The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-12

ene CIV hAd always paid Onehalf the expense.
nut apon the company. ana to construct
tlme the people are TO be Kept, waiting for this
work. -Four million people are brought annually
TO the Grand Union depot. aud Is this vast number
OF people to be lnconvenienced by the schemes or
some twenty thousand property specuators2 He
would vote for the original plan as being the most
feasible and most equitable ana just There was
now living on this line only one man VINO owAed
THE HARLEM RAILROAD COMPANY
secured their right to ITS use, and all who now own
property on that line purchased their property with
a full knowledge OF this fact.
Mr., SMITH followed stating that he had heard
TINS question Iuliy discussed before the committee.
and was convinced that the city should not stand
any o! the expense Of this Improvement and that
Mr. MoUIr0N spoke OF this matter az being one OF
me greatest Importance but he SAID 1t w0uld be
1ee b 70 ADOPT no plan at all than the one
beck's amendment would give all the relief neces
sary and Just what the people wanted.
MT. WHTrBECK denied that the company had
vested right in this line They held OF lease
I'LL 1850. he answered the objection that 1t would be
unjust TO require the COMPANY to Fink the track at
the depot. He said the company owned eight acres
Of land there which used simply for the storage
poor economy. lie would run these cars into Gel
lar and erect superstructurc which would yield
the company to slDK their tracks there. The earth
excavated even would be valuable for filing ada
| cent lots
Speaker SMITH said he might not be well enough
versed In the details OF these plans 10 be able IN
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slderatlon which he thought he understood 1t was
that mere was proposition to take and destroy one
G wda nam 81 o 20 dg qSa my
locomotives vomiting forth their sparks ana smoke
TINS destroying tue avenue TO the people. This
though 1 ~ SsDs' sas II .@A '0'' ""'1'
| 49,. 90" A COVERED TUNNEL Z.
and thus preserve the street TO the citizens lie I'M
derstQ0d mat the very people who proposed to con.
siruct an underground railroad wero shocked at
THIS Idea OF tunnel for this road. They could buld
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only four miles long was to them preipos pos.
I nHSKiSs nsstea bat this company ala not
own this avenue; they simply had the use Of It, and
moment the nuisance Is liable to removal ana sup
preston, and they nad made nuisance there al.
here and ask tnat the city q" New
har the expense Of continuing their nuisance. lie
was for forcing this company 10 slnk their tracks.
Mr. FiaLDs said DC ought TO Know something Of
As TO this railroad being nuisance, SO long Us tho
company keeps Within The limits OF us charter ~ i
rl:ns or power has ,nis Legislature to force TINS
company to depress It's Lracksp IL has
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
TO use this avenue, and then, by what power can
those rights ana privileges pc interierea with lie
oas he Ran Sa not s psss
adopt o the pan pronosed IN the 6lli, and
the other tasn let me oner come
ne assured the gentleman from New York tMr.
n aa nc was Ia earnest 10 securing as
WAS located IN the section where this Improvement
was to &c made and wa s. i9r na
10 what he could here Tor the beneft OF al ths
people IN the ely and out OF IT. As 70 the cost. tas
people was urged upon them, asSei that
| THE PEOPLE PAY oNE-HALF
OF the expense, and they would pay the other half
ana no c19snGsh ahat the Yer, @ me gen
4 stand portion Of the expense. Inc city VIII benefit
/ By securing large increase In improvements, ana
consequently, Increased taxes
Mi. WHITBECk said he mad said this plan would
damage property and decrease taxation.
Mr.. FIELDs-Wlli the gentleman say that, in his
Judgment Is an expert III real es,ate2
Nj. w uIfBECK-rhat Is my Judgment
Mr.. FIELDs-Tnon am surprised at the gentle
constra ned 10 say that he must have depended
upOn the Judgment o, others III his operations. He
inen proceeded to discuss the question as TO the
efsc. 'he Improvement would have upon real es.
tate bur sad he, II small go for the gentleman's
60 ior me bin! Is 10 building tdis is road Conn;
mOdore Vanderbilt wants 10 bald let him build
ana another and another win be called for. He
was not asra a OF SPEEDY transit plans being
the railroad system OF this country would not De
complete un!ii you take up passengers ut San
mercial metropolis, and that was At the City Hall;
for That was really the centre Of the business Of
translis, quick ana convenient and every body pro.
posing 10 construct them sDould have his vote.
that the company owned the street, read tho ordi.
nance granting the right OF way 10 the company,
when sad thar whenever the road inierfered with
or Ob5trucsed the street they shall remove their
, tracks at their own Expense.
M. foley stated that the company se-
! cured the right OF way for their road through
/ farms, &c, the same as other railroads, ana mud
Increased greatly IN their business. Finally when
I THE GRAND UNION DEPOT
was bnilt SPECTATORS bought property IN
1 Is vicinity, with the expectation that is
would increase on their hands. In this,
however. they mad been disappointed, and now
they brought this means TO eject rise. he was
the sole canse Of the trouble Now the companJ
really and willing TO DO what 1t consistently and
reasonably could do. and therefore submit plan
which will double the value Of this adjacent prop
erty. What more than fhis can ne askedf Property
owners wonld he benefited. the city secure add
ti0aai taxes, and the oeope greatly convenenced.
| Tho committee then rose and reported progress.
! Mr.. BLAIR moved that the bill lie referred 10 the
New York delegation lOr perfection. Lost 30 TO SO.
! The bill was tAen maze the special order for 10
4 morrow morning.