New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-02


feet and class averaging about 20 by 20 feet
each The fourth story is for the boys grammar de-
par,ment 1t is I6 feet high and will have the
number of in the third story. The stairs will
be Of stone nclosed with faced brickwork To secure
ventilation. the outside walls of the building hol
low and communicate by Aues with every room. The
several departments will be supplied with Croton
water and gas also, with bells and speaking tubes,
connecting with each room. The total cost Of the
building will be $4,000. 1t is estimated that It will
ACCOMMODATE over 1000 pupils.
CAR WISDows.-Did anybody try TO raise or
lower window or blind in one OF our city with
out tearing the skn of his hands nearly pulling
the nails from his fngersl Did any one
his seat after vain struggle with the refractory fast
ener. without many internal mprecatons7 OF all the
small inventions with which the present generation
perplexed we verify believe those patented az window
Fasteners are the most vexatious and the various style
are az numerous astherwOrkDg is troublesome. Ever
inventor and every mechanic seems 10 have tried hi
hand at a window fastener each one improving upon
the other hetor,urous instrument to have been
perfected in all ts temperrufng details. Specimens Of
all the wndow-asteners that ever invented pat
ented and put in use may be found in the city cars No
two of these popular conveyances supplied with the
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whole time on fourmiIe trip persuading his window
to stay up, and becomes finally familiar with that
particular style of window fastener he sooner gets
into another ear than he has got to go through the
same labor with fastener of another form-one still
further perfected in diabolca cOntrarness. They
contrary contrivances-if you want your window up,
il il sure to be fastened down tightly to defy all
your srenpth-if the conductor raises it for you, it is
sure 10 come down by the run, catching your hat or
smashing your elbow in the descent. fyour window
ia I'D and the cold damp draft through it killing you,
no degree of force can induce that oonounded window
fastener to let 90 its hold of the casing, and you
Obliged to submit to the certainty of bad cold to be
followed by consumption, with the best grace possible.
II is pleasant, too, to find your window hopelessy
fastened down. while your next neghbor is in beast
" state Of drunkenness, reeking with the filthy fnmes
of bad whisky and stale tobacco You try 10 get ont
TO the open air, but the is crowded and IT is i'm
possbe-so Won obliged TO inhale the noxious air
of a crowded car, where the breath of One-half the
passengers is laden with the perfume OF liquor and
the remainder poisoned with the sickenng stencil of
tobacco You issue from the car, hasten to your din
ner. and find your stomach turned wrong side up,
because the car that brought you home was supplied
with window fasteners that wouldn't work. Is there
no remedy Why cannot the railroad companies be
fasteners, and 90 back to butions-the good, old
fashioned, innocent and reliable window button of
infancy. Cheap and useful institutions are they, never
getting out of order, always ready when wanted and
doing their duty with an accommodating spirit not TO
be found in my of the new-fangled patent objection
ables. BY all means, give us buttons. We can stand
the lame horses the blind mules, the fifty passengers
crowded where twenty barely stand but here our
patience is exhausted, and insist on buttons
buttons as is buons-window buttons.
A STEP BAcKwARD-That the mechanical powers
may vet become obsolete, and all abor-savng machines
be voted "a bore would not be very surprising after
what we witnessed few days ago on Main street,
Brooklyn, where new building was being erected.
Instead of using derrick or pulley to hoist to the
third story the lntes required for the windows lad
der was placed against the building at an angle of
of about 80, and two sinewy sons of Erin employed
10 ascend the same alternately each with one of these
blocks Of stone on his neck and shoulders The blocks
averaged in weight about 40 pounds, and required
two men to elevate them to the neck of the carrier the
latter placing himself in a STOPPING position. Those
di,consolae conservatives who bewa the innovations
OF the age may henceforh take courage and be OF
good cheer
CLEAN STREETS AND DIRTY STREETs.-Mr. II. A.
Smiths street-sweeping machines have, within the
last few weeks proved equal TO the task of cleaning
the streets of New-York. Thousands of the people
living in the vast tenement buildings on the eastern
side of the city have been in the habit of disigurlng
the streets with ashes and garbage which, in time
mast were allowed to remain undisturbed, TO poison
the atmosphere rendering 1t dangerous TO the health
of the community. This habit has been long fostered
by the extreme neglect and wifu carelessness OF of
feials who were superabundantly paid from the City
Treasury to clean the streets. MIR. Smith had at the
expense of private individuals operated Broadway
for long time, with great success and that was per-
hans the only cleanly-kept street in the city When
Mr. Delayan came into office City Inspector, he de-
ernined to have clean elsewhere well as in
Broadway; 80 he engaged Smith to apply his ma
chimes to the following downtown thoroughtares:
Chambers, Warren, Murray Park place, Robinson
street, Barclay Nesey, Dey, COurtlandt, Pine, Lib
erty Cedar, Fulton, Wall Nassau, William, Broad,
Pearl. Front, Water, Ann, Spruce, Beekman, Chat
ham and Park row. These streets being satisfactorily
swept the City Inspector resolved to try the expert
mcnt in the much-ne elected uptown localities The
machines were set to work in a large portion of
the Tenth, Ninth, Eighth Seventh, Sixth, and Fifth
avenues ON the side of the city, and to the Fourth,
Third Second, First, a, b. and avenues on the east
side. The work in some places, was one of ainics,
excavation Shovcls and scrapers We're used, the
machines followed after and after several subsequent
applications II was decided beyond all doubt, that If
Iu,peeor Downing would see to it that the ashes, gar
bage and decayng vegetable matter We're duly col
ected hv the ash-carts the machines would do their
leqnac duty satisfactorily. Yesterday reporter
tr,Ve'ed over most Of the avenues and other main