Arizona republican., 1899-03-15
TO RAZE CHINATOWN
New York Has a Plan to
 Widen Dell Street.
House, Opium DenS. and Other pIaCes of More or Less Fame Will Be Demolished by inc Improvement.

New York. March 14-Tammany
 Hall intends to root out Chinatown as
 it exists today. Pell street is to Dc
 made 100 feet wide from Chatham
 Square west to Mott street, and from
 Mott to Mulberry Bend park an exten-
 sion of Pell street also 100 feet wide,
 will be made The powers of the p0-
 lice department and the department of health have been exhausted in the eff fort to remedy the evils of Chinatown
 It is felt that nothing can be done eX-
 cept to wipe the section off the map of the city.
 For some time the Christian mis- sions which for years have been work ing in Chinatown, have been com
 blaming that opium dens, gambling places and disorderly houses are open in defiance of the police and that the few acres which lie between Chatham Square, Pell and Mott streets will soon
 be as bad as the Chinatown in San Francisco.
 The police claim to have been enar- getic of late, but the pipe smokers, gamblers and other law breakers are willy. The department of health has found that it can go no further in it's efforts to improve the sanitary condi tion of the place, fer although the pop ulation of Chinatown is dense, no fault can be found with it on the score of cleanliness.
 Next week President Coogan of the borough of Manhattan, will call a meeting of the local board of public improvement and lay before it prop osition to widen Pell street; as indi- cated above. A date will be set for public hearing, and it is expected that the largest and most representative gathering of Chinese ever seen at the city hall will invade the office of the borough president.
 Pell street is only two blocks long. It runs from Chatham Square, where the Bowery begins, west to Mott street One block below Pell street is ,Doyers street. ITO people whose knowledge of Chinatown has been gained from glimpses of it from the windows of el- evated trains, Doyers street has aI- ways been considered as paialleling Pell, but the fact is that after Doyers street has wandered in a drunken way for 100 feet or more westward, it turns to the north and runs into Pell midway between Chatham Square and Mott street.
 Mott street is a very marrow thor oughfare. If it is widened to 100 feet on the south it will practically wipe out Doyers street for more .han half it's length, and if as is proposed, the widened street shall join Chatham Square, in piazza form, Doyers street will be taken off the map entirely As Pell street ends at Mott it will be nec- essary to extend the widened street l through the block between Mott and | Mulberry, sc as to effect a juncture with Mulberry Bend park.
 Mott street, where Pell runs in, is made up of old brick tenements, with a teeming population The buildings are of small value, and the cost of the l extension will not be very great It | is estimated that Pell street can be | Widened and extended and the heart | taken out of Chinatown, at a cost not ! to exceed $2OO ,OOO
 After the public hearing, the lccal board will adopt a resolution declar- ing the improvement a public neces- sity. The matter will then go before the board of public improvements, which will decide upon the form of ordinance to be submitted to the mu- nicipal assembly. The last mentioned body will turn the matter over to the corporation counsel, who will go into court and ask for the appointment of tC appraise and con demn the property needed.
 The old Chinese theater at Nos. 5 and Doyers street, will be razed to the ground by the improvement All of the disorderly houses in PeH and Doyers will be torn down. and this is he great result which the authorities wish to attain.