The sun., 1919-07-20
9Th AYE. DECLARES
WAR ON ITS WOES
Association Will Fight Bitter
ly Against Conditions Which
Harm Thoroughfare.

The world war is ended, but a new
New York. The comUatants are the
Sixth Avenue Association on one side
and the civic imped!ments' that are
said to have been foisted on this thor
oughiare on the other. The actual dec
laraton OF war rests on the shoulders
OF Walter ]. Salmon, the president of
the association, and his associates, but
unlike Count Hohenzoleri, they don't
sikh avenue" says Mr.. Salmon, lis
prepared 10 put up a bitter fight to bring
the avenue into its own. Here are a
few examples Of how our avenue has
been abused and neglected.
Throughout practically it's entire
length its traffic is shamefully impeded
by an out OF date u structure which
should, and We hope will, be discarded
FOR a subway,
sixth avenue ends abruptly at q
stone wall at Fifty ninth street instead
OF having an entrance INTO Central Park
Ike Fifth and Seventh avenues Trans
fers are wrongfully denied street car
passengers to and from Sixth avenue
and cross-town lines.
Between Thirty-hfth anu Thirty
eighth streets Sixth avenue Is pract. caIty
blocked every noon hour BY congestion
Of factory workers, pedIers, push carts.
&c. even TO the extent that the bushes
OF merchants In this section OF the city
has been so impaired that many store
keepers have had to 20 out of business
n n1n IN -
and property values in this district have
been materially decreased
While Sixth avenue, particularly be-
tween Fovty-scCond and Fifty-ninth
streets, is typcally shopping district
and with proper restrictions would be-
come a far more important one than It is
now, traffic conditions along thls great
highway are abomiuable.
Commercial! traffic is permitted 10y
the Police Department to pass VI and
down Sixth avenue, but Is barred from
both Fifth avenue and Seventh avenue
Notwithstanding the fact that Sixth ave.
nue. is the only one OF these thorough
fares that is INSTRUCTED by an l. struc-
ture.
1T is one OF the contentious OF the
Sixth Avenue Association that CONNER
cial vehicles be permitted to pass up
and down Seventh avenue. which can
carry mucn more tfarnc than II now has
10 bear. This would substantially re-
lieve the congestion
AT many T. stations throughout the
city escalntors or elevators are provided
by the railway companies TO lift passen-
gers from the street to the l. platform.
but quite naturally, according to the
orders of things, there Is no such con-
venience at the Forty second street sta
ton Of the Sixth avenue T. one OF the
most congested corners In the uptown
New York,
with Sixth avenue conditions as de-
plorabe as they are, il can readily be
seen that the Sixth Avenue Association
has big job Of readjustment and i'm
provements on its hands and to make
its force keenly felt by the city. State
and Federal officials who are in a posi-
ton to give Sixth avenue the relief IL
deserves the association expects TO 20
10 the front with such a representative
membership OF property owners and mer-
chants that good will be accomplished
and the thoroughfare 1t represents will
eventually become close rival OF Fifth
avenue as high class shopping district
and building place for hotels, depart
ment stores. theatres. once buildings,