The New York herald., 1868-05-06

The shove " the title OF Q society recently or
gan2ed In this city the aim OF which is thus set forth
In article OF ts constitutions The object OF the as
sociation shall be to do such things as to the associa
tion or its Executive Committee may seem for the
general welfare OF the real estate within the district
OF the city lying between Grand and Thirty -ffth
streets and east OF Third ayenue and for the general
Improvement OF the navigation OF the East river;
notice to amend by striking out the words .between
Grand and" and inserting in their place "south Of "
and striking out the word "thirdn and inserting In
It's place "nfth," being given last night Article
three OF the constitution thus describes It's person
nel;-"Ah owners or representatives of real estate
within the district mentioned may become members
OF this association by slgnifying their intention to
JOIN tne same ana having their names and address
written IN the books Of the association
Being mooe'ed upon the plan Of the West Side
business Of the association is Entrusted to com.
mittee o. dlteen, with power to appoint sub-c0m-
night was TO receive the report OF special commit
zee at the previous meeting to select from
tne ron OF members fifteen gentlemen Of TACT energy
as such executive committee Mr. Horatio Allen. of
the Novelty Iron Works. President OF the association
Gccu2,so tS sae cnar The Special COMMITTEES reported
son, p. D. Wright. R. NJ Lowber James R. Taylor,
EpRrem sed Mies 1HSr !r Harvey Cakins E. Rogers
".
Rowlands. Erastus w. Smith, Benz. +. Kreischer
and Andrew Mills. Upon reading these names
2 second time such Of the gentlemen as were pres
duties required OF them most Of those not present
peing 90 represented by proxy, but to prevent any
SSsr r. SrganSng 4 was the
any gentleman so appointed should decline to
serve, the balance OF the committee be empowered
70 seiecs an associate to MI his place. Mr.. q. M.
barnum secretary OF the association, addressed the
meeung concerning the desired improvements with
particular reference to the removal Of the oh.
ssaucnoas e s g. Hen Gate he contended that what
was most required to secure such an Improvement
was personal effort on the part Of some representa-
tive class; The citizens Of New York were too
had very justly remarked the opening Of this chan
nei N Vas , OF sucn great Importance, why was 1t
New York seemed 50 indifferent concerning it, An
item OF $S00 600 10 aid IN the work was not Included
IN the general appropriation bi but miserably small
as this sum was, even. 1t might be struck out no
was maae ebOs 70 secure its passage For
me Sa removal a. Of these obstructiops The press
its importance. For thelast three or four years not
week had passed without an article In the HERALD
referring to It, Individual efrort had been tried at
washington and failed. The speaker then went on
to state that he had recently called on General New
Stanton 70 survey as G General Newton had
Of the results He had conceived three projects for
opening up the channel here and had made esti.
mates Tor each In round numbers, as fOllows:-To
nee all the channels to depth of twenty-f0ur feet
would take six years and cost 900; to deepen
them to twentysx feet 81 600 0O0 to deepen all the
channels to twenty -four or twenty-six feet remove
the debris as fast as blasted build walls of division
&c, would take ten years ana cost over st. OOOOOO or
$S 600 000 according to depth. single ship camel
wenty-four feet deep could be sunk for less than
~ So0 oOO twentyslx feet deep for $2s4e.o0o. Gen.
era! Newton himself was understood to favor the
project first referred to. Mr. Barnum contended that
Congress should be Immediately, soon as could
be EFFECTIVELY mem0alized to make the necessary ap.
preparation, but this Il would not do unless sucent
pressure was brought to bear. II was not mere
local improvement 1t was work OF national i'm.
portance, and II those most interested would but
ag1tate the matter Its accomplishment would be easy.
At the conclusion OF this address, which was
pointed, lucid and f0rcible there being no other
business before the association for action the meet
ing adjourned. r ~ - ~ -