New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-04
T4Nu4vT'S NEW CITY NALL SCHEME.

T4NNAvTS NET cry HALL SCHEME.
The Tammany scheme for new City Hall
in BRYANT Park is preposterous. 1t cannot but
be looked upon with derlsion by every sober
minded and practical person There is no PROB
ability, no possibility in fact, OF the removal Oh
he blsinc., centre Of this city from the lower
part of the town to the neghboIhocd of Forty
sccond-st. Ncw-Y0rl's great exchanges must
inevitably remain in the lower part OF the Island.
The interests and investments which keep them
there grow more important ana more powerful
every wear. Our headquarters of teiegIaphlc
transmission, of mail communication and DIS
,ribution. must also remain downtown in the
ncjchborhood of the exchanges which furnish
the mail and the telegraph with so important
percentage of their business. IL would be
great mistake to remove the central office OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company above Cham
beIs-st.. and ii would be an equally great mis-
take to establish the principal postOflce further
uptown than it is at present. \ spacious branch
Office equipped with every facility and covering
an immense area, would be OF the largest value
On a convenient site not far from Forty second
st. but from the nature OF things, from me
CONFEDERATION OF this city and from the distrlbu-
tion Of its interests the chief postof1ice must al
Uays be in the southern part of Manhattan
Island Our courts must also remain downtown.
The city is now building an immense criminal
court structure in Centrc-St., and every conSid-
Grafton OF convenience Of suitability and OF pun
lie interest, commands that all the courts should
be within easy reach OF each other and not lar
removed from their present location. How alb
Surd il would he to have a great municipal build
inc at Forty-sccond-st., while every important
exchange, the chief telegraph and mail Offices
and the courts would be separated from such
building BY distance Of nearly three miles
Tammany is suggesting all sorts of fantastic
schemes in order to cloak It's real purpose. II Is
bent on Selling City Hall Park if It's scheme Of
devastation and plumber can possibly be carried
into effect. livery one who knows the real sentl-
mcnts and plans Of our Tammany city officials
knows that the purpose nearest and dearest u
their hearts i, 10 put mp a prodigous structure
in the City Hall Park, which shall prove is great
treasury of riches to favored contrac.o;S ana
favored politicians as the enormous pie AZ Al
bany and the huge city buildings at Phiia-
icphia have already proved to those persons who
have ama>scd great fortunes from their connec-
ton with those edfces. Tammany leaders
and their friends have been making money
rapidly in recent years, but not rapidly enough
TO satisfy their insatiate greed. They are i'm
patient to get into their hands the construction
Of the new reservoirs which are to feed tho
new Aqueluct. They arc spending almost two
million of dollars year oSensibly for cleaning
tho streets, which they do not clean. They
have soured three millions Of dollars at Albany
for paving streets, which will be paved miscr-
ably in the true Tammany style And now their
minds are full OF the stupendous project of
new City Hall which shall cost moro than the
Tweed County Court House, and afford a still
more extensive opportunity than that afforded
for Illicit gain The Tammany tiger has ire
mcndols nav, and i. is determined to devour
City Hall Park. The suggestion that the present
City Hall can he removed to Pelham Park is
one Of the most ridiculous that has yet been pu.
forward in any quarter II all tho buildings
that are now in the park are to be removed to
mako room for the gigantic ediiico which Tam
many hopes 70 rear, how will tho city govern
mcnt be- carried on during the interval? such
i new City Hall As Tanmany has in mind wo@d
inevitably take many years to erect, and IL WOud
sink this city deep in 'he swamp of financial en-
barrasSmcnt Few people who have not given
careful study to the subject realize how the
bonded debt Of Ncw-Yorl has been ping up in
recent years. Let Tammany once begin new
CITY Hall in City Hall Park-or in Bryant Park
either for tia, natter and the cost of the state
Capitol at Albany might seem reasonable and
moderate in comparison before the work is com
pctcd.