The sun., 1891-01-30
MUNICIPAL GOSSIP IN VIEW PORK.

longing to tho city OF New YORK. AMI IL was
found TO amount TO s42.OoOO0O. OF this sum
Sl.3l4,oo0 was represented Uy tho markets
owned BY the city. s25l.T0o BY the police sta.
uons. $sslC0o by the fire houses 81. 200, 900 by
the ferries and ferry houses. 81. l.25o. coo BY the
buildings used for lails and hospitals. s2.359..
600 BY the school houses. &S,400.OoO by the
piers and bulkheads. sl4.76l.000 by tho public
parks. and $l5,475000 BY the works OF the
Croton alueduct and the lands used for H. In.
cludin: the Fifth avenue reservoir and the
present Bryant Park. At that time the debt o,
the city amounted to s2l 100000 so that for
every dollar that the city owed 1t had two.
Had. at that time, the city bsen compelled to
linuidate Its obligations. It could have
maid two hundred cents on a dollar.
Ten years after this appraisement Messrs.
Blocker Palmer. and Muller. experts In real
estate values. made for the city an cs,i.
mate OF the worth OF It's possessions at that
time That WAS twenty years ago. Tho citys
nssets. In tangible property were found to
have risen from s42.0O0.00O to $2G7. ZOO. 400.
Thus Central Park, which ten years before had
been estimated as worth &5.lll.0OOO. was nut
down for $l00000.0JO. Tho police sta
tions Increased from n quarter OF
m'ilion dollars to million and
half. the Fire Department property from
$3so.OOO to s3.5O0.00O the schoolhouses from
iIam isoo ss aS S and the public maks.s
howe,e or, the debt Of the CITY had ,umped from
s2l,OOOOO0 to $50 100000. but Notwithstanding
MISS ,ns 80 general had been the E!ee in property
then three dollars Of assets for every one dollar
OF debt and had It gone into liquidation It
S s css n SeM Ss.si"l Fork Is
With within fraction q what i was ten years ago.
due and redemntion Of bonds III. ssuinu ial'r1 ~
Of tie sintns iand and other the opn1as mas,ers.
Ii is not now increasing tbon:h Il soon ons
VII be- when ne the sum o; 5000 goo Ior the new
expended for tho new aaueduct. Besides ths
purchase OF new park lan,ls the city's assets
have been greatly increased by the natural
growth oil real estate vnit es. the purchase of
new lire station. and school houses. Its share
in the Brooklyn bridge. the increasing popu-
ington Market. aud tho additions made 10 the
PIERS NSw York now owns more real estate
its assets carefully computed amounts to not
less than $500. 900. which Is SIS for every one
that the city owes. or oUU cents upon the dollar.
In the appraisal OF its assets made thirty
years ago. TompKins square was valued at
1887 900. Madison square at $500 600 Union
square Mt s5l400O. City Hall Park at s3.O)OOOo
Stuyvesant square at $l96.OOO. Mount Morris
Park at 100000. and Abingdon square at $l2.-
91o , Jefferson Market d was nut down for s75.
sl0o. 900 The Thiitv-iourth Street Ferry was
rented TOR SlOO year, the Twenty-third Street
Psrr PssrF to fGF @
tho Forty-second Street Ferry. to Hoboken. for
$50 year.
Attention has already heen called to the fact
that. with the exception OF leaders Fitz-
patrick in the Fourth. McKenna in the Sixth.
Martin In the Seventh Reilly in the Four
tcenth. ami Mcmahon in the Nineteenth. nearly
every one OF the present district leaders OF
Tammany Hall has been at some time con-
nected with local Democratic organization
opposed to Tammany. 1t may be added that.
on the other hand, nearly every one of the
leaders of Democratic opposition to Tammany
hns teen at one time or other within land gen.
orally glad to be within) tho Wigwam ranks
ssa' tho hsurPhs cHsnS sns
Tam sS Is s7y t5G% hat SHst;s
% YES TsHaany Hal i 1ssjs,snt A!der%s1n i s1nS i
ana The an
Campbell was in Tammany Hail land was was it's its
S ,s5a i %
many Hall when John. Morrisssy was. va and
msas usdsr IN yh oaI aff IT ss in JT%s T
DAILY Of the Fourteenth district wns rammnny's .
candidate for State Senator in 1875. Thomas
Tss q $o as
district in the Leg slntgre Of 1878 as a Tam
eSdr p?st qS%ns
the "reorganizers" Of Tnmmnny under tho
leadersnip, OF samuel J: T,ld"n' az and % enc Of its
He went out OF Tammnny in 1873. John Hayes.
the County Democracy loader in the Twcn-
town from the Fourteenth warJ. Tammany-
ite 30 was Peter Rush. tho County Democracy
n CanidweI the the leaGer IN "I tic Twenty WEN fonrth.
was Democratic state Senator in the days
when Iammany Hall was supreme So honors
are about even.
The attention OF persons desirous OF securing
bargains is directed to the fact that the city Of
New York has. at 800 Mulberry street, the fol-
sold at public auction: Two boats. a coil OF
rone. some scrap iron. some pig lead. mons
era womsns G GI91thinS boots Soh shoes O wine
TASKS, and Confederate money.
The Deputy Commissioner OF Street Cleaning
has certified to the character OF John J. Cur
ran. an applicant for the place OF insrector
in the Street Cleaning Department. This is
one Of the absurd pr DIVISIONS OF the Civil Service
mending an employee to himself.
Tho city OF New York is a great consumer
Of articles bought on contract 1t recently
closed a contract for the sum OF s1l5.s 800 for
10000 tons Of conl another for $17. .O5s for fish,
another for $22.5 500 for, milk. another for $l0.-
500 for chickens. ANOTHER for $40 800 for con-
denSed milk and still another ior $9.762 for
4.2U0 gallons OF whiskey. Tho cty's meat con.
tract amounts this year to $23S,500.
William H. Puttner, tho divorce man, was
the Tammkny Hall candidate for Assem- bly, In
tho Seventh district two years ago. lie re-
ceived 2.Tv3 votes
The Board OF Estimate and Apportionment
at its last meeting referred to the Comptroller
for report the claim Of the three Excise Com
missioners for an appropriation to cover the
judgment recovered against them for costs In
tho maudamus proceedings brought BY the
City Reform Club. According to the statement
OF tho Commissioners. their course in taking
| an appeal was due to- the advice OF the
counsel Of the Excise Board. and this iur-
service eyer performed by counsel OF tho
Board OF Excise. who receives the sum OF IS 900
g. year and Is called upon to do nothing for IT,
WI, %hst he DID IN Il the = msndamus case however.
ment approves, cost the city $lO9.94, with IN