New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-23
OPPOSING DE GRAW'S BILL.
PROPOSED CITY PARK AT CONEY ISL
AND DENOUNCED.
PROJECT MAY COST THE CITY MILLIONS .
CARRIED oUT-MR. CIRCUIT AND
OTHERS CRITICIsE THE PLAN

Assemblyman Abram c. De Graw's bin pro-
viding for a large city park at Coney Island on
land which is now virtually salt marshes win
meet the opposition of President Grout OF the
Borough Of Brooklyn. Park Commissioners
Brewer of Brooklyn, and probably Controller
Coler. although the bill places in the hands OF
Controller Coler the responsibility Of appointing
the Commissioners who to buy the land
Some persons in Brooklyn are OF the opinion
that II the bill is amended so a TO connect the
present Concourse at Coney Island with the
proposed new park II may meet sufficient pub
lie approval to warrant its passage by the
Legislature. On the other hand. the majority
of people see in the bill huge Job skilfully con-
trived to mulct the city possibly out of 100000
or 100000 before the necessary grading and
filing finished. and the recreation piers and
amusement places are all constructed
Brooklynites who scrutnzed the bill closely
yesterday a possible little joker in tho
clause of the section which says:
And if said Commissioners deem IT for the
tween the Atlantic Ocean, West Seventeenth st.
land of the Norton Point Improvement Company
ON GENEROUS SCALE.
If It should develop that the Norton Point
Land Company. tiring of it's project to trans
form the western end of Coney Island into a
villa section for the wealthy had interested its
friends in Assemblyman De Graws bill. then
the taxpayers may well hold their breath. for
the land company has been spending money on
a generous scale. and many handsome cottages
have been built along the ocean front on the
companys property. In speaking of the possi-
BILE interest of the Norton Point Land Company
in the De Graw BILL a we'll known Brooklyn
real estate man said 10 a Tribune reporter
1t is possible that the land company has noted
with alarm the steady growth OF the lower end OF
Coney Island toward Sea Gate. AFTER the nre Wnlcn
blotted out part of COney Island last spring the
burned district rebuilt with amazing rapidity,
and there is every indication that the cheap amse-
ment places of COney Island Will be extended along
the beach till they adjOin finally the property or the
land Improvement company at Sea Gate. In order
get to Sea Gate il Is necessary to pass through
Coney Island, and there has always been soma
doubt about the permanency of Sea Gate as a rest
fu place Cottagers. The cottages already there
a models of comfort and convenience, and the
has added the attraCtiveEess of the place AT the
time the rapid growth OF the amusemenC and
dime catching schemes COney Island Is attract
ing and more people there year by year and
be having their fun within the shadow OF the big
gate which shuts of the Norton Point Land Con-
paEys settlement from what is peculiarly known as
Coney Island II the Commissioners authorized IN
der the De Graw bill should take it into their heads
20 buy this Sea Gate property: then every one can
get ready to cool 100000 spent for the Sea
Gate end of the island alone.
William P Rae, secretary of the Norton
Point Land Company. said last night when
seen by a Tribune reporter at his home. No
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