The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . ction below it beginningat Twenty-third street, and the Save New York Committeewas originally formed with this object in view. Then it wassuggested that they go farther down to the section belowTwenty-third street, ending at Fourteenth street, and theCentral Fifth Avenue Association promised to chaperone thattrip. Now there are intimations from the Central MercantileAssociation that, while they are about it, they should go tothe section below Fourteenth street—and there they meetthe objections of the Washington Square Association! To H. F. J. Porter, an ind
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . ction below it beginningat Twenty-third street, and the Save New York Committeewas originally formed with this object in view. Then it wassuggested that they go farther down to the section belowTwenty-third street, ending at Fourteenth street, and theCentral Fifth Avenue Association promised to chaperone thattrip. Now there are intimations from the Central MercantileAssociation that, while they are about it, they should go tothe section below Fourteenth street—and there they meetthe objections of the Washington Square Association! To H. F. J. Porter, an industrial engineer who has beeninterested in the civic questions involved in this movement, thepresent impetuosity (coercion through threat of boycott) ofthe Save New York Committee can be attributed to thislaissez-faire attitude of the city in planning its growth, and tothe futility of past efforts to thin out the crowds of workersin this industry, who at noon-time and at night trample over THE SURVEY FOR NOVEMBER i i , i g i 6 141. FIFTH AVENUE AS IT IS NOWADAYS A sluggish stream of workers from the garment factories on the cross-streets. Atnoontime traffic is blocked and shoppers impatiently elbozv their way through the ranks of leisurely tailors. the best foot of the city just as she tries to put it the industry must go somewhere. It is already onthe march. But Mr. Porter wants a more radical move thanthat planned by any of the committees, admittedly interested intheir own sections only. As far as the factories are concerned itwill make little difference to them whether they move ten blocksor twenty. And if they now move twenty, Mr. Porter pointsout, they will be where they came from only a few years this migration to the section of the city bounded on thenorth by a line joining Washington Square and TompkinsSquare, and on the south by Grand street, and the east andwest by the rivers, the great wholesale district depopulatedonly a few years ago by t
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