New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-23


Park along Gravesend Bay Our company owns ,
Point 1t is restricted property and Is becoming
adequately recompense US for the land if it wanted
i for park purposes The provision F n the he De GTaw
sioners deem il for the best public interest was
although 1 knew that such bill Would be pre-
sented to the Legislature.
Michael j. Dady. it seems is large land
holder in Gravesend. but it could not be learned
for certainty whether any of his land would
be included in the proposed park Mr. Dady Is
in Cuba looking after his S50,OO0OO0 sewer con-
tract, and will not be home for several weeks.
Controller Coler went to Sufern. " Y, yester-
day forenoon. and could not be reached.
WHAT MR.. CIRCUIT SAYS.
Borough President Grout of Brooklyn. WIN
oppose the bill When seen yesterday he said:
This bill should be killed. The charter gives
fny 6 gong 2 o b5nI ToF fo1 gaa PARK Lands With
nsttep IF fsc ro 5arlS fs pesiad S ca1e 1s aS
What Coney Island needs is better sidewalks pave
largely nonsense. l don't know who the real pro-
Inots[s OF Ine Dlll are, out ~ i9oks as II there
The city has now all the park lands il handle.
the charter with reference park lands 1t places
an enormous patronage in the hands of an official
takes the legal proceedings Of the established
CounseI I fail to see Where Tbe MONEY - for t6is
new park is coming from The city has plenty Of
by creating new park out Of the salt marshes at
Coney Island.
Ex-Park Commissioner ]. G. Dettmer. OF
Brooklyn. said:
On general principles I an in favor OF increasing
the number of parks. and of doing 1t now while
land is cheap The city is growing so rapidly that
paying excessive prices some future day. II this
bill provides for extending the present park
right through 10 Sea Gate I should be in
favor of it, but if it only provides for park on
different matter The bin invests SHE the coatroIlsr
with Sreat deal OF power, II Mr. Coler were 70
wise but in view OF the fact that he may serve
were given him. There is no telling what NAV hap
pen TO US under Tammany Hall in the next few
R. Ross Appleton. formerly Tax Collector OF
Brooklyn, had the following to say:
When was member of Mr. schieren's admin
iStration l was strongly in favor Of park all
along the ocean fr9nt OF C9ney Island with recrea-
Fairgrounds for the little folks. / wanted the
and but Forest PARK was Selected II the Con- on
S fQud % ~ be een9ed f b Tght down . Sea Gate
land Is rising in price all the while. and II any
thing is done IT should be done ar once. This
scheme to create park on the north side OF Coney
Island and along Gravesend Bay Is a horse Of an
othSr OF itr '0'0' anu can say 'na' | am IN faV0S
More parks are all right enough" said ex-
Civil Service Commissioner Jordan. but the
land mentioned in the bill would hardly make
inviting park The bill has a suspicious
look"
NO FURTHER THAN THE ASSEMBLY,
Park Commissioner Brewer said yesterday
that he thought the De Graw bill would get no
further than the Assembly. despite its apparent
popularity among the AssembIyrnen. He added
that Brooklyn already had as many parks as
it could care for.
The hill says that the lands TO be taken for
park purposes are those between the Atlantic
Ocean. West Seventeenth-st Coney Island
Creek and Gravesend Bay. and the lands OF
the Norton Point Land Company. An ex-
animation OF the best maps shows that ths
greater part OF this area is overlooked by high
tides and If II is converted into a park II viii
require an immense amount Of dredging OF
water channels and filing in in order 10 keep
the land out of the reach OF the high tides