The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-05-30
NEW YORK LETTER.
Entertaining Comments on Topics of
Interest

Special Correspondence Of the Gold Leaf
New YORK, May II, 1880.
The most important topic of discus
sion in the metropolis at present is the
proposed great
EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
to he erected at 10th ST., and Man
haitian Ave. Out of the sixty three
plans which were submitted to the
trustees by competing architects, four
have been selected and set apart for
elaboration. These four designs will
be Immediately returned to the sue
cessful architects, and they will be
given about year in which to elab
crate them, after which the trustees
will make final decision. The de-
sign which is admitted to be the best
was made by architects w. A. Potter
and r. H. Roberts. 1t may be gen.
orally described as Gothic and is based
upon the union of single span nave,
with choir of the usual arrangements
of nave and choir. The body of the
church consists of a central space
eighty-six feet square, and four lesser
spaces each forty-four feet square, at
the four faces of the central square,
forming an auditorium of $1,000
square feet of floor, unobstructed by
columns and capable of seating 5000
people within a radius of lis feet.
Four towers, each 43o feet high, arise
at the four corners of the nave with an
entrance in each, and on the high
ground at 10th street could be seen
for many miles. The trustees hope to
have the cathedral completed during
their lifetime and wish to make it the
finest church edi6ce in America for
the next two centuries.
The long felt necessity for increased
facilities in the
NEW YORK POST OFFICE
is receiving attention at the hands of
Postmaster Van Colt, who has asked
for an additional appropriation OF
$4,000. The amount of work done
at this Office is simply enormous, and
it is stated that about one-eighth OF
the entire postal business Of the coun-
try is transacted here. 1t is apparent
to nearly anyone doing mail business
at this Office, that the working force is
entirely insufficient and the sooner re-
lief is given the better. l have known
it to take several days for letters to 60
from the general Office to the upper
portions OF the city; when one hour
should be ample time. Every branch
of the service is affected in a similar
way, and it is even impossible to buy
more than dollars worth of stamps
after four o'clock. 1t is hoped thai
the facilities will be increased, so tina,
all business can be transacted with
reasonable speed. ~-
Considerable excitement has been
caused this week on account of the
dissection of the body Of
WASHINGTON IRVING BISHOP,
the mind reader, before it was we'll es.
tablished whether he was dead OF
alive. The relatives of Bishap have
- had the doctors arrested, and they will
be tried either for manslaughter or fol
a misdemeanor-the former in case
Bishop was alive, the latter if it be
shown he was dead. 1t is the com
mon verdict that the doctors were il
too much of hurry anyway and no,
much sympathy is shown them in theil
present dilemma. A second autopsy
has been held which has not thrown
any more light on the subject, but has
only served to give the doctor.
another chance to disagree.
1t has been often remarked tina,
New York will never be finished.