New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-06
ACTION ON SEASIDE PARK
.,d.rmanic Committee Favors
'' u'winu DreamIand Property.
WILL PRESENT RESOLUTION
,.,.ral wingate Declares City
should Take Advantage OF
present Opportunity.

Alexander Drescher, chairman
A!ce'n.a ,,,,.e on Parks Of the BOARD
Of ~, will introduce resolution a.
OF Al. .s,,na Of that body to-day whioh WIZ
the .,,s beginning Of Official action on the
msrh s,- free seaside beach AT Cohey
project Tot
Island. ,,a, nc outlined by him
Inc ,,cludes not only the purchase
yss'e ,.,- ~ the desolated Dreamland
~ NV advocated by The Tribune, hut
7ropes -. exclamation OF the thirty-nVe
s :, shore property adjoining the
&C.,, ao-foot city beach on the opposite
.Pr's7 ~, that OF Dreamland. This property
sioe owned by the city, but is SUD-
7, could be reclaimed at COM
,,,.slv small cost. II is said.
psI""' .osent city beach adjoining me
Ivy I.,ond municipal baths runs irresu-
along the ocean front for about nine
'N GOO, The Dreamland property
hVno, IA another 900 feet to the citys
~. mark on one side. and the city 'ai'.'
s,,pn,.rsed which could be reclaiineu'
80 add 100 feet on the other sioe'
-, would make one conuhuouS
-.,s Alderman Drescher YESTERDAY
80 would give New York the greatest
,.aob and oceanside park IN the "or'u'
~ .,,,5 he close 20 seventy-nve acres
., and besch-adjoinins park, whlch
q commensurate with what city
Hou,. s,z. should have. More than that
"a. nroposed city beach wouid ex'ehu o"
,.,,sllv 70 junction with Srieh'on
49,, ara BY that way on 70 Manhattan
seach." nod b.sn
.-,,,,, IN plans for a riunioipal BOARD
~, a. Coney Island which wouid nave
-. ,hs neople al least free sight Oh
.,.o, which has made Coney Island
.o-, that f. Is The Dreamand hre'
...,s- with the opportunity thus given
- oh,sin suoh city beach without the
..,.n.s Of buying or CONCERNING scores
. h,lldings. turned the committee On
p,,rs 70 the better project OF an a'tudi
nv owned beach and park
T,s resolution which Alderman Dresoher
IN n-esert from the committee IN an
,,o,sh,Iitv at to-day's session or the ooaro
~ -sconnend that the city buy the
,,l,rd nroperty and authorize the ex-
,.,a;,,,re OF the money necessary 20 re-
LAIN the property on the other side OF the
-,..an, small city beach Also the recon-
-,snda,ior will carry. it is planned au-
.,,r,,atior for the city officials TO condemn
-. nreanland property - that be fouho
necessary.
70 the committees report is accepted oy
-. poer5 =. Aldermen. the matter Will
.b.n he 1p TO the Board Of Estimate Four
q, the borough presidents have signiheo
,isir approval OF the plan.
General George ". Wingate, OF the PUP
r- Schools Athletic League, declared yes
..,Asc that there was TO question that
30 city should as a matter Of broad
,oiiov seize the present opportunity 70 &C
,ni-e = beach. such as is given by the
nance 70 buy the Dreamland property
mile 2. can he obtained ,or the bare price
q the land.
IF Won look al It in the broad way ne
said ~ IS better for the city 10 issue cor
-orste stock. paid for by rosterity. 20 buy
ais p-orerty while u is vacant and free
2rcr all leases \ beach and seaside park
Sr-r as this would give Us would be a
'r-sat thinr and 2 good thing for the city.
sl,hough ny own idaa is more toward buy
ing small Fairgrounds n which children
car a. eve-7 day n The week without cNt
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