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Title: A volume commemorating the creation of the second city of the world : by the consolidation of the communities adjacent to New York harbor under the new charter of the City of New York
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Lawyers Accountants Physicians
Publisher: New York : Republic Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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Judge Gaynor, Mr. Grout was heartily in sympathy,himself having begun the contest before the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen in1892 to compel the realization of the highest prices for street railroad fran-chises. With Judge Gaynor he afterward carried this contest to the courts,and after the latters election to the Supreme Court in 1893, he continued thecontest alone with equal vigor. In consequence no franchise has since beengranted in Brooklyn without compensation. Mr. Grout had charge of hisassociates campaign for the Judgeship, and was a prominent figure in theevents at Gravesend on Election Day, 1893, and in the prosecution whichfinally resulted so disastrously to Boss McKane and his associates. In 1895the Democrats of Brooklyn nominated Mr. Grout for Mayor, and while notelected, he cut down his opponents majority from 33,000, the figure at theprevious mayoralty election, to the narrow margin of 2,000. He was earlyinterested in the Consolidation of New York and Brooklyn. He was one of
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Administration of the New City. 175 the most active members of the Consolidation League, and the right-handman of the father of the League, Judge Gaynor. In the Fall of 1896 hecalled the attention of the Greater New York Charter Commission to the factthat the first draft of the Charter omitted any provision for municipal owner-ship of franchises, and urged a radical provision on this subject. Of late hehas advocated by writings and public addresses the extension of municipalownership. In the election of the first administration of the ConsolidatedCity of New York, in November, 1897, he was elected President of theBorough of Brooklyn, receiving 85,921 votes to 46,383 for Eoberts, Republi-can, and 50,773 for Hinrichs, Citizens Union candidate. Among the socialorganizations to which he belongs are the D. K. E., Montauk, Hamilton,Brooklyn and Oxford Clubs. Louis F. Haflfen, President of the Borough of the Bronx, was born Novem-ber 6, 1854, in Melrose, Westchester County, which is now a pa

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