Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-08-02

even at S26 each they would stretch from
the City Hall Park to Forty second st. The
cabinet work and furniture in the court
house and county offices, came toS2, 817 soy.
Allowing $4,000 per house, this sum would
furnish, thoroughly, nearly three hundred
houses on Fifth Avenue, from Washington
Square to Thirteenth Street, on both sides oil
the street The same amount would put two
parlor suites at $500 each, and three bed
room suites at 5000 each, into every house
on Broadway from the Battery to the upper
end on both sides, and enough would be lett
to furnish in the same way every house on
Third Avenue from the Bowery to Seventh
Street, on both sides.
Mr. Charles Nordhof, late Of the EUening
Post, moved by natural feeling of curiosity
to see the splendors thus lavished on sin
gle building, visited the new court house.
and reports his observations. He found 1t
only less shabby than the City Hall. Ii has
been scrimped, as the builders say, at
every point, and TO look at it, one would
suppose the county authorities were the
most economical not so say miserly men.
1t is furnished very plainly. Mr.. Nordhotf
thinks S75, 900 would be an extravagant
estimate OF the value of all che furniture IN
it. The cost u the county was 81 $40, JOS.
/ There is comparatively little plasterIng, and
what there is, is of the poorest quality.
The walls are dirty, dilapidatet, in shame
1 full condition generally. Yet Mr.. GarVey's
/ little bill for plastering was over S268 900
! besides several hundred thousands more for
repairs Mr.. Nordhof thinks ne could find
plenty of plasterers who would gladly have
done the job for 800, 900. Lastly, the books
show an outlay of sos, O2l for window
curtains, shades and cornices that IL nearly
/ 500 per window But Mr.. Nordhof could
not find a single Gu rtain in the whole build
/ ing, and he went into nearly every room.
/ Tie windows have common linen shades,
working ON rollers. The total cost Of
these shudes, at the extravagant price Of
+ SO per shade, would be Just Sl,36o.
The Times continues to push on the col
umns Of figures with which it is storming
[ he Iammany stronghold 1t shows that
nearly "a million and a quarter Of dollars
were drawn from the city treasury On account
of plumbing and gas-ftting in the armories
and the county building during two years.
The Tammany managers attempted a small
defence to these damaging assertions. The
+ first response appeared as an editorial in the
+ y y. Leader, and was a simple reiteratiOn
of the old allegation that the Times was mad
and malicious because it lost the corporation
+ printing, and hat its figures were surrepti-
tiously obtained To this the Times replies
that it voluntarily reIinquished the printing /;
and that the question atissue, is not whether
the city owes George Jones a bill, nor yet
whether the Tunes Obtained he damaging
I figures from dishonest ez-employee of the
comptroller The question is whether the fig
ures are accurate whether the public money
has been stolen as alleged
Mayor Hall also makes reply over his
own signature but it VIII hardly satisfy
tax payers The nut Of it is in the following
sentence
The clsim5 alluded u by the Times are
LARGE and they may have been ex1rbta0t,
but 10 responsibility for them really rests
with either the comptroller or myself They
were all audited by the late (aud what Is
known as the oldl board of supervisors.
abolished when the new city government was
lnaug9Taled, ana most p tn auditing oe-
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