New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-03

ceuts pound for the net weight Of beet, wmIe some
very good cattle for retail butchers sold for less than
Sc a pound. The price of mutton and pork is also
down very low
Trs STEAM Ptow.-Fawkes's steam plow, which
for several weeks has been exhibited by the American
Institute was shipped Yesterday for Illinois, and the IN
yenor follows it.. The plow is to be exhibited at or-
bana, Decatur and Cenraia, the three points desig-
mated BY the Iinoi. Central Railroad Company,
according to the terms of their award. On the COM
Melton of the third exhibition the Treasurer of tho
Company will pay Mr.. Fawkes the 81 500 premium
awarded him bv the chosen Committee at the late Ma
tiona Fair a; Chicago. We hope that now the hurry
of fans is over the capacity of the machine viii be-
tested on plot of one hundred acres, or more. We
are informed that largest engine-budlng firm IL
about 70 send their Superintendent to witness these
trias
WATER CARrs.-It would be well for our new
Street Inspector TO adopt the style OF water carts
which are in use at Chicago Instead of AN ordinary
cask, resting horizontally on cart frame-the only
street spinklers known to New-Yorkers-our Western
friends have an upright tank, which will hold per-
haps twelve barrels of water, placed ON high four
wheeled platform The sprinkng pipe makes semi
circle around the tail of the platform, and the cons-
cradle head of water from the high tank sprInhles a
wide stripe of street at once and thoroughly that
the dust il laid for a long time The tank is fitted with
a tight wooden to prevent stopping, and tho
whole thing is drawn by two horses.
UP-TowN InPRoyEAENTs.-Amongt the noteworthy
uptown improvements now in progress is the immense
Pano-F Forte mandatory of Messrs. Stenway Sons,
on Fourth avenue, between Fhy-second and Fifty
third streets The building, which is now ready ID
receive the roof has front of 300 feet 10 inches
Fourth avenue, is 40 feet deep, with extension on
Fiftyhrd street of l65 by 10 feet, five stories high,
with basement The style of architecture is modern
Italian, with brick Intel arches, brown-stoue trim
mings and brick dentel eonces. The building, Of
which Louis Burger il the architect, is very sub.
stantial structure, the basement walls being groued
brick work two feet thick the rst-story walls twenty
inches and the remainder sixteen inches thick The
main structure eleven lots, and the yard conan
ing the drying buildings, the vaults for boiler engine.
and fuel take in four additional lots. One of Corless
celebrated 50horse engines, similar to the by which
The TRIBUNE presses are driven, has been
contracted for, and the most improved machinery
adapted to the business will be introduced The estab
shment is 80 arranged as to divide the manufacture
into two parts. The piano frames will be made in the
part of the bu'ding fronting Fifty-hrd street. and
lofts fronting on the avenue, 20 that piano will be
commenced in the basement on Fy-third street, and
pass thence through the various departments up the
roof where the vanishing located; thence
it will be passed ON a little railroad to the action
and tinishng-rooms, receiving additions passes
from story TO story till it again reaches the first floor,
when it will be complete and ready for market. The
heating Of the rooms and the seasoning and drying Of
the lumber used in the mandatory will be effected by
steam and the gas used in the establishment will be
manufactured the premises. The cost OF construct
ing the buildngs will be about SOS OO0 and the total
cost including ground and equipment Of the establish
ment will reach about 100000 II will give employ
ment to from 100 to 800 workmen, who will turn out
from 40 TO 50 instruments per week In order that the
lumber Of various kinds used in the factory may be
properly seasoned and prepared for use, it will be
necessary to keep about two million feet constantly on
hand, involving expenditure of from $4,000 TO
$4,000. The establishment will be ready for occupa
ton about the Isl of January next.
Messrr. Steinway q Sons commenced business in
this city seven years ago. in small rear building in
Varick street, making piano per week, and from
this small beginning they have, by their industry and
devotion to business, gradually reached success OF
which they may well be proud.
Messrs. Haiues Bros, piano-fore manufacturers,
are erecting factory at the northeast corner Of
Second and Twenty first street, TO be used in
connection with their present building, the opposite
side OF the street. II has front Second avenue Of
lib feet and on Twentyrst street Of 40 feet, and is
four stories in hight above the basement There are
2GO windows in the building. II il heated by steam.
Seam-power being used in the manufacture OF the in
struments IL will be conducted from the building
to the old one by subterIaneous pipe. When CON-
ploted 200 workmen viii be employed in the sstab-
lishmen,. The estimated cost of the building is
$l5,GO0.
large addition TO the Jackson iron-works has just
been constructed, extending nearly from the Of
Twenty-eighth street on Second avenue TO Twenty
ninth street, and thence Twenty-nn street lG0
feet making 537 feet 'front.' the depth throughout being
50 feet. The building with this addition and court in
the center cover 26 lots. The building will DO
used for finishing the heavy work of the foundcry.
DISEASE PRoDUcED ny SULPHATE OF QuTsrsE.-
In communication TO the Academy Of Science in
Paris NJ Chevaler etates that the workmen con-
erned in tie manufacture of snIphaie Of qninine are
subject outaneous eruption, and also to peculiar
fever. The cutaneous eruption III some instances rs
very severe; not unfrequently il oblges the work
man to remain away from his work fortnight,
month. or even longer It'll, and sometimes it makes it
necessary for him Geek other employment.
The fever has not been observed in the manufactures
Of France. but only in that Of NJ. Zurmer at Frank
fort and there chiefly in those occupied in pounding
the bark. This fever, also, may be severe as 10