New-York tribune., 1906-06-09
NEW IL" BRIDGE LOOP.
Brook9vn Favors, Manhattan OPP
poses, at City Club.

Representatives OF Brooklyn and Manhattan
civic bodies attended the conference called b,
the City Club at its rooms yesterday 10 discuss
the proposed elevated road in Delaney street
and the double decking of the elevated road IL
the Bowery The Manhattan representatives
were practically a unit for subway. while the
Brooklyn contingent was equally insstent thai
the elevated loop be built, and once.
The discussion was begun by reading resolu-
tion against the construction of either a per-
manent or temporary elevated road in Delaney
street and declaring that better and permanent
relief would be afforded by the adoption of other
plans.
The first suggestion the immediate con-
strucrion Of Subway Route g." This is from
the Williamsburg Bridge. through Delaney, TO
the Bowery. 10 Broome 10 Centre. to Brooklyn
Bridge. and through North William and William
streets 10 old Slip
AS an alternative plan. assuming the correct
ness of the contention Of the Bridge Commits
sioner that subway connection with the Brook
lyn Bridge cannot be made without the recon-
struction Of the bridge. it was proposed that the
trains he taken from the Brooklyn Bridge by an
elevated structure up Park Row and into sub
way at the first practicable point in Park Row
or the Bowery. and thence TO the Williamsburg
Bridge in a subway.
As an additional means Of relief trolley sur
face loops. connecting the two bridges. and an
increase in the present trolley system were
suggested The opponents of the elevated loop
dwelt on its disadvantages chiefly from senti-
mental point Of view. While expressing sympathy
for the victims Of the Brooklyn crush they pict-
ured the woes OF the tenement house dwellers
living in ths shadow of the structure, and
pleaded that Delaney street be made and kept
q parkway. Miss Lillian D. Waid Of the Henry
Street Settlement said that she objected TO
the elevated structure as noisy, unsightly
and unsentary. while DR.. Hamilton Of the Uni
versity Settlement said that with the elevated
loop Delaney street would become another
Bowery and Allen street Other East Side work
ers and citizens spoke along similar lines.
Ex-Borough President Swanstrom made an
earnest plea for the immediate building OF the
loop. II a matter Of life and death to
Brooklyn, he said that conditions be amelio-
rated az once. He said that he and others in
ferested IN the welfare Of both Brooklyn and
Manhattan would pledge themselves for the
removal OF the elevated structure as soon as
subway completed He reminded his au-
dienee that Delaney street had been widened
for traction. and not for park purposes and
that Brooklyn had shared in the expense Of the
Improvement st. Clair McKelway said that
The opponents Of the elevated loop as means
Of temporary relief had dwelt long on their sym
every night al the bridge, but that their sym
pathy did not extend to the practical relief of
the hundreds Of women who have TO struggle
home 70 Brooklyn every night.
Calvin Tomkins declared that II was his fear
that the plan for temporary loop was but the
starting point for East Side elevated line by
the Interhorough company from the Battery UP
10 The Bronx. He said that the problem Of
transportation to The Bronx was vital as
the Manhattan-Brooklyn problem. In discussing
the situation at the Brooklyn Bridge he ia
Vored the moving platforms, with a connection
With the subway. He said. referring to the
proposed loop;
They say. This Will be only a temporary
structure but we already have one fine ex-
ample of temporary structure" in the city.
The elevated structure in Battery Park was
only temporary. but it stays. Boss Croker
threatened TO take it down once, but he was
afraid 10 do it, He was in fear of the results
which would have followed the inconvenience
Of the public. If the people became accustomed
10 temporary structure" in Delaney street it
would be the same old story and il would be
years before its removal