Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-05-25
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM OUR PHILADELPHIA COR
RESP0NDENT.
PHILADELPHIA, May Is, 1872.

PHILADELPHIA, May 10, lSI~.
DEAR AMERICAS The cool days of this week
seem very refreshing after the sultry weather of
last. Then it was ranging among the nineties,
and now but 20 deg. and even lower The change
is very enjoyable. Still everything is parched
and dry. Rain is very much needed, and unless
we soon have some, the result will be iniurious.
severe dry spell, with hot weather, in densey
populated cities, like this, causes almost us much
suffering Il cold, hard winter. From all parts
of the city We hear the cry for water. That
there should be any want OF supply indicates
want of management somewhere. With fine
supply Of never failing streams near us, there is
no excuse for it, except it be the want of enter
prise in developing the same. New York carries
her Croton forty miles, why cannot our city
bring hers ten
pearauCc Of cleanliness. The Sewerage Co. hav-
ing had its contract Rnnulled for non .tulhlment
of duty, the Board of Health, never very active
in the discharge of their own duty were COM
PEELED by the popular outcry of press aud people,
to take hold of the matter more energetically
than they are accustomed to generally. They
say ''every evil has its accompanying good" so
that of the c. s. W. Co. has had its good in
awakening our heretofore slumbering Guardians
of the Public Health
The contractors are busy upon the excavations
for the public buildings, and are now taking out
the earth in the 5. w. square and filling up that
part of the northern squares now to be used as
street, and which were dug out last fall when the
luul uuIlIIlS pau WIS contemplated. NOW, rs
you know, it is to be one grand structure upon
the Intersection. 1t has its advantages and dis
advantages. 1t blocks two tine broad streets
but gives fine avenue upon all sides of il. To
my Idea, II seems relief to our usual regularity
of streets-a kind of departure from old beaten
tracks. The feeling in reference to the matter
has, undoubtedly, undergone great change. 4
year ago the opinion seemed TO piedOminate in
/ favor of sour buildings. Now, what is known as
/ the Intersection plan has the undoubted prefer
| anp fine hui int N fhai int .fn-i.
the new Masonic Temple fast approaching
/ completion, near it-and one square north, at
4 Broad and Arch, two corners already built up
with fine churches-another being erected upon
one of the remaining corners, and, il is said, the
| remaining corner is soon to be used for another
and to the south-the Union League Academy
/ of Music and LaPerc House, aud upon the west
| corner, facing upon Market, the fine marble
! building of the Sd National Bauk-that part of
! the city will boast of unusual attractions in the
way of elegant buildings. The Masonic Temple
/ is completed upon its exterior upon its y. S. and
| f. faces, and the front, or West face, is being
rapidly hurried on. 1t Is an elegant structure,
and grand in its massive bcauty-strikng one as
if it were built to endure for ages. The ''church
corner" as it is called, at Broad and Arch, has
a striking feature about it, noticeable at first
sight, and that is in the color of the different ed
/ ihces. One is white (marhle), another brown,
the one now building, green, and the other
/ corner, Madame Rumor says, is to be blue stone.
The site of the new Academy of Fine Arts is hut
half square from this corner, being at Broad
and Cherry. The Board, it is said, contemplate
building at once, thus adding another attraction
! to that part of our city. 1t only needs a fine
paved street from Market to Green, upon Broad,
to replace the present rough excuse for one that,
for several years, has remained in its present
condition, with the ruts of the removed railroad
tracks still uneveu to make 1t one of the finest
. thoroughfares in the country.
Space and time warns me TO close. Yours,
OCCASIONAL.