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Bury Greater new Yerk Eoivency.

ne "Roie In the Gronnd- scheme Wouia
Bury Greater view YsrE Soivency.
Nearly 200 leading Brooklynitos, representing
all shades OF political opinion. were present at
the dinner given at the Montauk Club last night
to Edward NJ. Grout. the President-elect OF tho
borough OF Brooklyn, who was the recipient OF
several hundred more votos than wero cast for
any OF his associates on the Democratic ticket.
President Charles A. Moore was seated at the
head OF the table, with Mr.. Grout at his right,
and Editor st. Clair McKclway at his left.
Among the guests were Leut.-Gov. Timothy L.
Woodruff, Justices Goodrich, Van Wyck, Gay
nor, Dtckey, and johnson, tho Rev. Dr. 8. ID. Nc
Connel, William Berri, Postmaster Wilson. eK-
Mayor Schieren, Gen. James McLeer. Gen.W. @.
Gilmore, Col. J. N. Partridge, Senator p. II. Mo
Nulty, r. Ross Appleton, Silns d. butcher, Gen.
Almet f. jerks. Thomas E. Pearsall. James
Matthews, Sanders Shanks, John NJ. Ryder.
Felix Campbell J. NJ. Conklin Mtrabeau L.
Towns, and Col. A. e. Lamb. Col. Lamb pre-
sonted the guest Of honor, and this Is q part OF
what Mr.. Grout said in response:
Brooklyn entered into consolidation not, as
somo would say, to exchange Brooklyns tax
poverty for share in New York's tax wealth,
but to make union In law whore the facts OF
situation and of circumstance had long before
made that union inevitable, and by lawful union
to get for Brooklyn her Just share in tho tax
wealth OF tho metropolitan business centre of
lower Manhattan Island created and main
tanned by Brooklyn In large part, in Justice be-
longing to her to that extent, and yet kept from
her In the past by the accident of the tidal flow
In the East River. Brooklyn must not now lose
that price by permitting tho solvency OF tho
greater city to be inconsiderately and too hur;
Manhattan, In order that tho borough Of the
Bronx may for its own profit have tho Klon-
dixie transported from the arctic to the toni
init the parks and the revenues of the markets,
OF tho bridges, and of tho water system thus to
be sacrificed.
Rather let tho metropolis know that by a
be rs near to City Hall and Printing House
square as Central Park now is; that by new
bridge from the Battery to Hamilton avenue,
with Its central pier resting upon Governors
Island nnd the region stretching over to Ja-
maica Bay, capable of housing two or three
millions OF people, will become as convenient to
the metropolitan centre as is Harlem to-day.
wa! and Grand street bridge and the building
OF a tunnel at the foot of Atlantic avenue old
Jamaica and 1ienpstead. though but just
heved OF the medieval turnpike and tollgate,
Bronx. When these things done have enriched
the new city, when the East River has been
thus erased from the map of the new city, let 1t
then. II need still exist, recur to tho under
Jan. l approaches. is that upon such public
improvcments'a as these !. though borough Presi.
dent and the only official OF the city govern.
ment elected alone by the whole borough of
fects of the new charter is that borough Presi-
dents. though members Of the Board OF Public
improvements have no vote except upon mat
ters which affect their boroughs exclusively"
The other speakers were st. Clair Nick Kelway
the Rev. Dr. Mcconnell, Justice Gaynor and
Justice Johnson.