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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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streets having an approach thereto,which was another Btep in the direction of the city jurisdic-tion over the adjacent towns of Morrisania and AVest Farms—the town of Kingsbridge then being, and was, up to 1872,still a portion of Yonkers. The first positive move in the Legislature towards annexa-tion was, later, in the year 1869, when Air. Cornelius Corson,then a resident of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, and aclose adherent to what was known as the Tweed regime, hav-ing prepared a bill providing for the annexation of the townsof Morrisania, AVest Farms, Westchester, and Mount A7ernonto the City of New York, had notice of such proposed billgiven by the late Senator Genet. I had the honor at thetime of representing, among other localities, the Westchestertowns in the State Senate, and regarding it as an act of dis-courtesy that such a move should have been made withoutconsultation, and without the request of my immediate con-stituents, on the spur of the moment I arose in my place
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23 24 The Great North Side. in the Senate and gave notice that I would, al some futuretime, present a hill to annex the City of New York to thetown of Morrisania. This sarcasm bit the nail on the head,and nothing further was heard of the Corson Bill; for soonthereafter the adherents of the Tweed Ring got to quarrellingand battering each others heads, and the combination vrasutterly destroyed. It was in the hill of 1872 that positive Bteps towardannexation first began to take shape. Hon. William Herringhad just heen elected to represent the First Assembly Districtof Westchester County in the State* Legislature. Severaleonferenees were tlien held of property owners of Morrisania,and West Farms, the result of which was that Samuel E.Lyon, Esq., a well-known lawyer, was authorized t preparea hill to carry the project into elfcct, and Mr. W illiam Her-ring, a warm advocate of the scheme, w as requested and prom-ised to secure the passage of the measure. The City authorities did not

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