New-York tribune., 1900-08-03
WHALEN REBUKED BY COLE
CORPORATION COUNSEL MUST GO TO
ALBANY FOR THE NEXT HEARING
ON THE GRAvESEND CROSSING.

". J. Kelly, representing the Long Island Rail-
road appeared before the State Railroad Commits
sioners at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday and
opposed the application OF the Borough OF Brooklyn
for permission construct a crossing at grade
over the tracks OF the Manhattan Beach Railroad
st Eighteenth-st. and Avenue U, Gravesend Mr..
Kelly said grade crossings were Illegal, and as his
company would be liable to damages for accidents
81 objected any such crossings unless the city
guaranteed II against loss.
W. II. Page. representing the Coney Island Jockey
Club and other property owners, urged that the
application be granted. The Board OF Public I'M
provements had approved the application by a
resolution passed July. 1899. and fathered its
presentation to the Railroad Commissioners. The
Municipal Assembly approved il April II last Mayor
Van Wyck let the resolution stand. by neglecung
10 approve or disapprove If.
Colonel A. s Bacon, representing property owners
OF the Home Crest section, spoke for the applica-
tion in the names of the children who wished to go
TO school, and OF the property holders who wished
the Fire Department to have to their houses.
The Commissioners suggested that the Long Island
Railroad consult with the city officials and reach
some plan for the construction Of an overhead
crossing.
The suggestion satisfied Mr.. Kelly. For the
Long Island Railroad he said, Il now oner to
join with the city and the citizens In defraying
the cost Of an overhead crossing.
we will reach an agreement in a month" replied
ar Page If the Long Island Railroad will remove
The commssieners said thcy would consider such
plan II the city would obHgate itself 70 take no
advantage Of the concession but TO begin proceed,
1ngs at once for a permit to erect an oVerheSsA
There was no one present to represent the city
and Colonel Cole. chairman OF the Commission
some one from his office is a gross mark of dIsre-
spect this Commission and a neglect OF his duty
The application reached the Commission from the
Corporation Counsel and it was his duty to ap-
Colonel Cole said he would adjourn the further
hearing until August Is at Albany ..,
You'll never get any one from the Corporation
Counsel's office in Albany this month put in COLO
track"
further hearing for August Is
Three or four matters OF minor interest were re, re
and the Commissioners adjourned to meet again
IN Elmira August l.
HUDSON RIVER STATE HOSPITALS CASE.
The complaint Of the Hudson River State Hos
ptaI two miles out OF Poughkeepsie, against the
PoUghkeepsie and Eastern Railroad Company was
taken up by the State Railroad Commissioners
yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
The hospital people complain that the freight
charges are too high and that 1t costs more to get
goods from Poughkeepsie TO the hospital than it
does IN Poughkeepsie to get goods from New-York
City. Counsel said agreement had been reached
on all goods except coal
Charles Hicks. superintendent Of the Poughkeep-
sic and Eastern, told the Commissioners that the
whole trouble arose from the jealousy of the Central
lew-England Railroad, which charged the hospital
IS cents a ton less than II charged the people OF
Poughkeepsie and was now engaged in an effort
20 construct line parallel to the Poughkeepsie and
Commissioner Baker said if the statement was
true it was unfair discrimination and that action
shfn59 enc Of the he Central New-Engiand Railroad.
The delay in rendering decision the Commis-
snight put in copies OF certain contracts. Those
conraets are TO be suhmttsd n AoaHy nggasI ao
would be announced the same cay