New-York tribune., 1906-10-19
BROOKLYNITES OBJECT.
Big Mass Meeting Demands Relief
from FuIton Street SubUaY.

The BuGness Neps League OF Brooklyn held a
souatns Indignation mass meeting in Association
c,.1n :ne deliaauencfes of the subway contractor
ane sAA Rapid Transit Commission, passed a set OF
resolutions which will be carried, IL necessary, TO
iSovsraor Higgins. demanding that Fulton street
and F:atbush avenue be kept in the condition
promised in the contract under witch the subway
II being constructed.
The hall crowded when the meeting began
at O'Clock, and afterward 1000 people collected
outside and addressed by speakers " NJ
5ar,sitE presided. Before introducing the speak
he read telegram from w. r. Hoarst. sym
3sthz!ng with the object of the meeting. It was
received with applause. Then he read another
from c. e. Hughes AT that cheering broke out,
and FOR several minutes the meeting seemed like
q Republican mass meeting Then ex-senator
Walter G. Burton was introduced He said in
part:
a sassn4 @ oHP RsEeaP5 @So
c p e Futon ss5 from Of tSe the oai
important business Streets in the worid-existing
contrary TO the contract under which the subway way
protested The contractor explained but the con
gineer Rice. 10 the Rapid Transit Commission and
Livingston street widened in order to relieve
the pressure Of traffic in Fulton street and i is
ough President coier for an explanation he said
ars and the dir. placed in them 0 had N not settled
enough to alloy paving stones to he pSoe6 e over |
next six months the dirt will be sufficiently settled
we say much in this country about individual
h5erty There is no city in Europe that would
Paris and in London when they were building
interfere to any extent with the trafic What tbev
do. can do
Rice declared, when complained to him of the
con6ition Of Fulton street. that trains will be
ping in the tunnel by February | We are GLAD to
know T. but We have not so much complained Of
he he Sssy on the work as we have complained Of
up and the dirt removed.
At Mr. Burton's suggestion a committee was ap-
pointed to draw set of resolutions voicing the
sentiment Of the meeting to the condition Of the
street. While the committee out pictures OF
Fulton street torn up for the subway construction
were thrown on the screen The lecturer who
planed the pictures said that the city should TO
China for engineers 10 build the subway. as the
Chinese far ahead Of Americans in the execution
OF such work
Mr. Morton expressed the sympathy of Manhat-
tan with Brooklyn and declared sarcastically that
whoever else dissatisfied by the work, Rlce
was satisfied. Borough President Coer. who fol-
lowed gained much applause by declaring that the
press Of Brooklyn had combined keep him from
getting the proper appropriation for Brooklyn be-
cause he had attacked the corporations. and thus
interfered with their stockholders. He told the
merchants that the papers-especialIy the com
mercial papers-were cowardIy and that they
should be coerced into opposing the corporations
by the withholding OF advertisements: he an.
nouncei that he had been commissioned TO say that
MeiZ-One
the Rapid Transit Counmission-would stir up the
commission behalf of the merchants, and that
he would pay bills TO the contractors until
they lived up to the provisions of the contract
promising clean streets. He declared that Brooklyn
would not get proper appropriations until the peo-
PIE got together and demanded them
The committee sent out TO draw up resolutions
reported IN preamble the complaints Of the mer-
chants and in the resolutions made four demands:
That the streets be cleaned regularly, that the
streets be cleaned and opened, that the sur
face of Fulton street be closed with plankS and
that the contractors work day and night the
tunnel, but the surface only after nightfall--
all in accordance with the terms of the subway
contract. II further resolved to appoint
committee of fifteen TO take copies of the
lutions 10 the Mayor, end the president Of the
Rapid Transit Commission. That falling to pro-
duOs the hopei for roculte. IT was decided to go
10 Governor Higgins and ask him the
present engineers and appoint others more inter
ested IN the peoples service. From Governor Hig-
gins, IL resolved to appeal directly to the
candidates now seeking election and have them
promise 10 look out for the interests of the mer
chants when elected. Lastly, II was resolved TO
call the attention OF other business centres TO the
conditions prevailing in Brooklyn, that when
contracts were let elsewhere the scenes OF Brook
lyn would be repeated. The resolutions were
enthusiastically adopted.