New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-17
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
HE NINTH AVENUE coMPANY's RIGHTS.


At.mnorarv Injunction was granted Yesterday by
Justice Donohue. in the Supreme Court, CnanVers.
rcstrainiug the Mayor and Aldermen an, ana iu f
n Thompson Commissioners of Public Works, from
taking any steps 10 prevent the Ninth Avenue Rail
way Company from laying It's track along the
Ronleyard lief wcen Sixty fcurth-st. and the Harlem
River Ii is alleged III tho papers upon which the
Injunction was granted that in 1888 William
Radior,l and others secured the right by rcsolu-
fion OF the Board of Aldermen to build railway
from Fiftv-rst-st and Ninth ave to Gansevoorts ST..
thence TO GIeenwch-st., and thence to battery
place and through Westinghouse. back to the place
of starting. Ii also provided that the ROAD
could be extended from Fitty-hrstst. through the
Bloomingdale Road and Tenth ave- TO the Harlem zen
River vi hen the streets in tnat part OF the CITY ai
been graded. The road has already extended 10
Slxty-fourh-st, and IT is asserted that puenc con,
yenience requires that it be now extenden 10 .ns
Harlem River. In March last application was
made to the Commissioner OF Public WORKS IoI POI Of
mission to tear up the streets Tor the puLpVsoa
layr, the track The Application wa" o,cr 70 the
June The plaintiffs thereupon sent notce W .h0
Commissioner that they shonld lay tho siaU h,
ont his permission then right 10 90 50 wa 49, 80
sbonla canse the arrest of every workman found
ENGAGED in tearing up the streets without proper
permit line :; |r1er m ie ON Monday next
An officer of the company said last night that the
work would probably be under way III shor. tlIe;
lint that nothing positive could be asserted .untll
advice was received from John Scribner, IT,, the
attorney 70: the company who IS not now ID .ne
city. The claim of the ComInis sioner Was uhuer-
stood to he that the charter under which the COM
panv assumes the right 10 extend It's nhe was
granted more than twenty wears ago; ana also .nas
since the privilege bestowed upon the company was
10 Law ITS tracks through Broadway no rsht accruoS
10 IL to make use of the wldened ana imPio1Neu
thoroughfare now known as the Douev aru, l. 70
ur0ed ON the contrary. that while the INSTRUMENT
itself was granted more THAI twenty years aso
the provisions of the charter 2ow Teneu upon VIII
by express words TO become available only Wneu
the upper part of Broadway, through wmcn .,ie
right of way is claimed should be graded AS the
grading was done within twenty years IL 10
esSerted that the ri ghts now claimed have not ex-
stcd for twenty years and cannot therefore DC eA-
tingushed by lapse OF time.
ANOTHER UNSOLVED MURDER MYSTERY.
Coroner Merkle held an inquest Yesterday after
noon i'll the of the unknown jew VINO was
found with his throat cut in Pleasant-aNe,, near
Observation-Disclosures, on August t. Police
man William Reagan testified as TO hndIng the
body. lie said there were no Signs OF there having
been any scnfle. The body was lying In the ousl
i'm the middle of the road. razor lay lew deet
70 one side having little blood on the handle The
clothing OF the was III part covered WIN
,nud Int not at all torn or disturbed, and his
hat lying near, was perfectly clean Deputy
Coroner MESSENGER stated that he had examined tue
body and found the throat cut all the way arouhu
10 the spinal column There was also large DIuhSe
over the left temple He said that 1t could not nave
been case of suicide as 1t would nave Deen lpI 3
sible for The man TO have inflicted the brse on me
temple after the throat was cut or to nave cur MS
throat with the razor after fracturlng Inc tempe
There were no rocks or stones near lle spot whore
the body was found by winch the brulse could nave
been inflicted. Several persons living by testified
fiat they had heard noise or
disturbance on the night before the body was found
Coroner Merkle then stated to the jury that he had
examined the body, and that the deceased man vas
Jew. HIS hands soft, While his hnger-nais
were long and carefully cut, showing that he was
not wOrkingman. In accordance with the COR
oners Instructions the jury rendered verdict that
the TO his death from injuries lhllcted Dy
unknown persons ~,
No ciew to the nUrdercrs has been found by the
police as Vet. The nelghboThOod where the DOdy
was found is considered dangerous One and the
murder, 1t Is thought. was the WORK OF gang OF
rufilans
WHEN WILL THE BRIDGE BE FINISHEDf
letter from Chief Engineer ROebing, of the
New-lork and Brooklyn Bridge, giving lbs reasons
for beliey ing that the structure Will not be COLI
pleted by March 81, 1888, If 1t Is next year. was
made public by Henry G. Murphy. president of the
Trustees Yesterday. Ii would have been LAID before
the trustees at their August meeting If O quorum
had been present. The letter bears date July s. two
days before the July meeting OF the trustees when
letter was received from lir. RoebhDg expressing
his inability TO come IRON Newport 10 the meeting
of the trustees ill Brooklyn. In his letter Mr. Roeb-
ling says;
The question to when the bridge can be finished is
hedged about with so many probabilities that any es-
innate upon tnat Deee can am on &c an9 S A.
tell 1t will be che latter part OF next year before
yer1es of steel and as sellers has broken every
he n S To @Se G he VIII Grns the balance S
MIR sellers uuder no bonds OF any KIND and ne Is not
making money his contract with US so see no reason
wiz he will be in haste 10 furnish with steel.
II every piece OF steel actually IN the brldgeyard
the rsses could be put up III three months Had the
bridge been there would have been no delay
i'm supplying missing pieces could buy them at
some other mil but being OF steel this cannot
be done. am well aware that Mr. Sellers mas had ex
traordDary difficulties 10 overcome III the manufacture
OF the various shapes have required, ana make no
DELAYS incident that II is aHodable delays
winch are so CALLING and costly. The specifications FOR
the terminal structures the bridge are now ready
1t Wall take year from the time TINS contract Is
given complete these structures 10 get up the
rope driving machinery will take over year. Besides
erecting Of the superstTucuTc there Is nuc
other work which Will go at the same time. The whole
rIveted together and regulated
and the over under floor stays put up. The noOrs
have to laid and the whole structure painted several
times After all the weight OH the suspcnders aud
caI be let If by October next see any reason for
views and extending this time, Wall make
another report On tue subject
Mr. Murplys weekly report of the work done last
week sho ed that the last of the floor beams be-
longing TO the slip joints and just received from
Edgemoor have been put Ill place also, eighty
seven intermediate floor beams have been put up.
All the Intermediate 1oor beams required Tor the
bridge, except one, have now been received Fifty
eight bridging trusSeS have been erected III scat
tered lots. FOrty-One promenade floor beams have
been put III place and IN order. Inc balance OF the
over floor stay irons have been placed III the top OF
the towers ready for the attachment of over HOor
STAYS SIX OF the large under floor stays, forming
portion of the system of stays designed To prevent
any lateral OF The bridge, have been placed,
and the Will be put up fast as the russeS are
completed"
DR. JOHN +. GRAY'S WILL.
The will of the late DR.. John Franklin Gray
fled Yesterday for probate In the Surrogates Office
Dr. GRAY Dequeathed to his nephew, Augustus G
Hull his edition of the Latin classics by LIE Mares
and other Latin books together with the bookcase
in which they are kept, with his blessing and