The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-05

That eye-sore to all who have the commerce OF the
city and the maritime interests OF the republic at
heart win be rejoiced to learn that two men ana
very small boy at present engaged In rebuilding
wharf 20 East river, which has been permitted to
'organize" itself into half dozen rocky islets,
some OF them at low tide impertinently showing
their heads to the astonished sea. When the two
men Zone OF whom seems to have lost the right arm
and the other his left and the small boy have
regretted the pier In question, 1t may be oncialy
pronounced an ornament to the city.
The gold exchange nuisance at Castle Garden
which was SO exceedingly accommodating to nm
sophisticated em,grants as to give them paper for
gold and silver and at pretty little shave OF two or
three per cent on the prices In Wall street. has been
reformed. We are assured that emigrants who are
kindly taken in and done forn In other respects
now get the full market value N greenbacks for
their money. Honesty south OF Wall street. "can
such things be and overcome rs like summer
cloud without our special wonderr'
The Park Commissioners should cause to be con-
structed an immense hall In the lower Park as
large lbut In style more ornamentaD az the skating
rink now In course OF erection on Third avenue
where, during the winter season thousands could
assemble and listen 70 classical and popular music
on two afternoons In each week, and at other
times enjoy the dance under proper regulations
why mott
Those Dodworthian Saturday afternoon concerts
which the Park Commissioners have caused to be
gwen on the Mall the seed for which the Sixth and
other avenue railroads did not SOW, but notwth-
standing meanly reap the harvest, will soon be
brought to close The weather is now becoming
too chilly and too uncertain for women and children
to stand In the open and listen to music however
ravishing, however divine.
Is 1t net about time the several thousand cart loads
Of debris which cucumber Beekman and Clin streets,
n the immediate vicinity of the ruins OF what was
once st. Georges church, were removed or In pur-
chasing the old graveyard and building did the pre-
sent owners have conveyed to them also, In fee SIM
pie the right to obstruct important carriageways
the serious annoyance and loss Of those doing bust
ness near bya There have now been permitted to
remain for months huge heaps Of stone piled several
feet high and nearly half way into the roadways OF
the streets named, while the loose, pulverzed lime.
lying In heaps on the site Of the church Is, during
the prevalence Of high Winds blown about the neigh
borhood to the injury and inconvenience Of every
body The attention Of the superintendent Of Police
and also OF the Street Commissioner is called to this
standing nuisance.
What has become OF the bridge builders Have
they given up the idea OF constructing grand cause
way from shore to shore OF the East river Is the
concern, body and unmentionabes, Knocked end
wise by the ferry companya The fact is, the wsest
plan that could be adopted would be to build broad
and substantial sea walls, with gate ways wide
enough for the passage OF ships from New York to
Brooklyn, and within these make basins for the re-
ception Of vessels Of every class. On the walls
could be erected massive storehouses.