, and the mortise cased with iron, so as to prevent the wearing of the stanchion or mortise; 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 fire-wood 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 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 theron. AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO PUBLIC CARTS. Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty 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. TABLE OF DISTANCES. FROM THE BATTERY. FROM THE EXCHANGE. FROM THE CITY HALL. ΤΟ South Ferry.. .1,066 yards. Fulton Ferry.. 731 64 DISTANCES ACROSS THE DIFFERENT FERRIES FROM NEW YORK. Jackson street Ferry.. 935 yards. CITY RAILROADS. N. Y. & Harlem R. R.*.. Dec. 22. 1831.. N. Y. & New Haven R. R. Hudson River R. R. From corner of Chambers and Hudson streets; From cor. Barclay and Church;† thro' Church |