New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
SUNDAY EDITION.
MARCH ID, 1888.
The BLOOMINGDALE STREETS.
FOR AND AGAINST OPENING THEM.
THE SENATE COMMITTEES INVESTIGATION GoEt
ON-FIGURrs ABOUT The ASYLUM.

| THE SENATE COMMITTEES INVESTIGATION Coca
oN-FIGURrs ABOUT THE ASYLUM.
Only one member of the Senate Committee on
Taxation, Chairman Vedder supported by his
frail-lookng stenographer, appeared at the Cham
Der of Commerce rooms yesterday 20 continue the
Boomingdale Asylum inquiry. Senators Lang
bein and Foley arrived and took their seats be-
fore the adjournment. James NJ. Brown, Cor
nclius n. Bliss, jackson S. Schultz, Joseph IL.
Choate, w. p Mitchell and many Others inter
ested on the side Of the management were pres
ent Charlton NJ. Lewis continued to act as
counsel for the committee; MesSrs. Olmstead and
BXby represented the memorallsts and John L..
Cadwallader the respondents Assemblyman Con-
nelly and Alderman Conkling also present.
Mr.. Omstead opened by introducing detailed
schedule of original charter and all the acts Of
Assembly regarding the Society of the New-York
Hospital and the reports of the management for
the past five years Then Mr. Cadwallader pre-
scented the answer of the governors, signed by
James NJ Brown, president, and Daniel &. Rol-
Inns and John l. Cadwalader, counsel AS
epitomized by Mr. Cadwallader, it takes up each
of the eight points charged against the society
by the memOriasts the MOrnlDgsidc Park AS
ISOLATION, and deals with them In turn.
AS TO the first and second points, the right OF
visitation by the State authorities and the ques-
tion of perpetual succession, the opinions Of
A. SchoOnmaker, j., when Attorney cncral IN
1870, and Of William NJ Lyarts and Charles
OConor are given IA full. On the third polnD
the answer asserts that the asylum IS pubic
charity in the most enlig htened sense, and that
the charges thcnc for board and treatment arc
only according TO ability 10 pay.
THE AsYLUM's RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
a schedule Of the real aud personal property
is given IN the reply to the fourth point, and the
declaration is made that to maintain the hospital
It is necessary than the streets, from Onc-hundrcd
and-fourtecnth to Northumberland twentieth,
running through the grounds must De KEEP closed
Public interests must largely outweigh those oil
very few lndIlldua
The answer attacks the memorial ~ made mp
largely Of m.s,tatencnts Interpretations AID over
estimates as to the value OF the property. Inc
total income Of Bloomingdae Asylum from 1883
10 1887 4, given at 81 .Ol g. so 81, and the Total
expenditure for the same period sl,o24,632 22,
showing an excess Of eApendltures over receipts
of 3l13,l IS IS. During this time the institution
accommodated 2,Os6 patients, varying from H5o
an one time in ss3 To 2o3 in 1891 IN 1893
there were non-paying inmates III leei, -
in 1855, IL; IN 1856, 20; III le5h = ana u
having patients is az present 300. OF il 50. ID)
pay sl3 as per week. or less one hundred pay
more than the average cost of maintenance, WAicn
is 81 per week. he surplus goes ioF hilatieS,
Improv, mcnts, repairs and general expenditures
The income from rents is sl55207. During the
mast 1--WE vcar, 1921. 600 has been paid in taxes,
and I'm assessments S336, 900. Awards Tor DAM
ages amounted 70 81 $4,000.
George > L",pinasse the weli-ln0wn rea' -
tate DiOktI lfsilhru III ~ .'AA ''-'''
questions that the closed strc'is, from one-
hundred and.fftccnth Il t. Onc-hgndre an tw u.
ticth-st were great public Inconvenience and
maternity drurrciated the value of property. 20
would he made in that part OF the
city, he said while the lunatlc asylum remained
there The value of real estate OH AL SIDES OF
the Institution had increased larPly-ln some
parts it had doubled and trebled IN the last SIX
years The as,lu property had received great
and eNcerti nj advantages from IN I'M nroN ehleh's
made IN Nornnpsde ana Riverside PARKS.
MR. STOKES FAyoRs oPrNING 1HE IRrFTS.
W + u Stokes of No 81 Madson-ave who said
he WAS a builder and made loans TO builders, gave
il as his opinion that if the streets were cut
through the property would be worth $1,000
lot or more. No INCREASE IN value could be eA-
pectcd while the asylum remained Bot4 these
witnesses were >hlrpy cTOss-eAi manned Dy .lr tau-
Nyaader, and Mr. Stokes IN reply said that me
time had come to remove the asylum. He would
give time for the removal of the institution, my
One hundred and-iifteenth and one lurdted-ani
.ixtconth SIS should be cut through at once.
Senator NtGuer asked why On-llritcd- ana.
,iXtccuth-st. was not OleLcd. Nj - KS r. Cd
HAT the asylum kept il clCs.d lie thought there
was less need for opening tho cathedral property
thon that of the asy lUm. George \. SCOTT gave
similar testimony aud said that some - thege
would rise IN yaue 70 $4,000 e"cu II ne asylum
were removed and thu streets opened
Tie last witness was Assembly, ah Come. y, "a
whose district the asylum IS. W Connolly de-
iyercd set speech. in which b. asserted tie
universal dasira of his consrtcc for r oneni,
IF the str,ctr and the removal of the asyi N. NJ.
T advHladar mildly objected to the Assent hranS
,npearance o., "a witness under tho circumstances.
Hartman Nrldor adjourned the hearing until neF
Saturday at IL a. m