New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-05
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
MARKET HousEs-PUBIIC PARKs-BsGIIsB AND
AMERICAN IRON.

PHILADELPHIA, ocpI V, lCoS.
The press may illuminate is warnings OF a
coming structure in the money market, amounting
- Bew crisis; the banks may cut down l'ans TO
the Old minimum; foreign goods may come IN IN
quantities beyond the ability Of the country to
consume, and gold may go out at rate that stag
sers all former precedsDt yet, in the face Of all
sach revelations, speculation does not die aod If 1t
did, would rot stay dead Like John Barleycorn
of old, it viii quickly set on its legs again. Now,
a. it IL possible that some of your fiery spirits, who
have thus far had the Broadway Railroad and
ether eligible investments TO slip through their
fDgers. might be induced TO dip deeply into some
ether speculation, not yet like the railroads, run
into the ground, would humbly submit that trip
20 this city, and an examination of the half dozen
splendid private market bOuses which have Just
been completed here, might be a means Of putting
money in their purses They have all been mag
nifcent success AID viii assuredly be initiated 10
every large city throughout the country. Those,
therefore, who enier first will bear of the bell
You know that our Corporation has abolished the
two miles Of sheds that for century have stood in
NArhet street, thus abandoning the whole market
kou,e business. and throwing it open to private
competition Some Of the sheds are already down,
and the remainder will disappear in few weeks
In the mean time, various private companies have
been formed, who have purchased great iots OF
srOund in the heart Of the city, cleared them OF
the decrepid bowels that occupied them aud thus
purified a whole neighbOrhoOd, and built up market
houses which have no equal on the continent, or,
perhaps, in the world. Some of them are 30 feet
long by $50 wide. Their enormous roof and huge
area remind you Of the largest railroad depot you
ever entered. Every appliance to insure thorough
ventilation, abundant light and warmth, with per-
feet cleanliness has been introduced. The floors are
paved the stalls are of marble and there are spa.
ciOus cellars below Beside the immense pu6hc
accommodation which these houses have shown
themselves to be. they have proved to be most
lucky speculation. The stalls are sought after by
all classes of dealers with avidity, and ate cold at
auction, the rent beitg 800 per annum on perpet-
ual lease. Last week sale was had in the new
Tenth street Market, at which the mutton stalls
brought premiums Of S2o5 over the annual rent
beef stalls, $500; veal stalls $40, and pork stalls,
$l55. Only 100 meat stalls were thus offered, yet
they realized premiums amounting to S2c,12o.
These prices were greater than the owners ex-
pected 70 obtain, and this has been the case with
the stalls sold in al the other houses The stock
holders thus find theft investment TO be far better
one than they expected. Now, / would seriously
call the attention Of your ewn projectors, speculst-
Ors and dealers in real estate, to the revolution IN
market houses thus sOiDg on almost at their own
doors. There is q wide field for Introducing the
system into New-YOrk and they can take bold OF
nothing which will pay them 80 well. If your
Corporation would give up to private enterprise
such nasty places as your Washington Market, Ill
ventilated worse lighted, and slippery with per-
petusl slime, and permit structure to replace it
such as any one of those in which we are luxurat
ing, they would confer vast benefit on both buyer
and seller. Your spectators should come here |
and look into the statistics of the case and satisfy
themselves. If they neglect the golden oppOrtun-
ity, the probability is that some OF us will occupy
the ground, and do the business for you. Did not
Philadelphia Clubs build the passenger railroads IN
Baltimore, Cincinnati, and St Louisiana who but
Yourselves shall hinder them from building market
houses for New-York BE advised in time, oh
Gotham.
While this inside revolution is going on, another
il in progress outside. An ample park, stretching
up the Scbuy kill from Paramount and embracing
awide extent of ground, is being laid out and put
in order. Though not more than half as extensive
as your Central Park, and not costing nth as
much, it will yet be a magnificent feature in our
suburbs Instead Of the rude hills and wild rocks
of the Central, never tanned into farm or garden,
Paramount Park includes the old country seat of
Robert Morris, the fnancer of the Revolution,
beneath whose ample roof the chieftsins of that
mighty struggle used to assemble in high debate and
patriotic conference. That country house is stand
ing there now surrounded by the trees he planted,
now large and lofty. Close by is the country resi-
dence of John Penn, even more beautiful than
when he gave to il the name of " Solitude" Other
farms are swallowed up by the park, on each OF
which the lawns redeemed from the forest, and the
orchards planted by the gentle spirits who once
possessed them, still exist, beauties which shall
melt into one grand design. Beside securing great
room for public recreation, this undertaking, by
shutting out from the Schuykl all the debris from
cutters, sewers, and factories, which will be dis
charged below the DAM places the future purity Of
our supply of water beyond all danger of contam-
nation William Penn foresaw no such park as
this. Yet his comprehensive mind provided five
entire blocks on his city plan for public squares
Most of these for many years were used as Potters
Fields, and contain the bodies of thousands who
persisted by camp fever during the Revolution, aud
by the desolstng yellow feyers of the last century
All these have since been planted with trees, now
grown TO lofty dimensions, and in their green sods
and graveed asles the prophetic dreams of the de
parted Penn are fully realized. Lovers stroll
through them by moonlight, and gray squirrels,
strangely abundant in the midst OF our crowded
population, sport confdnRly on the grass, petted
and fed even by the schoolboys and rowdies. But
the new park will far outriysl these little interior
breathing spots, and though not costing the millions
to be laid out on yours, will yet become that of
which any city may be proud.
A signal col frmstion Of the comparative worth
essness of Engish railroad iron has just been made
known here. Some three years ago the Central
Railroad Company of Georgia, who were about lay
ing their track determined to apply practical test
to the rails they used, and to make It full and decl
siye. The Company obtained from one the most
celebrated English iron masters enough rails for
one side of the track extending distance of manJ
miles. For the other side of the track, rails of
siniIar pattern were procured from the phenix