New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-30
SATURDAY,
MARCH 80, 1895.
CARS SHOULD BE BARkEDOOI
GREAT OPPOSITION TO THE BILL Allow
ING THEM IN FIFTH-AVE.

,,,, ANNOUNCEMENT THAT CONSENTS h"~
,vrx src1,REp FROM HALF THE PROP
ERrY-owNERs PRONOUNCED ABSURD
WHAT wELLKNowN MEN SAY
There IL a strong and rapidly CROWNS ,ho Met,
10 the plan OF surrendering rhth-a''' -, cahl.
ropolitan Traction Syndicate for the u'e' - 10
railroad The bill which Is pending III .''o 80
,a,mro onening the avenue to the railroad company
~ uishtnS,on souare to Tweny-fourth-st.' 10
,ooLad ,,non merely as an entering wedge "i'."
lin Min, telv result in extending the car ti"'S
no to Central Park and perhaps turt"ei o' .
John ID. Crimmnss claim tnat theie rs..na,,.
great change of sentiment among the =,
nroperty.owners and residents on this question %
denied by citizens OF that thorougnfare' Inc 80,
mn, thar half OF the owners OF real estate Oh '"o
ovanue favor the railway scheme was yesterday
declared be absurd.
Among the citizens who have eXpressed tieh ~
alterable opposition TO the INVASION Vi
NV the syndicate are ex-Judge Noah Davis. james
McNaught. general counsel OF the Northern ra'e
Railroad: the Rev. Howard Dufiield, pastor OF 'ho
First Presbyterian Church, at Eleventh-st.; arthur
Runyan Dr. A. H. Remsen William Nelson Crom-
we'll George W. Talbot Colgate Hoyt Colonel s.
V r. Cruger. exControer Andrew H. "reen'
Charles f.. Strong and Paul Dana.
Ex-Judge Davis said: The whole plan Is an out
rage. New-York is a longitudinal city; its seogra-
phv is peculiar II must have at least one great
highway free from street-railroad appliances ana
Instructions. Besides that, Fifth-ave is the nat
ural road to the Park | would as soon thihK OK
defacing the one as the other. Look at the avenue
on Sunday afternoon, and think OF the hideous
transformation If it cut up by cable lines.
The great driveway and promenade OF the Ameri-
can metropolis is almost National INSTITUTION
London has Piccadilly Paris the Champs Eysee'
Berlin Inter den Linden. Shall New-fork destroy
the last OF her great thoroughfares and Yield up
Fffth-ave. to commercial greed?'
The Rev. Mr.. Dufeld combatted the assertion
that half OF the property-owners Favored the
scheme. II know" he said, that the agents or
the cable company have been bounding property
owners for six months past. and that they nave
officers OF my church which covers the frontage
OF an entire block between Eleventh and Twelfth
sis on the west side Of Ftfth-ave and. OF course,
we refused All OF our people are bitterly opposed
to the DETACHMENT Of the avenue
M'troPGr.sn a. he siinrs snug Harbor
OF which | a member. The Sailors snug Har.
Dor owns all the property on the north side or
Washington square from Fifth-ave. 10 University
Place. and also all the property on the east sde
OF Fifth-ave. up to and including the Brevoort
House. So the Snug Harbor alone represents quite
a big slice OF the property along the lower avenue
And in that case ais assent to the company's
proposals refused. know that number OF
large property have done likewise"
Andrew H. Green said yesterday: Il am unai-
terably opposed to the further granting OF fran
street under the existing laws. ! am particularly
opposed TO franchise which will allow railroad
Colonel Cruger. in speaking OF the proposed out
rage said: Il entirely opposed TO any bill which
Twenty thrd-st Fifth-ave. should always be kept
clear and reserved for unimpeded traffic This bill
Theodore Sutro. o. No 20 Fifth-ave: Theodore
Cooper. OF No. ~, and Van Rensselaer, Kennedy. OF
No 49, also expressed the hope that the grasplns
railroad corporation would fail to get possession
OF the avenue.