New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-08

new question, showing somewhat important
difference Of opinion, has lately arisen among the
Commissioners of the Central Park. There are a
great many people in the world who are nothing
unless they are crtical and though We do not
mean TO say that this is true of any of the ntei-
gent and excellent gentlemen who occupy seats at
that Board We think criticism is good thing,
especially in such places. A. in the French thcater
the oiaqueur is recognized as professional and
responsible person Of well-defincd duties 81 it
might not be amss in many of Boards of Public
Works, and other bodies Of official executive iunc.
iions to place an intelligent gentleman whose duty
il shall be to watch narrowly and find fault, OF
course conscientiously with the action Of the ma
ority. The work Of the Commissioners of the
Park is of q kind with which none of them have
had large experience, and such as has never be-
fore been undertaken in this country, on anything
like SO large scale. Were they all of one mind, or
all disposed to yield unhesitatngly TO any two
minds among them most familiar with the subject,
and therefore most positive in regard to measures,
the result might be that much would be done with
out due consideration, and mistakes made involving
not merely the loss of money, but what, in such an
enterprise, is of more consequencc-a loss of time.
We cannot think it, therefore, Il matter Of much
regret when We hear that the Board is at d dead
lock because two or three members cannot agree
with the majority, and stop the wheels of progress
by some of the various methods known 10 gentle
men of legislative experience.
The difficulty, at this moment, is in relation to
proposition offered early in the Summer, by one of
the Commissioners, that all the work upon the
Park should be done by contract instead of by days
work. A Committee was appointed TO take the
subject into consideration and report upon it, which
in dvc season they did, Messrs. Gray and Elliott
offering majority report adverse 10 the PROPOSE
ton and Mr. II. J. Dillon minority report in its
favor The latter closed with the following reso-
luton:
RO.ed Tha, the works for drain.se enhins aud irrisa
,he sison and Of ponds and sse aid
work. upon the Park unless otherwise specially ordered the
port h. Board working plans with Specifications for each Of
.uch wors'.'
This. after several adournments, was negatived,
Messrs. Dillon, Belmont and Field voting in its
favor, and Messrs Russell, Gray, Strong, Elliott,
Green. Buttertield and Hogg against it. Another
report was also made upon the subject by the Pres.
dent of the Board, but before the vote was taken
upon the resolution, which, as il went more thor
oughly into the subject than either of the reports
while il did not agree altogether with either of
them, undoubtedly had great weight with the
Commissioners.
The minority report of the Committee cOntended
that as nearly all the works projected, either by
the National, State, or City Government, were
executed by contract no good reason existed why
the Central Park should be an exception to the
general rule. The works upon the Park the
writer divided into: /. Drainage 2. Trenching; 3.
Irrigation; 4. Ponds and Lakes; 5. Roads; 6. En-.
frances, Lodges and other Buildings; Z. Planting
Of Trees.
In regard to drainage, the Board was reminded
that manufacturers of the tile were also contractors
for laying it, and as it was common thing among
private individuals to make such contracts there
would be no difficulty in finding manufacturers