The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1875, Page 14

14 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1875.—QU. TAR CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, Progress of the Grand Centennial Ex- hibition Building. @MESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. ' —— ' | ntemational Co-operation and List of | Commissioners. | | PROMISING PROSPECTS SUCCESS, | rs MR Se | PHILADELYalA, Jan, 27, 1875, | on the Fourth of July, 1874, the Orst spade general use for d sist of straight rafters witn struts and es) buildings now 1f process 0} erection for the xhition - rial Hal y, 2 ac Machinery Hall, 1 Agricultural Hall, 10 acres, 5, Morticuitural Hall, 1.02 acres. INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. No sooner had the foundations of the Art Gallery been laid than Joreign governments, one by one, began to recognize the wholesome effect sure to result irom iriendly competition with America and thereupon Squined, through our Secretary of State, thetr wi lipgness to participate in the exposition, and promptly appointed their octal commissioners. Below wilt be found a list of shose governments which have already apnounced to the United States Centennial Commission their intention to be represented :— A SPLENDID ARRAY. Pep Argentine Conledera- Honduras, hop, apan Belgium, Liberia, Bragil, Mexico, | Chile, ‘The Netherlands, Eouador, Nicaragua, France, Peru, Great Britain and Colo- Sweden and Norway, nies, Spain, Germany, Hawaii, Guatemala and Salva. U.S. of Coiombia, dor, Venezuela. Hayti, full of dirt was cast up ‘rom the future | Soundation of the great Centennial buiid- og, His Bonor, Mayor Stokley, being the ‘party who broke the sod. The ceremonies upon | Sue occasion were of a very impressive order, and Bendreds of people assembled on the spot where dn 1876 are te be exuibited the choicest mechanical, artistic, literary and scientific products of the ea- tire civilized world, THEN AND NOW. At thie time the vast area of territory in Pair- mount Park, set aside by the highest oMiciais of | oor national government as the locality most de- mirable for the becoming celebration of our one hundredth birthday, though naturally presenting a@ superb outlook, was but little else than a biooming waste of landscape, showing only those | features characteristic of itgince the, flood, But new how great the change. Only afew months have e:apsed since the shovel penetrated the turf, | but where before was empty nothingness the vish | tor witnesses the gradual uprising of turrets aud | wowers, graced with those superb architectural | adornments calculated to render them when com- | pleted the pedestals of one of the nanusomest | #tructuree ever reared, Hundreds.and thousands | of workmen, shaping the stones in the quarries, | piling up brick upon brick, fashioning the iron and | carving in a thousand graceful forms and shapes the pillars and cornicés, even at this early hour | have given us an insight to their future achieve- | ments andenabied us grasp some idea of the ex- tent and beauty of their work when the last stone shail have been laid. To any one familiar with the Centennial grounds a few months ago the extraor- | inary change of the interior seems to be more than human hands could have wrought, and ap- pears rather like the efforts of the gent of the ancient Arabians, for the art gallery of the structure has gone up almost as rapidly as the | fabled castle of Aladdin, | THE ART GALLERY. ‘The building devoted to the exhipits of the difer- | estartsis being pushed rapidly forward, and is entirely paid for by appropriations received from THE POREIGN COMMISSIONERS. The following will show the nations that have aiready appointed their Commissioners and their names :— FROM GERMANY, Dr. Jacobi, Rea! Privy Counsellor and Director in the Royal Ministry of Commerce. Dr. Sttive, Privy Counsellor of same Ministry. Dr. Wedding, Counselior of Mining. = Mr. Reituer, Royal Bavarian Counsellor of Lega ton. Mr. Von Nostitz-Wallartz, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Sax- ony. ‘Baron Von Spitzenberg, E. E. and M. P, of the King of Wurtemberg. . Dr, Neidhardt, Counsel of the Grand Ducal ee Ministry. Dr. mann, Royal Prossian Counsellor of Comme: Dr. Kritger, Minister Resident of the Hanse towns. Mr. Von Holloben, Counsellor of Justice of the Royal Prussian Supreme Court. FROM SANDWICH ISLANDS. S. M. F. Odell, Chargé d’ affairs and Consul Ger- eral, New York. Hon. S, G, Wilder, Minister of the Interlor. Hon, J. U. Kawainal : FROM SPAIN. President M. Castelar (since resigned.) Commissioner Don Francisco de Paula, and sixty- three otnors. FROM THE NETHERLANDS. President—Dr. E. H. Baumhauer, Honorary Pro- fessor at Haarlem, Commissioners—J, F. de Casemhart, Rear Ad- miral at the Hague. J. P, Hartsen, President of Board of Commerce ana Manulactures at Amsterdam. Bo E, Von Heemokerck Van Beest, artist at the jague. Dr. W. J, A. Jonckblset, at the Hagne, President of Committee of Academy of Imitative Arts at Amsterdam. De Van der Kellen, Jr., member of the adminis- tration ot the Society Arts. M. M. de Monday, President Board of Commerce and others. FROM BR. AZT President—His Highness Marshal of the Army, Gaston D'Orleans, Conde d’Eu. First Vice President—Viscount De Jaguarry. Second Vice President—De Bonn, Retiro, Members—Viscount Souza Franco. Juaquin An- tonio De Azevedo. . FROM EQUADOR, President—Edward Shippen. Commissioners—Gabriel Obanio and others, the State. It will be the great architectural | triumph of the occasion, and wiil remain as a per- | manent memorial of the exposition. its architec- | ture 1s modern renaissance, the materials used in | struction being granite, iron aud glass. No | ‘wood is used in its make up, and hence in the | tuilest sense ol the word the building is fireproof. | THE PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE. | The main Exhibition building is located imme. | diately east of the intersection of Belmont and | Elm avenues, on the Landsdowne plateau. it will and 170 feet back !rom the nortn side of Elm ave- mue, the area between the building and tue ave- | nue used Jor special products, Which may be | exhibited in the open air. There will also vea | space 300 feet in width between the builuing and | the art gallery on the north side, which will be ore pamentally treated as ground for specia! purposes. The building is in the form of a paralielogram, extending east and west 1,880 feet in lengiu, and orth and south 464 feet ip width. { ‘The larger portion of the stracture is one story | in height, and shows the main cornice upon tne | outside at 45 feet above the ground, the interior height being 70 feet. As the centre of the longer wides are grojections 416 feet in length, and in the centre of the shorter sides or ends of wie bull mg are projections 216 leet in length. In th projections, in the centre of the lour sides are |o- | cated the main entrances, which are provided | ‘with arcades upon the ground floor, and central jeg extending to the heigiit of 90 sect. | ine east entrance will fourm the principal ap- | proach for carriages, visitors being allowed to @light at the doors o! the building under cover of the Arcade. south entra will be the principal ap- Irom street cars, the ticket offices being Eecatea upon the line of Elm avenue, with covered ‘ways provided jor entrance into the building itse! he The main portal on the north side communicates directly with the Art Galiery, aud the main portal On the west side gives the main passage way to the machinery and agricultural halls. m the corners of the building there are Sour towers 75 feet in height, and between the towers and the central projections or entrances | there is a lower roo! introduced, showing a | cornice at 2% feet above the ground. Im order to obtain a central feature for the building as @ whole tue roo! over tne central part for 184 feet square has Deen raised above th T+ Founding portion, and tour towers, 48 leet square, mising to 120 Jeet in height, have been introduced @t the corners of the elevated roof. The areas covered are as follows :— heres, Gronnd Moor ........---+-s0eeee0+ 2.02 Upper floors in projections a4 Upper floors in towers.....-...... ‘0 Total v.eveeeeseee 2147 GROUND PLAN, The general arrangement of the gronnd plan shows a central avenue or nave 120 feet in width, and extending 1,832 eet In length. This is the | Jongest avenue of tliat width ever introduced {to ap exhibition building. On either side of this Mave there is an avenue 100 fees by 1,832 feet in Jength. Between the nave and side avenues are aisies 48 feet wide, and om the outer sides of the BM building smailier aisies 24 feet in width. im order to break the great length of the roof lines three cross avenues, or transepts; have been imtroduced of the same widths and in the same relative positions to each other as the nave and avenues runving lengthwise—viz., a central transept 120 feet im width by 416 eet in length, ‘With one on eitner side of 100 feet by 416 feet, aud sisies between of 48 leet. ‘The intersections of these avenues and transepts | fm the central portion of the building result in dividing the ground floor into nine open spaces free irom supporting columns, and covering in the aggregate an area of 416 feet square. Four of SBhese spaces are 100 feet square, four 100 feet by 120 leet, and the centrai space or pavilion 120 jeet square. The iniersections of the 48 joot aisies produce feur interior courts # feet square, one at each corner of the central space. ‘The main promenades turough the nave and central transept are each 30 Jeet in width, and those through the centre of the side avenues and transepts 10 leet each. All other walks are 10 Jeet ‘Wide and lead at either end to exit doors. | The following table gives the principal dimen- | sions of the diferent parts of the vuilding:— | DIMENSIONS. | Measurements taken from centre to centre of | su) porting columns. Peet. 380 tut Length of building Wath of building Ceniral avenue or Qave tn i + sense 1,832 Width . . ly} Height (6 top of «ap 6 Height to ride of ro 70 | Central waneept BARR 6605000 ssesereescvccces 416 Width... 120 Height to top of columns “5 Height to ridge of ru 0 Bide | 532 1 | 45 65 46 wy 45 | 65 wi ight to top a Height to riage of root Bide (ranseps Length Width Height to Height tot Central aisles Lepgth at east en, Langti at west ena With umns 4 2 e » 74 | 672 | a | Height wo roo! Aisles. a ‘. eo MYUATE) . ... ceeee * im | le top of supporti col Fi REM ret cae. rere bd 1d pian (eet square “2 Height to root » ty | cman pane | ‘ound pian (teet square my Hewht to rool % The foundations consist of piers of masonry. ‘The superstructure .« composed of wrought mo columns, Which support wrought tron ruof As a general rule, the columns are placed length- wise of the Ouliding, at the Uniiorm aist@nce apart of twenty-four leet, aud the sides of the building, are for the height of seven jest (rom tne groand, Snished with timver iramed tn panels between the column: id above tie seven feet with glazed e3. Portions 01 the sash are movable for vent- The wrought tron columns are composed of Folied channel bars, with piates Tivetved to the bs The Foos tragses aro similar in form to those in | FROM FRANCE. M.A. L. de la Forest, Consul General, New or! M. Ravin’ de Elpeux, Vice Consul, New York. FROM MEXICO. President—Romero Rubio, Commissioners—R, Y. Aleavaz, Ynacio Altimi- rano, RK. Mary de la Jurez, Luis Malanco, Ars’to dei Castillo, Julio Zdérate, Gabriel Mancusa. Secretary—Edward E. Zarate, FROM GAUTEMALA, SALVADOR, Commissioner—Don Vincente Pardon, Minister Plenipotentiary. FROM LIBERIA. J. L. Payne. . Edward O. Mario, FROM PERU. President—Colone! Manuel Freyre, Minister Plenipotentiary, Washington. Commissioners—Fred, L, Barreda, Edward Vil- Jena, Charles Macy. FROM SWEDEN. President—A. Bergstrom. Commisstoners—C, O. Trotlinus, F, L. Von Dardel, G, Beyer, Charlies Dickson, A, H. E. Fock and seven other: Secretary—C, J. Daunfelt. FROM NORWAY. Herman Baas. Wiliam Coristopherson. FROM Lord Derby, under dresses Minister Schenck as follows:— Forgtan Orricx, Dec. 3, 1874. Dean Stu—With reference to my letter of the 25th of ust [ have now the honor to iniorm you that Her | A Majesty's government accepts with much’ pleasure the invitation of the United states to take part In the Inte national Exhibition two be held at Philadelphia in 1476. Tehail have the houor to acquaint you hereaiter with the arrangements which will be made in order to carry this decision into effect. Her Majesty's governinesit | trusts that this exhibition will fully realize the objects | which the government of the United State nd the pro- moters of the andertaking have in view, id they do hot doubt that it will tend toa turther development of the iinportant commercial relations between Great Britain and the United states. Ihave the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient, hum: ble servant, DERBY. To General Senencx, &c., ke. A copy of the foregoing is received from Minister Schenck, and Secretary Fish is also informed of | the acceptance by letter irom Sir Edward Thoorn- tou. who makes use of substantially the same expressions, and says he 18 instructed to convey the information to Secretary Fisa, with a request | that the President of the United States be made | acquainted with the same. OTHER NATIONS. In addition to those mentioned avove other joreign Powers nave also appointed their omicial commussioners, Japan, Canada, Austria, Hungary and several more, SPACE. From ofMcial papers nas been compiled the following statement, Which indicates the amount of space alloted to each nation :— Square fort. Siam - SM6 Persia 6 Kgypt.- 7716 fF 7776 10,084 1.048 23,328 2,204 TTI6 6.156 11.664 15,552 France, Aigiers anc . 27,266 Great Bri nada, India, Austra! colonie vegan 46,748 United sta ai) 123,160 Mexico eee ~ 11,066 Honduras ‘3.888 Gautemala ... 308 San Salvador 4586 Micaragu: a Venezuela 5 Ecuador Sos United states ot Colombia. 7776 Pe Pens anges 164 som 9748 s 17/520 Argentine 15,962 ya Sat bandwic 388 Liberia 2,20 Japan z Ching Reserved space Total THE CENT B iF FID There can be but iittie douvt Centennial Exposition wil be @ financial success, as over $2,500,000 bave been contributed from such sources the donors of which will not pertcipase in or sare any part of the proceeds, This is te money given by the city and State, Numerous parties, by giving balls, parties and social enter- Lainments of every Conceivabie kind, in aiferent sections of the Country, lave raised many tnou- sands of dollars, Which, Instead o: being used for the purchase of stock, have been handed over to the Board of Finance 4s voluntary contributions. In addition to tuis the Commission Yas issued @ hanasome set of memoriai medais, which are already mecting with extensive sale, and from Which it i8 expected that a profit of at least $1,000,000 can be made before the close of the Ex- position. If the government carries out its origi- nai intention to pay the working expenses of the Commissiou the outside resources and receipts Will be tully adequate to restore tue entire capital to the original contributors. THE OPENING DAY, It is the intenuon to open the great Exposition On che 19th Of April, 1576, and the only question now is, Will the ouliding be ready in time’ The contractor, Mr. Dobbins, assures me that there is not the siignvest doubt hut that the entire eirac- ture Will be compleced fully sixty days before the Gave specified in nis contract, aud from the as- tonmishing rapidity with waich |. It, thereiore, 18 only hecessary ior the people of this country to awake to Lhe duties of the hour to render the display a wonderiu) oue, THE PRESIDENT'S BALL IN PARIS. (Paris Wau. 14) correspondence of London stand- ard.) The great event to-night is the President's ball: 6,500 invitations lave been issued, and the rooms are therefore likely to be somewhat crowded, To accohimodace the guesta the rooms of the Elysée have been expanded by wooden stractures out side, Which wul open into the several ballroo; All the regiments of the garrison—viz., thirty- regiments of the line, five battalions of Chasseurs and the uswal proportion of cavairy and artillery, wiil be represented by deputations from their OM ne “military schools, the Polytechnic and st, Cyt axe alsu W be Jargely represented, ts and warehouses, and con- bars. among which may be named | that the American | ALL HAIL ANDY! ‘New -York and Other Opinions on His Election. THE REPUBLICANS TACITURN. | | The Democrats Generally in Andy’s Favor. The epigrammatic utterances of our legisiators in Washington in reference to the election of Andy Jobnson tothe United States Senate were te subject of much humorous comment yester- day among politicians and other leading men of the city. Andy Johnson is one of those public men whose very mention somenow or other provokes a smile. His eccentricities, his original ideas, bis great force of character, his remarkabie stubbornness are still impressed apon the mind of the elapsed since his retirement from the political siage. A great many people in New York love Andy, @ great many hate him, although the majority are certainly in his | | favor, but everybody 1s amused at the meution | o: him, and laughs good-naturedly when hearing of him. There is another important point—no | body impugns his honesty. The writer conversed yesterday with many of the most influential men of this city, and though some derided him—they were but very few, however—all acknowledged | his integrity. | low volce)—He is a good man tm his way, and if he will keep out of other peopie’s way 1 see no objection to bis return to the Senate; but you cannot expect much from one 80 erratic.” “THE BTERNAL FITNESS OP THINGS.” Senator Kelley, Oregon—‘He 1s not my choice; yet it does one good to know that he will be the peer of those who seven years ago attempted to impeach him.’? A TARTAR FOR ‘76, Senator Merrimon, North Carolina—“Nortn Carolina has no interest in it one way or another. Jobnson may give the democratic party troubie, | especially if he and his iriends have Presidential | aspirations in 1876,” RENBWAL OF HIS OLD TRADE. Senator Logan, [nois—“He is just the man we want, I think he will rip things, He is not going to let Thurman be the leader of the demo- | cracy im the Senate.” | TENNESSER'S BEST SPECIMEN. Senator Morrill, of Maine. guess he will ao | Wellenough. They could not bave sent any better | from the State.” POETIC JUSTICR ACHIRVED. Senator Bayard, of Delaware—*‘His election ts a Piece of poetic justice. He will not affect iegisia- tion, He is too old, and will not be in accord with any one on the Senate Mor. He never did affect public despite the six years that have | jegislation.” MODERATELY JOYOUS. Senator Allison, of lowa—“‘I am pretty well sat- ised.” | “NOT OF OUR SET.” Senator Anthony, of Rhode Isiana—“Jonnson was always a Union man; rather have him than a revel general, though he was not the kind of Union man we were.” OUR N&IGHBOR’S SHOR PINCHES, Senator Sargent, of California—‘Jonnson’s elec- tion ts a problem. Don’t think the democrats lke | it or find any consolation in it,” DIFFERENCES OF OPINION. The republicans were extraordinarily taciturn on the subject of Andy Johnson’s election. Men who usually are glad to give their opinions for the enlightenment of the public, when requested to stute what tney thought of his election } tried to laugh the matter off and exhibited great unwillingness to tell what significance they attributed to this remarkavle event, The demo- | | crats, as will be seen irom the subjoined opinions | of distinguished members of the Manhattan Club | and the Tammany Society, applauded bis return to the political arena almost unanimously. In fact, the opinions generally expressed about him | in this city seem to be much more favorable than those given in the national capital, where his | peculiarities of manner and temper are probably | remembered more vividly by members of Con- | gress and other officials. At all events, people here | | should be grateful to him for affording them a mo- | | ment’s fleeting amusement by the mere mention of his name. 4 REBUKE TO THE ADMINISTRATION. August Belmont, President of the Manhattan Club—“I think it is a good thing for the country and the party, and an additional rebuke to the administration.” A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. Mayor Wickham—“This election 1s a good thing. He’s @ great improvement on) his predecessor, Brownlow. Alwost anybody would be an improve- ment on him." HONESTY DESIRABLE. Judge W. E. Curtis, of the Superior Court—“I have always regarded Jonoson a8 @ man of honesty and upright character, and these are | Very desirable qualifications in politics just now.” THE BEST MAN, President 8. A. Lewis, of the Board of Aidermen— | “{ don’t think the people of Tennessee could have | made any better selection, Ont- excellent feature | about his election ia that by reason of his great | experience ho will be able to put his Onger upon | the frauds aud wrongs of the auministration.” NO ESPECIAL SIGNIFICANCB, | John Kelly, Sachem of Tammany—“I think ke | will beavery useiul man to his State. He has | | always been a very vigilant, aciive man when he | sat before in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Beyond that I think the event has no especial polizical significance.” | 11'S WELL ENOUGH. Joseph N. Choate, President of the Union League | Ciub—“I suppose it’s well enough—don’t you? I | think he will make things lively in Washington, One thing is certain—ne never stoleacent, It | looks as though the democracy intended to run | him for the Presiaency.” WILL BE A VERY GOOD SENATOR, 8. L. M. Barlow, a prominent lawyer and a mem- ber of the Manhattan Club—“{ think ne’ll be a | very good Senator. He is a man of {ar more abil- ity than the majority of those elected to the Sen- | ate. What I like about him is that he was edu- cated in the old school of politics, and has the Jef- fersonian and oot the Calhoun iea of State | riguts,”? A DEBATABLE POINT. Mr. Levi P. Morton, @ great financier and still greater friend of the President—Whether his election 1s a good thing for the country is rather a | debatable point.” ANDY’S USEFULNEES. | Sidney Webster, the lawyer—“Apart from his opinions on the great questions of the day, which | Ido not know, | should say that a man of his vast exnericnce, who has been @ Representative, Sena- tor, Governor, Vice President and President, must prove of great use to his future coll¢agues.¥ HE’LL MAKE TROUBLE John McKeon, the lawyer—‘‘I’m gad he’s there, for he’ll make trouble. He'll have 4 chance to get square with the President, That he is an able Man there 1s Do douot.”” VALUABLE OPINIONS. Robert Lenox Kennedy, President of the Bank of Commerce—“I never give my opinions,” ANDY’S CORRECT IDEAS James Thayer, the well known democratic | | orator—“‘I think it’s fortunate that he has been returned to the Senate. I think that he has the most correct political ideas of State rights ol any mau in this courtry.”” A FIRST RATR MAN. Charles P. Leveridge, President of the Bank of | New York—“I am @ business man and don’t know much about politics, but myimpresston 1s | that he is @ first rate man in every respect. Almost everybody with whom Ihave conversed seems to | be pleased at his election.’’ NOT ALWAYS POLISHED. | Wilitam N. Nelison, President of the Board of Eaucation—“I think he is @ gocd, honest man, who means to enforce the laws according to the constitution, Of course, he is not always the | polished statesman.” DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS ELECTED. Judge John Sedgwick, of the Superior Court, | the vest looking Judge in this city, and one of the | wituest—“I didn’t know he was elected, It’s | shameful ignorance on the part of a Judge, I | know, Was itin Tennessee? A sovereign State, | I believe 11'S QUEER. | Mr. Richard O'Gorman, ex-Corporation Counsel | of the city—“i0’s queer, and shows bow strange the | wheel of politics turns. However, I regard it as a | Welcome change for the better, sithough he isa man who will do some unwise things while he stands on his own feet.” WOULDN'T HAVE VOTED FOR HIM. Mr. W. L. Jenkins, President of the Bank of America—‘I don’t think my opinion wouid be of much interest; but I wouidn’t have voted for him.” TOO BUSY. Pieas—“‘I have not givéh tne subject a moment's thought. I nave had as much as I could do to think about my business here.” Ou, DON’T! Senator Cameron, Pennsylvania—“Don’t press me for an opinion, for, while it is a very great viv~ tory for the man, I don’t like him and never did, dency.” SWEET, CONSOLATORY THOUGHT. | Senator Chandler, Michigan—‘A happy memory for the future, for, though not re-electea to the Senate myself, consolation comes te me in the thought that I will eacape Andy’s Senatorial com- pany.” CONDENSED SENTIMRNT. Senator McCreery, of Kentucky—‘Et is a good thing”? | diMcult to obtain the recruits or new mem- Judge Van Brunt, of the Court of Common | and | opposed his nomination fur the Vice Presi- | A MAILED WARRIOR. Senator John B, Gordon, of Georgia—*It will depend on what whim Mr. Johnson takes, His election may do a great deal of good, He may do | tne democratic party a great deal of harm. Hes | & power/ul man. 1 do not agree with many of my brother democrats in their apprehensions of bim. Re can say what he chooses to the other side without fear of their attacks.” NOBLY VINDICATED, Representative Rusk, of Wisconsin—“I am very giad of it, Itis the best thing that could happen, and, without regard to hia po itical sentiments, every man who believes in justice to his fellow man feels that, after all bis trials, be has been nobly vindicated.” “ALL THE BOYS AND MY SHOEMAKER.” Senator Matthew W. Ransom, of North Carolina, | ‘Johnson is aiming at the Presidency in 1876, He isa very ambitious man. He is a power. | While we politicians in the Senate are taking dif- ferent views of it, the people are looking on it as the trinmph of an honest man. They are in sym- pathy witn him, All tha boys around the hotel and my shoemaker to-night exhibited their ex- ultation about Johnson's coming back to public life. Johnson is in sympathy with the people.” THE SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY. A NEW BUILDING IN CONTEMPLATION—THE REGIMENT DISGUSTED WITH TOMPKINS MAREET. A movement ts on foot for the building of a new armory for the Seventh regiment, which is now quartered, as is well known, in Tompkins Market. As a large majority of the oficers and members of the regiment reside above Yhirty-ffth street they find it exceedingly difficult to attend the frequent drills which are necessary to maintain the mult- tary efficiency of the command. With an armory So distant from the residences of the members there must always be some delay in assembling the regiment when called upon to aid the city authorities in preserving the peace and good or- der of the city and in protecting pub- lic and = private property. The present | location of the armory also renders it bers Which are constantly necessary to the continued efficiency and prosperity of the | regiment, and thus its future welfare and tts ex. | istence, as @ large, thoroughly drilled and well disciplined organization, are endangered. The | central point for the assembling of the regiment | is moving northward every ye.r, and the diMcal- | Ues and embarrassmepts of the regiment above | referred to are constantly increasing, An an ad- ditional reason for requiring a new armory it may be mentionea that the regiment can never reach the desired perfection in drill until the drill rooms are on the ground floor, so that it can have an opportunity for the practice of military evolu_ tions in double quick or double time with safety to its armory and its members. A new armory, in & proper location, has become a positive necessity to the welfare and future prosperity of the Seventh regiment. In bis first message to the Common Cowncil | Mayor Wickham used the following language :— The Seventh regiment, which is one of the best, is vir- tually without an armory. The premises occupied by it at lompkins Market were sume mouths ago injured by fire and rendered unft for use, and the damage hi been repsired. The building is owned by the eit; should long ago have been repaired. No private prop- erty of such value would have been allowed to remain so any months in s damaged condition. A lease has been executed by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the block ot ground belonging to the city bounded by and sitaated between Sixty-sixth and Sixty- seveuth streets and Fourth and Lexington avenues for the erection of an armory for this regiment. It seems but just to this regiment thata proper building should be there erected for it without further delay. A bill was recently introduced in the Assembly by Mr. Campbell “enabling the city authorities to provide the necessary military accommodation for the Seventh regiment.” The officers of the Sev- enth claim that the taxation of the city of New York would not be materially increased by the erection of & new armory for their regiment, as the Tompkins Market Armory would thereby be vacated and could be assigned to a regiment whose members reside in its vicinity, thus reliev- ing the city from the expense of an armory and drill rooms elsewhere for such regiment. Witha view to obtiin accurate and reliable information as to the cost of a large and commodious armory, and the necessary drill rooms for the seventh regiment, upon the plot of ground already leased by the regiment for this purpose, prelimi- mary feblle ave been made by & competent architect and submitted to practical builders, and the cost has been careiully estimated in detail for every part of the work. The interest upon the sum required for the eee of the armory and drill rooms, as proposed, will not exceed $25,000 oe nnum, a sum less than is now paid annually in some Cases lor the rent of armories in the city York for regiments of much less numerical etre! nthe Seventh. This does not include the Becessary furniture and decorations which would be required; but the Board of Officers of the 3 ronda is prepare to stipniate tha: the city will not be called upon for any expenditure for that purpose. All toa! asked of the city is that it shall furnish the wa roof and floors of the building, with necessary apparatus for ting and lighting, and the regiment will guarantee to so furnish and decorate the building so that it will be an ornament to our imperial city. SLAVERY IN MADAGASCAR. The Leeds (England) Mercury prints, from information on which it can place full reliance, a recen. prociamation issued by the Queen of mad- agascar, ordering the liberation of all slaves im- ported into her kingdom since the date of the treaty of 1865, entered into with Great Britain for the suppression of that traiic. The following is a transiation of this documen I, Ranovalomanjaka, by the grace of God and the will of the people, Queen of Madagascar and defender of the laws of yy, vountry, bave agreement with my relations across the seas that hall not be allowed to be brought into my, Y people from across the seas to be made slaves, A on account of this I command that if there are any Mozambiques lately come into my country since the 7h of June, 1865, whieh was the year of the completion of the agreement with my relations across tue seas, then they are to becume “isan ny | ambaniandro’ (a phrase applied to the free innab- | itants of Madagascar, dif they wish to dweil io this land ghey ina do so, and be of the number of free peopie; and 11 they wist to revurn across the sea from whence they came, then they are at liberty to go. And il there are any who couceal Mozambiques lutely cone to be slaves and do not set them at liberty to become ‘isan ny aibaniandro,’ according to my cummand, they shall be put in Chains tur ten years. says, RANOVALOMANJAKA, Queen of Madagascar, &c. This is the word of Ranovalomaujaka, Queen of Madagascar. . GooD IN HIS Way, Senator Hamlin, Maing (with much gravity aud Say Th AINILAIARIVONY, Prime Minister ana Commander-in-chief iu Madagascar. ANTANANABIYO, 24 Ocbuber, 1974 ADRUPLE SHEET. “BUCKET SHOPS.” Scenes During a Tour of Ex- cise Inspection. “VELVET ROOMS.” How and Where the Multitudes Are Demoralized. UNLICENSED LIQUORS At the distance of about a block from the Cen- tral OMice of Police, and almost immediately oppo- site the Cathedral, in Mott street, is a “bucket shop,” “distillery” or drinking saloon, Known in the neighborhood as the “Morgue.” Aithough It 18a place where peopie drink—and drink a great deai—it does not come within the rank of what is known as ‘‘saloons;” and although the proprietor, like many other owners of similar places, ostenta- tiously calia it a “distillery” in large black letters on @ witte board running from the front wall some distance into the street, it Is not a ‘distil- lery;’’ but, though few persons ase the title in Speaking of the den, it 18 @ ‘bucket shop.” A “bucket shop” is @ large or small open store, piled up with barrels, where poor people go to arink alcoho. There is no bar or fixture of any kind within tne place—at least there used not to ve. Lavely, under a pressure from the Board of Excise, some are being pot up, with a view to giving an improving character to the ap- pearance of the place, @ plain piece of board laid across the main row of barrels in the centre or side of the store, with several large, thick glasses Testing, waiting on it for use, serving the purpose ofthe ordinary counter. The size of the glass prompted the name given to the shop, the ideain connection with it being that the customer gets a There are nearly a thousand of these “shops’’ in the city, and they are spread allover it. Attached to each “bucket shop,” at the rear, 1s a place’ par- ttioned off, which 1s called the ‘velvet room.” The name is @ satire of the most refined acidity, ror nothing like velvet ever approaches the “room,”’ unless it may be some very threadbare relic of a grand lady’s finery or the wornout skeleton ofa theatrical skirt. Sleeping drunkenness and WILD BLASPHEMOUS RIOTING and quarrelling are frequent enough in the ‘vel- vet room,’ and they are accompanied with ver. min, rags, filth and sodden sawdust. The ‘velvet room” cannot be describea—that is, decently—nor can it be imagined by a decent person; it must be seen to be understood. No difference or distinc- tion is made there between age, size, sex or color. The ‘bucket shop’ isa leveller of every degree, and the “velvet room” 1s the even plane Into which it’rushes them. A most absolute and perfect treedom reigns there, the inhabitants being the judges of what is offensive and what is not, Habit brings indifference, and the result is that everything is permitted and nothing ts looked upon as out of the way. The sexes are on a most equal footing there, a woman being as good as a man as long as she has money to treat. Many of the frequenters of the “bucket shop” live in the “velvet room.’ The only time they spend out of it is while they are about the atreets ‘grub- bing” the money to buy “drinks.” On entering the “shop” they never say whiskey or alcohol or gin; only, “Gi me sarink.” If they were to use any of these names it would be merely as a pleas- ant httle joke ora matter of fiction, for there is but one material in the place, although that is variously colored to give some foundation jor the change of name, according to the mood or temper of the drinker. The ‘velvet room” is used as a sleeping apartment, dressing room, bathroom, laundry, kitchen and reiectory. Undergarments removed and washed there are dried upon the stove and again resumed. Breeding of a most equitable poise nas attained there, for no one notices the movements or presence of any one else, and each acts entirely independent of the other. If two or three are quarrelling in a corner no one else inter- feres, A sleeping drunkard never objects to le sworn at or walked over. When the ‘‘velvet room’? is filled to its greatest extent the drinkers lie down upon the ‘‘shop’’ floor, on the barreis or anywhere they can find space, With a generosity not to be found among the upper Classes of LIQUOR SELLERS, the “bucket shop” man rarely turns his cnstoméra into the street when they are drunk, A+ soon a3 they enter his place is at their disposal, and they make the most of it. That in some measure ac- counts for the abundance of filth in all of them and the affection they seem to feel for it, as they rarely attempt to remove it. The “bucket shops’ are supposed to be under the authority of several departments, but they are in reality under none. A sort of general government of their own has grown up among them, and that Is the single voice the own- ers listen to. It usually urges them to continue and sell allthey can, and they obey implicitly. None of them are licensed, and the Board of Excise 4s endeavoring to crush them out, bat the police are inactive. The Commissioners of Excise keep up @ general supervision over them, In this work they employ seven inspectors, each of whom Is al- loted a portion of the city. Inspector Wendoner has charge ofthe Fourteenth, Sixth, Tenth and Fourth wards. He began one of his regular visita, accompanied by a representative of the HERALD. The ‘Morgue’ was the first place that came im tne line of inspection, It nad been in full blast for a couple of hours when the inspector went in, and the result was allover the floor, The diiference between it and the other Morgue was that it was much more crowded; the recumbent figures gave out strong evidenoce of life, and were passing through a sort of preparatory scnool, rapidly get- ting themselves into condition tor exposition up town. The inspector stood a moment in the mid- dig of the “shop” contemplating the scene and marking its most prominent features for his com- panion, There were some very prominent and characteristic features observable ,at the time. Presently a tall, stout woman marched boldly in, and, stopping in front of the counter, satd, ‘Gl’ sitting on @ box beside the counter and with his head leaning against it, she added— “Get uy ill, and take a drink.”” “Bill did not get up, for he was not able; but he heid on to the counter and lifted himself into a sort of half-standing position in obedience to the invitation. While he was doing this—it took some time, although he was 4 young and VIGOROUS LOOKING MAN, and the barkeeper was filling the glasses—the of barrels against the wall opposite the counter, apd Leg hee him soundly on the back, Went op, in # loud, hoarse voice:—“Full again, Fritz! That's the taird time to-day! Well, I’m sorry for it, I'd like to have treated yo, I’ve got a quarter.” She turned irom bim and to tne counter. by that time the barkeeper had deposited the two “drinks” of alcohol aud put down beside the glass an- other huge glass containing water, The woman grabbed one of the “drinks,” looked ast ‘Bil”— who was ite Sf reaching for the other—an “Hei ‘ord to quietly and slowly settied himself down 2 upon his box, as he had risen fromit, The woman sauntered out as she had entered, the barkeeper resumed bis dog; imperturbable alr and the sleepers continued their snoring. ‘Thavs tne don’t take long, as you could see if you were io watch One of these places, This 1s one of the Worst in the city, Right epposite the church, tuo, Every morning you can catch them here in dozens, some that have passed the night here, men and | women—often girls and youtos, mak ference #0 long as they've got the mone: | the others who just come to get their mornin nip. Lord how they shake, and how dail and re tuey look im their eyes and head. Awfal stuff, 1 can teli you, to keep pouring into @ man, ond the tricks they play to get it. They'll send ‘the ontl- dren for it, With jugs and bottles, thinking they'll get little more that way oo , and they'll go themselves and ‘arink., it in wuop,” {or purpon of gauging she me 4 drink! then, turning to a half sleeping man | woman walked over to another, sleeping on a pile | instant, aud said, re's to ye, Bill,” and toss down the drink, without a@ win! She then | touched her lips with the water tn ti L “Bil declined it altogether, with ake Of the head, never vouchsaied and way it goes,” said the inspector; Ways the bigs | change until they hop, Of alto- gether, ‘re all alike, two. jationality makes no difference. me after another they come to it; and once they come they never leave until it kills them. That | | tell you the ward is /uil of these shop: child happens to get difference. It than another o B any occasion ‘hi: re continue ta gend thatone. The neighbors will even borrow! him from his own family to buy their liquor fo: them. 1 knew the case of me ? ‘A NICE LOOKING YOUNG GIRL up the street who nad an influence on the bar~ Keeper by reason O! her goou looks, and all the ward, so to speak. were alter her to buy or the! They pay for it just what they have—five cents “drink” if they have that much, but the barkeeper will take three if he’ can’t get any more, or two,, for that matter. Wherever you see two or threa, of these ‘bucket shops,’ you may be sure a pawn- broker is not far of. first the money goes for it, then the clothes, until pone are left. 1 often no- Uced they are like Chinamen im the Sixth ward, It has simost the same ef. ject upon them as tne opium has the Chinamen, and they take it, the same way, with the di They drink it until they s-upid pe) just where they been drinking and gleepo : the effects, All the eifects don't come off, hough, by the sleeping, for tuey wake with # hunger for it, aud go on breaking, breaking till they crack altovetuer trom its influence. That was a respectable Woman, 80 to speak; nothing out of the Way except tn this respect. She hag probably @ husband and three or tour children, nd occasionally works hard to them. But she comes here and so does the hus~ band, and of & surety 80 will the children, until they are all swept of by this stuft., All they earo goes into this man’s pocket, and the more of this they drink the less they want to work, and by degre: down and down and finaily turn out ove: the way, these ucre are going to another place in’ @ state of drunkenness as {ast as they can, Here: you can see the two pictures—ihe church peopie Beat and clean, quie* and sober; there fow and filthy, drunk and noisy, caring nothing for any- thing but a drink, Tuere 1s a side door these jead~ ing into the hallway, through which they come in anu go out, and you'll find heaps of them lying drunk in the backyard any Sunday. I neea not and almost the same taings go on in all of them. Down the street nere Pil nines show you another very Rard The one “down the street’? was in every respect the same kind of house. It was: larger than the ‘morgue, bad more barrels in it and @ more inviting ‘velvet room.” it wad crowded too, in the shop and in the “velvet room,” showing that busives# was in a thriving condition, Three or four men in the “room were treating the same number of women, giving them drink irom a iarge glass which seemed com- mon to the party. In their midst was a good- sized black bottle, containing liquor, and ON THE FLOOR was one of the women already drunk, Two of | the others seemed well on the way to the same “bucket” of stimulating liquor at a low figure. | 2 goal, the tourth, being stout and strong, young too, and not yet much weakened by tne liquor, and appeared likely to lascout to the end of the course. Around the stove seven or eight mem Jounged heavy and silent, looking as if they had but one business in life, and that was to inhale the smoke and steam from that stove, But one man was asleep in the place, and he was On top of a huge pile of barrels against the side of the wall, They nad all the same pecullari- ties, the same visible signs 01 hard drinkin: ‘Their clothes were about the same in tne progre: of decay or falling trom their ba: ks, and all seemed to feel the same want of warmth, nourishment aud seap and water. A squeezing, bail rubbing together movement of the handy Was noticeaoie in wll of them, and they were all bent in the shoulders and had the same slouching, cringing, hang-dog carriage of ‘the pody. Not one siood erect or beidly like Man Or lifted his eyes to meet those of another man. ‘hey bad every one of them sume feeling of being teere On sufferance. They all saowed their conviction of the knowledge on the part of the barkeeper that there was not a cent among them, er be would soon Rave it, and they hang about that stove, Witn an air that plainly begged they should not be thrust into the street. As soon as he entered a “shop” the inspector walked straight to the counter and asked ior @ “drink,’? took it, paid ior it, and on coming again into the street made an entry in a little nove-boek be car- ried in a side-pocket of his overcoat. Wnoen asked why he did this and if be was not afraid, he an- swered, “1 am on duty now, and my duty is snes proot against these fellows, ‘There 13 a great dil- Jerence between drinking liquor to satisly an ap- petite and testing itin the way of business as I the first case, 1t makes @ Man drunk; in ad, it does i 1am not afraid, because 1 am ¢areful thac ‘ne quantity 1 take shall never amount to an injurious degree. After going into five or six other places in the same slreet, in ¢ach of which the In- apector took # drink, and at the door of which he made ap entry, liester street became the ob- Jectionable point of inquiry. rom the gas house, ‘on the corner of the street, the opposite bloc! just out of the Bowery, presented a striking panorama. At least a hundred women hovered and buzzed around it, going into the “shops” and coming Out wiping their mouths with the backs of their hands. Almost every shop and basemens in the block 13 devoted to the sale of liquors, and the customeys oO! each are “uniortunates,” In the basement there v Sixt WOMEN, and in a shop even with the sidewalk there wero eleven When the Inspector entered. Five of the eleven were standing drinking at @ counter, from beuind which @ woman was serving thei, and the other six were in the back room being waited on by her husband, They stood im groupe on the sidewalk, with @ mimn occasionally in their midst disputing, swearing and shouting. it bemg early im the evening, they were ouly | about bali drunk, but they were on the way wita ali their might ‘to entire iorgetfulneas and thé station house near by. From Hester street the Inspector turned into Movt street, examined sev: erai ‘shops’? in that thoroughfare and passed or to Bayard street. He went into two immense | places in that street, nearly oppusite each other, | lishment, | in 1874 Warrior won the cu Botn were doing a thriving business, and the cus- tomers in both were the same poor, bloated, ragged, shivering, miserable wretches. Standing in front O1one, he pointed to a house on the north side of the str about three doors {rom ‘Baxter street, ‘hat,’ he said, “is @ private estab, Levs go in. The “private estab. lishment”? consisted of two rooms on the first floor, but aamission was not so easy a8 the Ibspector’s invitation seemed to imply, When he pushed the door it would not yield, and aiter he had knockea several times it was only «pened aiew inches by a young woman who held in ber hand the heavy bar that gecared the place irom unkpown visitors. Aiter’a good deal of pushing aud demanaing on the par’ of the Inspector the youns woman fually opened the door apd admission was obtained. In the front room Wasa kind 0! counter, behind it a counter containing a few bottles and glasses, and on it taree bits of candles in brass candlesticks that gave light to the plice. Against the partition that divided off the rear compartment, in whieb tne family lived, were three huge casks of alcobol, and at a table near one ol the windows at tho other end of the room were Jour children, seated around a table, playing with a pack of carus. just to stand, Was ut the head of one of tie enormous casks, with Its hand upon the wooden spigot, and with the other it caugnt up some Oo! the drops that were falling into au bucket and brought them (it Was a girl) wo her mouth, The movher of tue coii- Gren Was in the back room when the Inspector made his appearance; but she quickly came for- ward and took her evidently accustomed place belind the bar. ‘fats ‘snop,’” said the Inspector, “is (requented by a seb Of quiet people, who ceme here to play cards, get drunk and sieep.” There is no sign out, no evidence of what is going on Within on the front, and the opper part of the house 18 inhatmted by tue usual occupants of tene- ments. Here they have it on the premtses, no necessity to go oul. Eight or ten other *whops’? ended the inspection for the night, and at mid- night Mr. Wendover flaished bis tour, still alive and sober, RACING AT THE ANTIPODES, The first Melbourne cup was run in 1861, and was won by Mr,De Mestre’s Archer, The same horse car- ried off the cup again in 1862, In 1863 Banker was the victor. The year 1864 witnessed the doable victory of Hurtie Fisher’s Lantern in Derby and cup. This wasafine young horse. He was never defeated, but died of mischance in his third year, as Mr. Fisher’s Charon dia afterwara, Two of the grandest animals that ever ran in Ausvralia thus perished ina similar way, aud dotn were owned by the same gentieman. In 1865 that little sur- prise, Grey Torboy, came to the front and won tho cup, landing a heavy stake for bis owner, Mr. Marshall, in 1866 the black Demon Barb won for Mr. John Tait his first cup. In.1867 Tim Whitler gave Mr. De Mestre a third Melbourne cup after the lapse of five years. In 1868 every one thought the Barb was to do it again, but Mr. Tait bad another notion. He quiet! i scratched the Barb, reserving tim for the weight lor age events in which the light division could not get at him. Then Mr. Tait saddied the chestnut jour- year-old Glencoe, with his own hands, and secured | the cup with his second best. In 1869 Warrior was the Essendon 73, and Diver and brought ir, Sagal, who made @ favorite, after winnt Stakes, as Don Juan did in as e to his new owner, ited purohssed him from Mi " Unde, of rent Winch’s Circassian, on the strength of winning the Sydney Metropolitan, had been made favorite for the Melbourne cor this year (1869), at 3 to 1, but worully disappointed his packers. In 1870 the Metropolitan winner, Croydon, was tavorite for the Meibourne Cup, nis backers being unde- terred py the Aasco of the previous year. Croy- don ran ap 8 to 1, and ran fourth, Nimblesoot being the winner, with Lapdog second. 1¢ is un- necessary to do more than recall the startling in. cident of Craig’s dream, or the unprece- dented bet of £1,000 to tive drinks, duly honored thatis the bev) by Mr. Slack, the Leviathan. tt is strange, but true, that among the fancy tips in pencil op the doors of the scraping sheds by the tan at Flemington Course, Nunbleroot was set down beiorehand as the winner by two tipsters, although none of the literary touts spotted him. In 1871 came John Tait’s chird victory, with the Pearl; and in 1872 hia fourth, with the Quack. Be- fore 1871 people had said ‘Taiv's day Was over. They do not say 80 now. 1873 was Don Juan’s ear, of Which no more nesd° be #aid, except, per- ; chat bon Jaan House, in East Melbou: ‘will soon be ready Jor occupation by its owner an: dynonp Thompson, Mr. i | ' . '