The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-06
Correspondence of the Press.l H
Matters in Nav York.

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Matters in Nav York.
NEW YORK, Mar. 5, 1867.
The Weather-Bridging Broad,cay-Hang-
ing at the Tombs-Building in Neav York
The Great Newspapers Waste of Water
Maine Clergymen in Brooklyn.
In my last, alusion was made to the inn
proved condition and spring-like appearance
of the weather. Since then, it has been DEM
onstrated that signs fail for we have had an
other great snow-stOrm and its concomitants
OF ice, slush, and mud, which have just come
to a termination in powerful rain, and fog
of the thickness they have in Eastport, Me-,
where, it is said, they cut it in squares with
"case-knife." Did you ever see New York in
process of convalescence from snow storm,
when the snow gets fully Incorporated with
the black mud, and, under powerful sun be-
gins to run? Broadway is continuous acre
of slush. Nassau street abounds in icebergs
and mud-puddles. Down Fulton street the
water runs in rivulets, and East and North
Rivers absolutely swell with the debris of the
street. Then observation-disclosures is the rub
See the black, waxy paste adhering to boots,
pants, skirts, &C., visible and invisible. Wit
ness the tall and gentlemanly members of the
Broadway Police squad, with mud up to their
eyes, passing ladies across Broadway between
horses heads, omnibus steps, butchers carts
and truck wagons. Never, till you see this,
will you have realizing sense of mud-inky,
greasy, everlasting New York mud. But it is
refreshing just about this time to know that
Broadway is to be bridged! At the intersec-
ton of Fulton, within a week, fine iron
bridge has been raised. At this point, where
such immense masses of humanity pass every
moment, it was found impossible to put up
bridge In the day time, and most of the work
has been done in the night. 1t will be finish
ed this week, and then, when Broadway is
blocked up and mud surges in its centre, the
pedestrian may ascend flight of iron steps
and get up Or down Broadway and into Full
ton street by an serial transit.
The evening papers of Friday afternoon last
informed the public that on the morning Of
that very day man was hung in the "Tombs"
That man was George Wagner. He was le-
gally cnoked to death for the murder of his
wife. About 200 spectators, including the re-
porters who get in everywhere, were present,
besides the officers OF Justice and force of
about $50 of the Metropolitan Police. wag
ner, who was about half dead with consump-
tion, died terrible death by strangulation,
the shock not being sufficient to dislocate his
neck. He was nearly five minutes in the
contortion of the dreadful agony. Another
-ictim to the laws stern justice, Charles b.
Manuel, is to be hung in the Tombs on the
10th day of next month.
The Board of Health, established by the
Legislature of last year, is to have extra pow
er granted by the present legislature IL mas
heen found absolutely necessary in order to
soo,,re the prompt execution of me asures for
,bo protection of life and the prosecution of
beoltb in the city of New York. 1t is aston
isbinghow for the sake of pelf, men will en-
danger the lives and health of others. A case
in point is a late report to the Board of
Health in substance that one S. NJ. Styles is
building block Of ten dwelling houses, with
bt0wn stone Fonts, on East Sixss-second st.,
Mthpug pool Ssto h fentirely destitute
Of adheaiye qualities. The wes&pn wall of
one 2f the houses fell down. about week ago,
whenthe floortrtmbers wefe being put in, in.
juring four persons. AuthseSalls haze to be
propped up to keep them from falling till the
roof can be got on to keep them together Tne
Board of Health have very properly ordered
the work to stop, the walls to be taken ao~h
and relaid with proper mortar a
The annual report of the superintendent OF
Public Buildings shows that the number Of