New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-07
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
WHERE SHOULD THE STORES BE BUHTP
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ADOPTS REPORT
AGAINST BOWLING GREEN - Ak6U'
MFNTs AS TO THE BEST SITE

NFNTS AS TO THE BEST SIZE
REPRESENTATIVES of the dry goods and tho grocery In
terests assembled in force 1t the Chamber OF COM
merce meeting yesterday which had been called TO con-
slider the repoN of special committee Win regaru "
the purchase OF a site for new Custom House. APP
nraiser,s stores and Assay Office. circular had been
sent out TO the dry goods and grocery traders saying
that the downtown real estate men were endeaVorins
to have all these buildings erected In Bowling Oreeh'
for the benefit Of that neghborhood and to inc ae'
ment of those trades further uptown. There was a
large attendance at the meeting President JOSIAH
NJ Fiskc presided The report Of the special commit
toe was presented I'm October II was signed Dy JACK
son S schultz and James NJ. Constable. IL ala ho'
favor so for tho Appraisers Stores near 'n' %"
terv on the ground that 1t would mako necessary 'no
CARRYING Of packages two or three niles ana pa0A ~
the stores OF the importers, through narro" suo0'
causing delay and Inconvenience, as well as 10 u~seo
to goods through frequent handling inc roPoi' u'u
not tvc mucb attention the removal OF tho custom
House. considering that the present building couio 10
enlarged by additional stories to meet all oenahus i
some timo to come A.
Mr. Constable discussed the proposed site Oh the Ap
nra,ser,s stores warmly. He thought to meet tho dc
mands O, trade and for many years TO come inc
s,,e slould be somewhere between Tenth and Iwen'-
eth SIS near the North River. He had petition 10
that effect. signed By 374 merchants. I. H. minu
muller however, thought the bowling Oicon
site would be the most favorable for all inter-
ests and he proposed an amendment u INC
committees report, by which the property could DO
condemned by a commission. Alexander f. orr'
of the Produce Exchange, agreed with Mr. Windmuler
on the Bowling Green site, but he Thought tho
appropriation Of 81. 100000 was not large enough 10
secure this property. He urged that the maucr DC
referred back TO the committee and an appropriation OF
100000 DO asked for. Alfred Conkling said that
nothing could be expected Of the present Admnisua
ton and 1t was useless to discuss the question now
Isaac Phillips objected to tho delay Of recommtta
and moved as a substitute that the report OF william
J. Fryer jr., the United States superintendent OF
Repairs, which accompanied the committees report,
and which favored the downtown site, should be
adopted.
Francis B. Thurber believed that the report should
at onco be acted upon. Mr.. Constable added that u
| now was a Journey of six miles for some OF the
merchants Of the city TO so to the Appraisers stores
and back John Sloane said that the business cen'le
now was at Bleeckerst and Broadway in a few years
1t would be above Fourteenth-st He urged that the
site for should be the large steamship
piers. James McCreery thought IL would DO better
10 bring the Custom House uptown with the stores,
! than to take the stores downtown with The custom
House. TIE site should be selected, he insisted, as
far uptown possible, between canal ana twenty
third SITS. ~
pairs explained his views OH the Bowling Green site
broadway would be. he said, the only wide street
completed, Church-st., and probably Greenwich,st.
would be widened. The Goyernemnt would introduce
the lighter system" conveying cases by tugs. and tho
| whole method would be more compact and simple
Nathaniel Niles argued that the dIy-gOods interests
were not the only ones 10 be consulted Broadway, at
the Battery he compared 10 the eye Of the city, and
the most accessible from all parts There were from.
steel leather, sugar and chemical interests 10 be con
| sidered well as dry goods interests Mr.. Thufber
said that the bulk of the trade and the carting was
above Chambers ST., and the trades below that street
took samples 10 the Appraisers Stores, not the bulK
of their goods and consequently did not have the delay
Of trucking.
A final vote was taken tho substitute and the
! amendment having been lost, and the report was
adopted by twenty-five to thirteen Copies were Or
deled be the National officers at Washington