The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-28


In the meantime, TO quiet approximations Of
scarcity of Ice the companies will continue to
railroad supplies from the West, and
WILL FURNISH ICE
TO the trade at $40 per ton, instead of $50. I'M
I'll thu first ship arrives, when further CON
siderable reduction will take place, SO as TO
bring the price within reasonable figures.
They further said that the consumption
of ice here amounted TO 1870 tons daily, whilst
the product of the home factories was
only sixty tons, leaving deficit of seventy
tons daily.
During the day the Mayor received teIe-
grams from various parts of the country in
reference to the price of ice. The deduction is
that Ice
CAN BE RAinRoADED
from Western cities TO New Orleans at cost
OF about $50, freight and meltage included.
Several small traders who visited the Mayors
parlor took notes of the kilograms with the
Intention Of purchasing their own ice from the
Offering concerns
In evidence of the fact that the
ICE CROP
was not so very shot last year in the East
at least, il may be added that Mayor Pills.
bury received. among others, the following
telegram from Bath, Me:
"Wtll sell you cargo Of ice at two dollars per
ton in take weight, we'll packed. Think can
get 1t shipped at three dollars per ton or less.
THE wATERwoBKs.
At tho request Of one OF the gentlemen con-
nected with the directory OF the Waterworks
Company, Surveyor d'Hemecourt has pre-
pared plan for supplying the city with
settled mot clarified water, which WILL IL car
ried out be great improvement on the water
pumped directly from the river. The system
would consist of nine tanks occupying as
many squares OF ground, and OF a capacity
sufficient TO meet the requirements of the city.
These tanks would give the water eight
days TO settle, which Is much longer time
AhnY, a. Ma Ia, ,trvhy hA L.,
Gated in rear of st. Charles Avenue, near the
upper park, on land that can be purchased at
$500 a square, The system would require the
transfer OF the large pumping machine of the
Waterworks to these reservoirs to pump the
water into the supply mains, whilst the
smaller machine would remain ut the head of
Richard street to feed the reservoirs.
THE CENTRAL POLICE STATION.
It Is probable that the committee appointed
some time ago to select location for CEN
trail police station the First Precinct Station
and First Recorders Court, will report on
Tuesday in favor of the purchase of Turner's
Hall for the purpose
The owners Of the hall, it will be remem-
bered, have offered the building to the city
for $4,000. payable in yearly instalments of
$4,000 each, and have agreed besides to expend
$4,000 in fitting IL up, under the direction OF
the city authorities TO meet with the pur-
poses for which IL Is intended. The building
Is in q convenient locality, only two blocks
UpyOnu Llt pIGS6uJ Sbttui
The objections TO the Davidson buildings
are several: They are on great thorough
fare and In some respects not fitted to the
purposes of a police station. But the prlncl-
pal objection is that the rental, $500 per month,
of the Davidson buildings would in less than
seven years amount to as much as the value of
Turner's Hall. Under the circumstances any
consideration that can be advanced in favor
of releasing the Davidson buildings must
vanish.
When it Is said that Turner's Hall would
cost the city only $4,000 year during five
years, it should also be mentioned that the
building is SO spacious that the rooms occu-
pied as u saloon at the corner of Lafayette and
Dryades streets can be dispensed with and
rented out for $1,000 year, with plenty bid
ders at that. The cost of the building
is therefore reduced to $4,000 year, and the
city, after paying up in full for Turner's Hall,
would derive q revenue Of five per cent on its
outlay, besides being the owner of fine piece
of property and supplied with accommoda-
tions for its police magistrates, chief Of police,
first precinct station, coroner's Office and
whatever other offices are now contained in
the Davidson buildings.