RECORD   AND   GTJTDE





October 12, 1507





PROPERTY OWNERS' SECTION.





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Bronx   Opinion on Rapid Transit Matters

ON THE NEW BROOKLTN SUBWAT PROCEEDINGS.
At a meeting held Monday evening by the Bronx Committee
of One Hundred, at the Real Estate Auction Booms in thc
Hegeman Building, corner Third avenue and 149th street,
among other business transacted the foUowing resolutions were
unanimously adopted: The resoĩutions were introduced by Mr.
Edward Polak, and, in support thereof, an article from the
Record and Guide of October o was read with approval.

We The Committee of One Hundred, representing the people oE
tnrBronx hereby call upon íhe Public Service Commiss.on to re-
scfnd Us áction of October 1, committing the cUy to the construc
tiôn of the Fourth aveuue subway in Brooklyn. We are totally
opposed to the scbeme o£ having the city exhanst its resoiirces in
thrconstruction of a branch of the present Iraction monopoly for
thl operation of which there could be no possible competition, but
whicli woukl of necessitv fall into their hands after completion.

We demand that instêad of sinking $23,000,000 in the constroc
tion   of  a  branch   to   the present  system,   that money  be   at  once
used to begin the  building of a great trunk system  authorized by
the Board of Bstimate on Dec. 7. 1906.                                      „,„^,„,.

Recognizing as wc do, the needs of all sections of the greater
citv for transit relief, we deprecate this movement as leadmg to
the at)andonment of llie grcat Er.st and West Side trunk Ime rootes
on Manh.iHan ĩsland for which bid= were to be received oh April
•>5 The resolution of the Board of Aldermen.on April 23 blocked
the scheme of leasing the roads to the contractors, and we dow
demand they be buîlt in accordance with the terms of that resolu-
tion—namely,  for construction alone.

Relief to the people of the Bronx can onĩy come through the con-
struction of great trmik roads through Manhattan, and further ex-
tensions oE local facilities but increases tHe congestion on present
subway and elevated roads. While we also demand these exten-
sions they should spread out like a fan, to he carried down Man-
batlan Island by Ihe great truuk roads for whioli every arrange-
ment had been made by the old Rapid Transit Commission,

We call upon all civic orgauizations in the Broax, Manhattan and
Brooklyn to  oppose the Fourth Avenue Subway as  an  independent
proposition    and   to   demand   the   immediate   construction   of   the
great systems decided upon by the commissiou last December.
ON   THIRD   TRACKS   FOR  EAST   SIDE   BLEVATED  ROADS.
Tiie meeting also adopted the following:

Whereas in the iuvestigation hefore the Pnblic Utillties Com-
mission, it was stated by Lemuel E. Quigg that he mspired the
action of the Committee of One Hundred;  and

Whereas he also implied the fact that the expenses oE this cora-
mittee we're paĩd Erom thc funds of the Metropolitan eompany,
paid out by him;  and                                                    ,    ... .

Whereas the need of increased rapid transit facLlities tor the
east side &nd unanimous etforts made to obtain the same have been
known for the last seventeen years, the present subway system
merely being a compromise in the effort to scrve both sides of
the city by the Rapid Transit Commission, resulting in the satis-
faction of neither, and as the conditions of the east side have be-
some more clamorous for east side rapid transit thau ever, no
acceleraTion to public opinion was or is necessary from Mr, Quigg
or any other source.

Therefore be it resolved, That this committee, composed, as it
is of tbe business men, property owners and large interests of
the Bronx, empliatically deny that Mr. Quigg ever inspired their
action or opinion in any manuer, shape or form, and, further-
more, this Coramittee oE Qne Hundred uevor received any money,
directly or indircctly, or in any manner from said Quigg or his
agĩnts, as every dollar of t-xpenses was psfd Eor by fifty of our
members of the committee.

Be it Eui'ther resoived, That, in view of the present circijra-
stances. it will take sorae time to buiid an East Side Subway lo
relieve the congestion, they are still more strongly of the opinion
that a third track lor express trains should at once be built on the
Second and Third avenue elevated railroads and extensions made
to the present system on Westchester avenue, White Plains road
and Jerome avenue at the same time.





sq be changed to 3d. av, so that the 3d av elevated road can
be extended to the city limits. Tiie change in name being
found necessary, as Ihe franchise of the elevated railroad on
3i3 av extends only within the City of New Tork on 3d av. _ In
makin.g this change of name the 3d av elevated road can be
Gxtended to the city limits without further applieation.

The chairman on Transportation, Freigiit and Railroads, Mr.
Harry Robitzek, read a report showing the work that had been
accomplisiied by the committee during the past three months,
also showĩng why íhe Alliance should congratulate itself that,
according to the evidence brought before the Public Service
Commission, moneys of fhe Metropolitan Surety Company were
not paid tû tlie Alliance to sway its views one way or the other.

A resolution was unanîmously carried at the request of Mr,
Robitzek, that fhe pioperty known as the "Old West Farms
Presbyterian Cemetery," now abandoned, at the northwest
corner of East ISOth st and Brj'ant av, ■size being about 155xlSS
ft,, be made a public park,

Mr. Stonebridge explained that the object was to protect the
soldiers' graves there located, and present unmarked and being
desecrated, shall receive the proper care and attention due to
Bronx soldiers who gave their lives in their country's defense.

Col, Goulden explained that the War Department has offered
to remove these bodies to the National Cemetery. provided con-
sents of relatives, etc, are obtained, which consents are im-
possib'e to secure, a search for relatives or nearest of kin being
unsuccessful. Sufficieut money has already been pledged to
erect a monument and otherwĩse properly mark these graves,
which under present conditions cannot legaĩly be done, In
fact any monument or headstones placed in this abandoned,
iinfenced and unprotected open space would no doubt he dam-
rged or d.isappear, as did some placed there about tliirty years
ago.





Proceedings of the Taxpayers' Alliance.

A reguiar meeting of the Taxpayers' Aliiance was held on
Wednesday, October 9, with Hon, Joseph A, Goulden chairman.
A vigorous protest against the extension of fĩre liinits was made
by all the members of the Alliance and a motion was unani-
mously carried to notify every Alderman of the City of New
Tork that the Taxpayers' Alliance was vigorously opposed to
such extension.

Col. Goulden delivered a report on the aetion of the Com-
mittee of One Hundred and showed that the committee was
not aecelerated by the moneys of the Metropolitan Surety Com-
pany.

Mr. McRae read a report on Public Buildings which stated
that it was the desire that several additional buildings he
erected in the Bronx at this time, so that it would not he neces-
sary for the departments of the city government located in
the bornugh to pay office rents, as is frequently done in tjie
Borough of Manhattan. Criticism was aiso made on the slow-
ness in huildiug the new Municipal Court House on 163d st and
2d av.     All recommendations will be unanimously  carried.

The Committee on Rapid Transit, through its chairman, Mr,
Powers, proposed that the part  af Webster av above Fordham





Assessment Matters.





ASSESSMENTS  CONFIRMED.    ■
SEVENTH AVENUE SEWER,  west side, between  145th and
14Gth   sts.     Area   of   Assessmentc   West   side   of   7th   av,   from
14i!ith st to 14Gfh st.    Assessment confirmed October 1, and pay-
able  within  sixty days.

WEST ONE HUNDRED AND FIFĨT-SECOND STREET
SEWER, alteration and improvement, between Riverside Di'ive
and Broadway, Area oE assessment, both sides of West 152d
st, froin Riverside Drive to Broadway. Assessments confirmed
October 3.

TEMPORART SEWERS AND APPURTENANCES in West
Parms road, froni Eronx st to Morris Park av, and in Morris
Park av, from West Farms road to Bear Swamp road; in (ĩar-
ficld st, between Jackson av and the Harlem River Brancli of
the New York, New Haven 'ancl Hartford Railroada; in Van
Buren st, between Morris Park av and Jaclíson av; in Hancock
st, between Morris Park av and Jackson av; in Taylor st and
Garfieid st, between Morris Park av and Jackson av; in Fill-
more st, hetween Morris Park av and Coiumbus av; in Union-
port road, between Columbus av and Jackson av; in Victor
st, between Morris Park av and Columbus av; in Louise st,
between Morris Park av and the property of the New Tork,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company; in Lincoln st,
between Morris Par'k av and the property of the New Tork,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company; in Madison st,
between Morris Park av and Columbus av; In Colu'mbus av,
hetween 'West Farms road and Eear Swamp road; in Grand
av, belween Gartkld sp and Unionport road; and in Jackson
av, between Garfield st and Unionport road; in Taylor st, from
the existing sewer east of Coiumbus av to the Hariem River
Branch of the New Tork, New Haven and Hartford Railroad;
in Bronx Park av, between a point about G40 feet south of the
West Farms road and ISOth st; in 177th st, between Bronx
Park av and Watson's lane; in 17Sth st, between Bronx Park
av ãnd Watson's lane; in ITOth st, between Bronx Park av
and a point about 423 feet westeriy therefrom; In Lebanon
st, between a point about 410 feet west of Bronx Park av and
Morris Park av; in JefEerson st, between Morris Park av and
the property of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Raii-
road Company; in Adams pl, between Columbus av and Rose-
d.:lc av, an.d at thc intersection of Rosedale av, West Farms
roatl and Adams pl; in- Adams pl, between Coĩumbus av an'd
the property of the New Tork, New Havep and Hartford Rail-
road Compary, thence across the property oE the New Tork,
Kew Haven and Hartford Railroad Company to Rosedaie av,
and in Rosedale av, between the property of the New Tork,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad Conipany and the centre
of Tremont av (proposed); in West Farms road, between Roee-
dale   av   and   Clason's   Point   road;    in   Commonwealth   av,   be-