The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-02-16

MEETING STRKnr CLEANING ConnrssIoE. Tho
ssrves LEANING Commission met yesterday at tAa
Mayors onlce. and made tho usual semi-montly pay
ment TO Contractor Whiting. Mayor Holman suggested
the weather fair and the principal thorough
NJ. Whiting should At proceed the cleaning Of
broadway and the Bowery. The contractor stated that
in that regard ana was now making Tor
the complete publication Of these important streets.
THE HARLEM BnDox.-Ths proposals. received for the
construction OF the approach" 70 the bridge
rsa Harlem river wore opened yesterday at two p NJ,
at the Office OF tina Commissioner, ~ the Morgan iron
works. foot of Ninth street. The structure 70 Do
inclined piano OF eighty feet In length and nteen feet In
height Al ito highest part, connecting tho end Of the
Ss - vsanrs ws so Of sod one on
either sde supported by wooden and iron pling There
were seven proposals offered or these that Of Mr. John
Roach accepted being the lowest rendered He
tracts TO complete the work In three months at the fol-
lowing charges stono masonry $40 per cubic
wood piing, psr inesi foot, 81 cents iron pling Der
pound ~ cents; earth filling, per cubic yard, 10 cents
ExHnIrEoN OF DABoLL's Foo ArrARArua-one of Da-
bolts Rotating Fog Apparatus was yesterday exhibited
In the building Of the Ericsson Calorc Engine Company.
This invention Of the Mr. Dabo which consists Of
huge trumpet sounded by means Of compressed air,
has been in usen this country during the past
years. and lie value 10 now being recognized by the
English government for whom the builder Ia construct
ing apparatus OF immensely large dimensions. Those
attached to caloric engines whose work.
ngs are 50 simple ss not to require special engineer 70
manage the machine The blasts Of the trumpet which
can be blown onco twice oftensr minute 90
powerful that II 10 claimed that the sound Of the appa
stationed Sambro Light IL distinctly audible at
Halifax sixteen miles distant The average distance
however ct which the sound can DO heard varies from
ten 70 fifteen miles, and this the great point OF excel
encs Of the contrivance could mot we'll DO tested by
the gentlemen who yesterday gathered TO examine ito
construction. STILL from I'll appearance, the invention
Is valuable one and likely to DO duly appreciated by
the jurors OF the International Exhibition, whittier
Of the apparatus is 10 be sent
DARING RosBERY IN THE Custom House lon Thursday
evening information received a the headquarters or
the Metropolitan Police that daring robbery had been
committed In the basement Of the Custom House few
hours previous. Al two o'clock Paul Crossing. a lad
aged fourteen years. was sont by ha employers Mssss
soman 4 Edge, OF No. IL south William street. TO Q
bank to draw $500 Alter he had ostsinsd the money
tho lad accosted at tho Of William and Wall
streets ~ stranger who offered him twenty-five cents
" he would deliver b letter. The boy consented and
followed the unknown TO tho basement OF the Custom
Hosss bailding, when tho stranger turned upon HIM
and drawing pstd presented Il ct Gronings head and
threatened 70 blow his brains out II he gave the ALARM
Tho thief then seized upon ihe money and escaped
Enorts Are being made 70 secure his capture.