The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1875, Page 3

OE EEE ~~ J — te —- HE GARBAGE BEDS. A Secret History of Contracts and Contractors. The Board of Health Stops the Dumping on the Flats. — DISINFECTANTS TO BE USED. President Chandler Declares the Contractors Could Be Fined. Disbecker Will Send the Stuff to Nova Scotia to Pacify the Public. ‘The persistent exploration by the Hrkap of the | hidden mysteries of the ‘Harlem flats’? and the | fcandalous transactions connected therewith de- velop new features every day. Digging down to © the foundation, as it were, of the whole matter the investigation lays bare the stratification of ugly facts which underile it and form the basis on Which a colossal mdictment of the delinquent om- | 1 als can be erected, [tis not only necessary to bore | to great depths tu find the truth, but it must also be tairly dugout from the mass of official lying and misstatement which hag covered it in tne past and which is now sought to be presented as Qn Irresistible obstacle to inquiry. Itis neces- sary therefore to go back to the beginning and trace the progress of tnis monstrous evil step by | step until the true position it holds in our midst is | established, | | | THE LEGISLATURE OF 1871 passed an act entitled “An uct to provide for the proper draimdge of lands within the corporate Mmits of the city and county of New York, being chapter 566 of the Laws of 1871, passed April 18, 1871, The first section of the act reads as fol- lows Sxertoy 1 for the protection of the public health that 4 te Limits of th by otlier 1 ‘uted by th parcel of land within the corpo county of New York needs to be dram than by sewers, and it shall be 5 Sanitary Inspector, and said eo is fied among the records or the Hoard of Leal 2 Health Depart nent ot said city, the said Board shall direct that the sume shall be dove by and under the dircetion of the | Deparcment of Public Works o/ said city and county. Acting under the autuority of this act and in | accordance with a recommendation trom the Saut- | tary Superintendent aud the local Health Inspec- | tor, the Board of Health directed the Commissioner | of Public Works to take the necessary steps to dram | and fill m the tracts reierred to in the reports of the sanitary officers mentioned. The form of re- quisition on the Department of Public Works 1s us 1OLOWS :— | -Wheuever it’shall appear to be necessary | | a nt Heaven Derantaest ) Si Mort srkeer, New Yous, July 1973. § Hon. Gzoncr M. Van Nonr, Commissioner, &o. Sik—ata weeting of the Bourd of Lealih held on the Bth inst., ic was Kero:ved, That @ copy of the certificate of the Sani- tary Superintendent in regard to the plots or parceis jand between and bounded Munety- | Be 1th streets, third ue and aot within the eorperate of the | enty county of New York placed | on file in this department, and that sai ifeate be d to the Departinent of Pubbe that | tinent be and is hereby respectiuily requested | he saul ploisor parcels of land | to be drained by other means thun by sewers under and | by virtue ot the provisio: hapter 666 ot the laws ot | wil. ONS CLAR! pecretary. | LETTER OF SANITARY SUPERINT ENT, HxALTH DEPAWENENT, SANITARY BUREAU, No. 301 Morr Stweer. New Yorw, Juiy 5, 1875. To tur Boanv or Heavens oF THe ‘LivaLt Duar MEN’ In accordance with an act to provi @rainage of lauds, &c., passed April 1y. 5 Thereby ceruity that it is necessary tor the p the public tiealth that the Being wishin the imits ot uty of New York lying between and vounded by Ninety-second and lvth streets, Third avenue and East Kaiver, need to be draimed by other means than by sewers. these lands DF parcs of thems lie below the levels of the sewers in the avenues adjacent theeww, an ave natural Water ourses canuing through them, and are inoreover sub- Jeet to Udai overflow, vy reason ot which they are kept constantiy wet and detrimental to pubic health. ‘rhe aceompanying wap ludicates the location of the ground, with tie natural Water courses aud ponded Water Femaiuing thereon. Ibis therefore recommended that the Board of Health Girect the Departineat of Public Works to provide fOr 3 the necessary ge of said iands by the construction . mae rei or by such Rp a — fe may best eal Kespectiully submitted. SBNCt the deatred OblegD Mie Det. Dat, M.D. Sanitary Sdperintendent. AFFIDAVIT OF HBALTH INSPECTOR—iNDORSED ** COMPLAINT."” To Tax Boarp oF WeaLrn DErantMEnt:— I. Augustus Viele, boiding ihe postion of Health In- gpector in tne Heaimn veoartment, of the city of New fork, do report:—That on the 15th day of August, 1872, I did inspect carefully and persoually examined the land ‘ituated north of Ninety-second street, east of ihird Avenue and south of 10d street, east of Third avenae extending to bast Kiver, in the city of New York, aud — found the facts to ve as tollows:— Lands reterred to consist of vacan ing vorth of ue 10 East River, and as iar nortl and are in a condition dangerous to i1/ To health for ihe following reasons :~They are in a sunken | and offensive condition, subject to a tidal overilow and AN accumulation of sutiace aud staguant water east of Becond avenue, trem Ninety second to Ninety ath Street, to the East Aiver: east of second Mimety-elenth to 109th street, tothe bast a Becoud avenue, trom Ninety-third to l0wh street, ly ng east of Third avenue, noarly the entire portion is sanken and requires drainage and grading and filing, as wiil be | shown by reference to accompanying map or diagram. The section extending east of Second avenue, from Ninety-fitth to Ninety-eizbth street, has been filled and | Faded. but no Drover means of drainage has been es- biishe Wouid recommend as a senitary necessity that the section 2omprised within the boundary of Ninety-second street on (ne south and 10th street on the north and east of third avenue, extending to the Kast River, be | certified to the Departinent of Public Works as requirin drainage, it being the only means of overcoming an Temedying @ great existing evil, as these lanas lle below the level « wers in Second and Ihird avenues ‘and adjacent sir AUGUS? VIELE, M. D.. Health Inspector, Sworn to before me this sth day of Auaust, 1372. Lovis T. Barxwex, Notary Public Dated August lo 157 PETITION OF PROPERTY OWNERS INTERESTED. dn the handwriting of Heaith Inspector Viele.) To THE OMMIssIONER OF PUBLIC WorKs:— Sin—The undersigned owners of lands jyiog north of | Ninety-fitth street and souty ot lovh street, between | Third and Fite id Most Feepecttully request | that you will grade ugreenb! requiring the same from t city sanitary or, Aud forwarded by the Hoard Health day ofgseptember, 1871, beng in ac: cordance wita the provisions of chapter 500 of tie Laws Of the State of New Yors, passed April 13. 1871. for t Purpose of draiuing, certain lands within the corpora limits of the city und couaty of New York. THOMAS A. VYSE, Jn, PHILLIPS, W. ii. RAYNOR, WILLIAM LALOR, WICLIAM A. FRAUY, id sunken'lets ly | Ninety-second street, extending trom fhird | 109. street, | detrimental | Dated November 9, 1872. In pursuance with the law and under the written instructions of the Health Board the De- rtment of iubiic Works advertised jor bids jor | he building Of drains and filing ta the tract known a8 the Uariem fats on Uctover 9 ana Opened the bids op October 21, 1872. ‘The lollowing parties vid for the dilling:— | Per Cutie | Yard. $1 20 ae w i9 6 si 5 2 J. UG, Lane. ‘ serereeeeseces The bid of Jones & MeQuaid veing lowest was accepted, and tae work commenced. It is very evident from the above exhibit that the success- Jul bidders bad a sure thing on Miling—that they knew waere fo get it very cheap aud pleats, and hat they were hot disappointed. From the be- ginning of the Work tne street sweepings we: Used, Mr. Towle tnsisis that nothing was dor during \he Whole time McQuaid & Jones work for the ¢ity, under the contract mentioned, that sould call ior censure, so far as the Character of the flung used is concerved. but added that the refuse matter brought by the Police Department scows to the ork, and which Was rejected oy the aepariment uotit jor use, as fast as brougnt Wp to the dock Was at once carted of by McQuaid & Jones and Used 28 filing on jands immediately adjoining tho-e on Whicn the city contracc was being ex cused. Fvidence of ine acceptance by the Depari- Met of Public Works of Jones & Monald’s work iug done according to contract aud specifica. lon is (arnisned by the iolloWing certificates fom the engineer in charue of sewers ana the sav. inspectors under him attached to the oitelal tarhs of the work one City and County of New York, s,:—8tevenson Towle, en- gineer In coarse of sewers, Doing duly sworn, ays that ihe Within is 0 correct rewra of wil Work done under te contract tor Sworn betore me this —- day of ——, 187+, STEVEN ON TOWLE, York, os Gallagher, b ing sworn, says that he was duly appoinsod by the Co mussioner’ ot Pablic Works to imapect ihe work dor Under tho avove Named contract, to wit, and that (ne saue HAs beon compieted in acedrdance with the plans and specifications theretor, — JAMeS GALLAGH. Sworn beiore me, tit —— day of <==, lus ALB, | Another inspector's certificate, signed by Hugh | McCutcheon, further attes: ther of &, "le | TK, Department of Public Works, DEPARTMENT OF RBALTH, ¢ from its organization tais a barpimg ou the Harlem fat R. #4, Ourningham City and County of New ent Al thas gad | Vions ot the | putrid matier below tne surlace. | simular garbage m 1863. | cost. | sioners Matsell and | We should request that they take o NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. denouncing the terrible nuisance that threatened | New York with atlience. The local inspector, Dr. Viele, reported in 1871 ‘A sick person could hardly be expected to get well in a place where @ Well person Would be almost sure to get sick,’ “and upless the filme im or sunken lots and Teets with garbege and refuse material 1s aban- doned the buildings which are erected in such lo- calities must become permanent wsbodes of disease.” Againy in 1871, the same inspector writes of the same locality:—*A large proportion of tuese Jands east of Second avenue, from Ninety- filth to Ninety-ninth street, have been filled above tidewater with garbage and ashes.” “It is a lamentable lact to record tuat 104th street, frou the €ast River to Fifth avenue, Eighty-sixth and Eizhty-ninth streets, jrom East River to Second avenue, have been graded and filled with ashes and garvage. No more pernicious material for the filling of streets | can be found, exp: lly where the streets are so often opened for sewers, water and gas connec- ous and repair.” “lox periedee has taught us that the exhalations from the never ceasing decomposition of this ma- terial will continue to percalate and gain the sure Jace for years aiter the Ori.inal deposit has been made.” “As guardians of tue puolic healtu and the luture nygienic prosperity and sanitary cou- aition of this city, we should earnestiy protest against the depositing of this noxieus and offen- sive material u dy Of the streets or vacent lots.’? ‘The writer desires to nail these official opinions: on the piatiorm Of discussion, $0 that no evasion ol responsipility on tae ground of ignorance of tie facts can be made by auy member of the Health Departinens or its employés. Dr. Moreau Morris, Clty Sanitary Inspector In Asil- truthfully asserts in his report on epi- demic cerebro-spioal meningitis or spotted fever, whien swept the city of New York in 1872, when nouing the predisposing causes of this dreadful disease, That among these may be classed “the water saturated soilor the undrained por- ity where former Aving streams had | been opstructed in their courses, or land nas been | eivom the débris of the city over its marshy | iual portions’? Vhis exactly Geseribes the conditions and factors of disease of the Harlem tuts, The marsa and the garbage are there; the process of deco:nposi- tion 1s ever active; the intense heat o: the sum- mer sun, which 1s capabie of penetratme vy induc ton and conduction to a deptn of over sixty leet, according to Piofessor Forbes, below the suriace, or to that polat where the neat apsorved and the | heat radiated by the earch meet, av it were, on a | neural line. ‘The fluctuations of temperature cause a more OF les# active geveration and conden- sation of poisonous vapors [roi the laboratory of Taese alcer- nately expand and Hil the air with their fatal pres- ence to great distances from tae potut of genera- tion, or le like @ heavy pall over the earti, eyuaily daugerous to life it either state, | the wid ussumption of ignorance or the inaidi- ons lalseucods of corrupt interes may seek to | banish from the minis of the public the dreadiut truch that garbage 18 a constant source of disease When used 1 filing, bo matter how mhuect tresn eartn if laid on 11; but science and, above ail | experience, telis us that sucht 1s the 1act, and no specious urguiments can overturn It, ihe Mills & Aimbrose Coutract at 106th street is murked vy an almost exclusive use of ciry Hlth; indeed, so reckless have these men been that not many days ago a horse slipped into the water hole | now being filled at this point and Was drowned | there, and remains there still Covered with gurb+ age—a sure JounGation, perhaps, for some future pestilen Acertun street, it 18 asserted, was filled with It Was oped chat time had destroyed the poisonous matter and that it | had become inocuous, but 11 1874 the ground was opened jor sume repairs aud the imprisoned accumulations of foui gas Were liberated into the Y aud caused siekhess almost immediately, | JuStances like these are innumerabie, but space Will not admit of their recital aere, | : POLIOK DEPARTMANT. | | ‘The officials o1 tuis department are loud in their oXpressionus of willingness to do anything and | everytning needed 10 Sausiy the HERALD and tne | public in the matter of disposing of the city | garbuge. ‘Vhey complain that it cos:s too much to send the offal to sea—$50 per scow load or $400 for a datly collection on eignt scows. They also claim that Wben the stuit was sent to sea it was dumped about two miles eastward of Couey Island point, and that the Weather 14 often too | vad to venture out With il-balanced barges or | scows, In tae first place, it will not coat $50 per scow to carry tois garbage seaward, because any one of common inteligencs Knows that a tug can be | hired to Cow the eigt Scows Out to sea sor a little | more than what Inspector Tnorne says one will | when we do flud them out we stop tue ‘The port selected for dumpini oue of THE WORST THAT COULD BE FOUND | | 1p the harbor, amd the distance out to sea snoula be Increased, i pessivie. to not less than five | iniles clear oi Sandy Hook. | Properly constructed trap-sided iron barge: similar to those Of the Dock Department, can bi saiely loaded and carried to sea, and by | & sluple disengagemeut of a trigger bolt the whole cargo can be “let siide” into the water in aiminute. The use of snch barges is very common in Eurepe. No trouve whatever arises in their loading and unloading; all that is required is to have two men on each barge to let gO the traps, and the barge unloads itsell. Matter like that collected by the Police Depart- | ment, being Very ligt, 18 quickly washed ashore | if dumped too hear land, and especially so near | Coney island, where | | | THE LITERAL CURRENTS TEND TO ACCUMULATE . DEPOSITS on the bar, or Last’ snk. ROOM FOR A MARGIN. It looks exceedingly suspicious for tne Police | Department {to sell the garbage at per scow load, or two and @ cen a yard, to @ contractor, who ceives for the same material sixty-five cents per cubic yard. A contractor could afford to pay $150 per day to the good men and true of the de- partment and still get ots filing ior less tn: cents per yard. He need only take six se to do this; just the number flats." | TALK AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS. Yesteraay was a regular ela day” at the | Ponce Fits ont hiaeeee all day long Commis- | becker were in conference | with the Sanitary anthorities—Dra. Chandie! Janeway, Day anda Viele—tryipg to devise meat tor remedying tie abuses complained of by the | HERALD, This secret consultation was followed by | Beetings of bot boards, in which the measures | agreed upon were embodied in formal resolutions, — which are givea furtner beiow. THE SECRET CONFERENCE. The secret conference was neid at the office of the Board of Healtu. Commissioner Disbecker gave the following account of it:—“I appeared before the Board o! Health tn reference to the fill- ing up of the Harlem Gats and for the purpore of asking them to take such action as they mignt deem most conducive to the pubiic nealta, 1 told them that | wished they would take charge of the entire matter as {far as possible, as it Was a matter ecting the pubic heaith. Dr. Day, the Sanitary »uperintendent, satd | the princi; al objections to the stuff dumped on the Mats arose duriug tne course of transportation, and aiter considerable discussion they finally came to the conclusion that the best Way of obyi- ating the present difficulty was to use suitable and (noroagh disinfectants one barrel of ime and eight to ten gallons of deodorizing 0:1 to each acow loud of 20 cubic yards, A great many otuer suit. mest were made, such a8 to rio ail the stud turough lirge kilMs so a$ to destroy all the gar- Dage und leave but @ pare re-tdaum of ashes, and that waa tne final concinsion of the Board, He told them, then, that in order to Nave this disinfec- tou periormed 1a & manner satisiactory to them, arge of itand station an agent at each of the eight dumping places on the east siae, who Would supervise the process of distniection. ‘vhey said that they had not the fangs to under- | luke that acditional task, and computed the ex- pense 01 Sach Supervision at $5,000 lor this xum- mer. They then aeked us i! we (Mr, Matsell and mnyselt) Were willing to consent -o a trans(er of that sum from our unexpended bal:nce of last year to the Healta Department, and we gave the consent | asked ior on tue part ot the Police Commission- Mit, DISBECKER ON HIS METTLE. Mr. Disvecker veing rather stout would uot | have been thought & Jerocious man py Julius | Cesar, but yesterday he wi; decidediy on nis | | mettle. KPFECT OF THE HERALD'S EXPOS “Yes,” Mr. Disbecker went on taking with a | rapidity which suows the wonderiai dow of his | jue “we'll take the dirt auywhere they lik we ake it to Nova Scotia if they say so.’ Disvecker then went on in a rawbiing detail the precautions that taken iu the filling up marshes. For the better sep- Mr. manner to were to be of the Harlem aration of tse «arbage from the ages he i- teuded to order a partition to be made in every carl. AS to Carrying ail the dirt out to sea, this Was siinply Impossivie, ior the scows would easily be capsized, aud even now bureaa had to wait jor@fine day beiore daring to senu the rein: out to sea in one of those aweward Vesser we dit that,” he said in sia dra- matic syle, “the HERALD would not be aiter but Mr. Biunt woud ve after us.’ And in an argunent whieh was most a8 prilllans as that of ex-Jadge Porte) positively convinced the reporter tuat the dirs was rather benesicial ti injarions te nealtn, ou vught to see our scow trimmers! The ait falis right npon their heads, and in wnat an ex- celiens physical Condition they are!’ Loe picture drawa by Commissioner Lisbecker Was suppl mented by a still more enticing ove from tue fe tile brat of lospector Toorne, anu the reporter leit almost like applyiNe at ouce tor a position so refreshing and strengihening to body and soul. Mr. Disveecker tueu said that the men employea by the Lurewa were to be paid «ff in the aiternoon, | aod made the juilowing very lunny suggestion iu that connection :— “You gaght co suggest that the be disinfected, fr taeir eitluvia is worse than m Hats.’ And with this | the young Commissioner ended tke interview and Tesumed nis arduous daties, RTS A PERMIT AT LAST. | Mr. Ambros», of the flrm of Ambrose & Mille, tne | cyniractors who do most of the filling up onthe Hariem fats, appeared yesteraay odefore tue Bard of Heaith, and, in order to avoid possio! prosecution for dumping without authority, took outa permit. The Board of Health gianted this | permit with certaia reservations, which will com- | pel toe contractors to coniorm to the rules of the disinectors of tne Board of Heath, ‘The scow loads now waking to, be unioaded ot cue Marsues are to be Gisiaiected to-day wy or. dor of the Board and ut the expense oi tue co) men soould | a tae TPweil tractors, It was also suggested that they should provide screens at each dock through which all the stufl should pass to the exclusion of all coarse Vegetable and animal mater, This would be an excellent safeguard against mixing te reluse with the ashes, but Mr, Ambrose would only un- dertake to furnisi these screens on condition that the contraciors receive all the stu that was “screened out.” Whetaer this will be done the Commissioners of Poitce have yet to deciae. Dr. Chandler, the President of the Health board, strongly advises the adoption of this saieguara, DR. DAY'S PROMPT ACTION, It wil! be rememverea (hat the HRRALD’s frst exposé was published on Sunday. Aiready on Monday Dr. Duy, the Sanitary Superimtendens, Went to the Hariem flats, as reported in yester- day's paper, and stopped all further dumping, to the great surprise and dismay of the coutractors, He had policemen with bim and Was ready to en- force bis command. Mis action gives Lue lie to the maynates of the Street Cleaning Bureau, who pretended that the scuffdumped tocte was not of- fensive. Ifithad oeen woulda Dr, Day bave taken such action + Dr. Day says the stenen was “very bag," and he thought it arose Irom the pandling of the putrescent garbage. However, he thought the filling up of the flats with the stuf had been @ necessity, us it Would have been impossible to fill them up Wit fresh cartn. Toe cost would be far too great. There was no probability of tais mars ground ever being used lor dWelung purposes, PRESIDENT CHANDLER'S VIEWS. President Chaudler says that in view of the strict care to be used in separating the garbage jrom ashes, of tne disinfection which will destroy the smallest particles of refuse, of the piacing of the dirt below or near tue water, level and above the foul mud, and of the covering of the tiling With three leet of fresh earth, the provisions mace yesteroay will be quite suilcient to guard the in- verests of the puvlic heaith. The lime and ou Would be properiy mixed und scattered over each scow load by ah inspector betore it starved. The expense would be about $1,100 a month, He thoueht the stu might not be proper fing ma- terial for high ground, but it was certainly provers able to the !ow ground itself, where the mud of the salt water marshes was In itself equally or more nuisome. Besides, (here Was no other ma- terial witn Which to fii tiese flats, for It would be impossible to obtain the necessary quantity of iresh earth, IT 13 DELETERIOUS, “LI did not know that they were dumping garbage as weil as ashes,” Dr. Chandier said ivankly. “rey claim the stuf’ wey have dumped is not delete. rious, bat we say it 1s, aud when Dr. Day made nis report to-day he immediately stopped the present mode of dumping, and insisted upon the process of disinfection and the other precautions we have devised. before even waiting lurther instructions. 1t take Us @ week or two to fud out these things, but he fact is, Our inspectors are greatly overworked by tae smallpox epidemic, abd many bad to b taken trom their regular rounds to act as vaccl- nators. Our force 18 entirely insuMicieut trom the great Want of junds.” Dr, Chandler said the contractors could be fined for grossly yiolating the law, buc he did got thirst for revenge, aua was satisiied if tne people were only protected 10 the lature. MEETING OF THE BOARD OF POLICE. Ata meetmg of the Board of morning the Commissioners, aroused by tne Har- | lem flats agitation, unanimously passed the follow- ing resoiutions :— R A of Health to the ashes, sur dumping grounds of the streot Ciea ay a. Kesvived, that the Presiient of the Board ct Police and Chairman of the strect Cleaning Gomumittee be re- questeu to attend the meeting of the Healta Bourd this alteriivon and urge prompt action in the matt r. Commissioner Disbecker supplemented the resolutions vy a@ suri of personal explanation, in Whicn he took occasion, In a few discounected re- marks, to disparage the edorts of tue HERALD in coucentiaiog pablic attention upop the pestileotial Harlem flats, characterizing its re- ports as exaggerated. ‘The Board then adjourned. ard of Police request the Board ‘ RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. The following is the resolution adopted by the Board of ileaith at its meeting yesterday alter- noon relative to the dangerous nature of the fill. | ing used at the Harlem Whereas the use of ashes, garbage and street refuse in | their presentgconamion for tiiing sunken lots in the upper partot fhe cliy is dangerous to lite mental to health; atid whereas tie Board ot F Fequestea this Board (0. disit duinps betore it is used tor All <j detri- lice has Resvived, That the Board hereby is respecttul.y requested iw trauster from the un= expended balance of the Fo e Department forthe year s isinfection o: tae Health Depart. the sum ot $5,00, the Board of Police having consented to such transter. Resolved, thay the sanitary cuperereecent be and is hereby dirécted to cause the disinection of the asies, Zarbave and street sweepiugs wow of the scows of the Strect Cleaning Vepartment ut the foot of Ninety-sixth street, the contractors, Messrs, Mills & Ambrose, to pro- Vide the material. € AD) THE DUMPING GROUNDS. Owing to the rain the work of fillingin the dats Was discontinued yesterday. A cloud of poisonous vapor overhung the place, and the only gizns of life visible were @ Jew stray curs who frolicked in | the paradise of flith. ‘There being notbing to eXamine here, not even smell, the reporter turned his attention to the People in the neighborhood .to ascerfain if any ol them had been, as yet, affected by the fever. Several physicians were called upon, but none of them had been called toatrend patients where trouble could be directly traced to the gases from the dumping grounds, Dr. Hays Kneustler, of 106th street, was waited on by the reporter, and from him some interest- | ing particulars were learned. He told the reporter that he had several cases | ‘which were decidedly interesting medical studies, and which were brought about by the terrivie condition of the atmosphere in the neighdorhood. In his practice he had been called upon to attend No less than five persous who complained of ter- rible headache, Tve pain generally began about eleven o’ciock in the day aod lasted in various cases from ten to fliteen hours. It is uo ordinary headache. lis victims are rendered incapavie o: doing aby kiud of work, All they can do is walk up and down, Some of tne jadies who bave tle neadacue, the Docior says, become par- tally Imsane. Tney ery, pull ther hair and do many sirauge tuings., A pecullarity of tae com- piaiut is (pat quinine has no efect on the patients; heitoer has arseuic nor iron, and instead of im- proving With time the maiauy vecowes worse and worse. in 103d street the Doctor bas a patient suffering from a sort of intermittent fever, which hvs been caused by the joul gases trom the swamp. in joce street he has another woo is suffering simi- jarly. Ail these cases are on the outskiris of the swamp, aad, strange to those who iive im tas shanties, in the very marsh, have not yet veen effectea, But the doctors im toe neighborhood say that from the weil known uncieauliness o1 the shanties there must be some sickvess when the hot weather comes. Asice from the tureat of the gases, theic habits of jie Would be sufficient to in- sure anliealtniness, Several public spirited gentlemen of Harlem have, encouragea nt the HekaLp, decided to petition the Board of Health and tne Police Beara, asking that she garvage be covered over by at least tweive incnes of ciay. Two years ago, When the filling-in began, a petition was sent to the Board of Lleaitn, and for @ short time tne work Was discontinued and disiniectauts used, but ina jew weeks the Work went on us before. Yorkville | Harlem are botn to present peutions, aad it ia hoped tuat some attention will ve paid to them: BOARD OF HEALTH. ALARMING INCREASE OF SMALLPOX—VITAL 8TA- TISTICS. The reguiar weekly meeting of the Board of Health took piace yesterday afternoon, President Chandler ia the enair. Gn motion the counsel to the Bourd w directed Lo bring action against Dr. Creskates for jaliure to report a case Of smallpox, at No. 14515 Atioruey street, as provided by the sauitury code. rhe Secretary Was, on motion, directed to cali the attension of horse car corporations to tuat section of the code requiring the abolition of cushions from the seats oi their cars and to bring Suit 10 cases Of hon-compliance with the law. ihe following 18 @ comparative statem of contagious diseases reporied at this Bur the two Weeks enaiog May 22, 1875: Diseasoe Typhus tever... Typuold ieve: Seariet tever.... Meusies..... Dipotheria. Smaiipox. ebro spiual meningitis SIXLtY persons sick With smallpox were removed to vie hospital and 6 dead vodies to the Morgue by the ambulance corps. The Registrar of Vital Statistics reported that 648 deaths Occurred in the city last week, against 644 Which were yifled the previous week. The hospitals and other public stitutions reported | 117 and 109 tn these two Weeks respectively, Tue death face was equal to 27.20 in the 1,000 inbabi- tants a lly, dud Was the same as the average rate in the corresponding weeks is five | years. STABBING AFPRAY. Daring @ quarrel yesterday afternoon between Wiliam Tierney, residing on 190th street, near | Lincoln avenue, and Thomas Maban, of 14th street and Second avenue, the former was stabbed in the right side, receiving @ dangerous wound, ‘Me was taken to the Ninety-aintn str Recepnos Hospital hod Hahan Was arrested Gna locked up jb Dreeinet Aion NOUse. In tact, Dr, Day stopped it yesteraay. | Police yesterday | i | corridor above th F. AND A. M. Great Preparations for the Opening of the Temple. ee 2) PIP 1o w. “ Silke pce A Complete Description of the New Headquarters. see EN j A GALA SEASON OF PARADES AND BANQUET A Small Army of Good Knights Expected. The coming* week will be replete with unusual interest to the Masonic world; for iis events will not only bring together many of the most promi- nent members of the craft, but will freshly stimu- late the silent energy with which the entire or- ganization have moved onward in achieving the noble purposes of their Order. While our country has been growing great in developing its vast ma- dustries are everywhere showing the handiwork Pianting fresh milestones by the wayside and bringing to the front iresh forees wherewith to continue the battle of lite, Freemasons of the country have not been a step benind in contribut- ing to the aggregated results of the age. Look where we may we find representatives of the craft among the first in almost every Meld. At we Bar, on the press, in the pulpit, finance, never forgetting the grand corner stone of charity and brotherly love; penetrating mys- teriously through @ myriad of channels Into thou- sands of homes, where the hand of Waat would interfering nowhere with religion or conscience yet illustrating always the counsel of our Saviour in iis Sermon on the Mount, who shali say that the Mason‘e Order ‘is nos au element of world’s advance, & power to accomplish good, and our national and soctal lifer The ceremonies ere expected to be of aa unusu- ally interesting character. A partial description has already been pudlishea in the HeRratp, Further details appear below. DRSORIPTION OF THE TEMPLE. ‘The exterior of the Temple is im what 1s called the pure French renaissance style. This architectural method, though an outcome of the Middle Ages, is one thoroughly adapted to modern building. 1t accords grace to a structure, while at the same | time it allows for the application of those | features to an ediflee which tue utilitarianism of | modern times demands, If is a style which Free- | masons claim as the invention ox their medieval | Prethren. When the craftsmen of that period | were debarred irom building | cathedrals, in whose constructions during | Several centuries they haa elaboratea the | Lombardian icea ito the Gotuie style of ‘arenttecture, tuey found that they were left without occupation unless they devised some new system of architecture suited to the growing | Beeds of the people. Ihe Gosnic and the purely classic styles were all unsalted to houses fit to be | lived in: but the talent of the archjtects was able tosupply their lack. Classic features were too dear to be cast aside, so they were taken asa starting point, and through an entire century the process | of combining them with new conceptions went on im Italy and France, until in the latter county and in the sixteenth century the style which | | tne new Masonic Temple expresses was produced. | The Temple is considered a good eXampie of the | effect of the methud of the renaissance period. It terial resources; while our literature, art and in- | of genius; while civilization and progress are | | | | | entire second floor is aiso fireproof, bet bulit with brick arches and iron beams. Tous the ac- cess to the upper part of the edilice of ire which originates in toe first or basement floor is pre- vented, THE WEST SIDE. On the west side of the main corridor are the parior of the Grand Master, the office uf the Grand Secretary, the fireproof archive rooms, &c. All ‘these apartments sre lighted from Sixth avenue, and are bandsomely jurnished and uecorated. The adornment of the Grand Master's room 1s particulariy fine. Heavy lambrequins depend at its windows tromcarved and glided brackets of rich Walnut wood, ‘The bases of the walls are sheathed with pluck Walnut 10 panels, and their upper parts are painted a nanasome dark shade of blue. The ceilimg of th room 18 very finely trexcoed. Altogether its appearance 1s in consonance with the diymiy | of the presidiug oMicer ot the largest Mason Juris- diction in the world. Op the eastern side oi the corridor 18 the Graud Ludge room, Over tie cen tral entrance io tis apartinent, imbedded in the Will, 18 a plece of an ashlar er pedestal said to have been a part of the suosiructure of the Temple ot Solomon, In a panel surmounting this relic 1s the coat of aris of the Grand Lodge of the State 0! New Yor one, is the Cust of arms of tie State of New York. WHE GRAND LODGE ROOM 1a 85 by 92 feet, and 28 feet high. Is nas seats for over 1,000 persons. Its arcnivecture is elaborate, of the Romauic-lonte order, im which festoons are & prominent characteristic, A doubie row of col- unos adds largely to the beauty of the apartment, but is mace 10 act as areai support to the enor: mons Weight from the upper stories. In the east- ero side of the room is an apsidal recess, ito which the Grand Master’s throne ia lei. At the right of the throne are the entrances t» commit tee rooms, aid on its left is @ chamver for an organ. ‘Te ceiling aud wails of the Grand Ledge room are painted a lackiusire white, just as are those of mose ot the cor: ridors and of some other rooms, all of whicn will eventually be decorated in polychrome, Ac the nortbera end of the main corridor, be- yond a jigut grille wate of bronze, is tne main | Staircase and entrance to th: passage elevator, oterwise rest meré lessly; doing good vy stealth, | the | an ageucy which, not misused, may conunue to | exert a potent influence im the principal affairs of | | Bowra of Keliel, 16 teet by 2 giving vigor to commerce, holding the threads of ” Above the frst hull pace of the staircase Is a niche, Which 1s to be filled with a bewauful white marble statue of “Silence,” whieh 13 LOW beins seulptured in Rome, 1his statue will be the git of a member and ex-oflicer of the Grand Lodge. In the mezzanine or halt story. over the Grand Master’s and Grand Secretary’s room, 13 located THE LIBRARY O¥ THE GRAND LODGE. 40 teet by 2 teet, surroanued with cases, containing @ large apd Valuable collection of books Im every department of wasonry, & South O1 the library 18 the room Jor toe Masonic eet. Over the fre- proof archive room is a. treproof sale room, in which eiguty-four iron satety deposit boxes are placed tor the records of the lodges meeting in the building. Tye reception parlors ou the third aud iourch floors correspoud in size and position to the main corridor below, 20xJy feet, and are Jeet 6 Inches high, ‘they ace decorated with Corin- thin pilssiers, are fouored over with Musaic Utes and (urnisied with comiortable leather covered settees, ‘To the east of these parlors are whe ene trances to the ante-rooms ot THE VARIOUS LODGE ROOMS. ‘These ante-rooms ure skailfuily and conveniently distributed, aud ave of ample size for their various purposes, The accommodations for each lodge room consist of & coat and bat roont, oc vestibule, L4xz7 leet, opening into the wbove mentioned parlor; room, to the right of which 13 the examimation room, about lXiL feet; to the lett the candidate's pre- paring room, 10X11 feet. Over vhese various rooms i & mezzanine, or half story, reached oy & Staircase trom the examination room, Here 18 the organ loft, irom which the sound 18 communicated to the lodge room through open panels arranged in its Western wali. Adjoliing the Organ toft 18a room is feet by 27 leet, provided with tweaty-four goud-sized closers for the storage of regalia and otuer parapuernalia of the lodges. THE TUSCAN ROOM. The north room, on tue third story, Tuscan order. Its dimensions ure 24 fee 62 leet long, and 21 teet 6 menes high. Tue sides are decorated With cousled pilasters, Tue eastern side is given architectural prouinence by the au- is in the wioe by | Vancement of the coluains, with their crowning ) eutablarare, into the room, thus lorming « pecailar | Kind of canopy. churehes and | is dignified by some eiements of grace aud beauty | | and many more of utility. itis massive, yet aces | Rot look heavy; it 14 big and not rambiing or ap- rently incongruous in parts. In its construc- lon ali th asic Styles are used With success, Each story has an exterior design differing irom | the plans of its companions. The first story is of | the Tuscan order, the Doric simplified, massive and quiet. The second is supported by lonic colamns, the third by Corinthian and tie fourta by composite. ‘Thus richness ana lightness are | approacned by eusy aegrees, The fifth story is | the Mansard, ‘he massivepess and stability of the first story are emphasized by tue | enaracter of the facing stone used in it, which 18 Quincy syenite, darker of hue | than the granite of which the Temple is mainly built; aod this appearance of sturdivess in the Tuscan story is also beighteued by the aeptn | to which the Windows and doors are sunk, and | the consequent vola reliefo! the columns, pilasters | and buttresses. Tne Twenty-third street Jacade of the Temple has five divisions; a central col- ‘fhe stations in the West and south are treated in & correspondius manuer, though in @ relatively saboruinate degree. A azing light in the eastern wail 1s arranged in a hovel Way to effect its purpose. The prevailing color in the Tuscan room is drab, wa is a proper consort for the sober, sitapie, bul massive Sty.e of the architecture. ‘THE DORIC ROOM. ‘The middle room on the thira story 1s decorated inthe Koman Doric atyie. reference to urchitecture is the same as that of the Tusean room. The color of its furuiture, &e., 48 crimson, and nence tuere is in it a iustrousness which 18 Very pleasing to tne eye, Li is 0 feet wide by 62 eet 6 inches long. THB IONIC ROOM, ‘This is the south room on tue thira floor, and it is 26 feet 6 inches wide by 65 feet in length, the acter of its ureniteccure is blue furnishings. TH LIVINGSTON ROOM. Aroom on the Sixth avenue side of the third four, smatier than the rooms just described, is calied as above. It is 21 feet wide by 47 feet long, aud Sas atiached to it anterooms and ail otver requisite accommodations. It 13, besides, ele- gautly furnished, THE COMPOSITE BOOM. ‘This ts on the fourtn floor, immediately above | the Tuscan room, with waich tt 1s equal ‘in size. Its decoration ls of the composite order, and, iu Tespectto the arraugement of its columns and en- taolature, it 18 the same as the room beneath. It ts a very elegant apartment. The furnishings are Of an orange hue. THE CORINTHIAN ROOM. This apartment 1s lovated over the lonic room. Jt is the most richiy tgured room in the Temple, ‘nd in the future Will be the nest chamber in the mpie. Tne architecture 1s not purely Coriu- thiau, The Pompeian style is combined with it, The pilasters are ca ped with garianded imposts, The | decorations of the Pompeian order oceupy the in- umatated pavilion, constructed entirely of granite, | | and rising to a quadrangular apex. Flanking | this pavilion are two sections of tne building which are somewhat retired from tbe line which marks the limit of projection of the central sec- tion and of the two smaller pavilions which up at the angies of the Jagade. These retired tions are technically called ‘curtains,’ perhaps because they appear to try to hide themseives, ‘Their roois are lower than those of the pavilions; each has in its face four niches, in waich allego- rical figures are to be placed. The central pa- vilton i 50 t wide; the lesser pavilions are each 26 feet across, and the curtains have each a Width of 18% feet. Tne distance irom the side- walk 'o the matn cornice i3 94 feet; the top of the Maasard is 30 fect beyond that, and the summit of the Main pavilion is 165 feet above the ieve! of the curb. The Sixth avenue facade of the Temple isenclosed by two pavilions, one of which is the southWest buttress of the central section of the | Twenty-third street side of the euifice. ‘The apace between these pavilions, which, by the way, is heavily rusticated, 1s 46 1eet wide, and \s decorated with Dilasters to agree with the column of the front Oo: the main section of the Temple. The first floor of the Tempie is divided into stores, except two spaces reserved on ‘twenty-third street, one for the principal entrance, another being prepared as the office and safe room of a saie deposit com- aby, and an interval on Sixth avenue for a pri- ate entrance to tne building. | THE MAIN ENTRANCE is in the southwest “cartain” in the Twent, street fugade. It is approached vnrough a fine portico formed by a plain eucablature supported by four Tuscan columns, two on eith ide of the passageway. Un tue sidewalk in front of each pair of columns is & handsome pillar o! pure French bronze. Each of these pillars 13 fourteen Jeet high. avd stands upon a pedestal or asnlar of Tose-culored scoten granite, highly polished, woth are representatives of toe pillars Jacnin and Boaz, which Hiram, of Tyre, who “was filled with | wisdom and understanaing aud cunning to work | 1m ail kinds of vrass,” made aud set up if tre | porch of the ‘temple of Solomon. They were | modelled ater a careful study of the ce- | seription of their prototypes in the first Book of Kings and of the latest re- | sults of archwoiogical research. Their plinths, which are thirty-two inches square, are sur- | mounted by cushions. Out of these spring the shaits, each twenty-seven inches at its greatest | diameter. The lower portions of the shaits are ornameniéd with lotos leaves, semi-inciss Ap- proacning the capitals the shafts are ornamented with images of reeds, Tne chapiters or capitals of the piliars are decorated with pomegranates in wigh rehef and lines, A globe surmounts each shait, and is t io sort of basket- wor! ne giobe on tne pillar is marked with t signs Of the zodiac; that on the easterly pillar | Doric room. | leads airectly trom the main stairway bears @ Map of the World. rassing bet.een these | pillars, up the ves.iouie of the lremple is reacned. This is & Darrow apartment, buat long trom wail to wal. itisrich in adornment, bat ail | are of such shades colors that It would be | gloomy but for the light wbicn Doods it by refec- uuon from ine white ceiling and sides o/ the main irway. Itis wainseotted with arti-colored maroles; its upper walls are painted roon color and its ceiling is Mnely trescoed. 6 Visitor Will upon entering it at first not note these details, The eye will probably then be at- traced by two bronze Sphinxes, symbols of the awful secrecy belonging to the craft of Freema- | soury. THB MAIN CORRIDOR | of the Temple is reached irom the vestipule by & grand stuirway of marvle, which the Sphinxes | | guard on eitoer side, Tue walls between which bis StaIrWAY ascends are paneiled aud decorated | With slabs of Marcie of many hues, These walls are protected irom the hands and feet of careless people by slight hand ratis of bron; Tne bali | trade by Which the weli-nvle ot the staircase is | guaroéd ana shat in irom the corridor is of | bronze, handsomely figured and cuppea with alle | of Belgian biack marble. Tue corridor is 20 tees | Wide, 66 leet jong and 28 feet high, and 1:8 archi- tecture 18 of tve Ionic order. | 1s of polished raarbie, but the — upper walls sre merely painted white, Without | lustre. At Intervals in these wale coupied | pilasters ruu up to support brol eutablatures, | trom waich aprine comered 8, Which lave | panotied sides, but pian or curving faces. | This corridor, a3 well ag all the other hallways of | the comple, ghd the main gud pri staitoanes, | aF@ Oil construed in @ ffeproof manner, Tne eral steps that traverse the porch, | its plinth course — the decorations | | this ia a p: tercolumniations, and are surmounted vy a broad Irleze, which skirts all the walls, This frieze, when the polychrome decorationg are done, is to be painted in archaic styie, with a representation of the work of building tae Temple in Jerusalem. THE CLINTON ROOM is a small lodge room, iurnisned in blue, on the fourth floor. 1¢ is simiar to the Livingston room. THE EGYPTIAN OB CHAPTER ROOM, devoted to tne “work” of tne Mark and Royal Arcn Masons, is in the jourth story, just over the It bas numerous unterooms, which have been carefully planned tor the varwus neeas of the Masonic degrees by whom the apartment will be used. The arrangement of the anterovin is pronounced the mosi complete ever made. The arcuitecture throughout bas been designed with an accurate fidelity to detail, The room 1s 30 feet wide, 62 feet 6 inches long and 20 jet nigh, and represents tne interior courtyard of a tempie Of the time of the Prolemtes, surrounded With ias- sive columns having che loves capita and bearing a scrolied and reeded entadlacure, whicu is con- tinued around three sides o1 the room. The tourta side, or grand east, represents the entrance Jacade Ww & smailer Inner temple, to which the courtyard, of man enciusure, served in Egypt as the vestivule, ‘This tue temple ts moaelied after the style of the Yemple of Ista at Ventyra, and is enterca througn a portico containing two columns with the quaint and mys- terious Isi-neaded capital. Standing within this portico and im jront of the seaied door oue bas Vague conceptions of mysterious recesses beyond. This characteristic of mystery and of strength in repose is peculiar to the Egyptian aoove all otner styles. THE FURNITURE. The bronze seven vrauched candlesticks are placed on either side of tne portico, and the room is otherwise Itt by jets from rich brackets ot lotos flowers, piaced between the columns, at its sides and west end. altars of ooligation and of sacrifice, the chairs for the higu priest and suvor- dinate dyrnitaries and ihe furoitare througsout are tn harmony wich tae Egyptian styie. The poly- curomatic decorations nec ssary to the complcie rendering of this st will, whea Anished, farther enhance the grandeur and becuty of this room. THE COMMANDERY. The entire filth tioor is cevoted to the asea of the commanderies of Kniguts Templars ‘and the A. A. rite, aud is considered the most compietel arranged in the world. A tiled corridor, in piack and white mosaic, feet wide ana 18 Jeet loug, to au octagonal room 20 feet in diameter and vaulted in tent-like manner. Tue sides o: tals octagon con- tain doors leading to various apartments. The in OF eastern door opens into & promenade or Passage 7 feet wide and 4 feet High, which bouads ne asyinw of the Temple. ars asylum is 4i feet wide, 78 feet long and 21 feet hign and is desigaed in the French-Gothic style of the lourteenth cenwury. The canopred stalls alung two of ita sides, for the accommodation of the Sir Kuigtcts, are designed strictly aiter this fashion and also With @ view to comiort, The; e@ = =6constructed of black walnut, are elaoorately carved im high re- lief and ure upholstered im maroon leather. At the east tae statiums of tno Emineat Commander, Generalissimo and prejate are sur- moanted by a joity, groimed cano,y of five arctes, the centre arch being tue most prominent. ‘hese canopies are also covered with elaborate carvi and ioate tracery. A gallery extends acr the Western end of the room, on which is pla a fine organ. The ceiling 18 coved and panelied and is decorated with ornamental mouldings. | This asylum is lit by twelve coronas, of nine lights each, and, when iljaminated, presents @ jagoificent appearance. HE COUNCIL CHAMBER. The western the octagonal, tent-like Council Cham a room twenty-one feet wide by \uirty-five jeet long and twenty-one feet high. At the southern side of this room is & dais, upon which i@ @ throne, canvpied and uraped with a flowing Mass Of neavy purpie velvet. posite Woting of Christ as He appears al wansiguration, His feet aad hand iz ing wounds. Tis be {ilumimatea from pe- hind by lights pat in a smail cioset, ‘The Strangers’ Parlor, together with numerous otuer small aod requisite apartments, are all laced in conveniont contiguity witu reference to | he Octagonal chamber. THE BANQUETING ROOM. Thia apartment is at the north of the andis ia arcaed early Norman atyie, It im 27 fe wide by 59 feet long anu 21 leet high. Transverse giraers divide the ceilins inte five bays, rom nh of whied har ya @ corona of ie corniee aud window heads ylam, In a Similar panel, opposite to this | ut DOOK- | Its arrangement in | The | | and lozenge mouldings. Adjoining the banquet ing room to the east are retiring rooms, to the west is a capacious kitchen, completely equipped wirh ail necessary furniture. A special dumb Walter for the conveyance C1 pre- visions extends to the ground floor, A room Wit twelve closets I8 provided (or (he storage of thé banners of Uke various command: ries, : ON THe PLFTH FLOOR is also a large srmory for the Sir Knights made of black the: contaioiny 630 £000 e1zed closets Walnut, with plate giass doors. This story ts tare ther Jurnished most amply with ail the require: ments for the conferring of toe Various degrees of the Ancient and Accepted rite. Au iron step ladder leads from above this floor to the deck of the dome, from which @ magotticent panoramic view of (he entire city and tts surroundings may be obtained. GENERAL he janitor’s ,lving Looms are placed in the mez zanines of the third and fourth stories, and com. ACCOMMODATIONS, municate directly with the private staircase and also by Means of Alarms and speaking tubes with Various parts of the builaing. An elegantly fur uished passenger elevator communicates at every srory from basement to top floor. Bach door it amply provided with all the necessary touet ommodations, The heating and ventilanng apparatus 18 located partly 1a the basemeat story 1 the building and in the spacious vauits, 30 feet wise and 100 feet long, unuer the Sixth avenue pavement. iu the javier are situated the coal bunk capable oi: storing 209 tons @& coal, and two ftudular boilers, each 14 leet loog und 64 inches im atiameter, where sit the steam required jor the heaung of the entire buliding, and propeliing engioes, and pumps, &e. is generated, Within the building is the valv roo, Where the engineer hag under p18 lmmediy ate control the steam supply of the various alg mbers and rooms of the buiding. In omer riinentsin the basement are placed lhe h Weil” ior Condensed steam. the engiue for works ing the elevator, the fire pumps, by means of whiich the water tanks, havin: @ cupactty of 60,000 = gailons, situace immediately veneath the roof of the building, are Supplied with water; aud two vertical engines, one jocated near the west end of the building and Une other ar the extreme east ena, Lo propel the powerful (au Wheeis supplying With pure air the wit chamoers, and also to create an arcificial Ventilation when ound requisite. ‘The whole sy | tem of heating and ventiation, devisea vy tue L architect, has been thoroughly tested at all | Seasons and has proved a compiete success, ME GRAND PARA The preparations ior the grand procession te precede the dedication of the massive Masonic Yemple on Wéduesday, June 2, are how appro ing completion. Part of the above is a very venlent purase fitted to be used in the advance of almost every public event, In the present tu- Slance Il means merely that the gentiemen who are to guide the long line of Freemasons in tue y jon through the city have made ons as they can, and Low jor ume to” Make all thingd nt Worshipiul Charles Roome, been appuinted the Grand Mal column, bas issued to tue erait @ them as to their dispositions . ‘Jnis circular preseribes has shal of the circular iistractt on tue day of dedication, Lue dresses ol (ue participants 10 the parade, aud Warns jodges wad cOuMmangeries that punctu- ulity Is Necessary lO Lhe Keeping of the places 1m coilimn assigned to them veiore the parade. No body of Masous, Whatever its impurtance ia ths crait, Will be permitted to enter the ine gltem the hour apjoluted for it to assemole with its fele loW orgamZauions, The rule bas been adopted that the latest In regara to time mugt be latest im reutien to JSSING FOR THE MARCH, The Marshal nas also announced that no brother Whi be allowed in tie line who 1s not dressed, ac- cording to the prescription of the General Come- mittee, with dark clothing, a bign black bat, White gloves and @ plain While apron, uniess he if aKuigut templar. Inthe latter ease, of course, he will wear iis showy unitorm, ‘The Past Mas+ ters and oMicers 0: lodges will be reqaued to wear their jewels, either clasped or vanging roi | Dive ribbons un vhe leit breast, Yhe lodges wil a tO Carry eltuer their staves or ban- co person in the coiutin is expected ta Wear adedicauion medal, either of gold, suver or | white inetal, rhe G 4 Lodge of Massacousetts will be in she | procession in a iull boay, or atleast very well | represented. Del»gatious irom the Massachusetts Commauderies of Kaights Yempiars wii also take part in tue parade, and two of them Wil bi mounted, A commandery of mouuted Koights Iroin Washingtoa will uiso form part of the pa- geant, Lesige these there will be delegations of | craltsmen of the Blue looges and of the commane | deries of every State in the Union, Among the special guests of tue Grand Lodge will be five delegates trom the Grand Lodge of Engiand. T! Masons of the A t Scottish Rite will have piace im the procession, though they will not be permisted to have any part in the dedication ceres moni they are recognized as Freemasons by tr aftsmen, are represented in the Grand Lodge, but ‘direct communication 18 Sele tad with them, As the aresses of Blue Lodge Masons will ve in unvorm, and, as Kaiguts Templars, the Royal and Select the | Masters, and all the crafismen wno have worged | beyond the iourth degree, will wear their full Pee | gd the procession wili contain aii tue elements 0 | | | | A RICH SPECTACLE. Brilliant colors will be tn abundance, though tone@ by tue soubreness of black ciovning, apd 10 spite of the iacé that one of the lodges are to be per- mitted to vear their banners. The spectacie ia Jane, 1871, when the corner stone of the Masome ‘empic Was laid, Was the grandest Masonic display that was ever seen in this country, belore we Spectacie Wich accompanied the cedication of the Masonic Temple in Pailadeiphia about a year ago, tat which will oe presented iu the streets of New York on Wednesday next, will oversnadow the latter display a8 much as it darkened all displays that preceded it. ‘The special order of the components of the pro- cession is Lot yet periecied, but ina general way the arrangement of the ine will be as follows:— First, a detachweat of police uader the command) of Inspector Dilks, who ls among the bighest im the cratt. The Grand Marshal, R. W. Cnarles Koome, will foliow the police in a carriage, while the warsial of the day, KR. W. H. Clay Preston, with his aids, will nead a fine array of oe Templars, many of whom will be mounted. They will number more than 5,000, Following the simple Knights will be the members of tue Conmandery of this state in carriages, and bear- ing aloit the graud banner of their Order. Them will come the Supreme Council of the Ancient Ac+ cepted Rite, composed of craitsmen of the Thirty: tuird, escorted by the members of the Thirty: second degree, After these will come, in the succession as thes are name: he Grand Council of Royal and Se ject aasters, the Grana Omicers of the Grand Chap- ter of Royal Aron Masons, and Master Masons with the Grand Master and orher oMcers of the Grand Lodge. The Live lodges wiil terminate the processiou. The members of these will be formed in twenty-sevea divisioas, each section contain. img about 1,000 men, The Brooklyn iodges will take up LWO of these divistons, whieh will be UR der the marsoalship of Major General Woodford, Jo the position of honor, at the head of the columa of Blue Lodge Masons, and immediately alter the Grand Lodge, will be St. Jonn’s Loage, No. 1, the olaest Masoulc orgauization in ths jurisdiction, In the front of this jodge will oe borne a reli¢ which ougat to be regarded reverentiy not only by Masons, but by every person who snall witness the procession, It is the Bible upon which GEORGR WASHINGTON MADE OATH to be loyal to the people and the constitution of the United States when he was inaugurated Pres- ident ithe old City Hall On Wall street. Thit Biole was printed in 1767, and bas belonged to the st. Jonu’s Lodge for more than one aundred = its typography is promment, and it is projusely illustrated with guaint engravings. It is strongly bound in leather whose original | brown shade time bas deepened so that it has come nearly a maroon color. The leaves of t book are now stained and aiscolorea, bur none them are cut or missing. An elaborately em graved frontispiece adorns the book, amd a well engrossed fyicai oetore the frontispiece recorda the fact whica gives this copy of the sacred Writings @ spveciai value in the eyes of all ven. erators of Washington. The folowing is a copy of | THE INSORIPTIO: OOO LOCC OOLELE LE OEE TE LODE ETE LOLE OODLE LE LE, Op the ib w GEUR The first President of to support the Co’ of the United States. This imporiaut ceremony was performed by the Most Worshiptyl Grand Master ot ‘ree anid Accepte | Masons ofthe state ot Sew York, the Honoraple ROBERT LIVINGSTON, Chancellor of the State! Fame stretebed her wings, and with her trumpet blew, Great Was 3 What title 2° \etone; bis name aion Decne ne re relate rt ELE TONE PETE L OLE LE TOTO ELOTE: RECEPTIONS AND BANQUETS. The three days following next sunday will be periods of festivities among the Masons of this city. Every lodg guests oa Gas tant places to entel n, and they will treat them With ail that hearty good will which auimates the craitsiven in thelr dealings one With anotuer. On Monday night receptions Will be given by sever lodges to visitors Who will then have arrived, nave some on Tuesday these informal meetings will be con tnued. Aiter the first session of Grand Lodge, which will be heid on Tuesaay afternoon, is over, Grand Master Thorne will iormally receive, in the Grand Lodge room, ali the officers and repre~ lodges of otner States sentatives of grand and countries, the officers of the Grand Chapter, the Grand Counet! ‘al and Select | Masters, the Supreme Counci—Thitt gree—and Grand Com: dery. At this recep | en, woreda will begin at eurnt o'clock im the even. tickets Will be distributed to all the guests 0: | Grand Lodge to admit them to witness tI | ceremoutes of dedication. On Laesday evenin Palestine and Morton Commanderies will ai ive entertainment to their guests. On Wedner day night, alter the parade and the ceremonies 0 dedication, the Grand Lodge banquet wall take pl tn Irving Hall. Deimontco has cnarge ot the preparation of this dinner, oi which 1,000 persona ere eXpected to partake. nail as to be | bandsomely decorated wita Masonic ners symbols and with various fags. At thé same | will be given vy commanueries ty-third de ee