New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-22
PUBLIC NOTICE.


MATE AND APPORTIONMENT Public
notice IL hereby given pursuant 10 Law tina.
~ a meeting or the Board OF Estimate ana
Apportionmeni, held october 2. 1914. the fol-
lowing petition was received:
COPY
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF ES1T-
MATE AND APpoRTIoNMENT OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK.
The petition OF THE BROOKLYN CITY
RAILROAD COMPANY respectfully ghOws:
J. Your Detitione- Is street surface raN-
under the laws OF the State Of New York,
md heretofore and under date OF February
u, 1893. II duly leased its roads and routes
TO The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company.
Your petitioner has duly made and hled,
pursuant, to Section no Of the Railroad Law.
statement OF the name and description OF
me street, road, avenue or highway ana
private property in or upon which II ~ pro
posed TO construct. maintain and operate an
set forth:
2. Your petitioner desires TO obtain from
The city OF New York and hereby respect
fully applies for its consent 20 a grant OF the
franchise or right to Use a certain street,
road, avenue. highway or public GROUNDS
within or belonging 10 The City Of New YORK
Tor the construction and operation. IN ana
upon the surface thereof Of an extension or
branch OF It's street surface railroad 70 con-
sist OF a double track street surface railroad,
FOR public use and conveyance OF persons ana
property for compensation, including such
poles wires. conduits, connections, sWltches,
sidings. turnouts, crossovers and suitaole
stands, equipment or other structures as may
be necessary for the accommodation and
operation OF said railroad by the overhead or
other system OF electricity or other motive
spower which may be lawfully used upon the
same.
3. The following Is description Of the
said certain street, road. avenue, highway
driveway or public grounds within or be-
longing 10 The City OF New York in, through.
upon or along which your petitioner desires
to extend its railroad, TO wit; -.
BEGINNING at n point In Fresh Pond
Road at the intersection OF the petitioners
tracks with the track or tracks OF its So
called Lutheran Cemetery Line Of railroad.
extending thence upon and along said Fresh
tltioner's track or tracks on Myrtle Avenue
In the Borough OF Queens, with suitable
connections between such extended tracks
and the tracks Of the so-called Lutheran
Cemetery Line and With the existing tracks
on Myrtle Avenue
4. Your petitioner proposes to operate the
railroad TO be constructed upon said street,
either directly or through q lessee, by the
overhead trolley system or by any other mo-
tive power. Other than steam locomotiye
power, which may be approved by the Pub
lie Service Commission for the First District
and consented TO by the owners OF prop
erty bounded upon said route as provided by
law
8. Your petitioner submits herewith a
map or plan showing the location OF said
tracks and connections OF the same with Its
present street surface railroad tracks and
said Lutheran Cemetery Line and with its
present street surface railroad tracks on
Myrtle Avenue, so as to permit OF the OPP
Grafton Of street surface railroad cars for
the conveyance Of persons and property over
said extension or branch OF ito said railroad
WHEREFORE your petitioner prays that
public notice herein OF the time and place
when and where this application Will DO
first considered. be duly gwen as required
by the laws applicable thereto, and that the
desired consent or grant be embodied In the
form Of a contract with all the terms and
conditions a. to compensation and other
wise. In accordance with the provisions Of
the Greater New York Charter and the Laws
DATED a. The Borough of Brooklyn.
The city Of New York.
September 18th, 1914.
THE BROOKLYN CITY RAILROAD COM
PANY.
IsealI BY
Attest: Frank Lyman.
3. E. Watson, President
Secretary.
City and State OF New York. County. OF
on this 18th day OF September 1914 before
me personally came Frank Lyman. 20 me
known. who being by me duly sworn, did
depose and say that no resided IN the Bor-
ough Of Brooklyn State Of New York: that
no is the President Of The Brooklyn city
Railroad Company. tho corporation described
In and which executed the foregoing instru-
ment; that he knew tho seal OF said corpo-
ration; that tho seal affixed to said instru-
ment vas such corporate seal; that It was
affixed by order OF the Board Of Directors
OF said corporation aud that he signed his
name thereto by like order.
Notary Public. Kings County, No 81:
certificate filed In New York Coun-
fSEALl ty. No. 1871: Kings County Regis
ter's, No. 6so4. New York County
Registers, No. 5347; commission expires
March 30. 1915.
and the following resolutions were thereupon
adopted:
WHEREAS. the foregoing petition from
the Brooklyn City Railroad Company dated
September 49, 1914. was presented to the
Board OF Estimate and Appointment at a
meeting held October o 1914
RESOLVED. that in pursuance OF law this
Board sets Friday. the thrtieth day OF Oc-
tober 1919, at 1880 o'clock I'm the forenoon
and Room 1G in the City Hall Borough Of
Manhattan, ss the time and place when and
where such petition shall be FIRST considered,
which citizens shall DO entitled to appear
and be heard; and be IL further
RESOLVED, that the petition and these
resolutions shall be published for at lea ST
fourteen "a days in two daily newspapers
I'm the city OF New York. 10 he designated by
the Mayor, and for at least ten nO) days In
the "City Record" Immediately prior 20 such
date Of public hearing. The expense OF such
publication 10 be borne by the petitioner
Brooklyn Daily Eagle and New York Trlb-
une designated.
New York October O. 1914
JAMES d. MGANN, Assistant Secretary,
Room 1907 Municipal Building. Centre and
Chambers Streets. Borough OF Manhattan.
Telephone. 1850 Wcrth
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