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

Total valuation Of west side, from Cedar street
TO Fulton street, In 1870. $685. 500
III, valuatlon-in 1s2o-in 1859 would hardly have
paid the rent OF the topmos floor to say nothing
twenty, thirty forty ffty Thousands demanded for
the nrst story-demsnded and paid by business
tors OF business and brought back profits
trade en- sros ct en- deaI similar metamorphoss has
ooen wrought on the back streets west Of Broadway
upon tract bounded by vesey street the SOUTH by
Canal the north by Broadway on the east and
BY West broadway the wssby the increasing cry OF
trade FOR more room At no matter what price business
palaces OF splendid Grecian ensemble have by
magic whore urked In lars aud dens and held high
carnival and building lots have In this region doubled
owing partially the fact that the tract rests upon
y sandy bottom suitable for storage cellars but prn-
cpay TO the great commercial fact that all Manhattan
must NJ isxt be given up, no matter II at fabulous
prices, to the needs OF trade. wholesale retail.
Where the comca Burton played Toodes and In the
receipt o. Caudlean ssrmonods from the commu-
NEGATIVE Mrs roodles there will DO more playing Of
Toodss forever; and In ten years theatres and
opera houses win have been driven at the point OF the
bayonet beyond Union square-all New York below that
point having Inhabitants except policemen after
ociock IN the evening, or at least none who can afford
70 attend theatrical representations About 1850 the
broadway theatre emigrafed up town, though Castle
Garden and PsImo's Opera House still popular and
fortunes began to creep GU, o her s,
IN Nassau street and for themselves palaces In
so, ,o An ma sncs men Park row rom Broaarsy TO
York and not OF New York only but OF America, and
not Of America only, but Of the whole world Here,
from three In the atsoon 70 three At night sit quss
GsntleDsn, with passion for scribblng VINO arc quite
aware 81 midnight Of that which will thrill aad sarte
ne whols metropolis as breakfast rssicent hammered
grave, impersurbabls gentlemen, whose squanimity
nothing shakes, noe even the ssaassinaon q Pres
dent; gentlemen who would stand with the utmost
cooiness upon volcano and take accurate and minute
notes or its breaking out; gentlemen 70 whom .
orsce OF erscuions upon the same gallows Is
simply pair " pubic spectaces, something 70
90 whipped into the very Of reliability, or, in
other words something TO be skilfully adjusted the
bridge OF the popular nose; gentlemen, In fact who "
hundred batteries were trained upon Park row. would
regard the whole IS the mersst matter Of news In
snort u being their business to collect, colats and
sometimes 10 manufacture facts-faets to them
simply facts without Individual bearing or peculiar per-
sona interest," Tor the true Journalist feeling only
pepper bssprinking his story herewith for the
sake Of rendering it paatabie Enough how
ever, OF Park row and its newspaper palaces
a Illustrations OF 0rogrsss Newspaper msn
simply ths private secretaries Of life and busi-
ness and have 20 part or lot except to jot down the
movngs 70 aud fro Of the two their losses and crosses
JAngles and mistakes
But besides extending Broadway In the var Of length
business has extended In other dlrsutions has dug
forty feet under ground and gone into the air and
seven and eight stories and here table Of
buildings erected from year. In far statistics
are attansbis assumes the phase OF an illustrative
necessity.
1884 TO 1867
IL only pssslbe 10 collect accurate figures OF about
nneesn years OF progress From 1894 10 1s<7 the fol-
lowing table represents with mathematical accuracy the
number of adincap OF AL sorfa nj.