New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-15

will not look expensive feature 40 they do now.
in truth, they not beautiful they sss thew
would not bsr@onize with the general diameter Of he
Park ~ 1t will DO five years hence.
IL will readily be imagined that 70 make so beau.lfui
aspo il is out of the wretcbed locality that wa.
to I've in 1853 large force Of men must have been
employed. From the commencement OF the work 4.
January of the present year, about 500 men iar.
assisted in the work. In 1859 4, ass wero EMPLOYED
the daily average being 3027; 90 that an enoruous
amount of money obtained from property owners bv
taxation, has been distributed among the laborn.
elnsses, and much want and suffering has in oooss.
quence been prevented. The extraordinary events a.
the present year, however Game near eilectIne Conn
pete stoppage OF the work; result that could no,
have been sufficiently deplored, since it would have
cost quite much to work MS 70 con,juas
il on ard the present skilled force Of officers and men u
distributed the country could probably never
DO collected together again. Ass there are only about
coo abores on the work. and half Of these ara eo
gagged in completing the last mile and half Of carras
road, and planting and grading the borders at either
sde When this piece shall have BEEN finished there
will be continuous drive of more than Fix miles
within the Park boundaries. The engineering work Is
assigned to four division engineers Cbilda
the supervision of Mr. Grant. The tile drainage sys-
tenn under Mr. George +. Waring jr. now Major In
the Garibadi Guard, a nost gratifying success and
sufficiently indicates to our farmers the true way Of
reclsiming wet land. Since Mr.. Warnings departure
for the war; the drainage work has been under the
charge of Mr.. James Gall. competent and trust
worthy officer. OF tho four transverse roads that crors
the Park, none are quite completed The two lower
ones at Sixtyff and sevenIy-nnth streets, are all
ready for the road bed and pavement the upper ones
at Eighty sixth and Ninety streets are in pro-
gress.
To manage great public work ike this, on which
en- average OF nearly 5000 men has been constantly
employed; To keep in view all the details strict atteu-
ton to each Of which is absolutely necessary for the
progress of the whole; to bring order and beauty out
Of the chaos Of 1853 has required an amount of ad
mirstrative ability which few men possess; and sls.
0lused may feel proud thata Legislative Commission,
assisted by bis rapcorous enemies could find absolutely
nothing TO charge him with, after patient and careful
scrutiny Of his acts. Ia fact the construction of the
Park in all ito departments has been characterized by
thorough system, efficiency, and economy, which has
commanded tue warm approval of experienced con-
Structon aud the general public. We hope in time 10
fne specimens of wild and tame animals coninedin
padtoeks, in the great European parks and speci-
mems of the principal families of known birds, 80 thst
we may have ss complete schools of zoology and
ornithology we seem likely TO have of botanical
specimens. We would also suggest that very popu-
lar feature would bs a model dairy Of the beautiful
Attorney cows at some point where g tasteful chala4
would harmonic with the landscape.