Its odors and its industries--possible improvements Barren Island in no sence is an attractive resort.It is a place of swamps, some hills, fertilizing factories, and bad odors. And yet Barren Island has its possibilities. It is not beyond redemption. There is room and verge enough for improvement, a hundred thousand, or say half a million of dollars judiciously expanded upon it and it might be Made an "Ocean Park" Barren Island extends in Jamaica Bay about 3 miles, and its average width is half a mile. It early attracted the attention of the "first settlers." Companies at an early day were organized for the purpose of making sea-salt on it. These, although repeated trials had been made, proved disastrous failures.

When the white man first disturbed the Canarsie Indians he found that this outlying island, as well as one or two others of lesser magnitude in the Bay, were thin salt depots. An OPDYCK coveted possession of the island, and one of the Royal GEORGES presented it to him. It is said the patent is yet in existence, although possession of the island has long since passed out of the OPDYCK family.There are traditions about this island of the Captain KIDD order. In one of its many sandhills or sinks it is said the old pirate buried his ill-gotten-booty. If he did he was foolish. There is scarcely a decade that, through storm and wind, the configuration of the shore and even interior divisions of it, is not more or less changed. And so if he buried his treasure and trusted to "landmarks" by which to approach and exhume it after an absence of 5 or 10 years, the chances were that he would not know where to look for it. Some years ago the island was pretty thoroughly searched for the pirate's wealth, but of course, without result.

The streets of New York are cleared of dead animals every day and all utilized. Four thousand tons of bone and scrape manure are sold annually to the farmers, principally of Long Island; and one thousand tierces of grease are sent into the market. Besides these are the bones not ground up for the enrichment of the soil. They are manufactured into buttons, knife-handles, and other useful things. The hides of the dogs and horses are sold to the tanners, and the hair of the equines--from mane and tail --are also made articles of merchandise, as also are the shoes and the hoofs. In fact there is not part of the animal that is wasted.

About one thousand dogs are killed annually and made into manure on the island. In the summer season it would surprise a stranger to see the loads of eggs that are sent to the island to be used up in some way for the benefit of society. There are shipped weekly from the slaughter houses nearly 4 hundred tierces of offal. When the refuse animal matter is received at the island it is immediately prepared for the tanks, into which it is put 6 o'clock of the same day. The flesh of the dead animals costs about 3 cents per pound to gather and land on the island, and a carcase weighs from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds.The manure prepared for farmers is sold mostly on Long Island in its dry state and to New Jersey in its wet condition. The grease if obtained by steam. It commands a ready market.

There has been considerable complaint during the summer of the garbage of the cities of New York and Brooklyn being thrown into the Bay and on Coney Island shore. In this way a fortune is lost yearly. SWIFT & WHITE say that they could utilitze this garbage. But the present contractors are forces to throw it away for the reason that their contract is of too short duration to warrent them in buying land and putting up works. Before the days of OLIVER CHARLICK SWIFT and his associates, it appears, had it their own way.

A number of gentlemen are discussing the possibilites of a new, more direct and expediuous route, by rail and ferry, to Rockaway Beach. The proposition is, to lay a double track from Flatbush Billage, connecting with the Flatbush aand Brooklyn railroad, to Sand Bay --a narrow inlet which divides Flatlands and Barren Island. The inlet is to be spanned by a bridge, and the road thence continued to the easterly side of the island, where a ferry will be established, its boat to convey passengers and trains to the beach. This will be the most direct route to Rockaway from Brooklyn. By it a person, it is thought, may be enabled to reach the beach in 45 minutes from the City Hall. it is contemplated having the route survayed some time this autumn. The only drawback on it will be the stenches which passengers while crossing the island may encounter.