New-York tribune., 1911-12-19
Wants to Stick to Numbered
Streets, or at Least Pick Names.
ALDERMAN THEIR TARGET
Figurative Bricks Thrown at
Meagher Every Time He
Advocates a Change.

Flatbush gathered last night at the lath
Assembly District Republican club mousse
on Church avenue. not for political raliy'
but to save their numbered streets. II
they couldn't do that they wanted 10 PICK
their own names, and. above all unitedIy
ord emnhatically they didn't want 5he
names proffered 20 them by the aldermanic
cornr,ittee. headed by Alderman John J.
Meagher. which has been engaged IN PICK
ing out new names for Brooklyn streets
generally.
Alderman Meagher was the chairman OF
the meeting 50 TO speak. but II Woulon
he proper 20 say he presided. There was
chair on the platform, and the alderman
occrpied the, chair: so he was chairihau
That didn't signify that he was chairman
NJ rho meeting In the sense that he dl-
roctad it's deliberations or oratory-simply
that he was chairman in the sense that al
the brickbats we're aimed that way ana w
was the only representative OF the alder
manic committee present 70 receive tHe
bricks.
Alderman Morrison. of the district sat
beside Meagher. but Morrison eNplalheu
carefully that he had declined TO sign tIe
renorting of the Street Naming Commit
tee whose prospective action at the meet
ing of the Board OF Aldermen to-day VIII
change the names Of innumerable Brook
len streets. His constituents In the nail
anplauded Morrison's statement on that
noint so it left all the knocks Tor
Meagher.
BY way Of starting the affair of IN a
definite way Meagher announced tnat u'e
names Of the streets as proposed IN the
report of the Street Naming Committees
would be read of. and If no objection Ta'
announced he would take ii that there
was no complaint on that particular street
name.
That seemed reasonable, and Flatbush
sat back waiting quietly The first name
read happened to be Avenue q, Graves
end avenue to Flatbush avenue cnahgeu
10 Gleuwood Road
II Would have been the same in any case
as il appeared later that Flatoush had
some objection 10 every proposed chahge
nj street name in the section. but on TINS
first change the protest. headed by Generl'
Y Z. Osborn. was particularly peppery.
..1t isn't right 70 do that said the gen
oral "Gl4nwood Road isn't within two
hundred feet of Avenue q; IT isn't con-
tinuatiou. never was and never viii be-
He continued TO such good effect that be-
Tore long Meagher gave I'm and said ne
would report 90 tho committee That Avenue
q should ne loft alone. after all
Men began popping mp all over mo nan
nv that time. each one wanting e" lodge
complaint against some particular name OF
his own street and every ore wanting 10
nrotast against the substitution OF names
for numbered streets at an.
Meagher vas I'm d combative mood. lie
said he'd been working SO hard ON TN" street
naming proposition that ne hadn't had any
sleep for three nights. and here was every
one kicking So much II looked as II no one
Appreciated his work.
That came after the alderman had said
there was no natural division line 10 serve
between east and west Numbered streets.
oh. wake up" spoke up ono man;
there's Gravescud avenue
"ff that's the wav vou feel about il its