The evening world., 1892-05-12
BETTER The CITY.
Timely Tips for the Improve
ment of Brooklyn.
Some Sage Suggestions from
Evening World " Readers.
For the Best Gold Double Eagle
Will Be Given.
Information Wanted.

IGSoRAScE-W What is most needed In Brook
lyn is WORLDS Information Bureau.
A Friend of Clean Streets.
JACOB ROSENBERG, 100 Flushing avenue
Clean streets Is about the best Improvement
Tor Brooklyn that can suggest
TrucFs IN the streets.
JOHN r. MILLER, 600 East Fifteenth street
II think there ought to be some law COM
pelling truck and cart owners to have their
carts and trucks removed from streets when
not In use, especially on sunday, as 1t would
make the streets looks cleaner.
SttH the Crv Is Inme1atiom.
PH. K.-To improve Brooklyn; have 1t an
nexed to New York City. The citizens OF the
combined cities should elect able and honest
men to rule. They Will suggest suitable laws.
ways and means and will have them carried
out honestly.
Streets aud Ferrv- Bodts.
NJ. Mc.-I think the first improvement
Brooklyn ought to have is good cobble stones
in several streets; second, and most neces-
sary, is to have more fcrry-boats running, so
that persons going tlere from business would
reach home at earlier hours. II this improve.
ment was made many New Workers would
reside in Brooklyn in preference TO elsewhere
The Atlantic Avenue Rodd.
J.J. H., Fulton Street.-The greatest need
OF Brooklyn is depressed steam railroad on
Atlantic avenue. The surface steam road at
present in use IS a nuisance to pedestrians
and others using the crosstown cars. This Is
made manifest by the tedious delays occa-
stoned by the closing OF the gates at the cross
ings which effectually blocks all traf1ic until
the train or trains have passed. In summer
several times during the day for fully quar-
ter OF an hour or more at time the gates are
closed, when the trains for Manhattan Beach,
Long Island, Rockaway Beach and Rapid
Transit trains come up or down at the same
time. Brooklyn needs many improvements,
but know OF none OF more Importance at the
present time than the one have suggested.
Lots of Bridges and Tunnels.
TT ToMPsoS, ia Cambridge place-Flrst
annex Long Island City, Newtown, Jamaica
and the balance OF Kings County as prelim-
mary step to its consolidation with the
Greater New York. To bind the twin cities
with bands of steel tunnel should be con-
structed from staten Island TO Bay Ridge and
a depressed track railroad run through the
suburbs to Long Island City, there to connect
with bridges or tunnel to New York. This
would bring freight and passengers to Brook
lyn and through freight and passengers 10
the North and East. To connect with this
road and local traf1ic q depressed track and
bridges from South Ferry up Atlantic street
and q short underground connection with the
present bridge, the bridge TO have two sta
tionS, the present one and one on Johnson
this station should be demolished, leaving an
open plaza For local Improvement, all cob
ble-stOne streets, instead OF being relaid,
ought to have asphalt pavement put on them,
similar to what surrounds the Adelphi Acad-
emy. Lighting should be owned and con-
trolled by the city, same as water, and the
desert spot IN the northern part OF Washing
ton Park should oe soaded with grass like a
common.
Anent tho Eerries.7
L.J.-1he suggestions offered by the anxio
improvement readers OF your paper remind
me OF the average youth, who generally at
tempts to cross the bridge before 1t is reached
The majority OF those Offering suggestions
for the Improvement OF Brooklyn, in my opin
ion, use the Catherine Ferry In crossing iron
Brooklyn to New Y ork, and vice versa. There
fore, what can have the preference for i'm
provement over this compulsory means o
transportation for the poorer-though not by
any means the worse--casS or people. Wher
these ferries were constructed probably the
majority or people were unable to read, bu
to-day 1t is Just the reverse, and II Is, indeed
degrading to notice the signs For Men anC
"For Women" on entering ferry. Beside!
this, the general appearance OF these ferries
and their accommodations could be greatly
improved upon. When these improvement!
are done the GOwanus Canal must be flleC
and a railroad for the transportation OF tn,
various articles built In It's stead, whereby
the people residing in the neighbornood o
the present canal will be permitted to breath,
freely and cease envying the people OF othel
vicinities. After the preceding improvement!
are made Brooklyn is perfect and can safely
be annexed to New York.
A Rather Sensible YieW.
HENRY MARTIS-"It is the same with in
dividuals as with nations" has been well ant
truly said, and 1t is equally applicable Il
cities. The first step to Improvement In an.
man is a knowledge OF himself.
"To improve Brooklyn" "a city In yer.
many respects highly 1avored) is for Brook
lynltes to know and to tako an active and in
telligent interest in all that concerns its wei
fare. Isolated individual action Is powerless
but by the aid OF the press Qn our countr.
never withheld in any good cause) might,
works can be effected.
"To improve Brooklyn" let everyi citizel
make THE WORLD its informant, and b,
their united support strengthen the hands o
those who through Its columns day by da.
and year by year so nobly and so feariessl!
expose and denounce the wrongdoers. whi
encouraging by its hearty and liberal supper
all works OF love and charity. / am convinced
that no better means " TO improve Brooklyn
is to be found than by giving hearty an,
generous support TO its best newspaper, tn
WORLD.