The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-10-02
RAPID TRANSIT'S FOES.
ACTION OF THE GRAND JURY IN REGARD TO
THE METROPOLITAN ELEVATED RAILROAD

ACTION OF THE GRAND JURY IN REGARD TO
THE METROPOLITAN ELEVATED RAILROAD
A STRANGE pREsENTMENT.
The mountain has at last borne a mouse. and tho
Grand Jury came In yesterday with ''prssentment, +"
whose original ideas unique grammar Will invoke
general attention As will be seen from list OF the
Grand Jurors and their residences published further
below, many OF them live very close to Sixth avenue
lis remarkable TACT that when Drs. Fordyse Barker
sayre and several others last week were called and
ready to testify that the noise was not injurious TO
health ihey dismissed with the peremplory an
nouncement that tho Grand jury had already made
up their minds and would hear further testimony
while on the very day they heard at length Dr.
Chamberlain, who got up that famous petition Of
Ihirty-nve sawboncs, and General vele the engineer
and well known opponent OF the road Of old standing
PREsESTMExT.
The presentmcnt reads US foilows:-
TO TINE nosoeAsLE Coumr or SESSIONS IN AND FOR THE
Tue Grand Inquest for the county Of New York re-
ps oSwa cav ,ns int
received receive. = petition signed ny very large
annoyances discomvrts to which they
sus,se.ea BY the Metropolitan Elevated Aairoaa ANA
comp have ON carefully
.Hy opinion
s ~ ss Of
n lhoroushare Ne Sixth avenue was most unfortunate
ssislsure OF the state could have anticpated the
the road un woS aS1 Sea
But while the Grand Jury believe that Any road on Sixth
violation Of the rights OF and
many evils Of Unnecessary xy
and ought 10 be remcdeant The dropping Of oil and
essary is the generation OF the unwhoes aud
and the cars themselves
Tho great and overshaaower evil which more than all
others makes the road an unnitisated ana perpesa.
separable from such raDle part
tn o Eve Do Ir s
or within 200 eet OF it, Is most ntoieraoie nuisance
quiet when from the small number Of passengers
At ALL it certainly violates that provision Of tue charter
which trains to be run III sueh manner n 70 cause
jacent and upon the streets through which the railway
Tho Grand Jury therefore, would the Metropoi
tan Elevated Railroad rs public nuisance IN its unp.ra
safety anu health and they earnestly request the Court TO
IN order that steps may be taken to redress an OUTRAGE
toned had its enoImty realized ihe Grand jury
opinion that esimna Processing not tho way 70
aeste the nuisance nn.ess others fail ana they ne CON
the courts and By the Lesi;lasa,e :, .ucys ro.
CHARLES y. KENT, Clerk
GRAND JURORS
The following Is list OF Grand Jurors who pre-
sented this singular document
David P. Francis, foreman, No II Aston place.
William Christie, No. LOT West Eleventh street.
Herman Gufen, No los Madison avenue.
Jacob Goldsmith, NO LAT West Forty-second street
John Mccarthy, No. Al Morton street.
Adolph Ku4ter, No. 234 West Twenty-ffth street.
Richard 4. DSna, No. l46 West Fourteenth street.
James Parshai, Washington avenue. corner OF Filth
street, MorrisanIa
James A. smith, No. 20 irving place.
John Pyne, NO. 23l East Thirty dtth street.
Henry simpson, No 226 wooster street.
Robert Dorset No. West Thlrty-ninth street.
David M Koenler. No. 10 East Twenty seventh