New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-15
REAL ESTATE.
CONTINUED ACTIVITY AMONG THE BRO
KERs AND BUILDERS
To.DAY's MASS. MEETING TO PROTEST AGAINST
THE CHARTER-JEFFERSON M. LEWIS
SPEECH BEFORE THE LEGIsLAT-
URE's COMMITTEES ON
CITIES.

Business in the real estate market for the last
week has been well distributed over almost every
section Of the city. An unusually large number OF
lots In the upper part Of the city. especially In the
Washington Heights region. have been disposed
Of: several valuable West Side recently improved
properties have been sold or exchanged for vacant
lots In residential sections where buildings
projected. and the activity in dwellings fiat
houses and business properties has continued UNI
abated. This spring promises to be a busy ore for
the builders. Henry Corn Is pushing forward rap
idly the work for his new building on the plot he
recently purchased at the southwest corner of
Twenty-second-st. and Fifth-ave.. the iron frame
work for the new Sherrys al the southwest
correr of Forty-fourth-st and Ffth-ave., is going
up rapidly and work on the foundations OF Archi-
bald d. Russells business building. at the
southwest corner Of Thirty-nnth-st. and Fifth
ave, will begin. Both In Lexington and Park
aves, and In the section along Central Park West
large number Of new buildings are projected. and
owners and builders generally preparing to
take advantage of the prevailing low prices OF
building materials
TO-DAY'S MASS-MEETING.
Final arrangements for the citizens mass-meet-
Ing TO be held at the Real Estate Exchange No 80
lAberty-st. this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. to pro-
test against the passage Of the Greater New-York
Charter have been completed and everything
points to big demonstration against the proposed
interests of property-owners in this city. Alfred
f. Marling, president of the Real Estate Exchange
VIII preside at the meeting. The speakers will be
Commissioner James l.. Wells. John D. Crimmins
Colonel William L. Rogers Simon Sterne. G. Waldo
Smith, John p Leo and others
On Tuesday last jefferson NJ Levy who Is among
the many well-known NEWCOMERS who have
signed the call for to-day's meeting appeared
oefore the Committees on Cities OF the Senate and
Assembly at Albany and, in the interests Of the
property-owners of this city, laid before the COM
mittees the provisions of the charter against which
To-Day S meeting will enter earnest protest
Mr.. Levy spoke follows:
i wish at the outset TO enter my earnest protest
against the manner in which the taxpayers of New
br2vsions OF the charter 1t has been Impossible 10
IRIS most % p That The contained
ABLY the most important piece OF legislation ever
State Of NewYorkas Been kept profou5yd OF r
70 Almost all save the members Of the Commission.
sion made so many changes that 1t was out OF the
question to give any credence to any report as TO
weeks after the report has been submitted to the
legislature the provisions of the bill generally
LITTLE KNOWN AS TO ITS PROVISIONS
For the last three weeks I have made every nos
sible effort TO obtain official copy Of the charter
II had been impossible for me 10 beg or borrow n
copy until last aturddy. my friend Judge Glider
sleeve kindly lent me his and then I found that
you are proposing to rush through a measure OF
nearly eight hundred pages. Dis ,ussicn of which is
ranoe Of rs provisions. You are asked to make a
o orc Of S sa in sof respecs than The Con
mTns know 10 ae people bu; without letting the
am not one to oppose expedition in the public
business. The crying need of the country is that
The Legislature Is deliberate enough the world
Knows, but why it should lay aside its old habits
it has been rushed so that the mass Of The nen
PIE nave hardly more than inkling of what the
Why this unparalleled haste? The city of New
YORK has many and great needs which the I.egisIat-
not entirely TO blame because we are not onioving
evil nyf Tem 0 wbc s9d n Bgi there is
has suffered for years to which your honorable
Sy 1 rates no or res fo refer to the
board discriminati ton practised by the railroads
robbing New-York of the benefits TO witch her i'm,
peral position as the chief port of the country en-
PAYING BR oOKLYNS TAXEs
People are asking, too why as pro liicd in Section
pei of the charter. the city of Brooklyn should be
relieved OF paying one years .av.s. II Brooklyn
has paid It's taxes in advance, they claim while
oHg e ess b ee In Of = is G
be ne necessaIy to go back over fifty years-is it
and pay the amount thereof into the treasury Of the
5saIer Y9rR as partial Offset for ne
6 side e'h of REookn and
Of ten months taxes n orGeT thst tbe Do relieved
pay an extra two months taxes. ] wish The Com
en- through the charter, Instead of in this par
fcular section, S0l.
II principles Of equity led the Commission 10 make
and Staten Island, what idea of equity guided the
Greater the priceless docks of GV the 10 pra ne
ent city of New York? What principle of equity guild
of the present city of New-York. amoniing "' 10
s77Go;cd collected from the land on Manhattan
What me docks of New-York are worth no man