New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-17

the prices OF last year, and still an unusually large hn
Der OF houses remain tenantess. From TINS summary
Oh results obtained by careful canvass OF the mater
have BEEN ss. %nose Sa far some
Y otner brooklyn Is not growing now with anylmng
seen by all who know the city thoroughly, and they
y realize the further truth that IL the causes which
tinne unchanged, the showing Of the future must be
e eva worse than that OF the present The capitalists
drawn assign number Of for the present sagn
o PreuicI Greater falling off of prosperity hereafter
ward of the coming danger One and ali see the same
es IN qpeIatoni differing from each other only in as
signing the several evils their places OF relative import
ance summary OF their views fail to be OF inter
est To the thousands OF readers futures are eu
fed with that Of the City OF Churches.
STEAM TRANSIT.
As has been shown, the chief reason OF Brookiyn's
being, and the chief which she must draw
her population is the necessary overflow OF NewYork
For long time this population, OF necessity across
the East River but it is turning largely other
directions. In the first place Brooklyn is already
large that the distance from any part OF NewYork to
her outskirts Is serious consideration. and
one which Will naturally increase In force as
portion Of the people doing business in Newiork who
seek MONIES % ar aUoeu U hs o 81 n
be found in Brooklyn only in the outlying portions
OF the city, From these the streetcars furnish the only
means OF transportation TO the ferries and hence the
loss of between residences and business offices has
become serious objection to living III Brooklyn. Turning
his eyes in the other direction the seeker for home
finds that the New-Jersey towns, while they are more
distant than Br9GEyp have the advan s OF rapid
New-YOrk and for this reason alone thousands have
sey who would have preferred Brooklyn but for the alb
sence Of steam railways AS result OF this properly
in New-Jersey has enhanced much more rapidly Than IN
Kings County. The rapid advance of property in New
Jersey induces many TO settle there because the vacant
ground around their houses will OF itself add largely 10
their wealth the course Of eight years 1t
opinion OF all thoughtful and welinf0rmed Brooklyn
men, therefore, that the first and greatest need OF their
city Is steam transportation IN some snape not MERRY ~
eqnalze the contest In which NewJersey has already
damaged BROOKLYN but to provide against the greater
danger which looms up in the coming construction OF
the Viaduet Railway, and the consequent rivalry Oh
Westeheser County one very wealthy ana pr& .hnr
gives IT his opinion that unless steam transit shall DC
Railway shall he completed even half completed the
future OF his home city will be irreparably injured he
thinks tide of emigration shall once set toward
Westchester County, 1t cannot be turned
again from its course until New York's capacity
for expansion in that direction shall be pfe en
railways to the Brooklyn ferries, however, il seems the
general opinion that our sister city could hod her own
against any Inducements offered elsewhere.
FERRY TOLLS.
Another enemy Brooklyn is the tollgatherer In her
gates The daily necessity OF paying tribute twice to fer
ries which ought be Free is annoyance TO ALL and
serious charge upon the slender of the aborng
population thousands OF whom kept away from the
great by of this tax rng in its daily de-
tails but serious its aggregate. And here too,
is double effect. These thousands wherever they are,
must be fed and the retail dealers In their iPaedate
would add largely to this branch OF her mercantile inter
and contribute its share to the maintenance OF the
municipal household This ferry charge is also sorely
felt by the manufacturing interest," and contributes large
y to prevent the growth OF great ndustries-of them
selves the greatest and surest agencies In the growth VI
cities.
that the Eastern District suffers greatly from the infre
quency OF the ferry trips and the utter nadequaey OF
the systems applied to that portion Of the city under
oppressive monopoly. gentleman largely interested
II property states that the t
portion of the city depends for its communication with
the metropolis are actually smaller than those of 70 years
The problem Of making the ferries free and at the
time keeping them Of the atmosphere OF political job
berry and corruption, dicult yet the pur
pose seems fixed one with many OF Brooklyns chief
citizens and that solution will ultimately DO reached
there can be little doubt. Another obstacle In the way
OF the cs future prosperity and closely connected
ferry andnss on so the sde TO the s
centers This want is felt at all the ferries but chiefly at
and unseemly lanes through which every must pass
IA fang to or from Brooklyn, must haunt the prospec
until broad shall replace them they must lead
greatly to BrookIyn's injury.
AND FINALLY THE RING.
Above and beyond all, the great incubus which is
weighing Brooklyn down. and pressing the hfeblood out
of her municipal body is the Ring and the high taxes
has brought upon the people. The fact that with all
Taminanys corruption, taxes in NewYork are but little
more than half high they in Brooklyn operates
in variety of ways TO retard the growth of our sister
across the river stands aghast the enormy of the
taxation there and instead of buying house ana be-
coming identified with the city, rents honse, and lives
as a mere soourner. Even in the matter Of personal
propery he economies and TO store MS rented
alton could lay its hand, and thus real estate
is left to bear alone the burden OF the public
support, which Accommodations Of household luxuries
should share This, however, is only one OF the many
minor ways in which ex0rbtant taxation represses the
growth OF the city. Manufacturing interests which
should form principal feature of Brookyns industries,
and which might De R sy GCS
shun unjust taxation, and hence with all her advantages
In this respect. Brooklyn finds her industries cramped
and dwarfed into abnormal insignifcance But this is
not ALL Even when men determine 10 establish facto-
es on re on o s Dmnanes with their home in New
York that their capital and business are taxed here
ton loses their valuable aid in bearing her public burden
Thus it is that the Ring taxation serves in thousand
yn. But there is still another way in which this cOrrup
ton in high places works i'll to the material prosperity
ent rates Of taxation, shun the city, and keep their
capital out OF it, because Of the terrible pos
city whose municipal Government lodged in separate
departments each Of them disposed to plumber. and
security whatever for its future. They fear that the
INSCRIPTIONS despotism which has brought about
the existing condition OF affairs, viii do here
after. They reason To suppose that those who
have stolen will steal no more and they naturally sup
pose that the present rate of taxation shall
to feed full their uneasured desires for punder
they will find effectual means Of fchag yet more, d-
recty indirectly, from oppressed industry aud I'M
poyerished people. Many who would invest there are
incident TO the domination Of clique whose members
have abundanty shown their disposition 10 extort the
uttermost farhng from poweress people. Many even,
who have lived always In brooklyn have recently with
drawn large portions OF their capital and
sent II elsewhere for investment Brooklyn men
paid S300O0e, last Fall, for some Baltimore gas
works, and Brooklyn man Is known To have recently
withdrawn a handsome fortune from wellocathd city
property, for the purpose OF placing In Boston Al
meeting 0f the property OF single street last
Spring, there eleven who announced tat they
had sold and were selling their property a. RAPIDLY "a
possible because they felt the coming Of practical con
hscaton in the shape OF increased taxation ana enor
ing to impede the growth OF Brooklyn, and many men
hitherto confident OF their cys future greatness speak
most despondngly In of the apparent poweTless-
OF the people in the hands OF the kng