New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-31
TO PREVENT THE OUTRAGE.
LOUD PROTESTS AGAINST CARS IN FIFTH
AVE
proo,r ALONG THE THoROUGHFARE INDlJ
NANT At THE PROPOSED VANDALISM
TIE I.NII-ST ELL. At ALBANY.

PEOPLE ALONG THE THoEOUGHFARE INpiG-
x,xT At THE PROPOSED VANDALISM
THE UNJUST BILL At ALBANY
peorle Of WASHINGTON Square and of Fifih-ave'
are growing more and more excited and indignant
over the impudent proposition OF the .'eroPo"''''
Traction Syndicate to cable road through
Eifth-avc and make this magnificent thoroughiare'
which former generations have defender from
the invasion Of railway trathc. trlhu'a'S ~
schemes Of a few greedy capitalists. the deter
mnation Of these plotters to fasten on Fltth-dN''
has resulted in unjust and inequitabc p"i ~
Albany which provides that the consent OF only
half the property-owners shall bc required 10 'u-
thorize this act Of vandalism. and If more than nan
of them refuse then the syndicate can go To 'he
courts ana have three commissioners apP'"'''
who can say that Fifth-avc shall be deivere' Over
TO a rapacous corporation for mutation ana Sl'''
Against this outrageous attempt to appropriate
their rights and property against their Will the
people Of the avenue from the Washington Memo
rial Arch TO Central Park entering their S''-
ern protest The church interests affected 10y TINS
plan are extensive aad valuable The rrSt i'''"H-
terrain Church property has frontage Oh 'i'' '"'
block from Eleventh to Twelfth ST. on the w.
side Of FIfth-avc.. and the frontage OF hai "'' u
j., those cross-gtrccts The Protestant fihS''P'l
,,,,,rt n tho Ascension owns the frontage 81 hai
, h,o,k hotveen Tenth AMI Eleventh sts.' ana the
frontage of nearly half block in West I'h'"-S'
The PRESBYTERIAN Board of Foreign MiS'iohS '""'
12l feet from Twc.ith-st. northWard on '''
s,io of the avenue: also g feet from i"'"'''."
81 norihWarl on the west SIDE. on "h'n ""
new building is beinS erected; also - i''' III ','
Tvc,f;h-at and .92 feet in West TWcnt''h-S' ~
lilac this the Sailors Snug Haro'r IS the large,
,,,or,v on the Inc OF the prop'scH '""'' IVA
rho representatives Of al these interests nav pa
tested against the syndicatcS s'Ae'"'S' ,,,..,...
- II Eaton. treasurer of the Board OF NSS''''''
.l .h,. tho hoard had twi-c voted 10 i'luS' "'
s 80 =, ~. Nctropolitan extension ,;,,
INA ROY Percy Stckney Grant rector ~ "
,.,,,,,.h If ,h. Ascension. SAID ,...,. q, n
..r,is I-.fth-aVe cable In" s'hcii' = .'.''-
csr' IN cxrloit iAis part OF the cliy ior IMAM,
I uurrsoses The Metropolitan traction I'M" Il,
is cndtavoilug To Eti cohu'l o. Wv
,dvaucc: that is all thcr" - OF H. ,..t ar tho
.,Wib, If mere were any raj d'InhiY ," ort
ni yyioJ !, il likely that al the trsI'i'a o''Ii
ty-oNncr- on his part Of tht "NV,, IT,.
i-,i,v. /. ~ they do Doe the M"uoi'li,''. L",,
az, r,mn.ny suppose that the poop. NV NV mn,o5 4
A. ,,, know what they want u any ., IA. a.,,t :
y, c,ti.' line on the avenue IL WOMB "e NV '''''
OF ny church ,..,,r,r a, not come
- i,r~i,'e,. and they Gnl plenty "i Nal' ~ -.
49,, 80 ,hur.b OF the nine member. 81 NJ
-, ~ liv, above Thirty thiri-s- f'' ''',. g..
; 80 ,v,Ic. unanimously voted - r'ils,. "''''''
..',,',r,, of cable cars on IN" avenue tt .t,.
nr = L. Partridge - 40. - ruin AZ .%c
,h. 'cnrno-at.on's claim That il nad s.,u' 81.
',s.,t 81 nAlf the property -o"N'i' wa ''7''
amusinE