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T1IE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1903.

CHANGES TO FOLLOW. Transformations in Conditions Due to the Opening of the Williamsburg Bridge -Future of Wards Near Terminus. Ihe diiscussion of ihe probable growth of Jthoso lines of transportation h.ive led through the Eighteenth Ward and the section in hp Western District. The extreme distance Queens Borouph lyins back of it, r.icul ion i point of section from llir terminus of the Willianishurg terminus is three and one has been made of Twenty-seventh and half miles and the passage may be made by elevated road over Uroadway on a hue as straight as surveyor's f-kill can made it. From the terminus of the old bridge it ia five miles.

A passage may also be made by elevated ro.vl and not by. any moans on a eirclsht lino. From the western part of this section whore the Myrtle avenue line aflords elevatiid railroad privileges. to. (he Wllliams-burf terminus.

(he distance is one. and half 'miles; 'to Brooklyn terminus, three miles. Ivet-tfiese facts be faced 'wlih eourago, for they Tuean that for this enormotm population of lfit.Otiti. as it has doubtless grown to bt In the three elapsing years since the enmn-ernUon, the Williamsburg Bridge will ho the center of Interest; that'll will become an Twenty-eighth Wards. This section so designated was formerly of the Eighteenth Ward and in an uninfluenced and undirected growth wonld naturally liavc been an outgrowth of the Eastern District, lit tho Vnited States census sows that it had obtained a population of It.

is somewhat difficult to obtain exactly lh figures of that growth in a comparative isiki, by the the Eighteenth Ward showed a population of 74vflt0. Subsequent ly4. so much of the territory of, the ward as now makes Op the Twenty-seventh wards, was detached and the of the Eighteenth Ward, In the census of tPtiG. was apparently reduced to J.i.13.". In 1SS0 the figures of population wore i.l.SW.

In I'lsMl, for 0 Sr C. hrldgp, and all west of It to the old Brooklyn Bridge. Included In the eastern division would be small section of the. Twentieth Ward, nearly all of the Seventh, the whole of the Twenty-first, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth. Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, a corner of the Twenty-ninth aud a third of the Thirty-second Ward.

It is probable that disputes S3 to the Justice of this arbitrary line will arise as to the lower wards, particularly the section of the Twentieth Ward set off, the Seventh and the Twenty-third. But when a map of Brooklyn which shows tha trolley lines ia Inspected with a soale measurement It will he seen that that whole section is crossed with railroads leading directly to the Wlll-laitisburgh terminus over shorter routes than jhe Brooklyn Bridge, except aw. to 'the smalt section of the Twentieth Ward Where determining question would be tho district in Manhattan to be reached. If It were fheity Hall or'the financial cer-talrfly the bridge route would be favored; if the wholesale commercial district, the Williamsburg. The vast majority of the residents of the Seventh, however, would find the Williamsburg route the moro expeditious.

The outlying wards, like the Twenty-fourth, the corner of the Twenty-ninth, the third of the Thirty-second and Twenty-sixth will be influenced to the bridge quite as much-through the operation of another force as by their geographical positions. This force ia the one which will operate to making of East -Now York and particularly the arca where thtt Junctions of Broadway. Fulton and Atlantic ave nues are 'effected, the great railroad center, of Brooklyn In. the Pennsylvania Railroad's improvements and extensions. The upgrowth of this center, now In process, must, turn the faces of thg section selected toward it; It will become a point of attraction, and of movement; all of tho Ward will be dependent on the narrow section Stretching out toward Richmond Hill and Jamaica will bo affected by it and for passage to lower Manhattan from that point the Williamsburg Bridge beckons as the shorter and moro expeditious route.

The rv: 'l THE BIRTtf OF THE BRIDGE. PLANT OF MOLtENHATJEB REFINERY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. -s 'l5 ii til I i A wjo a BUILDING AND LAUNCHING THE CAISSONS' Imported 2 '1- -rtS3 'fa mi THE 896 THIS mi'los of "photDgrniiliR shows nil interesting and enrly Stage of (lie constntPtion. Six yom-s have eliipsed Kime Williamsbnr.tr folic saw the hi timber boxes built upon the river's Rmne, Moselle, and Bordeaux fitltff.

Dear tliu foot of Smith Fifth street, I mm, iiiiaiiy. wnen compleled, latmelietl wilh some furore. Tito heavy tide mid st route eurreut at that point made the lamp liius of the preliminary caisson, as here depicted, a mutter of no small mo-im-nt. It vi as finally seettred in its final position and an Important erlsis in the lti'idve Iniildins safely passed. famuli iwGSEPffie mT iiZX STARTING- wS533 te-rk-Sl WORK ON THFMAN- addenda of the Eastern and no longer that ftwJj- jSIWi of the Western District.

In the efficient oper- 5S1 -k "Wffl alion of the Williamsburg ilridge, landing as i 1 iW- "'ff it will in that efficient operation, those it 2l A accommodates In the heart of the commercial SJ liSlS'' 1 district of Manhattan, the section will bt 'do- 1 i lached as appannKO of the section which h9 'irfVrXwlS Wml contributed to its growth and, turning Its back i.eftW 11 3 Jj on Its putative mother, will send Its" pro Zg JJ ponderating streams of travel with their S3 irrfeVIW' 'r JMfl If consequent traffic to the Williamsburg fife' 1 3. 1 1 Bridge. In passing It may be remarked that "'J Wf iWlt? niiC "aTCWSW ESH' i lu one respect this section most favored ffJ'Th di rJ Wy since it is the one Chat ran wiih utmost 50 lrL'hM? I t.iK JMffiifejMfei, JXrM, 'A Jk 9 facility use either bridge means and which 8 I T't Jfif 1 ylt1 A 1. about from all parts of the fi fft O' i 1 -Si 'a fV borough. This, then.

another Influence )b feiSil SMiT I 4C tho btldge will exert to the chanse Of ex- iLI Xf I I I I fcCl 1 Istlng conditions. I IBW Sil-lUUw oil Most; Select Line of Goods in the City. Est. 18 Years. the same section, the population Is shown to be 116,730, more than sixfold, or, to be exact, an increase of ulj per cent, in twenty years.

Unless ono is In possession of the data of the units of that section it would be impossible to exactly apportion tho growth to the two sections after division. It can be seen, however, that the growth has been preponderating in tho Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth wards, since of the 116,000, 25,000 goes to the Eighteenth, 43,000 to the Twenty-seventh and 78,000 to the Twenty-eighth. A careful estimate by a person engaged in business at this point, has placed a population of 143,000 within fifteen minutes walk of the elevated railroad station at Chr.unccy street and Myrtle avenue. Such district takes in the Twenty-eighth Ward, parts of lie Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Tweniy-flfth and Twenty-sixth wards. The argument of tho estimator is that tho point is tho center of that population.

With that, this writing has not to do, what it seeks is to show that along the thoroughfare which is the extension of the main thoroughfure of the Eastern DiBtriet there has grown up an enormous population in the Twenty-first, Twenty-thiM. Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh aud Twenty-eighth wards, which according to the census of 1000 numbered 290,701. In 1SS0 this same section contained not more than 73.3S3. This Is an increase of 205 per cent, in twenty years. This increase Is coincidental wilh the operation of the older bridge and In con I i GOTTFRIED WtSTERNACHER, 2 5 JhoitoN R0BMS0N.

s--Yh, 907 BROADWAY, full lulluetH'O of iho new bridge cannot bo appreciated without taking Into account Hie i A New JAne of Demnrkntion. Nor, indeed, will that change of existing condition end with this. All of the section discussed and the Bectlous lying to the West and Southwest of it, arc traced with trolley lines thnt feed to the Williamsburg Bridge; lines, (ho cars on which move North and South to their points of destination and give no heed to travel to the West and East save as they transfer. All of these lines concentre at or near the terminus of the new-bridge, and their time is lens to the new bridge, because tho distance is less than to the Borough Hall. is a startling proposition that the completion of the Williamsburg Bridge divides Brooklyn Into about two equal halves.

But the earnest student of the present situation, sincerely seeking the truth, cannot escape the conviction that on the efficient operation the new bridge a line will be drawn across Brooklyn whlrh will have Its point of beginning at the corner of Oxford street and Flushing avenue, and will take a southwesterly skirling the northeast corner cf Fort tJreene Turk, passing one and three-quarter miles to the rorlheast of Propped park and ending In Hny, at Pacrdcgat Basin. All oust of that line under thla division would be tributary to the Williamsburg FLO7? r.rim... sequence of It. There may bo those who will cavil at this assertion, but a study of the conditions can Justify no other conclu contributing Influence of this force. Dis puted as this arbitrary line of division may bo.

It will stand as a line of demarcation until another artlflrlnl way Is Introduced lo BROADWAY, CGR. MYRTLE AVENUE, ngaln change the conditions and force re- BROOKLYN. adjustments, and Ibis will first be felt liii the completion of the Manhattan Bridge, sion. This growth was a part of tho development, having its first impulse In the Western District. The occupants of the territory, however, decline to attach themselves to either district and proudly insist that they are of New Brooklyn.

Up to this time, since the development was effected, tho face of this section has been turned to th older bridge. It Is true that the transportation question Is tho matter of the first concern to those residents, but after all that lias been only a means to roach the bridge in a quick passage to Manhattan and all 3 1 I now in process of construct Ion. Influence Upon Old Williamsburg. There yet remains to he considered the influence of the bridgo upon the wards that lio about and back of the terminus, to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth wards. Already it Is a burning question and one ventures lino the uld of its debate at no little risk.

It Ik held strenuously by the Interested thai nothing but benefit can result lo the Fifteenth, and Sixteenth wards. There is reason to hollevo that the. contention is not without force, and If in no other way. com-tvi rolully. The Nineteenth Ward embrni THJE CAtSSOH TAKfS TH J.

EDWARD SWANSTROM. in UjITFP. iFPTPMAFP .17 BQ7 (L mi- -Alt. e. 1 I.

I "i'il; if jaV r. 1 11 Aff f'r, within Its border lines the best da of houses for residential purposes and is the center of tho fashionable social life of the Kastern District. Those Interested In It insist hat It la destined to Increase In popu- I latlon and that lis property will wax in I value a a consequence of the operation of tho bridge. Tho district Is likened by some to that embraced within the First Ward of the Western District. Were there certainty that the character of Broadway It presented, down to w--UAlOl- ti II I I Vt- II I I I I- f-V t-L3 VI if I t.

a THE- CAISSON AJFADY TO Be TOWBO HTO PLACE. Kent avenue, could he maintained, ihe fu- standing the superior advantages of brldg'' trnnsportntlon. n't it A PROGRESS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. turo of the Nineteenth Ward could be fairly well ascertained. But there Is no certainty.

The Broadway Is alsoa vexed question. that part of Broadway below Roehllng street be called Ihe very heart of the Eastern District and lis flnanilal center. It Is nrguci by those Interested therein that Ihls in Itself sufficient lo hold that part or the thoroughfare lo Its present character and prominence. It Is pointed out that notwithstanding all the changes thst have taken place the area about the Borough Hall hn not been disturbed as the financial center, and that though the Borough of Manhattan has developed In a most astonhhlng manner to ili northward, Wall street has held In own as the financial renter of Ihe meiropo. lis.

There Ik a belief nM enlcrlallicd that Ihe ferry conditions at the foot of llrnad-vuy ure ery different from those al the foot of Fulton street. At the latter It Is pointed out there was but one ferry crossing tu a tingle point on Manhattan, while (ruin the foot of Broadway I here arc four: THE NEW BRIDGE Is a oniler In lis nrchaiilcal liu( The New England Floor Covering Cc. Is ilnillile mnnrier In Us lle ami prices. We nre selllnit nrpels, I. In filelMiiM.

Hiikm OllflotliH. MmIIIiium, cli nt stifh low irles Hull II Sv inn ctinie. eii If on hit miles Httn, im we hne mn overlonileil if lnr liitilillou llh (lie nlMive nrilcles sliilpil, ami are kIIIhu In anxe on line llilnl nil nil onr litilna. also mnke ircll price to lanilliicilK, Imlel ami reslniirnnl iinnrri, DO KOI' NIK 'IMi: 1)1)11 1 II' 1' BROADWAY, COR. MYRTLE AVH, HIS VICTORY.

6lie Could Not Resist Opportunity to Save Him. "I underwood von to say that you reject me," be ss'd. "Vour unilcrtaiidlng Is correel," she replied, "although somewhat blunt. 1 feel that I cannot many you." took a step forward and geniljr touched his arm. A tea- was in her eye.

I'm so sorry," sho said. piomothlng In Iht voice mnde him straight up. lie had not askeil for sympathy, lie resented It so suddenly that It wns as If some outside power had lnkon possession of him. He felt mud right through. "You needn't be," he replied, "Why should you lie'." If you entertain Ihe slight esl notion that I'm tolng lo Jump off Ihe dock or ruin my diHinlvs It at once.

Thrc arc, I can assure you. worse tbliigi than being a bachelor. In the first place, there are no enormous bills to pay. Then, a man can go and come as he pleases, without let or hindrance. Instead or being bound donn lo one woman, subject to her whims, It Is pointed nut lllul from the bridge towers In Its terminus there are not warehouses under Ihe approachc.

which mark Iho older bridge; thai under lln in are public Prk lands for ihe public Ufe that will be an in: rait Ion and not a detriment tu the surrounding property. Thi re it no galiiHeylng ihls, and If there la mi lug of the property iibnut the hrldxe II will be found In ihls very wl'S provision. This use of the land under th'' appnuii hes was a stroke of genius. KRUGER AND THE POPE. Kx-1'rosldeni Kruger has faded ho nbso-lutely from pulille noilee hut a story about him may now have (ho vnlue of nnvoliy, especially It Is cotineded wlih so prom-Incut a inline ns that of the late Pope.

Few would couiiict the head of the Hopper Church with the Vicar of Christ in the Vatican, hut In li'Ci ihe former presented lo I lie Pope a nuiKiilll' ill diamond. Almost perfect, this stone was of carats, sud one of the hirg of the nine. Found by native 41 JiiKerhtDiiiein, sud purchssed from turn for a irlfle, the Rtfiue now shines out from one of tha tiara of ths ponilllcsl tlsrs. Colden Penny, -J JC 1-ifl- own l.iiaK There worse Ihlni.v liema slnr.li I wns wllllnn to run Hie rl with oit. but don't sympathise I shall et nliitia nil rlKhi, thnnk turned tuwunl him with m.i nioreineni ili'et iiiIujimiii.

ami lull uei hcids, plendiitaly. "Nmv vnu muni iniirry inel" elc ru.i Sntiiri her Idle fain Ics. he Is free for all. lie can pursue his cherlihed ambition without Interruption. When he Is sick, he call secure proper care without being nursed by nn nmaien.

Me doen hnve to ntiend dinner parties, or any oilier lilnd of panics. If lie doctn'l want In. Ills time Is Ills onn. He can stnnkc and drink or not, without iif lion, did he Is absolutely free to pursue 111 die lo Roosevelt sttrei, one lo Grand street, iitic lo Tuenty-thlrd street, and one lo East Furiv-sei ond sired, and that Ihose great on leniences will not be abandoned by ilio'c lining tin in at present, nolwltb- a.