County Affairs.

New York, 1895

The Supervisors had an interesting meeting on Tuesday and the work done will receive public approval. The reapportionment of the county had to be made under the new constitution and will stand as made for ten years at least. There had to be a disproportion of population under any circumstances. The new districts are composed of contiguous territory and their respective interests are fairly harmonious. It is creditable to the Republican Supervisors that they refrained from taking unfair advantage of the Democrats. Each party has a positive district, and one district is close, but with a preponderance of votes in favor of the Democrats, yet so small that the party making the best nomination will be pretty likely to win. This will make for good government.

Road improvements came in for a fair share of favorable attention. North Hempstead and Oyster Bay will macadamize the North turnpike from Roslyn to East Norwich and thence to the village of Oyster Bay, each town bearing an equitable proportion of the cost. The Hoffman boulevard in Jamaica and Newtown will be macadamized from Fulton street in Jamaica to Thompson avenue in Newtown. Both of these improvements are well worth making, and they will about conclude the scheme of road improvement.

The board has gone squarely on record in favor of a new bridge over Newtown Creek at Hunter's Point, and it remains for Kings county to concur or take the responsibility for whatever may happen the old structure, which has been twice condemned by the general government and is tottering on its pivot. There is a job on foot in Kings to force the erection of a particular bridge under conditions not favorable to good work or economy, and Queens county's Supervisors will not have it. They are right, and have only to stand firm to get what they want.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 4.