New-York tribune., 1894-04-29
1T WILL BE A BIG CITY.
BROOKLYN ANNEXATION BILLS NOW
BEFORE GOVERNOR FLOWER.


MUNICIPAL TERRITORY WILL BE NEARLY
DOUBLED WHEN THEY BECOME LAWs-IN-
CREASED BURDENS on CITY DEPARTMENTS.
The territorial of Brooklyn will be practi-
cally doubled IL the bills In the hands of Gov
amor Flower awaiting his signature to become laws
are signed The town of F1atbush is already the
twenty ninth Ward under the bill which was signed
last week. The towns of New-Ctrecht and Graves
end will be the Thirtieth and Thrty-first wards
resneetiyely by the terms Of the bills before the
Governor The bill providing for the annexation OF
the remaining town of Flatands has the special
provision that it is not TO become part or the city
until January 1896, owing to the complication that
would be caused in the consolidation or the deDts
of city and county If the complete annexation OF
the towns TO the city took place at once by the
wiping of these four towns the city and county
will be comprised within the same boundaries
large extent of waterfront will be added stretching
from Gowanus Bay along Bay Ridge, through the
Narrows, along Coney Island and up Jamaica Bay,
past Canarsie where the waterfront of the Twenty
sixth Ward will be reached. The territory OF the
four towns embraces about twentyfour square miles,
while the city heretofore has covered twenty-nine
square miles. The addition in population is not
great. According to the State census of l92 the re-
spective populations of the city and county towns
were
Fiatbush h''.............. 100
Sravesehd 9i5S
FIatlands 423l
Ioial '-'
The natural increase in the last two years has
sweled this number to considerably over 100000.
The effect Of the consolidation will be to wipe out
the Board of Supervisors and the Aldermen VIII
meet year as a Board OF SUPERVISORS as
they do in New-York. But in order 10 effect thls
the Board of : Aldermen will have to be chosen by
wards according to the old system The Offices OF
Supervisor Large, County Treasurer and county
Auditor will be abolished unnecessary, ana the
saving in salaries is estimated at nearly 100000
year large number of minor town oflces VIII
also be abolished But the city will have to largely
increase its expenditures for fire and police pro-
lection. for the Of streets and sewers and for
school purposes. 1t is expected that great influx
The CITY viii secure as a part of its territory the
thriving villages of Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Bay
property at Fort Hamilton will come within the
fy Of thu The Snc Oi oeean m and
Of Jamaica Bay IN fiaand' & w Ss Tafen
running to Coney Island will come under the pro
visions Of law making the fare cents N IA tne corS CRY
potatoes and garden vegetables Will speedily pe
turned into city lots. The forests which StH STAND
down before the building OF houses for the new
population Many miles of new " STeetJ w fac
ties for the territory will speedily be regurSd
value Of real estate in the city by consultations
and this will soon be doubled by the increased
TO Brooklyn.
The last addition tc Brooklyn territory by an
nexaton before the work of the Legislature when |
has just adjourned the annexation of the town
OF New Lots, embracing East New York, In ls>b |
This became the TWenty-sXth Ward. Since that |
time the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth warus |
have been carved out Of the Eighteenth Ward Win
the four towns consolidated with the city there VIII
he thirty-two wards. Probably some OF the existing
ones Will have to be divided in a few years
Alfred T. White. Commissioner OF city WORKS |
said yesterday in regard TO the annexation OF al |
the towns: II sincerely hope that the Governor |
will sisn all the bills Notwithstanding my acute |
realization of the increased burdens that the CON
solidation will impose upon the city departments
The Dos tponement of the admission OF fiatlandS |
until 1896 will relieve the city from many II not an
the embarrassments feared The case which VIII |
arise when the last town becomes a portion or The
citv IS one that has come up since the con-
stitutional provision limiting the city debt became
a Jaw The courts may hold that the county dept
shall not count part of the city DEBT III such
an event But 1t may be we'll 10 seek an amend
rnent 10 the constitution to remove all doubt
with the city upon the lines OF the Brooklyn city |
Railroad which out into the several districts.
Pre- Lewis said yesterday that the double rare
in Flatbush was abolished when electricity was |
nut on last year consolidation made no diner |
ence there The bill anneXing New Ctrecht would |
not 20 into effect until July !. and whether the |
extra fare could still be charged TO Fort Hamilton
he would leave the counsel or the company 10 |
decide Flaands would not come into the city un- |
III 1896 50 that the question there would not come
up soon. Only three cents is charged Tor rare IN |
that town. The company has no line running into |
era vesend save the to Bensonhurst, and only |
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