The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-22
THE NEW CITY OF LONDON.

4xxG GNkI w VI VG AVXN OVXNs
Elbow Room Wanted for Increasing POpu.
laulon AID Busine ess-One Hundred Millions
OF Dollars Proposed for improvements
doners Must Have An Entlre New Caly.
From the London Times, April4l
London s wearing out. The decay, happily ply
eica nor national ror o, ganc II s not the living com
mupty but the material abode which has aeted time
w, We want ss,S CITY j. y very alarming % discovery,
fact, could no. deceive ourselves would for 10
impossible 10 ride or walk naif mile in any direction
from 81 Pauis without receiving alofnl Impression Of
the realty Sad II 70 sacs thing, but present
London is no more calculated for the wants Of Us In
hsbtaDs those Of the empire than old London bridge
was for the a1c the river We cannot get from
street TO another except at dreadful cost OF time
and pstience ana the matter seems 70 become worse
cannet hold II is oue Of the principal dutes
Of the police 10 prevent the traffic OF the streets from
coming actual dead lock and nothing but coubina-
tion Of skill and authority would sum dseatange
another five ninues In short we really must do some.
thing and that the people have begun feel Just now,
too they have done considerably more in fact have
10 debate suggest pan an1 above ALL TO count the
coet What the results Of this ejaculation are, at
present, might beve been seen tue other day In our
columns; bt for fear the reader shod have missed the
import Of this prodgous speculation, beg 70 take him
through the items and explain what has been actually
tsktd sbout as required 10 make London just iiIle
Twenty millions won't do IT, II Ia scarcely evea es.i-
mated" that this would suffice, and all know the
taculty Of anson which such ss.ima,es poss.ss.
Committee cf the Metropolitan Board of wors tho
subject into consideration about year and half ago.
and rcpert has now been presented Which the Board at
one OF i's " ordinary weekly meetings." recently
enough to Take away ones bveah. There arc five and
forty ems mostly going by hundreds Of thousands and
lost IN y be rc bs peno,t n b osaas
fle,slb5zl (ses OFT ,6O5,, but gosnuates that the
met ne;sin6nsrss may, BY possibility, bs brought
Ga ,951. For this alcSsnce, TO be sure, the COM
uiittec would do good deai. They would build ten
new streets. not 70 mention branches, contnuations
vaducts and spT They would widen senty of
the old streets as 70 mike tho thorougharcs Ca
pacious and useful They would embaSk the Thames
north aud south OF the stream ali toe way between Lon
don bridge and Westminster; they would bay up tne
tolls Of Southwark and Waterloo bridges, expand Hunger
ford SUSPENSION BRIDGE and, finally form too entirely
parks fr the rec eaton II tie msrtp idn eommunuy.
These are the conclusions OF the committee what Is
and elaboraeiy appraised. When we come 10 action,
however, the thing different; and certainty does not
luiions the subject proceedings or 40 emnentv
neutral and preliminary character The plans were or.
cered TO DC printed 70 be put into circulation and to be
Ratepayers need Lot be under much alarm Tor their
pockets The question will be pretty safe 10 the bands Of
the "vestrs Of the metropolis, % which bodies Is has
been communicated; and If remember the sensation
produced by the great drainage CALI form t,era
Die idea Of the mpres likely created by the new
metropolitan Improvements3 scheme. For all this
however, there from the necessities our
position Sooner or later aud in some degree olher
every sbotkeeper under the like pressure prosperity
is fam to DO for himself We mast provide ourselves With
new premises. What done every where single sene-
m. mis- must some day be done the block. Ii all the
particular establishments double or reb their
business tbe street Itself be extendet too Tne re-
potof the Works Commit,ee is but of tho
tame facts ss are put forward by Parliamentary Teformes
What DO we meaa when We cay that there must oe
metropolitan boroughsS simply that there new me-
uopotan constituenciesnew aggregates of Iie wealth
and numbers and all these people want space 70 move
quite ss much ss they want iraDcss representatives.
Ihe !srang Lsndon ef 1859 eaet Le lodged IL The matas
1t is very awkward predcsmeut, beyond doubt.
Most people who have had TO ond or rebuild a house
resin unpeasant recolectons Of operation what
s 70 come OF The process WHEN applied to an entire cya
Such things have been done, cegtsnly. Moscow rose
from It's ruins almost as rapidly covent theaxe
and ev. the IMPOVERISHED Chinese rebuilt one OF their
perhaps, off.rs q precedent still more in poiat but
there Is DO denying that our solid, vast and popu-
any Il is ali the worse, in fast, for having BEEN os
kept out Of sight SO long, Cabs omnbuses vans WAGONS
carriages and passengers have been multiplied my fold
without al proportion ate Improvement in the thorough
fares Perhaps indeed streets ioss than
ever for is fedom that gas companies oompa-
nes DO net contve TO shut t~o three hs best of
them. We hardly know whether the present generation
can be supposed 10 recoec different state Of nioss but
to hear any body cay that he had driven down CSrnh
and London bridge without meeting with any mpsdi
me or stoppsge would be very Ike hearing General
Oelehorpe's story Of his havrg flushed woodcock in
Regent street
However, any consolation is wanted for this prospec
live necessity We can very soon give IT, II Is the
.
hrurk but that England has grown The explanation OF
be Whole embarrassment - to be found that table OF
xpots and imports which shows the pro1igous progress
u British trade, and In that census which tells us
nat le population Of the country doubled since 1911
house Big enough for family Of ten is small for
snlly OF twenty and city VIII ch would accommodate
million becomes inc0DveDieBI 20 millions and half
be principle at the bottom Of the osper than
na, when we baye repeatedly put before the public We
ire growing pation and with growth kind
row our expenses Is useless rttang toe thing,
or G. me 10 must and, II IT properly met, II need do
tte n0lm Inc pubic expcnd.se, strictly so called.
, bat ofe feature out of many II not ne most
hikpg of them, though II may be the most prominent
)ur financial economists kaco tho Increase of the
stmatas hecanse the carefully made up and
forcuey Scanned after year; but
en- oce, taxation aud, what mote, self axatou, has
OF Increased in far greater ratio than t. demands o
xchequer. Look at what done, merely by county,
owp, parish rates, but by voluntary sabscr ptlons
COX the amounts rsied for religions and phIanthro-
ca societies, for hospitals for Schools for churches for
institutions OF all kinds Look the asyums and the rc.
rea's or ipc aged the schools for tho youDR aud tho
ONES for the mbece OF the crippled which have risen
p under every denomination, and IN every variety OF
rchtecturn' TORN, along the lines OF our prucp rail-
sys Look aran, for the justification Of all tins at the
crease OF the national property the improved incomes
ON land, trade, and investments OF every sort sin-
e garce at the great figures on which reform
re bsstd VIII show that whatever msy the direction
the preponderance, the natou WHOLE ia thlu
vice ~ great and twice rich II y years ago
ms 10 pleasing fact but with Il ccft,n obI
auons and among them ls the duty Of adapting hab
atoms 70 our growth.
Court Calendar Ebss Gay.
30 Surnnas CouRr-Chcuit --pari i-Shors csusss
Iqo 246s, 2ss7, 2222 2oss 1900 2a2 1882 1907 4o2,
l0, S02i, s761, 1885, 3706, s1o9 3ets Psrs
a 70 Mortay, Aprii 25 Part 3Nw. 1881, IIay, lIc3,
bh7 1e33 1zeo ls7l 1773 17;p, 1881 7s5 l7sI iIsss
79i, 1897, 1899, 1871, 1893 1879.
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