New-York tribune., 1902-07-26

MOUSLY FOR DELANCEY-ST.
WIDENING.

Mayor Low and the Board of Estimate and APP
poruonment gave Commissioner Lindenthars
S'UoVW scheme for the widening of Delancey-st
IN order to make plazalike approach the
Williamsburg Bridge a pronounced lift and ii is
oeheVed now that the Board of Aldermen will
lolioW the lead of the Board of Estimate and
Apporuonment and adopt the plan Mr.. Linden
tnal wants an approach two hundred feet wide.
The assessed value of the property needed for the
Improvement is s223O0a This represents less than
haIt the condemnation price in the city takes
IT, Nelson P. Lewis. engineer of the Board Of
Esunlate does not indorse the plan, as he says
the arrangement of the trolley and elevated tracks
across the bridge will determine whether it is
necessary to have such a wide street
Commissioner Lindenthal addressed the board in
support of his project to abandon the scheme of
plaza for the new bridge. and to make De-
lancey-st the approach TO the bridge. President
Cantor was strongly in favor of the plan, and
said it had been approved by the local board The
full scheme is to make the street hundred feet
wide west of the Bowery to Elm-st. but only the
portion east of the Bowery was under considera-
tion at yesterdays meeting.
Mr.. Lindenthal added that the entire two hun
dred feet was not absolutely necessary. but that
the section is without parks and the street would
be In the nature of a boulevard and much needed
breathing place for the congested East Side tene-
ment district
The board voted unanimously on the motion of
Mayor Low to approve the plan as presented by
the Commissioner of Bridges
The board gave a hearing on the ordinance TO
bury all wires other than the trolley wires in
Brooklyn within two miles of the bridge entrance.
Colonel Monroe, Commissioner of the Department
of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, reported
that he believed the companies interested were do
ing their best.
John L. Wells of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
system said that his company had spent oOoO
In the last few in buryng the feed wires for
the troleys. The board decided TO hold another
public hearing September Il.
Park Commissioner Young asked for appro-
priation of sl5O0O0 for the small parks of Brooklyn
and Queens. That amount is in addition to the
$4,000 now under consideration that he wants for
Sunset Park, in South Brooklyn. Mr.. Young eX-
planned that II the appropriation made he could
put In proper condition every small park in Brook
lyn and Queens. There were twenty-seven parks.
he said. which needed immediate attention and
which could not be made available for park pur-
poses unless the money appropriated Com
missioner Wilcox Of the Manhattan Department of
Parks made similar application for S395O0O for the
small parks of Manhattan and Richmond OF that
amount $4,000 is needed for the new Thomas
Jefferson Park Jacob A Riis asked the board TO
almost much the churches to make good
citizens. After some discussion the board voted
Manhattan and The Bronx for the of the Park
C9mmssioners 9Tn s on the small parks ,., o,.s.-
as soon as the afternoon session began. Controller
Grout offered two resolutions appropriating Sl6ZIO
for the Blackwels Island Bridge and $2,92O0oO for
the Manhattan Bridge. The appropriations We're
authorized by unanimous vote.
Fire Commissioner Sturgis received authority
from the board the s256, l6l 81 bonds author
ized in 1901 for new sites for fTehouses for like
purpose. the sites to be chosen by himself
The board voted TO honor the requistiOn OF the
Rapid Transit Commission for S3O409i 81 The
amount Is the balance Of the S5760O0 asked for In
January the estimated disbursements of the
Commissioner for the year bond issue of s7lso0 :!
was authorized TO pay the awards and interest foI
the land taken for the Harlem River bridge al
West One -hundred-and- -forty-tfth-st.
On motion of Controller Crout the board adopted
resolution liking the rate to be paid by the city
toward ssments for public improvements. The
resolution provides that except In exceptional cases
the property owner shall pay all the expenses OF
opening street sixty feet wide, hut that thG
city shall bear one-third the OF any excess
over that width. In the case OF widening exist
ing streets the city Will bear one-half the o.
the improve nent-
The first case OF public Importance taken VI
after the adoption of the resolution considered
an exceptional one. 1t the widening OF Elm
st. The board decided that justice the property
owners called for liberal policy and that the city
should bear two thirds of the cost OF the work
There were still many items the calendar un-
disposed OF. and the board decided to meet again
on Monday 10 finish IL up. Controller Grout is &c
leave the city for a vacation Tuesday. and the
Board OF Estimate will not meet again after Mon.
day until September.