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only to the voters of the Borough of The Bronx. The act was 

 declared unconstitutional by the Appellate Divisions of the Su- 

 preme Court of the State of New York, but the decision was re- 

 versed, on March 21, 1913, by the Court of Appeals. 



In an administrative way, the creation of the County of Bronx 

 means, that The Bronx will have its own courts; its own offices 

 for recording deeds, mortgages, and other papers affecting real 

 and personal property; its own offices where wills of its residents 

 can be probated; its own Sheriff's and County Clerk's offices. 



The offices filled under the Bronx County Act at the last 

 election were: Borough President, Douglas Mathewson; County 

 Judge, L. G. Gibbs, for a term of six years ; Surrogate, G. M. Schulz, 

 six years; District Attorney, Francis Martin, four years; Sheriff, 

 J. F. O'Brien, four years; County clerk, J. V. Ganley, four years; 

 and Register, Edward Polak, four years. The salary of each of 

 these is $10,000. There will be a Commissioner of Jurors, at a sal- 

 ary of $5,000 a year, and a Public Administrator, at $4,000 a year. 



The construction of the New York, Westchester and Boston 

 Railway, which penetrates the heart of the East Bronx, is the first 

 step toward solving the local transit problem. By the opening 

 of this four-track rapid transit line, 5,300 acres of practically 

 undeveloped territory, lying north of Bronx Park and west of 

 Pelham Bay Park and east of Van Cortlandt, which had absolutely 

 no railroad nor rapid transit facilities for passenger traffic, have 

 been made available for residential and manufacturing purposes. 

 The system begins at Lincoln Avenue, between One Hundred 

 Thirty-second Street and tracks of the New York, New Haven and 

 Hartford Railroad, where it connects with the Second and Third 

 Avenue Elevated Railways. 



After leaving the Harlem River, the stations along the line 

 are located at Port Morris, Casanova, Hunt's Point, Westchester 

 Avenue, One Hundred Eightieth Street, Morris Park, Pelham 

 Parkway, Gun Hill Road, Baychester Avenue and Dyre Avenue, 

 which is the last station within the city limits and the end of the 

 five-cent-fare zone. Mount Vernon has five stations. At Columbus 

 Avenue Junction, a branch diverges from the main line, and pass- 

 ing thru the easterly end of Mount Vernon, runs thru Wykagyl 

 in the northern section of New Rochelle and thru the beautiful 

 Quaker Ridge section to Scarsdale and White Plains, the latter be- 

 ing the terminus of this part of the line. 



