New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-02
IN THE NORTHERN WARDS.
NOTES OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE LIVING
BEYOND THE HARLEM
NORTH SIDE CITIZENS OBJECT TO THE NAME
BOROUGH OF THE BRONX" WHICH 1T Is
PROPOSED 10 APPLY TO THAT TER
RITORY - STREET IN

FOR HOUSEKEEPERS,


sscrs,arv Angle of the North Side Board of Trade
has rece,ved a communication from General c. II.
r Coils Commissioner Of Public Works. stating
that an order would be issued by the Department
demanding that all tin and wooden signs shou'd DC
removed from the trees and telegraph poles IN the
Twenty-thrd and Twenty-fourth wards The BOARD
of Trade looks upon the issuance OF this order as
great victory as it through the Boards request
that the order was made The North Side Beard OF
Trade also at its last meeting adopted resolution
that the Department OF Charities be asked 10 secure
An appropria for the establishment or TWO nos
pitals-one the Twenty-tnird and the other LOT
the Twenty-fourth Ward II. G. Weaver. secretary
OF the Department, has written TO Secretary angie
Of the Board saying that the Boards communca-
ton has been received and that it will receive most
careful consideration at the earliest possible date
Tomorrow night the Executive Committee OF the
Board of Trade will hold meeting at It's rooms NO
27s Alexander-ave.. and the Committee on hapid
Transit is expected to make report OF the recent
hearing it had before the officials OF the Manhattan
Elevated Railroad Company and before the Rapid
Transit Commissioners.
The majority of the residents Of the North Side
are I'D In arms over the report that all that portion
of the city lying north OF the Harlem RIVER snail
be known as the Borough Of the Bronx Tne an
nouncement has been made by the special commit
tee ~ the Greater New-York Commission the citi-
zens Of the North Side cannot understand why TINS
prouin9 and prosperous section OF the city snail Dc
SO designated They would much prefer that IL s"ou'o
be named Borough OF the North Side Formerly INC
North Side was known as the Annexed Dis'rie'.
This fact naturally implied that It was an unsettled
territory OF little consequence. The ctzehs 'inay
bv much agitation and hard work. had the district
rechrs,ened the North Side. II anybody now speaks
Of n az the Annexed District the old residents are
highly offended. They think that the SUBSTITUTION
of the new would be even worse 'i'ai' INC ou
one One of the well-kncwn business men OF inc
North Side In speaking OF II SAID that ne ia''eu
10 see where the significance OF the name Borough
=, Tho pronx" came in He said that the Bronx
piver WAS a miserable little creek. winding Its way
tbroush the northern part OF the district and con-
tanning insufficient water to noat catooa'' ih'S
Citizen as we'll many others Is In iaNor vi INC
borough system OF government for the North SIDE
and Ia OF the opinion that its adoption would AID
materially in the development OF the District Inc
North Side has now Its own Commissioner OF street
improvements It's own Building Department and
its postoffice buildings.
Many changes have been made on the north side
NJ the Harlem River by the widening OF 'Iniru-
ave necessary for the approaches 10 the ne"
bridge All the wooden buildings in the block be-
tween One hundred hirty-fourth and One-hun-
drcd-and- thirty-fft SITS. have been demolished
and the big brick fiat a One-hundred- nd thirty
sixth-st will be torn down this week. Among the
structures torn down were the Westchester hotei
Huber's Hotel and the Hartford Hotel. 49,,
Commissioner Hanens report lot the "ech .iu
ing Jrly q shows that $50 men In various capacities
were employed street improvements IN the MOI :.
Side In that time. and that the total amour. OF
reauistions drawn upon the Controller was *fi'-
1872 - .,...a
Sealed bids for work many contempiatsso
street improvements in the North Side VIII or
opened on Friday August H. by the COMMISSIONS and
OF street improvements OF the Twenty ,third anu
Twenty fourth Wards. In his once at Ih'r"-"'e'
and One hundred IA nd forty -hrst-st -, . .,a for
Beginning to-day union services VIII oe het r tbs
four SUNDAYS under the joint auspices ci w
%r,stia,, Endeayor societies OF the Forest Avenue
Congregational Church and the SUNDAY Of the
m"nth tho meetings will be held In me rv,rI
Avenue Church. and on mex, sInaay w snp be- held in
The Church OF the Disciples. On the evening OF ,me
arm Sunday there will be a sPeciai s san,,a
nrsached for both societies In tho Forest Avenue