The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK. HERALD, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1875.—TRIPLF SHEET, Present ot,.ct, The hydrography develops the ge: lower Harlem, aiseady, embri ced in iy fopert ot 1873; | treasury of the city and yet allow the work to be T Ty" | near Kingsbridge for the erection of a water mil! at if the commencement of th contiguration ‘of the river bed, furnishing also sul Jor dredging in rlem, @ ing and revet- | built aad controlled by a private corporation. i | ' aan | hear that point at the harrowe i partot the e river, must cient Gave for © closer de neation of tne ob- | ting the cut irom the Harie Lhe mouth of spuyten ‘The pian adopted "in ral timore,. which 7 has [ J f i \ | have been over 10 teet in width w at’ least | structions to navigation. A large number of borin, Duyvil. It posed that the new bulshead line, pre already been reierred to in the HERALD, 16 one by Xx jeet dewp at high water ot ordi | were made to depth exceeding fifteen feet sented in the sent herewith, would be constructe een redced bY artitelal Inethors trie present width, | Jow tide in the channe! of the river. Both soundings and | And fie! in by the riparian owners, it 1s necaiess to | Which all interests cam be served. if a company al the sme point, of not exceedime cleats ieet Be: | borings were located by instrumental observations on | say that at least 1d feet at mean low water should be the Of capitalists 8 given the right to build a rapi | tween Kingsbridge and the * River navigation was | shore. the soundiags were taken with sounding p depih of the new channel throughout, wugh another transit railway the oration can be hounc to obstructed by Macomb's Dam and Harlem Brie in ite | divided i) leetand tenths. Regular tidal observations | estimate tor a depth of 12 foct ts likewise submitted. the pay to the city one-iith uf its profits, to be put presen’ century, Lt was aiterward threatened with a | Were ade atthe ole ubmittea are ing locales "— estima: ade up atavery liberal cost furo.a sinkiog fund fo cay 8 Gh a f ¢ 1 Newton on the | mosgrmidthie varrier um a‘iridue sropneed to be built Hirst. Wo Colwell’s fuinver' yard, near Harlem | of tne diterent kinds ot work, buticis ms opinion that | Werpaldebte Further tat tone wipulations can ee O | each dasttalatt ne ictan Banta witli nal | "lta oun. nermas's rea this foeMaar eta cedar AU erMtt bemade im ihe ‘eneral Rairogd aw (which 8 | New Vork, at whose lnstanes ine recnistene tet year |. Zkra—Pler of 'o-.uain Bradges by twenty percent, oF to @ total of $Li0000. rapid transit railway corporation will be allowed Proposed Improvement, | 180 passed an act limiting the obscructions to the Fourth—-Uld °c ve tiudson River Ratiroad draw- Although 15 ieet only io depth at low water has to divide among tts s'ockhoiders only about three- presciied by the igh rilge.” The. geniemen | bridge. neen proviled for, it is hot intended to iimittne depen fins ul its profits, the rewaiming filth to go to Who so suecesstully resisted the attempt to obstruct | | The tiaes were i during tore lunadions at tide bed i Suse fe, (Rey SUNDER BG 15 Je socomnended jak form @ {una that would enable tne company to Thessutes to DreTENE Te Marae ee ete wee Hate | EAnt a in pvoport sae the survey advanced auuic | elunnel ot 18 to 20 tee, | reduce the rate of tare. A pian sometiing like | At ihe second avenue anid eect uetion by bridge | (onal tide awe» were et _up near Macomb’s Dam and | — Itis recommended, if Congress should deem it advisa- | this Row gives to the city of Baltimore enough | and cause draws C0 ted prhige: he | the High Bridse. Comanuous tidal observations were | ble tc prosecute this ‘improvement, that the government money to pay the interest on cost of the Druid The Thames or Seine of the | sn cause. Fourth nwesaiatrusted im the briikes ae | likewise made at tho tour peineipal tde gauges during | absolutely toruid the erection of any more bridges hav- | Hull Park and to forma sinking sund ior the final | the courts relat r e + shown that | 32 consecutive hours, ing piers within ihe water-wav of the improved riversor | extinction ot tne debt rred jurchase of American Metropolis. prior to the year Isis the: ariew Riverwasteculariy | Avarelul line of levellings was run in order to con- | Hot constructed of height suieient to permitnavigatod that property. imcarred tm the p' navigated a8 taruy as Farmer's Bricge by vessels car | nect the Various tide gauges. Current observations | without the use of draws. txiating britwes, except tn Yhe Aldermanic Committee on Rapid Transit rylug Various kinds of produce, lumbe and oiher build. | during one whote ebb and food were made :— High Bridge. itis recommended should de got rid of, aa wre ee pt Lig Materials. opuyten Duyvil Creek 18 now navigated | First few York and Hudson River Rail- | specdilv as thy laws under which they have beenereeted | Will meet to-da, iscuss the substance of its re- by North iver sloops and other vessels, trom its mouth | road bridge Janens Bride, WHR us na oil iaitleitied! tium’the Eraxiere: s | pore. frase Rosca thajancrd pod pe na a THE NEEDS OF THE FUTURE. | pg iu Bees etiae Phd 500 me Ose dh id tr ordre io aveid Setnton's age ‘otherwise the oe — nea I | _ “This waterway affords tages of navigation tor ‘ourth—Avout 40 eet below Fordham oridge. q ci | a distance miles oh county, eq Fith—in Spuyten Duyvil Creek, Letween t direction would be that indicated by broken lines. 1! 4 TUNNEL AS A MEANS TOWARD MANY ENDS. | Saperiog te ite tarnishes be te, Herth sivar aad isurd the Hudson iver Raliroad draworiage. desire to say that tue linos iaid down are to represent | To THe EpiTor OF THE HERaLD:— Among the various plans heretofore proposed for securing rapid transit there are none iree from objections, some of which are of a very se- rious character, and such as are likely to defeat | the object in view. However great the benefts that might inure to the city of New York from Long Island Sound, to the west of ¢ i i chester. It by Prospective March of Population and Fema fo posh cans , | were properly improv Business Northward. well be done. it it even C Separate ‘powers of cach ceeding would probably be to bu es of th el, OD post en | funand Reneay te material Which must be dredged | Messrs De Foresta and Doertiinger. Most of the level- | opinion that the width, if possible, should be Increase | from’ the channel beh. boch ines of bulkhead in | ling Was intrustea to Mr, KA. Gisseler, and Mr. W. | somewhat, in order to alford room to vesse!s passing county of West ibted that great benedits would he Hudson River, olf the mouth or spuyten | only generally the position of the new banks of the Dayvil Geeks en teh 9 ee fivér‘and \o ihustrate the principles ‘of the projected I the navigation ol these Waters | Loaded poles, reaching trom the surface ot the water | iinprovemen: i, “Subitis improvement cannot | to early the bortom ot the river, were used as doais in The widih between banks has been assumed to be 380 ie wane neal, by the | the Hudson and lower harlem, and specta: foats in the | feet, because that appeared to be all thagcould be main- The method of pro- | sbaliow >puyten Duyvil Creek and upper Hariew. tained throughout the tmprovement, owing, in & 4 bulkheads on Soin | The triangulation, topography. hydrography, und hy- | measure, to past encroachments, which have perhaps \ other, at the same | drometry Wasdone’ dy the feild parties in charge of | received the sanction of law and of time; but it 1s my by the North civer and | Mills a | | wien Duyvil. are necessarily bold | | | i e vee erimtend Har- | through, a port f Lhe Wate be i em | Bridges and Tunnels That Are | Proper proportions, "'* + | PfcuseSaperintended we ooring operations in the Har | thrsual. & portion a te weterway Deine already taken | esd wonets ene npn real We ore tae the navigation of the river ts | OFFICE WORK. 1 desire to express my thanks to Mr L. G. Morris for | sired by the public generally, tt can ouly be real- “The improvement Prophesied. one subject and tho method of earrying itis another, Having alluded to the former, the quesiiou—that of crossing the river—remains ss | was ploticd on a scale of 200 fect to one | documents containing vaiuable information in relation | persons scroes | inch or 1200, “tne arse and recon reductionsot the | tothe pat iusiary of lariem River. and ite preveutcon- | zed by adopting a plan that is practicable, and nee ie ttions as taken at the four pruucipal guuges | dition.” | should not concinde this report without ex- Urielly cons tered. “Seme idea of the exient of bridge | were arefully compu nd the soundings reduced to | pressing my sense ot the importan services of Mr. J. H- one that will secure the confidence of capitalists. | and thine!” comminicution tha will witimately be re- | the resuhing mean iow-water roading and then tro. | Steidinger, Asiatant, lngineer, who. in adaition ic) ms | To make the road a success financially the route A GREAT WATERWAY PROJECTED. Hee eee ee ite citics of London aud | soufdius taken by the United States Coust subvey im | ilorniation, and collated and computed the results of | MBUAE De One that will best xecominodate the [e0- — | Fade (TRB aes asta ih a aa ihe Hee ONS | AAT ue contemplated smprovemenc ot | PE Mt TAFRO, and thas fecure the areatest amount | ppdere are now in London seven bridges across the | sie. qours continuous observations were Dlotied | the Harlem River It is weil to-refer to. broposition | of travel. ‘To accomplish this object the road must with reference to the relative elevations and distances | formerly made, to make a cut through the northern pore | extend from the Battery through the centre of Thames devoted woordinary wattie and three exciu- revs STRERTS sively for railways within the distance of thre Auur Buripins, Hovstow axo New York, Feb. 18, 1875, ef 7 1 | ot the Ude gauges. fhe maximum and mivimam sur- | ton of Kandal’s lsand, aiong the Bronx ids, which | Brigadier Gonerai A. A. Homrmurrs Choet of Engineers, | 1a Sonow etn “ride, SSathwork” Brides | face siopes were thus established. The mean level ut the | would save @ long detour through Hell Gate. “Having | both the elty aud Westchester. ‘The most teasibie * oy’ a * | tor general trate, and ata d of 1,450 feet four chier tive gauges Was obtatned trom {he thirty-two | made no examination of this section. it not having beeX | meenod of securing this result 18 by Deans of United States Army, Washington, D C.:— av bridge; the next hours’ tidal observ current curves were | embraced within the scope of my instructions, | can ex- the iormer, between these, is a Gexznau—I have respectfully to transmit results of tit distance of 245) feet from | plotted witha view ng the period of maxt- | press No opinion 4s ty its practicability; but it would, if A VIADUCT ROAD, triar’s Bridge, Ze " 4 2 tm velocity aud slack Water. The observed maxi- | made, consutute a great convenience for vessels bound | nd my report upon the improvement of the hwark Bridge: silother railway bridge lie; beuween | munt volociiy Sire reduced to inaximutn velocities a¢ | throuzh the Harlem River to and irom. the eastward. 1 | Which Das the advantages of being elevated, sur- im River from Randall's Island, by way of spuyten feet trom Blacktriar’s Bridge nean tudes by the application of the rules found when | transmit by express three sheets of the hydrography | face and underground, This may be accomplished ing tue Hudson River in 1871. The pler-lines, as | ana Lopography of Hariem Kiver and spuvten Duyvil | ee itned by the arbor ‘Commissioners in 184, have | Creek ot one sheet showing tidal curves and siope. by constructing 4n arched tunnel (not on Beach’s rhige, 3150 feet trom W River, New York, as provided ¥ bridge between them S874, for examinations, surveys ‘om Westminster Bi | been comed from the original tracings, and are shown | Respecttuily submitted, JOHN N&EWION, | and continge t bastard, ‘Tha Harlem | Sopeitbe venemen mein. lurther up the | on the hydrographic shee.g in bold hues, Licutenant Colonel i:ngineers and Brevet Major General, | P!@0) Irom Bowling Green through Broadway to River ant vil Creek form a continuous the limit of dense populauon: beyond | : Rts 1 bydrograpnig | MTNA Or SOM OF,,auonoucn tnruovaxenr or kan: | Twenty-toird street, from thence through Fifth iver and Spuyten v re 01 co bu se: ri ersea bi each at inter- | Pomparing the results of the present hydrographic LEM RIVER, SPI . As wat pout othe miles long, between the Bast | Yaisot Sean ee imety | gurvey with the soundina of the Unitea Bates Coust | TiN or A CUANNEL Tukik HUNDRED AxD Fiery res | BVEMUE to About 100th street, irom thence by an 4 Hu , and separate Manhattan [sland from | trom 703 feet to 1,38) ree’, and are of various widths. | Survey of the year 1s57 we fd that between Macomb | WIDE AND FIFTEEN FEET DEM AT MHAN LOW WATER. elevaved road to the Harlom River, and continuing A Srenr rere SAE eee Sane * than century azo the only bridges over the | Dam and Higt Bridge tae channel has generatiy spoak- | Last year's esumate for Lower Harlem, this: olavateal cout a5 tha’ Wall Gana: Besman'et the mainland. The tide ebbs anc ws through the qnaines, within the ab inmita, were Old London, | Mx, deepened, widened and straightened itselt through- changed trom a depth of 12 feetao a depth of eval road to the high ground beyon ie nut the Wao secuon. Directly above and beiow Ma- | _ 15 feet r. Since then Old London | i omb’s Dain deep Water basins nave been formed. | Removal Taek diequate lor the mo iern ast rivers, and is | Biucktriarsand Westmns' $242,003 25 | river, and trom thence ‘by a suriace road directly strait, both from the Hudson and | Bridge has been resnoved as ir 1 row, near east pier of Macomb’s beacuse drocedel nel vtthscielspn and Sew London Bridge but near the site of he | WI above the dam, we had from 4 to7 test, we | cubic yards, at Del 50.0... 2,709 009 | through the centre of Westcnester and connecting HISTORY OF NAVIGATION ON THE HARLEM, old Blackt s and Westuunster have been im- | have irom 1) to 2t feet at present, apd where below we emoving the obstruct ss around ie piers: ds 7 cae i eclusci® abt subwonent thereto up to | provedund rebuiltand ail the oflersnewiy eoustructed, | tormeriy had 9 to 49 feet, we BOW have from 1S to2t | — or High Briuge. 1s,9iz cubic yards. at Zc... 14,207 25 | With other roads beyond, The stations on the bn i m building the New London Briage and the others | jee. Dredging channel of Harlem ‘Kiver, 150 teet | route, beginning at tie Battery, could be so lo- annel was used and navigated by | very great expense Was incurred tor opening From Macomb’s Dam to 100th street the deep water | | wide, 9/3,u86 cubic yards, ut Soc............- 34282310 | eateq ag to copnect the road with every line of 1g on {is Danks asa means ofcommuniew | the new. streets ang approaches to them, and | has shuited more toward, the middle of the stream, and | Excavation ot Canal Prism: j N y nA th. bh . great del. incurred thereby. Most of ‘these from 16Uth street to 172d street, where formerly the Dreduing 1,166,3,0.75 cuvie yards sand and | wavel leading from tne city in all directions. city of New Sore and aga thoroughiare, | brigges are designed upon an éxt ‘and magn’ chanel was ¢ sriy shore, having a depth mug, ab dde as =, 08233 78 |“ 1¢ would open up.aline of travel greater than nber, prod and other material were cent scale as to the extent of trou ee od fer Shoe Loo mid- bar fae oth cubic vards rock, at 1,089,859 31 | ‘ian oP 4 in At fi pred iY pangs ‘0 sais jorced, and are +o Le ud reached & rer i e aseeseomnone oe ave Ay Nas o By ert we n- feansported by slopes: saheenens and: similar veassts. | {Sots (cit te is sealed w rou bs.th to tthe. channel in almost | Revetneiii oi cul bday Beam nn bao sean vate —. During the Revolution buth the British and Contumental | o\von ‘Approvches to it, ove ecome narrower, At the same time it 5,95) fcet of embankment, at $26 73 per foot 159,043 50 | able us to reach the upper portion of the city and veep . r " of sup- ier or about $14.0) deepened trom 175th to 197th street, while | _ 5,470 teet of pile dikiug, at $19 10 per toot... 1044/7 0 | r . armies used its waters for the transportation of sup- ns ite i Fr be UpWard it has filed is Renantie abla ceccutrith ripen. TONG i the interior of Westchester dice ctls end rapidly. plies, building materiais, &c. In 1515 the history of the toned: on the Thames & the dire ha the channel tor Boe greater Ll en yards, at $112. 84,000 v9 - The objections to this plan wiil be that 1¢ will not artificial obstructions to the navization of this s.rait A by the Tha tthe distance of al the enuire ieugth has reuaimed about the sane: material | Contingencies and eng do to disturb Broadway and Fith avenue. commences. A grant was obtained from the Lexis- ilea below London Kridge, Raa Hy, bowie Been Cound i ee naan | ee 58.725 8 | iy woula iuteriere with the business oi Broadway, lature of New York by Robert Macomb permitting { Paris the river Sefre | streets, in both which cases the Geep Water has | Total....... ‘ -$2.777.571 44 | and residents of Fiith avenue would never submit Sash te SURE << Came aaieee tte < river Ge the fe distance of seven | suited inore to tae New cork shore. | J WwW to having that veautiiul avenue made the route of am to w a ‘The width of the channel seems to have become more | Lieutenant Colonel Engineers, Brevet Major ve! Tapid transit; and then, again, there are the gus place now marked “Central Bridge or Macomb’s Dam.” | unnorm taroughout the entire iength; wide piaces, re- | xsTiMaTH OF COST OF 4 THOROUGH IMPROVEMENT OF THE T 1 If; b i ni si these bung Such ws opposite 2th. S0Hth ‘and Stith | “aantkK RIVER, SPOYIRN DUYvibe BY mEaNe OF Tux excae | SUG, Water pipes as well as tue sewers 1m the Way his was bad cnoagh in itself; in violation of hii i oF these | sembling » SUCH AS OP 0s F R | Warn VER, , vTLy CA ian. e 4 -sebinheAs page hcp ente etal esame pe is ‘on stone sureets, ha iruaily, Hhed up; while verv narrow | yarion OF A CHANSEL THREE HUNDRED axD riety ruat | 0! ths pian. Now let us see it these are valld ob: charter, Macomb, im 15l4, erected the structure without | Parre Are of f places, such as opposite I8ist, ith and 19a streets, | _ WiDk AND TWELVE FEET DEEP AT MEAN LOW WATER. Jectious; 11 they are, then our suggestions in rel- leaving & passageway tor vessels. In 1838 the Commis | {5p fee, r re have become wider, Last year's estimate tor Lower Haricm....... $167,875 56 | erelce to rapid transit are wortnless, sioners appointed to supply New York with waterde- | to ¢ Frow 2isun street to Fordaam bridge the channel has | Kemevai of rock near east pier of draw of di there 18 one neeuved improvement of more im- - Seen aces sana ttess econ 1 oe flied 1n ad PECOMe HAFTOWEL. A aeaatns about she | mancombs Dam. W6 cublo yards, at $20 25, 1,741 | portance than anotner in the city of New York, 1t ee re mer cere ee kt | Smenye, | Seco ae eee or egal ton Ir moval ot de fer dams, &c., &e. | 19 a system of sewerage and piping througn the ny extctiine @ stescbare sockewhat similar to'icas.a sup- | Low eceds to ther. “He: | samen Suuyten Duvvii Creek, if has heacly throughout | “around High bridge, 12.277cuble YardsatT.c 920775 | Gentre ol the city ou fe Paris’ plane witch shoula : i teen tour fs than 20.0 | fied in and become narrower. Two. paces ouly show | Dredging present channel of Harlem. Kiver | ‘ rath : Beas entnele Hive Ly wamcais teten, Seterrpiped oo yf ch, and the greavest ¢ con why two of | al exception to this rule, opposite 218:h and 21th streets | — iu tet wide, 618,556 cuble yards, at 36c.... 226,994 60 | DE adopted 1a consideration of its advautages to position ot public spirited citizens that the Commission- | them is Vatd.700 eet Many of them are most elaborate , 43 Weil ay in the large ‘inatthe mouta of the creek, | Excavation of canal prisin connecting the health ii ior no otper reason. ‘Ihe present sys- a diy deepenod. | Harlem and Mustson rivers, 905,086 cubic tem of sewerage 13 very objectionable in many ere c db; ol lat 0 cI mt aN str ures and Were ere: treat cost the water has conside: ers werecompelled by anact of the Legislature to cross | #0 criPondon aud lars several of these bridges werd the tavorabie chanues tn depth, width and position of | yards sand and mud, at J5e... the Harlem Biver an aqueluct, “with arches ofat | pit py private enterprise aid profit derived irom toll | the fair channel in We tHariem are due to the part 170.54) cubic yards rock at $5 50. least 5) feet space, and not less than 100 feetfrom the co:iected for passing them, vot late they have mostly | removal oF the ovstructions to navigation called \a- Revetments of cut, 5,950 feet of shore em- usual high wate: mark t the river to the | been built as tree Dridges at the expense of the mumei- | €ol s Dam. and the old Kaiiroad bridge (the ara it bankinent, av $23 7 mop A * palitics, and several ot the brityes that formerly were wis yetsiown inthe bMited States Coast Survey | _ 5,470 leet of pile dikiny 7,970 00 | avenue, it 18 Mgh time for It to be replaced by a raiagi go | betver One, 8.543 ‘nen agato, the work could be completed in THE PLYMOUTH SCANDAL Curiosity Relative to Mrs Moulton’s Testimony. A SLIGHT SKETCH OF THE WOMA a Tilton and Moulton—Their Intie macy and Attraction. To-day will be the thirty-fifth day of the Tilton-Beecher trial, and as renewed and & most painful tnverest has suddenly been manifested in the proceedings there willno doubt be a repeti- tion of the crowd and crush which attended the earier days. Public curiosity is now turned Mrs. Emma D, Moulton, the wife of Francis D, Moulton, to know the value of her testimony aa related to her responsivliity. Mr, Beecher referred to her, writing to her nus band, as “Your pure and noble wile,” and then, alter saying what comfort she bad been to hia despair, added :—“Her candor did knock me flat sometimes"? Mrs. Moulton was married young, in the year 1860, She is probably thirty-four years old. Her uncles, the Messrs, Robinson, are men in business of vhe bighest mercantile character. Her uncle, Jeremiah Robinson, a partner of Mr. Woodruff, has conducted the largest warehousing business in this country. Frank Moulton entered that house as a page or clerk voy, and was in very une Promising health. He was put at out-of-door business, along the wharves, and in that breeay occupation acquired color, air and endurance, and ultimately turnea out to be a very robust, hail-tellow-weli-met, diplomatic sort of a man, Frank Moulton always believed im the literary star of his friend Tiiton. After he got into the firm this schoolfellow of Moulton’s, moving abreast of him, occupied such a prominent editorial and lyceum position that these two, always friendly, insensibly reerred their respective success to each other, Moulton paid much attention in his leisure hours to reading and literary society, and, with a good memory, was aiways crowded down | with bits of verse he had committed and quaiut prose extracts he.had conned from Carlyle, Beecher or Herbert Spencer. Tilton was first mar Tied, precocious in family as in general career, Frank Moulton, WHILE COURTING HIS WIFE, had no inducement to bring her, the nlece of his | employer, into relations with tne recluse and ecstatic Elizabeth Tilton. Mrs, Tilton did not altogether liko the influence, or rather the inti- macy, exercised by Tilton and Moulton matually over each otter. Moulton was indifferent to re- ligious observances, His open air lve unfitted | him jor strict attention to church and cuuren 937,762 60 respects. As for tearing up ihe pavement tn Filth | underside of the arches at the crown.” The High | toli bridges have been made tre | Map of 1857) and the favorable action upon the river | Protecting sole of canai with rip-raj | short sections, su that it would not greatly incon. | Bridze, notwithstanding the enforced improvement ot |. “Whenever the popuiation of New York and Westches- | be: caused by passing steamers. cubie yards, at $1 12......, 84,000 00 | Venlence any one. Indeed we should be not onty sey ; ter shall assume wb ty on the shores o: the Harlem | The gencral nature of toe bottom of the Harlem River | Contingencies and engineering, 15 per | willing, but anxious to Make sume sucrifice to this its pian, is, owing to the Limited spaces of Its archesand fiver and spuyien Dus vii vreck whica thato! London, | Was found to be i the channel mud witn gravel, sand the wbove...... vid Pe great end, It would be necessary to have the Haus und Parison the seine, the meansof | and clay underlying, with the exception of the vicinity ication must be tally equal to that agorded | of Macomv's Dam and High Bridge, where loose stones across the Thames and + ana it must be borne in | Were encountered, In 1889, Mr. Lewis G. Morris, as one of andon the part | muni that the genera. trathe over be tele the | ,, Close to the Fp Beg gg ey tree abt aS e a) e mb’, ¥ sy e is notoostructed by uraws an en ere is @ ledye of cI 1c of a committee of citizens proceeded to Macomb’s Dam en and eine ts not y opt | Ot water over it at mean low’ water., Again, the aebris with a party of men, and pulled down and removed a “The lengtn of the waterway from the North River | of the cotler dams, &c.. &c., used in the construction of part of that structure. The dam has since been re- je Hell Gate, measured through the Spuyten Duy- | the piers at High ‘Bridge. left atter the aqueduct was 4 4 ek and the Hariem Kiver, is about 3/00) wet— | finisued. form, by contracting and shoaling the water- placed by a bridge, which, however, is an obstruction to Pearly eight miles ihe uverage distance between | Way, an obstricuon to both navigation and Udal propa the tow of water and m the way of feasible and imspor- prides tor zeneral traffic in Loudon is 4100 fee and gation. ne ee taut improvements of navigation. in Paris 150) tee. the average distance ot those in | in the Spuyten Duyvil Creek the river bed consists of ABORTIVE EFFORTS AT IMPROVEMENT. London would give nineteen and ot those in Parisnearly | mud, which’ reaehes a depth of over 15 feet near In 1827 an wes to incorporate the ‘fariem River Canal | twenty-five for equal accommovation across the vur- | the mouth of the creck. but gradually diminishes to Company was passed, Dy which the company wasau- jem Biver and Spayien Duyvil Creek to the Sust iver, | 4 teey in depth toward the old mull at yckman’s thorized to Cousiruct @ canal ‘irom spuycen Duyvil and thelr length, excepting those those that may be built | Canal, Here the ground rises about 15 feet above Creek (o liariem River, and to improve che navi gn the suspenisio pian would probably vary irom 200 to | mean low water. The hills on both sides of the canal of the Harlem Raver so'as to aflord easy navigauon Irom — @v tect. * * * atiain a height of nearly 50 feet above mean low water the Hudson to Last xiver,” two years being allowed tor TONNELLING THY HARLEM. | ot Fordham Bridge tide gauge. These bills consist the construction ot the janal. In 18% “The construction of proper approaches to tunnels | mostiy of marble. feuded tor two years, In ins the above act was revi: under the Harlem River would be inuch easier than in THE TIDES abu conan ‘and the tine limited to five years irom London, because the average rise and fall of tide is | in the Harlem River are chietly due to the propagated date of renewal Yothing was doue under these charters nearly fourteen jess in New York than in London, | Hell Gate nerve, while the latter is the result of the con- “ac he “nsance of both soards of the Co abs ‘thatdillereace tn grade aloue would be very bene®: | tact of the Sound aud sandy, Hook tides ihe tides in | tauis, wnich, if mot properly understooa by our tng ite aavaniages. | pdt “enbine. groneriarts uncil of the erly of New York, Mr. ree cml. it equal size of tunnel aid depth of channel were ne judson Kive nd spt et ne Pro- | t wade survey of the Harlem iver, ant pre: | jaintaiied im bowl clues ** Guced by the propagation of tae sea tide through the lower | legislators and provided for tn their bills, will | purchase. y sented a revert Upon the IMprovement Of its navigation. “in Various reports, discussions, affidavits and remon- | aud upper bays. ihe very shallow. obstructed and | militate very much against the value tothe peo- | Seventi—It will pay better than any other road. other teatures, still in the way of feasible and important | has on t improvements of the navigation. bi depape whole tunnel ventilated and lighted, whica could Total... aaa iit Uh ad ® | easily be accomp.ished. Lieutenant Colonel Engineers, Brevet Major General. ‘The elevated portion of the road could be made yt prnepental coe even py receslpe ond to popups 20 available portion ol the street or sidewaiks, The RAPID TRANSIT. Whule work in the city could ve rapidly completed by sklitul engineering, and we have as able and competeut eugineers as any in tue world, The advantages of tis plan may be summed up as follow! First —It is central. PROSPECTIVE FORMATION OF WARD CLUBS FOR POPULAR DISCUSSION OF THE NEED. The entire subject of rapid transit—the means to Filth avenue or Broadway, but on the co: for its accomplishment, the stipulations under | 9 great advantage in & hiygiente point of views which the railway shall be constructed and used— | 7hurd—It is the most practicaule of any plan. lature. Still there te need for its discussion to | route, continuc among the people. There are many de- Fith—It will prove the cheapest road, consider- st recommended & cat to straighten the strances oa the “uyject of the improvement of ihe | Cooked water connection of the Spuyton Luy vil Creek y course 0% spayien Duy vi by excavating throusis @ small Harieu Kiver, and. in relation to the removal of | Wit Harlem River-—which \sentrely interrupted at iow | ple of @ rapid transit railway. The legislators | EEL aay Coun deoritin te eee tion of the northern end of New York Islan. bstructions io. navigation much siress has been | tides, when the creek runsdry at Kingsbriage—affec » Fee he ucIsor? Colne] to The State CORRES OE ee ee eee oe ing britues | vere’ Mtue the general charicter of the dai curve at | must be made to understand these details. They snbstantial foundation for pavements that would on Harbor Encroachments laid downa pier ani bulk- add greatly to tae expense of transportation. these, | Fordham bridge; butit is, however, productive of local must net be allowed to pass upon the subject of last ior generations, head line for the Harlem. ‘hey, however, decided to with other considerations of a puvlic ‘acter, would | violent currents and particularly at king's and Ford- | ‘Tims foundawon would enable us to construct a leave tie question of the improvement of the riverto | suggest tie desrabihty, whenever practicable, of cone | hai bridges. This condition is produced vy the great | Tapid transit, and, if they oversiaugh tt, have the # the decision of e cers. 2 structing (uunels im lieu ot bridges. From the bai difference in the level of the Hudson and Harlem rivers opportunity to plead that it was not presented to eee itavenie BEUNS BFe aar nee mee 1597 a con ' resolution of the Lerisiatare of River ‘o Macom)'s am the shores of the Harlem River | m certain stages ot tne tides and the narrowness of the y Teae coe the State was questing the Seuato: interfering with a more gradual change ot | them fully. Nor must they be permitted to pass a | For rep ps eam could be fe. con- els. h <3 ure that will really defeat rapid transit. paste CAOHARIANUIS: BEA! DE wHION eno Tange until the m | ai the only way such things can | s0 8 %, Spar Anas MGR Coe Teen 200: D0, M80) 06 ites io” y gs would be uO smoke, cinders, sparks or carbonic rf 0) through di oxide in the tunuel or while passing over the e, of U.05 feet greater than atthe westside | be prevented 1s 8 Reenter OF | eran portion of tue road 10 the orty. and Kep- are too flat to admit of the easy construction of aerial nrative rocure the passace ofa bill or suspeusion bridwes, bac are thought to be tairiy hefess ivr te removalor all oustructious t the adapied to the construction of fuunels under the river tion tm Harlem Kiver and appropriating the nee- | bed, at such di as would not impede navigauon. | increases ms theretor From tigi Bridge to Sherman's Oreek aerial or sus- | Rear Snern e Legivlature directed the Superyisors of pension bridges might be Dulit at ag great alti | Harlem Bri unty [oc use a survey to be made ot the F f the Croton Aqueduct, and a of Hallert’s Poin. From =horman’s Crees to Fordham | the people; mot only the wealthy, who waterway Harlem siver, with a view of a whether the ek to the North Kiver tunnes could | Bridge the tidal wave diminishes very little (only 0.024 | ‘fhe products of combustion of the gas would be Same could Le made haviguble ction of | be Laster or brudkesover the riverand creck | fe 1) sn range, being at Fordham Bridge ag mach as 6.038 | havea meas bhi in the accomplishment | Se ee eee ncn ie rate eee ee the Board poy, Civil wherever cro-sing trom shore to shore was shown by | feet yet. Mean level sirom Harlem Bridge er- | of rapid transit, it the poorer people, whose led irom ta au LUogs, ~E rn e the improve. proper topographical examination of the two counties _ man’s Creek, a distance otf 19,730 feet, 0.102 feet, and from <, sole meat oY j wer.0 In the ariem | to be Tequired : ae ht of bridges tkahoatd be re. | Rugfmai® Cteek io Fordham Bride a distanco of 6 methods of life will be affected by it. Woat has pi temo Kiver Mr. Mur iders a conunuous cepth of ten “in determining the height of bridges it should be re- | eet, or a total 1 mea el fro! ma x ean low water as sufficient, ad proposes & Cut | menuered that steam vessels are Fapidiy supplanting | Bridge to Fordham Bridge, over a distance of 26440 fee, | De€D Urged so olten in the columns of the HERALD | ines Wane wieecci tip nen! Bee entY a aes ( ig oe Bigti sine. vessels al = joe ae eter ie bh oh (a establidisnente averccar tkitial Mae Bow seems about to be begun witn vigor. Itis | ‘°° i hi ‘Bani jer wavold the bends of Sp lyvii Dridg-s to accommodate lolly masts is a constantly di- “ } minwhing necessity and that by the striking of the top. | 10h. 9m: at sherman’s Creek, 10h. 18m.;andat Ford. | the orgamization of ward clubs to express the | In the meer? tat Me ts y are! of the 14th In 108 the Hisisa pod Marlee diver Canal Com. | Puisisumsisios ait altmmissed eaakLcreeitse | Under tolsmal citeanistanped high ates daad (ke.| CUPOINE Sours for rapid crenert oatie-work: thé | ees O8 Oe Soom vou dabuarta lave voltae Tn 1863 the S01 id ve \~ e accommo’ w a Dist ni ot i e."* he c | pany wan incorporniad by ne Sew tor Legaatare. tne | SUNT OBSTRUCTIONS TO NAVIGATIOS. Fee ee ee ea eee acee Ae minutes incr thac | committee which was appointed at the meeting Repid Transit Question,” you seem to Nave solved canal Was io not less than sixty tee er] and seven ‘This clear picture of the future requirements for pes- at ae Green, but ora = the stight faces in the Chamber of Commerce, held several weeks | the problem as to the intent of the constitutional € e ins pr aso contemplated @ cutung senger and irewht transportation across tae river hasa = ence ot the Hudson iver tide high waiter happens o ihre northern part of Runiails isand, touow tirect bearing upon tie question of improving the chan- one minuce sooner at Fordham Bridge than atSherman’s | ago, Nas determined to commend to the subserib- | bi Repel as teen! the teks governiny city ing " he Bronx Kill “0 48 open & passage hel and provifing ior its navigation, Unless this trans | Cree to the “deferred capital,” which is now being | Charters or corporations, and 10 demonstrate tnat tward ne th ithe canal, avotang — verse trate b: cond d through tungels or upon sus- Tne deviation of rise of tide being 6h. 23m. at Harlem | €TS is iwietour through Hell Gaver | pension bridges, there wl oe a continual conflict bee Bridke,” Incredses toh, dun, at herinans Creek and | raised. “ta pronibiting special or local legislation the new ins company wasextended for | fween it and the or those navigating the fiver, Fordnam brulge, while the duration of stands dimine islescriides tor three years Not oniy this; the future bridge, picts anterlering wit | ishes ‘Tespectively about acven and ine minutes atthe | | Preparations are in progress for a meeting of SUISGAET SC clilec ae ielimee hatches 4 haa eXtension having tailed, the regular movements of the tital waves aud currents, jatter places, ribers, that an organization m: i “opted ee RAINe the centten of the riven and render i ike: | in the Hudson river high water ccouts.at the month of | SUCH Subscribers, so tha hd is end Wise impossible to, provide. in’ advanee a plan Spuyten Duyvil Creek 8h 48m. atter moop’s transit, or | Made in regular iorm. The meeting will proba. State Legisiature,” and that rapid transit ts “a capable of copmg with Wuknown irreguiaritics in cross: | 3 a ee at Governor's Island, a distance of 12% | ply be held this week, and atitthe subscrivers public highway for the benefit of the city,’ to Matiom Rridge and ene” New York “end Har: | “Durum the Bi | will be told off according to the wardsin which quote the very able opimon of Mr. Morris, of Harlem Bridge and ¢ Har- Duriug the propagation of the tidal we hallroad bridge, cause, comparatively speaking, | ¢rnor's Island, where i's average range is 43 leet. to | they reside, and each parcel will be requested to | Chautauqua county. srobstrnetions to the tides andeurrent#, As to Spuyten Duyvil Crees, the main rise and fall or tides the purse oF the nave the two ri v auihoriies of the absolute ir peaime: used by them to such flow, dimiuishes 0.49 feet, it being atthe mouth of the creek | form a rapid transit club 10 tts district. | Allow me very oriefly to suggest that an act rent to the neoussity ‘8 proper to deter an opinion anti the measurement of — oaly equal to 4.91 teet. t and th eir piers peir height above water is Comparing the Hi structic has be uiticient out opent | em River tide at Fordiam Bridge | In forming these clubs the organizers must not might be passed by the Legislature that if a ma- inary c.ass of tugs to Dass | with the, Hudson Rive tide at the mouth of the Spuyten | look to monetary qualification alone, It was the | Jority of the people of the city and county of New draw 666 nln 18 90. Seve Wi rey | Am Oe eee ee edn: prewar tage Gh | primary object of the organization of the Citi- | York so elect or vote it shall be law/ul to impose a * iya spi 1 ms that make it certain that their removal will be rae ene Hark it $3,000,000 pune the rive Meciua, ‘osed by Macomb's tno remote da son than in the Harlem, | zens’ Association to procure rapid transit, and | special tax of $3,000,000 per annum for three years Vam and 0 fan aqueduct as at one th Cental or Macomb’s Dam is better ar- “Sevud—Mean rise and fall of tides in the Hudson is | ” : conven Z me | ranged for the i } smaller by 212 feet than in the Harlem. | when they adopted tnis ‘deferred capital” pian | on the real ana personal estate ot said city, which rej. finer, do ao ave ime ‘ inneges. shorter inthe Husson than in the tation | they intended it to be always an ald and | moneys are to be paid uver oy tne Comprrolier, as Nostanated dal phe mens at ¢ mourhs of the also by Gi pepe eceon gorenen oft iY Ne . ja never a detrimen: to rapid transit. Ji, how- the work progresses, to Commissioners (appointed ahem ylen wvuyy a rt y to oy tl “ of th er. is structure, jdson an in e im, wo a duration ve Shem of unprov ‘and the revorts-no- | which ¢ st Whole supply or Water for thecity, can: of stands coutinue over 20 mitiuves longer in the Hudson | eVer, the organizers of the ward clubs admit by the Governor, Mayor, &c» for the construc- where shoud en the not be i with, ‘he two brilgesnextinorderare than im the Harlem. | them the property owners and well-to-do on of a rapid transit road with necessary widi Duyviltorcnderaper- | respectively Foraham Bridge and Kinusorkige, whic Pourth—ine level of mean high water of the Hudson | !t0 them the property branches), The Commissioners shall issue de- wanet (tek even indicate the struct the Wa tfortupately, the proposed cutm is 0.00, feet lower than nat of ithe Harlem. whale the | men who are willing to subscribe even small sums jerred stock to the Comptroller and the Commis- oxisve lowing statistics of traf spuyten 1 Jince vetore We arrive at wvese tinea low water of the Hudson is 115s tee! er than "9 te and as! © been ben (fon, their defects became of no moment to the con- | that of the Harlem. - to the “«leferred capital” fund, and exclude the sioners to be furtner autnovized to raise 1ungs lor iealed to me by M Morris: temptated improvement. she t. the ratiroad bridge Fith—Mean level ot the Hudson at the mouth of Spuy- | poor men who are hearuly concerned in the the completion and operation of said road and its Brick $100,000 atthe mouth of spuyten Duyvil, must come down and ten Duyvil Creek is v.28 feet lower than at rordham z several branches by isauiug six per cent preferred Cement. tts place supphed- it possible-withs ephnel. Bridge: the height of mean level ot the Harlem. near Decessity for travelling facilities through the city, gtock and disposing of tie same at not less than Bine stor 85,000 ‘OF the #ix bri s How existing, most of which are Harlein bridge, above the mean level oi the Liudson, at | the full strength ol the popular sentiment will not par jor tne amount required. Coal jovbdmabcns oes vbscoveoeele cicctecs 1085:309 greatly tuproves pacterns of those previously existing, the mouth of the spayten Duyvil Creek, is U.078 teat” | ‘The populs 1 7 is i 4 oe i a voked. The movelnent now going on, it ye popular vole on the plan suggested here We flud all ‘0 possess grave detects either as ré ts Le It the corrected establishments of both the Hudson | be evoked. Ti gong is with would cure any objections that might be MARIA vanesscare , - How of WaWer or the Convenience of navigation. and we and Harlem river tides were the same. and the tidal be urged by the peo Ise it Theis stated’ not to include all’ the soa” “Lamoceis | are nenee lel to iearce tie tunes an wecunuiation of | curves ot siiliar form, the above ‘Agures would already | CVidemt must be urged by the people, else it will | raised on constitutional grounds as to taxation fot inciuded nor cereals bound to the Kast. such cvilg unless the means of transit be limiled to furnish for mean dts the means for the prediction ot | fail tor the time being. ‘Ihe capitalists, if they are jor this purpose. And this principle of action does ADVANTAGES OF LMPROVIN: KE WARLEM, tunnels of suspension bridges the currents due to connection ot both rivers by 4M | ghrewa and wish 10 have a rapid traosit railway Bot Vary so much irom that o1 Mr. Drake, both Harlem Aver sno Spuyten Duyvil occupy nearly the ) indepied to & communication from Mr. L. G. open cut of uniiorim section. | being jounded on tne idea of @ popular movement centre and not the limit of (he corporation of (ue city of — Morris tor the folluwing extract im regard to titles to But this not being the case, recourse must be had to | builc by themselves, asa means of economy, will by the citizens ot New York to briug about certain few York, and it must be the depot jor vast pine lands Roger wae u uw aides ibeeer'tiliosia al the results be a ed Pec sesan tn tidal ob- “Conciilate tue masses and draw them to their sup- results in u certain time. lumber. sione, bricks, ent laid, line and other | "Nhe lands under water on the Manhattan Island ay servations. 0 e. buudwg material init 1S, claimed ihiat ihe ‘tine age vested in the ‘corporatiin ot the city ot New York with relerance to te same absoluie level we may prop- port. Otherwise there may be started a dee oat tattle so taeea an ‘anesthe ae io provement of the _ rivers, an ade- | and their grant Jn the Westchester side, in almost | erly conclude 5 , Taste, plan, ‘will materially’ (an the ‘las nor it ail cases, in the riparian owners by grants “Fire—ihac the surtaces of the Hudson and Harlem | democratic movement (democratic im the whether the franciise might not be acquired by tance between tne Kor h 5 ver ea ‘ ports, as tow the Commission of the 1 a4 oO. nee a5 alpony, ge fie sgn Sayanons; restoration ot level atsh. true sense of the word) opposed to purties for tie purpose of delay only. The plan Wei ve the harbor of New York conven | The boundaries ot er water on th im. and Bh, Som. ater mor J i . Ht Jrces vow endured by the pasage 9 Isso bound, ehester shore on thie ‘i channel ale ha Secon tat the greatest di Permitting a private company of capitalists to con- PT eae eae tivian witch se many s likew wed tha € rivers W, orl the ost © instances establis on the Harbor of the surfaces of the Hudson w 4 ¢ subs iy ynvinient shetier And harbor for the hiinerols Meet ok | sloners' line of 1so7. reieered to above. Ina few | at on. 6m. and oh. i struct aud to operate a rapid transit railway, and oinizens of public spirit are pushing, seems prompt a hare he er, the jands under wa " - eo tively. the inciination of the surface slope (i in flavor of empowering Che city to do such work. in its action and equitable in its nature to tne ciu- vow urmerat- ssesured (o ihe Fparian owners by letters iug lu the first case toward t Hudson; in the second | J 1 New Y. business y ‘ine adier moon's transit coward ihe Harem... | S0ch @Q event would, undoubtedly, sult the de- | 260801 New York and those dolng business here, between the restoration of the levels there Is signs of a great number of peopie. There isa | a vement. ned prior to the Kevowution. SY a recent ca vy the Commissoners of the Land Omee, L saith 0O orme rt water, li a tendency of a westerly current (from the Hariem to i} . ub Why? DUE. It Harbor Commissioners’ ling “on. the the lindson) during Oh. 3om., and of au easterly current strong element now urging the passage by the | AN ELEVATED RAILWAY AVENUE. ae q signing too lutte and not air veyed, navi during 5h. 5m, Legisiature of a scheme 1o anthorize whe city todo westerly is swifter than the easterly cur- the Work, Il 18 composed of political tricksters, | T TH® Eptror or THe HRRALD:— st phenomena are not surprising. since we on (he lvokout Jor places ID a new depart. ent, It 18 admitted, I believe, that a viaduct ratiroad ¥ ascertained that the mean level of the | 80me owners of err ane Yaltare of capitate wide enough for three doubie tracks through the A e commun wer (han tuatot the tlariem, who are disguste 1 dase rivers et ot the harbor irom the | Vonc or the consequences of the westerly carrentrun- | to Dulld @ railway hitherto, and several pmian- | O0cks, commencing at the Uity Hall and running ithe means of rapid transit ning switter and tusting loner than the easterly cur- | thropists who are urged by tie general motive of 04 central route to Harlem, will provide the portions ef the city in the Last and rent would apyear io be ti the matenal scoured by opposition to monopulizing capital. This | much taiked of and desired rapid transit, but the Yhamesin | North rivers the provid onalty of rth EN sons given py those ¢ improvement of th ation between the Hu Huds y of the rr for undertaking t tion com a ¢ | sialon for tie the currents is carried into the Hwisou., Ihe current , "4, “ CUE EIE Miplda jas iwaterialy nd other wecessitiee of 4 observationsat the mouth of Spuvten Duvvit Creck and $te4 Sul uigtacles “to lis projets Jt urges ita | ATeWOACK, It appears, Is the cost, consequently we eet, oeeemontng great Capen Ce eT eee co een Wt these be found sath: | gurvesetine \woendsor hecas SY em OM | iene on purely sentimental grounds, with tne flud parties advocating a General Ratiroad bill, to : sand in handln aged and ntly U to scoure the requisite appropriation, ther CONCLUSIONS. statement that if the city soall buiid the rapid enabie tue city to bulld @ railroad—a consumma- eee ee oc irowahe it when” may Owing to rock obstructions on the bottom and an ex- transit raliway the lavorers on it Wil Not be over- vd yn the Harlem gi scrutiny, be riguily ad- tremely narrow channel at Kipysbriage there inno ites | worked and will be well paid; and further, thar | ton that would be deplored—whille other parties of its easy fd Aga tet all unpedinen's and bine exchange of fides between the cariem and Spuyten the profits of the railway, Waen It 1s I operatiod, | are endeavoring to procure voluntary subscrip- ri that wed orantly or desmnediy by Wuyvil; but, on the contrary, a practical divide or ridge mite) $ ing great | corporations of individuals, whether the same be | in the wat lar trom Fordham sridge. There'is Wil uquidate the city's dept. More toan this, this tions asa subsidy to tie company butiding the Ar upon the bottom in two direc: element deciare that the rapid transit rauway or structures of any Kind, Asitn co q uh Sa en ON ee eee ee tale tase Kiver and toward. the Dulitand operated by @ private company would TOAd. oth of these plang will, in all provabtlity, the Hariem. | bridges. whar aver wing weeeasary. in order iO channel can e h River wo = ment, to encroach apon ta! unier water or structures Huason. m not be beneficial to toe bulk of the poor people, fail, therefore { suggest a third, which on exami- as us end sound thee ayh tne are n Bi 2 with ¢ ap t) : es (we nes { en 1 of he rive rt woug hg simultane: on Sal Lh 3 bat | Bis Parisece becanes the we would yeep sg 1. oP sit fan will be found feasibie and (o overcome the eater depth ot water than the worth \aver 4 n DME juat thal the auihortise ether = of mean levels, ¢ preponde: f up to the highest sum which moderately objections made to the other two, VIZ :—Have a Suulciont Jor eit tne pracuca, purposes of ine comune Si tein io hes ae eet Me EE eld tT Soiasice tn the tide: How how existing be: | Weiltodo man could pay dally. AK a set-of Dill passed einpowering the proper authorities tO that witt seek to thse 1 exceilence of the improv Wie fiver. should tween the hend of variem Kiver and spuyten Duyvil tO these arguments the majority of people Who t8>ue bonds aud vor the city to Dalid @ ihe importance of measures for the improve r ivi oneerned we ite natural direction favor the construction of a railway vy Capiialists GRAND ELEVATE ROAD, Viaation of this river was made su anda th whica the cut in unication between these streams be con- only quote the constitutional provisions that nota railroad, the sume to remain under the con- the Board in t a comparison with the cro ral notice ar Duyvil must section o stand in tne way of tle city. The remaingver of trol of the city, as aii other roads aud strests now thas Z 14 of Crossing 1 exchany them, however, sapplement their quotations with are. The under part may be rented, anu the right Shenae’ SonnEy. Se. ito Senha ped igre 4 Ser the bertee, woud, Wal fade MOC) | ae IeceseD Fie’ Tibeyts (CGA: oot aiGAUnGR | SETAY che cr tere COTTE OTR a hate may f the publi expense ¢ é corresponding to the position of the divige woula . amendments did not forbid the city to buiid # rail- be gianted to one or more railway companies ior SURVEY AND EXAMINATION OF ARLEM MYRR AND SPUYTRS = HL aking this was, It shodid not ve aliowed to do su, because the a specified term ol years at equitavle rental : ; ovens ¢ K AND DIAC its crows secon should be made the rame = work would be characterized by fraud on the li tne city oF New York wets only aretucu of three hey. oo meureed py pad tavae ? ote Fy 9 prised ne rest of the improved rivers. ty Net | Part or pubile oMciuia, and because the railway percent upon cost it wit) be 30 much more than : eperey the travel between the | Bridge to lel Gare. The surveys ar alike |. aes 1 OF tie improvement shows parallel department Would bevome 4 macbine tor tue they get irom we boulevards, upon winch such North iaver and the W he Sound, and ot aia made during 174 bezig at the first obetruccon orn ee ee te tae iat io «Manuiacture Of Workers, Whose uselulness Would lure sums oi inoney have been eXpenued. ihe aoe ieee or Broskign iyingom. the west Kiver, | got he Haw Vork ond Hatton Mating be accumned Hi thould not be nn increaseot wuith — be apparent at the polls ony.” + Bumver of persons Who Would be wecommodated aud Derween the North taver and the / astern States by wad terminate “olf the mouth of Spuyten Du beiw ut the fast River to the Hudson. Taking tie arguvents ja savor of allowing the and the increase in Values in real property in the more than tweaty miles around t ‘atiery, of the tedi furnishing (ne loms-ueeded material tor a This ‘ase. although indicated, has wot, for city 10 build the raiway, teere 16 No One but city Wili be as three to one in favor of the clevated atts, ¢ ve ahd unsafe navigation of the crowded — stalyof the problem of a deep-water connection, wu been investigated, nor would ithe pract- mast concede that it Would be a good taing Jor railroad avenue. The right of the city to bulid et shite he ety and in ronnee tion, rit the has River yan the Hudson iver through the itartem mnce paratiel Cy ey the municipal debt to be reduced With such rae 2B elevated road caunot be questivned, and that ot ero acadie big the Fane ‘ yet asin FEL wown. onthe ¢ any, ‘that’ nit it wowd be by the profits of a rapid rosd should be ouile by general taxation I + rte scat Lae? tres wavers of the Harlem | ‘The fleld operations were commenced In the month of yeaihhae Cpe hae ee were erate transit Tallway. But the constitutional amend- | tink equaly clear, Ot course, tne details 01 loc en Luyv were respected a8 4 navigahie | Oetober aud din the month ceber, i874 wid h irow Th” Hariom mouth toward Spuyten Vuyvil, ments stand iu the Way Of such anevent, On ine tou, &¢., Wil ve a mttter 0) Opinion. Toere need It leon record that the Orst Uriige across ihem | Base lincs were carefully measured at both extremities the presem: d sso shows (hat. if mot held parallel, orher hand, there is ground ior suspecting that be ho delay in rapid transit. Les the city bud hy Frederic rm jor to | trian topoarap praves te locate \e om the r otier word surveys. mage under the direction Beem, taisinas, ridges, ‘he ork Central wod | tt ‘that Spuyten Duy ir wilt de te mouth of | erHMent woald not be altoyether pure. There is Filbs seterous enonge tp ONd The raemeE ane l@mirsiunersot th Central rack, cstabitehed | Mudvon iver Kailruad tracks and low water ty ed Fi | a Way, however, to make some of the anni | braucies and equip the same. the teat (ai, prior we artiticial vbsiructious lu the Fiver | lives of shores as for as they are of unportance t (he | daviluiaies are submitted for removing the rockin the | profits of a raliway for rapid wansit fall into tue HENRY 0. BAKER, people. le drank his claret, loved his club, played nis ante and watched the drama and the new sensations, Frank Moulton was taken into the firm by right of uselulness, and grew well off, relatively. His Nterary quaiifications stood in good stead with iim in the interests of bis tirm, He coula talk volubly aud intelligently to the Collector of the | Port ana the Secretary of tae Treasury, and there Second—it couid be of no possible disadvantage | is now entirely within the province of the Legis- idee Tatear ME MEUEE Gr Props: PARE hae | were times when Theodore Tilton, whe widely known orator and editor of the Independent, came of use to the relativey obscure merchant, Moul ton, Tilton’s fine conficence was exerted in any direction fcr a iriend. The house of Woodruf & Robinson grew to consider ‘ilton a8 #& person Teady to reti.rn an obligation, ana they liked him any Way. Both Woodralf and Robiuson were elder wen, conservative and strong. It has taken mucl study and resolution to maxe them take sides in this cuutroversy. No shadow crossed the bousehold of young Moulton and his whe unti Tilton discovered the reality or deiuston of @ dual marriage on his heartastune. ‘Then he sought out the only iriend he had who by priority of fondness and execu! nerve couid deal with his business, He was a strobger man than Moulton in sach an encoun. ter, as the SERIOUS AND SUBJECTIVE stamp of bis mind and bis pride of personal rie vairy with one like Beecher stimulated him to an unnatural eudeavor, He toid his story to another young husband and kindied indignation in Moul- Lon’s heart. Setting forth to do Tilton’s erran}, Mr. Beecher put his eye on Moulton, ielt nis remperament, saw oimseit admired, and captured the ambassador, It we did these chings a8 they do in the Scutn, Mr. Moulton wouid never have tried to be a second for two men at once. Mrs. Moulton heard of these things, but had no advice to teuder, She divined a cause 0! domestic sorrow, but her husband bad been wore thun ordinarily succe »siuiin patcuiog and bridging over such allairs, Besides, they tlad anice new house, ther own property iu Remsen sireet, turoisied and decorated irom top ty bottum alter their Mutual or alternate aesire. All tue chamvera were furuisned with rich native woods and tne be 's were protected by clouds 0! lace. At tne top ol the house was FKrank’s study, (he ceiling painted | with lotos leaves in the borders, and ali the uyea mage rich aud dark, tn@ turniture 1oungiog and Juxurious and the books select, with artists’ proota and small paintiogs, quise origiuai, surrounding the wail, atnong the p.pes, scu'ls and fsbing rods, Frank tad set up for a swe amateur, Mrs. Moulton beneld ber pastor, whose wor stip she had attended for thirieen years and whom she cou-tdered the setected of neaven, become suddeniy, on a seculay opportunity aud for tne first lime, @ Visitor to wer bew home, He had not come there at ali on any previous occasion. Now he came ali the ume, A Jarge part of the business ol the HOTEL DE MOULTON was intrigue, interviews, learned confidences and genuine, true imwarduess petween Heury and rank. Tuere was @ noveity about it for a while, but then aieeling of impending danger tue young wife felt, with all her womau’s ins‘inct. The husoand Was How a prosperous young mer. chant, with prooavly $150,000, He had never been & commuuicunt of the churen nor intimate with clericai or spiritual people. She had often = Wished = tuat =o he ight be more fond of such hallowed company, but now it Was @ soarce Of regret that he pad known the clergy at all. A mun of Mr. Beecter’s universal recognition und striking appearance couia not be seen in dally Intimacy With Ler young ani boyish husvaud aid not provoke comment. He had ae- sceuded Irom the gate where ne sat among tae rule:s Of the land 1o go about iamiiiarly with a man not or nis kind or age, Here, also, Was that dreadiui ‘Iilton, goaded ou by bis secret, real or imaginary, out 0} Work, morose, desperate, Be- tween iis ascendancy wid Beecher tae wile felt that the way of mutual {riends was hard. SHE FACED MK. TILTON and warned him otf toe premises if he showd seek ty usurp the Will of her nusvand and use him Jor a private revenge, she faced Mr. Beecher, too, and notified hin of the evil thar overau AIM, wad Of tue simplest aod Only possible ou Puoilciiy came with une, ‘the remorseless secres barst the confines of were private custody, aud in the inundativn it made, iar aod near, the name Of **Mouiton” floated on every cask and spar. ‘The schoolmate rend had his wil, Tae pastor antagunized his bost and legate, Tue wie had to appear on the Witness siand, a nostage Of & mys tery, a Victim of @ieud, THE SHANTY MURDER. IDENTIFICATION OF THE DECEASED-—POST-MOBTEM EXAMINATION. The man who was mur tered on Saturday night in the miserable shanty of Philip Oiwell, Fourth avenue, hear Seventy-ninth street, was yesterday, Jrom papers jound w his possession, identified ag James Orr, a discharged sodier fiom the British Army, The discuarge papers of deceased showed that he had been a member of the Thira brigade, Royal Arullery, aud was discharged at New. Joundiand, May 11, 1869, alter twenty-one years service, be then being \orty-one years of age. The papers showed that bis character: and conduct were indifferent, and tual te Was addiciea to drink, butaclean soldier and respectiul to his onicers, Deceased, Who Was & Dalive of Lrelaad, & is thougnt, nad no permanent home, THE AUTOPSY. Deputy Coroner Marsh yesterday, av the Morgue, made # post-mortem examination of vue body. tne doctor jound extensive laceraved wounds of tl scalp over toe leit side o1 the Head, also over jet side of the ace; a large amount oi bivod was ex. travasated over leit side of Head avd Lorenead; several teeth had been knocked ou @ lace Wat badly covlused und swollen, Opeuiug the body, fraciures of the second, lourth, tite. sixty and seventh ribs o! the leit side were Vide re was stigit laceration of the left inog. Opening the head, @ smaii clot Was found on ve right side of the brain; tuere Was po lracture ol the skull, The interval organs snowed deceased to fave been addicted To the use of alcoholic stimulants, Dear was due to shock trom the Injuries above described. Lhe imjuries may bave been miticted by u), OF HCH! have resulted from being stainped upon by a persuu wearmg neavy boow After empanelling a jury Coroner Kessler ad Journed tue investigation tll u iuture daye