New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-28
DELAY UNWARRANTABLE.
So Bronr Citizens Say-Want Port
Chester Road Started.
ASKING ALDERMEN QUESTIONS.

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| What is said to be an unwarrantabie delay in
obtaining from the Board of Aldermen permission
| for the Neyg-York and Port Chester Railroad to
| pass and under the streets OF The Bronx has
caused Albert Z. Davis, president Of the North
Side Board of Trade to start an inquiry among the
aldermen composing the Railroad Committee Of the
board An effort VIII be made to ascertain why
the committee has failed to take action the
resolution introduced in the board on May auth
| orizing The projectors Of the Port Chester road
to use the necessary thoroughfares in The Bronx
for the construction Of the road.
A public hearing the application
nounced for time IN June. but when a large
delegation OF Bronx citizens and taxpayers APP
peared TO attend the hearing they we're told that
some mistake had been made, no hearing had
been arranged.
Mr. Davis wrote first to Alderman Peck. from
Bronx district. asking the alderman if he could
plain the delay. Alderman Peck replied to Mr.
Davis on August H. follows:
I do not know why the New-York and Port
chester Railroad application is delayed in the
ter has been referred to the Railroad Committee
and there it rests. Alderman Gass introduced the
to advance it. He is therefore the one to move
1t. and if he cannot do so, DO not know who can.
On receipt of Alderman Peck's communication
Mr.. Davis wrote 10 Alderman Gass, who repre-
sents the xLIIId District Alderman Gass's reply
was follows:
wish to state that the matter lies entirely IN
Board of DE- NEE Fat seen on OF ve e9S
member of this committee regarding this matter
ana each one refers me TO the other.
Alderman Gass advised Mr. Davis to write to
Alderman Diemer chairman of the railroad COM
mittee. which Mr. Davis Immediately did, but as
yet has received no reply
Mr.. Davis also wrote to Borough President Haffen
O. The Bronx and w w Niles. president of the
Taxpayers Alliance Both have promised to lend
their cooperation in the effort to have the Board
of Aldermen act on the Port Chester roads appli-
cation
President Haffens letter to Mr.. Davis is as fol-
lows:
IN the Su and PoT e he Ra4os
22ppIicaton, and beg to say In reply that / shall
the railroad committee, Board Of Aldermen and
ton granted.
Mr. Niles wrote:
Yours of the Path inst. regarding the application
of the New-York and Port Chester Railroad Com
Board Of Aldermen came duly to hama. viii see
ADOPTED by he aanc copies a2d OF the &
RgFS0haily with such members of the board as I
ticn. '-' an Oau Company appuca-
The cities of Mount Vernon and New-RocheIle and
the Supreme Court at White Plains. acting for the
remainder OF Westchester County affected have al
ready given the Port Chester Railroad Company the
necessary authority to begin the work of ccrstruc-
ton. and the only obstacle to the beginning Of the
work is the delay in the Board of Aldermen Last
week the Mayor of Mount Vernon by direction
OF the Common Council of that city, forwarded to
Mayor Low resolution protesting against any
further delay in the matter and requesting the
Board Of Aldermen to approve the Port Chester
roads application at once.
Harry E. Colwell. president of the New Rochelle
Board OF Trade, is indignant at the apparent in
difference Of the Board of Aldermen to the needs of
The Bronx and nearby suburban towns for better
transit facilities, and favors such steps as will in
duce the board to take the application out Of COM
mittee and approve it. The North Side Board Of
Trade is most anxious to have the Aldermen grant
the necessary permission for the use of The Bronx
streets, as will be by the following resolu-
tons passed unanimously some time ago:
Whereas, The construction of the proposed New
York and Port Chester Railway will prove Of i'm
Inense advantage in developing the easterly sec
ton of the Borough of The Bronx;
Resolved That the North Side Board of Trade
urge upon the Board of Aldermen the immediate
granting OF the necessary permit for crossing the
streets in this borough, that the work of con-
structon can be begun without delay.
The following members compose the railroad
committee of the Board OF Aldermen: John Die
mer, Brooklyn (chairman); Elias Goodman, Man
haitian; William D. Peck. The Bronx; Frederick
Lundy, Brooklyn; John c. Klett, Manhattan; Rob-
e.t F. Downing, Brooklyn; Moses ]. Wafer Brook
Ign; John t. Mccall, Manhattan, and James Owens,
Manhattan.