Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-23
Ramapo Water Company's Contem-
plated Contract Defeated
STATEN ISLAND FOR SECESSION
E. H. r. Green to Take Charge
of His Mothers Estate.
CHANCE FOR SCULPTORS
special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August %, 1889.
| The unsuccessful attempt of corterie of
| Tammany officials to jam through the
| board of public improvements a contract
| binding the city to buy S,0o0.0o worth of
| water a year from the Ramapo Water
| Company is a topic of general discussion
| among city officials. While most of them
| viewed the effort with complacency, all of
| them agreed that its progress was retarded
| and that it cannot be pushed through at all
| without creating scandal that will en-
| gulf the entire Van Wyck administration.
| Notwithstanding the indications that the
| scheme is dead, Controller Coler does not
| propose to let up in his fight until the city
! is placed beyond the possibility of another
| such raid. He will put force of expert
| engineers at work next week. They will
| go all over the watershed, will examine the
| reservoirs and will present an unbiased re-
| port to the controller. 1t is expected that
TINS report will show that. with the compile
| tlon OF the jerome Park reservoir, New
| York will have a storage capacity sufti-
| clent for fifty years to come.
| The controller has called attention to the
| remarkable character of the charter under
which the Ramapo company is operating
| IT possesses power greater than those of
! the city. In the first place the company
| by simply filing a map with the state au-
| thorlt1eS can secure a watershed in any
| part of the state. With the filing of the
map comes the appointments of commits
| sioners of appraisal and the company can
| take the land if it pay for 1t. The
| city cannot do that. 1t must first obtain the
| consent of the Legislature. The controller
| believes that when the public comes to
| derstands the extent of the powers possessed
| by the company and the city's helplessness
| there will be an irresistible demand for
! remedial legislation next winter. Control
! Ter Coler is confident that the scheme has
1 haa dafn tod 10 &c rod hat
! possibly two out-and-out Tammany mem
bers of the board of public Improvements
| will vote with those who are opposed to
| the contract.
| Staten Island Would Secede.
| committee of citizens of the borough
| of Richmond has charged itself with the
duty of ascertaniney public opinion con-
| corning the repeal of the Greater New York
| statute, far it relates to Richmond.
| and the passage of act Incorporating
| Richmond an Independent city. 1t has
! already completed its work and its mem
| bers declare that the sentiment they found
| existing among the thinking population of
| Staten Island is strong for a separation of
| the ties which bind them to Greater New
| York The committee will now proceed to
| organization, and will try to emphasize as
| an issue in the fall campaign independence
| from New York and the creation of the
| city of Richmond The party mparts
| to its constituents, prospective and other,
| that it will be entirely free from political
| partisanship, and already numbers in its
| ranks several strong machine republicans
| and Tammany democrats
e. H. r. Green in Town.
| Edward H. R. Green, president of an i'm
| portant Texas railroad chairman of the
| Texas republican executive committee.
| president of the famous Tarpon Club. which
has almost many millionaire members
as the Union League Club. and director
! in dozen more Texas banks, is in the
| city. He is the only of Mrs. Hetty
| Green, the richest woman in the world
Age and hard work are beginning to tell
| on MI. Green's rich mother, and she will
| do something that is not usual for her-that
| is, take rest, and during her vacation her
| Texas will conduct the business, whch
| has rarely been ntrusted to any one else.
| She IS now giving him the finishing touches
| of business education commenced ten
years ago. that he will be thoroughly
equipped to handle the vast interests which
she will soon confde to him estate
which at a fair valuation approXimates the
| respectable figure of $50, 1000 and which
| is now increasing at the rate of several
| millions year.
| Opportunity for Sculptors.
| The example set by the National Sculp-
| tors Society in giving their time and skill
free to the. city in the modelling of the
| sculpture for the Dewey arch has been fol-
| lowed by the management of the Madison
| Square Garden. The vast Enclosure of the
garden has been given free of charge a
place for the artists to make all their en-
largements for the sculpture to go on the
arch. Later on, when the work is more
| fully under way there will be a large sang
of workmen al work.
'An the good workmen in the city will
| practically be employed said c. r. Lamb,
| the general architect for the arch. This
ample space came to the sculptorS like a
gift from the clouds. There is enormous
| advantage in having all the different pieces
enlarged and set up together they will
stand on the day of the parade. rather than
in his own atelier. which. in of the
large figures, would be difficult if not i'm
possible
The sculptor in charge of the general
work at the Madison Square Garden is Carl
Biel, the same artist who Superintended the
construction of the adm nistration building
at the worlds fair in Chicago.
Duchess of Marlborough's Visit.
If Consuelo Duchess of Marlborough
can realize the plan which she has been
| contemplating all the summer she will be
here before the month is out to revisit the
home Of her girlhood. after an absence of
four years. Those who in her graces |
confidence expect her to be among them
in the stirring days of Dewey's welcome
and the great yacht races. 1t will be a |
visit dictated chiefly by affection. but if the
duke accompanies her he will be ruled to
Il great extent by wish to Columbia |
and Shamrock race. He could witness |
these memorable contests very comfortably |
from the steam yacht of his father-in-law |
William X. Vanderbilt.
MUST KEEP WITHIN BOUNDS