The evening world., 1894-06-15
COACOuRsE PLAN ADOPTED.
Board of Street Openings Meet.
ing Was Largely Attended.
Action on Other Annexed District
improvements.

The Mayors office was crowded to-
day by Annexed District property-own-
ers, who had come to attend the meet
ing OF the Board of Street Openings.
ThI consideration OF the adoption OF
the map prepared by Commissioner
Hafren. which includes the proposed
grand concourse and speedway, from
one Hundred and Sixty-iirst street to
Van Cortlnndt Park, which will cost
SloNoo,MO. was what attracted the crowd
Frank -. Hunter, who said he repre-
serted three-fourths OF the property
owners at Mount Hope. protested
he said II laid out. destroy some of the
most valuable property In Mount Hope
from One Hundred and Seventy-siXth
street to Burnside avenue. 1t would
condemn strip OF land four and half
miles long. Indefinitely.
Michael O'Reiliy wrote protesting that
it the concourso was constructed
%9Md would be great hardship rhnor to him tSs
northeast corner of Summit street and
Anthony avenue. which he had bought
for a home site. and had already spent
much money on improvements.
Several letters indorsing the scheme
were read.
Mayor Gilroy evoked much applause
by stating that he heartily approved
would be IA big Improvement to the
Twenty third and Twenty-fourth wards
twenty iiNe or thirty years hence, IL II
vas built by that time.
Park Commissioner Tappen protested
against the proposed widening OF the
Kingsbridge Road from so TO 100 feet, as
laid down on the map. Fordham Nor
ris, by a very succinct statement of
facts, showed why the road should be
widened.
Mayor Gilroy said he favored the
| widening of the road and then put the
matter OF the adoption of the map
as II stood. to n vote.
There was moment of breathless
| suspense among the assembled uptown
| citizens while the vote was being TAX
en-. and when the map was unanimous
ly adopted. there was storm of hand
| clnpping.
room unless order was restored, so that
the business of the Board could con-
| tinue.
An opinion from the Corporation
posed laying out of street. along the
| line of the Mott Haven Canal and the
| filling in of the canal for that purpose
The Corporation Counsel thought that
rying out the proposed plan
snow-white hair and patrlarchaI
beard. asked to be heard in protest
against the filling in of the canal. He
| said he was the oldest resident of Mott
| Haven, and had brought up n big fam
| lily or healtny cnliuren on tne snoreS ol
| the canal.
The matter was finally referred to
the Commissioner of Improvement OF
the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
| Wards.
The matter of the extension of three
streets across the freight yards OF the
| New York and Harlem Railroad Com.
pany extending from One Hundred and
| Forty-ninth to One Hundred and Sixty
first street and from Vanderbilt ave.
nue. to Sheridan avenue. was not acted
| upon. 1t will come up at the next meet
| ing Of the Board.
The Railroad Company protests vigor
ously against the proposed streets. as u
| will, 1t is claimed, seriously interfere
| with its traffic.
Resolutions were adopted authorizing
the opening of One Hundred and Thirty
fourth street from the Boulevard I,
| Amsterdam avenue. East One Hundred
and Seventeen street from Franklin ave
nue. to Boston road and Clinton stree
| from Boston road to East One Hun
| dred and Sixty-ninth street.