New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-25
BEYOND THE BIG BRIDGE.
WHAT PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN ARE TALKING
ABOUT.


Ward of BROOKLYN told me tn other day tAaf he
wished he had made the change some years ago lie
had no idea he sad that IL was so easy LOT ono oos
business down town In Ncw-Yorh to get TO bis nome
90 the other side Of the East River when went
TO Nncticth-st he remarked, never made the trip
IN lees than afty minutes Now / nearly as far
AWAY and allow only thiriy-ivc minutes TO 60 from
nv house to the Office Besides that. pay a few dol
lars less rent for the house than the fiat cost and as 10
the comparative comfort OF tie two-we there is no
comparison at all. Now my children have some op-
portunty for liberty and outdoor life. fiat in Now
York is no place 10 bring up children. They nave
no freedom whatever The only place they can go
for exercise is the street. and there they must DC
under the constant Of nurse or else be cxposeu
10 the dangers Of association with the bed children that
abound in the streets not to mention the posSipn!
that they may be kidnapped or beguiled away
am advising all my friends to follow my example anu
70 to Brooklyn. OF course, would rather say tna'
j live in New York. and for my part i don't see why
they don't consolidate the two cities'
Ono point rarely taken into consideration when the
comparative ease Of reaching the upper part oil New
York and what are called the outer wards OF brooh-
lyn is canvassed, Is that when one enters car Oh
the Bridge he travels for somewhat over mile "l'h
ont a single stop. In point of time this NOR" 'fah
compensate for the change required when Inc olior
end of the Bridge is reached either into s'reetoa vi
one OF the elevated roads Nowhere In BrooRyn are
those at Chatham Square, Cana-st and Grano-s'''
and as tho trains are not close together Oeer
time ts made The gentleman referred TO in the ioro
going paragraph travels nearly 1--WE miles oe'"oeh
his home and his Office. lie goes by the Union Eie-
waited Railroad to the Sumnerave station Inls
the twelfth station after leaving the brioge Now
the twelfth station on the Thirdave line is at Forty
sevepb-st and on the Sixthave line at Fiftieth-st
This shows how large a part of Brooklyn Is moro
easily accessible TO the lower part OF NewforR than
n cood-sized portion of Manhattan Island The most
striking illustration of this that has come unoer my
notice is the map published in connection with Engl-
ncer welingtons plan for largo station at the New
York end of the Bridge as part OF the Circulating
svstem, which he so ably advocated By series
of circular sections he showed the relative accessibility
fn distance between all of NewYork and considerable
mart of Long Island. This map IS well worm tne
attention OF any interested in the subject, and IL
will be sure TO excite surprise when even casually
studied.
That Captain Kaiser, who resigned from the police
force in order to take the nomination. has been sue
ccs sfill in his campaign for the County Cerkship
matter for profound satisfaction on the part OF he
publicans To win this Office from the Democracy
Is in itself an achievement of no little magnitude
The last time Republican was elected to this once
was in 1861 when John n. Stearns was the succesSf
candidate. Mr.. Stearnss majority was nearly 6O0o,
while Captain Kaiser's plurality is only about 800 The
Republicans Of Kings County will do we'll TO take the
lesson Of Captain Kaiser's success 10 heart He ap
pcaed the German vote, which Is large, While tho
Democrats refused to put German on their ticket
The latter will be likely to repeat this mistake
While Captain Kaiser's majority IS small, 1t Is quite
sufficient 1t is to be hoped that Mr. Cotter VIII
not mako a contest in the courts for the Office. HIS
chance Of winning 1t in that would DO meagre
and a legal struggle office is never an edyihg
SPECTACLE. The only such contest in Brooklyn In re-
cent years that successful was that OF Mr. llv-
ingston against Mr.. Daley for the surrogateship.
Mr. Livingston the suit, recount of the votes
Icing made in court but the precedent is one that
can wisely be neglected.
The question how a private citizen voted is not an
ant one in most instances Ex-Mayor Low.
however left the Republican party with some flourish
of trumpets account of its strong protection plat
form, and It was TO be supposed that he would vote
with the party that advocated free trade under the
comparatively innocuoUs Of tariff reform This
did not prove TO be the According TO the record
of the polling place at No. rs Montague ST., he did
not vote for Presidential Electors at all His father,
A. A. Low, voted the full Republican ticket. The
people of Brooklyn would feel an honest pride IN the
good fortune of their former Mayor should 1t turn
out that he is to be the next president of Columbia
College That he possesses many qualifications fitting
him for that Office is unquestonable.
An incident that recently under my notice
leads me in connection with the exMayor to ask:
What is famel few days before the election
rural reporter had occasion to mention Mr. Lows
name relation to some political affair. In the
"manifod, copy Of his report that was sent TO the
New-York newspapers the amusing announcement was
made that cx- Mayor Sethlo" wrote letter made
a speech, something 10 that effect. The people Of
Brooklyn would hardly have recognized their former
chief magistrate under this designation. Perhaps he
would not have recognized himself
The Board of Aldermen have been engaged in the
reprhensibe practice of changing street names again
This time they have transformed Montgomery-st into
Grant place. Probably of them aware
that they substituting the Of one distin-
guisbed general for another. In this case it must
be said that great harm is done, since the street
IN question is only one block long, and outside Of
the neghborhood few people know anything about it
and care much. But the principle is a bad one.
Especially would the people of Brooklyn cry out in
horror should the suggestion made by of the Alder
at Mondays meeting be carried into effect. This
nothing else than that the Aldermen should
name streets after themselves. There is custom
that has found considerable favor which calls for
the changing of the name Of part of street to
something that sounds more arstOcratic. One of
the latest examples of this fancy the changing
of the upper portion of Raymondst. TO Ashland
place The for this Is that Raymond-st. is
associated in the public mind with the Raymond Street
Jail. so ST. James place is only extension of
Hallst which Itself transformed some years ago
from Houston-st because Houstonst. in NewYork
was not particularly select. The Brooklyn Aldermen
hs>e a yet committed such outrage the New
York Aldermen guilty of when they botted out
historic Chatham ST. and put Park Row In its place.
Ono OF the changes made by them In recent years
was absolutely required that the substitution Of
other for the twelve streets bearing the
First, second etc, in the Eastern District These
were source of constant confusion, the
names arc attached TO streets In South Brooklyn,
where the numerical system is carried out with con-
sistency.
In my reference last Sunday to the good work done
by " The Brooklyn Times" in the political campaign SO
far Queens and Suffolk Counties concerned,