The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-22

Whore the ships IN the dark nod to and fro,
And plunge Of the oarsman down under tho bay,
ns they Lodge man sras Who has netting 70 pay
just nothing whatever 20 pay.
Pennisss poets may sing AFTER this fashion, but people
from tho prospect OF lodging down under the bay
though the lodging be Afforded gratis and will generally
danger Of beng drowned in the poets suggestion,
though tho danger by greater than that OF
being suocated in the worst OF New York's tenement
houseA More inexpensive and more rapid communica.
ton from City Hall square 70 Harlem and further north
would obviats tho necessity for tenement houses
building OF them from being natter Of prSnt Usiil
this y had-quick. insxpeAdve communication with t1e
suburbs and plenty Of Mit cannot be expected that
commodalon Of this GLASS snsmspt hoass iodssr1 !,
70 Harlem bridges IN half :s an the s:
sxcsedng two cents, and that this possibility viii be
Translated into fact within the present decade IA very
under consideration; and whom American inventors
begin to think seriously something successful is
transit. the business Of any company which should
effect this desideratum would DO large that upon
Let not invention therefore, spare its Wits and tene
ment houses OF the worst class will have oppor
tunty to rot and mldew and tumble down Of their own
decay while poor people enjoy plenty Of air, and
pags.ntry Of nature The sight Of little green grass
has wonderfully medicinal efcc neuralgia tcnden.
cies or predsposion to general debility and why should
not poor people have opportunity test remedy
inexpensvep There reason, except In the drowsi-
ness and conservatism Of invention, why New York at
night should be composed OF SIX or eight layers Of
humanity corresponding its numbers Of storiss NO
reason except in .hs why the population Of The metro
polls should be limited 10 few cubic feet Of stale air
per night when there Is plenty Of air in the sub
II they could get al IL and get back again
time for the labors Of the ensuing day. New
York has built buildings enough since 1884. allowing
average of forty 'front.' have extended tse could
its tangled plaid Of streets DO unwoven IN uniner
rupied Broadsay from Bowling Green to Albany, with
out even an alley Of egress either sids short has
built buildings enough Of various yield hun
dred and one miles OF unbroken 'front.' hundred
and nfy and one half miles OF street, like Broadway,
making no allowance for crossings; and yet New York
Is compelled 70 permit the poorer OF Its Inhabitants
browse pallets OF straw under grouns, or In rooms
hardly larger than collins the sixth floor And New
York might have erected twice many buildings, and
there would still have been the problem, where shall
poor people sleep at expense fair proportion their
incomesS New York eau never solve that problem,
cep by sending half It's population ont Of town for the
night and bringing them back early The next morning
1856 As PROGRESS.
In two respects the year 1860 has scpssd all years
has b..D mad. IN The art Of sans than caus
any previous twelve in the history Of the city and
greater number Of buildings attended 70 subscrve the
purposes Of commerce and trade have been erected In
this last respect comparison Of The figures for 1890 with
those Of 1so3 1854 and 1895 will subcent for pur-
poses OF demonstration There were erected for
10 lso3................n 10 1s86............".. %
In 1894. In 1865. .145
vi one hundred and fortyeght stores aud gtore-
houses nxy-six have located In the Fifth ward
alone, the whole number commsncod exceeding BY
about two hundred per that OF the year before
Nearly every OF these structures been of colossal
proportions, composed OF the very best materials Of
every kino most OF them having marble fancy or iron
mark in the neishoorbood in which they are located
No pains nor expense has been spared by owners to
make these buildings both hapdsoms and sub,tsntla
though II s matter OF surprise not
been taken to render them reproof by the Introduction
Of iron floor beams starcases c instsad OF oak, pine
frfl.~
secured a tring advance upon tho aggregate OF
majority OF these storehouses and would have been
BE- gathered from the fact that Of the gigantic store
houses erected 1890 the tract bounded BY vesey
street, Broadway Canal street and Yves. broadway not
one safe against accident for the want OF having
ricd out these small details In building "details which,
In the erection Of vast and costly edinces Of no
comparative pecuniary Importance These buildings
conform In every respect 10 the rules OF
the present law; but 10 is TO be regretted that
their builders could not have been prevailed upon to be
little more than legal In putting them up III talk
about sagnation Ia business II comparatively noperA
tive while men Of business continue to begin and nIsh
year alter year. buildings which In ensemble really
paiaa and 70 which the application Of lpal-
ace no metaphor but as PLAN matter OF fact as is
sighted and never invests at random. aud, business
having built palaces during the past twelve months will
m ~ s1''s nnuns use lot mem .nousn
not have had little moro solidy. still unusual pro.
grsss has been made In this respect In the science Of
building Pasteboard structures utterly abooed
though perhaps pastsboard diamonds are not and not
one building was erected 10 1866 which In respect
TO safety aud solidy, was not advance upon 1895
while, on the other hand several edces have been I'm
shed which were In point OF plan, models, ~ measured
By The demands OF both science and art applied 10
construction. Among those buildings which have been
begun within the year and which will long stand ~
models may be mentioned the following:-HrsALD
Building, Ann street and Broadway: Metropolitan
savings Bank, Third avenue and Seventh street; Union
Dime Savings Bank, No 900 Canal street. Bovery Saw
Bank, No. 22s Grand street. School OF Mines Co
iumbs College: German Hospital Fourth avenue aud
Seventy ninth street: building OF Steinvay sons Nos
II aud 10 East Fourteenth street; American Jockey
Club, Madison avenue aud Twenty sixth street; New
York Museum Broadway, near T~eniy-nins street;
Pikes Opers House. Eighth avenue and Twenty third
street. and other buildings OF lesser note but Of hardly
less beauty OF design completeness Of execution The
nsnsxrd roof one OF the most graceful additions
made 10 the art OF Pailadio hes been element Of
nsariy sllthess buildings Three remarkable sdhees
stn remain 10 be completed, though not commenced
within the year, which must not be omitted In remark
ing upon progress IN this direction, vif-The new So
Paricks Cathedral, which minsss alder, middle and
Gothic With greater felicity than sacred sdlcs
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