New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-22
A NEW MARKET POLICY.
SHALL THE BUILDINGS PASS INTO PRIVATE
HANDSf

| THE WORL)-OFFICIAL REPORT OF TIE IN
vESTIGATEG COMMITTEE ONTIIE EIGHTEENTH
| WARD MARKEr-FRAUDs DISCLOSED-TnE
MARKET-HoUsES TOO FAR DOWN TOWN
| SUPERINTENDENT DEYOE FAYORS THE CO-oPE-
RATION PLAN.
The finest market in the United States will
be opeled for business purposes tomorrow az the foot
Of Thirty-fourth-t North River. It is market con-
Quoted by priyat, enterprise fitted up commodously
and with taste II will open under advantageous cir
| cumstances, and yith fair chances OF success
Alderman GelsWl mako a report to-day concerning
tho frauds OF the Eighteenth Ward Public Market TO the
Board OF Assistant Alderncn. Aldermen Gcls Il Char-
man Of a committee consisting beside himself, OF Alder
man Coddneton, appointed last May to investigate the
cause Of the Abandonment OF the Eighteenth Wafu
Market aud the frauds connected with IT'S CONSTRUCTION
Tie report shows hat the difference between the amount
spent by the Commissioners of the market-Wlliam
IIaW, f., Edward Moore, AMI Fabez Hoiaud-and tie
valuation mado by Mr. Hatfield, architect Is S2239Cl 22
Tae report shows that {35OCj expended In erecting
ouohalt Of a building which Charles FanderVoori'
builder, Cgrec1 to complete for $4,000; that Edward
| IItchle Is charged on he Commissioners books with
receiving 1850 for lurnishins the ground plans
whereas Le states that he only received $780,
that tie warrant for tle $500 was pad TO
Geo. H. Purer ass gnee; that Stephen ID. Hatch, Tor
preparing the plans and pechcatons' received inc
large amount cf 5000; that Andrew j. Carney rem
dorcd a bill Tor $1,000 for pastcling and received
'N'-@''
that Morgan Jones received nearly 5000 for putting IN
CO hydrants which are invisible; that charge appears
in the books Of s. pad for Stationery and that Com
missioners Haw Holland, AID Moore withdrew soOOOO
from the Treasury, for which reasonable explanation
eau DO given.
It's also shown that after tho market opened, Ed
ward Moore Of the Commissioners and supcrntend-
Of the Street Bureau, gave permission 70 Mr. Brown
streetcoamng Contractor, to the lots Immediately
adjoining the market dumping ground, aud that as
consequence customers driven from the market,
and standowners compelled to throw up their stalls on
account OF the slckening odocs which arose.
II IS shown also tnat high fence erected shutting
ont H. ht from the Windows and every effort WAS made
10 rank the market failure and that having succeeded
in their determination, the projectors and desroyers OF
the enterprise prevailed upon the Commissioners OF the
Sinking Fund Aug 49, 1871, to adopt resolution that
the Dock Commissioners BE- permitted to take possession
OF the property east OF AMI adjoining the Lighteenth
Ward Market and sinkyard for the Term OF ~
years at an annual rent $1,000 This settled the late
Of e market By surrounding it with refuse aud mpnrl-
tics The report ends by recommending that the persons
who committed the fraud be prosecuted ana Iedfess 10
obtained.
| CLOSED BY. FRAUD-oPENED BY ENTERPRISE
SO IL happens that OF the public markets OF the
| city IS declared abandoned and ruined, and new
private market enterprise opened for the rst time 10
the public The Manhattan Market IS not the first enter
mi of private character which has been started IN
this city, but opened under more favorable auspices
than have attended any OF the Others and IS conducted
| ON a much larger scale. The establishment OF thls
market at this time is only single evidence OF the grow
ing sentiment in tho community in FAVOR OF making u"
! the markets Of the city private enterprises
Many pllus are spoken Of whereof the most popular
seems Ia be the conversion OF the public markets on
their present sites into private markets. IL Is urged
| that the property on which Washington and Fulton
Markets arc situated has obtained special anu Gu
hancep value on account Of the location Of the markets
that the current Of railc has SET IN that dectoh anu
facilities Tor obtaining supplies from New-Jersey and
Long Island are greater than at other points, and that
the city will do much better TO lease the markets Tor
their present purposes than 10 egr down the houses and
sell the lots building purposes. 1t is proposed to
lease the markets 10 capable ami deserving PERSONS and
make the Landowners JOINT propretors in the market
enterprises forming sort Of copainersAIp business IN
which all shall share.
It's beneygd rs many that II the city should take this
course dao and cOmmOdiOus buildings would soon take
the place OF the old rOocgies and tumDedown sheds
that are used for market purposes. Il IS stated That
the Landowners OF Washington Market would be will
ing pay the city s2OoOoo per annum for the market
aDout the THAI IL now yields to the clty
and agree build, within two years, large and hand
some rugturc the locality. 1t claimed that II TIE
| produce dealers owned their own market, greater
economy would prevail that many expenses would DO
cut down and that matter how wel-managod market
affairs may when the city authorities control them
OF necessity the city must be at disadvantage as com.
| pared with markotowner5. Many persons, however,
fear the result Of efforts made in tho direction OF private
markets speaking OF past failures in that direction and
| predict disaster 90 ali similar enterprises.
SKETCH OF CITY MARKETS
| The first private company market house (of any
size) WAS the Oakley Market" erected in 1886, which
consisted of long wooden shed fronting on Jones-st,
between Blocker and Fourth-sts but against
| iii Ian sod
protection to those who would occupy stands there, it
proved failure. Ia June, 1906 tho Metropolitan Mar
ket" WAS opened at FrstaSe ana T|enyeighth-st, but
failed for want Of patronage Ia March, 1865 the up
Per Washington Market was opened at Washington and
BlnlSts, with great parade. baud OF music for sew
era days played for the masses 1t contained g. stands
but also failed. In the year 1859 three new company
markets were opened-one in East Thirty -fourthst.,
| between Second and Third-ayes., called the
| ThrtyfOurthst. Market, which also failed !;
the Central Market, in Forty-eghth-st, between
broadway and Seventhaye which stil exists and the
| CroOn Market in FOrysecOnd-st, between Lexington
and Fourthaye., which Is now about half filed with
stands and cannot be called success. Then in April
1871 he New Broadway Market, in Broadway, between
Fprtvfourth and Forty .ftlst. opened This build
inc cost about 100000 and the ground valued at
St2jCO0 IL was soon closed. Then followed in the
| year the New Harlem Market in One-hundredand-
tweny-ffthst.. running through TO One-hundred-and-
tweny-sixthst, between Third and FOurthaves. This
also has proved to be losing speculation. These pri
yate markets were erected with the expectation Of their
paying large dividends by class of spectators those
who did not know how where TO establish such places
and Of course they became dissatisfied with results
| which generally ended in dissolution and failure
1t now urged the part OF the directors aud friends
OF the new Manhattan Market that the tide Of population
is tending upward and that IL is nearer the center OF
population than Washington Market was when It was
| h.d M H. of ems
I'm that direction and with the finest market building in
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