New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-25
LABOR MOVEMENTS.
New-York City Industrial Congress
SECOND lEAR----1rH SESSION
SUPREME COURT Room, NEW CITY HALL,
NEw-NoRK, Tuesday, July 81. 1851 !
SUIT or CoRREsPONDENCE-REPoRr UPON THE PARE

RESULT or coRREsPoNDENcE-REPoRr UPON THE PARK
QUEsTIoN-DEBArES, ETC. ETC.
Daniel Willis, President, took the
chair and Henry A. Guild, Secretary called the roll
and read proceedings of last meeting.
DELgGATES-Mr. George Z. Clark and Mr.. WIN.
H. Lindsey, from the Engineers Institute" pre-
scented their credentials and were admitted.
LErrERs.-The Corresponding Committee mere
read letters of inquiry and cOngratulaon from Joliet
H. and elsewhere, in relation to the spread OF refor
matory sentiments and issues, and the Committee
were directed 10 respond to them.
RFPoRrs-Messrs. Barr and Young from the ma
orty of the Committee upon the subject OF the con
templated new Up Town Park" presented the
following Report, when on belng received was ue-
bated and adopted.
Your Committee, to whom was referred the sub
jecs of the contemplated up Town Park" report,
that they have been unable 10 ascertain the parties
dehnltivey interested IN this proposed speculation,
without devoting more time to the examination. than
would be consistent with their other imperative busl-
ness engagements, and further, that the original pc
utlcn which has been published in the daily papers,
and NAV be found IN The Tribune, affords the nor
nation on the subject required, rs to what interest,
dictated the movement.
Your Committee would further report that the act
recently passed authorizing the Common Council TO
purchase the Park, makes 1t obligatory on the dis
met Immediately interested to pay one-half OF the
expense Of said Park, leaving the whole City to pay
the balance aud thus "A certain degree obyate, the
objections at hrst raised against the scheme.
Your Committee, however, believe that II the CITY
Fathers really wish 10 accommodate the people IN
tby purchasing vacant squares IN the more th'ckly
populated districts. One-half the sum this Park
would cost will, expended this way give us better
Accommodations than Ould the creation oil the pro-
posed new Park and bring 10 our doors the blessings
proposed instead of sending the people IN search OF
Them seml-occasionally for the space of three
months They think likewise, that N all iuiure time
the creation OF such places of resort for the summer
months should be associated with convenences ior
bathing that the body polite may be washed AS wen
as aired and that other meritOrlous improvements
should he Sttperltfed-such COnyeH.enCeS lOr "A
dlaught OF cold water favorng Temperance, and, not
lnhaTmonousy herewith, all such Other improve
ments as tend 10 cement the interests and hopes OF
the people. They can only esteem such improve
mentS oCTable any event. IN so Tar as they Dehe-
tit the whole and lean 10 the welfare oil That many
upon whom the burden OF their expense must iall
And they cannot refrain from expressing the nope
and desire that all after projects OF TINS KIND, tha
reference shall be had 10 the measure OF value that
the people Of the entire CITY VIII have III the rise
of lands and lots, whether real or assumed, IN the
ueiahbOIhood Of such Parks and elsewhere Nor
would they fail remark, that justice to the many
can never be attained or approached unless the ~
ture IN the value of the nnmpro'ed lotS OF Ie
CITY is made 10 enure 10 the benefit OF It's people,
either by taxation upon them, as common fund
for the common good equivalent to an interest upon
the assumed N value OF thell, or Oy iol ihl1a
ton laws and a sale of them to those who Will I'M
uroye them or by a purchase Of them al their pre-
sent or ruling value the part Of the cry, ana the
subsequent leasing OF them TO builders upon them al
such rates as their increasing value VIII warrant
f,rI1 time 10 time from whence 70 create fund for
the support Of the unfortunate and those necessarily
thrown out OF employment from the unregulateu ma
ture Of commercial States and The rapid increase OF
machinery 10 perform the labors OF communities
WI WI J J. F E5FSa COMMITTEES.
Mr. lanes 5. smith objected 10 the adoption Of the
report The Park was the offspring OF the specul4t-
ing joobeTs IN human misery Oh " 81, "o
ueCied By taxing the laborers Of the city UNDER cooI
Of rtblc spnt and improvement, a sum sunlcleh' 70
put II III condition TO reap thereafter mliilons, .,
money n the rise Of land that would thehce o. helt
To have occurred, and IN rents, WINE nine pdI'so
The reople who would have 70 pay for the fdfk ahd
tbs rise Of property IL high rents, would out se1on.
be enabled 20 reach or see II, from poverty anu wan
OF time 10 spend While those : 40 clu no pay 1oi '
lived lluon The laDoIs Of the many, Without equiv
aleuts In return would ENJOY Il. IL was 700 remote
frctn the center. too one entire " ara tha "ouu nc
bcvly assessed for It beng four miles from u AT ths
nearest. A. he understood lAe Jaw "cus - -
10 were 10 pay Cnehalf the expense OF the a'A' @
he f-fh was not within a cannon shOl Oh u. IL.
Nr Fayr said the report was the best the Cohilhh'
tee could make for the emergency aii1 NJ
S,th IN relation 10 the eth Wards probable assess
wert Wards ~ 10, II and ~ we're 70 pear Ohe-hiIl
IN p,opor on to proximity Of property and the resi- Oh
,he Ciiv tie balance, II the same pfoporloh' aH1
nice talT-eplliti1g project TWAS ..4..
Dr. Young knew little a. TO the particular inci-e.s
o,tfe thing and had slgned the report IN lhe spiii.
ofcorpromise. The expense WOULD DC az tne We. ~. :.
tie Uany as usual, and the pleasure ana Ine Pio4.
81 Te heIne bass TO the few, ana 70 Ihe fcdl eS@.S
bclfers Of that Part OF the City, and IN we
nrce Of rents and land al the CITY We should
never attain exact justice IN such mas1eIs, o.. 'i
BENEFITS Of the Park and the increased VdIudl.ol "
lard thence arising after deducung the asses,
Tor is creation and the value Of the land IN anu leai
Il al the tine ought TO be the blessing OF the naH5
.ec;,Iation vas allowed 70 render the ownership VI
he natural elements and the natural ana necessG
gTowth Of the population, the means ana .ng he
Cation OF wrong 70 the people twas ine ne and
sT,Ser again taxing the fly IN BODY ana sou h ~
mb fcT The fatality Of falling INTO the net e TAU
himself set for him
uyFrxrsHED BUSINESS. ~, c.o,,Iv m
IT.. ,,..Dohls and resolutions Of hl. row e =.
me ed licensed at the last meeting IN .s
tion 20 Industrial Home Associauo'i'' '-"'
for consideration ,,.,a action upon the part
M Cro~ly aep sssinst these Homestead organ'1i