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Show 90 TABLE OF DJSTANCES, FARES, ETC. same. within the city limits, 50 cents. If more than one passenger, then for each passenger 25 cents. For conveying one or more passe ngers in any other direction, within the limits of the pavement, for each passenger, per mile, 25 cents. For conveying one or more passengers, when a carriage is employed by the hour, $1 per hour. BAGGAGE.-For each trunk or other baggage placed inside, at the owner's request, and which would exclude a passenger, for each passen. ger that might be excluded thereby, 25 cents . . For each trunk, &~., placed outside, 12!- cents. Baggage placed outsJde not to pay more, In the whole, than 25 cents. The -penalty for exceeding the above charges is a fine of $5. CAns.-For conveying one passenger from any place east of the centre of Broad street, to any other place east of the centre of Broad street; or from any place west of the centre of Broad street, to any other place west of the centre of Broad street, within the city limits, 25 cents. Each additional passenger 12i cents. For conveying one passenger from any place cast of the centre of Broad street, to any other place west of the centre of Broad street; or from any place west of the centre of Broad street, to any other place east of the centre of Broad street, within the city limits 37t cents. Each additional passenger 12k cents. For the usc of a cah by the hour, within the city limits, with one or more passengers, with the privilege of going from place to place, and stopping as often as may be required, for each and every hour, 50 cents. Whenever a cah shall be detained, except as in the foregoing section, the owner or driver shall be allowed per hour, 50 cents. And so, in proportion, for any part of an hour exceeding 15 minutes. For conveying one or two persons, with reasonable baggage, to or from any of the steamboats or railroads, (except the Trenton and New York railroads,) 50 cents: more than two persons, each 25 cents. For exceeding the above charges, or for refusing or neglecting, when unemployed, to convey any persons or their baggage to any place within the limits prescribed by the ordinance, upon being applied to for that purpose, the penalty is a fine of $5. OMNIBusEs leave the Exchange every few minutes for the various parts of the city, Fairmount, Girard College, &c. Fare, 6 cents. A TABLE SHOWING THE DISTANCE, FARES, &c., FROM PHILADELPHIA, TO MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PLACES IN THE UNION. . The follo.win~ table wi.ll show, at Cl: glance,. the distance, expense, and tz"!-e, oc.cupied In. travelltng from PhiiadelphJa to the most prorninP.nt ponlt~ In the Unwn .. Allowance, however, must be made in the rate of fares, when travellJng in steamboats, upon lakes or rivers, as those In odes of conveyance are subject to more or less competition in which case .the fares vary. !hose given, however, are as accurate 'as can be obtained under the r.Jrcumstances, and will, no doubt, be found near enough ~o ~ake up a genera~ est~mate o.f expeuses. The time given is that Which Js actuaiJy occup1ed In passtng from one point to another, TABLE OF DISTANCES, FARES, ETC. 91 ............................ ~""-'-"'-"""-'-......_,..__~ ~~"-"-"'-f'- ~""~""""""~""~"""""""""'~~ . . are not talten into constderatJon, as the detentions between edacth ro~~~ for himself. The distances are gene· these the traveller must e ermt rally given by the shortest routes. - Names of Places. From PHILADELPHIA to New York ........ . . .. .. New Have n .. ···· · •• .. .. Hartford ... · · · · · · · •• . . .. Springfield · · · · · · · · •• . . . . Worcester. · · · · · · ·· · .. • • .. *Boston. · · · · · · · · · · • • tProvideuce . · · · · · · . . .. •• Newport, R. I.···· .. .. • • Fall River.········ .. • • .. • • .. tNew Bedford.····· .... • • .. Lowell . ... ····· · ·· • • •• .. Haverhill · · · · · · · · · 0 I . . .. Newburyport.····· • • •• . . Portland, Me .... · · •• •• •• Albany . · · · · · · · · · · •• Saratoga Springs.· . . •• •• Montreal. .. ···•··· ... .. • • • • .. Elmira ' N. Y .. · · .· · { Niagara Falls, v1a • • •• . . N. York and Ene R.R. and Geneva • • .. Harrisburg . · · · · · · · . .. •• •• . . §Pittsburg· ...... · · • • • • ~>:~ ( liCieve.land •.. · · · · · •• •• ~z~ ~ DetrOit ...... · .... • • • • ~Q-.)o§'.~"' Chicago.········· z >-~ l • • Galena.· · · · · · · · · · ~§ ~ St. Paul, Mi.n. ~er .. •• • • •• ~ ~fCincinnati, VJa ~ • • • • · · Columbus . · · · ~ St.Louis, via the ~ •• • . Ohio and Mis-• • sissippi River.s. { N. Orleans, \'Ja } • • . . Ohio and Mis-•• sissippi Rivers • • . . Baltimore · · · · · · · · · Washington .. . ..... • • .. • • .. Charleston · · · · · · · · • • Savannah .. ····· · · •• . . .. Montgomery, Ala .. .. .. • • • • . . .. .. Mobile ... ········· .. New Orleans.····· •• . . . . Memphis, Tenn.··· 0 I Miles. Hours. --- 87 4i 163 8k 19!) lOt 225 11 Jt 279 13i 323 14~ 275 15k 252 14t 270 15k 321 ]8 349 15l 356 16 357 16 428 19i 231 10i- 270 12k 400 27-k 370 HJ }558 28 107 5!. .j. 341 36 710 43 846 55 1129 90 1309 138 1659 173 682 72 1157 235 2408 295 97 6 137 8 6H5 58 820 ti5 12.12 103 1409 143 1575 163 1420 187 F ares. $3 0 0 u 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 5 5 tj 2 6 5 7 0 6 0 6 0 G 0 7 3 7 (j 7 8 8 0 9 0 5 0 6 0 11 8 14 3 10 17 20 26 34 39 21 21 29 3 4 20 25 44 52 57 43 5 75 10 50 00 00 00 50 50 50 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 *From New York to Boston, by railroad, via New Haven, Ilartfard, Springfield, &cYork to Providence, via Long Isl~nd Sound. ttFFrroomm NNeeww y ork to '~"~'T ew Bedford ' via Fall RIver. |
