. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . The view of the village from the end of the pier is quiteworth pausing to admire before taking a seat in the cars. At the head of the pier stands the village of Piermont, onthe slope of the hill and at its base, around the companyswork-shops and engine-houses. The company has built themost of its own cars and many of its own engines. Everything here presents a busy appearance, marked, at the same NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 2o time, with the order and regularity that characterizes allthe departments of labor under the supervision of this
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . The view of the village from the end of the pier is quiteworth pausing to admire before taking a seat in the cars. At the head of the pier stands the village of Piermont, onthe slope of the hill and at its base, around the companyswork-shops and engine-houses. The company has built themost of its own cars and many of its own engines. Everything here presents a busy appearance, marked, at the same NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 2o time, with the order and regularity that characterizes allthe departments of labor under the supervision of this A certain amount of disappointment was of course feit bythe inhabitants and landowners at and near Piermont whenthe Erie Rail-road Company yielded to the manifest neces-sity of terminating their line in fact, if not in name, at thecity of New York; and very great opposition to this coursewas made by Rockland county, aided by not a little log-rolling: in the Legislature of the state. But in this, as in allsimilar cases, the demand of the great public was a power sostrong as to put down effectually all outcries of petty company made their New Jersey arrangements, andcontinued to run their freight trains to Piermont, while theycarried passengers to Jersey City. A local passenger trainruns daily in connection with the steam-boat. They did not remove their work-shops from Piermont, andit is not probable that they ever will. In these work-shops they employ two hundred and thirtymen at car building, engine building, repairing, &c, &c,and this is still one of the busiest
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