New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-08


Geese are here, Mr. Mayor" remarked MT
| Redfeld Indignantly.
Snakes also" added c. G. skillton. another
| anti-consolidationist.
| MR. REDFIELD HEARD.
| Mr. Redfleld came next. He spoke in SUBJ
stance. follows:
| say, to frankly acknowledge that the real estate
market in the city of Brooklyn has been depressed.
fun and free employment for those nrancnr. OF IN
wish there might have been With anything. Mr..
| Mayor. which will permanently improve the cond-
surrounding this branch OF our activity
! / have hearty sympathy. But beg that II Will be
observed in this connection that these same nara
conditions to real estate have prevailed not alone
large cities Of Amerca ork ncIuisu ,t hma
but with general one. ,,. ,.,...
YOU on Saturday afternoon last, several important
sides OF the question of consolidation We're not
i that Of good schools. and tina, class of legal ques
lions gathering around the necessary resurrection
| vsors. and with that the doubling Of the Consttu-
tional debt limit. Leaving most of these for the
to ask your attention briefly to financial and the
educational phases of the question
PREDICTION RECALLED.
The leading consoldationst writer. f. c. Graves.
predicted in a pamphlet published two years ago
! that the ctys debt margin was then but
Market and others.Vhich he specified were urgently
red pav ~ "9n %aV in the then meae ne
1t is a fact however that not only have the three
Your predeeesso, took his chair been fully SATISFIED
% S"t IN a ise af rom ~s the to ee c
! are denied They may be indicatlv of progress
poS an the aG 80 Strongly
the impending bankruptcy Of Brooklyn should take
two years ago and question as to whether the same
powers Of revival and recuperation that have ap
near ed in n, y
among still. II il the normal condition Of great
coed is financial ability to order those improve
Bu; the discussion before you on Saturday ignored
fully what Brooklyn has done in the last two years
partment was net large enough But you are your
self a witness TO the magnificent growth and i'm
provement in that department under your own
The record of New-York City in providing for i'm
Would MAKE Broekyn hsnksr After ,hat same NJ,
oar Sra Re %foy far Th the o faet
our citizens may have forgotten. that the Twenty
part OF that city FOR twenty years so. Is not
fully severed. and little OF 1t is paved. while to
That district entered New-York under an express
6 en6 oe @ Sfl OF @ s o 9Gn %ee
them and yet that district to-day lacks the i'm
provemente for which It has for score Of years
clamored vanly.
Mr.. Redfeld treated the subject OF municipal
taxation and debt limit extensively. and spoke
particularly Of the difference in school facli-
ties between the two cities. New-Ycrk he said.
had 5000 children OF school age who could not
be provided for. while in Brooklyn he had it
upon the authority Of the Superintendent Of
Education tina, before the close Of 1896 every
child in Brooklyn who wanted to go to school
would have that privilege.
INSURANCE IN BROOKLYN.
In the course Of Mr. Redfeds speech he was
interrupted by Mr.. Chauncey who said rs 1T
or is 1T fac hat the insurance com
panies Of TIE United States charge higher rates
in Brooklyn than in NewYork. notwithstand-
ing what you have said derogatory to New
York's Fire Department."
Mr.. Mayor" replied Mr.. Redneld. the presi-
dent of Of the largest fire insurance com
panies in the country told me within the last
six months that in this matter he regarded
the cities Of New-York and Brooklyn sub
stantially equal and / have my own factory
within a week placed $4,000 insurance at the
lowest rate that has ever been heard OF in
either city
"Why is 1t. then" asked Mr. Matthews. "tha:
at the corner of Fulton-st. and Gallatin Place
within the last few weeks I paid 81 rs, and
have just been informed that they have raised
I my rate to 81 55?'
"Mr White says it must be bad risk" re-
piled Mr. Redfeld.
Il would like to state" said Mr. Matthews
that Brother White and | belong to an nsur.
ance company Of which s. 000 in policies In the
Lloyds"
And we both suffered for it. too" said Mo
White
"Mr. Redield may / say word?" asked Mr.
Matthews. IAN that you have said in regard Il
New-York school bills has been removed by the
passage Of a school bill in the Legislature
Mr.. Maxwell came down train with me few
~
and read 1t now In favor of consolidation, because
all he said at that time had been removed, ant
= that New-York under the bill would 60 ont
better than Brooklyn in the matter Of educa ton
| The consolidatonists applauded.
5 MIR MACKEY EXCITED
a At this point a Mr.. Mackey. of Bay Ridge. and
? red-hot consodationist. broke In because h
e could contain himself no longer. He addresse,
: Mr.. Redfed
, that as a result OF the annexation Of the countr,
. towns upon whom so much odium las been cas-
Of nat Immediately sa upon
sssan ssssr ABILITY o.a of T. bonds Ana vas IN
. which you have spoken as having been graded an
Z spoken as having been built and Of the school
ps or h wa n part from of o ola
n but that II all came from the newly Annexed terri
/ tory? Every dollar OF II.
o And great deal has been said here about tn
It without the people OF Brooklyn being considered
% without their vote upon the question OF referen
Is DUN. Blu. the county towns wishes consd
e cred? Is II not fact that the great majority 0
A. these people were opposed tc consolidation? Is
& with the Corporation Counsel and few othe
,r men conspired to bring these county towns In 70
n the express purpose Of being able to add TO thei
IL bonded Indebtedness? Issit not fact that when ri
il, news OF the annexation OF the county towns wa
1t received here in BROOKLYN THE Brooklyn Eagle
said that the citizens Of the county towns VIII: hs
DR. seivesf They opposed the very thing pre-