The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-22

present LeSisiature authorizing the city o.
New York to issue S2,O0O,0OO of stock in the
shape of loan, to pay of the debts and liabili-
ties incurred by the law Of 1843 authorizing
the corporation to buy in the real estate for
feited for non-payment Of taxes, which law
was subsequently set aside by Judge Edmonds
peals. This nice little plumb pudding Of
S2,O0O,000 is anxiously watched in the cook
ing, and everybody expects to get handsome
slice. But we shall see how far the members
from the other parts of the State will permit
themselves to be humbugged and hoodwinked
by the Peter Funk lobby members from New
York city and their hungry friends.
TERRIBLE CONDITION OF New York What
is the condition of our city-its streets, ito
avenues, its markets, its wharves, its side
walks? With oil cur boosted prosperity
and refnement-our palatial hotels, where
our republican ladies and gentlemen, for
three dollars day and extras, sit at tables
and march through saloons and corridors
that shame the Louvre and Versailles
the moment you venture out of doors you
are painfully reminded that you are in the
worst governed, the most unsafe, the fllthiest
and most uncomfortable city in the world. If
you get into an omnibus you will be coolly de-
tanned by the driver until his vehicle is full, and
then you will run the risk Of having your pocket
picked. or, if you are lady. Of being grossly in
suited by some drunken rowdy. Venture into
rail-car, and you find yourself standing squeezed
like rcd herring in box among fifty or six
ty people in car intended only for twenty or
thirty. Here you are trampled on spit on by
tobaccochewers and suifocated with the fumes
of dirty bodies and whiskey-swillog stomachs.
To avoid all these, 60 out on foot, and the first
thing you will encounter will be the prepare
tions for new building, which entirely occupy
the sidewalk and extend half across the street,
compelling you to wade through the mud round
brick-pile at the risk of being knocked down
by democratic cab-driver or having the pole
of an omnibus driven through your body. AS
to those immaculate policemen, with til cir uni
form blue surtouts and gold buttons and stars.
we have read Of them, but we have not vet
heard of the lucky individual who has seen
them.
In the lower part of the city, and even in
Broadway itself, the mud and filth OF the
streets are at this moment frightful-- moon
ceivable. Complaints are daily pouring into
the Office Of the Chief of Police, who
can DO nothing but hand them over to the
Street Commissioner. He will do nothing, be-
cause the streets are to be cleaned by contract,
and ne has nopower in the premises. The May
or can do nothing-the heads of the executive
departments shoulder the responsibility from
one to the other, until at last it is tumbled in
to the mud and disappears; and the Common
Council wastes its time and the peoples money
in manGuvring to see who shall get the first
grab at those five millions Of public plumber
looming SO temptingy in the distance.
What is the key to all this mischief? Simply
this: there is no responsibility anywhere-and
without direct responsibility no good govern
ment is possible. Every years experience 10
pressing upon us with irresistible force the con-
viction that, to have q good and efficient city
government, supreme power as we'll as SUI
preme responsibility must be vested in
single department or single Individual
We don't care Who this individual may
be. nor what his Office is called 80 that he
is honest, vigorous, and is vested with absolute
power to carry summarily into effect those daily
and hourly functions of government upon which
the health, cleanliness and good order Of the
city depend. All patchwork petty Legislation.
even by men ten times ADLER than any Common
Council that ever didsor is likely to exist only
frets and irritates the sore and exhausts the
strength of the patient We must have an out
and-out reform-a reform in the whole strac-
ture and theory of our city governmental re-
form that will sweep away all these innumera-
BILE departments and powers, responsible to no.
body but themselves, and jealous only as to
who shall secure the greatest amount Of public
plumber and in their place erect, on broad
and firm basis, single massive, simple system
OF practical government, clothed with absolute
power and charged with infinite responsibility.
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KosnA AND BIS Fnnps.- Martin Kass.., Hanga-
ri'n, upon who're shoulders tao men Comm In.
graham ano secreta Macy, have risen 70 fame which
hey coulo revsr have others achieved nss in this
ciy where Re has tesn living FOR time pet on the
charity Of some Of his exied patriots Hs ven. to
Europe to seoufe il rossbIe something from the wreck
OF his family estate but before he eould do he
relied al Smyrna liberated, and sent n 10 Aueriea He
anded a, Boston without Get. he vas 'exptesedr 10
Wa shpst where Harry was slsd to know ths' ns vas
rec and limited to him that 1t would be well enough for
him 60 about bis busters H- returned 10 New York.
having been obliged torsE tae money for h expenses
from foreign frieas ~ Washington. He had left
his trusts in Bostos ard again obliged 70 borrow
MONEY with which 70 obtain thom he secured bis trunks
and then took up bis rs,idenes -th hospit>bls Ger.
man ss Brooklyn He has mads many applications soy