The sun., 1872-03-01
LONG ISLAND CITY'S RING.
OPERiTTON ora TAMNANY CROWD
fCROSS THE RIYER.


The Union College Real Estate Superb En-
Ein"cring in II Great salt Marsh Planting
swamp with Taxpayers aud Renping n
Harvest of Creoubncks.
Just ucross Thirty-fOurth street ferry
Hes tho FRS, Ward OF Long Island city, botter
known "a "iIuntcrs Point" Jnul recently
Huntcr, Point was anything but n promising
settlement hut It's close prpHimity to New York
made II hci o. otigh swampy one, for specu-
Iation. a gre Il paft uf tho territory was taken
NJ by an ecclesiastical collegiate corporation
known n- Union College, having its headquarters
at Schenectady. The college corporation. al
ready rich a second Trinity on u small scale
sold lots 10 poor men long time and at high
prices, and fast RS It receive the proceeds of
these sales, applied them to improving IT, prop
erty b. nlng In The native swamp, and convert
ing II into jsrro f,m0.
Nrw FIELD ron TAMMASY POLITICIANS
This good management rapidly produced good
fruit, the swamp gradually disappeared, and
where steamboats, II large tonnage ten years ago
safely navicated, lines Of street railroad are in
operation. Population began to how in, manu-
features on an extensive scale wcro established,
and finally, also, politicians of the most ad-
vanced New York grade. and generally Tam
many graduates pitched their tents there, aud
lol Long Island city was the result.
In 1s} one of the rising 81 ate men Of Hunters
He was Ia fact sent there Ivy the votes of his
Tsndc l to represent them " the Leglslatute;
that duty faithfully, II not conscientlously.
Mindful Of the needs of tho inf.ntile municipal
aware Of its great want of better communication
with the territory % the interior, from which it
moras hc at once introduced bill fur the con-
structi9n ot road frem the foot II Fast Second
streel. IN the First ward Of Long Island city,
f4,jiU feet.
TANNAHV OPERATION ~. 4.
The blll. though not ia any manner framed In
accordance wlth the Napolecnic code. was, new
erthelcss, IN almost every respect Napoloonic In
the stl 10 Of ies. despotlc provisions. II named
Covert, and Titus NJ Evans, with full power to
carry ont the Improvement 10 assess damages
ADVANTAGES to accrue to slch property, asscss all
costs charges, and cSp snscs ~ laying out. opcn-
ing, and constructing the road. building bridges,
culyerts, Sc. one-half Of the total expense OF
said IMPROVEMENT was tp be charged to the
The other half TO the taxable property, real and
personal, Of the town or Newtuwn. The act fur
ther directed the CommlsSioners to make a
statement TO the Board OF supcry 'ors Of Queens
county OF the amount Of damages. costs
charges, and expenses Of laying out, opening,
the SuperyisogS 10 CaJsc .ho amount so stated
60 ho ,S!el and colsctcd HE other iaxeS. On
Dec. T.. ld'. tho Commissioners presented
their aiai'ment which rau this way:
iifGges sni Coz. Of road eon.,.a tt5o
TAuIArY OPERATION ~ II.
The report was approved. and In accordance
With the provisions Of the sct. onc-half the az
grcgatc Cost, $3.50, was allowed against thr
town 4f Newtown. ald put ia the tax levy for
iSiN. the othcr half heluR assessed on the prop
erty adjoining to and boncftcd by the Improve
ment For all this nsu,ins and reporting the
pittanoo of a. per day each Tho sct was passed
May !, icos, and gave them until July |, 1852 to
complete tn improvement; 50 that admitting
tnhL tnfll MuFk WAS ht the next day.
thai they worl ci Sundays. this would give
f2,iCO IN all u good example Of the economical
ideas that animated The framor 81 the bill Hut
the bc,t laid measure, in check cxtrnvnganSe
ottcn Prove iuil', Un1 90 II happened In this
particu'ar insiantc.
TAM,fASy oPrRtrgOS SO. M.
Aftcr the Commi>.ioa-rs' re,rrn was made to
tho board OF Su ,eryisufs, and tu1 am5,.nt of
their estimates fur this oue-piile road ts8j 100
allowed, the ,.orl. Of thc Board wrs comrlstcd.
ana MY had no iniher !. w'r 10 allowa cent.
talned probably hy private ,on'u.ation, would
De a a n,L,a uassstny t""irI arriving out th'ir
to explain. consisted Ia clrt'us and dumping on
apertcrt'y level plain enough dir md coat Of
gravel to made 4 roadNay. and ercc'irg q couple
ot rough ana very ordinary wooden hridgca
across Nv crooks tie Nides, of which does not
Further legislation" was found ab.oiutely
necessary. and. In lStl supplementary hNl was
pushed through which at on'c !, !icyri the Com
pissioners Of all emtarras sluca; IN monetary
way. II authorized them to certify to the SUI
ItINl~tiN from lUif 10 time tne amount which
DrtMhe IHr under the contracts made In lur-
tu1nce Of the act Of lsdS. and iurther provided
that should ttcre not be suficen: mo-
ney Va the Treasury To- pay u" amounts go c,rti
he'd The SUI ep ,sCI. sE uuld issue bonds counter
signed by the Town CLERK To liqul,ilte the in-
This fixed the thing The Commis.ioner- had
unlimited power to " ceftify," end tho SUPER
VsQrs and Town ClciK sort II compulsory
authority to grind out bonds. and e'epthius
worked I, cASiin; The road was flushed. the
h,,idise, ,,i !, hHii, ana h9Hily thc erluou, a.
4uWn Clerk were brought Ia nu Vnd.
TAMMANY OPERATION No.N.
And no" as 20 the sequel The La. act tho
b9na!ng proyis!on-.a, = prccautiou asa'n,g pos
should make 3 final ,ePort 10 tie Doard II super
yisurs when the " pr,, vas hnilhcd. giving a full
statement OF their doin-s.
That repo,t was Wade some time ago aud &C
ceptcd by the Board, the mcmhsts 4 Which AZ
thc S 1i KS i'G"p"n spH'Ht t. M hay hgn
report ana estimates h1nted in.
TAMNASY oPLRATIoN so. v.
tn, nrst report gave the total cost st sGi,i10,
which was at one" assessed and levied for the
ever sate Sn % 4tsed S a aS61l G NJ no S'h3c 6c
expenditure ~ doiils tot III, road. But under
The elastic Ir'l,lors ~ TIE supplementary
report:
MaSSrnf rq3d... '2'sg7n .
tnsin" "ra.A u't. .or- fe0i.. ............ 3+' ul
L4s.s ana caNe. ................ 2,,o 10
And now 'io Wr telri taylr.er of Ncw-
town. "A very weal'hv 'n,ru at fh.t. whose bonds
met sE u g,..,l' AMI ai,oErtNrt unexpected
sale. Hto rruNI.4,.g. aui Eu.u originated a rr-
form ut-tlf-,iau. The L'n. th.t They Clmuls-
..uucrH p ,-la.tytu'. rnl even tg.ltS about
"a, e.r,. 1a ~ tGc sct ,a fnc.ay AlEas.yy. lEE.y'
upro 4',i n.l '"-' ..a'' d. t'tri &" private li'"--
ana. I... . q. . f..Hr ffH .t