New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-18
WHAT BROOKLYN TALKS OF.
uoprcS OF GENERAL INTEREST IN THE
CITY NE CHERCHES

.o- IN inte val of year and month, another
bas lcfapen the citys waterworEs. Inc
H,irg down of OF the engines at the pumping
D. 4, the Twenty sixth Ward cOuld not have Dce'
sn. Int the possibility OF such an acci1cn WIS
W. t,cseen months ago. and the Aldermen were
f's,ly urged to provide new pumps. Their ohE
70 tlc appeals Of the Mayor the Commissl 'her
s s, Work, and the press To do nothing at all.
VI ~ ev den, that they wanted to be "tonHiatcd"
ON. WAY They protested to see no irimeola'c
.ion for action. AMI 50 the needed PROVISION was
y. u,ce Now The emergency has arisen anu Il
N,ion which may prove serious toniron'S the c "
,noscn pump lifted 100000 gallons OF water
~, ,,to the RidgewOod Reservoir. IL VIII tihe
' 80 week, 10 rera.r the damag'. AMI duihs 'hat
" ,,e Uater supply will be short by the amount
' t,ted except for the quantity of water In reserve
49,, & not great. Not!ng like Il water famine Is
',,oneA but there will be need OF economy III u"
- ~ water for month or more Inc No'r''0n
"a, IN he called TO account In the sharpesl way
compeled 10 take steps instantly W 90 that "Aic"
' s,op,d have done several month"; aCo.
r, nlon for n tunnel from Brooklyn TO New-l orR
s., heen expanded into a plan for tunnel from
r,ohlvn 10 jersey City. and il 1t Is completed New"
v,x will occupy the unique position OF way s'"uo"
,,woen Long Island and New-JcrSey' since '"e
meeting in Philadelphia on Monday the tunhe PROJECT
g., certainly assumed more substantial ana prom
h' ,r than nj any srcvious time. That a tln-
T. feasible and that there are possibilties OF i
largo business through 1t must be adml'eu' Inc
oueson IS whether the necessary captli VIII " pr
,aad for lis construction. The plans appear 10 oc
roll advanced and there are no engineering oospol's
" ,ro uov The tunnel is to run from FlatbuSh and
At,,ntic ayes Brooklyn to the pennsylvania ha'l'
,sd station in Jersey City, but 1t is not to 90 III ii
,a,oht line The answer to question as TO why
.b shortest route /, not chosen wouh be that IL Ia
-. sImD,v 10 be a railway tunnel but VIII Or used
% a large extent Tor local busin"ss-the CARRYING III
,osseneerS between New York and BROOKLYN ana the
reverse II Is laid ont to run under FlatbHS4-aN''
o,d p,,ltop.st as far down rs Pineapple-st whence
:. ,,r,o toward the river passing under Manhattan
I,ora honeath Maiden Lane and CogthndtSt., ana
,ipc directly u NewJelsey. 1t is proposed to have
sations nj God and Fulton SITS. at the CITY liaii anu
Of Clar,, and Fulton SIS. The provision OF new
mod. Of communication with New York viii be OF
great advantage 70 BrooSlyn bnt still more Important
VIII be the placing CT the fourth city OF the 'h'oh
IN direct railway communication with the rest OF the
country.
Tho Rrooklyn ana Brighton Beach Railroad Com
many ms made application to the Board OF Aldermen
far permission to proceed with the construction OF
connecting link between ifs road, which now termi-
Yates at Atlantic and Franklin avcs and the Kings
courtv Elevated Read. 1!ere are only two blocks 10
No covered here Including the crossing OF the TRACKS
Of the Long Island Railroad. When this connection
iS
trther mart Of the Ninth Ward and 10 the town OF
r,,nrss which i ,-,vcrsed by the Brighton Beach
road The carving out OF this plan has been III con
formulation for several years but only now appears 70
have reached practical stage. There ought not 10
be any serious opposition 10 1t. kappa transit LOT
FaIbush would make that town really par OF ue
DIV and would inevitably stimulate the movement iof
Its annexation.
Po,road sypdlcacs and svndicates TO secure control
OF the Gas companies OF the city are attracting
GOOD deal Of notice at present The latter apparently
absorb 20 much Of the attention OF the gas companies
that the companies unable 10 spare any Tine 10
COO that their business is carried in proper way
There is great complaint In certain parts OF the CITY
REGARDING the poor quality of tire gas whfh Is inN
nisbcd II is uniformly bad. but at some times u
Is worse ttan AT Others. Tins has been the case ih
several months past. On some evenings not H"''
than half the usual quantity OF list Il supplied, Nt
that IN some houses recourse has been hod 10 lamp
n order 10 secure Sufficient Hight Gas
hills are smaller than they before tue LegiSla
ture took hand in reducing the price per thousahu
but the companies appear to be getting even Win
the consumers by furnishing very poor quality oil gp
and very little OF II. Is there no remedy TOT uss
syndicate controlling all the companies will meal
nermanent improvement in the character OF the ga
,,,nnlsd Il would be welcomed by the people III gen
eral.
In the names and groups q nsmes OF the strce'
~ Brooklyn there IS large and interesting hci'
for study While the streets are without that res
ularity which m1r6s those cities which nave oee'
laid ont 10 order rather than those which hav
naturally expanded and at length taken "it'ih thcr
limits a number Of distinct villages, certain syS
ten lhas been pursued, here and there at least II
the naming Of BroOkynS thorouslfhres. one sig
nincant group is found in the Scvchtcchth warn
where series OF street names runs Appalachian!
from TO O.. with a single break. Another Is II
the Twenty fourth Ward where the names OF con
siderable number Of cities Of this State are a't"chf
to the streets beginning with New-iok ana br"oA
Ign and then following, in the main the line OF w
New-York Central and Hudson River Railroad !
smaller group and one much loss Nhely 10 atTac
attention is what n ~ - termed the Guhernatorls
croup The streets comprising 1t are In the Twenty
first and Twenty third Wards, and there are onl,
FIVE Of thern-four now TO be precise. East
Nosirand-avc. are five avenues originally nance
after Governors Of New .Iork-Marc!, Tompk!ns
Tlroop Yates and Lewis ayes. Not few OF th