New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-19
popTrOv OF NEW YORK.


PORTION OF NEW-YORK
..,., C,tv Hall will not be a relic Of the past
Il :, ,.o,ue only as a monument TO the days Oh inc
Il ,.,.s ,ndenendent existence when BROOKLYN 0e"'o7
% no q city and becomes borough on Jd""di' -
Tho notion has entered the minds OF some peol
cha, the hall can be used as a library OF ioi ~
a,,ar nurnose after consolidation is realized put
,bev forget that the new charter pro'lue' "
branch offices OF the departments or 'he Guy sO
rron, IN the Borough Han OF BROOKLYN inc
/ cue, Hall Is 10 be the Borough Hall. IN which
aonut,es or assistants OF the city oficiais VIII mai
b oga the affairs OF the Kings county boious" ~
nresent pans contemplate the Joining OF 'he in'ei
ests of Brooklyn and Queens in severai Oh 'he "
nar,ments so tho prospect is that the broohish
porouyh Hall will be the branch office OF the New
vork CITY Hall for the management OF the eh're
Long Island section Of the new CITY :
Tho only room in either OF Brooklyn's city build
,nss the City Hall and the Municipal buiiui"s' io'
which there will be little need In the new oraet
~ things Is the Common Council Chamber. Nether
hrorcb NJ the Municipal Assembly will have any
usa for the Common Council Chamber. and the
room is much too large for the meetings. vi ."V
boards of local Improvement. Tammany may III"
some use for the big room with It's luxurious NJ
tings and its newly frescoed walls ana cehlhs'
The MAYORS office will be the official headquar'-
49,. -, The nresident of the borough. and Edward
~ crout who two years ago was kept out or the
Office of Mayor by a small matter OF two thousand
votes will now walk in and possess the iaho "S
borough president. The boards OF local improve
uent will doubtless hold their meetings IN MS
rooms The Mayors rooms are the only ones IN
tho Citv Hall which have not been reftted ana
newly furnished within the last two years. The
other rooms are in better condition than ever De-
FORE 49,
IT is not likely that Controller-eect Coler Will
find that he needs all the room IN Con'roHer
Palmer's corner of the City Hall for the use OF
ba o
one NJ the offices which will be conducted almost
entirely In the New-York headquarters. The new
charter puts the Auditors work In the hands OF
the Controller, whose auditing bureau VIII be one
OF the largest branches of his establishment Audi
tor Sutton's well-appointed rooms on the main
floor of the hail. will be the headquarters OF the
deputy auditors whom Mr. Coler VIII assign 70
BrookIyn; nere az tha EoTnncb Of Rrooklyn viii
be examined and settled -. oss,.,o,,.s ora
now doing business in quarters much larger than
will be required by. the assistants whom the new
Mr Burr SAYS it is highly improbable that the new
Corporation Counsel will allow much OF his I'm
portant work be done outside his own ONCE IN
Manhattan Borough The charter says that the
citys attorney shall have an office in the Borough
boroughs Of the Bronx. Queens and Richmond
The Police Department and the Defective bureau
under the command Of deputies who resPonsi-
BILE to their chiefs in the main IN Man
Board Of Public improvements. including the de-
partments of water supply, highway street cream cream
ing sewers public buildings lighting and supplies
and bridges will have a branch office In Brooklyn
and the only places for them TO do business Will be
in the rooms in the Municipal Building now used
by the Department of City Works. In most of
these departments the deputies for Brooklyn and
Queens will probably work side by side.
The Park Building Charities. Education Cor
rection. Fire and Tax departments VIII likewise
have branch offices in Brooklyn, with Headquarters
in the rooms now occupied by the corresponding
Brooklyn departments.
Strange as II may seem, none OF the present
Brooklyn officials giving much thought to the
changes which will take place on January ]. None
Of them profess to know what will be done with
their offices, but all say that they will be ready to
evacuate when the time and that their
desks will be well cleared out and the business in
good shape for their successors.