New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
p,,llock Makes
nUA8V~NS~ -
Attack on Bronx
River Parkway
w..tchester Will Benefit
Most by $1O,O00,O 900
Project, He Declares

william Bullock. director of tho Bu
.,.u Of City Inquiry, launched an at
~ Yesterday against the Bronx River
p.,kway, now under construction,
A,ryiry that the city was footing rs
-, cent of the bills and that most of
=. benefit from the project would be
..,ived. not by New Workers, but by
..;zens of Westchestcr, which is sup
diving only % per cent of the funds.
We also alleged that the Bronx Park
r,y Commission has already spent
100000 Of the city's money and is
,l.nnng to spend $5,coo.oo0 more.
Further charges by Mr.. Bullock con-
tain the assertion that the commission
Suilt bridge over dry land at White
Plains and is now damming the Bronx
River to get the water under the
bridge.
Jay Downer. secretary to the Bronx
Parkway Commission. merely smiled
yhen confronted with Mr.. Bullock's
charges yesterday, and termed them
assmouhage.
Tammany "Camoudage, Factory
"Thc Bureau of City Inquiry is Tam
nsny's 'camoufiage' factory" he said.
This particular protest is to back up
bill introduced in the Legislature re-
Gently to abolish the commission. Pol
Sicisns hate TO see money spent with
out having hand in the spending.
that is all there is to it,"
Nr. Bullock's statement said:
nv, %lxo R,,~,,,, r;xx,
inquiry reveals that the Bronx Park
vay Commission has expended to date
$5,1o0,000 Of New York's money for the
direct benefit of Westchcster County
residents, aud that plans now in prog
rss call for a total expenditure of
100000 in city funds.
"A bridge has been built at White
Plains on dry land. Not q drop Of
water flowed at the point where this
bridge was built.
"But money of the taxpayers of New
York is being paid out to dam the
Bronx River and give flow under the
bridge as an excuse for the bridge.
Says River Is Rivulet
"The chief reason advanced for the
establishment of the commission was
the conservation of the Bronx River.
This river to-day is little more than
i. nsulet, the great volume Of its waters
isving been diverted to %he Kensico
Reservoir and to the Bronx Valley
sever.
what is New York getting for its rs
per cent of the cost? The parkway is
fifteen miles long. OF this twelve miles
are in Westchester County and three
miles in New York"
Mr. RnllOCk oyDraccoG %l,o
New York may be denied even an auto
mobile road in return for its ultimate
expenditure of $10,000,00O. He limited
at an attempt to make the parkway a
oridle path for Westchester residents
instead of roadway.
The bridge was built by the city of
" hltc Plains" explained Secretary
OoWner. THE commission had decided
20 divert the Bronx River channel at
mat point, and asked White Plains to
oulld the bridge, now on dry land. at
The point where the river will be in the
futures
AS to the bride path, there never
has been any attempt to deprive New
Workers. OF roadway so that West
chester residents might have a bride
path. told Mr.. Bullock that last week
Every expenditure of New York,s
money which the commission has made
was iirst, approved by New York.
through the Board of Estimate. The
law creating the commission provided
for 4hat 'NN
Mr.. Bullock seeks to give out false
IMPRESSION when he says that the park
wy Will benefit Westchester residents
enemy: thousands upon thousands of
new . Workers will get the good Of it,
ana auto owners will not be the only
ne" ~ lorkers benetiting from it. Three
tnousano boys day last summer went
swimming IN the Bronx River, which
used to be a sewer canal"