Year: 1866




heedlessly into carts, their heads lolling pain
fully over the sides, the calves now ride along
the streets in state, their graceful limbs en-
tirely FREQ and their heads turned this way
and that a. they look at the fashions End re-
turn the salutations of pedestrians. The little
pigs, TOO, are carted about In comfortable
cages and present quite an aristocratio sp-
pearanoe. The drivers Of omnibuses and cars
are very careful Of their horses and chary Of
using t4e whip. They see in every passenger
and passsrby an agent o. the society In fact,
Mr.. Bergh and bis associates seem ubiquitous.
II would greatly relieve the drivers II these
agents would wear uniform. The minds Of
some Of the Jehus are beginning to give way
under the pressure Of this constant inspection,
and several butcher boys, compelled by their
trade to be cruel, and thus kept in constant
dread Of Mr.. Bergh, have fallen into melan-
choly mood, refuse to drink anything stronger
than coffee and seriously contemplate commit.
ting hari-kari with their cleavers.


The Grand Boulevards-Reconstr


OF tho Metropolis. fte
We publish this morning detailed account
Of the plans Of tho Park Commissioners for
laying out tho upper part of New York
city and . description Of the grand Boulevards
authorized by the Legislature and already
partially completed. This document Is equally
interesting and important When the plans of
the Commissioners are practically carried out
we shall have magnificent drive around the
upper end of the island, beginning at and re-
above Fifly-ninth street will become in Its
beauty part Of the Park and will be con-
sidered both by residents and visitors per-
feet garden Of delights. Streets are to be
opened as the necessities of our population re-
quire; but for many years to come elegant
adorn a large extent Of that portion
of the city. The suburbs and environs
of the metropolis will then vie with those of
Paris and many persons who are now crowded
into fifteen by forty feet of brick and brown
stone will be able, for even less money, to 1--we
comfortably and pleasantly at the extremity of
the island, keeping their modest equipages to
convey them to the cars and enjoying the COM
bined advantages and suffering from none Of
the discomforts of the city and country.


Above Fifty-ninth street there are vast tracts
Of land not yet built upon and which could
not have been built upon under the old admin
of affairs. The Common Council, the
Street Commissioner and the properly owners
had all to be consulted before streets could be
opened and the grades fixed. People were
afraid to build, because no one could say that
when the grade came to be established the
houses prematureay erected would not be ten
feet above or six feet below the level of the
missioners have charge Of the matter
the grades will be definitely established and
in the course Of couple OF years hundreds OF
houses will be erected, thus reducing the pre-
sent exorbitant rents and relieving the lower
part Of the city from its plethora of population.
The Legislature could desire no better evidence
Of the ineficiency Of the old system and the
public confidence in the new order of things
than the fact that 80 soon MS the Park Commits
sioners were intrusted with the laying out of
the upper part of the metropolis the prices of
lots there rapidly advanced. New York has
been and Is q busy city, q wealthy city and
splendid city; but the improvements contem-
plated in these plans viii make It prc-emi-
ncntly the beautiful city. We remember what
twas thirty-fve years ago and we see what it is
now. But the contrast between the New York Of
the past and the present 10 no greater th1n will
be the CONTRAST between the New York of the
present and the future. Next 10 the Park itself
she establishment Of the Boulevards Is the
greatest thing ever done for the metropolis.