New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-22
THE EUSIC N THE GENITAL Pack.

The Sstur1ayeyesicg Concert in the C,utral Park
is becoming an iae persabe popular io.titutioa Of n,
city. The prosrsmme Of the Les. wss longer thsa
thst Of the previous ccEceTts aud the performs
which divided into three parts, occupied ses'ly
| three hour. The audience oonstsoty osssgisg.
ard Numbered at one time probably 1908 persons.
while twice that lumber must have visited tue goanl
curing the whos concert. a large proportion were
women END Children. who hsd come from the city by
the various railroads, tie O. which dlrsg ,bs
! Whole afternoon end evening ruoning oversan.
| There were however. nearly 100 private carriages
| in the Park most of which discharged their pas
sspg.rs at the foo. Of Toe Rambei few ca ne bys
cart path on the west side OF the Park directly 10 the
| concert ground Several Of our most opglens CT
r.rs. With th,ir families, we've present, asd largo
uun Der OF strangers in 10 Among the latter We
Observed the portly figure os .hs Hoe John w. Bolts
Of vugois. There an interesting group OF " or
30 guls lon some orphan ssyam, uniformly dressed
but for some tine freely dspc.l,g of themselves ~
the large rock ~ the east of the rEusic-sban'y.
Tie arrangements for the concerts have beeo chesP-
y extern poriSej and coussssimpy OF los psiTn
With half roof o. -orsh boards, furnished With d%A'
asd ferns for the bad and Of rough beard seas Tor
few hundred persons -he music should be ccnsidere1
ouIy as an adjunct Of he Rsmbie, aud 20 the m~'
must De, in the completed sense, "prorensde cos
cert" The position Of the band Is ylst oatS'ae the
finished ground, where standing Evidence can b
acccu mo i,ted without darge- 10 the lawns or oa-
oers. but 50 near portions Of The kamo. THAI PROV
ensders therein may enjoy the music. About h'e
minutes between the pieces, ant hiteen minutee be
tween the psr.., give intervals, in the longest OF
which. the most d.tant walks oftse foiseed ground,
Of nj II ~ a
vsnced stages, may be vited. A rus;i, summer
bouse has lust been finished whish is motc' of that
sort of work. inccnspiouou', grote"sue, substantial.
snd convenient. Ii 10 constructed OF kyaUzed cedar
logs The builder is Dir. A. Gerster, Hu.gaoss,
formerly CT lief Of the pontoon train Of NE Hungarian
army very beautiful bridge at H." head Of the
pond (which is to be to the vest Of che
Ramble excites much admiration. The de-
sign is simple round arch ilapkcd on each
EIDE by pentagond bays supported by simple
buttresses with an open-work parapet cf heaVy
stone The booy OF the bridge is of lsdt gray
granite qusrried upon the Park, the bays aad pNapet
of olive-colored New Brunswick sandstone and the
contrast Of coors with the play Of light aad shade
through the deep iucsions of the pTape', in the
warm besms of the setting on Saturday evening,
gave many visitors entirely new revelation OF the
beauty which 1t is the province of architecture to
cor lure out If stone. When to what now appears
there IS supersdded the shadow upon water the re-
Election npon water and the reflected light returned
to the stone fro the water this bridge will be worth
lcng journey to see. II was designed by Mr.. VGus,
and built by Messrs. Stewar, & Howell.
The cave or grotto which is near this bridge, s'so
attracts many visitors but is together with all tho
paths leaong to it, in entirely unfinished state, aaA
caunot be examined without much Inconvenience and
some apparent dagger.
WITHIN fifty yards Of the music shanty, some ofths
heaviest work of the Park is beiog all the while ener-
geticaly driven forward, and the carts pursue their
won,ed course and the BANNER rings upon the anvil.
az half that distance without the least nterrupto or
diversion on account of the muc or the CREST crowd.
This work also has an interest 10 many visitors, It
being the excavation OF tunnel through tue oe"-
tower rock TO accommodate the business traffic across
the Park drift has been pushed nom each side 10
distance Of more than fifty fee, and the parties
yo king face TO face expecedto meet the course
of a week 10 come The tunnel when complete, ~u
he about twenty fee. high and forty feet WIDE which
is probably wider than any other rock tunnel in the
country.
W. have already spoken of the excellent quality oi
the music furnished the public gratuitousy u. these
concerts. This was mere marked at tho last than On
any preceding evening. At the same time the choice
Of pieces showed ths,a loyal regard WAS had to the
popular taste Altogether, these concerts s1ord =
delightful promise and foretaste OF the cyzing in
auences which are destined, s may proudly hope,
10 uake the Central Park the GROWING glory Of oar
metropolis.