New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-21
Available July 1. ls7i. t5.6s76je

In addition to the eight buildings named
above there are some thirty others in the list,
several OF which have just been commenced,
while for Others the "derrcks" have not yet
been erected.
" In illustration of the general plan on
which this gigantic scheme for cxhausting the
granite quarries OF the country has been con-
ceived, we copy one or two passages from the
reports of the late Architect, Mr.. Mulett. We
commend them to the attention Of taxpayers {:
No action has been taken in regard to the Courthouse
and Post Office at Raleigh North Carolina. the cost OF
the structure being limited to the OF 100000 which
u Nm amount entirely inadequate for the construction Of
suitable building II should he borne 10 mind that the
cost OF building greater In such locations than in the
principal cities OF the Ei3tern and Western states.
recommend ,ha action be taken until the limitation
on the cost the bllllng be increased 70 sum that
will enable the Department to erect suitable sasfac-
tory and substantial building, which cannot. In my
opinion DO accomplished for less sum than s2jO0OO
Finance Report 1872. r. 1861
OF course he got it. This present Congress,
which has done and suffered so much in the
cause of economy and hard money, gave him
hundred thousand dollars moro than he
asked for The appropriation bill for Sundry
Civil Expenses for the current year will be
found to contain the following clause:
That the Limitation tho Of the Court house and
Post ONCE building at Rliegh. North Carolina, con
tanned in the act OF March 1879 hereby increased to
Tire, hundred aud mn thousand dollars, which shall b.
the entire cost of said building statutes OF 1874
page 22s)
This is but solitary specimen of last Sum-
mer's retrenchment The same architectural
rule which is applied TO the erection of a
Post Office in a city inhabited by white pop
ulation of less than four thousand souls Is
extended to New-YOrk and Philadelphia. Can
the reader guess why another story was added
to our colossal Post-Ohicc, "the largest Post
"Onice building in the world" as Mr. Muiett
official explanation:
The remarkable increase In tho financial department
OF the New-YOrk Post ONCE rendered It ncces ary TO
provide accommodations for that branch OF the service
In the second story of the POST ce building To
accomplish this the intended for tho Offices OF the
judiciary in that story were appropriated which, OF
course made It necessary to provide for them ese-
where This could only be done by the addition Of a
fourth story the building Uinancc port lsj p G73
Within the last fifteen years there has been
quite as much of an initiation OF the Govern
ment of this country as of its currency, ana
there is full as much hostility in Congress to
contraction in the one case as in the other. 1t
ia very well to talk of growing up to the
enlarged volume of things, but it Is quite I'M
possible for people whose elasticity is limited
by the necessity they are under of providing
themselves and their families with food and
clothing, to swell ont and shell ont az grandly and
rapidly aud cqmet-Gke. as the Governmen: at
Washington would like them to. Ii they try
it they may expect the fate of that bull-frOs
who attempted to distend himself to the size
of all OK. 1t was runous to the business pros
poets of the frog Even though nothing comes
of it, it is safer TO croak than to be pulled up
with the idea that you can grow faster than
yOtr skin