The following advertisement was published in the New York Herald: "Passenger trains will commence to run between New York and Peekskill on Saturday, the 29th instant (September, 1849), stopping at the following places and at the rate of fare respectively stated, viz.: Manhattan ville, twelve and one-half cents ; Yonkers, twenty-five cents, etc. Omnibuses will be provided at the junction of Chambers Street and Hudson Street to convey passengers who furnish themselves with tickets at the engine-house, at Thirty-first Street, until the rails are laid to that point. Trains will start at 8 a.m., 12 noon, and 4 p.m. N. B.-- Stockholders during the present week free of charge." ~

Originally the Hudson River road followed the straight line to the foot of West Thirty-first Street. The New York and New Haven Railroad (now the New York, New Haven, ami Hartford* was in full operation nine months before the opening of the Hudson River route to Peekskill. This road was built downward from New Haven through the Towns of Rye, Harrison, Mamaroneck, New Rochelle, Pelham, and Eastchester, to its junction with the New York and Harlem at Washingtonville, a distance in our county of 13.0 miles. The first through train from New York to New Haven, bearing a party of stockholders, was run on Christmas Rev.

W.

S. Coffey,

in Scharf's History,

i., 480.

■ Allison's

Hist,

of

Yonkei

from

to

Day, 1818, and the next day the road was opened for business. " It was at first a single track road. . . . The numerous curves on the road were caused by the restricted financial condition, making it necessary, as far as possible, to avoid cuttings and embankments. The desire had been to build the road in a substantial and permanent manner, but it was found difficult to complete it in any shape. .