The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1920, Page 8

ee ae ite eres ee Se te ee Wie sees mee ees ee 5 aimee) + oe EERE sf <o Wovenewenngere * -@o this plan of putting a new court aconncetonre ’ © &@ new Domestic Relations Court House r +. Investig. ted, ) of Estimate. t ; ESTIMATE BOARD COND PLANS ONE MORE | BUREAU CONTROL SMEFORA COURT URGED BY MAYOR Will Hit Taxpayers Already Claims Edison and Telephone | Companies Have Never Paid a Cent for Privileges. Putting Millions Into Court Near City Hall. | iA FIGHT IS EXPECTED. | {with a further outlay of olty money, ‘This matter of the Domestic Rela- tions Court, which ts to be decided to- | Dortionment, promises to be « lively item in the dey’s proceedings. What with the declaration of; Comptrolier Craig last week, that) there is sufficient site for the $20,- 000,000 court house plan and that there is enough city owned land to “provide room for all the municipal | housing the Legislature can author- fze," the pian to purchase additional ®roperty for the erection of the Do- mestic Relations Court at Lexington ‘Avenue and 224 Street causes some ‘wonder. As has already been eet forth by Past administrations and also the Present one, the Court House site ‘within the vicinity of City Hail ta to be developed into a court ‘house sec- tion, centralizing all court activities, house in another place seems difficult of explanation. REASONS GIVEN DO NOT EXCUSE EXPENDITURE. ‘The principal reason given for such | ® great and seemingly unnecessary r OnE 16 thia Proposed Lexington Avenue site is in| the vicinity of the Children’s Court, and it is said by the promoters that the two courts are eomewbat related Sn thelr proceedings. As @ matter of fact, however, less than 5 per cent. of the cases that ome before the Children's Court have |@ny relation to cases in the Domestic Relations Court. There are other courts even more closely afMilated than this, Another excuse given for such a fmove is that the Lexington Avenue) @ite is more “central” than the site! Bow owned by the city. his, too, is questionable in view! pf the fact that a large percentag of the cases that come before t Domestic Relations Court come from the lower end of the city, @ At any rate, from the proposed Lex- fugton Avenue and 224 Street site to! the! prosent-owned City Hall alte is} but @ few minutes’ travel in the sub- | way. | Other than the above reasons, just | wry this Lexington site is ao strongly ‘urged is not apparent. Maybe light | ‘will be thrown on the matter to-day, | WHY PUT MORE MILLIONS INTO SITE? While it is generally believed that fe essential and that it is dimcult; €nough now for the city to provide, th. money, yet to purchase a new site on whicb to place the court is! @ matior that might better be further | ording to the views! of & prominent member of the Board | The city is already planning to erect @ court house at a cost of $8,500,000, | and which it is estimated will reach nearly $20,000,000 before the plan Is completed. This matter was argued at the last meeting of the Board of Rstimate and created considerable controversy in| that body. Borough President Curran and Al- Germanic President La Guardia both argued against the erection of this) court house at this time in view of the elty debt. ‘To add w these burdens the erec- | tion of the Domestic Relations Court On @ new site to be purchased by the city will doubtless cause no sinall ar- gument before the matter i finally disposed of. ‘ Algo it is apparent that the Board | of Aldermen has not yet been re- quested to pags on this site, which is Rhe general procedure, Members of this body who have been approached | on the subject claim vhey will de- mand a chance to investigate the! matter fully before the purchase of a new site is fully determined. UIT SYSTEM tricity be created for the supervi The Empire pany operates phone Company's hirty years ago, tered into between commisvioners ap: pointed by the Mayor and officials of the conduit com tracts were jokers, according to Mayor They provide thi profits of the c penses and maintenance In @ letter read at to-day’s meeting of Board of Estimate, : st eo Ne *Reasons’ Given for Domestic Hylan charges that the Now Fxlison Company ana the New York ‘ Sail | Relations Court Scheme Fail | Telephone Company, which own thou-|* to Satisfy Critics. si By Sophie Irene Loeb. |“ | exclusive With millions of dollars already a yreed when the contract was made Spent on the present Court House site: thirty years ago that the city would fomes a project to erect a Domestic | be entitied to a rental above a spect- Relations Court House on « now site| fied profit to the compantes. As @ result of the companies’ fail- ure to make good, many millions are now due the city, Mayor, and he proposes that in fu- Gay tn the Board of Estimate and Ap- ture a special bureau of the Depart- “The companies have char their books ‘millions upon dollars for construotion, ma most prohibitive for the elty ever t over these conduits, when, in de of miles of electric wire con- jaid beneath the streets of this have never paid a cent for this capital invested up to Dec. 31, 1 against which th» cumulated 10 per cent € the #ame time ts alle to $11,548,940.15. The {Fi Subway Company, Ltd.,claima for the | ? period to have od as capital invested $16, shortage under the 10 per isting for the #a of $16,000,000 Supply, Gas and t New Yor Consolidated J Subway Com Subway w York Tele in anies, These con nael fe whe px ho exc he city should bh unning into the n layor ay mpany .# Palmer to Ciy plea of Labor f ‘There is {STANDARD ON COOFNY ‘The sign of a reliable dealer and the worlds best Gasoline Every motor highway and by- way throughout picturesque New England and New York is a| part of the long “Socony ft contracts which will doubtless ‘be let to-day on the new court house will aggregate $6,877,710. Already two | contracts have been let for founda- | tion, digging and rough plumbing ®mounting to $1,876,710. It would seem that in the interest ‘of the taxpayer the city should pro- oeed less rapidly in buying new prop- erty with so much already on hand that has cost the self-same taxpayer | go dearly. IMAPT 2 reremes an, OR nearly two generations, the Standard Oil Company Of New York has grown with American indus- try and commerce. It has contributed much to them, The sale of Standard products has grown in exact proportion to their usefulness to the public. The present scope of Socony service is simply a reflection of the quality of Socony gasoline, It created an ever-in- creasing demand. Consequently, along the picturesque coast of Maine, in New- ort, R. I., or among the Catskills, the Socony sign of supreme motoring service appears at convenient intervals on the roadside. Socony gasoline is a typical Standard Oil product—its quality is uniformly It has a low volatilizing content that insures quick starting and a constant power-equivalent that makes full mileage a certainty with high, always dependable. every gallon. Present Socony users find it economical the year round, They enjoy the full benefit of a permanent carburetor ad- justment because they can fill up with Socony whenever they need it. For complete motoring satisfaction, fill up regularly with Socony gasoline. Look for the red, white and blue Socony Sign STANDARD OIL CO, OF OCONY REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. 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