New York, 1895
Senator Owen Has a Bill Ready to Introduce.
A private letter to THE FARMER from Albany, received yesterday, brings the following information:
"The Newtown Creek tunnel bill will to be introduced in a day or two. Senator Owens showed me a draft of the bill. It provides for a commission of three — two to be appointed by the Mayors of Brooklyn and Long Island City, and one by the Governor. The Queens county board of Supervisors is ignored, but that county must pay one-half of the cost of the tunnel. Mr. Owens expresses the opinion that the bill will become a law."
This information verifies the prediction THE FARMER made months ago, and frequently repeated, that unless the Supervisors took substantial action looking to the erection of a bridge, the tunnel job would be resurrected.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 11, 1895, p. 1.
Monday, May 5, 2008
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