Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-17
EvoElJloN eF BROOKLYN.
Plans Tar sreat Public Improvements iu
 Nf1e Vicinity of Town Plot.

EvoEAJloN eF BRookLYN.f Plans far breat Pabilc Improvement. In
 nf1se Vicinity of Town Plot. Ej
 The hfticles in the DEMOCRAT in relation | to the extension of Bank street southerly and the opening of other streets in that | section have attracted wide attention, and property owners are now giving the mat ter Considerable thought. To fully renlize I the magnitude of the proposed changes | andthe necessity of commencing the work | as soon as possible one must go over the | whole ground, and when he has done this | he will be free to admit that the work is | of more importance than many suppose. That this section of the city has been neg leeted in the past no one can gainsay, for there are streets that have been laid cut years ago which are yet almost impossible. The man who looks at Seymour street to-
 day and sees the condition of the place and learns that the people who own prop
 erty and have built houses there have
 been petitioning for sidewalks and grade Ifor years and never received any attention suntil the me mbers of Se road boar boa w .S onee VI took 'i sgss44ser jRas4ser in gross injustice
 has been rrcS VII '1'' street. -|wonder~n-xLa rronar,,, own ,s;s ilson street had been clamo,. .Sg for a visit from the road board. We do not know whether the board ever answered the call, but we feel ressonaoly sure that if the members of the board knew i the true condition of affairs they "ouio vote to have the street strengthened at tne junction of Washington avenue ana Soutu | Wilson street before leaving the grouru. | We do not suppose that there IS anotne, place of the kind within the city hmits. | strip of land not over afteeu twenty | feet in wiSf>h runs down the street neces-
 sitatinc A drsour of about twenty or thirty | feet arou-Id this arm in order to get to the | street ats the other side, and to make 1t more Idiculous an electric light has been
 erecte there as though the obstruction | was sure to be a permanent thing. But it | is a good thing that the electric light has bes'n placed there. as but for its presence thtn might have been some serious acci- dei Its long ago. It would be impossible for team to pass at night were it not for its use, without running into this little
 ne6k of land that divides the street into
 twp parts. We venture to SLY that there
 are very few members of the city govern.
 ment who fully understand the condition
 of things at this point.
 The proposed extension of Bank
 stfeet is burning question | fOF tue OWnerS ~ lana Tn tlal , paFt of the city. It believed, however that the natter cay settled to the entire satis action of al ies concerned and without doing he slightest injus. tice. In ee1l with members oi the road board an be of the property owners a representative } of the DEMOCRAT learned that the most Feasible course tS pursue in this matter is to continue Banl street from Fifth street in n straight lin, through the land of Mir Geddes and other s as far as the city line anl call it all Banl street Then work Eifsh street. so called to n proper graae-so that .t would be pass able for teams and contiLue 1t along tha
 portion of Bank past the residence of D. Mahaney to point above ClarI r street, thence in a strail ht line through tn 2 Porter land to connect w,.l ns i,wn plo ! road at 8 .. :-It ..-sIs south Of u resi- |: dence of Seymour Adams. Then len, ot South Wilson street from where it enoa it the corner of Seymour street to a point t. the junction of Bank and Sixth street D. MT Geddes barn, and continue it as far | H. 1t might be deemed advisable in the dire
 tion of Platt's mills through the Nicho Se property. When Sixth street, which is a a- ready partially laid cut, would be work, is Is 1ussr as the Geddes tarn it could then LII along the Bank street road III line as far as the Town pl
 Inns would leave Fifth aI ts ets running westerly and parall li weach other. with several thousar u- f,yet If land between them from a poi er commencing at the New England railros "' 10 the To%n plot road. and South WilsC t. and Bank streets going southerly to il city line with sufficient land between the ht for building lots on either thoroughfar id It would also provide good square corne 't- at the different points where the stree y would intersect. and as far as we ha, Is been able to learn would meet the a De proval of the different property owne y who would be affected by the propos, rs changes.
 nt As was stated at a meeting of the roi NO board last week this is the most importa se matter that has come before the city 20 ie ernment in good many years, and at il ne request of large number of proper p- owners in this section n reporter of Il a- DEMOCRAT went over the ground and il 'E above statement is submitted for the co he sideration and investigation of all WI he may have to do with this great public il
 provement. It is surprising the lar
 amount of unoccupied land there is alo1 R. these streets. South Wilson street, whi
 runs from Seymour street to Sunnysi, H. avenue, has but few houses, comparative
 speaking. It Is one of the most pictu he esque places in the city, commanding c splendid view of the country for mil at around and the only reason that can N given for the scant number of dwellings pn this delightful locality is due to the fa ms that the place has been neglected in t is past. the members of the boards not goil ti- over the ground and Investigating Il
 needs of petitioners as the members of u
 present board are now doing. It has be,
 said, and very truthfully, too. that il
 members of the present road board are t he most active men that ever cons is tuted that body. and the residents of th th section must hot find fault if they shou le fail to perform in one year all that the 'e predecessors have left undone for years b