New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-15
HUNDREDS SIGN
BROOKLYN PETITION
Campaign to Have L"
Structure Removed from
Lower Fulton St.

Hundreds of property owners and
residents o. Brooklyn are signing their
names 70 petitions favoring the plan OF
the Committee of One Hundred for the
removal of the elevated railroad struc-
lures from Fulton St, Myrtle and Flat
bush avs, and the substitution of sub
ways. &,
The committee, which was appointed
at the instance of the late Professor
Franklin w. Hooper at a meeting OF
citizens held at the University Club
of BROOKLYN, July s, recently opened
Headquarters at 369 Fulton st. Here
those that are in sympathy with the
movement may register their approval
by signing petitions. The committee
occupies q large store on the GROUND
floor. and has on exhibition half tones
of Fulton ST. as il now is and as 1t VIII
look with the elevated structures taken
down.
At the citizens's meeting in July the
following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted:
Whereas, There is now under con-
struction by the City of New York
transit system of great scope and many
ramifcations which will give to he
residents Of all sections, and especially
those far removed from the civic cen
tres of the town, unique facilities for
reaching all parts of all the boroughs,
and
Whereas, The central portion and
civic centre of Brooklyn has for years
unseIfishlv and without complaint
borne the burden of the overhead
elevated system upon its main avenues
and arteries of travel, and
Whereas. This burden has been and
is serious detriment 70 the civic
spirit and proper pride OF its citizens
and injurious to its growth as a cen.
tire of culture and intellectual lie, ana
Whereas, The time Tor the consider
alton of any plans of removing this
elevated railroad is before the actual
structural changes in and under our
city streets have taken place, the fol-
lowing resolutions are UNANIMOUSLY
adopted at a representative meeting or
Brooklvn citizens held at the Unlver-
sity Club of Brooklyn upon the call OF
the committee on civic affairs OF SAID
club this sth day of July, 1914:
Resolved, That the chairman OF the
committee on civic affairs of the UNI
versity Club be requested 10 appoint a
committee of one hundred citizens, OF
which he shall be one, to present TO
the Board OF Estimate and Pubic Ser
vi , Commission the economic and civic
necessity of finding some plan OF re-
moving from the central portion OF the
Borough Of Brooklyn the elevated
railroad structures which now occupy
its streets.
Resolved, That the plans and report
submitted at this meeting, drawn by
Spencer e. Randolph, consulting engl-
neers. with such changes as may be
found expedient, be forwarded as a
whole 10 the Board of Estimate, Public
Service Commission and the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company, and that
copies thereof be furnished to all
newspapers throughout the city. Fur
Their be IL
Resolved. That the committee on
civic affairs of the University Club be
requested to distribute copies of these
plans and report, together with copies
Of this resolution, as widely as possible
throughout the borough, and that the
BROOKLYN committee on city plan, and
all civic organizations, clubs and other
bodies interested in the welfare of the
borough, be invited and urged to con-
slider the same and to memorabilia the
city authorities in respect thereto.
d
The aim of the committee is to sub
stitute subways for the elevated roads.
Under a plan prepared by Spencer e.
Randolph, a firm of consulting engi-
! neers in Manhattan, the subway lines
1 to carry the present elevated trains,
after crossing the Brooklyn Bridge,
proceed on line parallel to Wash
| ington st, going underground before
/ reaching Hillary, at which point the
/ tracks curve into Washington and pro-
coed TO Myrtle av.; thence Fulton at.
/ into Willoughby to the Flatbush av.
! extension. At this point the tracks
for Fulton st. trains and Fifth av.
/ trains turn south into Prince st, and
! are depressed on a 3 per cent grade
so that they pass under the Flatbush
/ av. extension tracks into DeKalb av,
1 thence down St. Felix ST.
The Fulton st. trains are carried
out in a three-track subway to Stuy-
vesant Park, where connection is made
with the existing elevated.
The Fifth av. subway is carried out
to cath st., where junction is made
with the existing eleYated on the east
side of the street next TO Greenwood
Cemetery.
The cost Of these subways, the en-
gineers calculate, will be about ST.,
200. 700, a figure, many Brooklynites
think, that would make them prohibi-
tive for the city 70 undertake in its
r~asort financial state.