New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
IN THE NORTHERN WARDS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE LIVING
BEYOND THE HARLEM.

BEYOND THE HARLEM
THROUGH TRAINS To BE RIM OVER THE ELE-
WAITED To ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
ENTH-sT-THE OCCASION TO BE CELE-
DRAFTED on wEDNEsDAY-NoRTH SIDE
CITIZENS PROTEST AGAINST
THE MOTT HAVEN CANAL.
The people of the North Side preparing 10
celebrate with due pomp and ceremony the rum
ming of the first through train the Thrd-ave.
elevated road from the Battery 10 one -nundreo-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Manhattan Railway
Company says that II will be ready 20 run GER
tain number of through trains on schedule time
Thursday. and that special train VIII be run
on Wednesday for the benefit Of those citizens OK
the North Side who desire to celebrate the result
OF their efforts 10 obtain the service There -
no doubt that the special train will be loaded with
passengers The company will give the services
the train free Of charge The train Will be deco
rated with flags and bunting. and John Lorch ana
Richard Stoker have been appointed a committees
to that the work is done artsticahy and prop
erly
committee Of citizens of the North Side has
been appointed wait the Board OF Health
and demand that immediate action be taken TO
abate the nuisance arising from the old Mott
Haven Canal. Albert T.. Davis. member OF the
North Side Board of Trade, in speaking OF the
canal recently said For ten years have urged,
whenever opportunity offered. the filling in OF the
ditch known the Mott Haven Canal doubt
II in any other community such a menace TO tho
public health would be permitted TO exist for even
one year Yet the repeated efforts OF DISTINGUISHED
citizens who have petitioned every Board or Of
fetal having authority In the premises have not
resulted in the abolition or mitigation Of this nui-
sance."
Continuing Mr. Davis said that the Board Of
Health once condemned the canal public
nuisance and II dredged out but this only
afforded temporary relief. The Park Department
years ago recommended that the canal be filed In.
but nothing came of 1t. The citizens determined
that something shall be done Immediately to
abolish the unsightly and unhealthy ditch. The
canal is at the gateway OF the North Side and
retards the growth and development Of the neigh
borhood Some people have been inclined to blame
Commissioner Haffen for the delay of the authori-
ties In relation the canal but he said last week
that over year ago the Board of Street Openings
ordered that the canal be filled in above Onehun-
dred-and- thirty eighth-st and street laid out
along its line but the Board took further action
Mr.. Haffen said further that the Board should
have acquired title to the property and then he could
have filed the canal in. He finished by saying that
he had written to the Board OF Health on the SUBJ
ject. but had received answer. The Board Of
Health Is alone empowered 10 AFFORD immediate
relief
The North Side Board OF Trade discussed a num-
Der of interesting and important subjects at Its
meeting Monday night Among the resolutions
adopted recommending that the compile
ton and opening Of the new bridge across the Har-
pirate ceremonies The Board also desires that a
highway 1850 feet wide be made, extending from the
at Bronxdale and recommends that It be made By
widening White Plains Road and Bear Swamp
Road within these limits. 1t also resolved to
petition the Fire Commissioners 70 provide another
engine company for the North Side. or another ire
the clauses In the Greater New-York charter which
20 for S Nor e hG S of street s
the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards. from
the North Side. shall be known "a the Borough Of
The womens singing section Of the Melrose Turn
entertainments are Promised for the comns wine
ter. There are now twenty-five voices In the
The singers meet every Thursday evening In Turn
HILL at and s TS
property IS owned by the society The Arion
nsw AdD IN os at the
The Morris Heights Republican Club is preparing
to raise a large American flag with the names OF
Mckinley and Hobart upon II. The club is in Z
fourishing condition and ITS membership is con.
against man who has erected a nat,roof house
Included in each decd prohibiting S the building q
taken into the courts, property Owners Will await
the outcome viz hor n,er sSe ,cvce c,uns ~
70 get The AUTHORITIES to to asphalt the J J0hnss hin
St h ana SAID 90 Se 'Gr IN Ing
city Wheelmen OF the North Side much
pleased at the conviction OF J. l.. Fitzpatrick. Of
No 1871 East Onc-hundred ii nd sixty -hrst-st who
was fined s25 In the Court of Special Sessions for
WaTS nke of NO ' s The tire Of
Mr. Junker's wheel was ruined, and he considered
II insult added TO injury when Fitzpatrick laughed
The wheelmen OF the North Side OF the opinion
that Fitzpatrick's conviction will rfove salutary
lesson to mischevous persons who object 10 bicys
cles
The first regular fall meeting OF the Taxpayer
Alliance OF the North Side will be held tomorrow
night in Protection Hall. Courtlandt-ave. and One
hundred and fifty second-st The alliance intends -
make an active and aggressive fight this year 70
nromote the Interests of the North Side