Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 2

BROOKLYN LIFE To know BROOKLYN LIFE Tk Illaatrated Home Weekly for Rrnnblrn mm A Iilliid how good a cigarette really can oe maaey yoa must try a- Samuel Smith died in 1872, and in 1873 John Craft bought the property from the Smith estate. The property has remained in the Craft family just fifty years. On the death of John Craft the property was deeded to his widow, and on her death in 1913 the property was willed to Miss Ida A. Craft and her niece. Gage Tollner moved to the Craft building in 1889 from further downtown.

At' that time, 372-374 Fulton Street was uptown. The Brooklyn Bridge had just been finished, the Fulton Street elevated was a novelty, and Brooklyn had yet to decide to cast its lot in the plan of a greater city. How times have changed! But if you meet any of the old timers who still frequent Gage Tollner's you see it's a habit with them they will tell you that the famous old oyster and chop house hasn't changed a bit. And to them, and to Mr. Eugene Tollner, who is still actively engaged in the business, it will be glad tidings indeed to learn that the purchase of this property by The Dewham Company insures the continuance of Gage Tollner's at the old stand.

Published every: Saturday by Rugby Press Cagle Building, 307 Washington Brooklyn, New York To whom all remittances should be made payable. G. H. Hihshaw, President F. H.

Timfsok, Treasurer Telephone, 3603 and 3604 Main $6.00 a year in advance, postage free in U. S. and territorial possessions: foreign countries, $1.50 per year extra: Canada, $1.00 extra. Single copies, IS cents Change of address or contributions must be received by Tuesday if intended for that week's 1 iMue BaooaYN Lin is on file at all principal places i in Europe Tt articlts and illustrations in BROOKLYN LISB art protscttd by copyright and must not btlussd I othtr publications sxctpt by wnttsn efmission from its tditor. Copyright, 1922, by the Rugby Press, Inc.

'Entered at the Postoffice at Brooklyn, N. March 8, 1890, as second-class mail matter, under the Act oi March 3, 1879. Vol No. LXVII New York, March 10. 1923 1717 GAGE TOLLNER PROPERTY CHANGES HANDS ciGARETTEr toasfedy this library, which he has presented to the Collectors' Club, whose rooms are at 120 West Forty-ninth Street The largest philaletic library in the world is said to be that of Lord Crawford in England, but an express subway from Jamaica into and through New York under 34th Street, probably as far west as the Ninth Avenue elevated, so as to connect with all north and south rapid transit and elevated lines in Manhattan.

This, it seems to me, with the growing population and traffic of Queens and Brooklyn Boroughs, and other parts of Long' Island, is now an absolute necessity, and, in view of the fact that the Long Island Railroad will not be able and cannot undertake to serve the nearby districts, the city will have to provide rapid transit for that important section of Greater New York. "I cannot understand why the New York City authorities constantly, and almost exclusively, look to greater north and south transit facilities and only to a limited extent to the eastward on Long Island, where the growth is enormous and it offers the nearest and cheapest outlet for the city to grow. Therefore, while having no desire to be unreasonable, or indeed critical, I respectfully direct your attention thereto, and ask for its most serious consideration. "I further believe you will never solve the congested rapid transit problem of Greater New York until you conquer the Hudson by one or more bridges (as has been done with the East River) with adequate accommodations for rapid transit and all other kinds of traffic, and that situation should not be overlooked, although it requires co-operative action by the States and adjacent municipalities in New Jersey. Why permit the Hudson River to bar a proper consideration of the rapidly increasing traffic from the many municipalities of the west side of that river, all of which are so closely allied in the business and social life of your city, and which must be considered, commercially at least, a part of the Metropolitan District.

This is also the great traffic route for all the railroads on the west bank of the Hudson, that mean so many millions in people and dollars for Greater New York, and which today cannot be properly accommodated by the ferries or by the present proposed tunnels. Surely prompt co-operation looking to additional facilities in this regard is very essential, as the growth of traffic on the ferries and the Hudson Manhattan Line has been as phenomenal as in the separate boroughs of Greater New York, and on the suburban service of Long Island. "I do not, however, direct this reference to the Hudson River to detract your attention at this time from the imperative necessity for an express subway from Long Island, under 34th Street, to Ninth Avenue, Manhattan, for which I desire your earnest action, in which the Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island Railroad companies will be most happy to co-operate to the best of their ability." iW i mu i pint i i w. mmmamtmr' 1 P. J.

Tierney Sons Lunch Car Builders 188 MAIN STREET NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. Leaders in Industry for Past 30 Years the one just acquired by the Collectors' Club of New York is accounted the most comprehensive with respect to Nineteenth Century literature on the subject. Only the Second Sale of This Property In Over One Hundred Years The four-story building at 372-374 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, the ground floor of which has been occupied since 1889 by Gage Tollner, Brooklyn's famous old oyster and chop house, has just changed hands for the second time in over one hundred years. This time the orooertv has been sold VVacap Cotton Corporation Pronounced the Greatest Improvement in the Cotton Industry Since the Invention of the Cotton Gin.

The VVadsworth Process Removes the Dirt and Trash from Raw Cotton Without Injury to the Fibre For Full Information Regarding This as an Investment Opportunity, Write to H. E. MARTIN, Inc. 1 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK CITY The Proposed 34th Street-Jamaica Subwaj President Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania System, sent the following letter on December 19th, 1922, to Mayor John F.

Hylan and to Chairman George Mc-Aneny of the Transit Commission: I note the recommendations of the Transit Commission to the Board of Estimate for a very important and no doubt necessary north and south rapid transit line in Manhattan to take care of the future traffic. I regret, however, to see no reference whatever to further relief of the rapidly growing traffic in Queens, a large portion of which is now imposed on the Long Island Railroad, and, therefore, has been handled in our Pennsylvania Station, New York. We have endeavored to keep before the city and the Transit Commission the necessity of some relief for this section of, New York City on Long Island, which uses the Long Island Railroad and Pennsylvania Station. While additional subway and elevated lines have been built on this section of Long Island and have been of benefit, yet they are merely transit lines and RAPID transit, such as Manhattan and Brooklyn enjoy. The Pennsylvania Station was opened in the fall of 1910, and in 1911 the Long Island Railroad handled 6,224,429 passengers in and out of that station; in 1921 this number had risen to 25,915,259, or an increase of over 300 per cent, and the number is still rapidly increasing.

You are aware that this station was not built for rapid transit service; in fact, the provisions of its franchise prohibit it from carrying the nearby rapid transit traffic. The station was primarily built to be the principal station for the whole Pennsylvania Railroad System in New York, both for its citizens and the millions of people i annually use that city for trade, commerce and recreation. It was built at very gn at expense, and, as a proof that it serves the public and the city and State of New York, it now handles a total traffic in excess of Grand Central Station. "However, there is a limit, which is rapidly being reached, to the amount of traffic that can be accommodated by the-Long Island Railroad and by the Station, and unless the city takes care of this nearby traffic, that company will be compelled at an early date to rearrange its entire service by establishing transfer stations either in Long Island City or at Jamaica, or both, and run a shuttle service between them and Pennsylvania Station, or definitely announce no more trains can be accommodated in the tunnels or station. "Mr.

Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad Company, has called the attention of the city and the Transit Commission to the necessity of building "I thought he was a friend of yours?" "He used to be." "What happened?" "He told me I was getting a bargain when I bought his second-hand car." Detroit Free Press. to The Dewham Company, a new corporation just organized with Hiram S. Dewey, president and treasurer Alexander Graham, vice-president; and Seth Bradford Dewey, secretary. Mr. Hiram S.

Dewey is also, president of H. T. Dewey Sons Company of New York, and has long been a resident of Brooklyn and prominently associated with many Brooklyn clubs and civic interests. Seth B. Dewey is a son of Hiram S.

Dewey, an ex-captain of the 101st Cavalry, and now president and general manager of Gage Tollner's. Alexander Graham is subscription manager of Pictorial Review and has been associated with Seth B. Dewey ever since he took over the management of Gage Tollner's. The Dewham Company gets its name from the "Dew" in Dewey and the "Ham" THE BALTIC ICE MFG. CO.

INC. 91 COLUMBIA STREET Brooklyn, N. Y. Telephone Henry 1367 The Literature of Postage Stamps Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Theodore E.

Steinway, but also, it seems, to the zeal and influence of Dr. J. Brace Chittenden of the Polytechnic Institute, the Collectors' Club of Manhattan, of which the last named gentleman is secretary, has been enriched by one of the largest and most valuable philatelic libraries in the world, including practically everything in any language on the subject of postage stamps published during the Nineteenth Century. This library was purchased by Mr. Steinway from the estate of Judge Victor Suppantschitsch of Austria, who died in 1918 and who began his collection in 1863, in which year the first German philatelic journal was started in Leipsic.

The library comprises nearly 1.200 volumes and about 30,000 periodicals, of which the English-speaking countries have provided the largest number. Dr. Chittenden, who was educated in Germany and with whom the collection of postage stamps has always been a hobby, was the instrumentality through whom Mr. Steinway was enabled to obtain possession of The Girl And have you studied about all these famous engineers? The Stude Oh, yes, indeed. "Well, then, tell me about this man, Pat Pending, whose name I see on all machinery." Stevens Tech.

Stone Mill. in vjti cuuun. iiitiuciuauy, mc nueicsi in Gage Tollner's of some of the principals who comprised The Dewham Company insures the famous old oyster and chop house of permanent quarters at its present site. The records show that in 1818 this property was sold as part of a farm by Teunis Johnson to Samuel Smith of Smith Street fame. The old Smith farm house fronted 3 SCREW MACHINE WOW dfra IpkU par I BRASS.

STEEt IRON on bmith btreet. Later bmith built the present building leased the store and basement to John Craft, who conducted a fashionable tailoring business in the early seventies'. fiticsscar SarwlUccxi Pbcsdcts Co BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN. NEW YORK..