Year: 1871

ercd ,,ne on which tho extension was 10 This map
and prominently displayed in many roa estate OF
fees and elsewhere Meantime thore Is another ana
far different line traced the official map In the posses
sion of Mr. Richard Toombs City Surveyor. and this
the real line contemplated guarded carefully for the
benefit OF the chosen few, who arc aDsorDing III 'o
available property on the route.


But money is not the only good 20 be secured. and
personal fcatherng of nests is not the only end TO be
served in this pet schomo Votes wanted. and by
udicous manipulation of the Improvement project those
are influenced A careful tracing OF the nc IA 1t Is
marked out on tho city Surveyors map. shows that,
though it will sweep the Floets Methodist Church prop
erty entirely away. with the exception of small corner
of the parsonage it will bring the occupied and unoccu
pied lots belonging to the Dc Beyoise-st Church to
magnificent frontage the grandest OF all Broollyn's
roaiways enhancing their value moro than hundred
fold by makingahe property great business center IL
now fronts on narrow no-thoroughare, and is worth
less except church purposes And so. too, with the
old cathedral lands near Prospectst. These, too Will
front on the new Flatbush and will become immensely
valuable business purposes Thus it is proposed
Ring Legislature be secured to do the Rings bidding
to kill two particularly fine birds with one stone.


The cost of this extension Of Flatbushave. will be
enormous, of course, and somebody must pay tho
bills. The expense should be assessed upon the prop
erty benefited, but as the gehtcInen OF the King
propose TO the greater part of that property they
have decided upon quite different apportonmeht
OF the cost of this work. Twenty-Five per cent OF the
they gracousy consent that tho property along
the line of the new thoroughfare shall bear hko
amount is to be upon the property lying on the
present Fatbushavc which Is in no way To he Pehc-
fted inasmuch the avenue already empties into At
lanc and FuOn-sts and needs no better outlets; ana
the remaining per cent is to he saddied on the city a
large although nobody pretends to discover in what
way property off Of the proposed line IN to he enhanced
in price by the extension for which 1t is to pay.


MANUFACTURING PROPERTY HOLDERS


Such are some of the modes by which the BrOoklyn
Rings control Of municipal airs is made 10 pay its


members But in carrying out their schemes there are
endless details In the arrangement OF which these gentle
men show degree Of admirable ingenuity An illustra-
ton of this was given the public by accident last sum
mer when It was proposed to pave Lhfayetteaye with
Nicolson. The law required a preliminary proceed


ing the signing of petition for such pavement by
majority the property the line of the street.
such majority not easily secured and In order 10
accomplish the purpose it determined to make I'M
whiting property holders out of such outsiders as could be


induced 10 sign the pavement petition. Or course the plan


must be carefully concealed from the gners, else such
Of them as were honest would refuse to sgn and such as
were dishonest would demand share in the proceeds
and long division is the pet abominaon of all Rings
Accordingly large number of people not owning prop
cry the street solicited TO sign petition for the
pavement and when about 100 of them had complied
with the request single lot fronting on Lafayette-ave
was divided up conveyed in fee to these hundred or
more individuals. The trick accidentally discov-
ered and thus failed OF its purpose but serves to show


the ingenuity of the process employed by the Ring i'll the
| accomplishment of its ends


<GRoOKLYSs WATCHDOG.


! There is oit obstacle to tho quiet and harmoni-
execution of these Ring operations, in the per-
! son Of Mayor Kalb1eisch, who happens TO be of a
/ persistently inQuiring turn of mind He has dis
! agreeable habit Of "loOking into things" exam


ning accounts, and insisting upon accurate balances
! after manner which greatly impedes the harmonious
/ action of the Ring machinery. He objected for
| instance, to the expenditure of Il vast sum OF
| money in attempt TO confine large quantity
/ OF unnecessary water in Hampstead valley
At another time he fell TO examining accounts with the
following results, which he made known officially: He
found that the contracts made for street cleaning re-
quired an aggregate monthly expenditure of abouts,OO
but that the Commissioners had drawn out for the two
months of January and February $4,000, out OF which
they subsequently paid the March bills leaving re-
mander Of about OOO the disposition OF which nobody
seemed able inform him about. The officials Interested


succeeded in securing withdrawing" report on the
case which the figures OF past and present years were


hopelessy confused that the only thing of which the


Mayor or anybody else thoroughly satisfied was


that il was "aw' mudde, and that $4,000 had some


how been lost therein.