The New York Court-House.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 121, 5 March 1872, Page 7

The New York Court-House.

K ■ New York is still in a ferment over the city accounts. These, so far as they can he ogoi at, are indeed a perfectly bewildering vt 6tudv. The history of the civic management v ;oi New York is full of romantic and even U: of dazzling interest. Let us briefly recount c ,-the history of the new Court-house. At the grower part of Broadway, on the open space ' ( which in London would be called a s (pi are, r but is there known as the City-park, are seen .the white walls of an unfinished structure. ~ It was begun seven years ago, and, when it IB .finished, is to be the New Court-House. jThe building was originally to have cost , .L.59,0'J0 ; already then; has been spent on a; 'the hare walls and roof L.7r>0,000. But that ;, nothing. The walls thus expensively .[.raised were always somehow in need of rer.pau i s. Accordingly, during two years alone, i a certain firm received, for repairing the wall and voof, rather more than half a million jfßtftrhng. Another firm, charged for plumber's during the same time," L..'550,000. But .j/the furnishing of this unnnished palace called r ;.forayet more liberal expenditure. A New lt York firm received, for furniture supplied •..durin-rtwo years, L. 1,000,000 sterling. More ~.than a million pounds' worth of chairs and ...tables f„r a building not, yet finished ! The t items of safes alone for the County Offices—..merely an< >rtion of the building—is put down .at L. 100,000, paid to one firm. The amount «p;gied to a company for printing and stationtiy. quite irrespective of advertising, ' reached 5 n the two years to nearly half a mil- ,{' £ on sterling. The carpets in this new C< »urt- ; l house are set down as having cost L.70,000 : „. a. competent authority Ims just announced „ wftit; their actual value must have been L.2300, ■ an<lt H" more. No wonder that the New York j ; papers demand that the firms whose names : ®$ put down for these stupendous sums shall §■ called upon to say whether this money was ■ «j received, by them, or whether any persons :n nflkr- received a r.lmre of the mon'ev.