lectrical
apparatus, illuminate the vast interior. The platforms between the
tracks are composed of stone blocks. Each road has a particular portion
assigned to it, and there is no confusion in any of the arrangements.
The roof is supported by thirty-one handsome iron trusses, each weighing
forty tons, and extending in an unbroken arch over the entire enclosure.
The glass plates in the roof measure 80,000 feet. The interior of the
car-house is painted in light colors, which harmonize well with the light
which falls through the crystal roof.

About eighty trains enter and depart from this depot every day. The
running of these is regulated by the depot-master, who occupies an
elevated position at the north end of the car-house, from which he can
see the track for several miles. A system of automatic signals governs
the running of the trains through the city.

The building was projected by Commodore Vanderbilt. Ground was broken
for it on the 15th of November, 1869, and it was ready for occupancy on
the 9th of October, 1871.

LXXII. PATENT DIVORCES.

It may not be generally known in other parts of the country, but it is
very well understood in the city, that New York is the headquarters of a
powerful Ring of corrupt and unscrupulous lawyers, whose business is to
violate the law of the land, and procure by fraud divorces which will not
be granted by any court after a fair and full hearing of the case. It
may be asserted at the outset, that those who are fairly and justly
entitled to such a separation, never seek it through the Divorce Ring.

In any issue of certain city newspapers, you will see such advertisements
as the following:

ABSOLUTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED, in New York, and States, where
desertion, drunkenness, etc., etc., are sufficient cause. No
publicity; no charge until divorce obtained; advice free. M--- B---,
attorney, 56 --- street.

The all-sufficient cause with these lawyers is the desire for a
separation on the part of the husband or wife, and they never trouble
themselves with questions of law or morality. The law of New York allows
a divorce with the right to marry again, upon one ground only--that of
adultery.

"The lawyers of the Divorce Ring are the pariahs of their profession--men
who have been debarred in other States (sometimes in other countries) for
detected malpractice; men who began life fairly, but sank into ignominy
through dissipation, politica