New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-19
LAO Gas Lamps,

and l, 0s7 Oil Lamps.
The street lamps are required by the Ordinances
be lighted every night, from one half hour after sun
set until half hour before sunrise, except when
the moon ia fifteen minutes above the horizon
The Common Council having the right if they judge
proper at any time to require all the street and leyee
lamps to be lighted during the same time specified
for market and public square lamps by giving notice
at before O'clock p NJ, at the Office Of the Gas
Company.
In regard to the provision in the contract, provid
ing for the lighting of the lamps other nights than
those provided for-when cloudy weather exists-I
would recommend that resolution be passed, giving
to the Mayor and Street Commissioner the necessary
authority to the notice to be given conformaby
the necessity may be- the Common Council alone as
the law now is-can give that notice and cause the
lamps to be so lighted. There are many nights, in
the winter especially, when in consequence of this
defect in the law, the city is shrouded in total dark
ness for many hours, and the inhabitants left to the
mercy Of thieves and villains who nfest this metropo
lis during that season.
The security of the public, and the convenience of
citizens and strangers, demand that the lamps of
the city be lighted on all nights when the moon is
obscured from any cause and l am convinced re-
form in this particular would be source of satisfac
ton to the entire public.
would also recommend to your honorable body to
make, at an early day, some adequate provision for
front Of the CITY, There are no gas lamps, and but
few oil lamps-which are entirely useless-upon the
wharves, and comparatively none upon the levee,
which are lighted. This state Of things has existed
for length of time and is scandal and reproach to
the Corporation. The extensive commerce of the
Port, the large number of passengers arriving at
night. and the officers and crews Of the steamboats,
and other vessels who are required to traverse the
wharves and landings are certainly entitled to the
protection which is afforded by a properly lighted
city. .5.
have been informed that in consequence Of the
sinking of the pipes in the alluval soil of which the
levee is composed, thss there has been heretofore
found much difficulty in gard to these lamps; this
may be the case but notwithstanding it is certainly
not difficulty which Is insurmountable. The revenue
derived from the Port, will warrant any expenditure
required for the accomplishment of an object i'm
portant to all who have business or interest in our
commerce. tf..r .-
MARKETS.
The markets of the city produce revenue annu-
ally of about $200O00 from which is to be deducted
| the cost of repairs, alterations, etc.
| The amount produced from this source of revenue
| since consolidation QS52) is as follows:
Sales of the Market Leases. OIL ,056 II
| Deduct cost of repairs, alterations etc.,
and including the establishing of the -..g
| Fruit Market, in the Second District, 1895 Sc
Amount produced nett 81 ,OO6,l 2O Sc
In the above receipts is included the amount &c.
425 from the sales Of the for the remainder
of the year 1857, Of the Dryades Market, which was
originally built under contract made with P. Irwin,
which contract expired on the LIST January 1857 and
the market then reverted to the city. The amount
paid p Irwin in settlement, under his contract, and
the cost of appraisements sl3036, is not included in
the above statement. s.a
The Markets belonging to the Corporation, and the
revenue derived from each for the year 1851 are as
follows: