The New York herald., 1874-02-09

Totals. 42s5s5 s1s5, ,s01. 1876
increase. 159, 81 $50
The Park Commissioners use these figures to
demonstrate how thoroughly the city's outlay
upon the Park had been returned TO 1T in the
shape of increased taxes upon an increased valua
ton. 1t is not alone the Park, however. that has
brought about this result although to it, as the
initial measure, is it largely due, but was stimu-
lated by the great scheme of uptown Improvement
that followed and was subsidiary thereto.
A like scheme of Improvement has been
inaugurated in Westchester county, in
the newly annexed district, under the
same direction and can we doubt but that it will
be followed by like results With the same energy
applied to the construction by the city Of rapid
transit road that has been demonstrated in the
matter ofCentral Park, would not a like return be
as sure to follow in an increased return OF taxes
upon an increased valuation ? Up to January,
1872 the Central Park had cost the city $1 $685.
of which $5,O2s,s44 was paid for the land and
s74l9,7 1893 for construction. The rate Of tax in the
year 1871 was 2.17 7-lO, yielding on the increased
valuation above stated an increased tax OF
$3 469, $780, being an excess OF sos over the
interest on the cost OF the land and improvements.
THE NEW WARDS OF THE CITY.
The Twenty-third and Twenty-i0urth offer the
same premium upon rapid transit constructed by
the city that the Twelfth Nineteenth and Twenty
second wards did upon the construction OF the
In the meantime, however, pending the solution
parS with the cerrant Of larger and earlier resplts
80 .,,, .h -, ,,.o,,,, 80. a., ..,,o,. 49,,
VI 'ils proolein VI rapia Irunsi' ny iand
the new wards offer easy access by water. With
the Improvement of the Harlem River this water
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way Will be continuous from the Hudson to the
ern boundary OF the annexed district. BY this
the Centre of the new terrtorv can be- bS
o naSan+ soi row ,ha t. y, o ~ NC WI, t w
bpmne .rat na az @ stra+ os " ~ w st,1e9 VI
the river SIDE either by way OF the Hudson through
Spuyten Duyvi or or tn. the 1 East and Harlem
h @ @ o 'n,s S hin a m' "a nos SosS 81 nucn 70
ments Of travel 70 almost any extent, pending, Of
the on OF s An
Gently by DR.. Smith. of the Board Of Health. in a
communication addressed to That body Dr. smith
trains INTO this city to run special trains at certain
ra o saH a.
as an acSommodation to S worSingmen S The IDEA
upon in London with the best results OF Uniting
the outlying suburbs Of tnat huge City with hooks
has has Likewise been agtated IN Boston, ana being SO
certain Of early adoption. i is about time New
g1N WON'T HS Do FOR Us To BE ALWAYS co1oyyc
BrooKiyn ~ now % almost ri rivals "n' US. wSe in TACT,
out their entire area quite as intimately connected
parishes of London. We have new field Of enter.
Prise open to US now IN these twenty r third hi and
TWenty-lourtn wards tnat we can cultivate at less
advantage than we settled Long Island and New
Jersey There we wasted our substance: here wa
have an onnortnnitv to rean the peneft nj our own
imTnspru m 'P ' " F WIZ ' "A WI Wv"
1"0"'' M wr Nrpn rurS rvp.xs,ovo
a.. os,,n po WEN WE NEED r., ,,.i THIS EVANSTON
is question asked IN some quarters III relation 10
the annexation of the lower portion Of Westches-
ter county on page II OF the report OF the Board
of Health for the year 1871 we find the following in
he'atiou w oo'eioiV"uine
But there other questions relating the domicil-
ing the classes of vital Importance TO the
stions been
made the subject of careful study by The Sanitary Com
mittee In their opinion the ten nj honses very
often constructed and managed are the curse of pop
ulous clues. 1t nursery not only Of every form Of
contagious disease and OF perpetual epidemics among
the poor but not ntreqqenty OF species of vice.
immortality and crime. Human beings, in many cases.
are herded together-men, women and children-with
but little regard to decency. The majority of tenement
houses IN TINS city are Oh structures Duit for other pur
fyirg r"o, inv 10 teat @ "nd ho @ % W ssse eaC
regard Maid to yentiiaon or domestic convenepces
20 such nts are constructed and into
each . family OF from to s persons is crowded.