New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-05
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northeast corner OF Seventh avenue and Thirty hhh
street is rapidly progressing, nearly two hundred men
| having Been employed upon the building during the
greater p.rt Of the past Winter The resr walls 300
feet) are already twenty feet high, ard the front walls
several feet above ground, with foundahsn walls four
feet thick TIE frat story beams are also se', several
weeks ahead of the time allowed in the contract which
vas ade with Richard Calrow jr esq, in the latter
part Of December last The building will have font
of 100 feet on the Seventh avenue and 200 feet on
Thirty fifth street II will DO three stories high. The
walls Of the fret story will be Of Hastings granite, and
above that Crcton brick with Dorchester sand stone
| trim mpgs The walls will be 81 feet high, and the
| peak CT the roof 81 feet high. On the corner Of
seventh avenue AMI Thityffth street there will bel
tower 20 feet square, and lOl feet high, in wnch an
asrm-bel is TO be placed.
The fret story will be occupied the artillery store
room; ;hs second story for the storage of muskets,
&C., sso for office. and the third story for driu.room
ur oh truced 1853 feet long by 80 feet wide and 30
feet high, the largest in the city, On the norhwes.
and southeast corners of the building there will be
towers Of octagon shape containing stairs ten feet
wide and very easy of the several floors and
rooms. All the windows will have iron shutters with
openings for musketry, for howitzers if
say for defense Of the building against mobs. In the
sye of the building the purpose has been to make it
both to be- and to seem in all respects adapted to its
purposes rather than to conform il to any assumed
standard Of aIcbtectu yet ia its main features it is
Romanesque. The cost of the building will be S63, 700
and, according TO contract it is to be completed by the
let OF October next it will probably be 6uished, how
ever by the first of September
Ntr State Arsenal in Brooklyn.-Tnis building,
which is to be located on the old cemetery ground at
the Wallabout between the Navy Yard and Fort
Green will be l2 feet long by GO wide, with two towers
II feet square projecting 10 feet The main building
will be two stories high the upper one of which will
be unobsructed drilroom full size of the building
The lower story will be divided to furnish an
artillery storeroom artillery driroom officers rooms,
&c. The foundation walls to the length of two feet
above ground will be of granite Above the walls will
be built OF BRICK with Dorchester stone trimmings.
The walls Of tower will be - feet inches high,
and the roof 46 feet inches. The other tower will be
20 feet high with its roodeck 81 feet from the ground
The general style Of this building will be the Italian
Gothic, with pointed windows in the second-story,
arranged alternately singly and in pairs. Dormer win
dows in the roof while the rst-story windows will be
narrow with lintels. LOopholes for musketry will be
made in the side walls and in the towers, and so ar
ranged as to guard the whole. Proposals for erecting
this new arsenal by contract, now being received
at the Commissary Generals Office.
Both the New-York and Brooklyn Arsenals are to be
faced inside and outside alike, instead Of being other
wise finished by paint plaster. The roof decks will
be timed and slopes slated These Arsenas as well as
Others n different parts of the State will be erected by
the money realized from the sale of the old Central
Park Arsenal sold last year.
The Con mssionen having the erection of these
Arsenas under their supervision are InspectorGeneral
Bruce, Adjutant- General Townsend and c, C,mmissary
General Waid. The architects Mesrs. Cleveland
& Bachus Brothers of this city.
CENTRAL PARK The competition for the prizes
offered by the Commissioners of the Central Park for
the best designs for its regulation and establishment,
closed on Thursday last. Thrty-three designs were
offered ard are to be decided as possible.
From what We can learn, there has been very unex
pected amount of labor expended these designs and
many of them are mertorious as works OF art or as
specimens of Typographical drawing Three Of the de-
signs are accompanied by models in plaster or clay,
which are intended to give more definite idea of the
formation of the Park than be obtained fro any
but the beet Typographical map. There is a rumor
that the Commissioners of the Park propose to make
public exhibition Of the plans for the purpose of inter-
esting the public in the matter and incidentally for the
benefit of unsuccessful competitors, some OF whom
have expended large sums OF money in embelllshlng
their designs. The New-York public have such di'-
trust Of ali official proceedings that it is WELL whenever
practicable to afford them an opportunity to express
Il cir views questions Of public interest. Webeleve
the Commissioners of the Central Park to be, as yet,
more thsn usually free from this disrust, and IT is de-
s1able that they should remain similar plan OF
exhibition was last year adopted with reference to the
designs for the Government Offices in London, and the
result was in every way very satisfactory. Much in
erest in the matter was displayed by the puoc and
very large sum was realized for admissions.
A Cool BURGLARY.-The residence of Mr.. Mills
No. IL East Twenty y-nibth street, was burgarlousy
entered on the light Of the th of February last under
cjrcrmstarces that are not little remarkable in them
selves, and which show the GOODNESS, courage and
adroitness of our city thieves in marked manner
There had been funeral at the house OF Mr. Muls IN
the early part Of February which was largely attended,
and il s supposed that the thieves took this oppor
tuDity to minge in the crowd and examine the mouse
| WELL The house was entered about o'clock IN the
morning, by means of nippers. These implements
strong that the key in the second dooI beyond
| the vestibue was bent. After opening this door, the
outside, that in they pursued they could
lock the door and stop the chase until they got off,
The burglars-for to all appearances there two
| Of them-then entered tie parlor and lit the gas,
| and prepared themselves to examine the house
| thoroughly. How many rooms they entered IS
| not known; but they finally found their way to
the room in which Mr Mills sleeping with lis two
children, who occupied the bed with him while bis
| wife was absent IN Washington. The gas was burn
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