The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1874, Page 20

18 “RAPID TRANSIT. What the Candidates for the As- | sembly Think About It. | HUMBUGS OF "The Route Lobbyists im the City | To Be Set Aside. | ITY V3. PRIVATE CORPORATION. THE PAST.) It ts the habit of our city candidates for the Legislature to make @ great many pledges just be- fore election, which, as a general thing, they for- getail about once they are deciared elected, The Rquor dealers, the temperance men, the anti- Green meo and all other classgs who Lave a cer- taw degree ol organization in tue various wards, have already gone the grand rounds to “sound” ‘he aspirants for seats in the Assembly, with a view of knowing whether they cau be relied upon; whether, wf elected, when they will be avie fo make new iaws aud unmake old ones, they will stand by the “friends” who put | Ahem in power, The great muss of the | voters in the Assembly districts, a3 a rule, pay | very little attention, uusortunately, to the past Albany records of the lezisiative candidates | M they happen 1 be “old birds,” or to their fitness | to represent them and the interests of tue city if ‘they are fresh in the Meld. Besides, 10 is the too com- ‘men habit of the average New York Assemblyman te follow the example set nim by his country col- leagues, when he does go to the Legislature, in considering himseif under obligations to legislate | for his district only—in fact regarding it ag an in- | terierence with the “rights” of his fellow city | members to go outside of his own disiries to legia- | Jate jor the city at large, despite the wishes of an | uptown or downtown member, whose district may | not want the kind of iegisiation proposed, There | are exceptions to this rule, out they are very iew. The question of rapid transit for this city has in years past given rise to; @ great deal of this sectional antagonmm among our city legislators, and as this same question will doubtiess again be agitated during | the coming session—and it is to be Loped not to ‘the same useless purpose it has been heretofore— Mt may be well for the city voters generally to | Know now just wha: their candidates intend to do wboutit. It needs no argument to show that itis | @ question which | VITALLY INTERESTS THE ENTIRE CITY, and that the residents of the lower part of the eity would be as greatly beneflied as the resi- | @ents of the upper wards by the establishment of | @ rapid transi? route irom one end of the island to | the other, as it would be the meaus of relieving | the present overcrowded districts, making rents | eheaper for the poor, while afording the middie | classes, who are now forced to pay exorbitant | rents in “respectable” surcets, a chance to secure more comfortable homes up town at reasonable Fates, and, in poimt of fact, not any iurther away | from their places of business than bejore. A | HERALD reporter, during the past few days, nas endeavored to ascertain the views on the ques- tion of most of the candidates for the Assembly, and it can be said that so iar a8 promises go be- fore election they are one and all in favor of Fapid transit. i PROPER SAFEGUARDS REQUIRED. | Mr. Muller, the Tammany candidate in the First @istrict, states that he will, if elected, neartily ad- YVocate any good rapid transit measure that gives promise of being a success. A private corporation might be given the privilege to build the road, but g@atleguards should be thrown about the grant that ‘Would guarantee the public against the danger of being entirely at the mercy of the corporation. Tne city itself, he believes, ought to have an in- Verest in it. WESTCHESTER OUGHT TO PAY ROUNDLY. Wiliam P. Kirk, democratic candidate for the Becond district, is in favor of rapid transit, He has an idea that Westchester county and New York conid bmid the road, and that as the real estate of tne former county would be immensely Denefited by the great influx of population that ‘Would tollow the buuding 0! a good road 1t should ‘be willing to pay its due proportion. WHAT HAS NOT BEEN DONE. John C. Brogan, democrat, in tne Third district, ts @ strong believer in the final success of a rapid transit road, underground or overgrouad, 50 long a6 it is well built, He thinks the city ought to Dave a controlling interest in tts construction. | Warren C. Kennett, democrat, favors vue idea of @ road oullt under the supervision of the city au- | therities, and if by a private corporation that we €erporation’s powers be well defined, go that tue ‘work would be done in a given tume. Charies Reiliy in the Fourth, iimothy J. Camp- | well in the Sixth, Louis C. Waebner in the Yentn, | dames Daly in the Fourteenth, are all hearty ad- vocates of a rapid transit road. The toree iatier , muemen have been memvpers oi the Legisia- are, and, while members, earnest supporters @f every rapid iransit bill that came Beiore tne House and which seemed two be backed by men who really meant to Dulid a road. Campvell and Daiy, like most ali the men who have heretofure deen in the Le; lavare Bay that they are almost sick of the cry of | “rapid transit,” for the reason that as much as they and others have done by their votes to give parties who promised to build aroad once they obtained the right, not a single serious step has been taken by one of the venefited partues to build a road. This view of the matter is taken by oubers of the candidates, one oi whom remarked n the subject:—“in my opinion we must soon bave a road that will relieve the already over- crowded portions of tie city. Talk as we will about the rapid progress of New York, you can go ver blocks and biocks in the uptown wards, | Where empty lots are met with on every side, and empty nouses, too, The fact is, a man in busi- | ness down town who lives in Hariem and who , has to be at his office at nine aud doesn’t get @way until six, bas 4 terrible time of it ou the horse cars, especially in winter. Just think of four pours acay occupied in going ten or tweive Miles, A rapid tranait roed would end all this and We would bave less empty lots at the upper end of the island. We are every year losing as moch as would half pay for a yova road in the a@bandonment of the city by people who, rather than submis to our present way of travelling up town, go to Brooklyn or Jersey, where they don’t | HAVE TO LIVE IN TENEMENYS | and can get cosey homes at reasonabie rents. It | 4s a loosish policy not to have the city bind Itself for the construction of @ good road. it would pay Jor itself in five years, and I tee! certain that te stock would be goboled up by capitalists the mo- | moat ii wag jesued.”? | Smith E. Lane, democrat, of the Seventh As- wembly district, bemg a progressive man and one | ‘Who has the Incerests of che etty at heart, 18 an earnest friend of rapid transit. He, wo, believes that if the city took @ hapd in the project of build- Ang 4 road capite, would be torthcoming in abun- | dance. | Wilham H, Gedney, republican; Alfred A. Beach, democrat, of the Thirteenth ward ; Thomas Costi- gan, democrat, of the Fifteenth; Peter Woods and | gohn T McGowan, of the Sixteenth; George C. | Dessar ana Thomas Cooper Campbell, of tne sev- enteenth and Kighteenth, respectively, both dem- Ocrats, couviuer a rapid traneit road an) absolute nec ity. Ohver P. buell, demo- | Crat, of the Eleventh; Ransom Parker, Jr., of | Wwe Ninth, democrat; Orlando Stewart, of the ‘Twentieto, democras, and Germain Hauschel are | also irichds of rapid transit. They ope ana all be- | Aleve that the coming Legisilatare should settle | fe question ‘or all time. Mir. Stewart and Mr. Hauscuel sre especially earnest in their deter- imination to compe! the Legisiagure, 80 Jar as they | can do it 10 pass some bu! that will be jolowed by | Immediate work ono rapyl transit route, As to What kind of a road w be the best all the can- didates alluded to above are rather in 4 quandary, ‘They say if they could Le satistied by engineers of good standing that a better road could be vnilt under ground thamgver ground they would be in Savor of it, inasmuch as it would be NO OBSTRUCTION 70 TEE STREETS. However, they think gat tue cot of an under ground road would be too great. In defanit of some good underground road, sie and well bulit, Bo that houses along itsroute might net be en- dangered, and under proper management and especially put out o: the reach of the railway Monopolies, they are in fayor of any rowd that promises success and the least inconvenience to the public. (hey aii point%py the bag iaith of the men who have Co gas gs nod the' right to build Tapid transit roads. hat have they Gone? The Beach Poeumatic is just as far advanced as it was ‘three years fs Where is the Va‘.derbilt rona, and the one that was backed oy the Third Avenue Railroad, and the Giibert’ Elevated? Not one of them im existence to tle extent Olaten foot rati, fhis feature of rapid transit legisiation, they add, mast cease this year, and men who go to Albany under theprevence of being backed by capitalists to build w road, and who, alter getting tne right of Way over & certain route do nothing at all, mast be given understand | punding. | In these departments; but the grouping of ‘that therr game is played out, ti @ people are Sick Of their trickeriesy apg the Legyslature like- wine. There is no division of oppion about yibe neces- sity for a rapid transit road among the republicans | of that staiu ola conservative journal, the any more than rE oy yo ag Mr, Leake, of .be Fifth, and Mr, » from the Eleventh, | of $1,000,000, shows whither We are dritting. Tne | hteenth, who were — ature, are of tne | | Bank of New York, has recently eenesed the | | Dailding at the corner of Pine and Nassal and Mr. Biglia, from the members Of the last Leg! opinion that owl to the failure to tulfl their promises as to dullding @ road made by men to whom the Legisiature been very tn- duigent in the past, tae nm take active steps toward compelling them to do the Work within & specified period or have their charters taken away from them. Toere were already Im existence @ haif dozen corporations | chartered by the Legislature to owid uudergrouud and overground roads eoough to take every man, | woman ana child in the elty beyond Harlem Bridge in hait a day, and beiore pines. @ny more char- ters the Leyisiature should see, not only that tnose Men who had not fulfiled their promises should be set aside so lar as they coald be, but that care should be taken Co pass & Dili that would be a per- feck cuorantee that 4 roaa would be built—work tobe vegun at once, This view is taken of the Mr. Ciarles Blackie, of tae Thir- Willan haw, Jr, repuoh- ; Wilson Berryman, repub- and Messrs. William L. Murray, of the Fifteenth, ana Charles McColiey, of the Twelfth, republicans, VHE REAL ENEMIKS OF RAPID TRANSIT, One of the diticalves in the way of securing the passage Ol a proper dtl bucked by reliabie patties, many of the candidates assert, is the euse with which the votes oi the country members are ob- tained by the horse railroad corporations in this city, WhO are the inveterate opponents of every scueme for rapid transit that promises success, As root of this they point to the fact that last year aso-called rapid transic bill, designed to injure rather than to \urther the project of rapid transit, | was passed by the aid of country votes, every | member trom New Yors voting against It. So this year the horse car companies o1 this city will bear @ careful watching at Albany. BUILDING. Not for a Day But for All Time—How to | Lay Solid Foun@ations on Sand— | Around About Us—The Western Union | and Evening Post Buildings Samples of the City’s Growth—Sermons in Stones—The New Post Office the Busi- | mess Centre of “the City.” i New York has been fora considerable period of its existence in @ transition state in regard to business, which, as it increased, kept gradually moving up town until it had reached such large proporwons that out of that promising condition it began to establish special centres for particular trade, commercial and industrial interests. The first considerable exhibition of this important de- velopment, responsive to the awakening impulse that has since given New York the commerctal pre- eminence she still enjoys, followed the opening of the Erie Canal, which brought the whole business of the interior down to this city as the great dis- tributing depot, and located the dry goods centre on the west side of Broadway, in Dey, Cortlandt, Liberty, Fulton and the streets running parailel therewith and atright angles to Broadway and the North River. The direction thus gtven to | BUSINESS EXPANSION | has been singularly adhered to in the extension of trade limita, which, as it extended northwardly, reached from river to river uutilit bad wosorbed nearly all the isiand up to Chambers street, when — the dry goods trade, inclining to the line of Broad- Way and the adjacent streets, left the great stretch of territory in the direction of the Grand street ferry and north of it to population and its natural retail trade requirements. The prefer- ence shown by the dry goods trade for the west side and centre of the city will be readily per- ceived upon a reference to the map of the city, in the continuous streets running north and south parallel to the great thoroughfare, as compared with the divergent direction of the streets further | east above Chambers street, the west side here presenting the figure of a great counier stretchea parallel with the Nortn River, to which come to be served, from West and South, along the lines of railways that bave their several termini along this river front, the city’s best customers. Gradu- ally, as business grew, it absorbed other streets adjoining, which were speedily ENTERED AND OCCUPIED IN TURN by jobbers—tarciay, Murray, Warren, Chambers and Reade streets, with College place, Church street and the Broadway front. About 1861 an- other great trade movement was apparent in the opening of H. B. Claflin & Co.’s new store on West Broadway, whither that firm, then Clafin, Mellen & Co, moved trom the Trinity The mereased business of the dry goods trade of this city had pre- viously carried the jobbers as high up as Duane and Worth streets, being pushed in that direction by the growing requirements of other departments of trade which they left belind them, and following to some extent the hotels; but with tue removal of Claiin to West Broad- way | 4 NEW CENTRE | ‘was fixed for the dry guods trade, around which business speedily began to concentrate. Church street at that time in this neighborhood ‘Was avout the most worthless property in the city, being principally made up oO! negro tenements; but these were quickiy torn down aud their sites | Occupied by wagnilicent Warebouses that were Teuted long beiore competion, Sv, too, with Worth, Levuard, Franklin, White, Walker and Lispenard streets, Caual street seeming to be the bound and outside of what might be designated as the great dry goous district. Money Oowed {reely into tois locality; buidings went up rapidiy im rows, ail Of them oO; a inassive and suvstantial character, the demaud for sites within the /avored area becoming so great that tue New York Hospital was soon forced by the pressure to soli out, when the hospital grounds Were soon converted into buiidiags lots and a new street opened. Great fronts of marvle soon showed Unemselves where that little green patch had beiore given a bit of country view to passers- by in busy Broadway. THE SOLID NATURE OF THE STRUCTURES Hl which now cover this area, between Chambers and Canai street, Broadway and Hudson street, with the heavy investinents made therein, ave fixed tnis iocality, at least for one genera- tion and very ukely for many more, as @ great trade Centre; for, alter laying such foundations, trade generally becomes stationary, | and it is not likely the ciildren of toe present generation will ever recite to tueir grandchildren | sucn stories Of rapid changes in the city’s lace as the meu of to-day have jiequently heard from their fathers, That the district we have pointed out will enlarge itself in the future we have no doubt, as with the commercial growth of tnis metropolis will come the necessity of more room: but what we desire to cail attention to 18 that the character of umprovements made of late years, and now being made below Caaal street, indicate that downtown New York, frou that point to Wall street jor 4 considerabie distance each side of Broadway, wiil in future represent to us WHAT IN LONDON I3 KNOWN AS “THE CITY.” | Not that business will not be transacted outside | of this Itmived area, but that ts oraio and finan- cial centre of the great industrial interests Of this | emporium wilt be eagerly sougnt aiter py all who have or scek Lo have such imteresis in charge, WhO Will desire tuere local habitation of some kind, | if it be only ofice room, with a view | to making @ name and connection lor themseives. | There might be pointed out otuer instances of the tendency (0 Concentration of business than this We have cited, 1t being certain that toe seeking cose conneciton with tue dry goods trade, such as we have had in mind im che above remarks, and of which Claflin and Stewart—the latter in his whoie- sale trade—are representatives, very many spe- cial branches of dry goods business will gravitute toward the same Ceatre; such as the movement apove Chambers street of the cloth and woollen houses, ready made clothing and the boot and shoe | trade, the same buyers irom the South and West | seeking generally each department of trad The hardware trade, too, and the drag trade | also, seem desirous to establish cioser rejatiol with the main artery of the city. These move- | ments Were more noticeable two yeursugo tuan | now, the panic having produced an interruption | the dry goods trade may ve taken as the best illustra- | on of the jesson to be learned from THE DIRECTION WHICH CAPITAL TAKES IN SERKING SOLID REAL ESTATE INVKSTMENT. We have pointed ont the resniw which flowed from the investmenis made under Clafin’s leader- ip in What seemed an unpromising locality in 1461, and now represents wealth that may not be estimat- ed with any correctness, We have similar lessons in the character oj the improvements in progress or recentiy completed around that magnificent structure, the new Post Office. Why, we might ask, did the HrzaLb choose its present location, why the Zimes its, why Was the Bennett building built and why the 7Trivune and Staats Zeitung buildings? The answer to these questions is to be fonnd in the magnificent structure to be occupied January 1, 1875, by the Western Union Telegraph Compan: in the massive building now being erected tn Cortlandt street for the Delaware and Lackawanna Batiroad Company. We might signal also other instances of heavy investments of like character in this neighborbood, and also point to the return ot the Erie Railway to a location down town for their pusiness offices. It 1s manifest that this investment of so many millions of dollars in such @ circumscribed area is going to make that acca A GREAT BUSINESS CENTRE. In reality it is moving Wail street ¥. town afew blocks, minus tne Stock Exchange. 3 insurance companies, the lawyers, the “agents,” and count- less other people on “the street’ who have really moré business witn vhe courte than they hay with the Stock Exchange, will, in the course of a few months, vacate their present premises and sak & Weyer location. Whe, the very movement 2 | heignt, steps Style, without florid ornamentation. some granite, | ctties _ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER '1, 1874.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. Post, from 1t8 now famous corner to & New site at a cost New York Clearing House Association, which tor so many years bas occapied the top floor of the u streets, formerly occupied by the Bank of the Comuion- weaitn. This property sold under the bam- mer ip August last. for $194, but waa later bongpt by Mr. Williams, President or the Metropolitan Bank, for tae purpose named, for $215,000. And the Chamber of Commerce nave re- | cently been in negotiation with the national gov- | ernment in an efiort to purchase the present Post Office site as’aasite for their purposed building. ‘Thus 1¢ Wall be seen BUSLNESS 18 CONCENTRATING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE PARK. Above that we have, us already pointed out, the great wholesale dry goods centre, which 1s not likely to be moved lor some time, while such mew as Cjadin and those assoctated with him in im- provewents there Dave their capital 80 invested. This will concentrate the class of business that 1s moving irom about Wall street in the area we have before pointed out, whose highest nortuern boundary is Chambers Street. Tne great ex sion how being made to the Equitable Life Assur- ance Building 1s additiona: evidence of the coufl- dence which the manage: so! that institution have In such investments; a confidence, too, that is the more deserving oi ree THE RESUL! and not merely experimeutal, Mr, Henderson, of the Evening Post, stated to the writer that he vad had numerous applications, waich he could not then consider, for space in the new butiding, and that euch appioasians bad, iu wore tuan one instance, come from insurance companics. | Most of the buligings above referred to have | been already described in tui) ata recent date in | the HERALD. We append, however, @ juli descrip- | tion of tue Western Union building, new so prom- iuent a figure on Broadway,and so near comple- tion, with such facts as we could learn at the | Bvening Post office of the building recently cow- marian’ by the proprietors of that journal, And ‘Bt Ol | THE WESTERN UNION BUILDING. | This structure, stanamg at the corner of Broad- | way and Dey street, ironts 76 eet on Broadway by | 160 on Dey street, and contuins ten stories | besides the basement, counting those in the | Mansard roof, An idea of its size is fur. nished by the fact that 16 is almost exactly oue half larger than the Equitable suilding in tie Bumber of cubic je-t. The material of the base- Meut and first story 1s granite, above this orick, with granite trimmings. The latter are piaced about three feet apart, and also pass across the base of each story, reheved with polished panels. | The height of the building to the top o: the pavilion roos is 1/4 feet, ‘There \§ to be a tower on the rear and one on each iront. The top of the clock tower on the broadway front is 226 ieet_ above the level of the sidewalk, and the clock face 180 leet. At the base of the seventh story above the base- ment a broad stone baicoay, with an ornamental | iron railing, runs entirely around the building, A | balcony cucircies the base of the clock tower, the top of which 1s aceessible by stairs and protected by railings, affording a superb view, The tower is surmounted by @ Maystait ana vane 68 leet in | made of spiralis of light bar iron twisted in opposite directions and riveted at each section. The ciock—with @ face on each side of the tower 113, feet in diameter—will be very large and costly, and is designed to fur- nish standard time, being regulated by the clock in the National Observatory at Washington. It is also designed—though this pian has not re ma- | tured—to indicate the time at noon and niidnight | by an eleciric flasn at the top of the flagstam At the main entrance, on Broadway, !s @ portico 20 feet in width and 36 in heigat, extending through | the basement tothe topoi the rst story. On | either side are two columns and two pilasters of | polished amber-spotted Quincy granite, All the | granite in the portico is mghly polished. The | tympanum oi the arch will contain @ large ilu- | Winated clock iace, Nipe granite steps lead to | the entrance, on each side of which 13 a large | bronze candeiabrum. Above the portico is a stone | balcony, of the same width, ornamented with two | bronze statues 9 feet in height, representing | Morse and some other tamons electrician. The ex- | terior piers of the building measure 3}, leet across | the face, and are of varying thickness. ‘The | suyporting piers in the cellar and basement are | from 3 to 5 ieet square, With girders at the top of the basement story. Between these are large elliptical arches, supporting the main division walls, which form the supports for the rest of the . structure, and are from 3 feet 4 inches thick ai the | | number of boliers are eight for heating and two base to 1 foot 4 inches at the top. ‘The ceilar will be occupted by the company’s stores and the base- | ment as the room Jor the receipt and delivery of , messages. The entrance to this room 18 on Dey | street, at the corner of Broadway. The first story | will probably be rented lor @ bank or insurance | company, aud tue second and fourth for various of- tices, | for the offices of the company. to be used for the disiribution Of messages, and the eighth story divided tnto dining rooms, Phe ihird and filth stories will be occupied The sixth story is | pan- | tries, cooking rooms, &c., tor the persons iu the | employ of the company, allio: whom wiil be sup- | plied With junuch on the premises. The stories | above this are devoied to the operating battery | and service rooms of the company. These upper stories are supported entirely by tron trusses, ‘The Main operating room, whic is 22 feet nigh, 100 | feet long and 00 1eet wide, contains no walls or | columms ¢Xcept four pillars to support the clock tower, Ali the floors are constructed of iron beams and girders, with brick arches between, filled in with cemeot und overiaid with tiles. In the belief that the supply of Croton water in the lower part of tne city would be Inadequate in Case of fire tubular wells have been sunk in the cellar, and, at seventy feet below Lhe levei of the sirect, | an abundance of excellent water has been | obtained. The whole building wili be suppiled with water from tuese wells. lron mains will ¢: tend from them through the structure, with tups on each foor, and be carried through the deck of the roof, so that, with @ powerlul steam pump ia the cellar, heavy streams of water can be projected upon other buildings in tue event of a lire in the neignbornood. The steam which heats the buiid- | ing will also be used to operate turee passenger | elevators and an elevator tor Irelght. ‘The puild- ing will be ready for occupancy January 1, 1875, H ‘The architect is George B. Posi, of this city. ‘Lhe | cou‘ ractors ure:—For masonry, James 8. Smith & Prodgers, oi New York; ior iron work, J. B. & J. M. Cornell, of New York; for carpenter w rk, Philip | Herman, 01 New York; concrete artificial stone | foors, Ncw York and Long isiaud Coignet Com- om o1 New York; tor plumbing and gas fitting, ocke & Munroe, oi New York; sor Quincy granive in vasement and poiisbed granite, J. G. Baiterson ; | for granite above basement, called Westnam granite, Andrews, Ordway & Green, o1 Richmond, Va. Anderson, Merchant & Co., of No, 234 Pear! street, New York. ugents for Maw & Co.’s tiles, are to put cown the encaustic tiling, Which ig to be | Of # coaracter hienly ornamental. | THE EVENING POST BUILDING» | The new building wil! have a front of 63 1 on Broadway and 160 feet on Fulton siveet, and wil be made up of ten stories, lnciuding the basement, which will be two | below the sidewalk. ‘The architectural | be generally in the Romanesque ‘The mate- H features will rials will be Philadelpmia font brick, Wi o trim. mings Of Dorchester sione chiefly, together with ‘the maim entrance on Broad- way will be conspicuous without over-elabora- | tion. ‘The first story will bave a height of 14 feet, and the counting room of the jour- nal will occupy the spacious apartment upon | the corner to the north of the entrance. | South of tne hall will be a large room to let for | business use. The cntire sub-cellar aud. vaults | will be occupied by the presses and machinery. | ‘The stories above the first—which will be ot brick | with stone—wiil gradually decrease in height. The composing room wil be in the topmost story and © the ealiorial rooms on the floor next below. ‘The rest oi the extensive structure will be avatiable | for banking and insurance business and for other offices. Tiere will be two elevators, The roof | will be made absolutely fire-proof, and the soor- ings will be supported by iron beams, while tne | partitions will be of fire-proot matcrial. ‘The ap- | pearance of the whole struciure is to be mm- | pressive, while there is un absence oJ effort for | mere show. It is worth while, perhaps, before closing with this subject to call attention to & few more facts | which go to estabiish the conviction that the lo- cality we have pointed outis (estined to be the | ae | centre of the great city of New ork. speak oj New York in @ business light we do not imtend to confine the definition to Mannattan | Isiand alone, or tne new wards, [t comprises in | that sense brooklyn and Long Island City, Jersey | City, Hoboken, Newark, Paterson, Silzabetn and | | very mauy other of the suburban towns and cities that ciuster around this metropolitan centre, And surveying the distribution of these towns and oout us we find THE CENTRAL POINT OF ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE | Jor those living there who have busivess with toe metropolis, to be about a8 we lave placed the Pha point of this new business centre we have been describing, Viz., the new Post Uilice, Almost | every Visitor to the city passes this point of ne- ceasity in attending to whatever business has brought him here, and should he be ioxt at any time In apy other part of the city he can always recover liis bearings by seeking Broadway with reference to this point on the one side, or tie con- tinuous thoroughfare made up of Chatham street, the Bowery and Third avenue on the other. In fact 1t may almost be said all roads lead there, for, of the through lines of cars and stages, nearly ail have their termini at or pass this point. Thus it i$ most easy of access from nearly everywhere, amost woportant matter in this connection. AN ILLUSTRATION of the fact that New York’s business centre is the new Post Office and does not correspond with its ographical centre is to be found ta the failure of he many efforts made to move Washington Mar- ket, that Githy and unsigbily pile of dilapidated buildings, from its present site,even when con- trasted with such @ fine buildyng’as the Manhattan Market, and the consequent failure of the latter to establish itself, The iarge dealers in market truck, the butehera, pouiterers, pork men, butter nd cheese dealets, and all the other dealers m Market produce jor family use; who sup- 9 the grocers and smaller butchers of st we bave cited as the metropoli- tan district, know that this is @ more central point of distribution than any other site they could command in the city. ‘Ihere they com- mand the trade of Brooklyn, Jersey City, ken, &¢.7 Lopg b und sersey farmere pi their respéctive local rad distributin int, where they are sure to seil out promptiy au at the regwar current figures, One a8 only to visis Washingion Market aby morning early abd read the nawes..on the Lundreds of | papers and packages are to be sorted for the mails. | Closed by an iron fence, | being supparted oy 107 massive coiumns‘ol elga- | it must be borne in mind that when we | P' wagons that block up the streets in that hhbor+ hood and he will be speedily convinced th: DOWN TOWN, | as we have potnted out, is tn reality the business centre. bi Terie psd it ts Hao poe ted in upon the minds of our people, expec! ate , and dictated the solid character of down town iinprovements, and it will be scen in iuture that, with the new Post Office as the centre, fro! Canai to Wall street, and skirting each side of broadway, Will be transacted most of the business that calls for the employment of brains rather than muscle, and thence will iate throughout the city and country those infuences, of what- ever nature, that keepin motion our whole in- | dustriai machinery. The objections to offices up many flights of stairs has been overcome by the introduction of steam elevators, which afford a very mucn needed relief, Hence, while the area | we have pointed out 18 limited in its superticial extent, it bas room for the requirements of many years in & perpendicular direction. Enough bas been sald concerning the lesson to be learned irom snch iinprovements as those above described, and it only remains to pot THE MORAL OF SUCH SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH in our city at such a period of commercial depres- sion and i's understanding may be safely leit to the inteliigence of our readers, Men who go two and three stories ito the bowels of the earth to lay the foundations of such stately buildings as tiose we have noticed do not do 60 wnadvisedly. They do not do it in a period or ina country where the commercial outlook ts wholly dark. They do not do it man interval of depressed trade il they have any tear teat that depression is anything more than teaporary. Suci men lave faith, con- fidence in the 1uture of the country, and surely we who look of and see how solidly they build may learn # valuabie lesson srom them. | teal peat eat aa Its Exterior and Interlor—The Rooms and How They Are To Be Occupied— An Army of Uficials and Six Thousand Lock Boxes. A HeRALD reporter recently visited the magni- ficent structure built by the government in this city for use as Post Office, United States Court rooms, &¢.,in order to ascertain how soon. the splendid building would be fit ior eccupancy, and generally to describe the.{nterior arrangements of this superb pubiic edifice, The Post OMve will be thrown open for the public accommodation, it 1s understood, about the ist day of Jaauary, 1575, and certainly no building,outside of the national capital can compare with it in stateliness, solidity and general architectural beauty. The general style is Doric, yet the upper portions can with pro- priety be called composite, the French prevailing. One jontrageous violation of good taste alone, however, has almost marred the harmony and unity of the whole noble design, and that is, the yilding of a portion of the cornice of tne mansard dome which fronts the south; this offence against good taste must provoke harsh criticism from ali who had hoped that this noble structure—ol whichj any city might be proud— would be completed without the tinsel and mere- tricious ornaments which mark the decline, and | not the advance of true architecturalart. This may be called the sole discord in the “frozen music” of the great work. Only a relative idea of the size of the structure can be arrived at by stating that it occupies | twenty-one city lots, the frontage on Broadway is 840 ieet, on Park row 820 feet, tue north, fronting the City Hail 200 feet and the south iront 130 ieew ‘This total frontage being equal to about forty city dweilings, Itlooms up grandly above tne adija- cent splendid buildings, its. graceiul Iagades and nobie domes being platnly perceived from the river approaches to the city, To the stranger it is at once @ marvel and a landmark, IN THE INTERIOR the cellars are vast crypts, used for the boilers, | jurnaces, storage of fael and storerooms, The for running the elevators. The basement is a vast single room of more than an acre in area, This will be the general working room, where letters, Running from this subterranean beehive, ten ele- vators will carry the letter freights of human love, anguish, wealth and business to the rst story. Tuas great room is partly surrounded by a lobvy; it may be called the Post Office proper, where let- | ters are to be received and delivered, the lobby be- ing ior the use of the pubic. About midway be- | culties which arose in gradi; tweeu the floor aud ceiling, Or say at a heigut of fiileen eet, the main oilices will ve, sur- | rounded on the Broudway, southwest and Park row sides by a spacious gaulery, accessivie from the floor by convenient: staircases. ‘Th.s gallery will oe used by postal clerks, its auder side forming the ceiling 0. the louby, which is avout twenty lteet in width. The oilice is sepa- rate from the public by gis partitions exteud- ing Wo the bottom of the inner side O1 the galery, aud will be provided with about six thousaud lock boxes. du the centre of the ofiice ceiling there is a large | triangular space covered With a glass rook Above the lirst story this is { * OPEN TO THB SKY, | affording excelient light .o the upper stories ! through windows in the surrounding walls. Tne | lobbies are Hoored wita Waite and Colored marble, but yellow pine is used in the foorng ol tue dil- | ferent rooms. | ‘dhe main entrance 1s through the portico on the uluwest side, Whicn leags to @ great vestibule. e road for maul wagons—the receipt and de- livery of letter bags and puckages—wiil Ironc the City “ail, It is iorty fees wide and will be en- bere are uo parution wWalis occurring in the lower section, the grand dowe, the flooring above and tbe cour yard walls teen iuches diameter and thirty tect in lengtn, the weight of ewcu being six tona, while over these Columns are placed girders made of triple roiled tron beans. in the second story will be the offices of the POSTMASTER, ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, | Auditor, Special Ageats v1 the Department, with tne Mouey Order ana Registered Letter Bureaus, | Tue United states Courts ure on the City Hall side of the second story, where are also the oilices of the United States District Attorney, Circuit Court and Chambers. ‘the dimensions of the District Court room are 36x55 leet, and Circuit Vourt room 40x63 Jeet, each having ceilings sorty leet in heignt. In the taird and fourth stories the crimimal branch of the United siates Court will hold 118 sesstons, and ere tue offices of the judges, district attorney, commissioners, clerks, warsuals | and officers connected witn the United States Courts in this city will be located, On the Jourth story, on the northern or City Hall side, will be the Jaw library and several large rooms, the occupants of which are not yet designated. iu tue attic the RECORDS WILL BE ARRANGED, and here iso tne janitors aud watcamen will live. | The ceilings of the various rooms will be ornad | mented with stucco, it being understood for the present taat no frescoing wil be gone. The stair- Ways thatrunirom the cellar tothe top of te building ure four in number, and tive from the secoud floor to tLe top. in addition to the ten elevators running from the basement to the firet floor four will run from the cellar to the attic, | Stairways will lead to the domes, trom wiich superb Views of the harbor ana surrounding coun- try can be had. ‘The siating of the roofis a particularly satisfactory job, benz executed in @ superior and somewhat costly articie of dressed Siute, cacn slab of whicu is ope-alf Mcn thick at the iower edge aud one- | quarter inch at the upper, aod cutin octagon form at the corners, The siate on tins rool weigus in the aggregate some 222 tous. i The stone lor the presént building is al! dressed | at the quarry, veing cut accurateiy to specifica. tion, numbered and lectered, 80 that each fits Its lace periectiy witnout aiter dressing. So pre- cisely do these biocks fit that a dozen men at the building lay the stones a8 fast as they can ne pre- ared by $09 men at the quarry. ‘Tne complited ullding 18 conceded to be the most periect spect- | men of granite work in the Uniou. | About 350,000 cubic yards of granite, 20,000 yards | of concrete, 45,000 darrels of cement, 16,000,000 bricks and 9,500,000 pounds of irou have veen used in the construcuon. it has ulready cost over | $5,000,000, ‘Tue rapidity with which this great work bas been pushed 1s deserving of ail praise. | Ground was broken in tne fall of 1869, but the work | was Coustantly embarrassed up to 1872 by the | lethargy of Congress, Since thai time, however, | the work has not lagged tor a dy, and, as before | stated, the buiidiug Will probably be vecupied by | the departmout as ae as New Year’s Day of 1875. Mr. A. B. Mullett, the Supervising Architect | of the government, perfected the plans, Mr, Hulburd is the superintendent and Mr. W. G. Steinmetz assistant superintendent, Inspector of Material—ar. J. Barton. IMPROVING THE CITY. What the Park Commissioners Are Do- ing and Will Do—The City Parks and Places—Important Programme for the Uptown Districts. The improvements under the direction of the Park Commissioners are steadily, though perhaps slowly, going on. In many small ways around the city people can sce evidences of the watchful at- tention of the comimission, and in the more serious undertakings in the uptown ,districts a steady progress may be noted, though, of course, the larger ideas of the Commissioners are ham- pered and checked by the cutting down of appro- priations and the wary action of the Board of Esti- mate. Last year the Park Commission received an appropriation from the Legisiature of $250,000. ‘This yoar no appropriation was giveu, and the | district. | ‘The Commissioners have, therefore, not been able to push work on the Morningside and Riverside parks—work which would require full funds, but which would give @ large amount of employment to laborers, In ¥ CRNTRAL PARK the maintenance and construction funds allow the City Garden to be kept in good condition; but want of money 1s still @ barrier to projects of further ornamentation and advantageous change. At the concert ground the enlargement projected last year 1s now completed, and the addition or several new walks and seats will allow a greater number of visitors to enjoy the music on Saturday afternoons. Iu former years, at this particalar | spot, there was always a want of room, the result | being that persons anxious to listen to the music | were obliged to wander away to other places where they could find seats, The building of the Eighth avenue enclosing wall is rapidly approach- ing completion. This work has been in progress for the past year, but was considerably delayed owing to causes which the Commissioners could not contro. The grading of Kighth avenue was the chief prevention; for, as the avenue was raised to @ much higher grade than that | of the Park, it became necessary | to grade the wall» accordingly, and } hence the work went on slowly. Several changes algo became necessary along the Eighth avenue | side of the Park in consequence of the grading of | the avenue, Ail the streets leading to the en- | trapces of the Park had to undergo alterations forming them nto suitable gradation jor the av nues, At the northeru end of the Park, the grade had algo to be changed, owing to the change of grade of 110th street, and the work at this place is well advanced. A very advautageous improve- ment has been the building of the Inscope arch, which has just been completed. This arch con- ects two sections of the Park which were hitherto divided by the Fifth avenue drive, beneath whicn the passage runs, Another new structure, in this same locality, to be known as the Gaystow Bridge, was commenced last week and work is being pushed onit. ‘the principal projects, uowever, now advancing in the Park are THE TWO MUSEUMS, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum jor Natural History. ‘the former 18 Jocated nortan of Kighty-second street, on the Fifth aveuue side, and the latter on Manhattan square, between Seventy-seventh and Kighty-first streets, ‘he Museum jor Natural His.ory ig # spi¢ndid building, now far advanced toward completion, [+ is expected that the roofing will be finished next spring abd tuat the building will be ready for occupancy in the suminer. Work on the Metro- politan Museum of Art is iairly begun, and th ‘Commissioners hope that no unexpected obs: will prevent its continuance to the end. foundation has been laid, CENTRAL PARK PLACE. It is intended to make a pretty little place out | of the spots of ground at Sixty-third and Sixty- | giXth streets at cither side of the Loulevard, the | intersection of the Boulevard having thrown them | into waste. The design for the ornamentation | includes small fountains and trees. ‘The workmen | are already engaged in making the preparations, | ANOTHER ORNAMENTATION. | There is a little trianguiar space, scarcely a | plaza, at Fifty-eighth street and Filta avenue, near | the entrance to the Park, which is algo being im- | | i The proved, and which will be oruamented. Shs ground ‘Will be remodelied; but it is not the intention of the Commissioners to pave the carriage way nor the adjoining sidewalks, though these improve- ments night with advantage be eifected. it is simply intended to resbape the space, pave it with | concrete and ornament it with trees, MADISON SQUARE. The contracts have been closed for the improve- ment known as the Madisou square fountain. The fountain will be placed at the southern end of the square, and the design promises tat it shall ve a handsome Ornament. The contracts are now in the bands of Comptroller Green, and the erection of the founcain, alter many promises, May soon ve expected, FIVE POINTS PARK. The long expecied ivuntain ior this notorious locanty will be completed beiore winter. The Jamps are up and the trees will be planted when the weather permits. Tbe basin of tne fountain is completed, Jt ts explalmed by the Park Commis- | sioners that the delays which have occurred in the execution of this work were caused by the dittl- the ground, owing to the impertections of the adjoining street, Which was so long out ot order. OTHER IMPROVEMENTS, The Canal and Grand street parks are now re- ceiving some Jew improvements, which have been jong needed. THE ANNEXED DISTRICT. Since the annexation of Morrisania, West Farms and Kingsbridge to New York city and county the Park Commissioners ave had serious trouble in dealing with the new claims, and in endeavoring | to devise necessary measures by which the 1e- sponsibility resting on them should be accepcabie to the Inuabitants of the annexed district. In 1 annexed district everything was chaos so lar us towns properly iaid out were concerned, and the Peopie looked forward anxiously to the action to be taken in their regurd by the Commussioners of Parks. By tue terms oi the new law the Comuinis- | siouers were obliged to assume all the respunsi- bility tuat had hitherto beionged to the trustees | of the towns named above. All the debis owing by them and all the contracts that had been entered into by them had to be taken up by the Park Comission, 80 that it can be readily seen how diitcuit was the task Of equalizing ail cun- | ficting interests, and of getting things to work ln harmonious order, ‘The town of Morrisania had | already been, to Gn extent, laid out on @ reguiar | plan by @ previous Cvummussion, but West Fars ana Kingsoridge had yet to be graded iuto ‘ar street lines or to bave new sirects constructed, Tae Park Commissioners have for some time pust bad their engineers at work im performing tals work and in looking alter tne repairs oi the bridges on the Hariem River, which were mucn in need of agtention. 4 NEGLECTED SECTION, Most people know that, somehow, by com- mon consent it is cousidered that the city as divided inro three chief parts, te second part peing trom Filty-ninth street to 165th street, and the third part all above | 165th street to Inwood and Dyckman stre Tuis third division up to tne present time bas 3 Ways been negiected by the Park Commissiouers. Many years ago some Oue or other drew out a map of the locality and marked it rudely ipto streets, | and this map has always since been considered | suilicient for ali real esate purposes, ‘Lné repule | has oecn that wien the present Commissioners un- | dertook to reconstruct tne cisitict it wasiound that | the greatest care did not prevent some citizens | irom being burt. The residents in 184th street, | which had been laid out in accordance with we ola map, were completely blocked in by the linos marked on the new inap suggested to the Commis- | sioners, A petition, however, was eeut to the Commisstoners by the residents of 184th street, to | the effect that were the proposed plan to be pul sued tnelr property would become useiess to them, | The result was that a new strect, to be known ay | 184ch street, sixty feet wide, was ordered to be | Opened irom Tenth avenue to Kingsbriage. Th¢ new map, above referrea to, was a low evenings since 10rmally laid before a meeting of the Com- | missioners, at which the President, H. G. | Stepoins and a full Board were present. The Particulars of the mecting, as gleaned from tie minutes of Mr, William Irwin, the Secretary, | | showed that tne Board, besides considering and | auopting the map, aiso Went into minutie in re- | gurd wo it and considered numberiess complex questions of detail reiative to the three annexed | | towns, It was midnight when the Board adjourned, but the most important business done was the passing of the resolution by which the Kingsbridge district, Or, in otuer words, the neglected section, up to Inwood and Dyckman streets, is to be laid out and graded. fhe Kingsbridge district has always been part of the city proper, and never belonged to Wiat is now kuown ay the annexed MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIPE IN ENGLAND. Lady Mary Dundas, daughter of the late Hon. J. Dundas, and sister of the Earl of Zetland, was married to Mr. William Francis Plowden, of Piow- den Hall, Saiop, on Monday, October 12, at St. James’s, Spanish place, London, The Right Rev. Monsignor Capel performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rey, Willian Strickland, ». J, and the Rey. Michael Barry, The bride was given away by her brother, the Barl of Zetland, Alter mass the wedding party adjourned to the fon, Mrs. Duudas’s residence in Harley street to breakiast, and carly in the afvernoon Mr, Plowden and mis bride leit for kichmond, Surrey, for the honeymoon. ‘The bride’s presents were numerous, and some extremely valuable. Hach bridesmaid was pre- sented with a massive oval gold locket, witha Taised monogram, in pearis, tarquoises and corals, of the bride and bridegroom. One of tne presents from the bridegroom has no little amount of in- terest, It being in the form of a bracelet after the antique, the ventre of which consisted of & mag- nificent carved peridot, inserted with diamonds. This stone can be traced as having belonged to Marie Antoinette, and is @ fac simile of the one made for the Princess Murat. Another magnificent present Wasa set of cameos, inserted with dia- monds and pearis, and forming brooch, pendant, coateiaine and watch, with achain of diamonds and small pearis, STORAGE, Re on tS WEST SIDE STORAGE WARE + houses for furnitnre, pianos, baggage, &e.; sepa- ny size: always Rocessible: rates 10 nd delivered day or night if desired. KI, Owner and Manager, oMce 503 Hudson stre (Abingdon square). | wooden payement | and where to be seen, SEALS! | good order. | all maten game W. i \ Green place. | with\tull particuiars, POLITICAL. TTENTION,—JOHNSON'S POOL ROOM wine = main ope! rat ight Moaday and Tuesday . accommoda tio of the patrons of the house, OR ALDERMAN, Fifth Senatorial District iY ih and Si; nt CBugth, Ninth, Seep ena aueIe th wards, PPPGNGH POOLS OPEN ON TUE RLCTION State, clty and county offices, at JOHNSON'S Pi Room, corner Broadway ant ‘twenty-eighth stree tins vente. Returns received aud ali poow ¢ashed prompuy. es FOXESTY IN OFFICE TO BE ENCOURAGED, Every honest and independent citi: if ry pam at ire of the ioe Senate district should vole tor | MeCARTH Alderman, who, while he represented the Twenty-t Assembly district io the Boara of Assistunt Alderme by his bold and persistent resistance to the patent . defeated them and therebs saved the (ax: rs of the city millions of dollars. —: amine for yours¢ives the record of the proceed!uge the Board, of whic! i Was a member in the years 1870 and 1371, aod during the times of corruption prorers DEMOCRATIC AND Liberal Republican Nominations. For Alderman, | Fifth Senatorial district, kighth, Ninth, Fifteenth and ixteen 35 JOUN W. HOGENCAMP, EOPLE’S: LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC _NOMINAs tion.—For Membe FF llea pig dfemner Assembly, of Pion districts EGULAR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.—FOR member of Assembly, Eleventh Aj district, Knox Mcatee, i pinay Danica DEMOCRATIC AND LIBERAL REPUB- Y licun nomination.—Vor Conzross, Eighth district (Ninth, Fifleenti and. sixteonth wards amd that part of the sighteenth ward within Fourteenth and Twent . MARTIN Y, Mo! » President J Stxvans, L. D. Paxpaicks, Secretaries, - BPUBLICAN AND CITIZENS’ candidate for member of Assembly, Sixteenth Assembl; distriét, OHARLES E. L, HOLMES. rpanotany HALL, Regular Pomocratic’Republican Nominations. J. TILDEN, For Governor—sAMULL For Lieutenant-Governor—WILLIAM DORSHEIMER, For Canal Commissioner—ADIN AY IS. For State Prison Inspector—GEORGE WAGBNER, Pi ian of the Court of Appeals—THEODORE MIIs For Mayor—WILLIAM H. WICKHAM, For Kegister—v AMES TAYE: Aloermen-at- Large. WILLIAM lL. COLB, SAMUBL A. Lis WIS, J. W. GUENIZER, ‘US GR 83. Gsczan'W; Mo: ‘ JOHN KELLY, Chairman . Mons Ebwanp D, Garmy’ Seretaries, 0 HE VOTERS OF THE TWENTIETH ASSEMBLE. strict -—Gentlemen—it comes Mm! ya uty to withdraw my name for the office ot Member of biy. Not through any pecuniary motive am I move but having the interest of the aemocratic party a heart. I therefore hope and trust tnat my triends ive me tor the misplaced confidence they reposed tbe i e me, and look at it as 1 do, Not wisting to incu chance of sending a republican to the Assembly this district to represent you, I, as a democrat, w: draw my name in favor of the regular Tammany Hal nominee—Urlando L. Stewar. MIOHABL WHALE! 14 ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, For Assembl: LUKE ¥, COZANS, Nominated by the Tammany Association, People's Lit jemocratic Convention, German American Independent Citizen’s Convention, Liberal Republicans and Industrial Political Party, ——————————— 2 T ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Republican Association, Regular Republican nomination tor blade of Aseemp! witha ath, ar. EL A. —SPECIAL LECTURES EVERY NIGHT a? + o'clock at the New York Museum of Anatomy, Broadway, between Houston and Bieecker streets, AT 8 THIS EVENING—A LECTURE ON NERVOUS Debility and special Diseases, at Dr. Kahn’s Ma- geum. Remember the address, 688 Broadway, neal Fourth street. The largest and most magnificent museom an the world. Admission 50, VENINGS WITH GREAT MUSICIANS. j The American Literary Bureau announce a course of five Lectures on Music, wito piano illustrations, at De Garmo all, corner Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street, November 10, 17, 24, December 1 and 8 Course tickets, $4; for sale at Weber's, 108 Fith avenue, and Sebirmer's, roadway. BELL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY LECTORE, AT 18 Cooper Union, P. Mit is requested that allintending to secure tickets will do so at the commenceinent of vie course. The lectures will be iilustrated with models, specimens and the screen mi- eroscope. Ladies’ Course on Physiology, (third year), recomineuces Monday, Nov, 2. “Architecture of the Body: Animal trated. Tickets for the c of sev Mer ‘D—CASH PAID FOR ALL 4¥E kinds of Merchandise. Parties wishing to dispose of their stock tor caso will find a purchaser at onee bd; calling at 408 Broadway, third floor, or by letter as above to. W. CHINA AND GLASS DECORATORS.—WANTED, a Stand for Drawing lines; must be in good order! Apply to #. 1, & W. H. WL: TH, No. 4 Liverty street, “WANTED—A SECOND HAND SEALSKIN $aCQUE; roust be tn excellent order, Address, stating price IN, box 153 Herald Up- town Branch office, ANTED.—CASH WILL BE PAID FOR A SEOOND hand Seaiskia Sack, not much worm. Address 3. ACK, Brooklyn Wost office. ANTED TO PURCHASE—BLACK WALNUT FLAT top (or table) Desk, finished with drawers, &c., om both sides, State particulars, tor three days, to H. N. C., Herald offic WANTED TO PURCHASE—CHEAP FOR CASH—A ware Cainels’ Hair Shawl; must be fine and in Address U. L. 1,, box 125 Herald Uptown Branch office. ___ BILLIARDS. ead STANDARD AMERICAN BEVEL TABLES AND + the Phelan & Collender Combination Cushions {or sale only ny the patentee, He W. COLL&NDEIA suc- cessor to Phelan 4 Vollender, 738 Bro New York. MBRICAN BEVEL BILLIARD TABLES, WITH Dejaney’s patent wire cushion; used exclusively for x10 bevels: nearly new: $175. 5 'H & CO., 40 Vesey street. A —TWO FIRST CLASS ROSEWOOD BILLIARD « Tables to let or fur sale, with everything in coms plete order, Mrs. ALLA WKHRKEMP, 13 Bleecker st LOT OF NEW ROSEWOOD BLVEL BILLIARD: Tables, 44x9. evecy thing first class, for sale eheap. at piano store, 219 East Twenty-third street, ANGE, HANGE—A FIRST CLASS Call at or address 18 ¥ort R SA Fancy # OR oods Store. MO EXCNANGE—FOR GOOD FURNISHEY HOUSE for winter, part of a valuable Patent. Inquire af 526 West Forty-second street. ‘ANTKD TO EXCHANGE—ANY KIND OF GOOD salable Merchandise, in large or small lots, orig: hal or broken packages, tor which will be given gt cond purchase moucy city Morigages om Syipenpesy aud cash. Apply to LICHTENDIEIN, 14s rorty+ fourth street. oes WA’ RIMONIAL. WR, MIDDLE-AGED, IN A GOOD ME. al bisiness and real estate owner, would A wil chan cortespond with a maiden or widow of some m saad aged character, not over 40 years of age, with a view to matrimony ; communications contidential, Address, L, T,, box 155 Herald office, for one yeek. {OUNG LADY, EMINENTLY RESPROTABLE, psseasing beuuiy and talents, who has lost her propery, desires the atd of @ sincerd gentleman matri- monialy’ inclined, Address DIVA, Herald Uptown Brancl ofice. A SORUTHY GIATAN CATHOLIC, AGED 2 MATRI- m@ially inclined, desires the acquaintance of 9 preposdesing indy of same denomination, age and na Wouutlty Address SINCENIZAm box 169° Herald off (A MUDLE-AGED | AMERICAN | GENTLEMAN o# genje birth, education, culture, refivement, un: gullied claracter and reputation, with means and of the highest rispectabitity vesires to ‘correspond with a lad: eouall ified , ofyect inatrimony. dress ? HILO: box 1.949 Fost office, Sew York ciyy. HE A(QUAINTANCE OF A GOOD AND TRUE Wo- mau b desired, wit view to matrimony. Address SALVO, b)x 16) Herald offi WATCHES, JEWELRY, | \lAMONDA.—THE LAKE GEORGE DIAMONDS ARM the mst brilliant thing out, greatly sough\ aft and are scrin suis, Kings, Pins, earrings and. Buttons, in fine void. Call and see them or seit tor price list tal. JSACVE No. 8 Astor House. GOR SALL—A PAL OF DIAMOND EARRING KF ge) stone Diamond Bing and lady's cold Wat, and Ohain; wilt be sold low, Address BARN SHAW, 134 Herald off AKB GVORGE, DIAMONDS.—SOLLD GOLD 8ET tings—studs, $2to $10; Rings, $5 to $25; Pina, $5 6 $15; Karrings, $5'00 $40, S bd see them. ene) EGANT SHKT OF FURS, SEAL SAC Wa ves, at reasonable prices, gO ‘ur Manutacturers, Broadway, AN Mull, Cap o1 ©. BHAYNI & corner Tenth street. noe STORAGES, AT $3 PER LOAD FOR SS iueniure, buggies, planoto rtes, 08, at BATTER- SON & 0.’ Storage Roots, 695 ai Sixth avenue and 1,300 and 1,802 Broadway. {LOTE & JANES, STATIONERS, FULTON STRERT, near Witllam’—Account Books mace to order at ort notice, JTORAGE—FOR FURNITURE, PIANOS, BAGGAGE, City Board of Estimate and Apportionment did ‘BOL extend its consideration tothe sullest extent. ac., in separate rooms; bul ding has all conveni- encces; watchman at night, MICHALKS & 5ON, (8, W and Commerce gtreg). pear A 12" STREET LAUNDRY.—NEW WORK A_8Pl Ht SUABET LAUNDRY @ Waal tellin ;