New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
RREEZE ON CONGESTION
STIRRED By A QUESTION.
Rude Shoch for audience at Col
lege Day Meeting.

~. even tenor of tire meeting az tire Congestion
r.. Population exhibit in the American Museum OF
Natural History rldely interrupted after
rerrv C Wright the secretary Of the City Club
50 >ri.h-s hss address on Congestion and Trans
-o-ratiou'' yesterday afternoon. and the audience
made Up visitors from numerous mems and
~ore-'s colleges. with sprinklfns OF outsioers
ws. visihlv shocked II WIS college day ana me
.oholss-ic air TIE whole proceedings had been
--,e- marked rvhen-hut this Is what happened
v -.,,,y - the Invitation 20 ask questions Ed
x--d = Murray q member o1 the Harlem Beoford
ys-k en6 ssd we-6 Property Owners ASSOCIATIONS
arose end made protest against the tenement
hot.. law that Included three family houses under
q, ,-or1sions He declared Snat changes IN the ia"
,z,-,l6 do much to relieve congestion
NJ Wright IN essayirg 10 answer asked whe'h-
~ .he sreake- was not Mr.. Murray. and mentioned
81. fact tfst Mr. Murray was member o. prop
.--v owners associations. whereupon Mr Murray
,.cs-,e incensed and for shout FIVE minutes IN
.s-as that his personality had been attacked thst
there was no occasion II, and every time 'hat
NJ Wright tried TO explain himself MI Mur'sH ;
N.-s-re more and more insistent that II was i"'
necessary TO know who he was and that ne was
-o- ashamed TO announce that he was kd"ato D.
49, Vbe-euoor ne enumerated the assocls-
lions Of which he was member and repeated ms
arguments fo- what he called more hberai 'el
rne1t house act -,
~ V--svh. n despair. sat down. and then heIl-
.s-,fn G Marsh the secretary of the committee IN
-. ~ +,,e exhibit stepped into the breach ano
invited those present 10 look az 'he lailo eAii'
erd there was general exodus ,.
r.. -,,5.-+s started IN examine the exhlnits
=, -,e -,o-r1fne coming ell the way from bryh
- z1-.7laeIsy Mount Holyoke. Smith. Cornell
z-sa- university OF PENNSYLVANIA. Hamilton ana
Harvard . o-
n r-6Usrd :. Devine the general secretary OF
=, -Ls-4-v Organization Society, whose subject
- ..--7,a Economic Causes and Results OF Con-
sesrjon was not enthusiastic about relieving lle
Congestion IN this city. he said there should be
more streets running north and south ana Ie"er
east and west
r. o-,ce---a+ior Of population was not injurious
ss : whole he continued 1t meant greater wealth.
greater facilities for education and for amusement
1r,t he thought il had gone TOO far in this city
~ Wright in MS address declared that the fene-
--a-- house and apartment house life was destruc-
-ze IF the czic spirit and the community interest
Of the transit problem Nj. Wright said that the
reduction Of the population downtown would com
-li,zte The transit situation he showed maps 10
illustrate the situation II is. and as it might be
with redistribution Of population, factories and
business houses The central part Of Manhattan
he believed. should be devoted. from Central Park
70 the Battery, 10 Office buildings, stores and the
s--eS-
The factories. warehouses and wholesale houses
should be placed along the banks Of the rivers and
along the railroads. he said The great residential
sections for the Office men. he believed. should be
brooklyn. The Bronx and New Jersey.
one way TO make beginning was suggested
-rz- OF Passing q law restricting the location OF
factories 70 certain sections. That would prevent.
NJ Wright said. q condition that exists in one
block where there are now sevenIyseven factories,
.-rl-vinE four thousand persons
B--o-e Ny Murray began his talk James L.
CovIes. the secretary OF the Postal Progressive
IeaEue VINO was IN the audience. laid the blame
-a~ congestion 70 3 large extent upon what he
called discriminating freight rates between the
rrE and the short haul. which he said caused
factories and great warehouses 10 be placed in the
large cities
s-au- fifteen Yale students visited the exhibit
Isst evening They were members Of Professor
1.r-iau 3. Baueys class II sociology