New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-01
HlRLEMITES TO PROTEST.
STIRRED Up OVER THE cENTRALs REFUSING TO |
GIVE THEM \ STATION

STIRRED Up OVER THE CENTRALs REFUSING TO
GIVE THEM \ STATION.
William A. Martin. Charles Bandy Edward
Bonynge and the other members Of the committee
appointed by the Harlem Club were engaged yester-
day in perfecting arrangements for mass ting
to be held in Harlem to protest against the action
OF the York Central Railroad Company IN re-
fusing to large station at One-hundred-and-
twenty-ffth-st. at which express trains may stop
A meeting OF the committee viii be- held on Deem
Der D. when the final plans will be made. The large
audience-room at Hammersteins Opera House, in
Ore hundred nd-twentyhfth- will probably be
used as a meeting pace. and some date next week
will be set The committee has had interviews
with counsel Of the Central Railroad but 1t be-
eves that no arrangement can be made for large
station unless legislation public sentiment FORCES
the road to build such a structure as is desired
There can be no doubt that Harlem business men
feel strongly upon the subject OF the reported
change of plan on the part OF the managers or the
company If large central station were erected
business believe that many persons from OUT
chases there instead Of going to downtown stores
The residents OF the upper part OF the city Wqui .
Journeys TO and from other parts of the State The
Harlem business men depend largely upon suburban
business and If al. suburban trains stopped at one
hundred and twenty hfth-st and some or all OF me
trains also 1n6ea Whetb r true
or not that promise was ina1d tna1 ar
Harlem business men have been made 20 oeileye
that that engagement had been made ana they are
cor seuuent.y disappointed and angry.
one OF the members OF the committee having the
matter in charge said Yesterday that II had been
practically admitted by the railroad authorities that
One-hundred n nd thirty eghth-st would not De a
stopping place for through trains II they DO not
stop at that place or at one hundred-anc, twenty
ffth-st the northern part of the city viii be with
out any large station 1t had been the general eX,
recitation that the officers Of the Central Railroad
would in time make the ne-hundre d-and-thlrty-
eighth-st. station the great distributing point Tor
the upper part of the city. When the tracks Were
raised and q four-track drawbrdee vas provided
for il was thought that One-hunGre Land twenty
ftth-st instead OF One-hundred-an thriy-e!ghth-
ST. would be chosen a. the site Of the uptown depot
The decision give up both distributing points Is
so unpopular with Harlem and the North Side that
a large attendance at the mass-meeting is expected
by the committee. 49,,
An Injunction restraining the building Of station
at one part of Park recently obtained. ana
the lawyers for the Central Railroad nave given
that reason for not proceeding with me WORK;
The Harlem people declare that the injunction need
not prevent the building of such station as they
desire because 1t applies on.y TO Work dohe Deow
one hundred tive yfourth-st. The station was
20 extend from Observation-Disclosures twenty -foufth-st
TO One-hundred and twenty -siXth-st. ana large
building be erected without occupying any OF
the territory which the company has oeen Tor
hidden to build.