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NF.W YORK CITY. 



rmds is 5 cent*, with no extra charges for transfers to 

 the branch line*. The reduction from 10 cents was 

 Made voluntarily. 



H'i)>i,l Tfinat. The rcnourocs of tin- derated rail- 

 roads are U-ing taxed lo their utmost, ami relief is 

 ought tlinniith another elevated railroad in Fifth 

 avenue. I In- r.il.lc ntilroajls already partially in niicr.i- 

 in tli.' northern distr'icts, ami more particularly by 

 now road* under tin 1 .sin !'i . i 'I' the Utter then arc 

 thnv distinct plans. Tin- first is the Arcade charter to 

 construct an udenronod road through Broadway. 

 The Mnn<l is to build a road under Klin street, to the 

 eastward of Broadway ; and the third, that ot'thc City 

 Railway Company through the block* to the westward 

 of Hnmdway. 



Briilijr* n<l Timnets. The Brooklyn Bridge (see 

 Bui IKIES, V\f. 90) hag been completed at a cost of 

 15,500.000: but the methods of it8 administration 

 are not satisfactory. The length is 5989 feet, and it is 

 89 feet wjde. It is MSfMadad from 4 steel-wire cables, 

 each 16 inelies in ilianieter. In the centre is an cle- 

 Tated promenade, on each side of which is a railroad 

 track for passenger-tars propelled by a stationary en- 

 gine. Outside of the railroad track, on each side, are 

 the roadways tor vehicles. From the under side of the 

 bridge, in the centre, to the water, is 13") feet. Ordi- 

 nary vessels can easily pa.-s beneath. Very large sail- 

 ing-Teasels have to lower their topmasts to go under. 

 The fan' for loot passengers is one cent, or if tickets 

 are bought, one fifth of a cent The single fare on the 

 car* U 3 cent*, or 10 tickets for 25 cents. A new bridge 

 has been constructed across the Harlem Kiver also 

 (just above the High .Bridge), near Two Hundredth 

 street, to connect the upper district*. The tunnel under 

 the North Kivcr ha* not yet been completed. 



/'irk* mill S/rn-tK. The Central Park now covers 

 362 acres. Riverside. 1'ark, handsomely laid out, occu- 

 pies the high bank of the Hudson, from Seventy- 

 aecond to One Hundred and Thirtieth street, 3 miles 

 long, and averaging 500 feet wide, with 178 acres of 

 land, much of which has been improved. A drive- 

 way, cut into 4 broad sections by curbing ribbons of 

 lawns and trees, sweeps over the hills and along the 

 edge of the bluff, affording views of the Hudson River, 

 Weehawken, Guttenberg, Kdgewater, the Palisades. 

 atnl upper Manhattan. On an elevation near the north 

 end of the park is the brick tomb in which (I en. 

 (i rant/ a body was temporarily laid, Aug. 8, 1885. 

 Moniingside Park, a long drawn and nearly unim- 

 proved public ground of 47 acres, extends from One 

 Hundred and Tenth street to One Hundred and Twen- 

 ty-third street, near Tenth avenue, and has a costly and 

 far-viewing driveway. It lies on the east side of die 

 ridge which separates Harlem plains from the River- 

 i'.irk and Hudson Kiver. In the "annexed dis- 

 trict" parks known as " IVlliain " and "Bronx 

 Kiver" have IH-CII laid out but not yet improved. 

 The new streets and avenues of the city are laid out 

 with the greatest regularity, and they are spaced uc- 

 curding to the distances already noted. 



Stoiii,* mi,/ Miiitiiiiinil.t. The latest additions may 

 IK' noted briefly. The obelisk which stood originally 

 Mran the Temple of the Sun at Ileliopolis. and was 

 remove 1 by Til<erius to Alexandria, was presented in 

 IsTT by the Khedive of Kirypt to the city of New 

 > ork. It was successfully transported by Lieut. -Com. 

 Henry II. (Jorringc, ['. S N , the entire cost of the 

 removal and erection being borne by the laic William 

 Vanderbilt. The btOOM statue of the Indian 

 Hauler and The Pilgrim, a pk&Oreftqnely posed and at- 

 tired heroic bronze statue, !,.,th by .). (}. A Ward, stand 

 in Centra! Park. Bartholdi's statue of LiU'ity Kn- 

 Ijgnteainf the WorU stands on Bedloc's Island, in the 

 liarlxir. It is a f.-m.ile figure made' of cupper. 151 

 f.ei I inch hi>rh, standing on a pedestal i:>( l,,t 10 

 inches high, and was presented by the Ficnch people, 

 to the | N -o|i|e of the I niteil Slates. In the upraised, 

 right hand in a torch, lighted by electricity, ami in the 



left hand is the Constitution. The roppor is about 

 one-fifth of an inch thick. The |M'dcstal was built 

 by popular subscriptions, and, with the statiii 

 11,000,000. 



J-'inf Art*. Tlie Metropolitan Museum of Art 

 stands in C, ntnil Park, near Fifth avenue and Kivhty- 



third street. The lir>t movement towards founding 

 I he museum was made in I Si',',1. and for some years its 

 collections wen' kept in rented buildin.L's. The present 

 tire proof brick and granite modern Dothk building, 



L'IS feet by 95, was donated in l^so. New strnotaroi 



are buildini; in eoniurtion. In the west-entrance hall 

 arc many fine pieces of statuary Beer's medallion of 

 Michael An.L'elo, the Apollo Belvedere. Hiram Powers's 

 California. George Washington, Alexander I. of l!us- 

 -ia, Roooaaeflfl Hose of Sharon. Albano's Tiiief from 

 I'ante's Inferno, Mozeir's Kispah. Fischer's 

 McDonald's <ien. Hancock. Schwanthaler's 

 (iirl, Maroelu'tti's Washington. Hoiidon's Franklin, 

 Connelly's Thetis, and many fine works by Barye, 

 Barbedienne, Thorwaldscn. Keinhart. Canova, Laont 

 Thompson, and others. On the southwest stairway- 

 is a collect ion of 4.'! water colors l,v William T. Rich- 

 ards, of New Knirland coast and White Mountain 

 scenes. The great hall contains many pieces of the 

 famous Cesnola collection, from Cyprus, and various 

 oilier interesting collections of rare objects of art. In 

 the galleries arc the collections of gold jewelry anil 

 (ireek and Plia-nieian glass from the (Vsnola treasure- 

 trove; and also the Japanese. F.vryptian. and Oriental 

 porcelain and antiquities. In the western galleries are 

 many of Kensett's exquisite landscapes. ( Jillord's and 

 Durands master-pieces, Fr6re's Oriental scenes, Cou- 

 t tire's Decadence of Home, Moignan's Outrage at 

 Anagni, Madra/.o's portrait of llobert L. Stuart, 

 Bonnat's portrait of John Taylor Johnston, Meyer 

 Vou Bremen's genre pictures, (iranet's Benedictines, 

 Hellquist's gieat Swedish historical scene. Wylie's 

 Deau of a Vein'can chief, William M. Hunt's Boy and 

 Butterfly. Marr's Mystery of Mfe; landscapes by i'ro|i- 

 sey, Inness, and Breton; Boughton's famous . I udgmcnt. 

 of Wouter Van Twiller, Schreyer's Arab scenes. The 

 cast gallery is devoted to pictures by the old masters 

 Baroccio, Albant, Titian, Correggio. Car.ivaggio, Tinto- 

 retto. Tiepolo, Sassoferrato, Bordone, Andrea del Sarto, 

 (ihirlandajo. llcmbrandt, Kubcns. Jordaens, Hals, 

 \'an Dyck. Cuyp, Wouverman. Ostadc. Teniers, Ter- 

 burg, Breughel, lluysdael, Steen. \'claz.|iiez, Mu- 

 rillo, Copley, Stuart, Trumbull, Jarvis, Ktty, Lely, 

 Poiissin. Many jiicturc.s in this remarkable collection 

 have romantic histories, extending over centuries. 

 Itosa Bonbeur's Horse l''air. purchased at the 

 Stewart sale for S.V.i.uitO. was presented by Cornelius 

 \'anderbilt. The magnificent collection of iiaintings 

 befiueathed to the museum by the late Catherine L. 

 Wolf is in an annex building erected for its reception. 

 The 1,,-nox Library's Picturc-(iallery. at Fifth avenue 

 and Seveiity-lirst street, has about I ."ill fine paintings, 

 including Munkacsy's Blind Milton dictating Para- 

 disc Lost to his Daughters. Turner's A Scene on 

 tilt' French Coast and Fiugal's Cave. Horace 

 \ duel's Siege of Sarajjossa. ( iainsboroiigh's A Ito- 

 mantic Woodv Landscape. Andrea del Sarto's Tobit 

 and the Angel, Delarochc's The Field of Battle. 

 Church's Cotopaxi, Tlionuw Cole' : ; Kxpnlsion from 

 Paradise. Bierstadl's Yosemile. There are portraits 

 by U-slii', Smart, Trumbnll, Inman. Pcale. Copley, 

 Daniel Huntington, S. F. B. Morse. Healy. Pine, ami 

 others. The statuary includes Crawford's Sleeping 

 Shepherd Boy and Children in the Wood. Ranch's 

 Victory. Powers's La IViiserosa, Ball's Abraham Lin- 

 I'oln. Sir John Sleele's Sir \\'alter Scott, Trentan; 

 NaiMilc'on. 



UnderaromuL HV<>.<. A law of the State created a 

 board of subway commissioners t () (.,1;,. ehan_'r of 

 plaeinir underLToiind the telegraph, telephone, anil 

 eleciric-lichting wires which had Ix'en heretofore 

 strung overhead. The first commission having failed 



