The sun., 1905-11-25
new PLACE FOR STEVENSON.
DEPUTY COMPTRDLLER TO GET
4 S7,JOO SECRET4RISHTP.

The board of Estimate Decides to Have 9
Sliaried NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Asks
Permission to Close a Block In Thirty.
second street. but Ahearn Opposes
Comptroller-eleot Metz's intention tc
make John McCooey, who was removed by
| Mayor Mcclellan as a Civil Service Com
missioner, Deputy Comptroller, is not apt
! to be popular one.
At the meeting Of the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment yesterday Borough
, President Lttleton Of Brooklyn offered the
resolution creating the place of secretary
to the board, at a salary of $500. As soon
as this resolution was passed Mr.. Littleton
presented and had passed another directing
the Mayor to communicate with the Civil
Service Commission with a view to putting
the office of secretary of the board in the
exempt class.
At present this office is merely an honorary
one, and it has been filled for the last four
years by James W. Stevenson, Deputy
Comptroller under Mr.. Grout. 1t is under
stood that when the Office is created it will
be given to Mr.. Stevenson. This may cause
a break at the start between Mayor McClel-
Ian and the Comptroler-elect, but the
Mayors friends say he is determined that
the Comptroer's Office shall not be run as
an annex to the Kings county organization.
McCarren is McCooey's political sponsor.
A. j. Cassatt, president of the Pennsyl-
vana Railroad with his counsel, Albert
b. Boardman, appeared before the board
to obtain authority to close West Thirty
second street from Ninth to Tenth avenue,
in order to carry out the companys plans
for the new Pennsylvania terminal. Mr.
Cassatt said that when completed the
station would be much larger than the
Jersey City station and probably the largest
in the world y
Borough President Ahearn prot ested
against closing the block until the adjoin-
ing property owners had been heard from.
Mr.. Boardman explained that the Penn
sylyania Railroad owns all the property
involved and that the closing of this one
block would not interfere with north and
south bound traffic on both the adjoining
avenues. Borough President Ahearns pro-
test was needed and the matter was laid
over for week
Commissioner Chadwick of tho Water
Supply Board asked for an appropriation
of So ,0e2 900 to defray projected expenses.
The board gave him $500, 600 for temporary
use and referred his request to Engineer
Nelson Lewis for report.
The board instructed the Corporation
Counsel to begin condemnation proceed
ings for the proposed park at Owls Head
on the Shore Road in Brooklyn. The
estimated cost of this land is a million
dollars.
On a favorable report from the Finance
Department 81, ,s75, 900 was also appropriated
to improve and complete the Bay Ridge
Park way and Shore Road from First avenue
to Fort Hamilton, in the Borough Of
Brooklyn.
Bridge Commissioner Best sent a letter
to the board giving the general plans for
the proposed Henry Hudson memorial
bridge al Spuyten Duyvil, showing that it
would cost SO 600 900 for construction and
land. The board turned the whole matter
over to Engineer Lewis. All the fran
chise matters that came up yesterday
were adjourned until special board meet
ing on December 5.