The evening world., 1894-06-15

cONcOuRsE PLAN ADOPTED.
Board Of Street Openings Meet
ing Was Largely Attended.
Action on Other Annexed District
improvements. :

The Mayors ONCE was crowded to-
day by Annexed District property-own-
ers. who had come to attend the meet
ing of the Board of Street Openings.
Tho consideration of the adoption of
the map prepared by Commissioner
Haffen, which includes the proposed
grand concourse and speedway. from
One Hundred and sixty-first street to
Van Courtlandt Park. which will cost
was What attracted the crowd
scented three-fourths of the property
owners at Mount Hope. protested
against the new concourse. 1t would.
he said, IL laid out. destroy some Of the
most valuable property In Mount Hope
from One Hundred and Seventy-sixth
street to burnside, avenue. 1t would
n @des ons sf nde M sna four and half
Michael O'Reilly wrote protesting that
u the concourse was constructed that
i would be q great hardship to him. as
northeast corner of Summit street and
Anthony avenue, which he had bought
for home site, and had already spent
much money improvements.
Several letters indorsng the scheme
were read.
Mayor Gilroy evoked much applause
by stating that he heartily approved
OF TIE bs his scheme and that
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards,
twenty five or thirty years hence, II It
was built by that time
Park Commissioner Happen protested
against the proposed widening of the
Kingsbridge Road from so to 100 feet, as
laid dow non the map. Fordham Nor
rls,. by a very succinct statement of
facts, showed why the road should be
widened.
Mayor Gllroy said he. favored the
widening Of the road, and then put the
matter OF the adoption of the map
as II stood, to a vote.
There was moment Of breathless
suspense among the assembled uptown
citizens while the vote was being talk
en-, and when the map was unanimous
ly adopted, there was storm Of hand
'' Ths Mayor threatened to clear the
Sness order thy was snarg
tinue.
An opinion from the Corporation
Counsel was read. relating to the pro-
line of the Mott Haven Canal and the
filling In of the canal for that purpose.
The Corporation Counsel thought that
there was nc nothing in the II, way Of car
j. NJ. Bouiard, an aged man, with
beard, asked to be heard in protest
said he was the oldest resident of Mott
| Haven. and had brought up n big fam
| lily of healthy children on the shores of
| the canal.
The matter was finally referred to
| the Commissioners OF Improvement of
| the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
Wards.
The matter of the extension of three
streets across the freight yards o. the
New York and Harlem Railroad Com
pany extending from one Hundred and
Rorty-n ninth to One Hundred and Sixty
first streets 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 II
will. It is claimed, seriously interfere
with their traffic.
Revolutions were adopted authorizlng
| the opening of One Hundred and Thirty
| fourth street from the Boulevard to
Amsterdam avenue. East One Hundred
and SEVENTEEN street from Franklin ave.
nue. to Boston road and Clinton street
from Boston road to East One Hun
dred and Sixty-ninth street,