New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-20
AGAINST THE NEW DRIVE.
PROTESTS FROM INDIGNANT CITIZENS.
MANY CALL on THE MAYOR AND DENOUSCE
THE BILL TO SPOIL THE PARK-PLANS
FOR THE MAss-MEETING


FOR THE MASS NETTING.
Mayor Grant had a number Of calls from Indignant
citizens yesterday. who opposed to the projected
racecOursc which the Legislature has "authoIlzed III
Central Park They kept the Mayor busy explaining
his attitude the question what he had 10 SAY
was mainly repetition of his opinion of the de'lia
bilty Of the drive, published by The Tribune ycNief-
day. One OF his visitors said MIR. Mayor, you nre
a bachelor and you have not the same interest that
have I'm preserving Central Park from such cncroach
ments as this You have no children OF your own
but come TO the aid Of those Of Us who have cmdNh
and who want TO save this grand park from desecfa
ton and ruin
David j. Dean, principal Assistant Corporation
Counsel said yesterday that so far as he knew no
official reoues had been made for the opinion OF the
city,s law-ofcer as the mandatory nature Oh inc
law. When Corporation Counsel Clark retuihcu' SUE"
an opinion might be prepared. The language vi INC
driveway act, Mr.. Dean said, was similar u o'"''
laws which presented duties for muniopal ohloe's'
Where a public officer was authorized by law to per-
form q particular act, the courts usual! CONSTRUCT
the law in such cases to be mand%ory' WI
Dean cited the new Parks bill as case IN point
If the Park Commissioners had refused W prooeeu III
accordance with the terms OF the D 10 VA Dean
public drive such as the law contemplated MI p p
thought that the courts, application, would nay
required them 10 act Inc Les SANE nf Etimate shoad
the board refuse or neglect to provide the money
asked for by the Park Board to carry Out Ine aw
The call OF the City Reform CLUB for nass-ihcn|
an, no Semsnd the repeal Of the law authorizing the
Central Park was literally signed yeslerIy
Names continued 10 pour in Oh the COMMITTEES dii Wy
The date for the maSs-meeng has not yet been nAeu
but it understood that it viii be held on WedneSG6 lay
evening at Chickerng Hall, although some OF the
promoters of the movement want to have 1t Ill Madiyoh
er place cam be secured Most Of the responses 10
the committees request FOR signatures Cum . ~ ~,
special messengers. The indication IS uat inc
demonstration against a racetrHck IN Cehial taTk
will be ore OF the largest and most determined hed
Henry ' a. Oakley. No. IL Wallst consented to
receive contributions towards defrayihs INC eApe"'0
OF the meeting - - ,,u rohp
The sg1ers Of the call inclnde d. o. NILS, yohn
Iagelow John jay. Stuyvesant Fish, hAm , ~;
Dayliee william d. Sloane George II. Bend, ohauncey
NJ. Depcw Delaney A. Kane ho" - vandcr1ilt'
IIer rTi l. Bsrbey. c. Cd Isein. r. X; Richards:
OGDEN Minis, b. l. Porter L. X. wilmerding Elliott
F. shepard. Henry James Charles ,o a; U Wc Nash
Lester Conway Edward W. sheldon EDWARD L. ornn,
j. W Mixter F. J. KNAPP; r. j. $ Jerem'1 ZOE
f. Hohner william Mitchell Andr GARRISON George
WichSlns' Charles Learned. william H. Randolph
Charles f. Coffin william Q. Davis cyrus =. Miier'
Jacob F. Miller j. Langdon Nard W ~, "a: " TavIor
Prescott Hall Butler Joseph H. Choa,e: oeoEF acR
Adams. Lawrence A. Dlatchfod George "A: n'' Y "
John L. Sutherland. Lester W. Clark Nnsm1h "
Putnam z. W. DeGToot William MITCHELL =; a
TYLER A. Walker Otis Thomas ;. GARRISON -. n:
GARRISON John A. Learned, X. A: Learned, henry
E. Carr Charles Rowland Russell ,, ,,a
cut ont the annexed blank insert name and addrsss
ana send n directly J. J. Chapman secretary OF ule
committee, at No. 81 Wallst
Ple,H add my name to the list of those cltzens
who the repeal Of the Central PARK driveway A0~
Name.