The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-03
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND NUMBER or vIsiTYRs
AT THE THEATRES.
The Condition OF the City-What Is Needed
Up Town.
TO TILE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD.

constant reader Of the HKRALD has the message
OF Mayor Wood on the subject OF employing tho
Central Park this winter, and approves the suggestion
The park be improved cheaper than ever after
! judicio,isly done. impioy tho six hours day
and pay them accordingly. They can't we'll make iuii
day at that time OF the year. have further sugge son
make None al the stree u above Forty sixth street
either graded severed for the simple that
no such job can be done until some dirty Alderman
make something out of it. No man can build on lots
while they can be had cheap The consequence Is that if
inan wants 10 buy few cheap lots and build cottage
nc has no place to cote but Brooklyn. II risks
build the grade Is altered and ie finds his house fec,
above or below the grade. You
between Forty sixth and Fifty ninth street were persons
Of moderate means ruined, because some one can
make good job. Now all ,e streets and avenues from
Forty sixth to One Iundrcdth street Ought regnlai
ed aud the grace established lth, had been
done ago the whole this island would
veiea With pretty cottage sites, with Two to ten lots attach
ed As 1t s the moment yosct above where the streets
would be very oplorune to hASt done nov whom peo-
PIE are seeking homes Tor men n moderate means. Ii
this not done there viii bc exodus BROOKLYN that
viii astehsb you,
The that you buy ten lots in Brooklyn, beaut.
fully situated a. near Wall street Forty second street
iot the price oil lot on this island, and when
are grated regulated ana supplied with gas attracting
the attention OF good many just Why tho people
this island between forty eighth street and One Hun.
gas than they have in Oregon The certainty that Brook
iyn y to have better system Of than have
and Is soon IL have good water ours, already
tracing the attention OF business Brooklyn To-
caiYes within an hour each way and from business.
Two hours ~ US much time u business man can well
spare III day IN gong and returning to business. Ii
New Workers don't mind Brooklyn will be- the surrey side
Of London.
You will ask me how this is TO be done Let the Legs
aturc the first thing they do pass a law to issue n
million OF state stock, more or less, and aa,lsorse
the Croton department to 10 the work aud employ
ten thousand men, ami the State 10 receive its pay when
the city has collected the the work say
two years. Il be done cheaper than ever The
city has creait ana the state has. This put an end
Tor time to tue petty swning that has exhausted
treasury. There and the assess
mclts for the opening Of which were paid twenty five
years ago, and that have been recently opened paid
Tor again.
repeat that this should be done and the grading regu
lated by the Croton department ana kept at the grade IL
you deem these ideas worth insertion do Ii they do
nothing but suggest plan they will have done some
service. The practice that prevails OF sewering
street Until the houses are bait each side repre-
hensibie. The covered blasts expensive, aud the
houses Jared materially to lessen their value.
Forty street is point where the wer has
10 be blasted most Of the way.
CONSTANT READER