sign in sign up
<<
Home , Abingdon Square Park, DeWitt Clinton Park, East River Park, Great Kills Park, Hamilton Fish Park, John Jay Park

THE CITY RECORa VOL. XXXII. , TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. NUMBER 9,393•

The Board having received petitions for planting trees in several localities, the THE CITY RECORD. proceedings were duly advertised, hearings given and the findings transmitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the approval of that Board. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Death of Andrew H. Green. Published Under Authority of Section 1526, Greater New York Charter, by the At a meeting of the Board held November 19, 1903, the death of Honorable BOARD OF CITY RECORD. Andrew H. Green, for so many years connected with the Park Department, was an- nounced. Mr. Green was one of the Commissioners appointed under the Act of GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, MAYOR. April 17, 1857, creating the Board of Commissioners of the . He was JOHN J. DELANY, CORPORATION COUNSEL. EDWARD M. GROUT, COMPTROLLER. elected President of the Park Board in 1858, and remained its President and Treas- urer until September 15, 1859, when the office of Comptroller was created. From that date until May, 1870, Mr. Green was the only person holding that office. He PATRICK J. TRACY, SuPRavlsoR. directed the expenditure of over $to,000,000 without a single judgment being ob- tained against the City in connection therewith. Upon the Park Commission, Published daily, except legal holidays. chiefly upon Mr. Green, were also imposed by the Legislature the additional tasks Subscription, $9.30 per year, exclusive of supplements. Three cents per copy. of widening and straightening , from 'i'hirty-fourth street to Fifty-ninth SUPPLEMENTS : Civil List (containing names, salaries, etc., of the city employees), 25 street, and of laying out other parks and avenues in the upper part of the City, in- cents ; Canvass, io cents ; Registry Lists, 5 cents each Assembly District ; Law Department and eluding the widening of Seventh and Lenox avenues to the river, and the Finance Department supplements, Io cents each. laying out of streets and avenues in what was then a portion of Westchester County, Published at Room 2, City Hall (north side), . but is now within the City limits. The planning of bridges and tunnels for the Entered as Second-class Matter, Post-office at New York City. and other important public improvements was also entrusted to the Commission. Mr. Green first suggested the use of the Central Park by the school children, and was prominently connected with the establishment within the parks of the Amer- TABLE OF CONTENTS. ican Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York , the New York Zoological Park and the Central Park Meteoro- An Approved Paper— r Law Depsrtment- logical Observatory. ln Re anon to Half-holiday ...... r990 Report for Week ending March 5, 1904.... 199. Armory Commissioners, Board of— , Borough of- Messrs. Olmsted and Vaux were appointed Landscape Architects of the Central Propo'als . .... ...... ...... ..... arcs Public Notice ...... 5996 Park by the Board of which Mr. Green was a member, and he was closely associated Assessors, Bo.ird of— - Mimi r ipal Civil Service Commission- with those gentlemen in the successful carrying out of their plans for the Central Pul,lic Notices...... 1999 Public Notices ...... 2002 Park. Mr. Green was always an earnest advocate and supporter of all movements Boar.. Meetings ...... 1996 Notice to Contractors...... ...... 200 4 Bridge-, Department of— Official Borough Papers ...... z:or to increase and improve the park system and of the great institutions situated there- Proposals...... 1996 Official Directory...... .. x994 in. Bronx, Borou h of— Official Paper ...... ...... 1999 At its meeting on November 19, the Park Board adopted the following: Proposals ...... 2000 Parks, Department of— , Boroug t of— Annual Report for the Year 1903...... 1971 '\loved by the sad and untimely death on the 13th instant of the Honorable Ar ction Sa e ...... x997 Proposals. ...... 1998 Andrew H. Green, the members of the Park Board of The City of New York Proposa s ...... 1997 1997 Pcltee, Department of- desire to record this evidence of their appreciation of the high character of the man Public Notiees ... ...... ...... Owner, Wanted for Lost Proferty...... 2032 Change of Grade Da ma;e Commission— Proposal...... ...... z

Tompkins Square Park, with two attendants. far into the country. The kind and cheerful expressions of welcome shown by all the Corlears Hook Park, with one attendant. attendants were well worth imitation. It was in great contrast to the care-for-nobody , with one attendant. look seen in the faces of the people in the busiest thoroughfares. , with one attendant. "The rare economy and taste shown in the use of the land devoted to the farm Of the above, those in Tompkins Square, East Seventeenth Street, Corlears Hook, reflects great credit on all engaged on the premises. If it were copied in the country, East River, Battery and Hudson parks, were constructed where no provision for where land is easily obtained, wealth and great happiness would follow. such features was originally contemplated. It was found possible, however, to in- "In this village a garden league has been organized in consequence of reading an stall these features without destroying the attractiveness of the parks, and in the item in a New York daily paper, describing the children's farm. Its members have case of Battery Park, where the bare space under the elevated railway structure was cultivated vacant land, improved their home gardens, planted memorial trees, caused utilized, the establishment of the playground transformed a desolate strip into one streets to be cleaned, and, in short, have stimulated improvement in many directions. where the bright faces of the little ones form an attractive picture and arouse the interest of all who visited this place. In DeWitt Clinton and John Jay parks the playground features were installed "Very respectfully, temporarily, pending the adoption of a plan for the improvement of the park. It "HENRY ROOT, M. D., Garden League." is the intention, however, to include playgrounds and gymnasia in the final lay-out of both of these parks. 'To test the interest of the children and their parents, postal cards were sent to The construction of Park has been under way for a considera- the one hundred and fifty young farmers of the previous season, and one hundred hle part of the year, and in the spring of 1904 one of the niost complete gymnasia and twenty replies, asking that plots be again assigned to them, were received. and playgrounds in the country will be opened to the public. The plan adopted for The children showed the greatest enthusiasm from the beginning and took an this park was shown in the report for t9o2, and the construction therein described. active part in the heavier work of clearing up the ground and preparing it for plant- The 15 t-2 acres of land acquired affords an opportunity for the development of play- ing, and never daring the season did their interest flag. ground features on a larger scale than has been attempted elsewhere in the City, and A small building was designated as the farmhouse, and in it young girls were the Playground will be one of the most complete and prac- taught household duties, a boy being assigned to the heavier chores. No less than tical in the country. two hundred and fifty girls assisted in this work; the house was equipped with a In William H. Seward Park, owing to the strikes, the pavilion was not completed stove, cooking utensils, dishes, table linen and all that was necessary to teach the per- anti! October 17, when the formal opening was held. These ceremonies were to in- formance of housework in a neat and economical manner. elude addresses. choruses by 2,500 school children, gymnastic exhibitions and a band Among other people interested in this work were several visiting nurses, who concert. Notwithstanding the exceedingly inclement weather on October 17, a very claimed that children with lung troubles showed a steady improvement from the Largo number of people attended the ceremonies and stood in the pouring rain while beginning of their work in the farm garden. the programme was being carried out. Addresses were made by the Mayor, the The farm garden was a plot ioo feet by feet, divided into areas to accom- Park Commissioner and Mr. Jacob A. Riis. An invocation was pronounced by modate two hundred and seventy-seven children. A flower bed was maintained Rabbi Philip Klein and the benediction by Bishop Henry C. Potter. An interesting in the centre and other beds of flowers for cutting were grown at appropriate points. band concert was also given. The weather conditions on the date set made it neces- All of the flowers were thrifty and were grown successfully. The borders were ary to postpone the children's part of the programme until the following Saturday, planted with clover, rye, wheat, oats and buckwheat. The season extended from July October 24. The programme rendered on that date was very impressive, the 19 to November r, and the number of children participating was one hundred and cli ruses of patriotic airs rendered by the large number of school children assembled forty-one boys and one hundred and forty-five girls. The following table indicates being particularly effective. Teams representing the gymnasia in the different parks the remarkable success attained: participated in the gymnastic contest and the exhibition given aroused great en- thusiasm. Columns of space were devoted by the press to describing this exhibition Vegetables Grown in Children's Farm Garden, De Witt Clinton Park, Season of and the results that had been accomplished in the comparatively short time that in- 1903. stritctions had been given. It is estimated that nearly 2o,000 persons were present in Seward Park on Oc- Radishes, 30,526; beets, 1,745; beans, 350 quarts; peas, too pints; turnips, 94.2; t~lber 24, and this immense gathering of people was an indication both of the great cornstalks with cars, 903; lettuce, 3,006; spinach, 4,006 quarts; kale, 406; cabbage, 47;; need for a park and playground at this point and of the great interest the people of celery, 2 plots; endive, 6,632. 0Le neighborhood take in the work of the Department. Although the people were Packages of corn plants were sent to one hundred and thirty-four public school; nthusiastic, they were orderly and well-behaved, and efficient policing prevented for nature study. ,R idents of any kind. In i9o2 the adult visitors numbered 210. The apparatus used in Seward Park was fully described in the 1902 report. It is In 1903 the adult visitors numbered 1,031. ,imilar to that used in indoor gymnasia, and is first-class and complete. It has been These visitors represented places in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Maine. in constant use during the summer, and its utilization has demonstrated that the Pennsylvania, Colorado, Illinois, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio, Tenney ee, ryinnasia are popular and practical. In the spaces set aside for the smaller children, Maryland, Virginia, Oregon, Michigan, Washington, D. C., Vermont, North Caro- hammock-swings and other apparatus have been installed, together with structures lina, Wisconsin, California, ?Missouri, Kentucky, Michigan, Naples (Italy), Cuba, Can- containing sand heaps. These places were used to their limit and during the heated ada, England, Porto Rico and Jamaica. t ruffs of the summer proved to be godsends to the mothers of the dis- Some eight hundred children, classes from the public schools, with their teach- tricts. It is believed that, without doubt. providing places where the children of the ers, also visited the garden, and fifty Principals of schools were present. Representa- could enjoy fresh air and healthful amusement assisted to a considerable tives from many other educational institutions, settlements, churches and clubs also degree in lowering the death rate of the City. inspected the work. The gardens were described many times in the public prints and their educational value was set forth by lecturers with appropriate stereopticon Children's Farm Gardens. views. Cleaning the Central Park Lakes. The children's farm, conducted as an experiment in DeWitt Clinton Park in toff!, and touched upon in the report for that year, proved such a great success that This important work, touched t'pon in the report for i9o2, has been prosecuted it was decided to continue the experiment in 1903 on a larger and more comprehen- on an extensive scale the present year. Early in 1902 representatives of the Health iit c basis. Department inspected these bodies of water and stated that conditions existed con- The 1903 farm attracted attention from all parts of the country. The vegetables dncive to the breeding of disease germs and the malaria mosquito. The Park -ro tvn by the fhildren were remarkable in size, quality and quantity. As a result Department recognized the importance of remedying these conditions witloirt .de- o,r the complete success of the experiment it has been decided to set aside a portion lay and asked for an appropriation to undertake the cleaning of the lakes and the ofo DeWitt Clinton Park for a permanent farm garden. reconstruction of their borders. The work was placed under the direction of Pro- This work from the beginning has been under the immediate supervision of Mrs. fessor E. B. Southwick, the Entomologist of the Department, and during the sum- 1 I enry Parsons, who has served without compensation, and to whose untiring efforts mer of 1903 the work of cleaning the different bodies of water was practically com- much of its success is due. As an indication of the attention this farm garden has pleted, and it is believed that with the completion of the small amount of work re- attracted. and of its success from a sociological standpoint, one or two of the many maining to be done upon the pond at Fifty-ninth street and , the entire letters received may be quoted: lake system of the park will be free from contamination and in a healthy condition. "October 12, 1903. This important undertaking was commenced on May i6 at the Harlem Mere. As no appropriate tools were on hand, the Department was compelled to design "Dear Sir—As one interested in the subject of agriculture and its various branches and manufacture them, and in a few days they were put in successful operation. in the British West Indies, permit me to express the very great pleasure it has af- The first of these implements to be constructed were large rakes with long handles. forded me to visit the many beautiful parks and gardens in The City of New York. which were placed on the bottom of the stream and fastened to the stern of a bwll Your people are indeed fortunate in having so many well-appointed places of public by means of a rope and crotch. The boat and rake were then hauled by hor>c recreation and amusement, where they can be brought into close touch with the power and a system of pulleys, the whole making a very powerful machine an.l beauties of nature. I am also greatly interested to observe how very keenly people bringing to shore a great quantity of pond weed at every draw. By a system of all classes appreciate these privileges, and I feel sure the simple lessons taught stakes set in the water at the starting point, the lake bottom was successfully rak • I there are having a wonderful effect for good on the lives of the people of this great from two to four times, bringing up the plant by its roots. In many places ;t City. grew to a length of 9 feet or over and so thickly that it was impossible to row :1 "Possibly the spot which appeals to me most strongly is the DeWitt Clinton boat through it. Park, where I found in what may be considered a tough quarter of the City a chil- At the southwest end of the mere the Egyptian lotus had taken complete po4 riren's farm, where, tinder the sympathetic supervision of Mrs. Parsons and her session, and in and among these large plants nearly three feet of debris had col- assistants, all was beauty, happiness and refinement. This spot, as I said, particu- lected. To remove the lotus roots a special machine, consisting of eight steel chi larly appealed to me because it is one of the lines along which Sir Daniel Morris, el-shaped knives, was constructed upon a frame of great strength, the knives the Chief of the Department of Agriculture in the West Indies (to whose staff I am fashioned so as to penetrate into the mud 14 inches. This also worked with pulleys attached), is at present engaged with great success in endeavoring to improve the and horse power, and the section was dredged several times and the roots an agricultural and general conditions of these colonies. It would be too long here to coarse material brought to the shore and removed. give an outline of the various branches of our work. I may, however, just mention, The cat-tail flag also covered large areas of the mere and was so thick that boats as bearing on the subject of the DeWitt Clinton Park, that Sir Daniel years ago could not penetrate. and every year it was extending and collecting drifting material. realized that the only way of raising the moral tone of the lower classes of agricul- This was pulled up by hand and the steel-knife dredge was used to clean out the roots turists and inducing them to take a more intelligent interest in their work, was to and the material collected about them. get hold of the young folks and to mould those who are to be the men and women Two other important implements were constructed, a mowing machine at work of the near future. on the bottom of the lakes cutting off the pond weed and lotus in swaths, and large drifting rakes which were used to collect the material as it came to the top of the water. Two hundred and forty two-horse truck loads of weed were taken "Indeed, Sir Daniel Morris is doing everything to encourage the children to further from this lake. The south end of the mere was filled with sunken brush, tree limbs effort, and what is most important. to show them that some one is really interested in and lumber, and many of the shrubs on the edge were filled with a decaying mass of their work—really cares for what they are doing. leaves and harbored colonies of rats that burrowed into the banks where the water "We find also that bringing the children into close touch with nature—nature collected and made suitable breeding places for the malaria mosquito. teaching—has a wonderful effect in softening and refining their manners, and the After this lake had been thoroughly cleaned its border was restored and gravel teachers have assured me that their most refractory pupils, after once becoming inter- and cement applied for a width of 2 feet or more, as recommended by the Board of ested in the school garden life seem to change their whole nature and turn out Health. and all overhanging herbage and brush were removed. The beaches were eventually the most satisfactory of pupils. widened and smoothed—cemented—and the island was cleaned of all rubbish and its "This certainly seems to be the case at DeWitt Clinton Park. Never have I seen borders similarly treated. The water was raised 4 inches above its previous normal a more happy collection of little faces. height and no finer lake can now be found anywhere. In cementing the borders "Permit me to put forward as my excuse for writing you the very great pleasure gravel boats were used to reach places inaccessible from the land. it gave me to visit this park, and the thought that perhaps you might like to know This same process was applied to the other bodies of water in the park. Rat what is being done in this direction in other parts of the world. * * * I shall always holes and other mosquito breeding places were filled; logs and stumps that had been look back wih very pleasant memory on the afternoon I spent with Mrs. Parsons and collecting for years were removed, the water raised and the borders were graveled her dear little charges at DeWitt Clinton Park. and cemented. In the stream flowing through the ramble•a series of dams was built, "I am, dear sir, adding life to the water and keeping it in a more wholesome condition. "Yours faithfully, Four Mindred and thirteen loads of debris were removed from these waters. "G. WHITFIELD SMITH, Especial attention was given to the large lake at Seventy-seventh street and Eighth avenue. In the small arm known as the Water Fowl Preserve it was found that about "Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies." 0 4 feet of manure and mud had collected, some of which was floating on the sur- face. As soon as the water was lowered and this material was subjected to the sun's "Whitehall, N. Y., October 24. 1903. rays it fermented and was exceedingly offensive. A large amount of *ravel had "Dear Sir—Will you kindly accept the thanks of a country visitor to your Speat washed in to this water from the bridle road, and at some points this material reached City for the pleasure he has received in reviewing one of its great sights, namely, the nearly to the surface. A system of runways was built and all of the decaying matter children's farm at Fifty-third street and Eleventh avenue. It is a great sight, in view and debris was removed. The surface drainage pipes were repaired and the edges of its immediate effect on the children of the neighborhood and its influence radiating were given the necessary treatment to put them in a sanitary condition. The water in TUESDAY, MARCH 29, I9o4: THE CITY RECORD. 1 975

the lake proper was lowered sonic i6 inches to permit the men to work to the best thence along to , etc. Subsequently and in the same year advantage. Large sections of the borders were honeycombed with rat holes, and many the Rapid Transit Commissioners amended the location by providing for crossing the stagnant Fools and places suitable for the breeding of mosquitoes existed. At Seventy- park at the corner of to a point nearly opposite Bridge street and thence seventh street and Eighth avenue the entire beach was rebuilt and widened from 2 to 4 along a line near the edge of the Battery and State street and across the corner of feet, and a gradual slope extending 6 feet tinder water was constructed to permit the the Battery to the ferry. feeding at the water fowl with less clanger to visitors. The margin of the lake was On February so, 1876, the City, acting by the Department of Public Parks, entered cemented and graveled and constructed so as to permit the fish to feed close to the into an agreement with the New York Elevated Railroad Company, under which it edges. All overhanging brush, grass and weeds were removed and the bays and inlets undertook to grant a right of way across the Battery; such right to be always sub- cleaned of decaying vegetation and mud. The island in this lake was similarly treated, ject to revocation by the City after six months' notice in writing. This license con- the ;ow places being regraded and the borders placed in a fine condition, The skate tained various provisions as to the character and use of the structure, which it is not house beach was reconstructed and widened, the shale recently removed from the East necessary at the present time to refer to. It does not appear that the agreement Drive being used with cement to make a hard, smooth surface. Thirty loads of was made in pursuance of any special authority conferred on the Park Department, debris were taken from this lake. and it may well be doubted whether this agreement had any validity to bind the City. The Conservatory lake was dredged four times; thirty-three loads of material were On July 3, 1878, an amended agreement was made between The City of New removed from this small body of water. York, acting by the Park Department, and the New York Elevated Railroad Com- The water in the Fifty-ninth street lake was lowered i8 inches, uncovering a great pany. This agreement, after reciting the agreement of- February io, 1876, provides quantity of refuse, which was carried to the banks and removed. The borders were for an extended right of way along a somewhat different route; but with all the covered with grass, weeds, brush and decaying vegetable matter, which was duly re- rights, privileges and powers contained in the foregoing agreement. Of course, if moved and the margins treated in the same manner as the other lakes. Four hundred the Park Department had no jurisdiction to make the former agreement, it had none and eighty-one loads of debris were taken from this lake. to make the agreement of 1878. In cleaning the lakes and repairing the banks and borders 219 barrels of cement On May 28, 1879, the New York Elevated Railroad Company made a lease of its and 330 loads of gravel were used, and 2,001 loads of weed, mud and debris were re- property to the Manhattan Railway Company. moved. The total number of feet of borders cleaned, stoned and cemented aggregated On June it, i88o, the Park Commissioners gave notice to the New York Elevated 30,450, or 5% miles. Railroad Company, but not to the Manhattan Railroad Company, directing them to Pruning and Renovating the Parks. remove the structure at the expiration of six months. This notice was plainly in- The work of renovating the parks on the lines suggested by the recommendations effectual and insufficient. made by the Commission of Experts, published in full in the report for igo2, was begun On December to, i88o, the Manhattan Railway Company began an action during the year. In the spring many unhealthy and diseased shrubs were removed and against the Park Commissioners and the City, asking for an injunction restraining normal specimens planted in their stead. A large amount of rich mould was used iu the the defendants from removing the railroad company's tracks from the Battery. An holes dug to receive the new plantations, the work being extended generally through- injunction was granted accordingly ex parte, by Mr. Justice Daniels. The motion out the Central Park and being quite marked in its effect. to make it permanent was indefinitely adjourned. The City never answered. The Department endeavored to have the pruning in the spring more thorough Nine years afterwards, however, on November i6, 1889, the injunction was than ever before. This work had been more or less neglected for many years with modified on the City's motion, so as to permit the service of a new and sufficient notice by the Park Department, and giving the City leave to proceed under such resultant damage to the plantations. In order to accomplish this, the pruning was aew notice. Nothing further has been done in that action since 1889. placed under the charge of competent arboriculturists, the men under them being carefully selected, and being employed continually upon the same character of In t8gt, a petition was addressed to the Park Department, praying that the work. In former years, the planting, pruning and cultivating had been done in the licenses of the Elevated Railroad to occupy Battery Park be revoked. Numerous different sections under the immediate direction of the Foremen in charge. Under hearings were held by the Commissioners at the time, and much testimony was taken, with the result that it was determined by the Commissioners that the public this system uniformity was lacking and satisfactory results were not always obtained. interest would not be served by a compliance with the prayer of the petitioners. During the summer a carefully considered scheme of planting was taken up, On February 17, 1899, the President of the Park Department directed a notice including the renovation and replanting of the east border of Central Park, from to the Manhattan Railway Company, reciting the licenses of February io, 1876, and One Hundred and Tenth street and to the neighborhood of the July 3, 1878, and revoking the right of way over the Battery after the expiration of Metropolitan Museum of Art. This work was carried on in connection with the new six months from the date of service of the notice. Considerable correspondence walk east of the East Drive and northward from Seventy-ninth street. In order to ensued with the railway company, and the time within which to remove the structure improve this region and to carry on the desired renovation, the half dead shrubs was extended from time to time. were carefully thinned out and a large quantity of mould (estimated at io,000 yards) On June i8, igoo, the Manhattan Railway Company began a second action was distributed over the banks and borders of the drives and paths to the depth against the Park Commissioners and the City to enjoin the removal of the railway of 12 to 20 inches. New shrubs were then planted. In order to obviate a bare effect structure from Battery Park. An injunction was accordingly granted pendente lite produced by the removal of the discarded plants, numbers of California privet bushes by Mr. Justice Smyth. The City served an answer in that case; but no argument were transplanted from other portions of the park where the plantations were in was ever had on the motion to continue the injunction, nor has anything further many cases considered a great injury to a proper effect. The Gardeners were able been done in the action. By stipulation with the Corporation Counsel, entered into to move the large plants of this species without danger, and their replanting was ac- November 20, 1900, the motion for an injunction was adjourned to a date to be complished with great success. agreed upon on twenty days' notice from either party. No such notice has ever been This planting of large privet is intended to serve as a background for other given, but the motion may be brought on for argument whenever desired. shrubs which are to be graded down, and in this way to vary the monotonous ef- fect that would be produced. In this work the surface of the ground was somewhat Volume of Traffic. raised, and in many places the banking up of the soil helped still further to shut The elevated railroad structure, it thus appears, has existed in Battery Park for out the surrounding city. a period of over a quarter of a century, and forms a connecting link between the In addition to the work above described the planting of new trees to fill vacan- Sixth and systems and the South Ferry, and also between these sys- cies in the other City parks and along the parkways was given much attention. In tems and the east side lines on Second and Third avenues. The Battery Park struc- the spring one hundred and seventy-one trees were set out in Riverside Park; two ture has been used by a very large number of persons at all times. If it were re- hundred and sixty-eight in the down-town parks, and one hundred and ninety-nine moved without substituting another structure to take the place, the removal would upon the streets and avenues. Two hundred and fourteen new trees were set out in undoubtedly be a matter of the most serious inconvenience to the residents of South the Central Park, where great damage was done during the very severe storm of Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well as to many of those who live on the west side of September i6. Storms have done great damage to the Central Park trees the past two Manhattan. years, and it is only through a generous replanting that the appearance of the park can be preserved. The following table gives the number of tickets sold at the South Ferry Station On Fifty-ninth street, between Fifth and Eighth avenues, elms of a high stand- of the elevated railroads for the nine years ending December 31, 1902: ard were planted and apparently these trees are in a thrifty condition. Tree guards of a new pattern were placed about them, and the ground was prepared with k ast Side. West Side. Total. unique tree pits, permitting of irrigation, made necessary by the character of the subsoil at this place. i 894 ...... 2,607,E 3,040,040 5,647,240 Elevated Railway Structure in Battery Park. 1895 ...... 2,619,008 2,9I7,45X1 5,563,408 It was learned in i9o2 that in 1899 notice had been served by the Department of t 8qd ...... 2,642,205 2,903,773 5,545,978 Parks upon the Manhattan Railway Company to remove the elevated structure 1897 ...... 2,534,296 3,093,540 5,627,838 from Battery Park; that the City had been temporarily enjoined, the injunction, 1898 ...... 2,381,567 2,901,774 5,283,341 however, having been granted pendente lite; that the injunction had never been 1899 ...... 2,498,043 2,907,188 5,405,231 argued by the City, and that the railway company was operating in Battery Park 1900 ...... 2,643,159 0,856,381 5,499,540 apparently without any legal right so to do, and notwithstanding notice had been 1901 ...... 2,581,121 2,789,500 5,370,621 served upon it to vacate, pursuant to the terms of an agreement under which its 1902 ...... 2,806,971 3,033,522 5,84c,493 structure had been placed in the park. A careful investigation of the matter by the Corporation Counsel showed that Presumably, the total number of passengers using the South Ferry Station is the elevated railroad structure had been maintained in Battery Park since 1876 un- approximately double the foregoing figures. der a revocable permit, under the terms of which the company should vacate the park upon six months notice so to do. Such a notice had been served upon the Alternative Routes. company in i88o and again in 1899. In each instance, however, litigation resulted The question of alternative routes has been the subject of consideration at which had been adjourned, and no final action had been taken by the City authorities. various times by the City's representatives. In order to connect the elevated rail- After many consultations with the Corporation Counsel, it was decided that good road structure in with the South Ferry two courses are open. government required that some definite action should be taken in this connection. First—To depress the tracks so as to pass under the surface of Battery Park, A joint letter was therefore written, giving a full history of the occupancy of the and park by the railway company, and recommending that legislation be had that would Second—To divert the tracks along Battery place and into State street or enable proper municipal authorities to put the matter in a legal and business-like Whitehall street. form. As to the depression of the tracks, we are advised that owing to the character Following is the letter referred to: of the soil, this would hardly be practicable even if it were not for the fact that February i6, 5903. the City has already entered upon the construction of its underground road in Hon. SETH LOW, Mayor: Battery Park. Sir—We desire to call your attention to the very unsatisfactory conditions, legal As to the second plan, the engineering difficulties involved in making two very and physical, attaching to the elevated railroad structure in Battery Park. sharp curves are exceedingly serious. The legal difficulties are not less so. The Elevated Company has surrendered whatever rights it ever had in State street, and Statutory Provisions. since such surrender the United States Government has acquired title to the block Chapter 6o6 of the Laws of 587, tinder which the elevated structure was con- of land bounded by Bowling Green and by State, Bridge and Whitehall streets. No structed, provided in section 4 thereof that the Commissioners named in the act elevated structure could be built along these streets unless the United States Gov- should have power to fix and determine the route of the railroad over "streets, ave- ernment should voluntarily convey the easements of light, air and access, for these nues and places or lands," except such as were contained in public parks. By sub- could not be condemned. And the Federal Government has expressed in very division 5 of section 26 of the act the use or occupancy of public parks or squares by positive terms its unwillingness to allow an elevated railroad structure by the side of railroads constructed under the act was prohibited. the new Custom House. . Chapter 565 of the Laws of i8go (the general railroad law) re-enacts these pro- There seems to be therefore no choice as a practical matter between permittingtting visions in section 123. the elevated structure to continue to occupy a portion of Battery Park or cutting off The Rapid Transit Act, in section 32, provides that the Board of Rapid Transit altogether the west side lines from access to South Ferry. Railroad Commissioners may, on the application of any railroad corporation actu- ally operating a railroad wholly or in part within the limits of the City," authorize it Possible Improvement in Battery Park Structure. to extend its lines within the City, "or to acquire all terminal or other facilities In view of the foregoing consideration, it has seemed to us worthy of considera- necessary for the accommodation of the traveling public on any street or place, except tion by the City authorities whether, an arrangement might not be entered into with the place now known as Battery Park," in which said railway shall be located. In the Manhattan Railway Company by which it should be permitted to continue its this act, as amended in i9o2 (chapter 584, Laws of r9o2), the Board is to fix the loca- occupation of some portion of Battery Park upon condition of beautifying and tions and plans of construction of the railway authorized by it, the time within which straightening its structure and of paying the City reasonable compensation for the it shall be constructed, the compensation to he made to the City, and such other privileges enjoyed. terms, conditions and requirements as to the Rapid Transit Board appear just and The present situation of things is evidently unsatisfactory. The Elevated Rail- proper. The annual rental to be paid to the City is to be readjusted at intervals not road Company, in the opinion of the Law Department, is now and for the past exceeding twenty-five years. twenty-five years has been occupying a portion of Battery Park without any legal History of the Structure. authority; and if the pending case is pressed to a hearing, the structure may be re- On September 2, 1875, the Rapid Transit Commissioners, appointed under chap- moved. While this result would be satisfactory from an aesthetic point of view ter 6o6 of the Laws of 1875, designated the route beginning at the end of Greenwich and would undoubtedly improve Battery Park. it would be at the cost of grave daily street, over and across Battery place to the edge of the Battery and State street; inconveniences to tens of thousands of our citizens. 1976 THE CITY RECORD . TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

The existing structure is excessively unsightly, and until the use of steal" loco- the behavior of the people in the vicinity of the bandstand was all that could be desired, niotives was discontinued it caused great injury to the grass and trees in the park. it was, nevertheless, decided that it would be better to give the concerts in Central Park It Nto uld be possible to replace the present structure by one which would be more in the afternoon, and they were thereafter given at the usual hour. attractive to the eye, much lighter, and which would be a minimum of injury to the The programmes rendered during the year have been carefully scrutinized and all herbage and foliage. Plans indicating what can be done have been prepared by the inappropriate or objectionable selections stricken out. Particular effort has been made officials of the Manhattan Railway Company, and without expressing approval of to prevent the playing of mediocre compositions in the parks for the purpose of adver- them in all of their details, it may be properly said that we think they clearly indi- tising. It has been the idea of the Department that concerts should be given, while cate how great an improvement it is easily practicable to make. not too classical in character, yet of a sufficiently high standard to please persons Finally, it is to be borne in mind, although the question of compensation is a whose tastes demanded composition., of merit. Practically all of the communications minor point compared with the maintenance of our parks and the necessities of received regarding the concerts have been of a commendatory nature, and it is believed passenger transportation, that the Manhattan Railway Company pays nothing to that the Department succeeded in pleasing both the masses and those who prefer music the City for its right of way in Battery Park. of a more pretentious character. As visitors have shown an interest in the character of programmes rendered in the Proposed Legislation. parks, the matter being of interest especially to park departments in other cities where the inauguration of a concert system is tinder consideration, the following specimen If it is desired to enter into an agreement of the kind above suggested, new programmes are published: lcgilation will be requisite. "l he best way of dealing with the question will probably be to have the present CENTRAL PARK. Rapid Transit Act amended so as to remove the existing prohibition against au- tl rizing any elevated structures in Battery Park. If this is to be done, we think it would be proper to provide in substance that the Rapid Transit Commissioners PROGRAMME. might authorize an elevated structure to connect the Greenwich Street Elevated Part I. road with the South Ferry, and also to provide that no such structure should be "The Star Spangle(] Banner." erected except on the approval of the Park Department. It is not contemplated by any one that there should be any enlargement of the Grand March—"Iluldigungs"...... ...... Richard Wagner present occupation of Battery Park. On the contrary, we are satisfied that if the Overture—"Leonore, No. 2 (Fidelio-t8o6 ...... Ludwig Beethoven structure is improved in the way indicated on the company's drawings, the occupa- Adagietto from "L'Arlesienne...... )...... G. Bizet tion of the park will be diminished and not increased; but it is very desirable that no Grand Fantasiµ from "A Midsummer Night's Dreanr' power shall be given under any circumstances or at any time to permit further en- Bartholdy-Mcndclssohn croachments. Cornet Solo—"A Northern Fantasia...... Theo. Hoch We think that the plan we have outlined would create no embarrassing prece- Part II. dent. The situation in Battery Park is exceptional and peculiar, and indeed the language of section 32 of the Rapid Transit Act, which it is proposed to amend, 6 Intermezzo—"La Belle an bois Dounaut...... Tschail ott'sky refers only to streets and places on which a railroad is already located. 7 Suite—"Peer Gynt...... Edward Grieg We submit herewith the drawing exhibited to its by the Manhattan Railway (a)Morning (b) Ase's Death (c)Anitra's Dance Company, together with draft of a proposed amendment to the Rapid Transit Act. (d)The Hall of the Mountain Kings ,ti hich we think is adequate to enable the City authorities acting through the Board 8 Berceuse de Jocelyn...... ...... R. Godard ,,f Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners and the Park Department, to effect he 9 Andante front "The Surprise Symphony" ...... Haydn object which ,t c have in view, if that seems desirable. io Chorus—Halleluiah from "The Messiah...... G. Handel We are, respectfully, "Doxology." WILLIAM R. WILLCOX, President, Park Department. GEORGE L. RIVES, Corporation Counsel. .

In accordance with the above recommendations a bill was introduced in the PROGRAMME. State Legislature, but failed to pass at the last session. It is believed such legis- lation should be had at the earliest date possible. Part I. Prelude—"Star Spangled Banner...... Ke,v „ Cleaning the Park Statuary. i March— Old Guard" ...... Bent 2 Overture—"'f he Wanderer's Hope" ...... suppe The attention of the Department was called repeatedly in ipo2 to the very un- 3 Valse, Sentimental—"Pense D. Automne".... .. ...... Ellis satisfactory condition of the statues and monuments in the parks. No effort had 4 Song for Cornet—"Come Down, Ma Evening Star...... Stroh:berg been made to clean them for years, and they had become encrusted with foreign 5 Operatic Selection—"Sultan of Sttla" ...... ff'athall matter, in some cases causing corrosion and giving the bronzes a streaked appear- ance. Many methods of cleaning the metal had been suggested, but it was believed Part II. that sharp implements, acids or gritty substances should not be employed. 6 March Hongroise—"Rakoczy.. ...... Liszt Mr. F. Edwin Elwell, Curator of Sculpture of the '_Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7 Fantasie—"Irish Airs.. .... ...... ... ...... ...... Bennett took great interest in the project. and strongly advocated the use of pure water and 8 Soprano Solo—"Good Night, Beloved; Good Night"...... Oliver ~ihre brushes. Mr. Elwell volunteered to superintend the work without compensation, 9 Potpourri of Popular Airs ...... C. O. Hare and the satisfactory results attained are largely due to his expert advice and his ener- to Finale, March—"My Own United States...... Edwards getic labors. "Home, Sweet Home" The first statue cleaned was that of Commerce, at the West Drive and Fifty- ninth street, Central Park. and in addition to this statute thirty others have been cleaned since fay, 1903. A few memorials or works of art still require attention, but WILLIAM H. SEWARD PARK a very great deal has been accomplished since the work was begun. From the statue of Scott, on the Mall, Central Park, nearly half a bushel of PROGRAMME. dried leaves, twigs, birds' nests, bird lime and other accumulations of thirty-two years was removed. From the group The Eagles thousands of dried and encrusted cocoons Part I. were taken, which in some cases were found to be imbedded in mud wasps' nests, "Star Spangled Banner" requiring the use of a sharp, steel instrument to remove them. Ward's Indian I March—"Imperial Edward...... Sousa Hunter was so disfigured by wasps' nests that the eyes of both the man and animal 2 Overture—"Maratana" ...... Wallace bore a weird expression little intended by the sculptor. 3 Concert Waltz—"My Charmer ...... IValdtcufel The following were found on the equestrian statue of \Vashington, Union Square, 4 Selection—"Prince of Pilsen" ...... Luders partly, it is believed, due to the subway construction: cement, tar, oil, bird lime, stone, 5 Pilgrim Chorus ...... Verdi putty, iron, brick, mortar, lead. paint and glass. On other statues hose couplings, nails, cigar huts, bird lime, rags and other accumulated matter were found. Part 11. Failure to clean the bronzes in the parks has prevented the acquisition of the 6 Selection—"Cartnen.. ...... Bizet green patina, so much desired by the artist, the encrustations interfering with the 7 Vocal Solo—"Song of New York...... Damrosch effect of the atmosphere upon the metal. It has been noticed that since cleaning some 8 Overture—"The Climax'' ...... O'Hare of the statues this green patina is becoming stronger in color, although it will take 9 Characteristic—"Jolly Musicians...... Linden many years of care to prod"ce the artistic effect that could now exist on nearly all of io Galop—"Charge of the Light Brigade"...... Paull the works of art in the parks had they received proper care. The work of the past summer has demonstrated that the bronzes may be cleaned EAST RIVER PAR I, by simple means and by the regular laboring forces under proper supervision, and it will no doubt have a beneficial effect upon the care of the statuary in the future. PROGRAMME. Music. Part I. The season of park concerts in 1903 was probably the most successful since the "Star 'Spangled Banner" „ inauguration of this form of entertainment for the people in the parks. The Depart- i March—.Victory ...... Smith ment asked for an increase in its appropriation for music sufficient to enable it to give 2 Overture—"Orpheus" ...... Offenbach concerts in the newly acquired parks. This increase, however, was not allowed, and 3 Concert Waltz—"Sally in Our Alley...... Stern in order that the various sections of the City might be treated impartially it became 4 Characteristic—"Down South...... b um's necessary to lessen the number of concerts given in some of the parks. The schedule 5 Soprano Solo—Selected...... adopted was as follows: Part II. Central Park, 30 concerts. Tompkins Square Park, t2 concerts. Madison Square Park, 12 concerts. Washington Square Park, 12 concerts. 6 Selection from the Opera "Faust...... Gounod Corlears Hook Park, t2 concerts. , 12 concerts. 7 Patrol—"German" ...... Restorff East River Park, i2 concerts. Hudson Park, 12 concerts. 8 Processional March from "Aida...... Verdi Battery Park, 12 concerts. Mulberry Bend Park, 12 concerts. 9 Collection of Popular Melodies ...... Yon Tilcer William H. Seward Park, 12 concerts. Morningside Park, to concerts. to Finale—"The Sentry...... Wilmark Mount Morris Park, 12 concerts. Hamilton Fish Park, to concerts. "Home, Sweet Home" Concerts were also given in connection with opening and unveiling ceremonies, as In September the Department arranged with the' United German Singing So- follows : cieties to participate in a Sunday concert in Central Park. A very interesting pro- Formal opening of William H. Seward Park. gramme was rendered and the attendance was exceedingly large. The concert was Children's exercises and gymnasium exhibition, William H. Seward Park. a great success, both from a popular and artistic standpoint. Unveiling of Murray 'Memorial, . Park. Another innovation of the present season in the Borough of Manhattan has Formal opening of Morris (Juroel) property as a public park. been the publication of the programmes by the city. Heretofore they have been Opening of gymnasium and playgrounds, De Witt Clinton Park. published by an arrangement with an advertising agent, the programme proper Owing to the unusual amount of rainy weather during the early part of the season forming but a small portion of the pamphlet and the major portion of the pages the concerts were given later in the fall than usual. being devoted to advertising matter of all kinds. The present year the programmes have consisted of a four-page leaflet, the outer pages containing attractive pictures In Morningside Park the concerts were changed from Saturday afternoon to Friday of park features and the inner pages the programmes and information regarding the evening, and it is believed that the move was a proper one. During the summer months parks and parkways. The change was a popular one, and it is believed the system Morningside Park is extremely warm during the afternoons, and it was found that the adopted is more in keeping with the dignity of a city function. The programmes have audience at the concerts was made up largely of children. By beginning the concerts at not been strewn upon the walks and lawns to the extent that has been done in former 8 o'clock the weather conditions were much more agreeable, and persons were able to years, but have been taken to the homes of the people. Each week a different set of attend who would have been unable to stand the severe heat of the earlier hour. The pictures was given, and the programmes for the season presented an artistic collection attendance was much larger than in former years, and a larger proportion of grown persons were present, the increase in the number of working people being particularly of souvenirs of the parks. noticeable. Entomological Work. In the-Central Park the experiment was tried of changing the concerts from Satur- Owing to the very thorough work done by the Entomologist in 1902, extra help day afternoon to Saturday evening. Communications were received both commending and new machinery being provided for him, the keeping in subjection of the noxious the change and objecting to it, and it was also stated that the holding of concerts in insects, often so destructive to park vegetation, has this year been most successful. the Central Park had a tendency to bring disorderly persons to that place and was With the exception of some portions of the down-town parks very little damage was prejudicial to the good morals of the young people who gathered there. While the done. In those parks, where the egg masses were not entirely removed, the foliage attendance at these eventing concerts was very good when the weather was clear, and was eaten somewhat, but not to the extent of disfigurement. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 19i7

The trees were treated particularly for the destruction of fungi, now so prevalent Construction and Engineering Work. everywhere, and which was the prime cause of the brown appearance of the i This work was carried on under the direction of the Chief Engineer, Mr. E. A. foliage during the season, A large amount of this noxious cryptogramic material Miller, with funds provided by-the issue of Corporate Stock of the City. has been collected for study with the microscope—to discover the harmful species and the best means to combat them and as mach time as possible has been given to Improving Territory Near Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park. the arrangement and classification of this material, In the Central Park, a new walk was constructed from Fifth avenue to the A large number of scale insects and aphis species, together with the noxious existing walk system south of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Building. 'the hemiptera, have been collected and have been experimented upon to determine the lawns adjacent were properly shaped. garden mould spread, and the necessary agents best suited for their extermination without injuring the foliage of the plants they sodding and seeding done to complete the park features which had not heretofore been attack. The entomological garden has been of great assistance in this study, as laid out. many noxious insects heretofore unknown have appeared upon the plants. These North of the Museum Building the territory was resurfaced, the lawns seeded plants (about 400 varieties) represent a great number of families, and have been the and in some places sodded. A traffic road, with the necessary drainage system was means of bringing to the notice of the Entomologist insects not hitherto known to constructed. be in the park domain. Walk Adjacent to East Drive, Central Park. Many interesting studies have been made as to the nature of the plants and their One of the most necessary and popular improvements accomplished in the uses as insect food and the classes of insects that require certain genera of plants Central Park was the construction of a walk from Eighty-fifth to Ninety-eighth to develop. A critical study was also made of the principles that make up the plant street along the East drive. Between these points the only walk available was that structure, which differ in each family. on top of the steep embankment of the reservoir, and the attention of the Depart- Much time has been spent by the Entomologist and his men in aiding students ment had many times been called to the desirability of constructing a promenade in the study of insects and plant material. The pupils and teachers of the publie adjacent to what is probably the most popular drive in this country. The entrance schools particularly have been assisted in this way and a large correspondence has to the Central Park at Fifth avenue and Ninetieth street was constructed originally been carried on concerning entomological problems, which it is believed will produce to accommodate carriage traffic only. Owing, however, to the dense population beneficial results in other cities. This correspondence in some instances has been that had in later years gathered in this section, 'it became the custom to use this with cities in other countries and information has been given regarding the machin- entrance for pedestrians. and great numbers of young children and nurse girls daily ery, methods and formulae employed. enter the park at this point. To reach the only available walk it was necessary to A great deal of botanical material has been collected tor the purpose of studying cross the East drive, where the traffic is the heaviest at any point in the park, its relation to fungi and insect attack, its properties as insect food and its resisting and also the bridle path, where equestrians pass at frequent intervals at a gallop. power against insecticides and fungicides and much work of this character is still on This was not only dangerous to the public but was a source of inconvenience hand. New York being a great importing centre, noxious insects are brought into to riders and drivers. Through the construction of the walk from Eighty-fifth to the City on all classes of plants, fruits and merchandise, and the parks become at Ninety-fifth street a means of communication has been provided from the Ninetieth once a successful habitat from which these pests disseminate to the surrounding street entrance and connecting with paths already constructed north and south of country. Many such insects are brought from China and Jaoan, the San Jose scale now doing destructive work over large portions of the United States, being traced the new walk. The topography of the land adjacent to the drive and the location of the trees made the construction of this walk rather a difficult landscaping and to those countries. The Central Park has been kept in a fine condition during the year, the colonies that engineering problem. It was found possible, however, to accomplish the work with- appeared in destructive numbers being immediately attacked and destroyed. The tent out sacrificing the trees and without detracting in any way from the landscape teatures. The necessary drainage system was constructed, and the success of the improvement caterpillar was unusually abundant, as many as twenty colonies being found on a single tree. The wild cherry, mulberry and juglin species especially have been has been demonstrated by the great numbers of pedestrians who have used this poii1t affected by these caterpillars. of vantage on every pleasant day to enjoy the spectacle presentd on the East drive Scale insects on the ash, lilac and willow were treated with an emulsion espe- Resurfacing the Central Park Drives. cially prepared for the purpose, and the elm scale was also given similar attention. All of the young elms were sprayed before the appearance of the leaves and after the The entire East drive was resurfaced with gravel during the year, from near the foliage had fallen. main entrance at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue. A considerable portion of thi; The elm borer• which, in the past, has been so very destructive, has, by per- roadway had been surfaced with shale screenings. This material was unsatisfactory. sistent work been somewhat reduced in number but all young trees have to be ex- being exceedingly slippery in dry weather, and presented a sticky, clayey condition amined two or three times during the season to find if the borers are infesting the when the ground was moist. These conditions caused many complaints from tl c trunks. This is apparent from the frass protruding from the burrows• and an in- driving public, and an appropriation being obtained for the purpose. the unsati:- jection of bisulphide of carbon at once destroys the insect. '[lie elm beetle has done factory material was removed and gravel of a proper quality substituted. Since tbi- little destructive work during the year but it is believed to be increasing in numbers work was undertaken, the Department has received numerous letters of commenda- and in the future will require very careful watching. tion stating that the Fast drive is in the best condition that it has been in for many Great masses of datana larva were removed from the juglans and quercus species, years. The cross drive from McGown's Pass Tavern was treated in a similar manner. as many as fifteen pounds of these caterpillars having been taken from a single tree in as was the West drive, from the junction of the cross drive named, to a point neat the Central Park. The bag worm may still be found in some portions of the park but Eighty-second street. This work was accomplished by the Department forces and 20.00.. it has been kept in subjection by means of insecticides and the removal of their cases yards of gravel were required. with tools adopted for the work. The pine chermes received treatment, and with the Reconstruction of Transverse Road No. 3, Crossing the Park at Eighty-sixth Street spring spraying will be in subjection. The tussock moth, everywhere abundant, has The Interurban Street Railway Company having applied for permission to install been the main enemy to combat but this has been successfully done in all of the parks. subsurface electrical conduits in this transverse road in connection with a change i Borers affecting the salix, populus and fraximus families have been destroyed wherever motive power, an arrangement was made by which the company practically recon- possible and greatly reduced in numbers. Pulvinaria, once very common on the maples structed this thoroughfare. The work was done under conditions laid down by th.. in Central Park, have been so reduced in numbers that they are now only found in out- Department and under the supervision of its Inspectors, without any expense to thy: of-the-way places. Erisoma Rileyi were extremely abundant during the year and seem City, and upon the provision that the conduits, tracks and pavements became the to be increasing. A large number of the young elms were treated for their destruction. property of the City when completed. This work included a new drainage system. Their presence is made conspicuous by a knotty excrescence, covered with masses of new receiving basins, the asphalting of the entire roadway, with a fifteen year,' flocculent plant lice, which appears on the trunks and branches. In addition to the guarantee, the setting of new curb and the laying of new sidewalks. species above mentioned, a great variety of insects not gregarious were collected, The Department shops and stables are situated in this transverse road, and in studied and destroyed. addition to the traffic to these buildings, a very heavy crosstown traffic has existed. The trees, shrubs and foliage in the other City parks and parkways were treated in The road is now in a splendid condition and a much needed improvement has 1.4-ell a manner similar to those of the Central Park, being sprayed, brushed or the larvae obtained by the City without cost to it. Tarred from the trees, as the conditions required. Probably never before in the history of the Department have the trees received the careful attention that has been given New Central Park Drainage System. them this year, it being believed that there is no park work of more importance than the keeping in subjection of the insect pests and fungus growths. Plans have been prepared for the construction of a new sewer system to obv iatr the drainage of sewage from the public comfort stations into the lakes. A contract Destruction of Malaria Mosquito Larvae. has been let for a sewer running from the Mineral Springs building southward to ;i point near the East drive and Sixty-second street, into which all cottages in the As recommended by the Board of Health, the silt basins on Riverside Park and section will be drained. This work will be begun early in 1904. To drain the . the Central Park were several times treated with kerosene oil to destroy the malaria House cottage a sewer one-third of a mile long was constructed. These sewers will mosquito. As will be seen from that portion of this report touching upon the cleaning be of great assistance in preventing future pollution of the lakes and will add greatly of the Central Park lakes, particular attention was given to filling up all depressions to the sanitary conditions of the park. and places where the larvae of mosquitoes could breed, and in many places fish and aquatic insects were introduced to further aid in destroying the mosquito larvae. • Belvedere Walk, Central Park. The territory south of the old reservoir and adjacent to the Eighty-sixth trey' The Harlem River Driveway. transverse road wall was greatly improved. The slopes were renovated, new ~~ I Perhaps no better idea of the condition of the Harlem River driveway can be given was laid, a new asphalt walk with proper foundation constructed, and the drainage than to state that the fastest quarter mile and the fastest half mile ever trotted by any improved. horse, in any way rigged, was made there during the present season, and the . fastest half mile ever paced by a horse hitched to a road wagon was also made. As the Rapid Transit subway work in this park was completed, the restoration On November 12, 1903, Lou Dillon, driven to a road wagon, trotted a quarter of the walks and lawns was taken up. Much of this restoration work still remaiu< mile in 27 seconds, and a half mile in 59 seconds, and later in the month Don Derby to be done, and where the Hall of Records Building has been removed, the park paced a half mile, hitched to a road wagon, in 57 1-2 seconds. will have to be remodeled. Mail street, adjacent to City Hall Park, which, for son: No attempt was made during the year to create a fast record for a mile upon time past, had been in a deplorable condition, was repaved. The pavement of thi the speedway but the records for the quarter and half mile clearly indicate that important thoroughfare was the cause of many bitter complaints, and its unsatisfac- New York has the fastest speedway in the world. Such records could only be ac- tory condition was due to no fault on the part of this Department. The Rapid complished with the very best surfacing and the greatest of care in keeping it in Transit work had caused the asphalt to be disturbed upon a portion of the street, condition. It was found at the beginning of the season that the loam placed in and another portion was directly chargeable to the United States Government. The 1897 had become worn out and could no longer be kept fast, and in order that Park Department made temporary repairs several times, but it was found necessar y the roadway might be first class over 5,000 cubic yards of material were removed to repave the entire roadway. Communications to this end were repeatedly sent to and the entire drive was resurfaced, at a depth of from three inches to one and the Government officials and to the Rapid Transit Commission, but it was only after one-half feet, 14,000 cubic yards of material being used. great delay and much negotiation that arrangements could be made with the several Matinee speed contests were held during the season by the Road Drivers' Associa- parties in interest to undertake this work. tion, in which first-class exhibitions of speeding were witnessed. It is estimated that as many as 25,000 persons have attended these exhibitions in one day. Every clear day the Corlears Hook Park. walks on each side of the roadway have been filled with spectators, and people come The settlement of the cement walks and some of the lawns in this park made it from all parts of the country to witness the speeding during the fall months, when the necessary to enter into a contract for its restoration. To remove as far as possi- fastest trotting and pacing horses in the world may be seen. ble the cause of the settlement, the pipe connections with the houses that had fot - The iron railing along the driveway for its entire length had become badly rusted merly stood upon the park site required considerable attention, These connection and the original coating of paint had chipped off in many places. The railing was had been left in the ground resulting in a leakage of water and the undermining ol properly cleaned and painted with red lead and a finishing coat. This was a work certain areas. The old taps were removed and the water mains properly plugged. of considerable magnitude, the iron work being some 16,000 linear feet in length. The Department forces resurfaced the macadam approach from One Hundred DeWitt Clinton Park. and Fifty-fifth street to One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street, using Boo yards of Preliminary to the construction of this land as a formal park a contract was let crushed limestone; hauled over Soo yards of cinders to repair the road from One Hun- for regulating, grading, the removal of brick walls, masonry and refuse, and the de- dred and Seventy-fifth street and Amsterdam avenue; maintained the gutters and positing of clean earth filling. The surface of the land, after the removal of the sidewalks; mowed the lawns; watered the roadway and attended to other routine buildings, was very uneven, and required excavating to a depth of from one to five work. They also accomplished the following: feet. This work was completed during the year, and the final design for the pat k Set in place five fire hydrants for the use of the watering carts; constructed a prepared. return drive one-eighth of a mile long and 5o feet wide for the accommodation of . Contracts have been let for the improvement of this park and for the construc- those not wishing to go the entire length of the drive before returning; laid over 50 tion of a splendid pavilion with shower baths, toilet stations, etc. The building was feet of block pavement and reset t,000 feet of curbing; laid Soo feet of 2-inch galvan- designed by Barney & Chapman, architects, and will form an important feature ized water pipe and 400 feet of ~-inch galvanized water pipe; hauled 250 loads of of the development of the park. A pergola building, designed by the same archi- material to regrade the approaches at One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street and One Hun- tects, is also to be erected, containing rooms to be used in connection with the farm dred and Seventy-fifth street, and the material to resod the same. The equipment of gardens, a tool house and other necessary provisions. the Speedway has been greatly improved by the purchase of five pairs of fine work horses with the necessary trucks, double harness, etc., for their use, and the stables, the East River Park (Extension). property of the Department near the Speedway, have been reconstructed for the proper About two years ago a contract was entered into for the construction of a sea wall keeping of its rolling stock and horses. on the easterly, side of this park. After the work had progressed to a certain 1978 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

1)~,int it was found that the ground would not support the foundation originally Each bath is divided into two compartments, providing a small dressing room. The intended and the contract was modified to permit of the completion of the work un- lower floor will also contain a room for the boilers to heat the building and the water der proper conditions. This work was carried on throughout the summer and has tanks, and will provide space for the coal vaults and storage rooms for material been practically finished. In conjunction with the sea wall a broad esplanade is required in the park. The pavilion was designed by Mr. Arnold W. Brunner, who being constructed with the necessary modification of the slopes. \t-hen finished, was the architect for the building in William H. Seward Park. this improvement will afford a fine opportunity for viewing the East river with the numerous craft constantly passing up and down. Union Square. Fort Washington Park. Contract has been entered into for the repaving the entire walk system of this park. These walks have been disintegrating for a number of years and the present A new roadway was constructed in this park to permit of safer and easier ac- undertaking will be a much needed improvement. ce

Civic Park (Thirty-fifth Street and ). Seventeenth Street Park. A contract for this park has been let, the design including permanent play- This small tract of land was formed by the Department of Docks by tilling be- ground feature,. This park is small in area, covering but one city square, but the hind the bulkhead wall. It was planted with grass, and tinder a special act of the plans have been designed to make the best possible use of every available inch of Legislature was turned over to the Park Department for development and main- -pace. tenance as a public park. In order to bring it to the standard of development of the The building designed by Henry D. Whitfield, architect, furnishes a structure other parks in the City, the plots were reshaped and replanted, proper fences erected, with shower baths, toilets, tool rooms and the other requirements of an up-to-date playground installed and other improvements made. park with playground features. Manhattan Square. The Building. The condition of Manhattan Square north of the American Museum of Natural The work on Contracts No. i (removal of reservoir and constructing foundation), I listory has been very unsatisfactory for several years, and many petitions have been to (excavation and removal of rock from boiler room), and No. 2 (construction of Signed by adjacent property owners for its improvement. During the past year vault, etc.), was completed during the year. i unds were obtained for this work and a contract let. The improvement consists of On Contract No. i some masonry work remained from the previous year to be remodeling the walk system, the construction of proper drainage, the regrading of finished, and a portion of the old reservoir had been left in position to supply the stone. the lawns with new soil, the laying of sod and the erection of a pipe-rail fence with The total amount of this contract was $to3,5oo. a wire mesh facing. The square will then be replanted and made into an attractive The work under Contract No. to was very greatly delayed in 1902, and was not park. In connection with this improvement a traffic road to the museum building completed until April of the present year. The amount of the contract was 28,t83.7ñ. i~ being constructed, affording a much needed access for coal and other supplies. and a penalty has been fixed for the non-completion of the work within the stipulated Manhattan Square has for the past five years been in rather a neglected con- time. dition, owing to the intention to improve the same each year, and each year for a The work tinder Contract No. 2 accomplished during the present year consisted of number of seasons past an effort has been made tQ obtain the necessary funds. In waterproofing, brick masonry, steel floor construction, fireproof floor arches, concrete the meantime the grass has been overrun and the shrubbery has deteriorated. The retaining wall along Fortieth street, temporary paving and sidewalk, fence along For- iv rk ,hiiuld l,e completed early in 1904. tieth street, temporary sewer connections, temporary toilet building and a temporary pumping plant. Owing to the delay on Contract No. iA, the work on Contract No. 2 Riverside Park and Drive. has been also much delayed. The contractor was obliged to maintain his plant and In connection with the improvement of the territory near the Soldiers and to operate pumps for a long period, and he has submitted claims for extra compensa- 'ail r ' Memorial Monument, it became necessary to lay new asphalt walks, and to tion because of the same. The amount of this contract as finally made is $36,950. adjust the borders and planting. This work was completed during the year. Contract No. 3 (the erection of the building). Under this contract fairly satis- The restoration of this park north of One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, factory progress was made during the year, excepting when the work was interrupted where it had been disturbed during the erection of the Manhattanville viaduct, was by the labor troubles, which practically stopped it from May until late in August. completed during the year. This viaduct necessitated the reconstruction of the park The basement and first-story beams were laid, the masonry tip to the first floor level t( rrltory on new lines, the work being done at the expense of the Department of the completed, marblework for the exterior up to the first floor level, and a considerable President of the Borough of Manhattan, upon plans made by the Park Department, portion of the work between the first and the second floors—that is, the first story walls. a;(.1 under its supervision. The fireproof floor arches for the basement floor were set in position, as were a portion Repairs to Roadway. of the floor arches for the first floor. The architects report that fairly good progress was made on the marblework dur- Riverside Drive from Seventy-second street to One Hundred and Twenty-ninth ing the year. By December i about 8o per cent. of the work up to the main cornice -trret was resurfaced where necessary, and the roadway kept in a satisfactory con- had been sawed and was being cut, or had been already set. ! i n during the entire year. The amount of this contract is $2,86,706. During the present year $290,000 of Restoration of Slopes. work has been accomplished. The tremendous rain pour in the early part of October did great damage to the steep slopes of Riverside Park. It is estimated that repairs involving between forty Repairs to Public Comfort Stations and Other Buildings in the Parks. and fifty thousand dollars will be required. Owing to the lateness of the season only Much progress has been made during the year in the rebuilding and improving the preliminary work of cleaning up the walks and the drainage system could be of the public comfort stations in the parks, particular attention being paid to im- nnclertaken the present year. proving sanitary conditions. The plumbing in many of these buildings was in a St. Nicholas Park. shocking condition, but an appropriation having been made in t9oi, the work oi These lands were turned over to the Department late in igo2. Funds could not be renovation and improvement has been carried on on a systematic basis. This pr cured for permanent improvement the present year, but considerable work has work has been under the immediate charge and direction of Mr. Julius F. Munckwitz, well done to make the lands available for temporary use. The buildings were sold Department Architect. at public auction and removed and the disfiguring lines of advertising fences were in the Central Park the ball players' house, which had been used for storage taken down. A considerable portion of these lands required but the removal of the purposes, was remodeled for the use of the croquet players with an up-to-date fences to make them available for public use. In addition to this work proper boundary comfort station for women and children in one section and for males in another. fences were constructed and at places where objectionable dumping grounds had been This work included the installation of tiled floors, new plumbing and new carpenter maintained the refuse was carted away, the holes filled and the work of sloping begun. work, involving altogether $2,248. At One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, leading from St. Nicholas avenue to St. The comfort station near the center drive, north of Transverse Road No. t, is icholas Terrace. a flight of wooden steps was constructed several years ago by to be entirely reconstructed at a cost of $2,800. This building has been in a very property owners of the neighborhood to afford a means of access to Amsterdam ave- unsatisfactory condition, but with the improvements about to be begun will be iltte and the adjacent territory. These steps have since been maintained by the Park adequate and sanitary. The comfort station in the basement of the Union Square I )epartment but they have always been inadequate and unsightly. Work was begun cottage has been completely remodeled. This work has been very thorough, in the fail under a contract for the construction oi bluestone steps and asphalt walks everything in the building being new excepting the walls and sanifary plumbing to take the place of the wooden flight of steps. This improvement will permit of a high grade, marble floors and tiled walls have been installed, all being of the pedestrians to reach the high ground by easy grades and it will furnish something latest design and selected especially with a view to sanitary conditions. The cost desired by residents in the neighborhood for many years. The stone staircase will be of this work is $3,653. a feature of the permanent improvement of St. Nicholas Park, plans for which have been In City Hall Park a new cast-iron station has been ordered, at a cost of $1,774, drawn. to replace a much smaller and dilapidated one, which stood in this park for many Within the boundaries of St. Nichola's Park at One Hundred and Thirty-seventh years. street and St. Nicholas Terrace the plot of ground formerly known as the Jasper New Comfort Stations. Oval was maintained during the year by the Department as a recreation ground. The important station at the North Meadow, Central Park, designed by Mr. Ball games and other field sports were permitted under proper restriction, and the A. W. Brunner, was completed during the year, considerable delays having been youths of the neighborhood have derived a great deal of enjoyment from such use of caused by strikes. This building was greatly needed, the attendance at the City's property. tennis grounds and during the May parties being enormous and no facilities being Thomas Jefferson Park. provided. The building is designed in the style of the old English half-timbered It was expected that the construction of Thomas Jefferson Park would be com- houses, with red brick up to the level of the window sills and strongly marked pleted the present year. This work, which was described in the 1903 report, has been weathered chestnut timbering enclosing light gray stucco panels above. The greatly delayed, however, because of strikes, and the park cannot be opened for public roof, with its large overhanging eaves, is covered with red Spanish tiles. The in- use until the spring of 1904. terior fittings are of the best, the walls being covered with white enamel tiles The pavilion in Thomas Jefferson Park now being constructed under contract is simi- and the toilet compartments being of white Italian marble. lar to the one erected in Seward Park. Owing to the nature of th; grounds at the site of, The station in the Central Park near the Arsenal building, built to accommo- this building, it was found necessary to drive piles for the foundation. This work was date the large crowds visiting the Menagerie, has also been completed. The begun the latter part of September but because of the winter weather it has been im- building will cost $8,370, and combines accommodations for both males and females. possible to complete the building the present year. The structure is of brick and orna- It replaces an inadequate building that stood upon its site and will permit the removal mental terra cotta of light color, and is designed in the Italian renaissance style of of the toilets from the basement of the Arsenal building, which are in a wretched architecture. It is composed of a series of arcades, reached by a broad terrace and a condition. The new structure is constructed of wood, has a stained shingle roof flight of steps on both entrances. The site is very much more favorable than that of the and is in keeping with the landscape features of its vicinity. Its interior arrange- reward Park building, it being removed from the neighboring streets and surrounded ments have been designed to produce the best sanitary results and to make the .n all sides by terraces and bread steps. best use possible of the space occupied. It was designed by the Department The Thomas Jefferson Park pavilion is 145 feet long and 4o feet wide. The main Architect. floor consists of a large recreation room 142 feet long and 37 feet wide, open on all Work was begun during the fall upon the stone comfort station in Morningside sides and arranged so that it can be inclosed with glass in the winter. Park, designed by Messrs. Barney & Chapman, Architects. This structure, which On the lower floor public comfort stations are located for men and women; baths was described in the igo2 report, should be completed during the early part of igo4 are also constructed, eleven for women and eleven for men. The partition dividing and will provide accommodations in this important park where none have heretofore the baths will be of white Italian marble and the walls will be covered with enamel tile. I existed. The building will also include tool rooms and a bandstand. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD . 1979

Repaving West Seventy-second Street. interested several friends in the preparation of an extensive series of native bird The residents of West Seventy-second street for the past two years have used groups; Messrs. B. T. B. Hyde and F. E. Hyde, Jr., have maintained exploring ex- every effort to have that parkway repaved with material different from that used peditions among the Indians of the southwest; Mr. Archer M. Huntington ha:: upon the park roads. This street, being the main thoroughfare for drivers en route maintained an expedition among the Indians of California; President Morris K. from Central Park to Riverside Drive, has been surfaced with macadam and gravel. Jesup has maintained expeditions to study certain native tribes on the verge of ex- The residents, however, have objected to this pavement because of the dust in dry tinction; Mr. Jacob H. Schiff has maintained an expedition in China, and Mr. \ladi- weather and of the mud in thawing or wet weather. They were anxious to have son Grant and several of his friends have borne the expense of a zoological expc- either a sheet or block asphalt pavement laid, while the driving public strenuously dition in Alaska. objected to any material that would prcvide poor footing for horses. For these The end of the year i9o3 finds the Museum building more complete and in better reasons the selection of a pavement was a very difficult problem ad before a con- repair than at any time in the past. The collections are much larger, and their use clusiou was reached a public hearing was given upon the subject, at which repre- by students greater than ever before. A larger number of lectures has been deliv- scntatives of both the residents and the driving public gave their views. Other ered during the year than in previous years, the attendance at the museum has been cities where similar conditions existed were visited and the merits of the vari- larger, its library facilities have been increased and its publications have been more_ ous kinds of pavements carefully looked into. It was finally decided that a bitulithic extensive than in previous years. macadam surface would best meet the exigencies of the situation and a contract and Two important contracts for improvements to the museum building were let specifications were drawn by the Law Department for the work. The bitulithic during the year. The first, amounting to $184,500, was for the erection of a new pavement being patented, a contract could only be let after certain proceedings had wing for heating, power and electric light plant. For some time past it has been been taken, and with the approval of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. necessary to run the boilers to their full capacity, no margin being allowed for The matter from the beginning was subject to the advice of the Corporation Counsel emergencies. The new building is located to the west of the lecture hall and th, ,and, after due advertisement, bids were received for the work. greatest portion of it will be constructed underground. In connection with this The necessary procee;iings to permit contracting for a bitulithic pavement and new wing important changes in the heating pipes, wiring and machinery will be the necessity for ascertaining which kind of a pavement would best meet the wishes made. of all persons interested caused several months delay and when the bids were re- The second contract of importance is that for the remodeling of the entrance- ceived the Department was served with papers in an injunction proceeding to re- hall, changing the elevator system and improving the steam, water and electric train it from contracting for the desired pat;ement. The injunction was vacated service. This contract will also include the construction of rooms for teachers. the and later an application for a stay of proceedings was denied and the contract finally total cost of the work being $92,500. The rooms for teachers will occupy the space awarded. The new pavement should be completed early in 1904, and it is believed it used for the old lecture hall, it being the intention to provide an assembly room will give satisfaction to both the residents of Seventy-second street and to the owners and an adequate comfort station. The location of these new rooms will make then; of horses and will put that important parkway in the best condition in which it has readily accessible, and will supply an improvement that is much needed. owing to the ever been. great extent to which the museum is used by the Department of Education for dent- Maintenance and Gardening Work. onstrations to the pupils of the public schools. Notwithstanding the appropriation for maintenance work for 19o3 was the same The Aquarium. as that for i9o2 (some $6o,000 less than was allowed for spot), and a number of Many important improvements have been made in the Aquarium since its new parks have had to be cared for, this very important part of the service has been management was transferred to the New York Zoological Society. Earl- in the year kept at a high standard. It has been tinder the immediate direction of Mr. Thomas a fish hatchery was installed, adding greatly to the attractions, and to the value of F. Murphy, Superintendent of Parks, who, by rearrangement and reorganization, the educational features. Over two millions of fishes were hatched and distributed in has obtained the best results possible with the means at hand. All of the parks, the waters of New York State. The fish eggs are furnished free by the UniteJ from Fort Washington to Staten Island, have been cared for, minor repairs have States Government Fisheries Bureau, and the young fry are taken away and dis- been made and the bridges, rolling stock and other park property have been kept tributed by the New York State Fish Commission, the exhibit being maintained in in good repair and in a clean and attractive condition. this way at a nominal cost. The species hatched were shad, white fish, lake trout. The experiment of combining the laboring and gardening forces in each sec- rainbow trout, brown trout, pike-perch and yellow perch. It is expected that a school tion under the supervision of one Section Foreman has proved a success, both from of fish culture will shortly be begun in connection with this exhibit. an economical and practical standpcint, the men working together and producing The white tile lining of the exhibition tanks, said to he totally unsuited to a better results than when they were organized in separate gangs under the direction proper display of the collections. was replaced with natural rock of various kinds. of different foremen. some thirty of the tanks having already been altered and excellent results attained. The fences and ironwork throughout the parks have been repainted where neces- Better illumination of the tanks has been provided by enlarging the skylights. and sary, the machinery and rolling stock have been kept in repair, the heating apparatus marine and fresh-water plants will he introduced to make the surroundings natn -,l in the park buildings maintained and repaired and all of the property of the De- and in keeping with the aquatic life exhibited. partment carefully preserved. The lighting of this structure, which has always been very unsatisfactory, i, h. In addition to the regular maintenance work much construction work has been ing improved by the enlargement of the overhead skylights, and the interior has io r n (lone by the maintenance forces during the year. For the first time in many years tinted in pleasing and suitable tones to remedy the gloominess heretofore so nr ticc by employing the maintenance forces upon minor improvements, the mechanics and able. laborers have been given work, with full time, during the entire year. Wages of Many improvements have been made in the mechanical appliances. A contract mechanics have in every instance been raised to the prevailing rates, and it is be- was let for an underground reservoir and work begun thereunder. This reservoir lieved that the Department forces are now organized to produce more work and will hold one hundred thousand gallons of water brought from the ocean, which will better work than has heretofore been accomplished with the same number of men. be heated, pumped through the tanks containing the fish and returned through the At the Central Park Conservatory much attention in the spring was given to the filters to the reservoir. In this way the water will be kept at a uniform temperature propagation of bedding plants. Many thousands of plants are raised every year in without an undue expenditure for coal. It is believed that this method will result in the propagating houses for bedding in the various parks and for display in the green- a great saving of fuel and will be of material benefit to the fish. houses. The Director of the Aquarium. Mr. C. H. Townsend, has made special efforts to The usual early display was given in the parks, English primroses and cowslips develop a closer alliance of the Aquarium with the schools and colleges of the City. being used in large numbers. The summer bedding was arranged in several promi- By a special arrangement with the Board of Education, some one hundred small nent places with a view to creating subtropical effects, which was successfully accom- aquaria have been placed in the public schools and kept stocked. These have been plished, although the beds were badly broken tip by the severe storms of September supplied with small forms of marine life, gathered by the Aquarium staff, and the and October. The formal bedding in the flower garden at the Conservatory was service has become exceedingly popular with both teachers and pupils. Many successfully cultivated and greatly admired by the public. teachers now visit the laboratory for special nature study, and this work is being Flower shows were held at the Conservatory several times during the year. At extended throughout the school system. the Chrysanthemum Show, begun on November 5, a splendid exhibition of flowers A Field Collector has been added to the force of employees, with the result that was given and was very largely attended. These flower shows are exceedingly pop- the local marine and fresh-water forms of life are better represented than heretofore. ular and afford entertainment to a very large number of people in the course of a Transparent labels have been placed above the tanks, thus solving a vexatious prob- year. lem of having legible labels in a building necessarily somewhat dark. The labels now In the Ramble, Central Park, the planting as planned by the General Foreman of used are easy to read and contain much useful information. Gardeners was carried on. Many rhododendrons and kalmias were set out and the The number of exhibits has been greatly increased during the past year, and a appearance of this interesting portion of the park greatly improved. fine, large specimen of manatee, or sea cow, has been added to the collection in the large floor pool. American Museum of Natural History. The employees have been provided with attractive uniforms, circular seats have The work of the museum has been carried on during the year under grants been constructed around several of the large pillars, additional reserve tanks have from the following sources: been constructed and many minor improvements made. It is safe to say that greater progress has been made in the Aquarium daring 1903 than in any year since its Appropriated by The City of New York ...... $160,000 00 inception. 75,000 00 Appropriated by the Board of Trustees of the Museum, approximately. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Receipts from friends of the museum ...... 35,000 00 In addition to the above, improvements to the building have been under way, Work under the contract for installing lockers, ventilation, room for casting funds for which have been provided by the City. and moulding, photographer's studio, freight shift, shelving, partition work, exhi- The sum appropriated by the City for the maintenance of the museum has been bition cases, lining of wall, etc., has been completed with the exception of a few expended in keeping the buildings in repair, caring for and guarding the exhibition details. The total amount of the contract is $41,019.43. halls, and for rendering available to the public a considerable amount of new material Under the contract for granite steps and terraces at entrance to old building. acquired through purchase, gift, field parties and exchange. A new hall illustrating newcoal vault, addition to main boiler stack, changes in flooring of machinery rooms. life and culture of the inhabitants of Eastern Siberia, was opened to the public, the changes in heating arrangements, additions to plumbing, case work, wainscoting. collection being the most complete of its kind in the world. A hall devoted to in- fitting for catalogue and other rooms, settees. shades, etc., the work was completed vertebrate zoology was also opened during the summer, and a room was prepared daring the year. This contract amounted to $24,900. for exhibiting the collection of insects given by the late Very Reverend Dean Hoff- Under the contract for making changes in the sewers and water mains, and alter- man. ations in the heating pipes, work was completed, the total amount of the contract Considerable progress is made toward the opening of a hall of fossil reptiles. being $1,475. When the material in this hall is placed on exhibition The City of New York will Under contract for repairs on the roof of the old building. adding skylights on have the most impressive exhibit of fossil vertebrates in the world. the roof of the carpenter shop and changing the ventilators in the new east wing, the Much time has been spent in the rearrangement of certain of the older collec- work was practically completed. This contract amounts to $5,850. tions, in revising the material and bringing the specimens to the highest stage of Plans have been prepared and contract let for an artistic stone wing-wall run- usefulness. For this purpose it has been thought best to secure the advice of those ning from the park wall to the entrance of the Museum Building. The material to who stand as leaders in the various branches of natural science. That these efforts be used in this wall will be the same as that used in the new wing of the museum, and have been appreciated has been shown by the attitude of the public, the emphatic with the new approach will form an imposing and appropriate access to the building. approval of visitors from similar institutions abroad and the great increase in the The Sherman Memorial. use of the collections by students, teachers and scientists. The work of the year was sivnalized also by the use that the press has made of The erection of the Sherman Memorial in the Central Park was a notable addi- material placed on exhibition, and the descriptive matter collected by various ex- tion to the works of art in the parks of the City, the statue being generally regarded peditions. as one of the most artistic and successful designed during the last decade. The museum authorities believe that the educational work of the institution is as In i8gi members of the Chamber of Commerce who had been friends of General well performed when carried on through the press, as when made available through William Tecumseh Sherman held a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce and a its exhibition and lecture halls. Scarcely a day has passed when the public has not re- committee was appointed to raise funds for a fitting memorial to the gallant General. ceived, through the daily papers or the illustrated periodicals, substantial informa- In a short time a sufficient amount was contributed and a contract was entered into tion in regard to the general progress of science. The Museum is in constant re- with Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens for the erection of an equestrian statue of heroic ceipt of requests from publications at home and abroad, for photographs or state- size. The memorial was to be completed by r894, but it was not finally cast until ments bearing upon its work. severalyears later, and the site selected in i9o2. Various sites had been suggested, in- More than a score of expeditions have been kept in the field through the gener- eluding the southern end of the Mall, Central Park, and Riverside Park near General osity of the trustees and friends of the Museum. These expeditions have covered Grant's Tomb. After a public hearing held in 1902 in the Chamber of Commerce. territory in Siberia, China, Alaska, British Columbia, Hudson Bay, Greenland, the tipper circle at the main entrance to the Central Park, Fifty-ninth street and Mexico, Peru, the Bahamas and practically all of the Western States. Hundreds Fifth avenue, was selected by this Department and received the approval of the Art of thousands of specimens have been collected. The following notable donations, Commission. purchases, and explorations are reported: The statue was originally modeled in the United States but was demolished Ethnological material from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition; exhaustive and remodeled by Mr. St. Gaudens in Paris, where it was cast in bronze by I%Iessrs. archaeological material from the Delaware Valley (for several years past the funds Thiebault Brothers. It was exhibited in plaster at the Paris Exposition of igoo and for theDelaware Valley research have been contributed by Dr. F. E. Hyde) : sev- received a grand medal of honor and it was recognized by visitors to the Exposition eral additions to the collection illustrating the origin of the horse (these have been as one of the most original and successful works of art exhibited. It was subse- made possible by a gift of Mr. William C. Whitney); Mr. John L. Cadwalader has quently shown at the Buffalo Exposition, where a grand medal of honor was also 1980 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904,

awarded. The horse in the memorial was modeled in this country from Ontario, the The total rainfall for the year to November r, was 54.25 inches. The temperature famous jumper, and the figure of Victory was modeled in the nude in this country for the months of June, July and August was unusually low, being 10.7 degrees below and the drapery was afterwards added abroad. the average for the same months for the past thirty-four years. This low temperature The pedestal of the memorial is built of Stony Creek granite. It is 17 feet 9% is equivalent to 7,704 hour degrees of less heat for these three months than the aver- inches long and 5 feet 7 inches wide. The carved base forms the back of a seat en- age, or, in other words, about twenty per cent. less heat for the three months. ' This circling the monument, the whole resting on a series of steps. The measurements was the cause of the immature ripening of foliage and crops in this vicinity. The on the ground, including the base, are 42 feet 7 inches by 30 feet 3 inches. The total average temperature of the year to November i was 55.8 degrees. The maximum height is it feet. Three bronze wreaths are inlaid in the east and west sides, and temperature for 1903 was 95 degrees at 5 p. in. on July 9. 0n the southern end the following inscription is inlaid in bronze letters: " To General William Tecumseh Sherman. Born February 8, 182o; Died February The Central Park Menagerie. 14. 1891. Erected by Citizens of New York, under the Auspices of the Chamber of The Central Park Menagerie has been maintained during the year up to the Commerce, of the State of New York." usual standard for that popular place of entertainment and study of the people. The niouument was unveiled on \tensorial Day with appropriate ceremonies, in The buildings have been kept in repair and repainted, and the collection cared for. N%hich Government. State and City officials participated and a parade by bodies from At this time the exhibit consists of 390 mammals, 512 birds and 5o reptiles. the United States Army and Navy, the National Guard of the State of New York Owing to the limited area of the menagerie, no effort has been made to largely and the Grand Arnie of the Republic passed in review. increase the collection by breeding, purchase or exchange. In order, however, The cost of the memorial was approximately $75,000. that the exhibit might not fall below the accustomed number, the following pur- chases were made: The Roger Morris House. One Polar bear, 4 baboons, 12 monkeys, 32 rabbits, 2 snakes, 5 swans, 5 golden .1 notable addition to the park system of New York, made during the present eagles. 3 pheasants, 36 canary birds, 4 thrushes, 4 blackbirds. year, was the Roger 'Morris property, later known as the Jurnel Mansion. This The following exchanges were made: property is a plot of ground almost opposite the intersection of Amsterdam avenue One nylghau (buck) exchanged for 2 red deer (does). an(l One Hundred and Sixtieth street with Kingsbridge road. The mansion is in One young hippopotamus exchanged for i elephant, i tigress, i Indian ante- close proximity to High and the site commands a fine view of the lope, I pair vultures. Harlem river, the Sound and the upper portion of the Island of Manhattan. One elk (buck), i nylghau (buck). exchanged for i pair striped hyenas. The property was purchased by the City because of its historic value. The The following animals were born in the menagerie during the year: present mansion was erected in 1758 and at different periods during the Revolution One male hippopotamus. 2 lions, i leopard, 5 aoudads, 2 zebus, i American elk, it was selected by General Washington and the commanding officers in the British I axis deer, i fallow deer, i goat. I bison. -ervice as their headquarters. Colonel Morris was a Loyalist and the premises was The attendance during the year at the Menagerie is reported to have been the confiscated and sold in 1779. largest since its inception. On Sundays and holidays, especially, the number of After the disastrous battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. the American forces people present has been very great. The hippopotamus born during the year has rctircd to New York. They then retreated to Harlem, and General Washington attracted multitudes of people. and the young elephant. acquired through a trade, has t k tip his headquarters at the Morris house, which its owners had deserted. Situ- also been a great source of attraction. This animal, about three years of age, is a ::tcd 200 feet above the river, it afforded admirable facilities for observation, and it remarkably intelligent specimen. and since its acquisition by the Department has \vas the practice of General \Vashington to survey the neighboring country from been taught a number of clever tricks by its keeper. It is a female, with an ex- the balcony above the hall door. the enemy being entrenched on the north and east, cellent disposition. and has proved an acceptable substitute for the trick elephant and on both sides of the Hudson. Washington left the Morris house on the 21St of Tom. which it was found necessary to destroy in 19o2 because of a vicious tentner. ()ctober. 1776, 4nd marched to White Plains. The annual sale of surplus stock and wool was held in June, at which time $749.21) Within fifteen minutes after the American officers had vacated the premises it was realized, i male buffalo, 2 lions, 2 zebus, 20 sheep and 1,224 pounds of w sd was taken possession of by the British forces, which came across the Harlem river. being disposed of. [lie house then became the headquarters of General Knyphausen, commanding Following is a list of donations made to the Menagerie, published. as required Hessian troops, and it was so occupied until the evacuation of the City in 1783. by the charter: After the Revolution it passed through the hands of several owners, and in 1785 it became a public tavern. General Washington visited the property in the summer I monkey, G. S. Terry. 2 alligators, S. A. Chase. of 1790, while the seat of government was in New York. In his diary, under date of 2 Belgian hares. Janes Hackett. i owl, C. B. Stone. the Loth of July, we find the following: I pigeon, \l is. Jane Christie. i parrot, unknown. 2 hawks, unknown. "Having formed a party consisting of the Vice-President. his lady and Miss I monkey, W. E. D. Stokes. Smith, the Secretary of State. Treasury and \Vir, and the ladies of the latter, with I rabbit, Mrs. J. Patten t owl, W. F. Kittle. all the gentlemen of my family. Mrs. Lear and the two children. we visited the old 2 doves, Mr. Fisher. i parrot, Mrs. Albucht. l'sition of Fort Washington and afterwards dined on a dinner prepared by Mr. I sloth, A. M. Alut. 2 ducks, Mrs. G. Nooks. Mariner, at the house lately Colonel Morris's, but confiscated and in occupation I peccary. A. M. Alut. I guinea pig, T. A. Sly. 1,_y a common farmer." I monkey, 'Mrs. Craig. I hawk, H. F. IMcTauh. In i8io the property was purchased by Stephen Juinel, and from that time it I owl, L. G. Hampton. . i peacock, John Goldsbury. has been known and famous as the Jumel House. Jumel had acquired a large for- 6 Canada geese, L. M. Wheaton. i condor, sirs. \V. R. Grace. tune and he lived in great splendor in his newly acquired hone, it became a place 4 American ducks, L. M. Wheaton. t parrot, F. E. Schaffer. where iniividuals of celebrity were entertained, and was soon widely known. Jumel i rabbit, unknown. 2 civet cats, R. L. Edward.. was an admirer of Napoleon and conceived the notion of giving him an asylum i canary bird, unknown. t macaw, S. Nachtingale. in America, which Napoleon, however, declined. i owl, P. Schuster. 2 parrots, A. I11g. The mansion afterwards became thq property of Madame Jumel and in 1814 a i raccoon, T. M. Costello. 2 pigeons, unknown. number of African cypress trees were planted upon the premises, having been a portion i gold finch, Mary Keebee, i rail, unknown. (f four hundred trees presented to Napoleon by the Khedive of Egypt. Twenty of i hare, Alexander Kirkwood. i catbird, E. L. Dilleson, these trees are still standing. i parrot, Madame Du Val. i cockatoo, M. Kiustler. Louis Napoleon was the guest at the Jumel mansion while he was in exile and 3 owls, Morris Weiss. i monkey, George S. Terry. luseph Bonaparte also visited there. M. Jumel died in 1832, and after his death i blackbird, Mrs. Delafield. 3 crows, A. T. Burr. Madame Jumel occupied the premises, entertaining with great splendor. i canary bird, unknown, t monkey, Mrs. L. S. Cleave. Madame Jumel was married to Aaron Burr in 1833 and they lived for a time 2 guinea pigs, unknown. i parakeet, Mrs. Cipperly. thereafter at the mansion. An estrangement between them, however, took place, and 3 doves. L. F. Requa. I parrot, Mrs. Krohn. \aron Burr died at Port Richmond in 1836. Madame Jumel died at the mansion i parrot, Mr. Marks. i woodpecker, Mrs. Krohn. in 186.The property was afterwards occupied by Mr. Nelson Chase, whose wife i rabbit, M. Bocker. 2 monkeys, N. Bolet. was a niece of Madame Jumel, and after his death it passed into the hands of sev- i cockatoo, Robert M. Thompson. 2 alligators, Mr. Timpken. eral occupants and was finally purchased by General Ferdinand P. Earle, who died 2 hawks, unknown. i catbird, John Scott Browning. Jr. there early in the present year. i robin, unknown. i mocking bird, J. Carter. To the right of the doorway of the mansion a profile bust of Washington has i fox, F. Nickola. i peccary, F. Barton. been in,erted, and beneath it is a plate bearing this inscription: Games and Recreation. \Washington's Headquarters. In addition to the gymnasia and playgrounds described elsewhere in this re- I his tal l,•t is dedicated by the Washington Heights Chapter. Daughters of the port, the recreative use of the parks has been encouraged and facilitated during i.•t can Revolution, to the memory of General George Washington, who occupied the year. A larger number of permits have been issued than ever before for lawn this inan-in a, his headquarters from September 16 to October 21, 1776. tennis, football and kindred sports, and no opportunity has been lost to provide the best accommodations permissible with the limited areas available in the Borough Battle of Harlem Heights, September t6. of Manhattan. Each year shows more clearly that within a short time the land available for field sports in the island of Manhattan will meet but a small proportion Councils of War. of the demand for open-air spaces. The Central Park grounds have been taxed this President Washington visited this mansion, accompanied by his Cabinet, July, year to the utmost, the crowding on the ball ground and the tennis grounds being 17 9c. particularly apparent. It is my belief that this legitimate demand of the boys anti Morris House, 1758; Jumel Mansion. i8io; Earle Cliff, i oo." girls of our public schools should be met by acquiring lands in the Borough of Richmond which, with a proper ferry service, could be made easily accessible, and The Morris Mansion and grounds were'formally opened as a public park on De- the large areas would permit of field sports on an adequate scale. cember 28. 1903, with interesting exercises, which included an oration by Senator The lakes in the Central Park were thrown open to skaters this year much Chauncey M. Depew. addresses by other prominent gentlemen, and a band concert. earlier than usual and every effort has been made to keep the ice in condition and The Reception Committee was made up of delegates from the historical and patriotic to provide proper accommodations. Owing to the sheltered locations of the Cen- societies of the City and a large audience composed of members of those societies tral Park waters they require longer periods of freezing weather to make them safe and many prominent citizens was present. for skating than do outlying bodies of water within the City limits. The Depart- The following paragraph from Senator Depew's oration will be of interest: ment, however, is always ready with its temporary buildings and ice-cleaning ap- "This great City will extend far and wide; it will increase in wealth and majesty paratus to put the ice in condition so that when it is of sufficient thickness it may and power; its public buildings and its palaces, its avenues and its parks, its ware- be thrown open to the public. Owing to the tremendous crowds that use the Cen- houses and its wharves will grow greater in number. appointments and splendor; but tral Park lakes the ice must be at least four inches thick and of good quality to be one of its choicest newels, forever maintained in its original simplicity, to inspire safe and the Department feels that safety to the people must be the first consider- patriotism, good citizenship, culture and democratic spirit, will be this modest utan- ation in throwing open the lakes for winter sports. rion of our early days." Coasting has been allowed whenever the fall of snow would permit it, numerous The Meteorological Observatory. areas being set aside for this purpose. The various atmospheric conditions have been observed with standard instru- ntents, read personally, and hourly readings have been taken from the self-recording Proposed Park System for the Borough of Richmond. instruments which were designed and made in the Observatory. As mentioned in the 1902 report, proceedings looking to the acquisition of large Two hundred monthly reports have been issued as soon as practicable after the tracts of land in the Borough of Richmond for development as future parks were end of each month and sent to the various City Departments, libraries and other begun last year. Under date of December i9, 1902, the Committee on Parks of the ,,bservatories. These reports are used largely in the Office of the Corporation Staten Island Chamber of Commerce made an exhaustive report recommending Counsel in suits against the City, the Meteorologist having appeared many times in that a number of tracts be acquired. Although the acquisition of property by the he courts during the year. On one day he was subpoenaed to appear in three dif- City is not a matter coming within the jurisdiction of the Park Commissioners, I ferent courts, one case being in the Borough of The Bronx and the other two in have for many years believed that, following the example of other cities, the park the County Courthouse, City Hall Park. areas of New York should be augmented by acquiring large tract, in Staten Island. The most notable meteorological events during the year were the drought that To this end I have rendered what assistance I could to the Staten Island Chamber of occurred in the month of May, when only three-tenths of an inch of rain fell, and Commerce and, in company with President Cromwell of the Borough of Rich- this on four days of the month; the excessive fall of rain in the month of October, mond, acted as an ex-officio member of the Committee on Parks above i eferred to. when 13.31 inches of rain fell in ten days, and the unusual precipitation on October The report of the Staten Island Committee stated that The City of New York 8 and 9, when 11.63 inches of water fell in thirty-one hours. The maximum amount had but one acre of park land to each 500 inhabitants, while the City of Boston if water for one hour was 1.59 inch, between the hours of nine and ten on the morn- had one acre to each t3o inhabitants and the City of St. Louis one acre to each ::72 ing of the 9111, It was so heavy that the sewers could not carry the water off, and inhabitants. Statistics regarding other cities were given. ranging from Washington, great damage was done in the parks. particularly upon the steep slopes of Riverside with one acre of park land to each 78 inhabitants, to Chicago (the only city given Park. The gutters throughout the City overflowed and the water entered the electric with a smaller showing than New York), with one acre to each 818 persons. ducts of the street railway lines, short circuiting the currents and causing the cars to In recapitulating the areas recommended, the Staten Island Committee gave the come to a standstill. Areas and cellars were also flooded. This was the heaviest following: rainfall recorded since the establishment of the Observatory. The next greatest fall Playgrounds—First Ward, 41 acres; Second Ward, io% acres; Third Ward, 63ia was in September, 1882. when but 8.28 inhe5 of water fell. acres; Fourth Ward, 21 acres; Fifth Ward, 74 acres. Total, 2o34 acres. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 19o4, THE CITY RECORD. ig8i

Parks—First Ward, z48 acres; Second Ward, i,645/ acres; Third Ward, 75 her country during the , entertaining at her home, on this site, acres; Fourth Ward, 792 acres; Fifth Ward, 775 acres. Total, 3,535% acres. General Howe and his officers until the American troops under General Putnam The recommendation of the Committee of the Staten Island Chamber of Com- escaped. September 15, 1776. November 25, 1903. merce was in due course transmitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment Erected by Knickerbocker Chapter, New York City, Daughters of the American for action by that Board, as provided by law. The matter was then referred to the Revolution." t Chief Engineer of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and myself for report, After the disastrous battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, General Washington and I beg to quote my report as follows: and the American troops retreated to New York. General Putnam was in command " The City of New York—Department of Parks, of the lower portion of the city when, on September 15, two divisions, one British The Arsenal, Central Park, November ig, 1903. and the other Hessian, crossed the river. General Putnam's troops were in a very dangerous position and had the English forces moved quickly he would have prob- To the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, The City of New York: ably been taken. At the point marked by the memorial, however, General Howe Gentlemen—In April of the present year there was presented to your Honorable and his officers called at the residence of Mary Lindley Murray, mother of the Board the recommendation of the Local Board of Public Improvements of the Bor- grammarian, Lindley Murray, who, for the express purpose of permitting General ough of Richmond fcr the establishment of a system of parks, playgrounds and Putnam's forces to escape, entertained the English officers. boulevards in that borough, which was referred to Mr. Lewis, Chief Engineer of The memorial was unveiled with appropriate ccrcmonic>. repre«ntativcs of the your Board, and myself for examination and report. patriotic societies and the City government taking part. Soon thereafter, in company with Mr. Cromwell, President of the Borough of Richmond, and several representatives of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, The Ericsson Statue. Mr. Lewis and I visited Staten Island and carefully inspected the proposed park A statue of John Ericsson, modeled by Jonathan Scott Bartley, stand in Battery system. The plan presented had been carefully prepared by committees appointed Park from the date of its unveiling in 1893 until the present year. It had not been by the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce. Maps were made and a report at some satisfactory to either the Swedish residents of the city or to its sculptor, and an ar- length submitted, all of which are now before your Honorable Board, and it is there- rangement was therefore made to recast it and an application was made to the De- fore unnecessary for me to outline the details of the said plan. partment for a better site. After having carefully weighed the recommendations of the committee, I feel A new statue was designed by Mr. Hartley, who defrayed the expense of that for the most part they have been carefully made, and I would recommend that, casting the same. A new site was selected in Battery Park. more suitable with some exceptions, steps be taken to acquire the property described in the report. for the memorial, and approved by the Art Commission, and on Saturday, August It is my judgment that some of the properties are undesirable for park purposes I, it was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies in the presence of the Mayor, repre- and should not be acquired, notably, in the Fourth Ward parcels described as New sentatives of the United States Army and Navy, the State National Guard and many Dorp Beach Park, and Gifford's Park, and I would therefore rec- thousands of spectators. ommend that those plots should be excluded from consideration. In connection with these ceremonies a parade was held in which about six thou- The proposed Christopher Billop Park in the Fifth Ward should be enlarged sand persons participated. It was the intention to unveil the new memorial on the by the addition of the plot of ground practically bounded on the north side by th' one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ericsson, July 31, but the ceremonies were Amboy road, easterly by Bentley or Sixth street, southerly by the Lower Bay o: postponed until the day following, in order that the attendance of the Swedish citi- New York and westerly by the Arthur Kill or Staten Island Sound. This park is zens might be as large as possible. Some sixty Swedish-American organizations the magnificent site along the Arthur Kill, on high ground and affording a fine took part in the parade. view of the Lower Bay and ocean and also a fine bathing beach. Within its boun- Fraunces' Tavern. daries is located the historic Billop house and grounds and with the proposed addi- tion, it embraces the whole of the southern end of the island, which is the southern- Proceedings were begun in the fall for the acquisition by the City for park pur- most point of the State of New York. So well is it adapted for park purposes that poses of the building at the corner of Pearl and Broad streets, known as Fratmces' several efforts have been made in the Legislature to authorize its purchase for a Tavern. This structure was erected in 1730, is one of the oldest buildings in the State park. The plot recommended by the committee, with the addition described, City, and it is closely identified with the Revolutionary War. In Colonial times seems to be particularly appropriate for park uses. many important meetings took place in its rooms, and on Evacuation Day, 1783, In making the recommendations for the purchase of these lands, it is not de- General Washington established his headquarters there. He also took leave of the signed that the properties should be immediately improved as parks, but that they officers of the army in this building. A tablet erected on the side of the should be held as reservations, for future development. Mr. Lewis, in his report, structure bears the following inscription: has set forth the percentage of acreage devoted to park purposes in the various boroughs and it will be seen at a glance that in all of the boroughs of the City far " Fratmces' Tavern. better provision has been made for park development than in the Borough of Rich- To this building General George Washington came Evacuation Day. November mond. If the considerable areas recommended for acquisition are taken, no larger 25. 5783, and on Thursday, December 4, fol!nwin r. here took leave of the principal percentage of acreage will be devoted to park purposes in the Borough of Rich- officers of the army yet in service. mond than obtains in the Borough of The Bronx or the Borough of Manhattan. Erected by the Sons of the Revolution." In the consideration of this subject the history of park development in this City It was earnestly hoped that Frattnres' Tavern might he purchased at private sale. may well be brought to your attention. Nothing of importance has been accom- in order that this historic property and the Morris (Jnmel) property might he ac- plished, except in those cases where the future needs of the City have been the chief quired under your administration. Communications to this end. however. proved un- consideration, and this has led to action being taken. successful and steps have been taken to acquire the first named building through con- The lands for the Central Park and Riverside Park were acquired long before demnation proceedings. the development of the city in their immediate vicinity showed any need for parks at The Central Park Obelisk. these points. The park areas of The Bronx were acquired at a cost of over $9,000,000, The first suggestion that the obelisk might be moved from Egypt to the United at a time when that borough was practically an open country. Although criticism was States was made by His Highness. Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, at the time of the opening made at the time that the needs of the City did not warrant the purchase of those of the Suez Canal in 1869. In 1877, after the removal of the prostrate obelisk from parks, I think it may now be stated that it is the universal opinion that no funds of the Alexandria to London, it was learned that the standing obelisk could be secured for City were ever invested for more useful purposes than the sums expended for the the United States if the cost of its removal could he defrayed. Mr. William H. Vander- purchase of the lands now included in the Central, Riverside and Bronx parks. hilt guaranteed the payment of the necessary sum, and Mr. Henry G. Stebbins, then In recommending the purchase of these lands in Staten Island the same consid- Commissioner of Parks. New York City, requested Mr. Evarts to begin negotiations erations are involved that were in the purchase of the tracts in the Borough of The with the Khedive. Bronx and not only will these reservations be ultimately needed for the health and The question of transportation was one of great magnitude and presented great comfort of the residents of the Borough of Richmond, but if they are purchased they engineering difficulties. The Paris and London obelisks were transported in vessels will afford health and recreation to the people of the other parts of our City, pend- built expressly for the purpose, but in neither case was the problem presented equal ing their actual development as parks. to that of bringing the obelisk to America. In former instances it was not necessary Although The City of New York is the greatest maritime city of the Western for the vessels to go out of sight of land, nor to get beyond easy reach of safe harbors Hemisphere, the fact remains that we have no great seaside park where the masses yet both voyages were made under the greatest difficulties, showing that the vessel in of our pople can go for bathing and recreation. Among the tracts suggested in the which the New York obelisk was to be transported must be able to withstand all recommendations before you, provision is made for the establishment of a large sea- weather conditions and have her own motive power. Such a vessel could not have side park directly south of and it is believed that with an adequate been built around the obelisk, the size of which was as embarrassing as its weight. ferry service to Staten Island, which will soon be afforded, the establishment of a for much less than the whole amount that was to be spent for its removal. seaside park would be a boon, not only to the inhabitants of Staten Island, but to a The pedestal was embarked and disembarked by the usual means but the shaft was large portion of the population of the Borough of Manhattan as well. At the pres- placed in the vessel while its bow was out of water through an aperture made for the ent time the park spaces of Manhattan are not sufficient in extent to permit of their purpose and closed for the voyage. Before being placed in the vessel the shaft was being thrown open to those who wish to enjoy baseball, football, cricket, golf and encased in timbers and was turned from its pedestal by means of a pair of trunnions other sports. The crowded condition of our largest park is well known. If these clasped at its centre of gravity, each weighing 12.570 pounds. After being turned. it reservations in Staten Island are obtained it will then be possible to throw open hun- was lowered by means of hydraulic pumps and was rested upon two tiers of timbers, dreds of acres to the pupils of our public schools and others who may there find the layers of which were removed alternately. upon City property an opportunity for the enjoyment of field sports. The work of removing the obelisk was begun August 4, 1879. The French had It is not possible for me in this report to place before your Honorable Board waited about twenty-five years before attempting the removal of the obelisk pres- the valuation of the property in the Borough of Richmond proposed to be acquired, ented to them and the English nearly seventy-five years and this had caused a feel- but T am informed by those in whose judgment I have confidence that the lands em- ing in Egypt that the Americans would require a century to accomplish the same. braced in the recommendation will not in price average more than five hundred Although it was well known that it had been presented to the United States, it was dollars per acre. As it is proposed to take less than four thousand acres, the cost not believed that the obelisk would ever be removed. When Lieutenant-Commander to the City would be less than two million dollars. While this is a comparatively Henry H. Gorringe of the United States Navy and his assistant, Lieutenant Seaton large sum, it is a very small one when we consider the great benefits to be derived Schroeder, arrived the people were much surprised and an agitation ensued to pre- from the purchase. vent the work from going on. Abusive articles were published in the Egyptian It is proper to point out at this time that had the question of acquiring lands papers, public meetings were held and petitions sent to the Khedive and only after for parks been placed before the people and given proper consideration by the City vexatious delays and much negotiation, were the operations permitted. authorities years ago, it would not have been necessary to purchase the very small The general subsidence of the land in this part of North Africa had permitted tracts in the congested parts of the city where it is now believed open spaces are the sea to approach to within about eighty feet from the base of the obelisk. The necessary for the health and morals of the people. The single example of William constant washing of the surf had begun to affect the foundation and for fifteen years H. Seward Park may be quoted. The lands for this park, situated at East Broad- the shaft had been gradually inclining seaward and in a few years it must have fallen way and , only about three acres in extent, were acquired at a cost of and been broken by the fall. over two million dollars and yet, even at this large cost, no one doubts the wisdom The vessel "Dessoug." an iron steamer built in England in 1864, purchased from of the purchase or questions the benefits that have already been derived and will the Egyptian Government for the transportation to New York, was placed in dry accrue to the neighborhood where this park is situated. dock where about seven thousand rivets, sixteen 'frames and thirty plates were re- It is now possible with an expenditure of even less than two million dollars to moved from the starboard bow. The caisson supporting the obelisk was then placed acquire a park system of about four thousand acres in the Borough of Richmond, in the dock and hydraulic pumps were used to force the stone into the hold. To which borough is the best adapted for park developments of any of the boroughs of obviate all risk of breaking the stone by the working of the ship, it was placed upon a Greater New York. bed of soft Adriatic white pine. The "Dessottg" sailed on June 12. 1881, but owing Many of the plots recommended for purchase will make the finest sites for to defective boilers and machinery did not reach New York until July 20 of that year. public parks along the entire coast. The high ridge of hills through the centre and After considerable discussion, the site in Central Park, near the Metropolitan north part of the island afford opportunities for the ultimate construction of the Museum of Art Building, known as "Graywacke Knoll," was chosen. The Circle at finest park in the whole city. Some of this land is the highest along the shore, and Eighth avenue and Fifty-ninth street was urged, as was the Plaza at Fifty-ninth the landscape is of the varied and beautiful character which, at some future time, will street and Fifth avenue, but it was decided that the tall buildings that would be afford an opportunity for improvement from which benefits will be derived that can erected at those points in the future would make those sites undesirable. hardly be indicated at this time. The Central Park site was approved by the Park Board on May 5, 1870, and the In closing I would urge that your Honorable Board give this matter your early "Dessoug" was brought to the dock at Fifty-first street and North river. The pedes- consideration, and I would respectfully ask that a public hearing be afforded at an tal was moved from there on a truck built for the purpose, and drawn by 32 horses. early date." to Fifth avenue and Eighty-second street, from which point it was carried on greased On December 22, 1903, a public hearing was given by the Board of Estimate and skids. After the necessary excavation at the site had been made, the foundation was Apportionment, and I was invited to attend and to make an argument as to the replaced exactly as it stood in Alexandria, each piece in the same relative position desirability of acquiring properties in Staten Island for park purposes. to the others and to the points of the compass. The cornerstone was laid with an I appeared before the Board on the date mentioned and expressed my belief that elaborate ceremony, 9,000 Freemasons taking part in the parade and exercises. lands should be acquired for future development as set forth in my report upon the The "Dessoug" was then taken to Staten Island, where the shaft was placed subject above quoted. +upon pontoons, which were towed to the dock at the foot of West Ninety-silCth street. The Mary Lindley Murray Memorial. It was moved across the railroad tracks on heavy timbers and then through Ninety- On Evacuation Day, 1903 (November 25), a bronze tablet was unveiled in the sixth 'street to the Boulevard, southward to Eighty-sixth street, eastward to Eighth small park at Thirty-seventh street and Park avenue, bearing the following inscription: avenue and across the Eighty-sixth street transverse road. Central Park, to Fifth "In honor of Mary Lindley Murray, wife of Robert Murray, for servicgs TVndered avenue, southward to the entrance near the Metropolitan Museum of Art Building

1982 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

and thence westward to its present site. The stone was hauled by means of a pile- New York City Public Parks and Parkways. driver engine used in connection with a cradle, rollers and track of the chasecter BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN. employed for marine railways. The shaft was transported from Fifth avenue to the knoll on a trestle, reaching its destination January 5, f88i. It had travelled io,9o5 • Improved Parks with Names. feet, taking 112 days, or at the rate of about 97 feet a day. It was turned to an up- Area in right position by means of the trunnions and hydraulic pumps used in Egypt on Name. Location. Acres. January 22, 1881, with appropriate ceremonies, the National Government, City Gov- ernment, Army and Navy officials and the Masonic societies taking part. Abingdon Square ...... Eighth avenue and Hudson street ...... 0.202 The total cost of removing the obelisk was $103,732. It is of fine syenite of the Battery Park ...... Foot of Broadway...... ar.'99 Assouan quarries. It was formerly the companion of the obelisk now standing on Beach S-.ree- Park ...... Beach street and ...... 0.03E Bowling Green ...... Broadway and Whitehall street...... 0.517 the Thames Embankment, London. The pair were erected originally by Thothmes ...... and Forty-second street...... 4.775 III. about i590 B. C., before the famous Temple of the Sun, at Heliopolis. The total Canal Street Park ...... Canal and West streets...... o.3r8 Central Park ...... Fifth to Eighth avenue, Fifty-ninth to One height of the Central Park obelisk is 71 feet, its thickness at base 8 feet 8 inches, and Hundred and 'lenth streets ...... 843.019 its weight 448,000 pounds. Park...... Christopher and West Fourth streets...... o.r3g "Cleopatra's Needle," as the Central Park obelisk is frequently termed, was Hallall Park ...... Broadway and Chambers street...... 8.239 Cooper Park ...... and Seventh street...... 0.229 taken to Alexandria previous to or during the reign of Tiberius, A. D., 14-37, and Corlears Hook Park...... •...... Cor]ears and South streets ...... 8.300 was placed with its companion, now in London, on the shore of the sea in front of Duane Street Park ...... Duane and Hudson streets...... o.to8 the Temple of Caesar. Why it bears the name "Cleopatra's Needle" is not known. East River Park ...... Eighty-fourth to Eighty-ninth streets, East river. 12.546 Empire Park, stuth ...... Broadway and Sixty-third street...... 0.344 Cleopatra died about sixty years before the completion of this temple but it may Empire Park, north ...... Broadway and Sixty-sixth street...... o.o6g have been commenced by her. Park ...... Grand street and East Broadway...... 0.6,0 Greeley Square ...... Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street...... 0.144 Hamilton Fish Park...... Houston and Willett streetsr ...... 3 673 New Parks Acquired Since January, 1895. Hancock Square ...... St. Nicholas avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-third street ...... 0.072 Harlem Lane Park ...... Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Fifty- Appropriations third street ...... 1.270 for Improvement. Hudson Park ...... Hudson and Leroy streets...... 1.700 Proceed- Opened for Jaskson Square ...... Eighth avenue and Horatio street...... 0.2z Acres. Cost of Land. ings Begun. Public T-Tse. Date. Amount. - ieannette Park ...... and ...... 0.72E Name of Park. Madison Square ...... Broadway and Twenty -third street...... 6.840 Manhattan Square ...... Central Park West, Seventy-seventh to Eighty- first street ...... ...... 17.582 Hamilton Fish ...... 3.673 $1,719,455 00 1896 1899 1897 $162,500 00 1699 17,000 00 Morningside Park ...... One Hundred and Tenth to One Hundred and [goo 8,500 00 Twenty-third streets, between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues ...... ...... 3,.:,18 William H. Seward...... 2.65, 1,811,127 00 1897 1903 19or 136,371 00 1903. t8,799 00 Mount Morris Park ...... Mt. Morris to , One Hundred 1898 1903 1902 50,000 00 and Twentieth to One Hundred and Twenty- a DeWitt Clinton...... 7.377 1,272,385 00 fourth street ...... 20.,74 Hudson ...... 1.700 533,765 00 1891 1898 1897 85,000 no Mulberry Bend Park ...... Mulberry and Bayard streets...... 2.750 1900 15,000 00 Paradise Park ...... Mission place and ...... o.r14 a Thomas Jefferson...... 15.409 2,748,122 00 1894 1902 1900 33,055 00 Park Avenue Parks ...... Park avenue, Thirty-fourth to Fortieth street, 1g01 7,942 00 and Fifty-sixth to Ninety-sixth street...... 8.cc8 1903 221,957 00 Riverside Park ...... North river, Seventy-second to One Hundred and 1903 3,750 00 Twenty-ninth street ...... x40.037 Mulberry Bend ...... 2.750 1,522,055 00 r8gr 1897 1896 100,000 00 Riverside Park Extension ...... N. Y. C. and H. R. R. to bulkhead line of Harlem Lane ...... 1.270 180,000 00 1892 1897 1897 21,000 00 , Seventy-second to One Hundred b Colonial ...... 12.790 1,743,017 00 1894 .... .... ...... and Twenty-ninth street ...... 48.2,5 Fort Washington...... 40.810 904,268 00 1894 1896 .... ...... Rutgers Park ...... Rutgers slip and South street...... 0.478 c St. Nicholas ...... 22.817 1,199,090 00 1894 1903 • ... •••••••• Ryan Park ...... Second avenue and Forty-second street...... o. 190 c John Jay ...... 3.004 338,544 00 1896 1903 .... ...... ...... Broadway and Seventieth street...... o.00, and Thirty-fifth Stuyvesant Park ...... Rutherford place and Sixteenth street...... 4.229 Street ...... 2.947 1,034,715 00 [got .... .... ...... Tompkins Square ...... Avenue A and Seventh street...... to.5ot d Seventeenth Street and East Union Square ...... Broadway and Fourteenth street...... 3.483 River ...... 1.037 ...... .... 1903 .... ...... Washington Square ...... Fifth avenue and ...... 8.1,5 e Fort George ...... .. ... ...... .... .... .... ...... William H. Seward Park ...... Canal and Jefferson streets...... 3.3 , 5 fSchuyler Square...... .o7z 32,500 00 .... 1894 .... ...... Total ...... 1,253.863 Additions to— High Bridge ...... ...... 1,194,542 no 1895 .... .... ...... Riverside ...... ...... 486„291 00 1894 .... .... ...... Muioerry wend...... .0587 184,724 00 1891 .... .... ...... Unimproved Parks with Names. Morningside ...... .074 47,000 00 .... .... .... ...... Area in " Other funds from appropriation "Parks, Parkways and Drives"; total fund, $205,272. Name. Location. Acres. t Other funds from appropriation "Parks, Parkways and Drives"; total fund, $145,171. a Opened for temporary use, 1902. Colonial Park ...... One Hundred and Forty-fifth to One Hundred h In hands of Department of Finance, 1903. and Fifty-fifth street, Bradhurst avenue to c Temporary use, 1903. Edgecombe avenue ...... 12.790 d Transferred from Department of Docks, 1go3. DeWitt Clinton Park ...... Fifty-second to Fifty-fourth street, North river.. 7.377 e Proceedings not completed. Fort Washington Park ...... Fort Washington Point, Hudson river...... 40.810 f Transterred from Department of Highways. Thomas Jefferson Park ...... One Hundred and Eleventh street, First avenue, One Hundred and Fourteenth street and Harlemriver ...... [5.529 Expenditures on Construction Accounts, 1903 Highbridge Park ...... One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street to Washing- ton Bridge„ west of driveway...... 64..343 Riverside Park and Drive, Completion of Construction— St. Nicholas Park ...... One Hundred and Thirtieth to One Hundred Grading and construction, drainage and walks ...... $862 88 and Forty-first street, St. Nicholas to ...... 26.604 Construction of viaduct over West Ninety-sixth street ...... 6,830 42 Improvement between Ninety-sixth and One Hundred and Twenty- Total ...... 67453 fourth streets ...... 1,192 25 Improvement Parks, Parkways and Drives— Constructing and improving small park north of One Hundred and Improved Unnamed Parks. Fifty-third street, between Seventh avenue and Macomb's Dam road, etc ...... 2I 32 Area in St. John's Park, construction of—Hudson Park ...... 49 75 Location. Acres. Jefferson Park, improvement of ...... 29 51 East River Park, improvement of extension ...... 401 72 Park bounded by Seventh and Eighteenth streets, and East river ...... t.o37 Triangle at Broadway and Seventy-third street ...... 0.095 Laying asphalt walks, leveling playgrounds, etc., East River Park...... • 57 67 Triangle at Manhattan avenue and One Hundred and Fourteenth street ...... o.ot8 Constructing new walks around Arsenal Building, repairing and con- Triangle at Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Seventeenth street ...... 0.074 structing other walks in Central Park ...... 57 22 Triangle at Sixth avenue and Thirty-fifth street ...... 0.042 Asphalting in other localities in Central Park ...... .. 172 42 Total...... t.z66 Improving principal entrance Central Park, Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue ...... 84 of New York Public Library Fund ...... 319,043 78 Foundation, etc., Bartholdi statues of Washington and Lafayette...... 12 14 Unimproved Unnamed Parks. Hester Street Park Fund—William H. Seward Park ...... 85,196 70 Area in Repairing with asphalt Eighty-sixth street, from Central Park, West, to Location. Acres. Riverside drive ...... 11,732 16 Washington Park, in the Town of Stapleton, and the small park in Port Park bounded by Thirty-fifth street, Thirty-sixth street, First and Second avenues...... 2.947 Richmond, improvement of ...... .. ... ...... 1,378 98 Triangle at Broadway and One Hundred and Sixth street ...... 0.072 Widening roadway of Fifty-ninth street, between Fifth and Eighth avenues, Triangle at St. Nicholas avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street ...... 0.038 Triangle at St. Nicholas avenue and One Hundred and Fiftieth street ...... ... 0.024 etc. ...... 1,760 46 Addition to Riverside Park, One Hundred and Twenty-second street to Claremont place, Improvement of parks, parkways and drives, Boroughs of Manhattan and Riverside avenue to ...... z.o64 Richmond ...... Extension of Higbbridge Park, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth to One Hundred and Fifty- 656,469 67 ninth street, east of Speedway ...... a.5tt Constructing improved toilet facilities in City parks, and rebuilding Bank West of Harlem River driveway and north of Washington Bridge ...... az.817 Rock Bridge, Central Park, etc ...... 16,310 8o Corner of Worth ano Baxter streets ...... o.r87 Aquarium Building, Battery Park, improvement of ...... 633 65 Cathedral Parkway, improvement and completion of ...... 529 10 Total...... 30.660 Mulberry Bend Park, construction of ...... 42 00 Rents, licenses, etc., 1903 ...... 07 46, 2 34 Parks in Process of Condemnation.

Statement of Balances of Appropriations, December 31, 19o3. Area in Name. Location. Acres.

Amount of John Jay Park ...... Seventy-sixth to Seventy-eighth street, East Titles of Appr op riations. Amount of Payments.Pa Unexpended river ...... 3.004 Appropriations. Balances.

Salaries of Commissioners, Secretary and Employees of the Parkways, Streets, Avenues, Etc., Under the Jurisdiction of the Department of Parks. Board of Parka ...... $29,300 00 $29,300 00 ... Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond. Administration...... ...... 32,790 00 32,443 17 $346 83 Location. Feet Feet Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... 437,g17 50 ...... 4.... Supplies ...... 85,423 00 Payroll .....9 32 Cathedral parkway (One Hundred and Tenth street, west of Seventh avenue). 4,061 roc to 126 Zoolo,ksl Department ...... 30,500 0o 165.18 Circle at Eighth avenue and Fifty-ninth street ...... 95 =g Eighty-sixth street, west of Central Park West ...... 3.q35 roc Fifth avenue, Fifty-ninth to One Hundred and Tenth street ...... :..: 13,661 too PPayrolllss ...... r6 6 6 7 3 Maintenance of Museu-ms Harlem River driveway ...... x1,562 zoo to 150 American Museum of Natural...... History ...... Morningside avenue, west ...... 3,538 90 r6o,000 oo 260,000 00 ...... Ninety-sixth street, west of West End avenue ...... :...... 802 coo Metropolitan Museum of Art rso,000 00 15o,000 00 ....5. Music ...... ...... One Hundred and Tenth street, Fifth to Seventh avenue ...... 2,045 too 26,575 00 26,489 5o 8 o One Hundred and Twenty-second street, west of Tenth avenue ...... x,450 80 Contingencies ...... 2,SOO 00 2,500 00 ...... Surveys, Maps and Plans ...... One Hundred and Twenty-third street, west of Morningside Park...... 819 6o z,000 on 2,000 no ...... Plaza at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue ...... Aquarium ..... ...... 40,000 00 40,000 00 ...... Ambulance Service, Central Park ...... Plaza at One Hundred and Tenth street and Fifth avenue ...... 1,200 00 1,200 00 .... Plaza at One Hundred and Tenth street and Eighth avenue...... Care of Grant's Tomb ...... 5,coo 00 5,000 00 Riverside drive ...... r7,000 go to 168 Harlem River Driveway ...... r8,600 no 16,313 It 1,686 89 Maintenance of Playgrounds, Kindergartens, etc., in the Seventy-second street, west of Central Park West ...... 3,025 100 Parks ...... 20,000 00 15,537 37 4,462 63 Total...... 61,3p8 ......

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 1983

BOROUGH OF RICHMOND. cleaned up, in order to give the trees a better chance for development. Had this Area in work been done by contract, in the usual way, it would have occupied at least two Name. Location. Acres. I years. It was accomplished in less than six months by the Department doing it with its own men and under its own superintendence. Inc work was far better • Improved Park, with Name. done than it would have been done by a contractor; and had it not been for the Washington Square ...... Bay, Water and Canal streets, Stapleton...... 1.46 Improved Unnamed Park. delay in obtaining from the contractor trap-rock and trap-rock screenings for the ...... Broadway, Bennett street, Herberton avenue and surfacing of this road it would have been finished a month or two earlier than it Vreeland street, Port Richmond ...... t.s8 was. On account of the delay in getting the trap-rock the road was not completed Total ...... 2.74 and opened to the public until the end of the year. A driveway 4,615 feet long and 30 feet wide has been laid out and constructed from Van Cortlandt Station along the easterly boundary of the Parade Ground, and through that portion of the Park known as Vault Hill and the Deer Paddock, up Recapitulation of Park Areas. to Mosholu avenue, at the junction where the Rockwood drive begins. This drive has opened to the public a portion of this park that for many years has been abso- Acres. lutely shut off, on account of the same being used for a herd of deer. These deer Borough of Manhattan ...... ...... 1,416.246 have been transferred to the Zoological Park, where all the other animals are, Borough of Richmond ...... 2.740 so that, when people come to the park to visit the animal collection, they will find Borough of Brooklyn ...... r,o26.875 them all together. This is one of the finest sections of . Vault Borough of Queens ...... 550.843 Hill has a commanding view in every direction, and, now that the road has been Borough of The Bronx ...... 3,866.500 constructed so that the public are able to enter this portion, this hill will be dotted with visitors during the entire summer season, on account of the high altitude and commanding view therefrom. It also makes a more direct route from the city to Yonkers for carriage driving for people who wish to avoid the cars on Broadway. Recapitulation of Parkways, Streets, Avenues, etc. This road is known as "Vault Hill Drive." The border of the Parade Ground, between this drive and the railroad, has Length, Feet. been heavily planted with trees and shrubs for a distance of i,800 feet in length and 5o feet in width. The soil in this section was a pure white sand, which re- Borough of Manhattan ...... 61,398 quired the digging of large holes for all the trees and shrubs, and the carting of Borough of Richmond ...... ...... top-soil to fill the same, in order to insure success in their development. This Borough of Brooklyn and Borough of Queens ...... 226,952 top-soil was largely brought from the excavation taken from the lake. The balance of Borough of The Bronx ...... 33,211 the bank between the shrubs and trees was covered from three to six inches with mould and manure, requiring 2,500 cubic yards, all of which was secured from Total...... 321,561 park property. The Colonial Garden, which was well under way in the year tgo2, was pushed with great vigor during the first half of 1903, with such success that, by the first List of Statuary, Monuments, Etc., in the Public Parks, Borough of Manhattan. of June, the garden was opened, and that section lying within the Moat and the Central Park—Bolivar (equestrian), Schiller (bust), Beethoven (bust), Eagles, banks to the east and north was fully completed and planted, leaving only the flat The (group), Daniel Webster (standing figure), Indian Hunter (group), Columbus and slope to the west to be finished, which was done during the summer and (standing figure), Shakespeare (standing figure), Robert Burns (sitting figure),Walter fall. The work done in connection with the completion of the Garden in 1903 re- Scott (sitting figure), Fitz Greene Halleck (sitting figure), Humboldt (bust), Thor- quired the laying of about i,ioo cubic yards of rubble wall, 40 cubic yards of con- waldsen (standing figure), Commerce, Seventh Regimottt Memorial (standing figure), crete, 3,000 cubic yards of excavation, 6,5oo cubic yards of filling, 4,000 cubic yards Mazzini (bust), Morse (standing figure), The Pilgrim (standing figure), Still Hunt of top-soil and the laying of 3,936 square yards of walks with rubble foundations, (group), Falconer (standing figure), Tigress, Moore (bust), Hamilton (standing and a surface of trap-rock screenings; the construction of three rustic bridges and figure), The Alexandrian Obelisk, Richard Morris Hunt (exedra), Shepard Fountain, three flights of rustic steps with hand-rails; the seeding and sodding of two acres General W. T. Sherman (equestrian). of in-lying courts; the construction of a handsome fountain and central court, and the Riverside Park—Washington (near Eighty-ninth street), Soldiers' and Sailors' laying of 1,300 feet of water pipe from one to six inches in diameter, and about 3,500 Memorial Monument (Ninety-second street), Tomb of General U. S. Grant (One feet of drain pipe. Hundred and Twenty-fourth *street). The development of the Colonial Garden, outside the Moat, required the excava- Madison Square Park—Chester A. Arthur, Admiral Farragut, Roscoe Conkling, tion of 2,1oo cubic yards of earth, 3,500 cubic yards of fill, and 360 square yards of William H. Seward. telford walk to be constructed, all of which was done during the year. Washington Square Park—Washington Arch, Garibaldi, Alexander L. Holly. The planting of the garden required the grading and seeding of 5 acres; 12,000 Bryant Park—Dr. J. Marion Sims, Washington Irving. feet of sod was cut and laid; 35,000 boxwood edging plants were used; 24,000 herba- Union Square Park—Lafayette, Washington, Lincoln, D. Willis James Fountain ceous plants; 1,400 shrubs; 66 specimen trees, and 36 water lilies were planted; 20,000 City Hall Park—Nathan Hale. crocus, 9,000 narcissus, 9,000 tulips, and goo hardy lilies were planted in the autumn Morningside Park—Washington-Lafayette. for spring blooming. Hancock Square—General Winfield Scott Hancock. Three polo fields were kept in perfect order during the whole season for polo Greeley Square—Horace Greeley. players. Fifty tons of bone fertilizer was purchased and used on the polo fields and Cooper Park—Peter Cooper. golf links in the early spring. Battery Park—Ericsson. Five thousand four hundred and thirty bedding plants were planted in beds in Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street—William Earl Dodge. Van Cortlandt Park. Printing House Square—Franklin. Van Cortlandt lake, which has been a matter of great thought in the past, in Broadway and Twenty-fifth Street—Worth Monument. regard to its unsanitary condition during the summer season, was tackled, the dam Bowling Green Park—Abraham DePeyster. torn away, and the water drawn out, and a large part of the semi-bog known as Park Avenue—Murray Memorial. Van Cortlandt lake has been thoroughly renovated and cleaned. This lake has not been cleaned, probably, before since the dam was built, io years ago. There was The Commissioner's Report of the Work of the Department of Parks for the about on an average of 2 or 3 feet of ooze and slime on the bottom, on a clay founda- Borough of The Bronx for the Year 1903. tion. About 30,000 cubic yards of this deposit, which in the summer was filled with vegetation, has been removed. A substantial stone retaining wall has been built from Hon. SETH LOW, Mayor of The City of New York: the railroad bridge, along the easterly shore to a point near the upper end of the Dear Sir—Iq compliance with the provisions of the Charter, I send you here- lake, a distance of 2,270 feet, requiring for its construction about i,000 cubic yards of with the report of the work undertaken and accomplished in this Department for the dry masonry. year closing December 31, 1903. The low, marshy shores of the lake, from the Skate House along the golf links I have the honor to remain, to the northerly end of the lake, have been filled in and reclaimed, and now it is Very respectfully yours, good park land to the water's edge. The cleaning of the lake necessitated the JOHN E. EUSTIS, removal of the old dam. A new dam and spillway has been built, with a 24-inch Commissioner of Parks, Borough of The Bronx. cast-iron discharge pipe with valve, so that hereafter when it is necessary to make future cleaning or repairs to this lake the water can be drawn off without interfering The work of the Department was in full progress on the first of January, 1903, in any way with the dam. and proceeded during all the workable weather of the year, so that much greater In the construction of the shore wall around the lake a large quantity of old progress was made in 1903 than in 19o2, from the fact that no time was lost in the and unsightly stone walls have been removed from the park, improving greatly the beginning of the year. appearance of park land in other sections. So much delay was experienced in getting the work finished during the year New drains have been laid in connection with the grading of the lake banks, and i9o2, that was being done by contract, that the Department resolved to do all of the all sections are thoroughly drained. work it was possible to do with the Park Laborers themselves, in order that the The Link View road, built in 1902, has been extended at the northeasterly end, work might be expidited and finished, and I wish in this report to emphasize the fact to connect with a new macadam road, built by the Valley Farms people, to the that the result has been marvelous. That the only contract which was under way in northerly end of the park. 1902 was the development of Crotona Parkway, and when the contractor had Croton water pipes have been laid on one of the polo fields on the Parade about one-quarter of the work finished he had used up more than all of his contract Ground, and connected with the main in Broadway, so that, during a dry season, it time, and he then abandoned the work. We were obliged to prepare new specifi- will be possible to keep this field in a good condition for playing. Croton water cations and readvertise the contract, and it was near the end of the present year has also been introduced into the Disbrow Mansion and stables. before the contract for finishing this work was started; when, if the work had been Plans have been prepared and approved for reclaiming and improving the marsh started by the Department itself, and the necessary plant could have been obtained, lands to the south of the Colonial Garden. it would have been finished long before the end of the year 1903. In several instances We have succeeded during the year in getting the New York Central and Hud- the work undertaken by the Department has been better done, and has been finished son River Railroad Company to prepare plans for building a new station at Van by the time it could have been started if done under contract, on account of the Cortlandt Park, farther north than the present station, and providing for an under- delay in getting contracts executed, preparing specifications, etc. grade crossing on Van Cortlandt avenue. They have also prepared plans for the In order to systematically outline the work that has been done, we will take it undergrade crossing on the new road at the east side of the Parade Ground. Before up park by park. Beginning with the westerly side of the borough, the first park these improvements can be made additional legislation is necessary. property is: A new shelter house and refreshment stand was constructed near the foot of Spuyten Duyvil Parkway. Gun Hill road, which has been greatly appreciated by the golf players. Length, 11,500 feet; width, from 6o to i8o feet. About 25 acres of land in the northeasterly section of Van Cortlandt Park has This has been maintained in its regular condition; roadbed resurfaced with trap- been set aside as a nursery. About io acres of this has been cleared of boulders, rock screenings over its entire length; portions of the slopes near the western end sumac, briars, etc., and the same partly plowed and cultivated, and a nursery started, have been graded; and the drainage system of that portion at the Big Loop has about five acres being now planted. been overhauled and improved, and the driveway has been maintained during the Four hundred and forty-three pin oaks, three hundred and thirty-four liquid- whole year in good shape. amber, one thousand two hundred and fifty American elms have been collected from shrubs have been planted along this drive during the year. the woods in the parks and planted in the nursery. This is a new innovation in the Sixteen trees and 881 park work of the City. It is more economical and far more satisfactory to raise our own trees; and if the system now started is carried out it will be but a few years Van Cortlandt Park. before the nursery in The Bronx will suffice not only to supply all the trees and Area, 1,132.35 acres. shrubs that are necessary for the parks of The Bronx, but could also supply the parks The good work started in this park during the year i9o2 developed the neces- of the other boroughs of the City. sity of a great deal more, and showed how much could be made of this section, if proper attention were given to it; and the improvements carried on during the year During the present year we have expended for trees and shrubs $12,922.42. have been radical and far eclipse those of the year 1902. Arrangements have been made during the year to receive from the contractors A new and splendid driveway has been constructed from Mosholu avenue to who are excavating Jerome Park Reservoir about one million yards of their surplus Van Cortlandt Park avenue, in the City of Yonkers, a distance of 4,950 feet. This material along the westerly line of the old Croton Aqueduct. This will not only driveway has been named Rockwood drive, on account of the splendid rock and furnish and grade this westerly slope so that it can be beautifully terraced and wood views on every hand for its entire length. It has a width of 30 feet, 25 feet of planted, but it will enable the Department to lay out a fine drive on the top of the which is paved with telford macadam pavement, and as it winds and turns through hill along the line of the Croton Aqueduct, between Mosholu avenue and Gun Hill the forest and rocks the eye has a pleasing variety and change of view every moment. road. The construction of this driveway necessitated the excavation of 4,000 cubic yards of Plans have been prepared for the regulating and grading of Gun Hill road, from rock, i2,aoo cubic yards of earth, and of the laying of 13,750 square yards of telford the top of Gun Hill to its junction with Grand avenue increasing its width to 4o feet, ma^.adam pavement, all of which was done by the Park Department employees. The and taking out a great deal of the stiffness of the hill, this being the steepest grade for st lands on each side of this road for its entire length were underbrushed and in any of the park drives or roads. The change will reduce it from 12 per cent. to 1984 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

about 7 per cent. grade. The material necessary for the grading and telfording of About fifty acres in this park has been underbrushed and cleared of dead and this road will all be supplied free of cost to the City from the reservoir excavation. decaying trees, and the slopes along the Southern Boulevard have been graded The reassignment of lockers to the Golf House during the past year has worked and seeded. with marvelous success. The lockers have been occupied by two or three players A portable sawmill, for the purpose of making use of the dead and fallen trees each, and they have brought in to the City an income (which has gone into the Sink- in the various parks, has been purchased during the year, and set up in the rear ing Fund) almost as large as the cost of maintaining the house during the season. of the mill, so that hereafter, instead of burning up valuable timber and then buy- We have also constructed 24 new lockers, at a cost of $6 apiece, and the return from ing lumber, the Department will be saved thousands of dollars every year by con- these has been $5 each for the first year. verting the fallen trees into such material in the shape of lumber as they may require In order to meet the growing demand of the popular golf course in this park for park purposes. the New York Golf Club, aggregating from 300 to 400 members, has prepared plans Itt this section of the park, during the year, there have been planted 37 trees and specifications—which have been approved by the Department—for the erection upwards of three inches in diameter, gob shrubs, t3,2oo bedding plants and 5,000 of a golf house at the foot of Gun Hill road, on the bank of the lake. While this herbaceous plants. golf house will be erected free of expense to the City, and after a term of years be- Fifty thousand feet of sod was cut and laid along the drives and walks by the come the property of the City, it will be open to the public, the same as the other Gardeners in this Department. golf house, for certain privileges, the club members reserving the lockers for their Two thousand five hundred native shrubs, collected in the woods of the parks, own accommodation. When this is completed (which it is expected will be early next were planted along the northern bank of the lake. year) it will relieve the congestion in the present golf house, so that all players who The greenhouses and gardens adjoining, in this park, were maintained to their desire a locker will be able to secure one. highest state of efficiency during the entire year, raising all of the pansies and bedding plants used in all the parks and squares of the Borough of The Bronx. . 6,035 feet long, boo feet wide. Botanical Garden Section of . This parkway is the connecting link between Van Cortlandt and Bronx Parks. The improvements during the year have been extensive. The section between Webster The contract that was let in igoo for the grading of the grounds, the construc- avenue and the Harlem Railroad tracks, all of which was low and swampy land, has tion of walks and drives, the laying of water pipe, sewer pipe, etc., was finally coin- been filled in, requiring 38,000 cubic yards of filling. This fill was obtained from the pleted in the early spring of this year, and the final estimate rendered in May. On contractors of the Jerome Park Reservoir, whose railroad track crossed a corher of this account of the long and unreasonable delay of the contractor, the time penalty fixed section, and was obtained without any expense to the Department or to the City. in the contract was enforced against the contractor to the extent of $6,480. Surveys, plans and specifications were prepared, and the contract let for the bridge The grade of the driveway between the garden fountain and the drinking foun- abutments for the bridge superstructures over Webster avenue and the tracks of the tain, at the south end of the approach to the Museum Building, was raised for a Harlem Railroad, which contract includes the filling between the easterly abutment on distance of 300 feet, in order to conform to the grades necessitated by the cotn- Webster avenue and the abutment west of the railroad tracks, and making the western pletion of the fountains. approach to the Webster Avenue Bridge. This contract is well under way ; all the A path i,800 feet long and i5 feet wide was built from the approach to the necessary excavations have been made ; one of the abutments is two-thirds and another Manhattan Elevated Railroad station, southeasterly along the southerly boundary of one-half completed. the park, and within a few feet of St. John's College grounds, to the Southern Plans and specifications have been prepared for the two bridge superstructures, one Boulevard. The construction of this path was made necessary by the enormous over Webster avenue and the other over the railroad tracks, and the work was let to numbers of visitors reaching the Garden by means of the Elevated Railway, en route the American Bridge Company of New York on the 3oth day of December, 1903, at a for the Zoological Park. cost of $48,635. The work will be commenced in the early part of the new year. Paths connecting the approaches to the Public Conservatories with the south- Surveys, maps, plans and specifications have also been made for the improvement ern entrance at the Southern Boulevard, and with the entrance leading to the of Mosholu parkway, from Webster avenue to the boundary of Van Cortlandt Park. Museum Building, have been constructed, in all amounting to 2,000 feet and Phis improvement provides for the construction of two roadways go feet in width, with averaging 12 feet in width. a too-foot plantation between. These roadways converge at two points where the The path system of the herbaceous grounds has been connected with the path topography absolutely requires it to form one roadway 6o feet in width, together with leading through Bronx Park to Pelham avenue. the necessary drainage facilities, etc. The contract for this work has been awarded, A path to feet in width and 500 feet long has been built from the Southern and the estimated cost of these improvements is $i2o,000. Boulevard, at the railroad bridge, to the approach to the Elevated Railway station. At the northern boundary of the parkway, between Webster avenue and the rail- These paths have been built in the most substantial manner, with telford founda- road, a strip moo feet wide has been allotted by the Sinking Fund Commission to the tion carefully laid, hammered and rolled, and surfaced with 2-inch trap-rock Police Department as a site for a police station, and plans for this station have been screenings. examined and approved by the Department, and the money appropriated for the con- The contract for grading the ground, building telford roads, laying concrete ~truction of an artistic station and stable, which will add very much to the appearance walks, erecting the garden and drinking fountains and basins for the statuary fouu- of this section of the parkway, as well as be a great convenience to the neighborhood tain, was completed in May, and final estimate rendered. This contract was also and a saving of the cost of a new site to the City, which would have been probably not unreasonably delayed for a long time beyond the time specified in the contract, and less than $50,000 for a site of this size. the contractor was penalized to the extent of $3,060. Plans and specifications were prepared for a stone and concrete steel bridge over Bronx Park. the Bronx river, in the northern part of the garden, near the Newell avenue en- Area, 661 acres. trance. The work was let and the same is practically completed, only some details This park is subdivided into three sections : First, the northerly section, which has of finishing being needed. been set apart as a botanical garden, under the jurisdiction of the Botanical Society as The grading of the main driveway in connection with both sides of this bridge to its maintenance; second, the southerly end, set apart for the New York Zoological and the northerly entrance to the park has been completed. Society for the maintenance of the "Zoo" ; leaving about 150 acres, the centre section, There have been upwards of 3o,000 cubic yards of fill carted into the easterly side which is maintained as a general park. of the river to make this fill from the Jerome Park Reservoir railroad trestle, and a In this section the Park Department, on account of its central location, has estab- goodly portion of the driveway on the westerly side of the Bronx river has been lished its shops, greenhouses, nurseries and stables, and, in the near future, hopes to covered with telford stone. establish its office. The new work done during the past year upon this section of Bronx Plans and specifications have been prepared for a five-arch rubble stone bridge Park will be first considered. to carry the main driveway across the Bronx river and its valley, at a point of about The road leading from Pelham avenue to the southern boundary of the Botanical Soo feet from the present "Blue Bridge," the work advertised, bids opened and the Garden has been widened, the banks sloped, the gutters sodded and fully completed; and contract let. a new telford macadam road has been constructed from the junction of the Southern Plans were prepared in the office for a stone and concrete bridge over the Bronx Boulevard and Pelham avenue to a point where the Botanical Garden joins those of river at the present site of the "Blue Bridge." This work has not yet been adver- the park proper. These roads have a width of 26 feet, exclusive of the gutters, and tised. lengths, respectively, of 1,425 and i,i6o feet. Plans and specifications have been prepared for constructing flights of steps and Substantial walks with rubble foundations and trap-rock screenings, io feet in a set of concrete-steel tanks for the aquatic plants near the Horticultural Buildings, idth, have been constructed in this park as follows: the work advertised, contract let for $16,598, and the work is now under way. From Pelham avenue to Suicide lane, a distance of 702 feet. Plans and specifications have been prepared for a plant house to be connected From Pelham avenue to the herbaceous grounds, a distance of i,6o5 feet. with the range of propagating houses, the work let at a cost of $7,593, and the work From Bronx and , along the easterly shore of the Bronx river, is now being done. to the Falls, a distance of 2,480 feet. Plans and specifications have been prepared, and the work advertised and let, for A portion of the latter path was laid during the year 5902, but it has been re- the construction of two toilet houses, one for men and one for women, and a tool formed and widened and generally improved during the present year. house, adjacent to the entrance of the Elevated Railway station. This work will be The portion of the walk from the Falls to the workshop has been widened and completed by the early spring of 1804. made to serve also as a driveway 20 feet in width, and has become a very popular A large amount of grading and seeding has been done in and about the Horti- drive for people wishing to view the Hemlock Valley and the Falls. cultural Buildings and the Museum buildings, aggregating about ten acres in the new A bridle path t6 feet in width has been constructed from the Bronx and Pelham finished lawn surface, and about fifteen acres more is so far advanced toward com- parkway to a point beside the Lorillard mansion, along the westerly bank of the new pletion that it will be brought to a finished state in 1904. lake, a distance of 5.500 feet. At the commencement of the year work was being prosecuted on the connection The Park lake, at the easterly limit of the park, has been completed. It was of the sewer and drainage system of the southwestern portion of the garden with the found last year that, owing to the nature of the fill on the easterly side of this lake, it Webster avenue sewer, the line passing under the New York Central and Hudson would not hold the water, and the whole easterly section where the new fill has been River Railroad bed. The work was completed in the early spring. placed was lined with a concrete core wall, requiring the use of ro barrels of Port- At the southern entrance of the herbaceous grounds, the brook and drainage land cement. 4 his has remedied the difficulty, and made the lake absolutely tight, system has been connected with the large stone drain built in the park adjoining. so that during the month of December it was very much used for a few days by The contract for furnishing additional furniture in the Museum building was skaters. satisfactorily completed in the early spring. Two comfort stations have been planned and constructed from existing build- A design of the fountain planned for construction for the approach to the ings, one for women, in the Porters Lodge, near the entrance to the mansion Museum building has been approved by the Board of Managers, under the recom- grounds; the other, for men, in the old stone gas generator building, which is north mendation of the committee selected by the National Sculpture Society. Consider- of the Lorillard mansion. able time will be required for preparing models and casting the bonze for this The old stone barn formerly occupied by the Police Department was turned over fov.ntain, but it is expected that it will be in position by the end of 1904. by the Police to this Department in September. It was immediately overhauled ann During the autumn trees were set out along the entire system of finished drive- remodeled, a substantial shed with concrete floor erected in the rear, between the two ways, between the Museum building, the approach to the elevated railway station and wings, and it is now used as the main stable of the Park Department. the southern entrance at the Southern Boulevard, about forty different species being The old wooden structure in the rear of this barn was taken down and a large t~sed in this planting, with the design of shading the driveways and paths as soon as and handsome two-story-and-basement building erected on the site, the building being possible. 86 feet long and 25 feet wide. This building is intended as an addition to the st:iLle A large amount of planting was done in the spring about the entrance to the ele- for horses and to serve as a storeroom for the watering trucks and other wagons and vated railway station. The total number of kinds of plants represented in all the planta- implements of the Department, which in the past have often had to stand outdoors tions and conservatories, including the native flora of the tract, is about ir,2oo, which during the winter months. is a gain during the year of about boo species. A new line of water pipe has been brought to the buildings from Pelham avenue, requiring the laying of 3,200 linear feet of 4-inch water pipe, upon which New York Zoological Park Section of Bronx Park. four hydrants have been placed. In addition a large amount of iron pipe and water During the year 1903 the permanent improvements in this section of the park have pipe has been laid in various sections of this park, for drainage, including the com- been very steadily advanced. The lion house was opened to the public on February 2, fort stations. with all its cages well filled. The use of this building for the balance of the year has That section of the. park lying at the entrance from Pelham avenue, which has proven satisfactory in every respect. It has provided for the comfort of its wild ani- been a bit of low, swampy ground for many years, has been filled in, graded and mals in a manner that has been highly beneficial to them, and has afforded great satis- drained. A fine pool with stone walls has been made, the area sodded, and the faction to the large number of visitors. The studio has proven highly acceptable to whole made ready for seeding and planting. This work has required the hauling of artists and sculptors, and has been in almost constant use. About twenty-five artists several thousand cubic yards of fill, which was delivered at a nearby spot on the rail- and sculptors have availed themselves of the artistic privileges afforded by the Zoo- road of the Jerome Avenue Reservoir without expense to the City. logical Society. Plans were prepared, and contract let, for a stone and concrete-steel bridge It will not be possible in this report to go into the detail of the large amount of over the Bronx river and Pelham avenue, and the work is well under way. The work that has been done in this park by the Zoological Society, and I shall confine cost, of this bridge, in round figures, is about $5o,000. A temporary bridge was con- myself to the principal items of construction work in the way of improvement, leaving structed, and is now being used. The new bridge foundations are completed, and, if the reader to peruse for more definite details the annual report of the New York pushed, the bridge ought to be ready for the public early in the summer of 1904. Zoological Society. This bridge will have a clear span of 87 feet and a width of too feet, 6o feet of which Bear Dens. will be roadway, with two 2o-foot walks. The old bridge that was removed was The bear dens have had the addition completed. The work was begun in igoz and only 20 feet in width, and had to serve for all purposes. completed in the early spring of igo3. The final completion of this work made it pos.. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 1985 sible to transfer bears from the old dens for the purpose of putting those enclosures A portion of the rock lying in the sidewalk on Crotona avenue was removed into thorough repair. during the construction of the roadbed in Crotona avenue, thereby improving the Llama House. sidewalk, and at the same time furnishing material for Telford macadam; Early in 1903 the society received from Mr. Robert S. Brewster a complete col- and I wish to say, in this connection, that, had this roadway been done by contract, lection of the cameloid animals of South America, embracing the llama, guanaco, instead of by the park laborers, it would not have been done until well on in 1904, vicunia and alpaca. To provide quarters for this handsome gift the society erected and it would have cost the City at least one-third more than it did. a building known as the Llama House, situated near the southwest entrance. The The road leading from Tremont avenue to the Municipal Building was resurfaced building is 3o by 35 feet, one story in height, and contains four spacious shelter during the year. rooms and a feed room. Twenty acres of forest in this park were cleaned during the early part of the The Antelope House was brought to completion during the year; the work was year, the wood being cut by the foresters and carried away by poor people during begun in 1902. A series of twenty-three yards surrounding the Antelope House form the time when the price of coal was high. a very extensive feature of this installation, giving a chance for indoor enclosure Sixty-three trees, upwards of three inches in diameter, and 2,421 shrubs were and outdoor exercise during suitable weather. The surface of these enclosures has planted in this park during the year, also 3,760 bedding plants. been well paved with telford macadam and well provided with drains and catch Five thousand feet of sod was cut and laid at entrance to drive on One Hundred basins. This outdoor improvement has been the most extensive of its kind yet and Seventy-fifth street and walk to Prospect avenue. made in the Zoological Park, outside of the bear dens. Over 1,392 feet of wire fencing was required for the enclosure of the yards. This building was opened in • Claremont Park. October, at which time a fine collection of animals was received, consisting of two Area, 38 acres. giraffes, one eland, two white-tailed gnu, two white-bearded gnu, two zebras, one The only improvements made in this park during the past year have been the beatrix antelope, one addax antelope, two redunca antelopes, one reedbuck,four construction of a new rubble-foundation walk 780 feet in length, near the southeasterly Indian antelopes, two dorcas gazelles and two crested antelopes. Two ostriches corner of the park, and one of about the same length along the northern boundary; and four Steller's sea lions were quartered in the Antelope House, pending the the chaging and improving of the roadway and grades at Monroe avenue entrance; completion of other buildings. a new toilet house for women; and an ornamental wire fence, similar to the one built The outdoor cages of the Lion House were provided with rustic rock-work in in , which has been erected along a portion of the Morris avenue their interiors, and the work was prosecuted vigorously throughout the summer boundary and along the northerly end of the park for a distance of about 650 feet. and completed in October. This fence was also constructed as a temporary protection for the lawns and The walk extending along the eastern side of Bronx lake and river, from West shrubbery. Farms to Bronxdale, a distance of 4,195 feet, was completed in a satisfactory man- Fourteen new trees and 152 new shrubs have been planted during the year in this ..er, and opens up to visitors the entire park area east of The Bronx. park; 865 bedding plants have been set out, and 6,000 square feet of sod cut and laid. Plans and specifications have been prepared, work advertised and contract let, for the erection of three important animal buildings: one, a house for ostriches, St. Mary's Park. rheas, cassowaries and emus, and another for miscellaneous small animals. Each of Area 28.7 acres. these two buildings is 170 feet in length, and will be provided with a complete series Early in the year plans and specifications were prepared for surfacing with of outdoor accommodations. The third is a large house for perching birds. It is asphalt all the walks in this park. The work was advertised and the bids received, but situated on the northwest corner of Baird court. This will be a spacious and per- the lowest bid was deemed excessive (being far above a fair cost for the work), and fectly appointed building, and will contain a really great collection of birds—perch- the bids were rejected; and, as there appeared to be no probability of obtaining ing birds, shore birds and the parrots and macaws. better prices during the year the work was not readvertised. Work on all the above buildings was promptly begun by the contractors, and is A handsome and substantial wrought-iron picket fence has been erected on the proceeding satisfactorily, and there is every reason to believe that the same will north, west and south sides of this park, which has added very much to the appear- be completed early in 1904. ance of the park and contributed immensely in the way of ease in protecting the A large amount of ground improvement work has been accomplished during shrubbery and plants from destruction. Several of the park entrances were changed, the year. 2,063 trees have been planted in the border plantations of the park. necessarily, on account of the system of fencing. The system of walks has been re- A small mammal house was removed from its original location and re-erected vised in a way that has rendered access to the park as easy as formerly, and ha; in the nursery as a hot-house. A substantial and permanent shelter was erected added much to its general appearance. in the northwest corner of the animal yard, and provided on all sides with stalls The entire southeasterly corner of the park has been completed, new walks con and cages for the accommodation of animals that live outdoors all summer, but structed, and about six acres in extent has been seeded and planted with a variety (ii require a temperature of sixty degrees in winter. This building rendered it pos- trees and shrubs. sible to devote the entire shelter portion of the Buffalo House to the Whitney herd, Application was made by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the main shelter of the Elk House to the Whitney elk herd. Company for the privilege of tunneling under the park grounds. This application The improvement of the southern half of Baird court was made by the construc- met the approval of the Department, and has been acceded to by the City authorities; tion of a complete network of drains and catch-basins. The western retaining wall so that, in the near future, the Port Morris branch of this railroad will go directly is now being raised to the full height of the finished grade. A large amount of ma- under the park, out of sight, and the strip of land now used as a railroad bed, along terial has been accumulated for the laying of the macadam pavement in Baird court. the easterly border of the park, will become a part and parcel of the park, and can Through the generosity of Mrs. Lydia Lydig Sturgis a handsome gateway was be converted into a very fine easterly drive. erected, consisting of two massive pillars of cut stone, surmounted by an arch of During the year Io6 trees and 1,350 shrubs have been set out in this park; 2,Ibo ornamental wrought iron work, at the top of the steps leading from the buffalo en- bedding plants and two beds of tulips have been planted, and io.000 square feet of trance to the upper level of Rocking Stone Hill. sod has been cut and laid along the new fences and the (,]d The animal collection opened to public view during the year included, in the lion house, six lions, three tigers, four leopards, two jaguars, one cheetah and two Hall Place. pumas. The collection in the antelope house has been mentioned before. In addi- This is a small place comprising about one acre of ground, north Uf One Hun- tion to this, there was a herd of twenty-six pure-blooded buffaloes, which were pre- dred and Sixty-fifth street, between Stebbens avenue and Intervale avenue. It has sented by Honorable William C. Whitney, and are now known as the Whitney herd. been graded and seeded; ii shade trees have been set out; Soo bedding plants and one This gives the New York Zoological Society in Bronx Park the largest herd of bed of tulips were planted, and it was attended to with the usual park care during the American bison anywhere on public exhibition. Mr. Whitney also presented to the season. Zoological Park ten fine elk from his herd on October Mountain, Lenox, Mass. Melrose Park. The attendance at the "Zoo" during the year 1903 was greatly in excess of that Area, about i acre. of the previous year. The largest number of visitors registered in any one day was This was developed during the year i9o2 into a fully planted park, but during the on May so, when the turnstiles recorded the attendance of 34,050 visitors, the average present year the walks have been concreted and a fine ornamental fence has been con- attendance during the year being about thirty per cent, greater than the year 1902. structed around the park. The amount of bonds appropriated by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- Franz Sigel Park. ment for improvements during the year aggregate $500,000. Of this amount, $387,- Area, 17.5 acres. 700 has been spent on improvement work and contracts; $257,923.97 was expended on The improvements in this park during the past year have been the completion of the contracts for the antelope house, bear dens, ostrich and small mammal house, the grading and sodding of the Walton avenue bank, the completion of all walks at bird house, improving West Farms road, etc., leaving an unexpended balance of and near the western boundary, the construction of two flights of steps leading to the $552,300 of this fund to begin the new year. new comfort station and the completion of the comfort station, which was erected in Crotona Parkway. i9o2, but was not completed, ready for use, until the early spring of the present year. The comfort station is a one-story frame structure, with brick basement; women's Length, 3,815 feet. This parkway is the connecting driveway between Crotona toilet and waiting room on the first floor; men's toilet room and an ample storeroom and Bronx parks, running along the easterly side of the Southern Boulevard. The for tools in the basement. work of improving this parkway was let in 1902 to John H. Devlin, contractor. Fifty-five trees an4 three shrubs were planted during the dear, and 3,800 bedding Owing to delay on the part of the contractor, the contract was canceled after about plants set out. one-quarter of the work was done, and it was readvertised and relet during the pres- McComb's Dam Park. ent year to George I. Bailey, contractor. The work has only been started by the Area, 27 acres. new contractor at the end of the year. The improvements in this park, so well begun during the year 1yo2, have been pressed forward this year. The large section of the park lying between Cromwell's Crotona Park. creek and the approach to the bridge has been completed with the fill received from the Street Cleaning Department. All that is lacking is the top soil for the surface, and owing Area, 154.6 acres. While much work was done in this park in Igo, a great deal to the continuous building strikes very little, if any, cellar dirt was obtainable. As all more has been accomplished in 1903, so that now the larger portion of this park is the rest of this park has been filled in from fill brought by contractors it was thought under a fairly good state of cultivation. The principal improvements made during the year are as follows: unwise to purchase top soil to complete it, when in the very near future plenty of the material could be obtained free. Crotona avenue, which bisects this park from north to south, had, previous to A new concrete walk has been laid under the bridge, from One Hundred and Sixty- the present year, been under the control of the Department of Highways. It was first street to the place where Exterior street intersects the same, 15 feet wide, a regulated and graded by them, and, during the wet seasons, was almost impassable. distance of 510 feet. On the first of July, under opinion of the Corporation Counsel, it was turned over to An 18-inch tile drain 350 feet in length has been laid from the bridge to Crom- this Department for care and maintenance, and money was obtained for the purpose well's creek, for the purpose of carrying the wash that comes from the street at that of macadamizing this avenue; and, on the 5th of August, work was begun. The road- point. way was regraded and macadamized from north to south, a distance of 2,990 feet in The section of this park between Jerome avenue, the bridge and the railroad track length and 42 feet in width, with block-paved gutters; curbs reset, and new drainage has been graded, the banks sloped and covered with top soil and planted with shrubbery. facilities installed; the whole work being completed and opened to the public by the The northerly end of the section lying between Sedgwick avenue and the railroad 15th of October. has been cleared of its old buildings, graded, planted and the walks extended. A new Telford macadam road 25 feet in width was laid out, opened and con- The section lying between the railroad track and the river, occupied by the boat- structed during the year, from Crotona avenue opposite the Wendover avenue drive, houses, has been filled up at considerable disadvantage on account of the occupancy of built last year, along the easterly bank of Indian lake, to the northeast corner of the the place at the time; but the fill was the ashes received from the Street Cleaning park adjacent to West Farms section, a distance of 2,825 feet. This not only opens up Department, and, for that place, was the best obtainable. It is now fully completed a new section of the park, but makes an exceedingly convenient and short cut-off for from the northerly end of the park down to Jerome avenue. light traffic between these two sections. All the clubs have signified their intention of either removing their old houses Indian pond, or lake, as it is known, has been a skating resort in the winter and and building new ones, or of remodeling them in a manner satisfactory to the a wet marsh in the summer. This lake has an area of about three acres, and, during Landscape Arichitect. One of the clubs already has its new building well under the summer, about 5,000 cubic yards of vegetable mould has been removed, new way. This we consider one of the best improvements that has been made, for the retaining walls constructed around the whole lake, the dam at the southerly end number of people that it serves. Thousands of young men spend many hours a day graded, and banks sloped, so that it has become a permanent lake all the year round, in this place, which in the past has been unhealthful and malarious. The treatment it adding very much to the beauty of that section of the park. has received this year will remove almost wholly the unsanitary situation and be of The other drives and walks in this park have been resurfaced with trap rock lasting benefit to thousands of young men of to-day and of the future. screenings. Extensive repairs had to be made to the dyke in one section of this part of the The old road leading from the northerly end of Franklin avenue to Crotona park in order to retain the fill. avenue has been reconstructed a distance of 675 feet, regraded, macadamized, gutters One hundred and sixty-four trees and 1,100 shrubs have been set out in this relaid, and drainage installed. park during the year, 1,164 bedding plants planted and two beds filled with tulips. A substantial and ornamental wire guard fence has been erected all along the 1'wo acres, additional to the amount done in i9o2, were graded and sodded. southerly bpundary of this park, and also on a portion of Crotona avenue, for pro- Plans have been prepared by the Metropolitan Athletic Union for the con- tection against cut-off paths and destruction to the shrubbery that has been planted struction of a one-quarter mile track, and for a public building to be used in con- in this park—a total of about I,Soo feet of fence. nection with the playgrounds and athletic fields. These plans have been approved One thousand three hundred and forty-five feet of I-inch and 425 feet of 2-inch and an agreement has been signed with the Athletic Union for the construction iron pipe was laid for the purpose of bringing water into the lake. Fountain jets are of the building. While this association is willing to construct this building free of arranged for sprays to be used in the summer. expense to the park, it becomes the property of the Department of Parks, and the 1986 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

Jepartment has undertaken to construct the track and field and maintain the same The City Island road, from Bartow Station to the City Island Bridge, was also in a first-class condition. The building is a model of its kind, being designed for resurfaced where necessary. The new walk that was built in 1902, leading from a grand stand upon one side, while on the other side it has rooms for shower-baths, Bartow Station to the City Island Bridge, a distance of 6,350 feet, was surfaced with locker accommodation and a public comfort station, so that all athletes who wish screenings and put in good condition, and became very popular and was universally to exercise on this field will be afforded accommodations for dressing unexcelled used. at any other place. A fine, substantial iron fence was constructed around the "Pell Oak," near the Plans and specifications have been prepared and contract let for a music bridge mentioned. .pavilion to be constructed during the early spring. Large quantities of old stone fences, fain lines and subdivisions that divided the park in many places have entirely disappeared, the stone being taken and converted University Park. into trap-rock by the stone-crusher, and the ground graded, so that now, in place of Area, 3 acres. being subdivided in many places by stone walls, it is largely developed into one ex- This park was nearly completed during the year 1902. During the pres- pansive park. ent year the roads have been repaired, guard-railing erected and 36 trees About three hundred acres of forest land has been underbrushed and cleaned in planted along the streets in the front and rear-American elms on the Sedgwick this park. avenue front and Norway maples on the Cedar avenue front. Six hundred shrubs The golf links were maintained during the whole season in perfect condition. were planted and the banks re-seeded. Not a single complaint was received from the players, but many commendations on account of their excellent condition. St. James Park. Surveys and plans have been made for the improvement of Split Rock road, Area, 11.83 acres. and the work begun. These plans contemplate widening to the width of 35 feet, its Active work has been going on in this park during the whole year. First, the present width being only 16 feet. This is the main drive in the park, from the north. completion of the grading that was well advanced, the laying of walks with rubble When this work has been completed, it will add very much to the general appear- foundations, both on the north and south side; the construction of a handsome, ance of the park at this place. It is along this road that the breaking up and re- substantial fence 5 feet in height (the same as in St. Mary's Park), on the Jerome claiming of a good deal of waste meadow land is being done. avenue and Creston avenue sides of the park, 1,612 feet in length. Fifty trees, three to four inches in diameter, were planted in various places along Concerts were given in the grove in this park during the present year with the new drives. marked success. Plans and specifications have been prepared and the contract let Echo Park. for a music pavilion to be erected in this park in time for the coming season. Area, 3 acres. The easterly sidewalk of the park along Creston avenue was graded; also the The improvements in this park, during the year, consist of the making of plans westerly side along Jerome avenue has been hrotight to official grade and a concrete and specifications and awarding of contract for a music pavilion, as concerts were walk, six feet in width and of rubble foundation, has been put clown and laid the held in this park, during a portion of the past season, with marked success. entire length-828 feet. Application was made to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for an addi- T'le whole surface of this park was fall-ploughed at the close of t9c2. Early tion to the westerly side of the park, and the Department has succeeded in having in the spring it was graded and seeded, so that e !t ly in the year it was brought under the maps changed so that this park now takes in the bed of Ryer avenue and eight l~,ts in addition between One Hundred and Seventy-eighth street and One Hundred good cultivation of fine lawn grass; and during the fall one section of it was much :iud Seventy-ninth street, thereby preserving for this park the high and beautiful used as an athletic field. rocks that would have been blasted away had Ryer avenue been cut through, and all During the year 25 large trees from six to ten inches in diameter were set out, that remains is for the legal authorities to acquire title. and io9 trees, about three inches in diameter. and 2,421 shrubs were planted; io.o:o Fourteen trees, 526 shrubs and 2,500 bedding plants were set out in this park square feet of sod was cut and laid out on the borders of the walks and drives. The in the spring, and three beds were refilled with tulips. development work in this park is now completed. The patrons of the Mount Hope school adjacent, erected, in a portion of this park, a beautiful flag-pole, which was presented to the children of the school, with a Bronx and Pelham Parkway. beautiful American flag, otS Thanksgiving day, with very appropriate ceremonies. The year has seen wonderful changes in this parkway. It being the principal Public Squares. drive to the Sound, the dangerous crossing on the New Haven Railroad tracks has been a serious drawback; but after strenuous exertions for the past few years the The small squares at the junction of streets (thirty-four in number), varying bridge was finally completed and opened to the public the Sunday before Election in size, have been improved and cared for during the year. The one at the junction Day. This one improvement has done more to accommodate the people than any of Jerome avenue and One Hundred and Seventieth street was thoroughly graded, other one thing in the whole Department. sodded and seeded. Trees and shrubs have been planted and cultivated during the The telford macadam road from the Eastchester road to the bridge, 6o feet wide, eason in all these squares. has been fully completed. On the easterly end of the bridge upwards of 20,000 Tree-Planting on Public Streets and Avenues. cubic yards of fill has been put in, so that the approach from that end is now in Applications -were received from the owners of property adjacent to ten dif- usable condition and filled in for about two-thirds of its width. ~erent streets, for the planting of trees, under the new law, whereby trees are to be One hundred and twenty-eight American elms, from 31 z to 4 inches in diameter, planted by the Department of Parks and paid for by assessment. It was necessary to were planted along the parkway in the spring, and during the winter sixty-twa pin ascertain the facts required by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and to oaks were planted along the parkway's easterly end, the pin oaks being from six to make estimates on the cost of the work, which required laying out and ascertain- ten inches in diameter and thirty to forty feet high. They were removed from ing the number of trees to be planted, and the cost of same. This work was done, nearby forests. hearings were held by the Park Board, and then, under the law, application was The northerly side of the parkway drive, leading to the bridge from East- made to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, for their approval, early in chester road, has been nearly completed by the sodding of the gutter and the planting September; but, for some unknown reason, that L'oard has not acted upon the ap- of trees and shrubs and the construction of the cycle path; 19,000 square feet of plications. sod has been cut and laid in the work. Forestry Work. The drive for the entire distance of the parkway has been resurfaced with trap- rock screenings and thoroughly rolled; the gutters have been cleaned and repaired For the first time in the history of the parks of The Bronx, an effort was made where necessary. to make a begginning, in a systematic way, in taking care of the forest trees in the One thousand two hundred shrubs obtained from the Boston parks have been parks. A small appropriation ($5,000) was made by the Board of Estimate and Ap- planted along the section west of the railroad bridge. portionnient for this work, and, under the experienced guidance of our Head Gar- dener and two Arboriculturists, considerable work has been done in this line. Dur- . ing the year about five hundred acres have been cleared, more or less, some Area, 1,956 acres. thoroughly cleared and some partially thinned out. The thinning out of the young The development work begun in z9o2 has been continued with vigor during the growth where it was too thick has been quite extensively done, and it will soon make whole year. a big change for the better in the appearance of the trees that remain. This work A new drive has been constructed. from the City Island road, near Glover's should be kept up in order to beautify the forest and to increase the pleasure of the Rock, along the westerly shore of Pelham Bay, to the City Island bridge, a dis- public and better preserve the trees. tance of 4,825 feet, called "Sound View Drive." This road has a width of thirty Nearly all the improvement work in the Department of Parks during the past feet and a fine loam surface, and it opens up a section of this park that was closed year (in fact, I might say all, excepting the construction of bridges and buildings) has to the public before, excepting on foot, and exhibits to those driving thereon a been done by the Park Employees, and it has shown that we can do the work far most magnificent view of the whole length of Long Island sound. better, cheaper and in less than one-quarter the time. A contractor comes on a job The old rookeries situated at "Jack's Rock" and used for a dancing pavilion and and, usually, one would think that his main object was to see how long it would take refreshments resort have been entirely removed and cleaned up. to do the work. When the Department enters upon the construction of a path or The fields and forests adiacent to this road have been cleared of all brush, road, or the grading of a section, it puts its force to work and follows it up, day in stickers and unnecessary timber. and day out, until the work is finished, and then the same force is ready and willing to Fifty new bath-houses were constructed near the southerly end of the drive, to take hold of another job. Not one-half the amount of work that has been accom- accommodate the people in that section, by a fine, sandy beach. They were very plished during the past year would have been accomplished if the old practice had popular during the whole season, a large number of picnickers coming to that sec- been followed of spending all the improvement money by contract. I wish to call attention, in this report, to the fact that out of the maintenance fund tion to enjoy themselves in the near-by groves, where temporary tables and cooking which we had for the year we have spent about $10,814.25 for new apparatus-addi- facilities were furnished them, and to avail themselves of the bath-houses as well. tional truck teams, harness, trucks, a stone-crusher, a saw-mill for coverting fallen The driveway started in 5902, from the Eastern Boulevard, along the westerly trees into lumber, and a motor lawn mower for the Parade Ground and golf links; shore of Eastchester bay, to the Waterbury lane, has been finished and macadam- and also, that the expense of the planting for the year, for the purchase of shrubs ized for its whole length of 3,480 feet. This work was done entirely by the Depart- and trees, has been $12,922.42. The institution of the nurseries which we have started ment force. Even the trap-rock and screenings were made by the stone-crusher during the year in a very short time will enable the Department of Parks to save all purchased for the Department. At the southerly end of this road, whsre the bath-houses were erected in 5902, this expense. and afterwards burned, one hundred new bath-houses were erected, and were patron- Unfinished Contracts. ized to their utmost capacity during the season. Date of Letting. The building known as the old "Hunter House," formerly occupied by the Police Department, and the building near the City Island Bridge, known as the "Marshall Crotona Parkway ...... Nov. 19 $70,530 00 House," were thoroughly renovated, and improvements made thereon, at the ex- Bird House, Zoological Park .... .. ...... Sept. 14 114,944 00 pense of the tenants, and rented as hotels. Small Mammal House, Zoological Park ...... July 23 73,780 00 Fifty acres of this park, that was overrun by neglect with weeds and briers and Bridge abutments, Mosholu Parkway ...... Aug. 6 59,090 00 was broken up in i902, was sown to oats and harvested and then reploughed in the Bridge over Bronx river in Bronx Park ...... June ii 47,660 00 autumn and sown to rye and seeded with timothy and clover, so that the land will Steps, Botanical Garden ...... Nov. ig i6,5g8 00 cut good, clean hay sufficient to feed the horses in the Department throughout the Toilets, Botanical Garden ...... Dec. io 12,873 oo year. Plant House, Botanical Garden ...... Nov. 12 7,593 00 Twenty-five acres more of the same kind of old meadows were ploughed up in Music pavilions for St. James', Macomb's Dam and Echo this park during the autumn, ready for sowing in the coming spring. Parks ...... Dec. io 2,970 00 The Eastern Boulevard, for its entire length of three and one-half miles, has been Mosholu Parkway improvement ...... Dec. 3o 135,345 00 resurfaced with trap-rock screenings. Mosholu Parkway bridges ...... Dec. 3o 48,635 oo The meadows in this park that had any hay on at all were mown and the hay Five-arch Botanical Garden bridge ...... Dec. 3o 69,000 oo gathered, furnishing enough for the Department horses for the year. All the old sheds, barns and tumble-down buildings that existed in this park Total...... $6589280o (twenty in number), were removed and the sites graded and cleaned up.

DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. Statement of Balances and Appropriations,*Year Ending December 3t, 1903 Balance of Title of Appropriation. Appropriation Transferred to. Total. Payments. Transferred from. Total. Balance. Administration ...... $12,400 00 ...... $12,400 00 $11,076 96 $11,076 96 *1,32 04 Maintenance and Construction...... 243,600 00 $698 Sr 244,298 Sr 241,365 36 $1,595 00 242,960 36 t,33t 15 Music .... 9,360 00 9,360 00 9,158 58 9,758 58 201 4s Supplies and Contingencies...... 1,500 0o 125 0o 1,625 00 1,554 65 1.554 6S Io SS Surveys, Maps and Plane ...... 7,500 00 ..••..•• 7.500 00 6,687 47 12$ 00 6,812 47 6$ E3 Maintenance of Botanical Gardens...... 70,000 00 •...... 70,000 00 65,724 82 65,724 82 4,175 19 Maintenance of Zoological Gardens ...... ro4,965 00 ...... 104,965 00 92,52k 77 92,S22 77 SMA42 53 Forestry Work ...... 5,000 00 ...... 5,000 00 5,000 no ...... 5,000 00 ......

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD.

Receipts similar wall I,a65 feet in length on Forty-first street, from Fifth avenue to Seventh From rents, licenses, privileges, rent for lockers, etc., year ending December 3r, 1903• • • • $9;867 73 avenue, and has been completed. A contract has been awarded for constructing a Expenditures, Bond Accounts, Year Ending December 31, 1903. cement walk along Fifth avenue. At Sixth avenue an entrance has been built with New York Zoologicalg~ Garden Fund...... """""""""""""""""" X126 739 79 ~iroad granite steps leading from the gateway to the high surface of the park. The Botanical Garden in Bronx Park—Improving, etc. ...... rs6~or2 30 heavy rain storms during the season created a great deal of trouble with the highg Improvement of Parks, Parkwaps and Drives, Borough of The Bronx ...... 211,369 97 banks on the Fifth avenue and Forty-first street sides, and a great amount of re- Improving Bronx and Pelham Parkway ...... 12,134 96 construction was found necessary before the grass could secure sufficient growth to Improving Small Park, West Side Fulton Avenue near One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Street ...... rr6 3g hold the earth jr Pp osition. The largeg Pp lateau which was constructed on the westerly Claremont Park—Improving, ete ...... ors 91 side of the park overlooking the bay has been completed, and walks have been con - structed of broken stone and limestone screenings, and a comprehensive system of Work Undertaken and Accomplished in 1903. drainage has been laid. Twenty-five hundred cubic yards of top-soil have been spread to various sections of the park, and the banks of the lake have been graded an-' Sixth Annual Report of the Department of Parks for the Boroughs of Brooklyn sodded. A large group of rhododendrons was planted near the lake, and the Fifth and Queens, including Forty-third Annual Report of the Old City (now Borough) avenue slope was covered with a variety of conifers and vines. A large number of of Brooklyn for the year Ipo3. trees were grouped in various appropriate places, and the walks on Fifth avenue and The Commissioner's Report of the Work of the Department of Parks for the Forty-first street and Seventh avenue were planted with Norway maples. Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens for the year 19o3. One con- cert was held in Sunset Park in August and was largely attended. The old barns Office of the Department of Parks, which have been on the property for many years were sold at auction arvi removed. Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, A resolution to acquire the two additional blocks between Fifth and Seventh ave- Litchfield Mansion, , nues, Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets, passed the Board of Estimate and is now Brooklyn, December 31, I903. in the hands of the Comptroller, who has been authorized to buy the property with- out the formality of condemnation, but none of this land has as yet been turned over Hon. SETH LOW, Mayor of the City of New York: to this Department. Dear Sir—In compliance with the provisions of the Charter I send you here- Park and Playground Under . with the report of work undertaken and accomplished in this Department for the On May 23, 1003, the Department of Bridges formally transferred to this Depart- year closing, together with an outline of plans and recommendations for the ment all the land lying under the Brooklyn approach to the Williamsburg Bridge for year 1904. park purposes, that Department retaining only such control of the property as might I have the honor to remain, be needed for bridge purposes, such as a comfort station, etc. The land is embraced be Yours very truly, tween Bedford avenue and Kent avenue, South Fifth and South Sixth streets, and is RICHARD YOUNG, about four and a quarter acres in extent. This Department undertook the building of Commissioner for the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. a playground in that part of the property lying between Bedford avenue and Berry street, and the portion lying between Berry street and Kent avenue, two blocks in extent, Following out the policy undertaken at the beginning of this administration, was laid out as a park. A contract was let for the entire work and the construction is January I, 1902, it has been the endeavor of your Commissioner to reclaim as much well advanced. Walks have been laid out and the surface covered with top-soil ready of the unimproved land under the control of the Department as possible, at the same for planting in the spring. A sewerage and irrigation system has been constructed. time acquiring sites for new parks in congested districts and the creation of play- and a fence of ornamental iron posts and railing on granite coping is Dow being built grounds, and maintaining as well as possible the finished portion of the system. around the park and an iron picket fence will surround the playground, the site being 410 feet long by 150 feet in width. The only obstruction to a perfect playground is the Prospect Park. pillars supporting the bridge approach, but these will not seriously interfere with the The work in Prospect Park was largely that of maintenance and repairs. The purpose of this Department. The land for the playground was brought to an even only new feature completed is the construction of an entrance opposite Lincoln grade, and six inches of steam cinders were spread over the entire surface. Covering road. The entrance consists of a driveway of macadam, with gravel surface, flanked this was a layer three inches deep of limestone screenings. A i6-foot running track. by two pressed brick gutters and a foot-path on either side of the driveway. A num- seven laps to the mile, was constructed around the borders, and within this track. ber of young trees and shrubs were set out during the spring and fall. The rock- on the limestone screenings, arrangements have been made for the erection of a com- work along the brook line has been reset and repaired, large areas of the park have plete gymnasium outfit. been resoiled, the deer paddock has been reconstructed and a new enclosure of iron Playgrounds. pickets has been constructed to accommodate the buffalo family. Parts of the bridle Two plots of ground which have been purchased by the Finance Department paths have been resurfaced with fine gravel, and the driveways along the southern at private sale on the site of Williamsburg Park were turned over to this Depart- part of the park have been thoroughly repaired. A new propagating house has been ment for development in the autumn. The construction of two playgrounds, one for built adjoining the present greenhouses. The banks of the lake, which were washed boys at the corner of Bedford avenue and North Fourteenth street, and one for away during the storm in October, have been rebuilt, and the surrounding areas re- girls at the corner of Manhattan and Driggs avenues, was at once begun. paired. The buildings and rolling stock of this park have been repaired, painted The plot designed as a boys' playground is roo feet square. A wooden picket and kept in good condition. The walks surrounding the park have been regraded, fence was built, and a small shelter was erected in one corner for the accommoda- borders sodded and the paths covered with limestone screenings. A contract has tion of the patrons. The ground was leveled off and covered with bluestone screen- been let for the construction of a marble shelter on the South Lake drive, overlook- ings and a complete gymnasium outfit, consisting of ladders, swings, parallel bars, ing the Parade Ground, and the contractor is already at work. The shelter is a vaulting horses, etc., was erected. A competent attendant was placed in charge. copy of a Greek temple, the roof is supported by 32 marble columns 16 feet in height, The girls' playground consisting of a plot iii feet by too feet was excavated and the shelter when completed will he one of the most attractive features of Pros- to a depth of fifteen inches, and the bottom covered with blue puddling clay. On top pect Park. The building is 73 feet long and 27 feet wide. The ground surrounding of this was spread about three inches of bluestone screenings. During the late fall the shelter will be laid out as a flower garden as soon as the weather permits in the a gymnasium outfit similar to that in the boys' playground was installed and a spring. The cost of the shelter and garden will be in the neighborhood of $30,00o. woman attendant placed in charge. When cold weather set in the gymnasium was A contract has also been let for a new pergola entrance at the junction of Ocean removed, the surface of the playground was flooded, and in two days of cold weather and Parkside avenues. This will consist of 32 granite columns 14 feet high, roofed the ground was covered with ice, and the smaller children of the neighborhood to over in pergola style, and will be provided with granite seats. It is proposed to the extent of several hundred enjoyed its use. There has been almost continuous have the whole structure overrun with vines eventually. The cost of the entrance skating since the rink was first opened. As often as necessary the ice was scraped is $27,600. and the surface flooded. The combination of playground and skating ponds is new, Bowling Green. and promises to be a very desirable innovation. During the summer a large plot of land at the southwest corner of the Parade Ground, which for many years was used as a dumping ground for refuse, was made Fourth Avenue. into a fine bowling green and was formally opened by the Brooklyn Bowling Green The work of this Department in connection with the building of Fourth avenue. Club in the early part of October, thus introducing to the Borough of Brooklyn the from Sixtieth street to Flathush avenue, has been of a very comprehensive nature. ancient and beautiful game of bowls which has furnished a delightful and healthful The Department of Public Works last season paved Fourth avenue with asphalt recreation to many of our Scotch-Americans, who have expressed their appreciation from Sixtieth to Fortieth street, forming small parks or malls in the centre of the of its advantages. driveway. These small parks were filled with top-soil by the Department of Public Institute Park. Works, and this Department undertook their improvement. The planting consists This park, on which work was commenced in the spring of 1902, was completed of ten trees in each mall and three groups of shrubbery, eleven plants to each. In and turned over to the City with fitting ceremonies on November 14, 1903. After an addition to planting the malls, the sidewalks were planted with trees throughout invocation by the Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, your Commissioner presented the park almost its entire length from Atlantic avenue to Sixtieth street, the paving of the to the Hon. J. Edward Swanstrom, President of the Borough, and a flag was raised street from Fortieth street to Flatbush avenue having been completed by the Depart- on the terrace overlooking the grounds. President Swanstrom in turn delivered ment of Public Works this year. There were planted 1,34o trees and nearly 2,000 the park to the Hon. Seth Low, Mayor. The dedication ceremonies were held on shrubs. The twenty-one blocks from Sixtieth street to Thirty-ninth street were the terrace back of the Institute Building, beginning at 3 p. m., a commodious stand planted in maples, and the next twenty blocks were planted with elms, the remainder having been erected for the purpose. A large number of citizens, including public of the street as far as Atlantic avenue was planted with red and pin oaks. The shrubs officials, were present. From the beginning, in the spring of 1902, the work of con- used were the very best obtainable in the country, and include several choice varie- In its con- ties. In addition to planting the malls the sidewalks were planted with Norwa-, struction was pushed as rapidly as possible by a large force of men. to struction 150,000 cubic yards of subsoil were deposited by contractors without ex- maples from Atlantic avenue to Twenty-fifth street, and from Thirty-fourth pense to the City, and $5,000 cubic yards of top-soil have been spread over the sur- Fortieth street; the nine blocks between Twenty-fifth and Thirty-fourth streets were not completed because of serious leaks in the gas mains in that locality. face. Nearly two miles of walks have been constructed with limestone screenings, A comprehensive system and 7,161 square feet of cement pavement have been laid. . of sewerage and irrigation was installed during the past season, and 3,000 trees and shrubs were planted. The unsightly hills formed by the excavation for the Brooklyn Aside from the general maintenance and improvement of the golf links in Forest Institute of Arts and Sciences have been converted into attractive mounds covered Park, the principal improvement has been the construction of a parkway 20 feet wide with top-soil and made ready for planting. The highest point of the terrace com- from Myrtle avenue near the cemetery line along the line of the old road and con- mands a magnificent view of Prospect Park and the surrounding country, with the necting with the macadam boulevard heretofore built from Jamaica avenue to Forest bay and ocean in the distance. The park will provide a very desirable approach and parkway. This roadway has been constructed on a foundation of broken stone nine surroundings for the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences when that building inches in depth and covered with limestone and trap rock screenings to a thickness shall have been completed. Entrances to the park have been constructed on Flat- of two inches. Both sides of Myrtle avenue have been fenced with wrought-iron bush avenue near the reservoir, at two points between the reservoir and the southerly pickets from Railroad street to Division avenue. a distance of 6,000 feet. and on side of the park land, and at the extreme southerly corner, and on Washington aye- Magnolia avenue for a distance of about 2,000 feet. nue three entrances have been made. There will also be means of approach from the Brooklyn Institute grounds. From these various entrances winding walks have Small Parks. been constructed. One of the most artistic features of the construction is that of The small parks of the Department received unusual care during the past season. the lake three and three-quarters in extent which has been excavated in the high and are in good condition. The lawns in many of these parks were treated to a ground above the long meadow. The lake has provided skating already this fall for generous coating of fertilizer during the past month. a number of children, the ice being quite safe owing to the fact that the water is but Saratoga Square was somewhat remodeled and provided with a handsome new from three to four feet deep. shelter, which was constructed under contract by Edward Johnson at a cost of $8,300. . It is very much appreciated by the visitors of this park. A contract has been let to The building of this park, which was also begun in the spring of sgo2, is advanc- lay concrete sidewalks around the entire park. ing toward completion. The roads throughout the park have been completed, hay- Winthrop Park was provided with two new entrances, one on Monitor street ing been constructed on a foundation of nine inches of broken stone covered with and the other on Russell street in the middle of the block. The shelter and comfort limestone screenings. The rustic masonry bridge over the ravine, which was com- house was remodeled and considerably improved. Paths were repaired and pleted in 1902, was improved by the laying of an asphalt roadway over it. The banks borders cut and sodded. Many of the trees surrounding the park were broken of the roads have been reshaped, sodded and seeded, the old buildings have down and decayed, and it therefore became imperative, in order to secure the best been removed from the park, so that the diversified surface is in excellent condition results. to renew most of the trees on the sidwalks. About too trees were planted on for the use of the public. A fine music stand and tool house combined has just been the outside of the park, and a few were set inside to replace those which had been completed on the westerly side of the park near the reservoir. This building is 3o by destroyed or damaged. 3o feet in size, the lower part is constructed of rubble masonry and the upper portion Linton Park was provided with wrought iron ornamental gates. and the fences consists of an open wood structure. were repaired and painted. The flagpole was repainted and the building put in good repair. A number of trees and shrubs were planted and the borders of the walks Sunset Park. and beds were kept in fine condition. The work of construction in Sunset Park has been pushed forward rapidly since New Lots Playground—The fence around this park, which had become rusty. midsummer of i902, and the work is now nearing completion. The rubble masonry was thoroughly overhauled and painted. new gates were set and it was found neces- wall, which was built last season on the Fifth avenue side of the park, has been com- sary to replace a large number of trees which had been blown down or otherwise pleted and a cut stone cap has been placed on top. A new contract was let for a injured. The flagpole was painted and the building put in good repair.

1988 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

Fort Hamilton Park was designed for walks, plantation, etc., under the direction The plot bounded by Fulton street, Lewis avenue, Chauncey street and Stuyve- of the Landscape Architect, and was almost completed when the cold weather set ttr. sant avenue has been recommended for purchase by the Board of Estimate and The remainder of the work will be done in the spring, and thereby another attractive Apportionment, and proceedings for condemnation are now under way. park will be added to the system. , Maxwell Park, in the Fifth Ward, bounded by Bridge, Tillary and Jay streets, Seaside Park—The plantation at Seaside Park was materially increased by the is now in process of condemnation. addition of a large English elm and 12 Oriental plane trees, besides a number of Jewell square, bounded by Fulton street, Norman place, Conway street and smaller trees. The great attraction in this park, however, is the fine display of flow- Broadway, has been recommended by the Local Board, and a resolution to change ering plants, the coloring being better than that in any other part of the system. the map has been passed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The lawns were maintained in good condition, the grass cut and the borders of the The triangle at Knickerbocker"avenue, Myrtle avenue and is Hower-beds trimmed. now being acquired at private purchase by the Finance Department. Ashmead Park was surrounded with a substantial and handsome wrought iron fence, the sidewalks were brought to grade and the entire triangle leveled. About Queens County Parks. i,000 bulbs were planted to secure a floral display in the spring. A site has been selected at Van Alst avenue, East avenue, Ninth and Twelfth King's Manor Park (Jamaica)—The building in this park was entirely remodeled, streets, but the resolution to acquire title has not yet been passed by the Board of the roof shingled, the piazzas rebuilt and the house painted. A comfort house in the Estimate and Apportionment. old stone building adjacent to the manor house hag been completed and is now in Another site, bounded by East river, Pierce avenue, Sanford street and Vernon use. avenue, is now in course of acquirement. A baseVall diamond has been laid out on the meadow and was largely patronized during the entire season. Several lawn tennis courts were added to those used last Department of Arboriculture. year, and, in order to satisfy the growing demand, it is necessary to provide a still Owing to the fact that no money has as yet been provided for carrying out the larger number during the coming season. provisions of chapter 453 of the Laws of i9o2, with its amendments, no attempt has Canarsie Park has been provided with a suitable iron picket fence, has been been made to take care of the trees in the public streets. The Department has, graded and the depressions filled and about 75 trees planted. The design for the however, assumed the jurisdiction of them and has allowed no interference with laying out of this park has been prepared by the Landscape Architect and will be the trees except under permit of this Department. No person was allowed to completed early in the spring. It is proposed to add a pier and dock to this park, plant, prune or remove any tree on a public highway without a permit from the plans for the construction of which are now under way. Department, and such permits were issued only after an investigation by one of the Arboricuiturists, and when pruning of any considerable extent was attempted a Parkways. competent man was detailed from this Department to supervise the work. The Department has furnished, on application, information and advice on all matters The was carefully looked after, the cycle paths recoated with pertaining to trees, and has rendered assistance to teachers and others interested in limestone screenings about an inch in thickness their entire length. Six hundred nature study. cubic yards of i%-inch trap rock and five hundred cubic yards of trap screenings Owing to the heavy rains during the past season the effectual results of spray- were used in repairing the west traffic road. The plaza at the foot of the parkway ing were interfered with, and as a result several species of insects appeared in large was macadamized, and the walk surrounding it paved with asphalt tiles. Much of numbers. Of the more destructive insects the tussock moth has been held in check this work was destroyed during the terrific storm in October and will have to be re- the past season owing to the thorough cleaning the trees received in igo2. They built as soon as the weather permits. The Speedway was harrowed daily, the entire appeared in considerable numbers in a few localities, however, but the trees were driveway sprinkled, cleaned and otherwise kept in good repair. The bridle road thoroughly sprayed several times during the summer and the foilage saved. was resurfaced with fine gravel and sand to the extent of over six hundred truck The elm leaf beetle, which is prohal,ly the worst insect pest that has ever at- loads. The trees were carefully looked after and the necessary pruning attended to. tacked the trees, appeared in considerable numbers in Bedford Park, and energetic The trees on the lower end of the Boulevard, from Coney Island creek to the Con- measures were employed for their destruction. course, were renewed where they had been practically ruined by the storms; 295 The maple pulvinaria, or cottony maple scale, which did such enormous damage thrifty Oriental plane trees were planted. to the silver maples in this vicinity about ten years ago, appeared in immense num- —A contract was let late in the fall to provide for the much- hers again the past season on the maples on Ocean parkway. The only practicable needed paving of the sidewalks. Work was started in November and carried along method of destroying this scale is to prime the trees, then scrape the remaining until the cold weather set in. About 40,000 square feet of cement sidewalk were laid branches with stiff wire brushes. In this way the insects are sure to be destroyed. from the Plaza on either side to about Kingston avenue. It is expected to finish Although this is a very tedious process, no less than 6g5 large trees were cleaned in this work early in the spring. this manner. The foundation was laid and pedestal built for the statue to General Henry W. Myriads of plant lice appeared during the dry weather on the Norway maples Slocum at the intersection of the centre line of Bedford avenue with the centre line and tulip trees, threateping to cause considerable damage and making it very un- of Eastern parkway, the statue to face west. The design for this statue, as well pleasant for persons wishing to sit under the infested trees. A spray of kerosene as the location, was submitted to the Municipal Art Commission and unanimously emulsion was found to be quite effective. approved. The site had been selected by Mayor Schieren of the old City of Brook- Pruning—The work under this head consisted in a general thinning out of shrub- lyn and Park Commissioner Squier in 1894. bery, removing dead and decayed trees and broken branches. The shrubbery of all The resurfacing of the centre drive of the Eastern parkway could not be accom- kinds received attention and the trees in the various small parks were put in good plished owing to the delay of the contractor in furnishing road material. Repairs condition. Owing to the severe storms of the summer broken branches were re- were made wherever necessary, but it was impossible owing to the heavy traffic to moved from 7,000 trees: keep this road as it should be kept until such time as the traffic roads on both sides of the parkway are paved with a modern paving material. Under the present condi- The following is a summary of the trees and shrubs planted during the season tions it is almost impossible for heavy vehicles to use these cobble roads. Your of 1903: Commissioner has made many unsuccessful efforts to secure an appropriation for Deciduous trees planted ...... ...... 2,594 this much-needed improvement, which will cost in the neighborhood of $200,000. Coniferous trees planted ...... 1,024 The Department of Water Supply. Gas and Electricity made a contract to lay a 3,618 48-inch main along the northerly traffic road of this parkway without obtaining the Deciduous shrubs planted ...... 5,roq consent of the Park Department. The carrying out of this project would seriously Rhododendrons planted ...... 641 jeopardize the life of the beautiful trees for which this parkway is noted. This De- Kalmias planted ...... 250 partment has endeavored to point out to the Department of Water Supply that 6,000 another route could be followed which would not materially increase the cost of the Bulbs planted ...... rg6,2oo laying of the water main, but the Department of Water Supply has failed to change Bedding plants planted ...... 177,092 the plans, and your Commissioner has earnestly protested against the ttse of this 373,292 parkway for the laying of the water mains and desires that his protest be recorded. Fort Hamilton parkway, Bay parkway, Shore road and Twenty-sixth Ward street Total...... 382,910 system were regularly maintained, gutters cleaned and roadways sprinkled. Pitkin avenue for part of its length was resurfaced with a layer of trap rock six Henry W. Maxwell Memorial. . inches in thickness, topped off with trap rock screenings. A fine bronze memorial tablet protraying the features of the late Henri W. Glenmore avenue for some six city blocks was resurfaced. Repairs to asphalt pave- Maxwell was placed upon an immense boulder excavated at Sunset Park at the ment have been made wherever necessary. triangle opposite the reservoir at Eastern parkway and Flatbush avenue, and was The driveway through Bushwick Park, which was almost destroyed by a cloudburst, unveiled with fitting ceremonies on Sattuciay, December 26, 1903. Mr. Maxwell was has been rebuilt and is now in better condition than ever. A contract has been let to one of the Park Commissioners in 1884, and was for many years a member of the the Hastings Pavement Company to take up the dilapidated brick pavement on Bushwick Board of Education and one of Brooklyn's most public-spirited citizens, who gave avenue, between Eastern parkway and Jamaica avenue, and replace the same with an freely of his wealth to the Brooklyn Institute, Industrial School and Home for Destitute asphalt block pavement on concrete foundation at a cost of $24,35o. Children and the Long Island College Hospital, besides several other minor chari- It was your Commissioner's desire to begin work on the completion of the Shore ties. The tablet is one of the best productions of Augustus St. Gaudens, and hears road in accordance with the plans of the late Frederick Law Olmsted, which were the inscription: "Henry W. Maxwell. MDCCCL-MCMII. This memorial erected by adopted by the Shore Road Commission. It was found, however, that in order not to his friends in tribute to his devotion to public education and charity in the City of waste money it would be necessary to build a substantial sea wall and do a large amount Brooklyn." The unveiling ceremonies were held at 3 p. m. in the Brooklyn Institute of filling before any other work could he begun, and in order to do so an appropriation Building. The Hon. Charles A. Schieren, chairman of the Citizens' Committee of at least $i,000,000 is necessary. This amount, however. could not be secured, and which bore the expense of the monument, presented the memorial to your Com- therefore very little was done to improve this driveway. It is almost imperative that missioner in a brief but appropriate address. Your Commissioner in turn presented the road, which is barely 12 feet wide in two places, should be widened in the near the memorial to President Swanstrom on behalf of the borough. President Swan- future or else the City may find itself liable for damages to a larger amount than would strom delivered a short address of eulogy in presenting the memctrial to Mayor Low, he necessary to do the work. who received it on behalf of The City of New York. A large American flag which Stone avenue has been paved with asphalt from Eastern parkway extension to draped the monument was drawn aside by Mrs. Howard Whitney, a niece of Mr. Riverdale avenue. This street was in a disgraceful and dangerous condition and a Maxwell. The committee which had the arrangements in charge consisted of ex- menace to the health of the people in that section of the City. The cost of the im- Mayor Schieren, chairman; Theodore F. Miller, treasurer; the Hon. George B. Ab- provement was $55,615. bott, Justice Willard Bartlett, the Hon. Hiram R. Steele, the Hon. A. G. McDonald, Plaza street—This parkway, circling the plaza at the main entrance to Prospect W. H. Nichols, D. S. Ramsay, the Hon. A. T. White, Samuel Boucock, the Hon. Park, from Flatbush avenue to Eastern parkway, was regulated, curbed, guttered and Willis L. Ogden and Richard Young. macadamized, and a drainage system was provided for it, the work being done by con- tract and completed in October at a cost of $8,567.50. Music. The two triangles at the intersection of Flatbush and Vanderbilt avenues hav4 been During the year twenty-six concerts were given in Prospect Park by Shannon's, curbed and paved with concrete and made safe and clean landings. Mygrant's, Conterno's and Bones' bands, and were very largely attended. A concert was also given by Shannon's band at the exercises attending the opening of Institute Park. New Parks. Your Commissioner desires again to express his gratitude to the United Ger- McKinley Park, at Fort Hamilton avenue, Seventh avenue and Seventy-third man Singing Societies of Brooklyn for their generous and patriotic service in giving street, has been acquired during the past year and turned over to the Department two great concerts in Prospect Park, the first, on May 8th, being the opening con- for improvement. cert of the year, and the last, on September 26th, which closed the musical pro- gramme for the season. These concerts were an unqualified success from a musical Willink Entrance. standpoint as well as in popular appreciation. It was estimated that there were The land lying opposite the Willink entrance, bounded by Washington avenue, 20,000 people present at the first, and 30,000 attended the last concert. In addition to Malbone street, Flatbush avenue and the present southerly boundary of Institute these, forty concerts were given in the small parks throughout the City, and met Park, is now in process of condemnation. with popular favor, all of them being well attended and highly appreciated, espe- The Bliss property, so called, on the Shore read, First avenue and gay Ridge cially in the congested districts. avenue, which was before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, was laid on The various German Singing Societies gave seven concerts at Highland, Fort the table. Greene, Sunset, Bushwick and Winthrop Parks, all of which were most highly appre- The plot bounded by Lee avenue, Bedford avenue, Flushing avenue and Lynch ciated and largely attended. street is now tinder consideration by the Board of Estimate, having passed the Local Your Commissioner hopes that arrangements will be made for the continuance Board of Improvements. by his successor of these concerts in an increased number. The plot bounded by Bushwick avenue, McKibbin, Moore and Bogart streets This Department also furnished a band for the celebration of Antietam Day, was approved by the Local Board of the Bushwick District, and is now before the September 27th, and this concert was also largely attended. Board of Estimate and Apportionment for consideration. The most destructive storm in the history of the Department swept over the The plot bounded by Avenues I and J, East Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth City on October 9th. The batiks of the lake in Prospect Park, near the Coney streets was recommended for purchase by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- Island entrance, overflowed, and the water cut deep gullies in the macadam road- ment, and the matter was referred to the Finance Department for acquirement at way leading to the Park circle. A great deal of sand and gravel was carried onto private purchase. the Park circle, and had to be removed. Water covered the plaza in front of the

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904• THE C I T ' RECORD. 1989

gate to a depth of fifteen inches. The bridle paths on the hills were ruined, and Field Sports. necessitated reconstruction. The foundation of the boat-house collapsed, and a new During the year seventeen hundred games of baseball were played on the foundation had to be built. The high tides and winds caused considerable damage Parade Ground as follows: April, i8o; May, 425; June, 380; July, 425; August, 310; to the bulkhead at Coney Island, and undermined the granite boundary wall for a September, 8o, and October, 20. During the months of April, May and September distance of about fifty feet at the easterly end. A part of the concourse adjoining 20 games of basket-ball were played by young ladies, 90 games of football were the bulkhead was destroyed. Your Commissioner was given permission, by resolu- played during the months of October and November, loo games of cricket were tion of the Board of Aldermen, to expend $50,000 in repairs without advertisement. played as follows: May, 22; June, 36; July, 2o; August, 18, and September, 4, and 19 A contract has been let to J. M. Briggs for repairing the stone wall and the bulk- days of skating on the lake during the month of January and December. head at a cost of $19,380.29, and the work of repair is now well in hand and will soon be completed. Picnics. Financial Statement Showing Amount Appropriated for Regular Maintenance, Spe- During the year there were 456 picnics in Prospect Park, with an attendance of cial Work and Receipts from Rentals. 48,205 persons as follows: Sunday-school picnics, 188, persons attending, 34,647; lawn, private and family parties, 268, with an attendance of 13,558, which took place as opw« 04 2 o p follows: May, 188, attendance, 5,623; June, 67, attendance, 9,983; July, 119, attend- °,o day w ° ance, 19,362; August, 54, attendance, 7,639; and September, 33, attendance, 5,610; total picnics, 456, persons attending, 48,205. o yid Accidents, etc. D.Nti AW~~ •d Title of Appropriation. oA . m . Q y There were 157 accidents during the year, as follows: To persons taken sick and g P falling in the park, 32; to persons playing base and foot ball on the Parade Grounds, Va^ d 9; to carriages, sleighs and other vehicles, 41; bicycles, i8; accidents caused by run- .';7da M' my ° qy «R~ away horses, 38. There were 87 ambulance calls to the aid of persons who were taken sick and otherwise injured, of which 31 were removed to hospitals and 56 d F E r O cq left for their homes or elsewhere. There were also 3 deaths by suicide, I caused by hanging, I by shooting, and i by carbolic acid poisoning. Administration ...... $19,162 45 $1,750 00 $20,912 45 $19,200 00 ...... $1,712 45 Labor, Maintenance and Supplies .. .. 465,000 00 2,410 00 462,590 00 443,820 51 $11,o62 24 7,707 25 Concerts. Maintenance of Mu- The following concerts were given in Prospect Park during the summer months: seums ...... 70,000 00 .. 70,000 00 63,135 40 ...... 6,864 6o Music ...... tt,864 00 66o 00 12,524 00 12,174 00 ...... 350 00 Saturday concerts, l4; first concert June 6; last concert September 26; Sunday con- certs, 14; first concert June 7; last concert September 27; also I special concert May 24, 1903, and I concert at the dedication of Institute Park November 14, 1903. Bond Accounts. Respectfully submitted, MICHL. A. McNAMARA, Captain, Seventy-third Precinct. Amount of Outstanding Title of Appropriation. Appropriation. Expenditures. Balance. on Contracts. BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. Improvement of Parks. Parkways and Drives, Improved Parks, with Names. Boroughs of Brooklyn and Q ueens...... $815,865 03 $511,415 51 $1o8,612 82 $195,836 70 Bay Ridge Parkway (Shore Road), t9ot..... 6,462 96 6,462 96 ...... ...... Area in Name. Location. Acres.

Balances from igoi, Bond Account (Brooklyn's Balances). Bedford Park ...... Brooklyn and Kingston avenues, Park and Prospect places ...... 4 Amount of Bensonhurst Beach ...... ...... Bay parkway, Gravesend Bay, Twenty-first and Title of Appropriation. Appropriation. Expenditures. Balance. Cropseyavenues ...... S Brooklyn Heights Parks ...... Columbia Heights, fronting on Furman street... 5 Bushwick Park ...... Knickerbocker and Irving avenues, Starr and Park Site and Improvement Fund ...... $838 27 $75 00 $763 27 Suydam streets ...... 6 Memorial Monument Fund...... •5,000 no 5,000 00 ...... Canarsie Beach ...... Rockaway parkway and ...... 40 Museum of Arts and Sciences Fund ...... 424 87 •.•.••.. 424 87 Carroll Park ...... President, Court, Carroll and Smith streets..... 2 Memorial Arch Fund ...... 3,018 57 ...... 3,018 57 City Park ...... Canton and Navy streets, Park and Flushing ave- Park Purchase Fund ...... .. ...... 457 03 341 88 115 15 nues...... 7.500 County Street Improvement Fund..... ...... *728 91 725 00 3 9t City Hall Park...... Junction of Court and Fulton streets...... 0.500 County Improvement of Streets (additional) ...... 52 74 ...... •• 52 74 Cooper Park ...... ]tfaspeth and Morgan avenues, Sharon and Coil- ford streets ...... 7 • Contract. Cooper Gore Park ...... Junction of Metropolitan and Orient avenues... o.s50 Cuyler Park ...... Junction of Fulton street and Greene avenue... 0.250 Special Account (Balance from 1901). Dyker Beach Park...... Seventh avenue, Bay Eighth street, Cropsey and Fourteenth avenues and Gravesend Bay...... 144 Fort Greene Park ...... DeKalb avenue, Washington Park, Ashland place, Amount of Willoughby and Canton streets and Myrtle Title of Appropriation. Appropriation. Contracts. Expenditures. Balance. avenue...... 30 Fort Hamilton Park ...... Fourth avenue, DeNyse street, Fort Hamilton avenue and New York Bay ...... 7 Maintenance and Improvement of Public Highland Park ...... Terminus of Eastern Parkway ertcnsion, Sunny- Parks on Brooklyn Heights, Borough of side and Force Tube avenues ...... a5 Brooklyn ...... ...... $7,239 8o ...... $776 45 $463 35 Institute Park ...... Washington avenue, Eastern parkway and Flat- Museum of Arts and Sciences Fund, Erection bush avenue ...... 58 of an Addition ...... 8z2,o54 64 $568„867 84 198.461 7! 54,825 09 Irving Square ...... Hamburg and Knickerbocker avenues, Halsey and Weirfield streets ...... 3.500 Lincoln Terrace ...... Easternparkway, Buffalo avenue, President street and Rochester avenue ...... is Revenue from Rents and Privileges Linton Park ...... Bradford street, Blake, Dumont and Miller ave- Prospect Park ...... $4,975 00 nues...... ... ...... 3 ForestPark ...... g 4 00 Municipal Park ...... y...... , Tnralcmon street, opposite City Hall...... 0 .333 McKinley Park ...... Fort Hamilton avenue, Seventh avenue and Sev- Shore road and Bay Ridge Parkway ...... I,10 00 enty-third street ...... 9.75 Coney Island ...... 350 00 New Lots Playground .... ...... Sackman street, Newport, Christopher and River- daleavenues ...... 3 Canarsie Park.... .... ...... 6o oo Parade Ground ...... Coney Island, Caton and Fort Hamilton avenues Fast Plaza street and Eastern Parkway ...... 150 00 and Parade place ...... 40 Kings Park ...... I o0 Prospect Park ...... Ninth avenue, Fifteenth street, Coney Island, Fort Hamilton, Ocean and Flatbush avenues. 5x6.167 Furman street ...... 550 o8 ...... Richards, Dwight, Verona and William streets. 6 Saratoga Square ...... Saratoga and Howard avenues, Halsey and Total...... $8,145 o8 Macon streets ...... Seaside Park ...... Sea Breeze avenue, West Fifth street, East Fifth 4 Sale of sheep, tools, etc., August 24, 1903 ...... $952 00 street and Atlantic Ocean ...... 45 Stuyvesant Park ...... Junction of Stuyvesant avenue and Broadway. o.125 Bay windows and ornamental projections ...... 281 95 Sunset Park ...... Forty-first and Forty-third streets, Fifth and 1,233 95 Seventh avenues ...... 14,250 Tompkins Park ...... Tompkins, Greene, Lafayette and Marcy avenues 7.750 Underhill Park ...... Tunction of Underhill and Washington avenues. 0.250 $9,379 03 Winthrop Park ...... Nassau and Drigga avenue, Russell and Monitor streets ...... S.5oo Donations to the Department of Parks, 1903. \Voodpoint Park ...... Junction of Metropolitan avenue and Woodpoint road ...... 0.250 Mrs. W. Wright, No. 230 Roebling street, five covies. Zindel Park ...... Junction of Broadway and Throop avenue..... 0.250 Mr. R. Roech, No, 712 Third avenue, one horned owl. Playgrounds. Mr. T. Niederstein, Flatbush avenue, one pair red foxes and one golden eagle. Boys' Playground ...... Bedford avenue and North Fourteenth street... 0.25 Dr. Sheppard, Shore road, one turkey buzzard. Girls' Playground ...... Manhattan and Driggs avenues...... 0.25 Mr. W. Vreeland, No. 8 Grace court, one raccoon. Total...... 1,019. tl Mr. C. W. Harrington, Key West. Fla., one pair blue cranes and one alligator. Mrs. F. A. Houghton, No. 195 Clarmont avenue, one pair cardinals, one tame pigeon. Parkways, Streets, Avenues, etc., Under Jurisdiction of Department of Parks. Captain David Moore, No. 62 Park place, one coati mundi. Hon. W. C. Whitney, Lenox, Mass., one buffalo cow. BOROUGHS or BROOKLYN AND QUEENS. Mr. R. Kanippe, No. 184 Euclid avenue, one chicken hawk. Length. Width. Name. Location. Feet. Feet. WORK OF THE POLICE Bay Parkway (formerly Twenty-second From Ocean parkway to Bensonburat Annual Report in Relation to the Police Department-Music in the Parks-The avenue) ...... ...... Beach ...... 15,840 too Number of Visitors-Games Played-Other General Information. Bay Ridge Parkway (Shore Road) .... From Fort Hamilton avenue to shore of New York Bay and along shore of New York Bay to Fort Hamilton...... 15,840 320 Hon, RICHARD YOUNG, Commissioner of Parks, Boroughs of Brooklyn and to goo Queens: Bushwick Avenue ...... From Eastern Parkway extension to Ja- Sir-I have the honor to herewith submit my annual report of the work accom- maica avenue ...... 1,320 100 Buffalo Avenue ...... From Eastern parkway to East New York nlished by the men constituting the Police Force of the Seventy-third Precinct, avenue ...... 66o tto Prospect Park. together with such other information in relation to games, etc., as is Dumont Avenue ...... From New Lots to Fountain avenue...... 1,320 70 of general interest, and which comes under police supervision. Eastern Parkway...... : ...... From Prospect Park to Ralph avenue..... 73,200 210 Eastern Parkway Extension...... From Ralph avenue and Eastern parkway to Highland Park ...... 11,864 Ito Police Force. Fourth Avenue ...... From Flatbush avenue to the Shore road. , 23,760 120 Fort Hamilton Parkway ...... From Ocean parkway to Fort Hamilton. 23,760 too During the year the Police Force consisted of the following members: Captain Glenmore Avenue ...... From Stone avenue to Eldert lane...... to,56o 60 (r), Sergeants l~4), Detective-Sergeant (I), Roundsmen (4), Patrolmen (qo). One Miller Avenue ...... From Eastern Parkway extension to Ja- maica avenue ...... a8 6o of the Roundsmen and eleven men are mounted on horses, five to patrol Ocean park- New Lots Avenue ...... From Riverdale to Dumont avenue...... 5,280 6o way, four the park proper and two on Eastern parkway. Five Patrolmen are Ocean Parkway ...... From Prospect Park to Coney Island..,. 29,040 210 mounted on bicylces to patrol the principal drives and cycle paths around the park Ocean Avenue ...... .... From Flatbush to Fort Hamilton avenue. 2,640 100 and Ocean parkway, the three remaining Roundsmen and fifty-three Patrolmen to Pennsylvania Avenue ...... From Tamaica avenue to Tamaica Bay.... 13,200 zoo Pitkin Avenue .. ...... From T:ast New York to Stone avenue.... 2,680 So patrol the park, plaza and Institute Park on foot. Total force, 80. Riverdale Avenue ...... From Stone to New Lots avenue...... 7,920 70 Rockaway Parkway ...... From Buffalo avenue to Canarsie Beach. 26,400 too Number of Arrests. Stone Avenue ...... From Eastern Parkway extension to River- dale avenue ...... 5,280 so During the year 167 arrests were made for the following offenses: Burglary, 2; Seventy-fifth Street ...... From Fort Hamilton parkway to Bay park- violation of City ordinances. 37; violation of Park ordinances, So; indecent ex- way (Twenty-second avenue)...... 10,560 too Union Street ...... From Fourth avenue to Prospect Park... 3,960 6o posure, 2; petit larceny, 2; disorderly conduct, 14; vagrancy, I; assaults, 3; attempt Shaw Avenue ...... From Jamaica avenue to Forest Park, Bor- at suicide, 2, and cruelty to animals, I, and intoxication, 17; total, 167. ough of Queens ...... t,32o So Parades in and around the Park...... The following parades occurred in or about the Park, May 3o, Memorial Day Total ...... 226,9S2 parade, and June 5, the Brooklyn Sunday-school Union.

1990 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. BOROUGH OF QUEENS. BOROUGH OF RICHMOND. Improved Parks, with Names.

Area in COMMI.SSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS. Name. Location. Acres. Ashmead ...... Canal street, Park place and South street, Ja- NEW YORK, March 12, 5904. maica ...... o.2co In accordance with the provisions of section 1546, chapter 466, Laws of 1901, I herewith Forest ...... Jamaica avenue, Union turnpike, Flushing and Myrtle avenues Richmond Hill ...... 536 transmit for publication in the CITY Racoin the following report of the transactions of this office Flushing ...... Main street and Broadway, Flushing...... 1.200 for the week ending March 5, Igo4, Kings Fulton, A1aop Ray streets, and Shelton avenue, Junction of Jackson avenue and Third street, GEORGE CROMWELL, President of the Borough. Monitor Square ...... .... .. amaica ...... II Louis L. TRIBUS, Commissioner of Public Works. Long Island City ...... 0.250 Poppenhausen ...... Junction of College avenue and Thirteenth street, Public Moneys Received during Week. College Point ...... 0.243 Bureau of Highways— Total ...... 548.943 For restoring and repaving pavement (water connections, openings) ...... $49 be For restoring and repaving pavement (sewer connections, openings) .... , ..... 3 8o For restoring and repaving pavement (general account) ...... 23 90 Improved Unnamed Parks. Total ...... f77 30 Area in Acres. Location. Bureau of Highways— Junction of Martel avenue and Thirteenth street, College Point ...... o.o6o Permits to open streets to tap water pipes ...... ...... 2 Fourteenth. Fifteenth and Louisa streets and Fifth avenue, College Point ...... I.too Permits to open streets to repair water pipes ...... 16 Junction of Jackson avenue and Eleventh street, Long Island City ...... 0.02o Permits to open streets to repair sewer connections...... z Vernon and Nott avenues and Hancock street, Ravenswood ...... 0.250 Permits, Junction of Jackson avenue and Twelfth street, Long Island City ...... o.o6o special ...... I2 Junction of Jackson avenue and Sixth street, Long Island City ...... o.o6o 2 Junction of Jackson avenue and Ninth street, Long Island City ...... o.too Total...... .. .. ... Junction of East New York and Pitkin avenues, rooklyn ...... 0.250 Requisitions Drawn on Comptroller. Total ...... I9 OO General Administration ...... ...... :88 IO Bureau of Highways ...... 685 08 Bureau of Sewers . ...... .. Marked progress has been made in the development of the Museum of the 235 00 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on Eastern parkway and Washington ave- Bureau of Street Cleaning.... ...... I,287 b9 nue. The contract was let early in the ycar by the Department of Parks to P. J. Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices ...... ...... ...... 300 00 Topographical Bureau ...... Carlin & Co., for constructing a power-house and power-plant in the rear of the .. ...... 99 13 Museum Building at a cost of $78.693. Contracts have also been awarded to Peter Total...... ...... ...... $2,695 00 Lauckhardt for the construction of natural history cases for the second floor of the Museum Building at $23.450: to A. H. Davenport Company, for orchestra chairs for Work Done. the Museum Auditorium, at $1.3.272; and to Joseph Ryan, for painting the interior of Bureau of Sewers— the second section of the Museum, at $6.85o. Linear feet of sewer cleaned...... 2,720 The work of completing the interior of the second section of the Museum Build- Number of basins cleaned ...... 62 ing, by Thomas Cockerill & Son, contractors. was under way during the entire year. Linear feet of culverts examined ...... ...... 15 On July I the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City authorized the Number of basins examined ...... 16 Number of basins issue of Corporate Stock of the City amounting to $454.x• to be used in payment repaired.. ...... 3 for the constrtiction of an eastern wing of the building and other work on the por- Number of flush tanks examined ...... ...... ...... 14 Number of manholes examined . .... ...... tions of the building already tinder way. ...... 2ot Number of manholes cleaned ...... ...... .. ...... ...... 13 On December 21 the Department of Parks awarded the contract to P. J. Carlin Linear feet of culverts and drains cleaned ...... R Co. for building the eastern wing and for additional work on the present Museum ...... ...... 955 structure at $407,315, in accordance with the advertised specifications and plans. The Museum has received very important gifts during the year: Five thousand Bureau of Street Cleaning— nine hundred and thirty-eight specimens were presented to the Natural History De- Number of loads of garbage collected ...... 159ts nnrtment, including clime Tto mammals. birds and reptiles from the New York Number of loads of ashes collected ...... 658 Znnloeical Society; some fifty-five birds from the Rockaway Rod and Gun Club, Number of loads of light refuse collected ...... 50 and three very valuable skins of mammals from Mrs. William B. Davenport. The Number of loads of street sweepings collected ...... 275%s total additions to the natural history collections were 24.949. Number of loads of snow collected ...... 71 The gifts to the art collections include: Six very valuable paintings from the estate of the late Henry W. Maxwell: an oil painting entitled "A Grav Morning," by Statement of Laboring Force Employed Week ending March 5, 1904. T.ennard Ochtman, from the income of the Woodward memorial funds: extensive collections of Japanese and Chinese works of art presented by Colonel Robert B. BUREAU OF BUREAU OF BUREAU OF BUREAU OF PUB- W\roodward. Mr. George C. Brackett and Mr. Car11 H. De Silver: an oil painting EIGHT HOURS CON- HIGHWAYS. SEWERS. STREET CLEAN- LIC BUILDINGS TOTAL entitled "A Winter Scene in Norway," by J. Jun¢hhrt. from Mr. Henry Batterman: s i rrUTE ONE WORKING ING. AND OFFICES. a Tananese carving in wood and ivory. with vol'l larluer ornaments, representing DAY. the Chinese warrior Wtt Yune. presented by Mr. Thomas T. Barr: an oil painting. No. Time. No. Time. No. Time. No. Time. Ne. Time. "The Morteratsche Glacier, Upper Eri adine." by Albert Bierstadt, presented by Mrs. Albert Bierstadt: a Japanese palanquin. a Japanese wrought iron eagle and a Laborers ...... 4o 146k r6 873 65 2921 r 7 122 533% Tananese image representing the Dragon King Rio Wo. presented by Mr. Alfred T. Laborers (Crematory) ...... ...... .... ...... 3 st .... ...... 3 at Carts ...... 9 toy t ay to 33~ ... , .... yo White: a replica of the Lemnian Athene from the bronze original by Phidiac. pre- Carts (garbage, etc.)...... .... 5356 center? by Mr. Georize Foster Peabody. and two hundred and forty-four additional ...... .... ...... 36 sob ....., 36 ,sob Sweepers ...... .,.. .. ...... r 7 .. ...... r 7 pieces of European china from the Rev. Alfred Duane Pell. Team...... 6 tole . r ... .... . 7 tIl¢3 To the Department of Ethnology was added a collection of cliff dwelling relics As=istant Foremen...... .. ... ...... a 1334 .... ...... a i34 Foremen ...... r5 9a z r1Y, 4 26% .... ...... as 53 numbering several thousand items purchased for the Museum by Messrs. A. Augus- Foremen (Assistant Sec- 9% tus Henly. President of the Board of Trustees, and Mr. George Foster Peabody. a tion) ...... .... ...... .... .... r .... Drivers ...... ) 3 7 ...... 5 7 mach interested member of the Institute. at an expense of $t.000. Seventeen members rg r 6 t 6 ...... 35 Janitors ...... .. ...... .. ...... ...... a 14 s 14 of the Board of Trustees contributed each roo toward the purchase of collections janitress ...... .... ..... ... ,,.... .... . .... I 7 t 7 representing the ethnology of the ancient Zonis and Apaches. The collections in Female Cleaoen,...... ,I .... ...... .... ...... .... ...... 2 14 2 14 M echanics...... 1 r ethnology were also enriched by important gifts of obiects from Hawaii. presented a~ ...... s is 3 i44 by Colonel Robert B. Woodward and Mr. George C. Brackett: by collecubnc of Mechan;c's Helpers . xi ..., ...... ...... r 7 3 r9 S2soo's Help~ er...... )....2 ...... ... ..... ... I ..... 6 r 6 rsottery from the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona. presented by the Hon. Lab., Acting Foremen. . ' Charles A. Schieren: by Chinese and Indian coins presented by Mr. Robert C. W. Brock. of Philadelphia. and a collection in New Zealand ethnology. presented by Messrs. A. Augustus Healy. Carl! H. De Silver and Robert B. Woodward. Total...... 76 I a98>a j so I log ra6 1 6a8% I ro I 67 1 232 t,tos Several scientific expeditions were sent out by the Museum. Professor William H. Goodyear spent the months of Tudy. August and September in making architec- tnral surveys in France and Constantinople: Dr. Alfred G. Mayer made an expedition ` Appointeunts, Removals, etc. rl+tring Time. Tuly and part of August to the Bahamas to secure collections from the Edwardo Breker, No. 86 Seventy-third street, Brooklyn, Axeman, $72o per annum; coral reefs and to make biological researches: Messrs. Jacob Doll and Carl Schaeffer. appointed March I, 1904. Entomologists. spent three months in southern Texas in making collections of in- Warren R. Borst, New Brighton, Leveler, $r,zoo per annum ; change of address, March 4, sects and studying the structure and habits of the same: Mr. Frederick Braun made Imo, n2leontoloE1igsl collections illustrating the geology of the State of New York. and Albert E. Thomas, New Brighton, Topographical Draughtsman, $I,zoo per annum ; trans- Mr. Stewart Culin made an expedition to Arizona and New Mexico for the purpose ferred March 4, 5904, Borough of Queens. of adding to the ethnological department representative collections from the ancient Contracts Entered into during Week ending March 5, tribes of the southwest. 1904. At the Children's Museum two additional exhibition rooms were fitted up; large BUREAU OF HIGnWAYS. additions were made to the collections. both through gifts and through expeditions made by the Curator and his assistants. PURPOSE. DATE OF AMOUNT NAME AND EEstuaNCa I NAME AND RasiozwcE The attendance at the Children's Museum for the year ending June I, 1903, was CONTE I CT. OF CONTRACT. OF CONTRACTOR. J OF SURETIES. 550.8.34. and at the Central Museum. roq.3g5. Reregulating and regrad- ing Jewett avenue, from 1 City Trust, Safe Deposit Egbert avenue to Cherry J Feb, 8, r9o4 6913 0o James D, Sullivan...... and Surety Company AN APPROVED PAPER. of Philadelphia. • lane ...... J Whereas, Saturday, April 2, 1904, is a half-holiday, immediately following Good Friday; and BUREAU OF SiREIfT CLEANING.

Whereas, Many persons desire to and do attend at their respective places of worship Macon, carpenter, paint- fog, structurqal, steel and T United States to participate in the religious exercises incident to the closing days of Holy Week; f Fidelity and Guars t Feb. te, rgo4 I 125,145 ao Conrad Hewitt ...... tncal ins12ll2'on work ~pany of Sskimam therefore be it of Stable No.t...... Md. Resolved, That the heads of the several Departments of the Government of The City of New York be and they are hereby requested to close their respective offices BOARD OF EXAMINERS. on Friday and Saturday, April I and 2, 1904, and that all offices not by law required to be kept open for public business be -closed on said days, and the said heads of Depart- MARCH 22, 5904. Present—Messrs. William J. Fryer, Warren A. Conover, Charles Buck, rtrnts are severally requested to pay all per diem men for these two days where prac- William C. Smith, Charles G. Smith, Edward F. Croker, and Walter Cook, ticable. Chairman. On motion, minutes approved as read. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen March 15, 1904, a majority of all the members The Chairman stated to the Board that he had received a telephone message elected voting in favor thereof. from the Clerk, requesting to be excused from attendance at this meeting, on account of illness. Approved by the Mayor March t8, tgo4. On motion, excuse granted; whereupon, following established precedent, the - P. J. SCULLY, Clerk, Stenographer was directed to act as Secretary. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORDD. 199

Appeal 29—F. S. C. IS of 1904, Chester W. Chapin, appellant. (Denied on the LAW DEPARTMENT. 8th instant; reconsideration requested on the i th; laid over.) On motion, referred to Chief Croker for further investigation and report with The fi llowing schedules form a brief extract of the transactions of the office of the Cor- recommendation. poration Counsel for the week ending March 5, 1go4, as required by section 1546 of the Appeal 32—N. B. 84 of 1904, northeast corner Forest avenue and One Hun- Greater New York Charter. dred and Fifty-sixth street, The Bronx, Adolph Mertin, appellant. Laid over NOTE—(The City of New York or the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of The City of pending amendment. Amendment filed on the 18th instant in form of letter from New York is defendant, unless otherwise mentioned). owner, which reads as follows: SCHEDULE "A." I hereby guarantee the execution of the work as called for in my Appeal No. Suits and Special Proceedings Instituted. 32 to your Board made by my architect, Mr. Adolph Mertin, and further, that all side partition walls separating all apartments shall be continued from floor to Rs is- WRRN floor and the spaces between studs filled in with brick. All these walls to be COURT. Eft AND COM- TITLi;. NATURE OF ACTION, covered with wire lath and plastered on both sides. Folio. MENCED. (Signed) WALTER B. CLARKSON, Owner. Supreme ... 45 271 Feb. 29, 1904 Niebuhr, John H. (ex rel.) vs. I Certiorari to review dismissal from Police Mr. Adolph Mertin appeared before the Board, and was directed to embody William McAdoo, etc.... I Department. late C. vs. Board owner's letter in the appeal proper; also to designate clearly on plans the parti- Supreme, l 45 Calkins, Assignee, balance of salaries of teachers 269 Feb. 29, 19o4 of Education of The City in Girls' High School, Brooklyn, 8190. tions to be so filled. Kings Co. j of New York...... I' Appeal 34 of Igo—New Building 604 of 1904, premises north side of Herkimer Supreme.... 45 270 Feb. 29, 1904 Lynam, Peter, vs. 'fity C of New York and Daniel W. street, about 75 feet from corner of Vesta avenue, Brooklyn; George Haiss Manu- Wilkes ...... Summons only served. facturing Company, appellants and owners. Damage to property, overflow of sewer, Supreme,45 2 Feb. z9, 1904 Baumgarten, Louis...... J Frame building prohibited by the Code. Kings Co. c 7a $zoo. This appeal is made under similar conditions as those existing in Appeals 45 573 Feb. 29, 2504 D'Amico, Charles A...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, $45o. Nos. 167 and 183 of 1903, relating to premises south side of East One Hundred and 45 273 Feb. o, 1904 Karfiol, Benjamin...... • Damage to property, overflow of sewer, Ninth street, Nos. 412 to 420, filed by the same appellant (George Haiss Manu- $5,550• " 45 273 Feb. 29 1904 Strachan, Robert C ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, facturing Company, One Hundred and Forty-first street and Rider avenue, The $263. Bronx). " 45 274 Feb. 19, 1904 Schmitt, Lind ...... .. Damage to property, overflow of sewer, The building will be of frame construction, 32 feet by ioo feet, and does not 8581• adjoin the property of other owners, standing in the midst of our own land; con- 45 274 Feb. 29, 2904 Valentine, Catherine L...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, sequently as safe as may be possible. As recited in our former appeals, wooden $r,t75. Supreme, 45 275 Feb. 29, 1904 Bowley, George (No. s)...... J Salary as Foreman. Department of coal pockets are preferable to iron pockets, aside from the question of cost, as QueensCo Sewers, $300. 45 276 Feb. 29, 1904 Reynolds, Richard...... Salary as Driver, Department of High- the sulphur of the coal affects iron or steel, to say nothing of the climate. ways, $225 The Code makes no direct provision for such a structure, the nearest approach " 45 276 Feb. 29, 2904 Stalckicht, Louis . ...... Salary as Foreman, Department of being mentioned in the stipulations regarding grain elevators on tide water. But Sewers, $3oo. 45 277 Feb. s9, 1904 Sthle, Louisa ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, a number of similar coal pockets have been erected in this city during the past $rz5. few years. 45 278 Feb. 29, 1904 Ohle, Frederick ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, Permission to build a frame coal pocket as shown on plans. $775. To Parsons Brothers (Inc.) vs. I res'rain continuance of nuisance More practical, durable and cheaper. (See Appeals Nos. 167 and 183 of 1903.) Supreme, t 45 created by erection of embankment 279 Mar. r, r9o4 The City of New York Mr. J. F. Swinnerton appeared before the Board. Kings Co. et al ...... across Nineteenth street, and damage On motion, referred to Chief Croker for report on the location and its sur- " j to property, machinery, etc., $ to,000. " 45 s8o Mar. r, 1904 Brautigam, Isabella...... Personal injuries, fall, ice, Carroll street, roundings. $ro,000. Appeal 35—N. B. 17 of 1904, east bank Harlem river, 125 feet north of Jerome Glick, Esther, vs. Thomas To recover money deposited. with de- avenue, The Bronx; Gustav Pozdena, architect and appellant. City ...... 45 sae Mar. I, 1904 Fitzpatrick, etc..... ... I posited with defendant, etc., $7o. the City of New York vs.. Replevin to recover sixt,-one volumes No. i. Proposed structure is unlawful. Supreme ... 45 282 Mar. r, 1904 original manuscript minutes Board of That boat-house is to be erected on tidewater on which it is impossible to Anna S. Clark .....•. Aldermen, x809 to 0847. Supreme, 45 283 S` Personal injuries, fall, ice, Vernon avenue, erect a brick structure to serve purpose as boat-house. Mar. r, 1904 Careyy.. Matthew J...... --• QueensCo 910,00 Upon the legality of the structure. 45 284 Mar. r, 2904 Earl, Anna E., an infant, etc., ( Person..l injuries, fall, ice, Jackson The building is only a temporary structure and no proper foundation for a by guardian, etc...... 1 avenue, brick building can be built, and that the building will be within ioo feet of the " 45 215 Mar. y r9o4 Earl, h.dgar J ...... For loss of services of daughter, injured outside fire limits. in fall, Ja-loon avenue, $a,000. Supreme, ( 45 286 Damage to property, overflow of sewer, Mr. Moritz, President of the Bohemian Boat Club, and Mr. Pozdena, archi- Kings Co. Mar. r, 1904 Kohlmann, Margaret...... ,, $4,622. tect, appeared before the Board. Supreme, 45 287 Mar. r, 1904 Langley, John, vs. Job. W. 1 Summons only served. QueensCo 1 Moore, et at...... . f On motion, appeal returned to the Bureau of Buildings, the Clerk being To restrain interference with paintiff's instructed to explain by letter that this action is taken by reason of doubt as to Supreme, t 45 288 Sparrow, James R...... j property by building new Fast River jurisdiction of the Board extending over building to be erected on tidewater, and Kings Co. Mar. x, 19=4 (` Bridge, and far damages already sus- whether such jurisdiction does not lie with the Dock Department. tam- d, $gc,000. '• 45 289 Mar. r, 1914 Roche, Michael J ...... Personal injuries, fall, ice, Fourth avenue, Appeal 36—N. B. 94 of 1904, premises south side Thirty-third street, about $10,000. 187 feet 6 inches from corner Seventh avenue, Manhattan; Edwin Wilbur, archi- Municipal ` 45 290 Ater. r, 1904 Peschel, August ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, tect and appellant. Brooklyn. ) $98.80. Supreme, I45 29! Assn, Bridget ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, Thirteenth story objected to. Kings Co. Mar. r, 1904 $217.34• This is not a thirteenth-story, but a pent house covering only about 45 per 45 292 Mar. 2, 2904 Gunnison, Walter B. (ex rel)I vs. Board of Education of I Mandamus to compel payment of judg- cent. of the roof area; and we propose to build it strictly in accordance with the 'I he City of New York and ment recovered. requirements of the Board of Examiners of The City of New York, viz.: Edward M. Grout, etc.... I. The building does not exceed 150 feet in height. " 45 993 Mar. 2, 1904 Larkins, Charles D. (ex rel) ) vs. Board of Education of ` Mandamus to compel payment of judg- 2. All walls surrounding pent-house will be carried up to their proper height. The City of New York and ( ment recovered. 3. Floor will be made of cement. Edward M. Grout, etc. ...J 4. Wire glass will be used wherever glass is necessary. " 45 294 Mar. s, 1904 Clark, Oliver D. (ex eel) vs. Board of Education ofThe l Mandamus to compel paymentof judg- 5. All woodwork for the window frames, sash, doors, trim and base of the pent Cuy of New York and Ed- JI ment recovered. house will be thoroughly fireproof. ward 111. Grout, etc...... 6. Proper skylights will be provided. " 45 295 Mar. e, 1904 Lewis, Lucy T. (ex ref) vs. Board of Education of The I Mandamus to compel (payment of judg- 7. The highest point of the pent house will not exceed 150 feet from the curb City of New York and Ed- ment recovered. level. ward M. Grout, etc...... 8. All woodwork entering into the construction of the pent house will be U. S Dist.l Lane, John et al vs. The To recover damages for injury to tug New York J 45 296d Mar. 2, 1904 Tugboat "Three Brother" f " Walter J." fireproofed by the process which is fully accepted and approved by the Bureau I o forccluse mortgage on property. notth- Supreme, t 45 ( Everit,Caroline L.vs.Bridget j of Buildings. 297 Mar, a, 1904 t Hart, et al...... 1 west corner of Thirty -seventh street 9. Entire pent house will be constructed entirely fireproof. Kings Co. J ' .. l and third avenue. Municipal.. 45 298 Mar. 2, 1904 Shapiro, Hyman, and another, Io. A standpipe with hose connection and outlet in the hall of the pent house etc.,vs. Thomas F. O'Connor, will be provided. etc...... Summons only served. II. Pent house will not cover more than 45 per cent. of the roof area. To for, close mortgage on property south. Supreme ... 45 299 Mar. a, 29o4 Seaman, William 1., vs. Cecilia, eastcornerofJacobstreetand Cambre. Permission to build pent house as shown on plans, and as herein specified Shanley et al ...... ling avenue. For a final order dissolving such corpo- as to details. Supreme, I45 300 Mar. a, 2904 Darby-McQuade PaintCom- Pent house will be well constructed in every way. Kings Co. { pany (Matter of).... • •... } ration. 45 302 Mar. 4, 2904 Bil,mann, Doris..... ..•...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, Mr. Edwin Wilbur appeared before the Board, and was instructed to amend $400. the appeal, amendment reading as follows: " 45 302 Mar. s, 2504 Classon, Georgine ...... ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer 12. The rear stairway at the southerly end of the building will be carried up g8co. 45 303 Mar. s, 1904 Briggs, R. V ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, to the roof and enclosed with a fireproof bulkhead similar to the front stairway. $80. On motion, approved as amended this date. , 45 304 Mar. s, 29o4 Bergsteen, A. 0 ...... Damage to properly, overflow of sewer, Appeal 37—Alteration 25I of 1904, northeast corner Greenwich and Warren $521.25. " 45 304 Mar. s, 1904 Dawdell, Patrick F...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, streets, Manhattan; Walter J. Salomon, appellant. $195. No. i. That it does not conform to thickness of walls on account of its "•45 304 Mar. a, 1904 Farrell, Thomas ...... Damage to property, overflow of sewer, height. $423. " 45 304 Mar. a, 1904 Klein, J ...... • Damage to property, overflow of sewer No. ii. That there are excessive openings in front wall. $140. No. I. That it is a building intended to be used for studios or offices and not Supreme ... 45 305 Mar. 3, 1904 Murphy, '1 homas S. (ex ref.),` Certiorari to review dismissal from Police a warehouse. vs. William McAdoo, etc.. ` Department. Municipal . • 45 306 Mar. 3, t9o4 Chapman, Bernard, and another, No. 2. That it is proposed to build a brick cross-wall from the bottom up, vs. Thomas O'Connor, etc... Summons only served. bracing and tying in the building and which is not required by the Code. Land Office. 45 3o7 Mar. 3, 4 Mosbacher, Nellie (Matter of).. For a grant of land under water at 190 Arverne, L. I. No. 3. That the front walls would be laid up 16 inches thick in cement not 12 To acquire title to premises, etc., Fiftieth inches thick in lime mortar, as called for by the Code. Supreme ... 45 309 Mar. 3, 1904 The City of New York (Matter, street, Lexington and 'third avenues, No. 4. That only about 25 feet of the outside walls will be bearing walls. of) ...... for a Fire Department site. To aogmre title, etc., to premises, Elton No. g. That an additional number of extra heavy wrought iron strap anchors I The City of New York 4 45 309 Mar. 3, 1904 Sl avenue and East One Hundred and will be used to tie in the front and sides to the beams and that same will be car- 1( Matter of)' " ""' Fifty-fifth street. as a public bath site. ried well back on each tier. (New York State Conven-( For a decree declaring title to premises No. I. That the construction be carried out as shown on plans without lining n 45 320 Mar. 3, 1904 1 lion of Universahsts (Mat- { in Hoffman street, to be vested in ( ter of) ...... ( applicant, and for leave to sell same. the existing walls with 8 inches of brick as required by the Bureau of Buildings. . William H. vs. John t Damage to building. subway explosion, 45 321 Mar. 3, t9o4 aP vne, No. if. That it be permitted to building the front and side walls with the ~ B. McDonald, et al...... 1 s25,000. 1 Supreme, I Presky, Francis C. vs. The J Personal injuries, failing from truck, fall number of the openings as shown on plan. 1 45 312 Mar. 3, 1904 No. I. That it would be a hardship to be compelled to lose the space in the Kings Co.( City of New York, et al... 1 of bridge on Canal street, $35,000. 4S 313 Mar. 3, 19-4 Petersen, Charles ...... • Damage to property, overflow of sewer, lower stories and be put to the delay of lining the walls when the building would $6o r. be abundantly able to sustain the weight imposed without such lining. Woodbury, John McG., etc.) For an order directing sale of trucks, MunicipaL.. 45 314 Mar. 3. 0904 (Matter o1).....•...... j etc. No. ii. That the openings are required for the proper use and occupancy of y Eugene J. vs. the l.ity To foreclose lien on contract for lighting Mar. 3, x904 I Ma the building for studios and offices. City....•. . 45 315 l of 'New York, et al...... 1 Twelfth Regiment Armory. Personal injuries, fall, ice, Fifth avenue, Mr. McGrath appeared before the Board. Supreme, Mar. 3. 1 Eliu ...... { Kings Co. 45 326 904 1 65,000. On motion to approve, vote lost. Denied. Jt To foreclose mortgageon property, north- J Atlantic Dock Company vs east corner of One Hundred and Mr. Fryer was then excused. Supreme.... 45 317 Mar. 4. 1904 1 George F. Wilson, et al, .. Mr. Mertin reappeared before the Board and submitted the following amend- tit Twelfth street and Broadway. Supreme, Damage to property, overflow of sewer, ment to Appeal 32, viz.: Mar. 4, 1904 Pihlman, Frans...... t Kings Co. 45 318 $480.50. It is further agreed that all partition walls separating all apartments shall Sturm, Paul, infant, etc., by be continued from floor to floor and the spaces between studs filled in with brick. Supreme.... 45 319 Mar. 4, 1904 guardian vs. Michael Owens For assault and battery, $Io,000. and The City of New York. All these walls to be covered with wire lath and plastered on both sides. The City of New York vs. This amendment indicated on plans, and stated as applying to the three Supreme. Mar. r, 2904 { James Cavanagh, et al To foreclose mortgage. buildings. Co. 145 2971 ( (No. a and a).•... Mandamus to coin901 issuance of peemit On motion, approved as amended. Mar. s, 1904 Farley, Thomas M. (ex rel.) for building, Adams and Johnson Adjourned. 4S 306 } vs. Peter J. Collins, etc.., streets, Brooklyn. M. M. D. CLARK, Secretary.

1992 THE CITY RECORD . TUESDAY, MARCH 29, I904.

SCHEDULE ' B." George H. Lawrence et al. as executors, etc., vs. D. M. Grout, etc.—Defendant's motion to allow deposit of moneys into Court pending disposition of proceeding, 7udgmet, ts, Orders and Decrees Entered. argued before Truax J., and granted. F. J. Byrne for the City. Eugene W. Dunstan—Appellate Division order entered affirming the judgment People ex rel. I1otel Savoy vs. J. L. Wells et al.—Motion for leave to amend in favor of plaintiff, with costs. petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Truax, J., and granted, H. C. Johnson People ex rel. William D. Roddy vs. F. V. Greene, etc.; People ex rel. Edward for the City. Gilon vs. Same—Entered orders vacating orders granting writ of mandamus and dis- People ex rel. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association vs. T. L. Feitner et al.— continuing proceedings without costs. Reference proceeded and adjourned. D. Rumsey for the City. People ex rel. James A. Deering vs. E. M. Grout, etc.—Entered order on remit- Allen Fitch—Defendant's motion for leave to serve an amended answer, argued titur from Court of Appeals, dismissing relator's appeal, with costs. before Truax, J., and granted on payment of all costs to date. M. Hare for the People ex rel. Anton Dufour and another vs. J. L. Wells et al —Entered order on City. remittitur from Court of Appeals, affirming the order appealed from with costs to People ex rel Hotel Savoy vs. J. L. Wells et al. (3 proceedings)—Reference pro• defendants. ceeded and adjourned. H. C. Johnson for the City. People ex rel. William D. Mills vs. J. N. Partridge—Entered Appellate Division The City of New York vs. Morris Levenson and another—Tried before Joseph, order dismissing writ of certiorari and affirming proceedings of respondent, with $50 J., in Municipal Court. Judgment for plaintiff for $80. I. T. Burden, Jr., for the City. costs and disbursements. The City of New York vs. Abraham Rothstein and another (No. i)—Tried People ex rel. Independent Telephone Company vs. R. G. Monroe—Entered before Joseph, J., in Municipal Court. Judgment for plaintiff for $28. I. T. Burden, Appellate Division order affirming the order appealed from, with $io costs and dis- Jr., for the City. bursements to defendant. The City of New York vs. Abraham Rothstein and another (No. 2)—Tried before People ex rel. Thomas Brady vs. McD. Hawkes, etc.—Entered Appellate Divi- Joseph, J., in Municipal Court. Judgment for plaintiff for $26. I. T. Burden, Jr., sion order dismissing writ of certiorari, and affirming proceedings of respondent, with for the City. $50 costs and disbursements. People ex rel. Hotel Savoy vs. J. L. Wells et al. (3 proceedings)—Reference pro- Liebe Cohen—Entered judgment dismissing the complaint and for $1o6.85 costs. ceeded and adjourned. H. C. Johnson for the City. Mary A. Delgado—Entered judgment in favor of the defendant on the merits, The City of New York vs. Shortland Brothers; Shortland Brothers Co.—Argued and for $12o.95 costs. - at United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Decision reserved. E. C. Kindleberger Liborio Delgrado—Entered judgment in favor of the defendant on the merits, for the City. " Decree affirmed, with costs." and for $io6.89 costs. People ex rel. James A. Deering vs. E. M. Grout—Relator's motion to resettle Anna Fantel, as administratrix, etc.—Entered judgment in favor of the defendant order of December 31, 1903, submitted at Appellate Division. Decision reserved. on the merits, and for $112.95 costs. T. Connoly for the City. " Motion denied with $io costs." Pierce Ryan—Entered judgment in order of remittitur from Court of Appeals, Joseph Albrecht—Tried before Stake, J., in Municipal Court. Decision for $147.05 costs in favor of defendant. reserved. T. C. O'Callaghan for the City. People ex rel. Manhattan Life Insurance Company vs. J. L. Wells et al.—Entered Riverside Park (Re Post et al.)—Reference proceeded and adjourned. E. J. judgment on Appellate Division order of affirmance, for $79.95 costs in favor of Freedman and C. A. O'Neil for the City. defendant. Samuel Kahn; Henry J. Padden—Tried before Garretson, J. Decision People ex rel. John J. Daly vs. F. V. Greene—Entered judgment on Appellate reserved. D. O'Leary for the City. Division order, dismissing writ of certiorari, for $61.35 costs in favor of defendant. Thomas F. Magner vs. The City of New York and Michael F. Balbert (and People ex rel. James Gannon vs. F. V. Greene, etc.—Entered judgment on 31 similar actions)—Tried before Garretson, J. Judgment for plaintiff for $45. Appellate Division order, dismissing writ of certiorari, for $123.35 costs in favor of D. O'Leary for the City. defendant. Herman Berkowitz—Tried before Walsh, J., in Municipal Court. Decision People ex rel. Martin H. Roarke vs. F. V. Greene, etc.—Entered judgment on reserved. D. D. Whitney for the City. Appellate Division order of affirmance, dismissing writ of certiorari, for $59.85 costs People ex rel. Clark D. Rhinehardt and another vs. W. C. Redfield et al.— in favor of defendant. Argued at Appellate Division. Decision reserved. J. D. Bell for the City. People ex rel. Thomas Grady vs. McD. Hawkes—Entered judgment on Appellate Barnet Zinn; Jacob Markson; Rosie Eisler--Tried before Walsh, J., in Muni- Division order dismissing writ of certiorari, for $7o.55 costs. cipal Court. Decision reserved. D. D. Whitney for the City. People ex rel. John Dwyer vs. F. V. Greene, etc. ; People ex rel. John H. Shiels vs. Joseph W. Kay vs. R. G. Monroe—Argued at Appellate Division. Decision Same—Entered Appellate Division orders dismissing writs of certiorari, and affirming reserved. J. D. Bell for the City. proceedings of respondent, with $5o costs and disbursements. People ex rel. Thomas M. Farley vs. P. J. Collins—Motion for peremptory People ex rel. Independent Telephone Company vs. R. G. Monroe—Entered judg- writ of mandamus argued before Marean, J. Decision reserved. J. E. Walker ment on Appellate Division order of affirmance, for $35.85 costs in favor of defendant. for the City. People ex rel. William D. Mills vs. J. N. Partridge—Entered judgment on Appel- late Division order dismissing writ of certiorari, for $58.95 costs. People ex rel. Thomas F. Timony vs. M. W. Littleton—Motion for peremptory People ex rel. George M. Fisher vs. E. R. L. Gould—Order entered referring cause writ of mandamus argued before Marean, J. Decision reserved. J. D. Bell for to Charles J. Hardy, Esq. the City. " Motion denied." People ex rel. Carrington & Co. vs. J. L. Wells et al—Order entered denying defend- Morris Cohen; Harry Jaffe; Samuel Eisler—Tried before Walsh, J., in Muni- ants' motion to quash writ of certiorari, with $lo costs to relator. cipal Court. Decision reserved. J. E. Walker for the City. People ex rel. David S. Granaat vs. J. L. Wells et al.—Order entered denying Hearings before Commissioners of Estimate in Condemnation Proceedings. deiendants' motion to quash writ of certiorari and reducing assessment to $i5o. Peter J. Hickey—Order entered discontinuing action, without costs. Eighteenth to Twenty-third streets, North river dock, 2 hearings; Pier t8, Robert Stevenson—Entered judgment on Appellate Division order of affirmance, East river dock; Pier 23, East river dock; Bulkhead between Piers 23 and 24, East for $88 costs in favor of defendant. river dock; Pier 24, East river dock; i hearing each. C. D. Olendorf for the City. People ex rel. John H. Shiels vs. F. V. Greene—Entered judgment on Appellate Rapid Transit (Bergen avenue and One Hundred and Forty-ninth street), 2 Division order dismissing writ of certiorari, for $54.05 costs in favor of defendant. hearings; Bellevue Hospital addition; Fourth avenue widening; Brooklyn People ex re!. John Dwyer vs. F. V. Greene—Entered judgment on Appellate Divi- approach to East River Bridge No. 3; Manhattan approach to East River Bridge sion order dismissing writ of certiorari, for $79.95 costs in favor of defendant. No. 3; 1 hearing each. C. N. Harris for the City. Joseph Buchanan—Entered judgment in favor of the defendant dismissing the com- Ninety-sixth street library site; Allen and Rivington streets bath site; I plaint, and for $106.59 costs. hearing each. F. C. Hoyt for the City. People ex rel. Owen McElearney vs. R. G. Monroe; People ex rel. Patrick Fogarty SCHEDULE I'D." vs. Same—Order entered denying defendant's motion to quash the writs of certiorari, with $io costs. Contracts, etc., Drafted, Examined and Approved as to Form. Bridget Digby, as administratrix, etc.; Margaret Nelson, as administratrix, etc.—

Orders entered denying defendants' motion for a n, w trial. CONTRACTS AP- CONTRACTS ADVERTISE. People ex rel. Rose M. Finigan vs. W. H. Maxwell—Order entered granting relator's DEPARTMENT. PROVED AS TO EXAMINED AND MENTS Ar. motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, with $5o costs. FORM. RETURNED FOR PROVED AS TO People ex rel. James J. Markey vs. W. M. Calder; People ex rel. Dennis J. Daley RevlstoN. FORM. vs. Same—Entered orders discontinuing proceedings, without costs. Owen Boyle—Entered order denying defendant's motion for a new trial. Education...... tI .. s Max Lowenstein—Entered judgment dismissing the complaint, and for $io5.5o costs. Charities...... , r Parks...... 2 .. People ex rel. Thomas F. Timony vs. M. W. Littleton—Entered order denying Docks ...... I 2 I relator's motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus Police...... , . 4 .. People ex rel. Robert Lefferts vs. Board of Estimate—Order entered granting Fire ...... t .. Correction...... •I relator's motion for peremptory writ of mandamus. Public Works ...... 3 Water Supply, Gas and Electricity ...... 3 r a judgments were Entered in Favor of the Plaintiffs in 'he Following Actions Street Cleaning ...... t .. I Borough Presidents ...... Bellevue and Allied Hospitals ...... s .. I REGISTER Health ...... DATE. NAME. AND AMOUNT. FOLIO. Aqueduct Commissioners ...... r a t Total ...... I 3s ' ro I t3 Feb. II Koch, C. W. P. (ex rel.) vs. Greene ...... ...... 4r 438 676 7S •• s4 Herold, Heronimous A ...... .. ...... 499 4948 t7 .. 26 Baum, Katherine ...... ...... ..... a934 137 o w ,• 26 Bourke, tie,nard ...... ...... a9 342 70 00 Bonds Approved. .. a6 Casey, Charles ...... ...... ...... .. •••••••••••• 37 277 40 a Finance ...... 36 DeGross, Armenia ...... a3 aµ 6o oo . 9 .. 26 Griffith, Jenis ...... ...... s9 204 yo no City Clerk ...... ...... 3 •, 26 Hill, Sarah...... _ ...... ...... 26 ]ohnson, Jasper ...... ...... ...... s9 474 6o 00 Total...... Ia ,. 96 Krey, Ada ...... ...... a9 rµ 7o uo .. a6 Krudop John C...... ...... a9 144 7Q0 a6 Nolan, John J...... ...... v Leases Approved. a6 Nordstrom. Hilda ...... ...... 4s - a6Schenck, Margaret ...... a9 ato So so Street Cleaning ...... s •• a6 Stefane, Dominick ...... ...... ...... aq 2I So no .. 27 Cohan. David ...... ...... ....1 a6 300 194 o Agreements Approved. 37 Allen. Catherine ...... ...... s9 •40 •• 27 Davidson, Leonard...... a9 243 S as Bridges...... •• a Garella. Giovanni ...... .... ...... 39 941 440 00 a Lawmaster, George W .. .. ...... 4r a88 30 00 .. a7 Lyons,Ju.a .... ...... s9 205 73 00 s7 LaGemtno, Guiseppe ...... ...... ...... a9 204 qo 00 SCHEDULE 11 E." .. a Maguire. Thomas ...... a9 146 So On *7 O'Brien. Annie ...... ...... a9 nos 70 00 Opinions Rendered to the Various Departments. 37 Rega. Pasquale ...... a9 207 its 00 ag New York and North Shore Railway Company (ex rel.) vs. Monroe, etc...... 4 t 314 too or ap Ficke. Anna...... ..... ..... ...... 38 331 965 so Nuxeaa I6i. t Sattinato. Salvatore ...... ...... 44 436 is Si ...... I DEPARTMENT. OF OPIN- •• 3 King, Patrick...... a6 316 600 as Iolm

SCHEDULE " C." Finance ...... st Education ...... t Record of Court Work. Borou_h Presidents ...... ...... 6 Water Supply. Gas and Electricity ...... 3 People ex rel. Abel Crook as trustee, etc., et al. vs. J. L. Wells et al.—Argued Parks...... I Docks. ...... t at Appellate Division. Decision reserved. G. S. Coleman for the City. Charities...... t Riverside Park (Re Edmund L. Mooney)—Motion for a reference submitted to Police...... and granted. F. J. Byrne for the City. Public Works...... I Truax, J. Municipal Civil Service C omtoission ...... John Tyrrell, Patrick J. Daly, Patrick J. McNulty—Reference proceeded and Aqueduct Commissioners ...... adjourned. G. H. Cowie for the City. Sin 'm~ Fund Commissioners ...... t People ex rel Thomas Brennan vs. J. N. Partridge—Examination of witnesses BraokTyn Grade Crowing Cossmissioo ...... t proceeded and closed. F. J. Byrne for the City. Total ...... 41 John Lane vs. Tug " Aree Brothers "—Motion for order directing process to issue against City of New York, submitted to Adams, J., and granted. E. C. Kindle- berger for the City. JOHN J. DELANY, Corporation Counsel.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORDD. 1993 BOARD OF ELECTIONS. BOROUGH OF QUEENS.

Meeting of the Board of Elections held Friday, March 18, 1904, at 12 o'clock M. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS. Present—Commissioners Voorhis, Page, Maguire and Fuller. The minutes of the meeting of the Board held on the 15th instant were read and approved. NEW YORK, March 24, 1904. The President announced that proposals for publishing the notice of the official In accordance with the provisions of section 1546 of chapter 466 of the Laws of 19o1, primary election, to be held on March 29, 1904, in the several boroughs of The City of I transmit herewith the following report of the transactions of the office of the Commissioner of New York, had been submitted by the newspapers to which invitations had been Public Works, Borough of Queens, for the week ending February lo, 1904. extended, and directed the Secretary to read such proposals; whereupon it was moved JOSEPH BERMEL, that the following resolution be adopted, viz.: Commissioner of Public Works, Borough of Queens. Resolved, That pursuant to the provisions of the Primary Election Law, chapter 473, section 4, subdivision 4, Laws of 18g, notice of the Primary Election to be held PUBLIC MONEYS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. March 29, 1904, of the Democratic and Republican electors in The City of New York For restoring pavement over street openings ...... $4 00 or in the several boroughs thereof, specifying the day of such Primary Election, the hours during which it will be held, the location of each polling place, the election district whose electors may vote at such polling place, the name of the party or parties REQUISITIONS DRAWN ON COMPTROLLER. whose primary election will be held thereat, and the conventions for which delegates Bureau of Highways ...... $2,624 71 will be voted for, is hereby authorized to be published March 23, 1904 (one insertion), Bureau of Sewers ...... _.. 2,095 60 in each of the following newspapers, at prices not exceeding the rate stated in their Bureau of Street Cleaning ...... 2,317 52 proposals this day received and filed, viz.: Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices ...... 773 S7 City of New York. Bureau of Topographical Surveys ...... 384 00 New York " Daily News," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... $I2 40 The " Tribune," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... 13 80 Total...... .. $8,195 7o Borough of The Bronx. PERMITS ISSUED. " North Side News," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... $6 25 " Bronx Borough Record and Times," per 1,000 ems, agate type...... 6 5o To open streets to tap water pipes... ...... 4 To open streets to repair water connections ...... 18 Borough of Brooklyn. To open streets to make sewer connections ...... 2 To open streets to repair sewer connections ...... I " Standard Union," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... $5 335 To place building material on streets ...... 4 Brooklyn " Citizen," per I,000 ems, agate type ...... 5 33 Special permits . ...... Io Brooklyn " Daily Eagle," per I,000 ems, agate type ...... 5 33/ To cross sidewalks ...... For railway construction and repairs ...... s Borough of Queens. " Daily Long Island Farmer," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... $6 50 Total.. ...... 42 ,, Flushing Daily Times," per I,000 ems, agate type ...... 6 50 Borough of Richmond. Statement of Work Done, Bureau of Highways, Week ending February 6, I904. .. Staten Island Star," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... $6 50 Linear feet of gutters cleared of snow ...... 3,550 .. Staten Islander," per i,000 ems, agate type ...... 6 So Square yards of cross-walks cleared of snow ...... 23,941 Number of culverts cleared of snow ...... 39 A motion to amend said resolution by limiting the number of papers for publica- Number of hydrants cleared of snow ...... 32 tion in the Borough of Brooklyn to the same number as in the other boroughs ana Dangerous trees cut down ...... 5 striking therefrom the paper last named for said borough was then made. Trees trimmed ...... ..... ...... ..... 6 The President put the motion to amend, two Commissioners voting in the Loads of limbs hauled away ...... 24 affirmative and two in the negative, and it was declared lost. The motion to adopt the resolution as originally offered was then put and Viaducts and Bridges. carried. Linear feet of guard rail repaired...... 695 Communications from newspapers containing the proposals ordered on file. The Board then considered the proposals for doing the cartage connected with the Primary Elections to be held in the several boroughs of The City of New York Bureau of Sewers on March 29, 1904, and, on motion, made the awards for the work to the several Linear feet of sewer cleaned ...... 85o lowest responsible bidders. Number of basins cleaned ...... 130 The Board then considered and made certain necessary changes in polling places Linear feet of sewer examined ...... 5,550 for the Primary Elections to be held on March 29, 1904. Linear feet of sewer flushed ...... 4.600 Supplemental lists of election officers to fill vacancies were received from the Number of basins examined ...... 51 Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond Borough Offices, and, on motion, Number of basins repaired ...... 9 approved. Number of basins relieved ...... ...... I29 The following bills were approved and ordered to be transmitted to the Finance Linear feet of sewer relieved ...... I,500 Department for payment, viz.: Number of manholes cleaned ...... 87 W. H. Hand's Sons, carpenter work, to Primary ballot-boxes (The Open drains cleaned, feet ...... 3,675 Bronx) ...... $483 28 Culvert and stone drains cleaned and repaired, feet ...... loo H. M. Smith & Sons, carpenter work, to Primary ballot-boxes (Man- Box and pipe drains cleaned and repaired, feet ...... 20 hattan) ...... ...... 444 78 Loads removed from sewers, basins and drains ...... 174 George C. Andrews, carpenter work, to Primary ballot-boxes (Queens). 149 50 Charles Altfelix, carpenter work, to Primary ballot-boxes (Richmond). 80 00 Street Sweepings, Garbage, etc., Collected and Disposed of. Ashes, loads ...... Total...... $I,157 56 $33 Sweepings, loads...... I9 35 Garbage,loads ...... ,...... . ...... t 334 Communications from the Chief Clerk of the Richmond Borough Office, dated Rubbish, loads ...... the 7th instant, Edward M. Muller, Chairman, Democratic General County Com- Miles of streets swept ...... 50~ mittee, Richmond County, dated the 7th instant, and the Chief Clerk of the Queens Loads of snow removed (hired carts) ...... 1,815 Borough Office, dated the iith instant, in regard to polling places for the Primary Elections to be held on March 29, 190g, which were laid on the table at previous meetings of the Board, were taken therefrom and ordered on file. Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices. The Board then adjourned. Painting, plastering, plumbing, carpenter work, repairs to buildings and cleaning. CHARLES B. PAGE, Secretary. Bureau of Topographical Surveys. Under Way—Benefit maps of Wolcott street, Academy street and Borden avenue; damage BOARD OF ELECTIONS. maps of Lockwood street and Rapelye avenue; plotting street lines of and elevations at Rich- mond Hill. Field Work—Street locations and traverse at Richmond Hill; plane table survey of Forest Meeting of the Board of Elections held Tuesday, March 22, 1904, at 12 o'clock Park; surveying for contour and drainage maps of Richmond Hill; running benches of Boule- noon. vard and Jamaica avenue. Present—Commissioners Voorhis, Page, Maguire and Fuller. The reading of the minutes of the meeting of the Board held on the 18th instant Statement of Laboring Force Employed Week ending February 6, Igo4. was dispensed with. The following communications were received and disposed of as stated, viz.: Bureau of Highways. From J. W. Stevenson, Deputy Comptroller, dated the 21st instant, transmitting 124 Mechanics, 149 Laborers, I team, 8 horses and carts. copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment Mlarch 18, 5904, transferring $i,800 from the appropriation made for the year 1903 to the Bureau of Sewers. Board of Elections for " Election Expenses " to the appropriation made to the 5o Mechanics, 42 Laborers, 14 horses and carts. President of the Borough of Queens for 1903, entitled " Bureau of Sewers; Far Rockaway Disposal Works." Bureau of Street Cleaning. Ordered on file. 45 Mechanics, 36 Laborers, ig teams, 39 horses and carts. From the Chief Clerk of the Brooklyn Borough Office, dated the igth instant, Bureau of Public Buildings and Offices. reporting that upon investigation it appears that Henry T. Bishop, Republican 44 Mechanics. Inspector of Elections for the First Election District, Fourteenth Assembly District, Kings, charged with having enrolled with the Democratic party, is enrolled with the Bureau of Topographical Surveys. Republican party; and that Louis Heyman, Republican Inspector of Elections for the 8 Assistant Engineers, io Draughtsmen, 4 Transitmen, 2 Chainmen, 2 Foremen, 2 Assist- Tenth Election District, Nineteenth Assembly District, Kings, charged with having .tnts, 3 Drivers, 20 Laborers. .become a member of a Democratic club, is not affiliated with any such organization. Ordered on file, together with communications from James J. McKeon and CHANGES IN DEPARTMENTS. tion to be at the rate specified, the changes Charles J. Haubert, asking for the removal of said election officers on the grounds — — to take effect immediately: stated above, and the Secretary directed to notify said McKeon and Haubert accord- DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES. Edward Cogency, from Flagger to Ma- ing to the tenor of the said Chief Clerk's report. March 25—James Coffey, of No. 337 East chinist's Helper, with compensation at the From the Chief Clerk of the Board and the Chief Clerks of the Manhattan, The Twenty-first street, Manhattan, is pro- rate of 37/ cents per hour while employed. Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens Borough Offices, dated the 21st instant, and from the moted from the position of Laborer to that James McMahon, Laborer to Marine Chief Clerk of the Richmond Borough Office, dated the 19th instant, reporting in of Assistant Foreman of Laborers in the Sounder, with compensation at the same relation to the attendance of the clerical force in their several offices for the preceding Department of Bridges, and assigned for rate as heretofore paid him, namely, $18 per week. Ordered on file. duty on the Williamsburg Bridge, to date week. From the Chief Clerk of the Queens Borough Office, dated the 21st instant, from Thursday morning, March 24, i9o4. Thomas E. Reynolds, from Laborer to reporting the receipt of supplies on account of contract with the J. W. Pratt Com- His compensation as Assistant Foreman is Marine Sounder, with compensation at the pany. Referred to the Chief Clerk of the Board to ascertain and report whether the fixed at $1,500 per annum. same rate as heretofore paid him, namely, supplies received are in conformity with said contract. $15 per week. Supplemental lists of election officers to fill vacancies were received from the Chief Clerks of the Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond Borough DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND Peter O'Brien, from Sounder to Marine Offices, and regularly approved. FERRIES. Sounder, with compensation at the same March 26—The Commissioner has rate as heretofore paid him, namely, 31'/4 The Board then adjourned until Friday, March 25, I904, at 12 M. changed the titles of persons in the employ cents per hour while employed. CHARLES B. PAGE, Secretary. of this Department as follows, compensa- Patrick Molloy, from Laborer to Black- 1994 THE CITY RECORDD . TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

.inith's Helper, with compensation at the " An Act to provide for the payment of the Telephone, IsoS and 15o6 Cortlandt. Supply S. COLEMAN, CHARLES A. O'NIEL, WILLIAM BEARS Room, No. 2 City Halt. CROWELL, ARTHUR SWEENY, JOHN F. O'BRIEN, rate of 31% cents per hour while employed. claim of the Hamburg-American steam- PATRICK J. TRACY, Supervisor; Hailer Mc- DAVID RUMsEY, jOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE, ANDREW John J. Mooney, from Laborer to Dock- ship company for dredging pier number 1i1LLSN. Deputy Supervisor. T. CAMPBELL, JR.; FRANKLIN CHASE HOY~T.J E. CROSBY KINDLEBERGER, MONTGOMERY RARE, builder, with compensation at the rate of fifty-five, belonging to the city of New CITY CLERK AND CLERK OF THE THOMAS F. NOONAN, KENYON FORTESQUE, CHARLES 431 cents per hour while employed. York." MCINTYRE. Further notice is hereby given that a BOARD OF ALDERMEN. Secretary to the Corporation Counsel—WILLIAM COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. public hearing upon such bill will be held City Hall, Rooms I1-12, co A. M. to 4 P. at.; F. CLARK. March 26—Dismissed March 28, 1904, Saturdays, 10 A. M. to is M. Borough of Brooklyn Branch Office—JAMES D. at the Mayor's Office, in the City Hall, in Telephone, 756o Cortlandt. BELL, Assistant, in charge. George H. Nason, Examining Inspector, at The City of New York, on Wednesday, P. J. SCULLY, City Clerk and Clerk of the Borough of Queens Branch Office—DRESS $i,800 per annum. March 30, 5904, at 2.4c o'clock P. M. Board of Aldermen. O'LEARY, Assistant in charge. Appointed March 29, i9o4, Berend W. THOMAS MURPHY, First DeptIty City Clerk. Borough of The Bronx Branch Office—RICHARD Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, MicuACL F. BLASS, Chief clerk of the Board H. MITCHELL, Assistant, in charge. Baas, Examining Inspector, at $1,800 per 19D4. of Aldermen. Borough of Richmond Branch Office—JOHN annum. Josern V. SCULLY, Deputy City Qerk, Bor- WIDDECOMBE, Assistant, in charge. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Chief Clerk. Mayor. oubofBroo ANDREW T. CAMPBELL, BUREAU OF BUILDINGS. THOMAS J. cCASS, Deputy City Clerk, Bor- Bureau of Street Openings. ough~ of The Bronx. Borough of The Bronx. Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice WILLIAM R. ZiMaiseleAw, Deputy City Qerk, Nos. go and 92 West Broadway, 9 A. M. to 5 March 25—Philip H. Becker, Inspector is hereby given that an Act Printed No. Borough of Queens. F. M.; Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 12 M. of Plumbing, transferred to this Bureau, MICHAEL J. COLI.Ixa, Deputy City Clerk, Bor- JOHN P. DUNN, Assistant, in charge. 893, Int. No. 138, has been passed by both ough of Richmond. Bureau for the Recovery of Penalties. from Bureau of Buildings, Borough of branches of the Legislature, entitled Nos. 119 and I21 Nassau street, g A. M. to 5 Manhattan. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. P. M.; Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 12 M. " An Act to amend chapter five hundred Assistant, in charge. and eighty of the laws of nineteen hun- No. II City Hall, 9 A. at. to 4 P. at.; Satur- HERMAN STIEFEL, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. dAya p A. 1[. to 12 M. Bureau for the Collection of Arrears of Personal dred and two, entitled ' An Act in rela- Telephone 7560 Cortlandt. March 28—Died March 23, Daniel S. tion to the municipal court of the city of Taxes. Hart, Examining Inspector. CHASLZI V. Foaxss, President. No. 28o Broadway (Stewart Building). Office New York, its officers and marshals,' P. J. SCULLY. City Qerk. hours for the public, Io A. M. to 2 P. M.; Satur- Appointed March 28, James B. Connolly, relative to removal and suspension of das,loA. at. to 12 M. No. 136 East Ninety-sixth street, Examin- marshals." DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. HENRY STEINERT, Assistant, in charge. ing Inspector, salary $1,500 per annum. Stewart , Building, Chambers street and Broad- Further notice is hereby given that a way, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.; Saturdays, 9 A. M. to I2 Tenement House Bureau and Bureau of Buildings. public hearing upon such bill will be held noon. No. 6c Irving place, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.; Satur- at the Mayor's Office, in the City Hall, in EDWARD M. GaouT, Coin troller. da 9, 9 A. M. tO I2 M. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. N. TAYLOR PHILLIPS and JAHSS W. STaVaimlow, JOHN P. O'BRIEN, Assistant, in charge. The City of New York, on Wednesday, Deputy Comptrollers. March 30, 1904, at 3 o'clock P. at. HvasiT L SMITH, Assistant Deputy Comp- COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. Pursuant to statutory requirement, Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, troller. notice is hereby given that an act, Printed Rooms I Iand i 15, Stewart Building, 9 A. x[. 1904. OLIVES E. STAsTox, Secretary to Comptroller. to 4 P. M. Telephone, 4315 Franklin. No. 1420, Int. No. 633, has been passed GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Mai* Division. JOHN C. HERTLE, WILLIAM HARMAN BLACK, by both branches of the Legislature, en- Mayor. H. J. STORRS. Chief Clerk, Room I1. Commissioners. titled Bookkeeping and Awards Division. COMMISSIONERS OF SINKING " AN ACT to amend the greater New Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice JOSEPH HAAS, Chief Accountant and Book- York charter, relative to the depart- is hereby given that an Act Printed No. keeper. FUND. ment of docks and ferries." 276 has been passed by both branches of the Stock and Bond Division. Gaoscs B. MCCLELLAN, Mayor, Chairman; ED• JAMBS J. SULLIVAN. Chief Stock and Bond WARD M. GROUT, Comptroller; PATRICK EssNAN Further notice is hereby given that a Legislature, entitled Clerk, Room 39. Chamberlain; CHARLES V. Foaxes, President of public hearing upon such bill will be held "An Act to amend section one hundred Chamberlain;the Board Aldermen, and Joax T. MCCALL, and forty-nine of tb+ greater New York Bursar of Ardit—Maim, Division. Chairman, Finance Committee, Board of Alder- at the Mayor's office, in the City Hall, in WILLIAM McKzxsr, Chief Auditor of .M men, Members. N. TAYLOR PsiLLIrs, Deputy The City of New York, on Wednesday, charter, relative to taking of testimony counts, Room s7• Comptroller, Secretary. March 30, 1904, at 4 o'clock P. M. by the Comptroller." Office of Secretary, Room No. is, Stewart Further notice is hereby given that a Low and AdJ,utmext Division. Building. Dated City Hall, New York, March 26, public hearing upon such bill will be held JAmss F. MCLIxxsr, Auditor of Accounts, 1904. - at the Mayor's Office, in the City Hall, in Room 183. BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, The City of New York, on Wednesday, Investigating Division. APPORTIONMENT. Mayor. March 30, 1904, at 3.15 o'clock, P. M. CHAazas S. HasysY, Auditor of Accounts, Room Telephone, Finance Department, x070 Franklin. 178. Telephone, Public Improvements, Soao Cort- Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, landt. Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice 1904. Charitable Institutions Division. The Maros, Chairman; the ColirraoLLSS, GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, DAxuzL C. Porte., Chief F=.miner of Accounts PRESIDENT or THS BOARD or AEDKSMsz, PaasI- is hereby given that an Act Printed No. of Institutions, Room 40. DENT Or THE BOROUGH Or MANHATTAN, PRaaIDINT 628, Int. No. 535, has been passed by both Mayor. Or THz BOROUGH or BROOKLYN, PRaaiDSxr Or THE branches of the Legislature, entitled Bureau of the City Paymtaster. Boaouci or TIES BROxz, PassIDENT Or THS Boa- Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice No. 83 Chambers street and No. 65 Reads oUGH Or QUasxa, FREsIDz11T Or TMZ BO*OUGN Or An Act authorizing the board of estimate is hereby given that an Act Printed No. street RICHMOND. and apportionment of the city of New 607 has been passed by both branches of Joux H. TIaaaal[An, City Paymaster. JAMES W. ST*VLNSON, Deputy Comptroller See- York to grant a franchise to the United retary, Finance Department, No. ago Bros we. the Legislature, entitled Burson of Engineering. JOHN H. MOONEY, Assistant Secretary Public States government for the construction " An Act authorizing the board of estimate Stewart Building, Chambers street and Broad- Improvements, City Hall; CHASass V. ADRS, of tubes for custom-house purposes." way. Clerk of the Board, Finance Department, No. ago and apportionment of the city of New E. McLsAa, Chief Engineer, Room Sy Further notice is hereby given that a York to take proof of and pay the claim Eucexa Broadway. Red Estate Bursas. public hearing upon such bill will be held of Edward I. Miller for compensation AQUEDUCT COMMISSIONERS. at the Mayor's Office, in the City Hall, in for services rendered the department of MosTIMxa J. Bsowx, Appraiser of Real Estate, Room 157. Room 207, Stewart Building, sth floor, 9 A. n. The City of New York, on Wednesday, water supply, gas and electricity." Bureau for the GeUecswn of Torts. tor. m. Telephone, 1942 Franklin. March 30, I9o4, at 2 o'clock, P. M. Further notice is hereby given that a The MAYOR the CoxnYRoLLSR, Si officio a Com- public hearing upon such bill will be held Borough of Manhattan—Stewart Building, misaionera WILLIAM H. TEN EYCK (President), Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, Room O. Joins J. RYAN WILLIAM E. CURTIS and JOHN P. 1904. at the Mayor's Office, in the City Hall, in DAVID E. Ausrsx, Receiver of Taxes. WINDOLPH• t1AYYY W. WALKER, Secretary; The City of New York, on Wednesday, JOHN J. McDoxovuc, Deputy Receiver of JONAS WALDO SMITH, Chief Engineer. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Taxes. Mayor. March 30, i9o4, at 3.30 o'clock, P. M. Borough of The Bronx—Municipal Building, BOARD OF ARMORY COMMIS- Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, Third and Tremont avenues. Igo4. josx B. UNDERHILL, Deputy Receiver of Taxes. SIONER Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Borough of Brooklyn—Municipal Building, The MAYOR, Gsoacs B. McCLSLLAN, Chairman; is hereby given that an itct Printed No. Rooms r8. THz PRESIDLNT Or THs DEPARTMENT Or TAxis Mayor. JACOF S. VAN WYcx, Deputy Receiver of AND AsszssasNTs, FRANK A. O'DONNRL, Vice- 656 has been passed by both branches of Taxes. Chairman, Tux PRESIDENT or rats BOARD or the Legislature, entitled Borough of Queens—Hackett Building, Jackson ALDERMEN, CHAaazs V. Fosxas; Brigadier-General An Act relating to appointment of em- avenue and Fifth street, Long Island City. JAMES McLzsa and Brigadier-General Gsoaos Fasonlcs W. BLScawzxN, Deputy Receiver of Moose SMITH, Commissioners. ployees of the fire department of the city ~ S~TI L Taxes. Eoosxs A. Doings, Secretary, and FRANK J. of New York to the uniformed force of rough of Richmond—Bay and Sand streets, BELL, Acting Secretary, Stewart Building. No. ago the said department." Stapleton. Broadway. Joan DsMosaax, Deputy Receiver of Taxes. 1[.; Saturdays, p Further notice is hereby given that a Office hours, 9 A. lt. to 4 P. Bureau for the Collection of Auxsssnswt$ and A. M. to 1s 1[. public hearinf upon such bill will be held Arrears. at the Mayors Office, in the City Hall, in POLICE DEPARTMENT. The City of New York, on Wednesday, Borough of Manhattan—Stewart Building, Central Olhce. Room St. No. soo Mulberry street, 9 A. 1[. to 4 IN lt. March 30, i9o4, at 2.15 o'clock, P. M. EDWARD A. SLATTaT, Collector of Assessments Telephone,loo Spring. Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, and Arrears. WILLIAM MCADoo, Commissioner. B. ADGSR Muu.as.LY, Deputy Collector of THOMAS F. McAvoy, First Deputy Commis- I904. Assessments and Arrears sioner. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Borough of The Bronx—Municipal Building, Mayor. Rooms t-~.• BOARD OF ELECTIONS. a., Depot/ Collector of Headquarters, General Office, No. imp West ABSjAasia DO Arrears. Forty-first street Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice Borough of Brooklyn—Municipal BoildiM Commissioners—JoHi R. Vooasas (President), is hereby given that an Act Printed No. SAMUEL N. GASSlsox, Deputy Collector of As- CHAaLu B. PAGE (Secretary), Jonx MacvIal, aessments and Arrears. Runoirir C. Pusan. 413, Int. No. 370, has been passed by both A. C. ALLEN. Chief Clark of the Baatd. branches of the Legislature, entitled OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Borough of Queens--Hackett Build~Jackson avenue and Fifth stmt, Long Island Boaoaaz Orncss. "An Act to amend section two hundred PATalcs E. Lammm, Deputy Collector of Assess- Manhattan. and thirty of the greater New York CITY OFFICERS. ments and Arrears. No. its West Forty-second street. charter, being chapter three hundred and TATEMENT OF THE HOURS DURING Borough of Richmond—Bay and Sand streets, WILLIAM C. Barns, Chief Clerk. S which the Public Oices in the City are apes Stapleton. seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hun- for business, and at which the Courts rsgaiwIp Gxoscs BRAND, Deputy Collector of Amoeummb The Bronx. dred and ninety-seven, entitled ' An Act open and adjourn, as well ar of ibe slaps where and Arrests. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and Mats to unite into one municipality, under the beld Bureau for ON coi esbs of Cfiy Rev"" Rod o~ avenue (Solingen Building). corporate name of the city of New York, ~~gethuto rwitk thee hi sde fof D~ rots markets. COaISILIUS A. SuExxA, Chief clerk the various communities lying in and Stewart Building. chambers shed and Broad Brooklyn. about New York harbor, including the EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. way No. 4s Court street. WIL a T. Coven:, Collector of City Rev- Gsoaas RusszsL, Chief Clerk city and county of New York, the city Mayors Ors. enue and So çrinteadent of M•the►a. of Brooklyn and the county of Kings, No. S City Hall, 9 A. M- to 4 r. u.; Saturday. JAlssi H. BALDwix, Deputy Collector of City 9 A.. M. to 12 M. Revenue. S the county of Richmond and part of the of No. 5l Jackson avenue, Long Island Telephone, 1929 Cortlandt. O'B , Deputy In CARL Vos=SL, Chief Clerk. county of Queens, and to provide for the GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Mayor. Maarketts. JOHI H. O'Barsx, Secretary. government thereof,' so as to provide Berm. of MnmocAW dccoents and StoHsiies. Richmond. for an annual provision in the final esti- Staten Island Savings Building, Stapleton, S. L Taos" HAsss1T. CWd Stewart Building. Chambers street and Broad- ALIxaxaas M. Ross, Chief Clerk mate of the board of estimate and ap- All aiees open from 9 A. x. to 4 r. le.; Sat Bureau of Llesarsa. 11 R. SrAaaow, SYp.awUaj Accouatant and portionment for the Jewish Protectory y A. M. to 4?. x.; Saturdays, p A. n. to is 1. 70H15 ardays, p A. is. to is Y. and Aid Society." Telephone, 7o6 CorNaadt. Statistician, Room 178. Joan P. Coaazew. Chief of Bureau. Bore" of Net City ChawberAwa DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES. Further notice is hereby given that a Non.. 13-s1 . Principal Office, Roam 1, Qty Hell, GASTAxo Stewart Building, Chambers street and Broaa public hearing upon such bill will be held D'AlurO, Deputy Chief, Borua4ks of ManMttaa GEORGE E. BEST, Commissioner. at the Mayors Office, in the City Hall, in way, Rooms 63 to 67; and Kings County Court Gou-tnAIls Wssrsaxscasa, Deputy Commis- Rooms of sioner. Room PAysn1ai Chamberlain. The City of New York, on Wednesday, Ga..,s pn Chief, Borough ~ F. E. V. DUxx, Secretary. March 30, i9o4, at 2.30 o'clock P. M. Joan H. C**,ssas Deputy Ckamberla. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 4 r. M. Branch Office, Richmond Building, ew Befell. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to I2 m. Dated City Hall, New York, March 24, ton, S. L, Rich se R. Wows.., Financial Clerk, LAW DEPARTMENT. Telephone, 6o8o Cortlandt. Borough of Office of Corforation Counsel. I GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Office Hackett Building, Staats-Zcitung Building ad, 3d and 4th floors, DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUP- City; C=—*_LH H. , ioateiil ( 7srk, B~or- 9 A. M. to 5 P. 1[.; Saturdays, 9 A. H. to 12 M. PLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY. Mayor. ough of Queens. Telephone 5366 Cortlandt. Joan J. bsLAAY, Corporation Counsel Nos. 13t023 Park row, 9A- it. to4r.h.- Assistants—THsoDoax COxsOLY, CHARLES D. Telephoaes: Manhattan, ash Cortlsndt; Brook- Pursuant to statutory requirement, notice THE CITY RECORD OFFICE. lye,43980 T ) fJ ' Q Burrow of Prng, Stationery and Blank OLENDOR,, Gsoaos I.. STEALING, Cats-sass L. GUY, ---. ,B 439 etuyoint; Rte. is hereby given that an Act Printed No. Books. WILLIAM P. Busx, EDWIN. J. FRximmAx, Joan L. 94 pdosviBe: roux, Si Trront. 393, Int. No. 313, has been passed by both Supervli0n'e Office, Park Row Building, No. sI O'BRitx, Tsasxca FASLSY, JAatss T. M.awxz, osx T. O&KiIY. Co -'-'. Park Row. 9 A. n. to 4 P. n.; Saturdays, 9 A, lr. JAMES LInDLY GORDON. WILLuY j. O'SULLIVA%, Psasi J. GOODWIN, Deputy Coninskaioner. branches of the Legislature, entitled to is 1t. AaTHDS C. Burrs, CzAaaas N. HASSIS, Geoaos Nccuars S. Hilt, Js., Chief Engixsr. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 1995

Gcolwz W. BlslwtuL, Consulting Hydraulic En- DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. JAMIS J. HAGAN, Assistant Commissioner of MATTHEW .F. NEVILLE, Assistant Cosudeoloner gIneer. JoHN J. PALLAS, Commissioner of Parks for Public Works. FaEDEatcx P. Simrsos Assistant Commissioner. Gaoaes F. Szvsa, Consulting Electrical En- the Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond and WILLIAM H. WALKER, Superintendent of Public FREDERICK O'BYass, Sfecretary. gineer. President of the Park Board. Buildings and Offices. CHARLU F. LAcomax, Engineer of Surface Con. WILLIS HOLLY, Secretary, Park Board. MATTHEW F. Dosonus, Superintendent of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. structfon. Offices, Arsenal, Central Park. Sewers. No. 119 Nassau street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. ]r. JOSEPH W. SAVAGE, Water Registrar, Manhat- MICHAEL J. KENNEDY, Commissioner of Parks JOHN L. JORDAN, Assistant Superintendent of WILLIAM M. Hosts, Public Administrator. for the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Buildings. WILLIAM M. BLAas, Private Secretary. Offices, Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park. GEORGE F. SCANNELL, Superintendent of High- JosarH F. PRENDERGAST, Secretary to the De- Brooklyn. ways. partment. WILLIAM P. SCHMITT, Commissioner of Parks KINCS COUNTY OFFICES. THOMAS F. BYSNne Deputy Commissioner, Bor• for the Borough of The Bronx. Borough of The Bronx. COUNTY COURT, KINGS COUNTY. ou h of Brooklyn, M'unictPal~ Building, Brooklyn. Offices, Zhrowski Mansion, Claremont Park. WILLIAM R. MCGutas, Water Registrar, Brook- Office of the President, corner Third avenue County Court-house, Brooklyn, Rooms, to tp, Office hours, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, and One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street, 9 lyn. 12 M. 2a and 23. Court opens at to A. I[. daily, anti sits THOMAS H. O'NsuL, Deputy Commissioner, Bor• S. u. to 4 P. M.; Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 12 U. untilntil businessbusine is completed. Part I., Room. No ough of The Bronx, Crotona Park Building One DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND Louts F. HAPPEN, President. 23; Part II., Room Nd. to, Court-house. Clerk's Hundred and Seventy-seventh street and tfhird HENRY A. GUMBLETON, Secretary. Office, Rooms 19 and 22, open daily from p A. at. avenue. ASSESSMENTS. PATRICK J. REYII.Ls, Superintendent of Build- to P. M.; Saturdays, I2 M. THOMAS M. LYacm, Water Registrar, The Stewart Building, No. 280 Broadway. Office ingB ~. JOSEPH AspINALL and FREDERICK: P. CAsir16 hours, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.; Saturdays, 9 A. M. to HHNa, Baucsasa, Commissioner of Public County Judges. Bronx. 12 M. Geocos H. CsssD, Deputy Commissioner Bor- W or'ta. CHARLES S. DsvoT, Chief Clerk. ough of Queens, Hackett Building, Long Island Commissioners—FRANK A. O'DONNEL, Presi- ty dent; JAMES B. Boucx, JOHN J. BRADY, EDWARD Borough of Brooklyn. SURROGATE. Ci TODD, SAMUEL STRASBOURGER. EnwARD I. MILLER, Deputy Commissioner, Bor- President's Office, No. I t Borough Hall, 9 Hall of Records, Brooklyn, N. Y. ouRh of Richmond, Richmond Building, New A. M. tO 4.3o~~ P. M.; Saturdays, y A. M. to I9 Y. JAMES C. CHURCH, Surrogate. Brighton, S. L MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE MARTIN W LITTLETON President. WILLIAM P. PICKETT, Clerk of the Surrogate's COMMISSION. JOHN A. HEFFERNAN, gecretary. Court. FIRE DEPARTMENT. No. 61 Elm street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DENIS A. JUDGE, Private Secretary. Court opens at 10 A. M. Office hours, 9 A. it. JOHN H. MCCOOEY, President', JOSEPH P. DAY, JOHN C. BaACxZNIIDGE, Commissioner of Pub- to 4 P. M.; Saturdays, p A. 51. to Is M. Office hours for all, except where otherwisq E. A. CAowHIxsalxLO, Jsaomx StlacsL, HAL BELL, lic Works. noted, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.; Saturdays, la M. EUGENE F. O'CoNxoa. JAMES 5, RsoAN, Assistant Commissioner of SHERIFF. Headquarters. HENRY BERLINGER, Secretary. Public Works. PETER J. COLLINS, Superintendent of Build. County Court-house, Brooklyn. Naa. 157 and r 5Q~ East Sixty-seventh street. 9 A. M, to 4 P. M.; Saturdays, t2 M. Telephone, 2230 Ylazs, Manhattan; 265$ Main, BOARD OF ASSESSORS. ings. HENRY HEBTERBERG, Sheriff. Brooklyn. Office, No. 320 Broadway, 9 A. W. to 4 P. M-; GEORGE W. TILLsoN, Chief Engineer in Charge, Nxc othe HAYES, Fire Comissioner.m Saturdays, 12 M. Bureau of Highways. J. ROBERT MVH, President. COUNTY JAIL. WILLIAM AA. DoyLS, Deputy Commissioner, ARTHUR J. O'KSars, Superintendent of the Raymond street, between Willoughby street and Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. ANTONIO ZUCCA. Bureau of Sewers. DeKalb avenue, Brooklyn, New York. ALFRED M. DOwNE9, Secretary. CHARLES A. O'MALLEY. CHARLES C. Wise, Superintendent of the Bu- W. H. JASPER, Secretary. reku of Public Buildings and Offices. HENRY HESTERBERG, Sheriff. EDWARD F. Ceoxaa, Chief of Department and WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN, Warden. in charge of Fire Alarm Telegraph. THOMAS LALLY, Deputy Chief of Department DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Borough of Queens. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. in charge, Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. BOARD OF EDUCATION. President's Office, Borough Hall, Jackson ave- Office, County Court-house, Borough of Brook- Gsoaas E. MURRAY, Inspector of Combustibles. Park avenue and Fifty.ninth street, Borough of nue and Fifth street Long Island City. PETER SEERY, Fire Marshal, Boroughs of Man. lyn. Hours 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Manhattan, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. (in the month of JOSEPH CASSIDY, I3resident. JOHN F. tLAas:s, District Attorney, hattan, The Bronx and Richmond. August, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.); Saturdays, 9 A. M. GEORGE S. JERVIS Secretary to the President WILLIAM L. BEERS, Assistant Fire Marshal in to 12 M. JOSEPH BERMZL, l ommissioner of Public Works. REGISTER. charge, Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Telephone, 1180 Plaza. SAMUEL GRENNON, Superintendent of High- Central office open at all hours. RICHARD H. ADAMS, RICHARD B. ALDCROFTT, Way s. Hall of Records. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 4 Committee to examine persons who handle ex- JR.; FRANK L. BABBOTT, GROSVENOR H. BACKUS, Office, Hackett Building, Long Island City. P. M., excepting months of July and August; them plosives meets Thursday of each week at a o'clock NICHOLAS). BARRETT, JOHN J. BARRY, M. DWIGHT JOSEPH P. Powaas, Superintendent of Bnild, from g A. M. to a P. Y., provided for by statute. P. EL COLLIER, FRANCIS P. CUNNION, SAMUEL M. DIx, toga. MATTHEW E. DOOLEY Register. SAMUEL B. DONNELLY, A. LEO EVERETT, JOHN J. PHILIP T. CRONIN, Superintendent of Public PATRICK H. QUINN, tleputy Register. MUNICIPAL EXPLOSIVES COM- P. FAGAN, FRANK HARVEY FIELD, JOSEPH NICOLA Buildings and Offices, Jamaica, L. I. AUGUSTUS W. MAUL, Assistant Deputy Register. FRANCOLINI, ALGERNON S. FRISSELL, JOHN GREENE, MATTHEW J. GOLDNE1, Superintendent of JOHN B. SHANAHAN, Counsel. MISSION. JOHN H. MCARDLE. Secretary, Nos. t57 and ig East Sixty-seventh street, GEORGE D. HAMLIN, hi. D.; WILLIAM HARKNESS, Sewers. ROBERT L. HARRISON, IOU1s HAUPT, M. D.; JAMES F. O'BRIEN, Superintendent of Street Headquarters Fire Department. Cleaning. COUNTY CLERK. Fire Commissioner NICHOLAS J HAYESI, Chair- THOMAS J. HIGGINS, JAMES J. HIGGINSON, CHARLES II. INGALLS, FREDERIC W. JACKSON, NATHAN S. ROBERT R. CROWELL, Assistant Engineer-in- Hall of Records, Brooklyn, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. man; WILLIAM MONTGOMERY JOHN JHERRY, p EDWARD KAUFMANN, County Clerk. V. i7ONAS, JOHN C. KELLEY, JOHN P. KELLY, ADOLPH Charge, Topogra hical Bureau. ABRAHAM PIKE R, DR. CHARLES r. MCKENNA . y DENNIS WINTER, Deputy County Clerk. FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. KIFNDL, WILLIAM LUMMIS, JACOB W. MACK, Office, Long island City, A. is to 4 P. M. ALRICK I-I. MAN, FREDERICK W. MARKS, EDWARD Saturdays, from 9 A. M. until Is L. JOSEPH P. DONNELLY, Assistant Deputy County Stated meetings every Thursday at 2 P. M. D. O'BRIEN, FRANK H. PARTRIDGE, GEORGE E. Clerk. DEPARTMENT OF STREET PAYNE, JAMES A. RENWICK, LOUIS A. RODEN- Borough of Richmond. Telephone call, 1151 Main. CLEANING. STEIN, M. D.; HENRY A. ROGERS, GEORGE W. President's Office, New Brighton, Staten Isl. COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. SCHAEDLE, ABRAHAM STERN HENRY N. TIFFT, and. Nos. 13 to ai Park row, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. GEORGE A. VANDENHOFF, 1'IELIX M. WARBURG, GEORGE CROMWELL, President. Court-house. Telephone,3863~ ~Cortlandt. JAMES WEIR, JR.; FRANK D. WILSEY, GEORGE W. MAYBURY FLEMING, Secretary to the President. Acos BRENNKR, Commissioner. JOHN MCGAW WOODBURY, Commissioner. WI NGATE. Louis LINCOLN Tamps, Commissioner of Pub- uNx L GARDNER, Deputy Commissioner. F. M. GissoN, Deputy Commissioner. HENRY A. ROGERS, President. lic Works. ALBERT B. WALDON, Secretary. JOHN J. O'BatsN, Chief Clerk. FRANK L. BABEOTT, Vice-President. JOHN SEATON, Superintendent of Buildsags Office hours from g A. M. to 4 P. M.; Satur- A. EMERSON PALMER, Secretary. JOHN TIMLIN JR., Superintendent of Public days, from 9 A. M. to 12 M. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION. FRED H. JOHNSON, Assistant Secretary. Buildings and Offices. General Office. C. B. J. SNYDER, Superintendent of School H. E. BURL, Superintendent of Highways. COMMISSIONER OF RECORDS. Buildings. Rooms 7, 9, to and II, Hall of Records. No. 148 East Twentieth street Office hours RICHARD T. Fox, Superintendent of Street PATRICK JONES, Superintendent of School Sup- Cleaning. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 4 P. II., excepting from g A. M. to 4 P. Is•; Saturdays, g A. se. to plies. mouths of July and August; then 9 A. M. to a 12 M. ERNEST H. SEEHUSEN, Superintendent of Sewers. HENRY R. M. Coox, Auditor. Office of the President, First National Bank C. ti.; Saturdays, 9 A. it. to la Ir. Telephone 1047 Gramercy. HENRY M. LEIPZIGER, Supervisor of Lectures. GsoaGE E. WALDO, Commissioner, FaANCia J. LANTRY, Commissioner. Building, New Brighton, 9 A. sr. to 4 P. it.; CLAUDE G. LELAND, Superintendent of Libraries. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 12 M. JosEPH H. GaxNaLLE, Deputy Commissioner. Gaoanc W. MEYER, Ja., Deputy Commissioner. HENRY M. DEVOE, Supervisor of Janitors. JOHN H. JOHNSON. Secretary. Board of Superintendents. CORONERS. Hl,MAS D. Mosscaor Superintendent, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RICUARD S. STEVES. G+bief Clerk. WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, City Superintendent of Borough of Manhattan--Ofce, New Criminal CHARITIES. Schools, and GEORGE S. DAVIS, ANDREW W. EDSON, Court Building. Open at all times of day and PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. ALGERNON S. HIGGINS, ALBERT P. MARBLE, night. Central OAice. CLARENCE E. MELENEY, THOMAS S. O'BRIEN, GUSTAV SCHOLER, SOLOMON GOLDENKRANZ. No. 189 Montague street, Brooklyn, 9 A. s[. to Foot of East Twenty-sixth street, 9 A. M. to 4 EDWARD L. STEVENS, JOHN H. WALSH, Associate NICHOLAS T. BROWN, MOSES J. JACKSON. 4 P. M., except Saturdays in June, July and P. u. City Superintendents. Chief Clerk, STEPHEN N. SIMONSON. August, 9 A. M. to 12 M. Telephone, 350 Madison Square. Borough of The Bronx—Corner of Third ave- WILLIAM B. DAVENPORT. Public Administrator. JAMES H. TULLY, Commissioner. District Superintendents. DARWIN L. BARDWELL, WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL, nue and One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street. JAMES E. DOUGHERTY, First Deputy Commit Telephone, 333 Tremont. sioner. JOHN JAMESON CHICKERING, JOHN DWYERy~ JAMES QUEENS COUNTY OFFICES. M. EDS.ALL, MATTHEW J. ELGAS, EDWARD U. FAR- WALTER H. HENNING, Chief Clerk. WILLIAM T. NOONAN, Second Deputy Commis- WILLIAM O'GORMAN, )R.; JOSEPH I. BERRY. sioner, for Brooklyn and Queen., Nos. 126 and RELL, CORNELIUS E, FRANKLIN, JOHN GRIFFIN, Borough of Brooklyn—Office, Room II, Bor- SURROGATE. M. D.; H. HAAREN, JOHN L. N. HUNT, DANIEL NosLx, Surrogate.Surrogat 128 Livingston street, Brooklyn. ough Hall. Telephone, 4004 Main and 4005 Main. Plans and Speici6icntions, Contracts. Proposals HENRY W.l'Y JAMESON, JAMES LEE, CHARLES W. PHILIP T. WILLIAMS MICHAEL J. FLAHERTY. Of i e at Jamaica. and Estimates for Work and Materials for Build. LYON, JR.; •JAMES J. MCCAEE, ARTHUR MCMULLIN, JAMES L. GERNON, CiIief Clerk. Except on Sundays, holidays and half holidays ing, Repairs and Supplies, Bills and Accounts, ULIA kICHMAN ALFRED T. SCHAUFFLER, EDWARD Open at all hours of day and night, except be- the office is open between March 31 and October 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.; Saturdays, 12 M. B. SHALLOW, kDGAR DUBS SHIMER, SETH T. tween the hours of Is I[. and 5 P. Is. on Sundays I from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.; on Saturdays from a Bureau of Dependent Adults, foot of East STEWART, EDWARD W. STITT, GRACE C. STRACHAN, A. M. to 12 M.; between September 30 and April Twenty-sixth street. Office hours, 8.30 A. Y. to 5 GUSTAVE STRAUBENMULLER, JOSEPH S TAYLOR, Borough Hall, Fat. 1, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.; on Saturdays from 9 P. M. EVANGELINE E. WHITNEY. A. M. tO 12 M. Bureau of Dependent Children, No. 66 Third Board of Examiners. SAMUEL D. NUTT, LEONARD Ruoar, Ja. Surrogate's Court sits on Thursday and Friday avenue. Office hours, 8.30 A. M. to 5 P. M. WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, City Superintendent of MARTIN MAGER, Ja., Chief Clerk. of each week, except during the month of August, BELLE VUE AND ALLIED Schools, and JAMES C. BYRNES, WALTER L. HER- Office hours from 9 A. H. to 4 P. M. when no court is held. Calendar called at to 'TRY, JEROME A. O'CONNELL, GEORGE J. SMITH. Borough of Richmond—No. 174 Bay street, 5. Y. HOSPITALS. Stapleton. Open for the transaction of business Telephone, 2730 Madison Square. ART COMMISSION. all hours of the day and night. COUNTY COURT. Board of Trustees—Dr. JOHN W. BRANNAN, City Hall, Room SI. GEORGE F. SCHAPER. County Court-house, Long Island City. THEODORE E. TACK, ARDEN M. ROBBINS, MYLES Telephone call, 1197 Cortlandt. County Court opens at 10 A. M. and adjourns at TIERNEY, SAMUEL SACHS, JAMES K. PAULDING, JOHN DEWIrr WARNER, President; J. CAaaoLL 5 P. M. MARCUS STINE, JAMES H. ULLY. BECKWITH, Vice-President• A. AUGUSTUS HEALY NEW YORK COUNTY Count Judge's office always open at 336 Fulton President of Brooklyn institute of Arts and street, Jamaica, N. Y. TENEMENT HOUSE DEPART- Sciences, Secretary; GEORGE B. MicCL:isisAH. OFFICES. BURT JAY HUMPHREY, County Judge. MENT. Mayor of The City of New York; FaaDaalcs W. SHERIFF. Manhattan Office, No. 61 Irving place, south- RHINELANDER, President of Metropolitan Museum SURROGATE. west corner Eighteenth street. County Court-house, Long Island City, 9 A. M. of Art; JOHN BIGELOW, President of New York New County Court-house. Court open from 9 ' Saturdays fronty A. M. to 12 M. Telephone, s331 Eighteenth. Public Library; A. PHIMIATSa PROCTOR, Sculptor: A. M. to 4 P. M., except Saturdays, when it closes to 4 P. M.t Brooklyn Office, Temple Bar Building, No. 44 Hamm RDTOSas MARSHALL, Architect; Joust D. at is It. During the months of Julyand August L7_OSEPH MEYERROSE, Sheriff. Court street CRIMMINs, LOYALL FARIAGDT. the hours are from p A. M. to s P. M. ]HENRY W. SHARKEY, Under Sheriff. Bronx Office to be established. MILO R. MALTBIE Assistant Secretary. FRANK T. FITZGERALD, AENSa C. THOMAS, Sur- THouu C. T. Caaaa, Commissioner. ALICI S. CIAaK, clerk. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Joss F. SKELLY, First Deputy Tenement rogates; WILLIAM V. LEAST, Chief Clerk. Office Queens County Court-house, Long House Commissioner. Island City, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. WILLIAM BRENNAN, Second Deputy Tenement THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF SHERIFF. GEORGE A. GREGG. District Attorney. House Cmeminioner. Stewart Building, 9 A.M. to 4 P. M. THE CITY OF NEW YORK. MITCHELL L. i sLANGaa, Sheriff; JULtus HAS. COUNTY CLERK. DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND Rooms 6027 and 6o28 Metropolitan Building, SURGES. Under Sheriff. Jamaica, N. Y., Fourth Ward, Borough of FERRIES. No. I Madison avenue, Borough of Manhattan. Queens. Pier "A," N. R. Battery place. 9 A. M. to 4 P. Is.; Saturdays, 9 A. n. to Ia noon. COUNTY JAIL. Office hours, April I to October 1, 8 A. it. to 5 Telephone, 5840 Gramercy. No. 7o Ludlow street. P. M.; October Ito April 1, 9 A. m. to 5 P. at.; Telephone d.Broa Saturdays, to 12 M. MAURICE i aATHEasDN Commissioner. WALTER Coo=, Chairman; WILLIAM J. Farsa, MITCHELL L. ERLANGER, Sheriff. WARREN A. CONDYas, CHARLES BUZZ WILLIAM 7ULIUS HARBURGER, Under Sheriff. County and Supreme Court held at the Queens Cowan HASMPLVG, l5eputy Commissioner. C. SMITH, CHARLSS G SMITE, DWA"D F. County Court-house, Long Island City. Court CHARLES J. COLLINs, Secretary. THOMAS H. SULLIVAN, Warden. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 4 r. it.; Saturdays, CROIEW opens at Q 3o A. a[., to adjourn S P. i. THOMAS F. Doxonux, Clerk. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. DAVID L. VON NOsi'RRND, County Clerk. 52 M. CHARLES DOWNING, Deputy County Clerk. Board meeting every Tuesday at 3 P. 5. Building for Criminal Courts, Franklin and DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, Centre streets. COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. Southwest corner of Fifty-fifth street and Sixth EXAMINING BOARD OF Office hours from 9 A. st. to 5 P. at.; Satur- avenue, Borough of Manhattan, p A. m- to 4 P. at. days' p A. M. to Ia M. Office hours, 9 A. M. to 4 P. as.; Saturdays, g Burial Permit and Contagious Disease Office. PLUMBERS. WILLIAM Taevww Jsaos_c, Dist> Attorney. A. M. to 12 M. ROBERT MCCABE, President; DAVID JONES, Joust A. HssiSasEsY, Chief EDWARD J. KNAUER, Commissioner. M. D., Commissioner of Secretary; DENTS DoNEGON, Treasurer; cx officio, H. HoaeEa Moons, Assistant Commissioner. HORACE Loomis and P. J. ANDREwa. REGISTER. Rooms 14, 15 and 16 Aldrich Building, Nos. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR 149 and 151 Church street. No. It6 Nassau street. Office hours from 9 No. 103 Third street, Long Island City, 9 A. M. Superin- Office open during business hours every day in A. 1t. to 4 P. Y.; Saturdays, p A. is. to Is m. to 5 P. M. theear, except legal holidays. Examinations are During the months of July and August the hours are from A. M. to a P. M. CHARLES A. WADLEY, Public Administrator. 11L D., Registrar of heldy on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, after I 9 H. GunpoyA P. Y. JOHN H. J. Rolrsras, Register; Haneir H. Situ. Sanitary MAN, Deputy Register. RICHMOND COUNTY cut,~orouugh B of M hattan. OFFICES. SHSn~, M. D. Assistant Sanitary BOROUGH OFFICES. COUNTY CLERK. COUNTY JUDGE AND SURRO- ent, Borough o? The Bronx, No. Ia37 Borough of Manhattan. Nos. 8, 9, to and II New County Courthouse. GATE. Office hours from 9 A. M. to s P. u. CL J. MuaaAY, M. D., Assistant Saul. Office of the President, Nos. so is and Ia THOMAS L. HAMILTON, County Clerk. Terms of Court Richmond County, I9o, 4p lntemt,, Borough of Brooklyn, Nos, City Hall, 9 A. M. to 4 P. u.; Saturdays, 9 A. u. HENRY BIRRELL, Deputy. Corsrtyd gCourts—STEPHEN D. STaruene, County to IS M. PATalcu H. DuNN, Secretary, P. Moons, M. D. Assistant Sanitary Lois F. Aas*ax, President. Fi1Jsut Monday of June, Grand and Trial Jary; tendent, Borough oI Queens, Nos. s73 BERsAED DowlING, Secretary. First Monday of December, Grand and 3'rlal IaAAO A. HOPPER. Superintendent of Build. COMMISSTONFR OF JURORS. Jury; Room zap, Stewart Building, Climbers street Fourth Wednesday of January, without a Jury; WIrwAt DAI.ros, b of Purlio and Broadway, 9 A M. to 4 r. W. Fourth Wednesday of February, without a 56 Water street. Works THOMAS ALLtsotr, Commiastoner. Jury; 1996 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

Fourth Wednesday of March, without a Jury; WILLIAM E. WYATT, JOHN B. MCBEANt, WILLIAM Tenth District—The Tenth District embraces BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN. Fourth Wednesday of April, without a Jury; C. HOLEaooK, WILLARD H. OLMSTEAD, , OSZPH M. that portion of the Twenty-second Ward south of Fourth Wednesday of July, without a Jury; Dauci. WiLuAw M. Full.aa, Clerk; JOSEPH H. Seventieth street. Court-room, No. 3Is West JoNzs, Deputy Clerk. Fifty-fourth street Court opens daily (Sundays OFFICE OF PRKSIDENT OP THE BOROUGH OF urF yourth Wednesday of September, without a and legal holidays excepted) from 9 A. U. to 4 MANHATTAN, Clerk's Office open from 9 A. U. to 4 P. U. New YORK, March zg, ,904. J Fourth Wednesday of October, without a Jury; Second Division—Trial Days—No. i7s Atlantic P. Y. —All at the Court-house at Richmond. avenue, Brooklyn, Mondays, Wednesdays and THOMAS E. MURRAY, Justice. MICHAEL OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, IN ACCORD- SYrrogats's Court—STErncM D. STSrwsxs, Stir. Fridays at to o'clock; Town Hall, Jamaica, Bor- SK.ELLY, Clerk. ance with section 432 of the Charterof The City roga te. ough of Queens, Tuesdays, at to o'clock; Town Eleventh District—The Eleventh District em- ofN New York, that a petition signed by prperty- Mondays, at the First National Bank Building. Hall, New Brighton Borough of Richmond, braces that portion of the Twelfth Ward which owner and resident of the Washington Heights Dis- Thursdays, at ro o'clock. lies north of the centre line of West One Bun. St. George, at 10.30 o'clock A. as. dred and Tenth street, between Lenox avenue and trict for Local Improvements, for the placing of a Tuesdays, aeittNatio Bank Building, J%Stice.--JOHN COUETNIT, HowAaD J. Foirha, Seventh avenue; north of the centre line of One sewer on the east side of St. Nicholas avenue, between St. George A. M. PATRICK READY, JOHN FLEMING Teowas W. Hundred and Twentieth street between Seventh One Hundred and Eighty-first and One Hundred and Wednesdays, at the Surrogate's Office, Rich- FfT2CzsALn, ROBEST. WILEIN. JOSEPH L. KaR- avenue and Broadway- north of the centre line of Eighty-second streets, has been filed in this office, mond, at 10.30 o'clock A. M. aIGAN, Clerk; JOHN J. DORMA;, Deputy Clerk. One Hundred and nineteenth street, between and is now ready for public inspection, and that a Clerk's Office, No. 171 Atlantic avenue, Bor- Broadway and the North or Hudson river, and meeting of the Board of Local Improvements of DISTRICT ATTORNEY. ough of Brooklyn, open from 9 A. U. to 4 P. U. west of the centre line of Lenox or Sixth avenue the Washington Heights District for Local Improve. Port Richmond, S. I. and of the Harlem river; north of the terminus ments will be held in the Borough Office, City Office bourn, from p A. M. to IS Is„ and from CHILDREN'S COURT. of Lenox or Sixth avenue. Court-room, corner of Hall, on the rzth day of April, 1go4, at I I A. M , at I P. Y. to g P. M. First Division—No. 66 Third Avenue, Manhattan One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street and Colum- which meeting said petition will be submitted to the EDWARD 5. Rnwsow, District Attorney. EDMUND C. LEE, Clerk. bus avenue. Clerk's Office open daily (Sundays Board. Second Division—No. ion Court street, Brook- and legal holidays excepted) from 9 A. M. to 4 JOHN F. AHEARN, COUNTY CLERK. lyn. ROBERT J. Wn.EIx, Justice; Jwnq P. SIN. P. U. Court convenes daily at 9.45 A. M. President, Justice. HUMAN B. BERNARD DOWNING, County Office Building, Richmond, S. L. 9 enTT. Clerk. FRANCIS J. WOacasTSa, Secretary. . Y. tO 4 P. M. WILSON. Clerk. C L. Bosrwlca, County Clerk. CITY MAGISTRATES' COURTS. Twelfth District—The Twelfth District em. County Court-house, Richmond, S. I., 9 A. U. Courts open from y A. M. to 4 P. U. braces that portion of the Twenty-second Ward to P. City Magutratss—RosarT C. CoacrLL, LaaoT north of Seventieth street, and that po rtion of the DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES. 4 M. B. CEANE, CHARLES A. FLASUItIIj LoaaNE ZZLL*E, Twelfth Ward which lies north of the centre line SHERIFF, CLARENCE W. MEADE,one M. MOTTt~ JOSEPH CHARLES J. McCo,MAca, Sheriff. of Eighty-sixth street and west of the centre line POOL, JOHN B. MAYO. EDWARD HOGAN, r'ETER P. of Seventh avenue and south of the centre line DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES, NOS. 13 TO RI PARK COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. BARLOW, MATTHEW P. Bazar, SEWARD BAKER, of One Hundred and Twentieth street. between Row, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW ALRa£D G. OMYEN, CHARLES S. WHITMAN. Seventh avenue and Broadway and south of the YORK. Village Hailt' Stapleton. PHILIP BLOCH, Secretary. centre line of One Hundred and Nineteenth CHARLES J. kvLLI[Ax, Commissioner. First District—Criminal Court Building. street, between Broadway~ and the North or Hud- EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE T. Louis GARRETSON, Assistant Commissioner. Second District—Jefferson Market. soQ river. Court-room, No. a6 o Broadway. S received by the Commissioner of Bridges at the Office open from 9 A. U. until 4 P. w.; Satur- Third District—No. 69 . ALFRED P. W. SEAMAN, Justice. JAMES V. above office until Is o'clock noon, on days, from P A. U. to is as. Fourth District—Fifty-seventh street, near Lex- GILLOON, Clerk. ington avenue. Thirteenth District—South side of Delancey FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1904. Fifth District—One Hundred and Twenty-first street, from East river to Pitt street; east aide FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ELEVATED THE COURTS. street, southeastern comer of . of Pitt street, Grand street, south side of Grand AND TROLLEY RAILWAY TRACKS OF THE Sixth District—One Hundred and Fifty-eighth street to Norfolk street, east side of Norfolk street APPELLATE DIVISION OF THE WILLIAMSBURGH (NEW EAST RIVER ) street and Third avenue. to Division street, south aide of Division street BRIDGE OVER THE EAST RIVER, BETWEEN SUPREME COURT. Seventh District—Fifty-fourth street, west of to Catharine street, east side of Catharine street THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. Eighth avenue. to East river. Clerk's Office open daily (Sun- BROOKLYN. Court-house Madison avenue, corner Twenty- SECOND DIVISION. days and legal holidays excepted) from 9 A. U. Two elevated and two trolley railway tracks shall fifth street court opens at I P. M. Borough of Brooklyn. to 4 P. M. be completed by July x, 1904, and the two additional LEON SANDERS Justice; JAMES J. D'EYLIN, Clerk. trolley tracks, If constructed, on or before August I, CHARLES H. VAN BRUNT, Presiding Tuutice; City Magi trates—ALraID E. STatas A. V. B. Court-room, Ito. Roo East Broadway. 1904. EDWARD PATTERSON, MoaGAN J. O'Baiax, GrOsca VOORH£ES, Ja.;AISIS G. TIGHE, DWAaD J INGRAEAM CHESTER B. MCLAu GHLIN5 EDWARD The amount of security required to guarantee the L. DOOLEY, JOHN NAuuaa, E. G. HIGGENBOTHAH, BOROUGH or THE BROKE. faithful performance of the work will be Fifty Thou. W. HATCH, 'FIkAXE C. LAUGHLIN, Justices; AL- FRANK E. O'RIELLYHENRY Harra J.FURLONG. First District—All that part of the Twenty- sand Dollar ($5o,000). FItED WAGSTAFF, Clerk. WILLIAM LAME, Deputy President of Boar, JAxas 6. Tlcsa, No. 18436 ('crk. F ergen street fourth Ward which was lately annexed to the Blank forms and further information maybe obtained Clerk's Office open at 9 A. M. Secretary to the Board, THOMAS D. Ossoax, City and County of New York by chapter 934 of at the office of the Department of Nridges. Vf est Eighth street, Coney Island. the Laws of 1895, comprising all of the late Town GEORGE E. BEST, SUPREME COURT—FIRST First District—No. 318 Adams street of Westchester, and part of the Towns of East- Commissioner of Bridges. Second District—Court and Butler streets. cheater and Pelham including the Villages of Dated MARCH z6, 1904. ms8,a8. DEPARTMENT. Third District—Myrtle and Vanderbilt avenues. Wakefield and W'illiamabridge. Court-room, ~-. See General Instructions to Bidders County Court-house, Chambers street Courts Fourth District—Lee avenue and Clymer street Town Hall, Main street, Westchester Village. on the last page, last column of the •- City open from Io.is A. H. to 4 P. H. Fifth District—Manhattan avenue and Powers Court opens daily (Sundays and legal holidays ex- Record. " Special Term, Part 1. (motions), Room No. Is. street. cepted) from 9 A. M. to 4 P. Y. Trial of causes Special Term, Part II. (e:-parts business), Sixth District—Gates and Reid avenues. are Tuesday and Friday of each week. Room No. I S. Seventh District—Grant street (Flatbush). WILLIAM W. PENrlaLD, Justice. THosai F. DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES, Nos. I TO 21 PARK Special Term, Part IIL, Room No. 19. Eighth District—West Eighth street (Coney DELEHANTY, Cleric. Row, MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF Naw YORK, BOROUGH Special Term, Part IV., Room No. II. Island). Office hours from g A. U. to S P. U.; Saturdays, OF MANHATTAN. Special Term, Part V. Room No. 30. Borough of Queens. closing at is n. VI. (Elevated Railroad Second District—Twenty-third and Twenty- EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Special Term Part t City Magirtratex—MArrarw J. Swirl, Lvss fourth Wards, except the territory described to S received by the Commissioner of Bridges at the Cases) Room Ito. 36. J. CoNNOaTON, EDMUND . HEALY. above office until ii o'clock noon, on Trial Term, Part IL, Room No. s5. J chapter 9)4 of the Laws of 1895. Court-room, First District—Long Aland City. corner Third avenue and One Hundred and Fifty- THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904. Trial Term, Part IIL, Room No. 17. Second District—Flushing eighth street Office hours from A. U. to 4 Trial Term, Part IV., Room No. i$ Third District—Far Rockaway. 9 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BASCULE Trial Term, Part V., Room No. 16. P. H. Court opens at to A. M. BRIDGE OVER FLUSHING CREEK FROM Borough of Richmond. JOHN M. TIERNEY, Justice. THOMAS A. MAHaa, Trial Term, Part VI. Room Na e.4. Clerk. ACKSON AVENUE, NEWTOWN, TO BROAD- Trial Term, Part Vu. Room No e.3. City Magic rates—Joax CROAK, NATEAWIZL JWAY, FLUSHING, IN THE BOROUGH OF Trial Term, Part VII, Room No. 33. M ARSH. BOROUGH Or BROOKLYN. QUEENS. Trial Term, Part IX, Room No. 31. First District—New Brighton Staten Island. First District — Comprising First, Second, the work must be entirely completed on or before Trial Term, Part X. {loom No. 32. Second District—Stapleton, Sitaten Island. Third, Fourth Fifth Sixth, Tenth and Twelfth October I, 1905. Trial Term, Part XI.. Room No. at Wards of the fiorougit of Brooklyn. Court-house, The amount of security to guarantee the faithful per- Trial Term, Part XIL Room No. 34 MUNICIPAL COURTS. northwest corner State and Court streets. formance of the work will be Seventy-five Thousand Trial Term, Part XdIL, and Special Term, JOHN I. WALSH, Justice. EDWARD MORAN, Dollars ($75,r0o). V1L, Room No. e.6. Borough of Manhattan. Clerk. Blank forms and further information may be obtained Appellate Term, Room No. 31. First District—Third, Fifth and Eighth Wards Clerk's Office open from 9 A. M. to 4 P. Y. at the office of the Department of Bridges. Naturalization Bureau, Room No. 38, third and all that part of the First Ward lying west oI Calendar called at Io A. w. GEORGE E. BEST, floor. Broadway and Whitehall street including Gov- Second District—Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, Commissioner of Bridges. Assignment Bureau, room on third floor. einor's Island, Bedloe's Island, kllis Island, and Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-third Wards. Dated MARCH ,8, 1)04. mz., e.7 Clerks in attendance from TO A. U. to 4 P. U. Court-room located at No. 1237 Bedford avenue, the Oyster Islands. New Court-house, No. Tag @jp• See General Instructions to Bidders Clerk's Office, Special Term, Part I. (motions), Prince street, corner of Wooster street Brooklyn. Calendar called at to o'clock A. w. Room No. 13. GUARD B. VAN WART, Justice. WILLIAM H on the last page, last column, of the DANIEL E. FINN, Justice- THOMAS O'CocezLL, 'City Record." Clerk's Office, Special Term, Part II. (ex-parts Clerk. ALLEN, Clerk. business), room southwest corner mezzanine floor. Clerk's Office open from 9 a. to 4 P. Y. Clerk's Office open from 9 A. U. to 4 P. U. M. Clerk's Office, Special Term, Calendar, room Second District—Second Fourth, Sixth and Third District—Includes the Thirteenth, Four- southeast corner, second floor. Fourteenth Wards, and all thatrtion of the teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, *'tgh- BOARD MEETINGS. Clerk's Office, Trial Term, Calendar, room First Ward lying south and east of Broadway and ternth and Nineteenth Wards. Court-house, Nos. northeast corner, second floor, east Whitehall street Court-room corner of Grand and 6 and 8 Lee avenue, Brooklyn. Clerk's Office, Appellate Term, room Southwest WILLIAM j LYNCH, Justice. JOHN W. CAR- The Board of Estimate and Apportionment meet corner, third floor. Centre streets. P1NTER, Clerk. in the Old Council Chamber (Room 16), City Hall, HERMAN BOLTS, Justice. FRANCIS MAcGIe, every Friday, 10.30 o'clock A. M. Trial Term, Part L (criminal business). Clerk. Clerk's Office open from A- w. to 4 P. M. Criminal Court-house, Centre street. Court opens at Io o'clock. JAMES W. STEVENSON, Clerk's Office open from 9 A. M. to 4 P. U. Deputy Comptroller, Secretary. JasSices—GsweLSa H. Tacax, FRANCIS M. Court opens daily at to A. x., and remains open Fourth District—Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Soon, CHARLES F. MACLEAN HENRY BISCHOFF, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth La.; LaowAsen A. Giacraecw, OUx J. FKoaDfrAx. until daily calendar isdisposed of and close of the Wards. Court-room, No. 14 Howard avenue. The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund meet in daily business, except on Sundays and legal holi. the old Council Chamber (Room ,6), City Hall, at call P. HExsy DuGRO, HENRY ILDRaaL[aYE, 7AMal day.. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, Justice. LavaiTuTT, JAnas A. O'Goa- G. J. WIEDERHOLD, Clerk. of the Mayor. FITZGERALD, DAVID Third District—Ninth and Fifteenth Wards. N. TAYLOR PHILLIPS, MAN, Groaaa C. BAaa TT, JAwu A. BLANCHARD, Court-room, southwest corner Sixth avenue and R. M. BENNETT, Assistant Clerk. ENOH PsocTot CLAREa, SaMUIL Gaum,u,UA West Tenth street Court opens daily (Sundays Clerk's Office open from 9 A. w. to 4 P. M. Deputy Comptroller, Secretary. DWARD E. MCCALL, EDWARD B. Amman, VERNON and legal holidays excepted) from 9 A. U. to 4 Fifth District—Eighth, Twenty-second, Twenty- M. DAVIa. P. M. ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second Wn. F. Moors. Justice. DANIEL WILLIAMS, Wards. Court-house, Bay Twenty-second street BOARD OF RAPID TRANSIT RAIL- SUPREME COURT-SECOND Clerk. and Ba(h avenue, Bath Beach. Telephone, 83 Bath. ROAD COMMISSIONERS, DEPARTMENT. Fourth District—Tenth and Seventeenth Wards. CORNELIUS FUae.Uasne, Justice. JtaafIIAH J. Kings County Court-house, Borough of Brook. Court-room, No. 3o First street, corner Second O'LEAnY, Clerk. lyn N Y. avenue. Clerk's Office open daily from 9 A. U. Clerk's Office open from 9 A. U. to 4 P. M. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS OR ESTIMATES. Cattrtut open dail7 from to o'clock A. w. to S to 4 P. U. Court opens to A. as. daily, and re. trial parts. Special Term mains open to close of business. BOROUGH Or QUEEN&. F,ALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE- o'clock P. M. Six fury Gaoaca F. Roasca, Justice; ANDREW LAxt., S ceived by the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad for Trials. Special Term for Motions. Clerk. First District—First Ward (all of Long Island Commissioners at the above office until is o'clock JAMES F. McGEE, General Clerk. Fifth District—The Fifth District embraces the City, former! composingos five wards). Court- noon, on Eleventh Ward and all that portion of the Thir- room, No. 46 jJackson avenue, Long Island City. CRIMINAL DIVISION--SUPREME teenth Ward which lies east of the centre line of Clerk's Office open from 9 A. w. to 4 P. U. each WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1:1, 1904, Norfolk street and north of the Centre line of day, excepting Saturdays, closing at Is U. Trial FOR PRINTING AND BINDING THE ANNUAL COURT. Grand street and west of the centre line of Pitt days, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. All REPORT OF THE BOARD. Building for Criminal Courts, Centre, Elm, street and north of the centre line of Delancey other business transacted on Tuesdays and Thurs- The time for the performance of the contract will be White and Franklin street. street and northwest of Clinton street to Rivington daya. on or before June 15, 1904. Court opens at 10.3o A. U. street, and on the centre line of Taoi(AS C. fiAniax, Justice. THOMAS F. Rae- The amount of the securities required is 5o per TaosAS L HAMILTON, Clerk- EDwAms R. C*a' south to Norfolk street. Court-room, No. 154 xEDY, Clerk. cent. of the amount of the bid or estimate. Second District—Second and Third Wards The bidder will name a price for each item contained ROLL, Special Deputy to the Clerk. Clinton street. which includes the territory of the late Tow" o1 Clerks Office open from 9 A. U. to 4 P. U. BENJAMIN Hor,Hax, Justice. THOMAS Ftrz- below, at which prices the bids will be compared and PATEICE, Clerk. Newtown and Flushing. Court-room, in Court- the work paid for, be the quantities more or less. The COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Sixth District—Eighteenth and Twenty-first house of the late Town of Newtown, corner of extensions must be made and foote3 up as the bids will Wards. Court-room, northwest Corner Twenty- Broadway and Court street, Elmhurst, New York. be read from the total. Held in the building for Criminal Coarb. Cen- P. O. Address, Elmhurst, New York. sepa third street and Second avenue. Court opens at WILLIAM RAspuix, JR., Justice. Haxay WAL- Item of author's corrections to be named rately. tre Elm, White and Franklin streets. 9 A. U. daily. and continues open until close of The bids will then be compared, and a lump or curt opens at 10.30 o'clock A. x. business. TaR JRr Clerk. aggregate sum arrived at for all items except correc- Rom. B. G0Nlxo, City Judge; Jowl W. DANIEL F. MARrix, Justice. Arnie Bsaxawo, Gtlerk s Office open from 9 A. Y. to 4 r. w. tions, and will in the award of the contract be con- Recorder; Josarce E- NRwsueasa, MArTIw T. C' Clerk. Third District—Fourth and Fifth Wards, com- sidered correlatively in estimating the lowest bid. MABox and WARREN W. Foam, Judges of the Seventh District — Nineteenth Ward Court- prising the territory of the former towns and vil- Inasmuch as it is impossible to estimate accurately Court of General Sessions. EDweaD B. Croon., room, No. III East Fifty-seventh street Court lages of Jamaica, Far Rockaway and Rockaway the number of pages of the report or the number of Clerk. opens at 9 o'clock (except Sun- :3e0ch pa'es to be devoted to either of the different subdi- Clerk's Office open from 9 A. U. 10 4 P. U. o p and holi r ), and continues open to JAMES ' (' MCLAUGHLIN, Justice. GEORGE W. visions of the report, it is necessary to give approxi- day business. Dw C mate figures merely of the different items desired. CITY COURT OF THE CITY OF ClHa sax Josara, Justice. PATNcz MCDAVITT, Court-house, Town Hall, Jamaica. The items are, roughly, as follows: Telephone, 189 Jamaica. Total number of psges . ...... s5o NEW YORK. Eighth District — Sixteenth and Twentieth Clerk's Office open from 9 A. Y. to 4 P. U. Total number of half tones ...... 30 No.s Chambers street, Brownstone Esdrdieia, Wards. Court-room, northwest corner of Twenty- Court held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Map and profile ...... a City Hill Park, from 10 w, U. to 4 P. U. third street and Eighth avenue. Court opens at Fridays, at To o'clock A. M. Plans ...... so Geasv~ Term, Part L 9 A. It. and continues oven until close of bad- Line drawings ...... so Part ness. Summary proceedings and return causes Bogouoa or RzcwwocD. Number of pages of tabulated matter..... b Part IIL called y.3o A. Y. Calendar trial causes, so A. Y. First District—First and Third Wards (Towns Size of page about to 5-r6 inches by 7-M Part IV. Cleric's Office open from 9 A. Ms to 4 P. M., and of Castleton and Northfield). Court-room, former inches margin z4 inches. Part V. on Saturdays until is M. Village Hall, Lafayette avenue and Second street, Total number of copies to be printed ..... 3,250 Special Term Chambers will be odd from is Trial dayf and Return day., ach Court day. New B ton. Binding in cloth ...... 550 A. U. tO 4 P. Y. JAnna W. MCLAUGHLIN, Justice. ab . gaxxY, Justice. Axxlxa S. PRALL, Binding in heavy Paper*...... 3,000 Clerk's Office open from 9 A. U. to 4 P. Y. $axaY MsIZIACH, Clerk. Clerk. Corrections per ...... ..... $ EnwwaD F. O'DwyEa, Chief Just,ice; JOHN H. Ninth District Twelfth Ward, except that por- Clerk's Office oven from 9 A. M. to s P. Et, Sample of previous report and of all work above MCCARTHY, LEWIS J. CONLAN, THEODORE F. tion thereof which lies west of the centre line of Court held each day, except Saturday., from described in office of Rapid Transit Board, Room 4or, HASCALL, FRANCIS B. DELEHANTY, SAMUEL SEA- Lenox or Sixth avenue, and of the Harlem river g0 A. M. No. 320 Broadway, New York City. auRY, Justice.. THOMAS F. SMITH, Clerk. north of the terminus of Lenox avenue. COurt- Second District--$cmrssl. Fourth and Fifth ALEXANDER E. ORR, room, No. r7o East One Hundred and Twenty. Wards (Towns of Middletown. Southfield and President. COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS. first street, southeast corner of Sylvan place. Westfield). Court-room, former Edgewater Vil- BION L. BURROWS. Court opens every morning at 9 o'clock (except lage Hall, Stapleton, Secretary. Sundays and legal holidays), and continues open o&Ga W. Ssaas, Justice. P== TUMXAx, ranklin and White street, Borough of to close of business. New YORK, March is, 1904. m26,a13 JosEPa P. FALwx, Justice. Wn1i.Inoc J. KIW- Clerles Office open~ fr om 9 A. M. to 4 P. sI. w Ace General Iwatrtetions to Bidders F0pma xanY. Clerk on the least pus•. last column, of the trtticaAfrsl Division--FF.Iam B. HM1wots, Clerk's Office apse 1s-ow p w. It, to 4 n It. tint es until close of braioasie A. aa.. sad eon- s• at$y 1Leecsn. • TUESDAY, MARCH 29, I9e4. THE CITY RECORD. 1997

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION. The amount of security required is Two Thou- of the Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, Room will be considered by said Board ; all of which is more sand Five Hundred Dollars. No. t5, Municipal Building, Borough of Brooklyn. particulaily set forth and described in the following OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, NO. No. 2. FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR MARTIN W. LIL'TLETON, resolutions, adopted by the Board on the rrth day of 148 EAsr TWeNTIETH STREET, BOROUGH OF MANHAT- AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR CON- President. March, r9o4, notice of the adoption of which is hereby TAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. STRUCTING A SEWER IN FIFTY-FIFTH Dated MARCH r7, 1 given, viz.; STREET, from Fifteenth avenue to New Utrecht 904- nt24,a , 3 EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE '- See General Instructions to Bidders Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Appor- avenue. tionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of S received by the Commissioner of Correction at The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as on the last page, last column, of the"City the above office until is o'clock A. M., on Record." the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York follows: Charter, as amended, deeming it for the public in- TUESDAY, APRIL b, 1904. go linear feet r 5-inchvitrified stoneware terest so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of pipe sewer, laid in concrete. Borough of Manhattan. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE BY AUCTION. The City of New York by changing the grade of West- 1,380 linear feet to-inch vitrified stoneware chester avenue, between Cauldwell avenue and Robbins FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING pipe sewer, laid in concrete. HARDWARE, PAINTS, IRON, STEAM FIT- N TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 19o4, AT it avenue in the Borough of The Bronx. City of New 15 manholes. York, more particularly described as follows: TINGS, LUMBER AND MiaCELLANEOJJS 8,600 feet, B. M. foundation planking. O o'clock A.M., the Commissioner of Public Works ARTICLES. will sell at public auction the following: The elevation of the grade in Westchester ave- The time allowed for the completion of the titte given as 39.5 feet above meDn high-water The time for the delivery of the articles, materials work and full performance of the contract is Sewer Repair Yard North Portland avenue— One (t) buckskin horse. datum on the final maps of the Twenty-third and and supplies and the performance of the contract is by 40 working days. Twenty-fourth Wards, at the angle point of said or before to days. No. 3. FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR One (I) black horse. About twenty (zo) tons old iron. Westchester avenue near Trinity avenue, to be The amount of security required is fifty per cent. AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR CON- shifted easterly about 65 feet in order to comply (50%) of the amount of the bid or estimate. STRUCTING A SEWER IN CREAMER Quantity of old hose. One (,) old wagon. with the existing regulated and paved elevation of The bidder will state the price of each item or STREET, from Smith street to Court street, and Westchester avenue. article contained in the specifications or schedules OUTLET SEWER IN SMITH STREET, be- Borough Hall— herein contained or hereto annexed, per pound, ton, tween Creamer street and Lorraine street. Seventeen (L7) old black walnut benches. Resolved, That the President of the Borough of dozen, gallon yard or other unit of measure, by which The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as One (I) old clock. The Bronx caus- to be prepared for submission to this follows: One (I) old square desk. Board three similar maps or plans f or certrfie-. tion and the bids will ite tested. The extensions must be made filing in the manner required by law, showing as and footed up, as the bids will be read from the totals 240 linear feet 3o-inch brick sewer. One (r) lot of damaged chairs. and awards made to the lowest bidder on each item. 335 linear feet 12-inch vitrified stoneware Wallabout Market— nearly s possib e the nature and extent of the pro- Delivery will be required to be made at the time and pipe sewer, laid in concrete. About 250 feet of 2Y2-inch rubber hose. posed change and the location of the immediate adja- 7 manholes. Kings County Court-house- cent or of intersecting open or established streets, in the manner and in such quantities as may be roads, squares or places sufficient for the identifica- directed. 7,000 feet, B. M., foundation planking and pile I, ive (5) lots broken tables. Blank forms and further information maybe obtained capping. Three (3) lots old tiling. tion and location thereof. and the plans and drawings may be seen at the office too linear feet piles. Three (3) lots old stone. Resolved, That this Board consider the proposed of the Department of Correction, the Borough of Man- The time allowed for the completion of the Four (4) lots old chair. change at a meeting of this Board, to be held in the hattan, No. 148 Last Twentieth street. work and full performance of the contract is Four (4) lots old desks. Old Council Chamber (Room r61, City Hall, Borough 40 working days. One (t) It old chandeliers. of Manhattan, City of New York, on the 8th day of FRANCIS J. LANTRY, The amount of security required is One Thou- One (t) lot rope matting. April, 0904, at ro.-oo'clock a M. Commissioner. sand Six Hundred Dollars. Five 15) lots broken wood. Resolved, That the Secretary of this Poard cause Dated MARCH 23, 1904. m24,a5 The bidder will state the price of each ;tern or arti- One (,) lot file cabinet. these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected $W' See General Instructions to Bidders cle contained in the specifications or schedules herein Eight (6) lots wooden doors. thereby that the proposed change will be considered at on the last page, last column, of the contained or hereto annexed, per linear foot. B. M., One (I) lot circle window frames. a meeting of the Board, to be held at the aforesaid time •• City Record." cubic yard or other unit of measure, by wh ch the One (I) lot storm sashes. and place, to be published in the CITY R CORD for ten bids will be tested. The bids will be compared and One ti) lot gas reflectors. days continuously, iundays and legal holidays ex- the contract awarded at a lump or aggregate sum One (I) lot swinging sashes. cepted, prior to the 8th day of April, I9"4- for each contract. One (') lot iron cooler stands. JOHN H. MOONEY, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. Two (2) lots iron railings. Assistant Secretary. Blank forms and further information may be obtained One O) lot window sashes. and the plans and drawings may be seen at the office mz6 a4 OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, IN AC- One (i) lot desk supports. of the Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, Two (z) lots wooden railings. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE N cordance with section 432 of the Charter of The Room is, Municipal Building, Borough of Brook- City of New York, the following petitions are on file lyn. One (t) lot iron stoves. N Board of Estimate and Apportionment of I he and ready for inspection and will be considered by the MARTIN W. LITTLETON, One (r) lot wooden window sash. City of New York, deeming it for the public interest p Local Board of the Bay Ridge District, at a meeting to President. One (Li lot iron shutters. so to do, roposes to change the map or plan of The be held in the office of the President of the Borough of Dated MARCH 22, 1904. m,6,ar3 One ( ) lot old iron (about 2 V2 tons). City of New York, so as to lay out a new street, to be Brooklyn, Room II, Borough Hall, on Monday, April g_ See General Instructions to Bidders One (t) lot brass railings. called " West street," extending from Crotona Park- IT, I90 , at 2.30 P. M. on the last page, last column, of the One (i) lot old boilers, not in use for ten years. way to Honeywell avenue, and spproximately mid),.,. No I. To alter the map or plan of The City •• City Record." One (I) lot hot water boiler, not in use for five years. between East One Hundredand Eighty-first street and of New York by striking therefrom Stewart ave- Municipal Building- East One Hundred and Eighty-second street, in the nue, from Seventy-fourth street to Eighty-sixth OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF 1en (,o) window sashes. Borough of The Bronx, City of New York, and that street. BR-IOKLYN, ROOM No. r5, MUNICIPAL B"ILDING, BOR- Twelve (r2) doors. a meeting of said Board will be held in Room '6, City No. 2. To open West Twenty-eighth street, (IUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY I New YORK. Nine (9) pieces iron partitions. Hall, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, on from Surf avenue to Gravesend Ship canal. One (r) case with iron door. the 8th day of April, r9o4, at ro.3o o'clock A.M., at No. 3. To open One Hundredth street, from EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL PE RE- One (I) counter desk. which such proposed change will be considered by S ceived by the President of the Borough of Brook. One (I) old cork carpet. said Board ; all of which is more particularly set Fort Hamilton parkway to Stewart avenue. lyn at the above office until it o'clock A. M., on No. 4. To construct a sewer in Benson avenue, One (i) flat top desk. forth and described in the following resolutions, between Bay Eleventh and Bay Thirteenth WEDNEWDAY. aPRIL 13, 1904. one ir) counter desk with partition. adopted by the Board on the rtth day of March 19o4, sit eels. No. I. FOR REGULATING AND REPAIRING One (r) flat desk. notice of the adoption of which is hereby given, viz.: No. 5. To construct a sewer in Sixtieth street, WITH MACADAM PAVEMENT THE ROAD- Foteen (r5) feet of wooden rail. Resoled, that the Board of Estimate and Appor- between Fifth and Sixth avenues. WAY OF HENDRIX STREE t', from Vienna street t'ne (I) old Brussels carpet. tionment of The City of New York, in pursu n e of No. 6. To construct a sewer in Ninety-first to the Sewage Purification Works. Public Baths and Comlort Stations- the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York street, between Third and Fourth avenues. The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as 1'wenty,three (23) old hawsers, 45 to So feet lengths, Charter, as amended, deeming it for the pudic interest No. 7. To construct a sewer in Seventy-third follows: one ton in weight. more or less, located on Floating so to do, proposes to chang • the map or plan of The street, from Narrows avenue to First avenue. 3,601 square yards of Macadam Pavement. Bath No. 5, foot of Thirtieth street, kichards Basin City of New York, by laying out a new street, to be No. 8. To regulate, grade and curb Sixteenth The time allowed for the completion of the work and The sale will take place a the office of the Assistant called "West street,' extending from Crotona Park- avenue, from Main street to Gravesend Bay. full performance of the contract is to working days. Commtsstonet of Public Works, Room t5, Municipal way to Honeywell avenue, and approximately midway No. 9. To regulate, grade, curb and lay cement The amount of security required is One Thousand Building, Borough of Brooklyn. between East One Hundred and Eighty-first street and sidewalks on Coney Island avenue, from 170 feet Dollars. Intending bidders may apply for particulars at said East One Hundred and Eighty-second street, in the south of Plaza at Fort Hamilton avenue to King's No, z. FOR REGULATING, GRADING, CURB- office before the day of sale, Borough of The Bronx, City of New York, more particularly described as follows: Highway. ING, GUTTERING AND LAYII.G SIDEWALKS TERMS OF SALE. No. to. To regulate, grade, curb and lay cement ON MAPLE STREET from Rogers avenue to Nos- Cash payment in bankable funds at the time and West street is to be laid out at a width of 50 sidewalks on Fifteenth avenue, between Sixty- trend avenue. place of sale, and the removal of the horses, wagon, feet and on the same lines as originally laid out seventh and Seventy-fifth streets. The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as fol- turniture, materials, etc., immediately. if the pur- by the owners of the land shown on the Map of No. I I. To regulate, grade, curb and lay cement lows: cSaser or purchasers, tails or fail to remove said Wardsville, filed in the Register's office, West. sidewalks on Seventy-third street, between Ito square yards brick gutters, including con- horses, wagon, furniture, mater als, eta., the purchase chester County, White Plains, December 16, 1551. 'Iwelfili and Thirteenth avenues. crete base. money and ownership of the same will be forfeited. The intersection of the southern line of said No. 12. To pave sidewalks opposite lots on the 2,492 linear feet new bluestone curbstone. JAMES S. REGAN, West street with the western line of Honeywell south side of Forty-fourth street, between Fifth 389 cubic yards earth excavation. Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, avenue will he therefore 79.11 feet northerly from and Sixth a%enues, known as Nos. g and 37, 387 cubic yards earth filling, to be furnished. Borough of Brooklyn. the northern line of East One Hundred and Block 739, Eighth Ward Map. 150 square feet old flagstones, to be relaid. Eighty-first street, and the intersection of the No. t3. To inclose with a close board fence six 7,010 square feet cement sidewalks. southern line of said West street with the eastern I'6) feet high lots on the south side of Forty- The time allowed for the completion of the work line of Crotona parkway will be t5o.95 feet north- ttinth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues; and full performance of the contract is 30 working OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF erly of the northern line of East One Hundred north side of Fiftieth street, between Sixth and days. and Eighty-first street, measured along said Cro- BROOKLYN, ROOM 15, MUNICIPA). BUILDING, BOROUGH? tona parkway. Seventh avenues; and on the west side of Sev- The amount of security required is One Thousand OF BROOKLYN, THE Coy OF NEW YORK. Five Hundred Dollars. enth avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Resolved, That the President of the Borough of streets, The bidder will state the price of each item or The Bronx cause to be prepared for submission to this article contained in the specifications or schedules S received by the President of Borough of Brook- No. 14. To inclose with a close board fence six lyn at the above office until II o'clock A, M., On Board three similar maps or plans for certification and (6' feet high lots on the northeast corner of herein contained or hereto annexed, per linear foot, filing in the manner required by lass', showing as Ninety-ninth street and Third avenue. square foot, cubic yard, square yard, or other unit of WIi6DNE&DA1, MARI,H 30, 1904. nearly as possible the nature and extent of the pro- MARTIN W. LITI'LETON, measure. by which the bids will be tested. No. I. FOR PAVING WITH GRANITE posed change and the location of the immediate adja President, Borough of Brooklyn. The bids will be compared and the contract awarded PAVEMENT ON A CONCRETE FOUNDA- cent or of intersecting open or established streets, JOHN A. HEFFERNAN, at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. TION THE ROADWAY OF FORTY-THIRD roads, squares or places sufficient for the identifica- Secretary. Blank forms and further information may be oh. STREET, from east aide of First avenue to west tion and location thereof tamed and the plans and drawings may be seen at the side of First avenue. Resolved, That this Board consider the rroposed office of the Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as fol- change at a meeting of this Board, to be held in the Old OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, IN Room No. 15, Municipal Building, Borough of Council Chamber (Room 16, City Hall, Borough of accordance with section 412 of the Charter lows: N Brooklyn. 350 square Manhattan, City of New York, on the 8th day of April. of The City of New York, the following petitions are on MARTIN W. LITTLETON, with ytar and rggravelay including 1904, at 00,30 o'clock A M. file and ready for inspection and will be considered by Resolved, That the Secretary of this Bard cause g President. concrete foundation. the Local Board of the Flatbush District at a meetin Dated MARCH II, 1904. tc24.a•3 7o cubic yards of concrete, for foundation of these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected to be held in the office of the President of the Borough • that the nropnsed c"a'lpe 1v'll be considered at 1- See General Instructions to BidArrs pavement and curb, not to be bid for. Ihereb, of Brooklyn, Room It, Borough Hall, on Monday, 6o linear feet of new curbstone. a meeting of the Board. to be held at the aforesaid time April xI, 1904, at 3 P. M. on the last page, last column, of the •• Cit y 330 square feet of new granite bridgestone, not and place, to be published in the CITY RECORD for ten No. I. To amend pending proceedings to open Record." to be bid for. days continuously, Sundays and legal holidays ex- Brooklyn avenue, between Canarsie lane or ave- Time for the completion of the work and the cepted, prior to the 8th day • f April, 1904. nue and Paerdegat avenue or basin, by including OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF full performance of the contract is ten (to) work- JOHN H. MOONEY, therein that portion cf Broolilyt+ avenue lying BROOKLYN, ROOM No. 15, MUNICIPAL BUILDING, BOR- ing days. Assistant Secretary. between Canarsie lane or avenue (between Bev- OLGH OF BRO ,Kt.YN. THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The amount of security required is Four Hun- m26,a4 erley and Clarendon roads) and Clarkson stre-t. EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE dred Dollars. No. 2. To rescind proceedings to pave Flat- S received by the President of the Borough of No. a. FOR GRADING LOTS ON THE bush avenue with macadam between the boundary OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Brooklyn at the above office until it o'clock A. M., on NORTH SIDE OF NINETEENTH STREET, be. B,'ard of Estimate and Apportionment of I he line of the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second tween Sixth avenue and Seventh avenue, known N Wards and Avenue N. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13, 1904. City of New York, deeming it for the public interest as Lot No. 49, Block 88o, Twenty-second Ward so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of 7 he No To pave with macadam Flatbush avenue, No. i. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING p, ALL THE LABOR ANDMATP.RIAL REQUIRED Ma City of New York, so as to establish the grade of from Nostrand avenue to Avenue N. Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as fol- Delap place, between Bergen avenue and Grand street, No. 4. To regulate, grade, curb and pave side- Ft)R REMODELING THE MAIN ENTRANCE lows: g TO THE HALL OF RECORDS. BOROUGH OF Fourth Ward, in the Borough of Queens. City of New walks of East Twenty-ei hth street, between I70 cubic yards of earth excavation. York, and that a meeting of said Board will be held in Newkirk avenue and Clarendon road. BROOKLYN, CITY OF NEW YORK. Time for the completion of the work and the The time allowed for the completion of the work and Room t~, City Hall, Borough of Manhattan, City of No. 5. To construct sewer in Sherman street, full performance of.the contract is ten (lo) work- New York, on the 8th day of April, r.o4. at 0.30 from Reeve Place to Greenwood avenue. full performance of the contract is ninety (go) calendar ing days. days. o'clock A M.. at which such proposed change will be No. 6. To regulate, grade and pave with The amount of security required is Thirty Dol- considered by said Board ; all of which is more par. asphalt on concrete base Sherman street, between 'the amount of security required is Four Thousand lars. Dollars. ticularly set forth and described in the following reso- Ocean parkway and Reeve place. The bidder will state the price of each item or or. lutions. adopted by the Board on the r,th day of No. 7. To regulate, grade, curb, gutter and A deposit of Szo in cash, or certified check, will be uired for each set of plans and drawings. which ticle contained in the specifications or schedules March, Ino,, notice of the adoption of which is hereby pave sidewalks with cement on East Seventeenth req herein contained or hereto annexed, per linear foot, street, between Albemarle and Beverley roads. will be refunded upon the return of said plans and given, viz.: square foot, cubic yard or square yard, or other unit of Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Appor- MARTIN W. LITTLETON, drawings to the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Offices, Room No, 19, Municipal Building, Bor- measure, by which the bids will be tested. tionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of President, Borough of Brooklyn. The aids will be compared and the contract awarded the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York JOHN A. HEFFERNAN. ough of Brooklyn. No. 2. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING at a lump or aggreeate sum for each contract. Charter. as amended, deeming it for the public interest Secretary. Blank forms and further information may be ob- so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The ALL Till'. LABOR AND MATERIALS RE- y be seen at the QUIRED FOR FURNISHING AND INS CALL. tained and the plans and drawings ma City of New Yof, by establishing the grade of Pelap office of the Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, place, between Bergen avenue and Grand street, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THS BOROUGH OF ING ELECTRIC WIRING FOR LIGHT, No. AND MOTORS IN THE HALL OF RECORDS, BOR- Room 15. Municipal Building, Borough of Brooklyn. Fourth Ward. in the Borough of Queens. City of New BROOKLYN, ROOM I MUNICIPAL BUILDING, BOROUGH OUGH OF BROOKLYN, CITY OF NEW YORK. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, York, more particularly described as follows: OF BROOKLYN, THE -CIT OF NEW YORK The time allowed for the completion of the work President. The elevation at the intersection of Delap place EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Dated, FEBRUARY 79, 1904. and Bergen avenue to be 61.75 feet above mean and full performan-s of the contract is one hundred in n, 3o S received by the President of the Bor-ugh of and twenty (raol caien1ar days. high-water datum. Brooklyn at the above office until it o'clock A. H., on The amount o' secsR ty required is Seven Thousand w See Genera I Instructions to Bidders I. Thence eastwardly to a point 175 feet west- WEDN169DAI, APIk1L ia, 1904. Five Hundred Dollars. on the last page, last column, of the erly of the centre line of Grand street, the eleva- "City Record: tion to be 7x.25 feet above mean high-water datum. No. I. FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR A deposit of =r5 in cash, or certified check, will be required for each set of plans and drawings, which 2. Thence eastwardly to the intersection of AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR CON- will be refunded upon the return of said plans and Delap place with Grand street, the elevation to be STRUCTING A SEWEI IN EAST NINE- 70.35 feet above mean high-water datum. TEENTH STREET, from Albemarle road to drawings to the Superintendent of Public Buildings BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPOR- Beverly road. and Offices, Room 29, Municipal Building, Borough of TIONMENT. Resolved, That the President of the Borough of The The Engineer's estimate of the quantities is as Brooklyn. Bronx cause to be prepared for submission to this follows: Bids will be compared and the contract awarded at Board three similar maps or plans for certification 870 linear feet 18-inch vitrified stoneware a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE and filing in the manner required by law, showing As The bidder will state the price of each item or article Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The nearly as possible the nature and extent of the pro- pipe sewer, laid in concrete. N posed change and the location of the immediate adja- 44 linear feet vitrified stoneware contained in the specifications or schedules herein con- City of New York, deeming it for the public interest sewer, iinch~~vit , tained or hereto annexed, by which the bids will be so to do, pr poses to change the map or plan of The cent or of intersecting open or established streets, 6a linear feet to-inch vitrified stoneware tested The bids will be compared and the contract City of New York so as to change the grade of West- roads, squares or places sufficient for the identifica. pipe sewer, laid in concrete. warded at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. chester avenue, between Cauldwell avenue and Rob- tion and location thereof. 9 manholes. Delivery will be required to be made at the time and bins avenue, in the Borough of The Bronx, City Resolved, That this Board c"ns:der the proposed Don feet, B. M. foundation planking. in the atgnaer and to such quantities as may be of New York, asd that a meeting of said Board will be change at a meeting of this Board to be held in the Old The -time allowed for the completion of the directed. held in Room r6, I ity Hall, Borough of M..nhattan, Council Chamber (Room 61, City Hall. Borough of work and full performance of the contract is Blank forms and further information may be obtained i icy of New York, on the 8th day of April. ipo4. Manhattan, I ity of New York, on the 8th day of April, 30 working days. and the plans and drawings may be seen at the office at 10.30 O'clock A. M., at which such paused change 1904, at Io.30 o'clock A. M. 1998 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board cause 5. The grade at the intersection of Westchester for ten days continuously, Sundays and legal holi- roads, squares or places, sufficient for the identifica- these resolutions and a notice to allersons affected avenue with Ferris place to be 22.5 feet above days excepted, prior to the 8th day of April, ego. tion and location thereof. thereby that the proposed chart e will be considered mean high-water datum, JOHN H. MOONE1, Resolved, 1 hat this Board consider the proposed at a meeting of the Board, to be held at the aforesaid 6. The grade at the angle point east of Ferris Assistant Secretary. change at a meeting of this Board, to be held in the time and place, to be published in the LIT' R Con) place to be 21.8 feet above mean high-water mz6,a4 Old Council Chamber (Room x61. City Hall. Borough for ten days continuously, •undays and legal holidays datum, of Manhattan, City of New York, on the 8th day of excepted, prior to the 8th day of April t90 f. 7. The grade at the intersection of Lane ave- April. root, at to 30 o'clock A. M. JOHN H. MOONEI, nue with Madison avenue to be 25.o feet above OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board cause Assistant Secretary. mean high-water datum. N Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected ms6,a4 Resolved, That the President of the Borough of City of New York, deeming it for the public interest thereby that the proposed change will be considered The Bronx cause to be prepared for submission to this so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The at a meeting of the Board to be held at the aforesaid Board three simil'r maps or plans for certification and City of New York so as to In out a public park time and place, to be published in the CITY RECORD OTICE IS Hy:REKY GIVEN THAT THE bounded by East One Hundred and ')wenty-third Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The filing in the manner required by law, showing as for ten days continuously. Sundays and legal holidays N nearly as possible the nature and extent of the pro- street, East One Hundrei and Twenty-fifth street, excepted, prior to the 8th day of April, 1904. City of New York, deeming it for the public interest First avenue and the marginal street or sshart along so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The posed chance and the location of the immediate ad- JOHN H. MOONEY, jacent or of intersecting open or established streets, the water front, in the Borough of Manhattan, City of Assistant Secretary, City of New York so as to establish grades on West New York, ano that a meeting of said Board will be roads, squares or places, sufficient for the identifica- mv6,a4 Farms road, from the New York, \ew Haven and held in Room r6, City Hall, Borough of Manhattan, Hnrtlord Railroad to the , and also tion and location thereof. Resolved, that this Board consider the proposed City of New York, on the 8th day of April, 1904, at of the public place near the junction of Westchester change at a meeting of this Board to be held in the 10.30 o'clock .4. di., at which such proposed change OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE avenue, I sventy-foarth Ward, in the Borough of The Old Council ( hamber f Room City Hall, Borough will be considered by said Board : all of which is more N Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The Bronx, City of New York, and that a meeting of 16l, of Manhattan, City of New York, on the 8th day of particularly set forth and described in the following City of New York, deeming it for the public interest said Board will be held in Room 16, City Hall, resolutions, adopted by the Board on the rrth day of so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, on the April, 1904, at x5.30 o'clock A. M. Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board cause March, t9o4, notice of the adoption of which is hereby City of New York so as to change the grade of Fort 8th day of Apni, 19 4, at 10.30 o'clock A. tu., at these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected given. viz.: Washington avenue, from a point 433.95 feet south of which such proposed change will be considered by said Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Appor- the centre line of a cross street at the northerly end Board : all nt which is more particularly set forth and thereby that the proposed change will be considered at a meeting of the Board to be held at the aforesaid tionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of of the avenue, for an additional distance of 803.90 feet described in the following resolutions, adopted by the the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York southerly therefrom, in the Borough of Manhattan, Board on the cith day of 6Jarch, rgo4, notice of the time and place, to be published in the CITY RRCOeD for ten days continuously, Sundays and legal holidays Charter, as amended, deeming it for the public interest City of New York, and that a meeting of said adoption of which is hereby given. viz.: of Ap ril, Igo. so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The Board will be held in Room r6, City Hall, Bor- Resolved, [hat the Board of Estimate and Appor- excepted, prior to the 8th day JOHN H. MOONEY, City of New York by laying out a public park ough of Manhattan, City of New York, on the 8th tionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of Assistant Secretary, bounded by East One Hundred and Twenty-third day of April, x904, at ro.30 o'clock A. M., at the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New mz6,a4, street, East One Hundred and Twenty-filth street, which such proposed change will be considered York Charter, as amended, deeming it for the public First avenue and the Marginal street or wharf along by said Board ; all of which is more particu- interest so to do, proposes to change the map or plan the water front, in the Borough of Manhattan, City OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE larly set forth and described in the following resolu- of The City of New York by estabtishmg grades on of New York, more particularly described as follows: tions adopted by the Board on the till day of Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The W,st Farms road, from the New York, New Haven N Beginning at a point the northeasterly corner of March 1904, notice of the adoption of which is hereby and Hartford Railroad to the Westchester creek, and City of New York, deeming it for the public interest East One Hundred and Twenty-third street and given, viz.: so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The City also of the public place near the junction of West- First avenue; thence easterly along the northerly Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Appor- chester avenue, I wenty-fourth Ward, in the Borough of New York so as to chan e the grade of East line of East One Hundred and "Twenty-third Two Hundred and I hirty-third street, between Web- tionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of of i he Bronx, City of New York, more particularly street, distance 613 feet to the westerly line of the provisions of section 442 ofthe Greater New Yorl: described as follows: ster avenue and the Bronx river, in the t'orough Ilea:sant avenue; thence northerly along said line, of 1 he Brcnx, City of York, and that a Charter, as amended, deeming it for the public interest Road. New distance 201.83 feet to the southerly line of East so to do, p A.-JVest Farms meeting of said Board will be held in Room 16, City roposes to change the map or plan of The 1. The grade of the bridge across the New One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street; thence Hall. liirough of Manhattan, City of New York, on City of New York by changing the grade of Fort York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and westerly along the southerly line of said street, the 8th day of April, 1904, at ro.jo o'clock A. nt.. Washington avenue from a point 431.9; feet south of the northern side of (Vest Farms road to be 61.o distance 613 feet to the easterly line of First at which such proposed change will be considered the centre line of a cross street at the northerly end of feet above mean high-water datum, avenue; thence southerly along the said line, dis- by said Board : all of which is more particularly set the avenue, for an additional distance of 803.90 feet 2. The grade of the bridge over the New York, ttnce 201.83 feet to the point or place of begin- southerl forth and described in the following resolutions y therefrom in the Borough of Manhattan, City New Haven and Hartford Railroad at a point op- ning. adopted by the Board on the i-th day of March, of New York, more particularly described as follows : posite the western line of Rosedale avenue to be Also, beginning at a point the northeaster]y 19'4, notice of the adoption of which is hereby Beginning at a point in the centre line of Fort 59.5 feet above mean high-water datum, corner of East One Hundred and Twenty-fourth given, viz : Washington avenue, distant 433.95 feet southerly 3. The grade of West Farms road at the in- stieeL and First avenue; from the centre line of a cross street at the north- tersection with the western line of Rosedale ave- Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Appor- Thence easterly along the northerly line of East tionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of erly end of said avenue, elevation :67.50 feet nue to be 59.0 feet above mean high-water datum, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, distance the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York above City datum; thence southerly along the 4 The grade at the southwest curb intersection 613 feet to the westerly line of ; Charter, as am-nded, deeming it for the public interest Centre line of said avenue, distance 273.91 feet, of Commonwealth avenue to be 6o.5 feet above Thence northerly along said line, distance 70.09 so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The elevation 182.50 feet; thence southerly along said mean high-water datum, feet to the westerly line of marginal street, wharf City of New fork by changing the grade of East centre line, distance 529.99 feet, elevation 219 5. The grade at the intersection with St. Law- or place; feet. rence avenue to be 52.0 feet above mean high- Two Hundred and Thirty-tmrd street. between Web- Thence northerly along said line, distance r58.og ster avenue and the Bronx river, in the Borough of The alteration of said grade is found in section water datum, feet to the southerly line of East One Hundred The Bronx, City of New York, more particularly 8, Blocks 2179 and 2180 of the Land Map of the 6. The grade at the southwest curb intersection and Twenty-fifth street; described as follows: Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. of Clason's Point road to be 46.0 feet above Thence westerly along said line, distance 525.14 Resolved, That the President of the Borough of Man- mean high-water datum, The grade at the intersection of East Two feet to the easterly line of First avenue; Hundred and Thirty-third street with Webster hattan cause to be prepared for submission to thi.; 7. The grade at the southeast curb intersection Thence southerly along said line, distance 20[.83 Board three similar maps or plans for certification and of Harrison avenue to be 45.0 feet above mean avenue north of East Two Hundred and Thirty- feet to the point or place of beginning. Also third street to be 91.5 feet above mean high-water filing in the manner required by law, showing as nearly high-water datum, Beginning at the northeasterly corner of East as possible the nature and extent of the proposed datum: 8. The grade at the intersection with Thieriot One Hundred and Twenty-third street and Pleas- change and the location of the immediate adjacent or avenue to be 48.0 feet above mean high-water I. Thence easterly to the westerly abutment of ant avenue; the bridge over the tracks of the New York and of intersecting open or established streets, roads, datum, Thence easterly along the northerly line of East squares or places, sufficient for the identification and g. The grade at the intersection with Saxe Harlem Railroad, the elevation to be gt.604 feet One Hundred and Twenty-third street, distance above mean high-water datum; location thereof. avenue to be 56.o feet above mean high-water 100.02 feet to the westerly line of marginal street, Resolved, I hat this Board consider the proposed datum, 2. Thence easterly to the centre of the bridge wharf or place; thence northerly along said line, across the tracks of the New York and Harlem change at a meeting of this Board, to be held in the to. The grade at the intersection with Cottage distance 155.57 feet; Old Council Chamber (Room '61, City Hall, Borough Grove avenue to be 64.5 feet above mean high- Railroad, the elevation to be 91.854 feet above Thence still northerly along said westerly line, mean high-water datum; of Manhattan, t ity of New York, on the 8th day of water datum, distance 52.33 feet to the easterly line of Pleasant April, 1904, at to.3o o clock A. M. t t. The grades of the bridges at the intersec- 3. Thence easterly to the easterly abutment of avenue; the bridge across the tracks of the New York and Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board cause tions of White Plains road and the New York, Thence southerly along said line, distance 181.97 these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected Ncw- Haven and Hartford Railroad to be 68.o feet Harlem Railroad, the elevation to be 91.604 feet feet to the point or place of beginning. above mean high-water datum; thereby that the proposed change will be considered above mean high-water datum, Said land is found in section 6. Blocks 1811. at a meeting of the Board, to be held at the afore- T2. The grade at the northwest curb intersection 4. Thence easterly to the westerly abutment of iSt2 and tRtg of the Land Man of the Borough the bridge across the Bronx river, the elevation said time and place, to be published to the CITY REc- of White Plains road to be 63.0 feet above mean of Manhattan. City of New York. ORn for ten days continuously, Sundays and legal high-water datum, to be 88.00 feet above mean high-water datum, as Resolved That the President of the Borough of heretofore. holidays excepted, prio JOHN pril,4, rqo 'Z. The grade at the point of tangency, east of Manhattan cause to be prepared for submission to this 8thH. da y of A White Plains road, to be 61.o feet above mean Resolved, That the President of the Borough of Board three similar maps or plans for e'-rtification The Bronx cause to be prepared for submission to this Assistant Secretary. high-water datum, and filing in the manner required by law, showing as mz6,a4 14. The grade t,600 feet westerly from the south- Board three similar maps or plans for certification and nearly as possible the nature and extent of the pro- east curb intersection of Washington street to be filing in the manner required by law, showing as posed change and the location of the immediate _;o.o feet above mean high-water datum, nearly as possible the nature and extent of the pro- adiecent or of intersecting open or established street,, posed change and the location of the immediate ad- PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HAD AT A 15. The grade at the southeast curb intersection roads square= or places sufficient for the identifica- A meeting ofthe Board of Estimate and Apportion- of Washington street to be 34.0 feet above mean jacent or of intersecting open or established streets, tion and location thereof. roads, squares or places sufficient for the identifica- ment, tube held on Thursday, March 31, r9o4, at ro 30 high-water datum, Resolved, That this Board consider the proposed A. Si.. at Room t6, City Hall, for the purpose of consider- 16. The grade at the northwest curb intersection tion and location thereof. change at a meeting of this Board, to be held in the Resolved, That this Board consider the proposed ing the majority and minority reports ofthe members of of Bear Swamp road to be 36.3 feet above mean Old Council Chamber (Room 161, City Hall, Borough the Court-house Board relative to the selection ofa site high-water datum, change at a meeting of this Board, to i c held in the of Manhattan, City of "ew York, on the 8th day of Old Council Chamber (Room r6), City Hall, Borough for a proposed new Court-house for the County of t 7. The grade at the southwest curb intersection April, 1014, at ro,so o'clock A. Si. New York. feet above mean of Manhattan, City of New York, on the Sib day of of Bear Swamp road to be 35.5 Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board cause J, W. STEVENSON, April. 1904, at TO ;o o'clo. k A. Si. high-water datum, these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected Secretary, 18. The grade at the intersection with Castle Resolved That the Secretary of this Board cause thereby that the proposed change will be considered at m25,31 Hi11 avenue to be 38.5 feet above mean high-water these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected a meeting of the Board, to be held at the aforesaid time thereby that the proposed chang- will be considered datum, and place, to be published in the CiTv REcoan at a meeting of the Board to be held at the afor'said it. The grade at the southeast curb intersection for ten days continuously. Sundays and legal holidays time and place, to be published in the CITY RECORD of unnamed street to be 41.0 feet above mean excepted, prior to the 8th day of April. too+ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. high-water datum, for ten days continuously, Sundays and legal holidays JOHN H. MOONEY. The grade at the southeast curb intersection excepted, prior to the 8th day of April. 9o4. zo. Assistant Secretary OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, ARSFNAL of Union avenue to be 42.6 feet above mean high- JOHN H. MOON FY, m26,a4 BUILDING, FIFTH AVFNUR AND SIXTY-FOdRTH water datum, Assistant Secretary. The grade at the southeast curb intersection mz6,a4 STR.ET, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF 21. New YORK. of Washington avenue to be 46.4 feet above mean NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE high-water datum. Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE 22. The grade at the northwest curb intersection City of New York, deeming it for the public interest so S received by the Park Board at the above of Silver street to be 47.2 feet above mean high- N Board of Est mate and Appr rtionment of The to do, proposes to chance the map or plan of The City of office of the Department of Parks until 3 o'clock City of New York, deeming it for the public interest New York so as to change the grade of White Plains P. Si.. on water datum, so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The The grade at the northeast curb intersection road between Gun Hill road and Julianna -treet, in 23. City of New York so as to locate and lay out Richard THUB,9DAY, APRIL 7, 1904. of Silver street to be 46.0 feet above mean high- the Borough of The Bronx, City of New York, and street (Elliott avenue from the Bronx and Pelham Borough of Manhattan. water datum, that a meeting of said Board will be held in Room r6. parkway to Morris street, Twenty-fourth Ward, in 24. The grade at the intersection with Madison City Hall, Borough of Manhattan, City of New No. r. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING avenue to be 46.0 feet above mean high-water the Borough of The Bronx, City of New York, and York, on the 8th day of April, 0504, at 10.30 o'clock GRAVEL OF THE QUALITY KNOWN AS ROA that a meeting of said Board will be field in Room datum. A.M., at which such proposed change will be con- HOOK GRAVEL WHERE REQUIRED ON CEN- 16, City Hall. Borough of Manhattan, City of New 25. The grade at the intersection with Third sidered by said Board : all of which is more particu- TRAL AND RIVERSIDE PARKS. street to be 41.5 feet above mean high-water York on the 8th day of April, 1904, at 10.30 o'clock larly set forth and described in the following resolu- The time for delivery will be as required, before A Si.. at which such proposed change will be datum. tions, adopted by the Board on the r ith day of March, December 31, 1904. 26. The grade at the northeast curb intersection considered by said Board, all of which is more 1904. notice of the adoption of which is hereby given, The amount of security required is Five Thousand of Valentine street to be 3t.o feet above mean particularly set forth and described in the following Dollars. resolutions, adopted by the Board on the rlth day of viz.: high-water datum, Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Appor- No. z. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING 27. The grade at the intersection of Valentine March, Igo4. notice of the adoption of which is hereby tionntent of The city of New York, in pursuance of GARDEN MOULD, WHERE REQUIRhD ON street with Main street to be 30.5 feet above mean given, viz.: the provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York PARKS. high-water datum, Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apper- Charter. as amended, deeming it for the public interest The time for delivery will be as required, before tionment of The City of New York. in pursuance of the CR. The grade at the northwest curb intersection so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The ecember 31, 1904, of Second street to be 30.0 feet above mean high- provisions of section 442 of the Greater New York City of New York by changing the grade of White The amount of security required is Six Thousand water datum, Charter, as amended, deeming it for the public interest Plains road, between Gun Hill road and Julianna Dollars. zo. The grade at the northeast curb intersection so to do, proposes to change the map or plan of The street. in the Forough of The Bronx, City of New No. g FOR FURNISHING, DELIVERING AND City of New York by locating and laying out of unnamed avenue to be 28.5 feet above mean York, more particularly described as follows: LAYING GRASS SOD WHERE REQUIRED ON high-water datum, Richard street (Elliott avenue;, from the Bronx and I. The grade at the intersection of Julianna PARKS. qn. The intersection of the western curb of Pelham parkway to Morris street, Twenty-fourth street with White Plains road to be zoS.o feet The time for delivery will be as required, before Main street and the eastern curb of Lane avenue, Ward, in the Borough of The Bronx, City of New above mean high-water datum, as approved by the December 31, 1904. the grade to be 27.5 feet above mean high-water York, more particularly described as follows: Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The amount of security required is Two Thousand Richard street is to be laid out from The Bronx datum. 2. The grade at the southern apex point of the Dollars. Ar. The grade at the point of tangency north of and Pelham parkway to Morris street, at a width public place to be changed from Ioz.o feet to The contracts must be bid for separately. Westchester avenue to be zl.o feet above mean of 6o feet and its Centre line from The Bronx 103.8 feet above mean high-water datum. The bids will be compared and the contracts awarded high-water datum, and Pelham parkway to East Two Hundred and 3. The grade at a point too feet northeasterly at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. 3z. The grade at the intersection with Frank- Fifth street (King street), is located 230 feet from said apex point of the public place on the Blank forms may be obtained and plans may be seen lin avenue to be 12.5 feet above mean high-water westerly and parallel to White Plains road; from eastern portion of White Plains road to be 103.0 at the office of the Department of Parks. Arsenal, datum. East Two Hundred and Fifth street (King street) feet above mean high-water datum. Central Park, Manhattan. to Morris street, the centre line of Richard street ;. fbe grade of the bridge across the West- 4. The grade at the intersection of the eastern JOHN J PALLAS, President; Chester creek to be 15.0 feet above mean high-water does run slightly westerly and will intersect portion of White Plains road with Briggs avenue WM. P. SCHMITT, Morris street approximately at the southern pro- datum. to be to4.5 feet above mean high-water datum, as M. J. KENNE&,Y, 34. The grade at the southeast curb intersection longation of Elliott avenue, between Morris street approved by the Board of Estimate and Appor- Commissioners of Parks. and Elizabeth street, as the same is in existence. of Franklin avenue to be 12.0 feet above mean tionment. Dated MARCH 55, tpo4, m25,a7 high-water datum, Resolved, That the President of the Borough of The Western Portion of Whits Plaint Road. -'8se Ho*sltn1 I(aatrmet/on. to Bidders 35. The grade at the pier and bulkhead-line of Bronx cause to be prepared for submission to this I. The grade at the intersection of Juliann o>. the last page, last aolamm, of the Westchester creek to be 6.o feet above mean high- Board three similar maps or plans fo• certification and street with White Plains road to be io8.o feet "City Record. water datum. filing in the manner required by law, showing as nearly above mean high-water datum, as approved by the as possible the nature and extent of the proposed Board of Estimate and Apportionment. B,-Public Place. OFPICa OF THR DRPARTMPNT OF PARKS, ARSENAL I. The grade Ito f feet westerly from the change and the location of the immediate adjacent or 2.The grade at the southern apex point of the of intersecting op'n or established streets, roads, public place to be changed from ioz-o feet to BUILDING, FIFTH AVFNUR AND SIxTV-POLRTH STREET, northwest curb intersection of Washington avenue BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THa CCTV or Nttw Yeas. to be 29,5 feet above mean high-water datum, squares or place.;, sufficient for the identification and ,03.8 feet above mean high-water datum. z. The grade at the intersection with Washing- location thereof. 3. Thence northwesterly to the point of tan- EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE ton avenue to be 28.5 feet above mean high-water Resolved. That this Board consider the proposed , feet above mean S received by the Park Board at the above office datum. change at a meeting of this Board, to be held in the water datum, as approved the Board Esti- of the Department of Parks until 3 b'clock P. Si., on 3. The wrade at the intersection of the north Old Council Chamber (Room 16`, City Hall, Borough mate and Apportionment. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904. of Manhattan, City of New York, on the 8th day of Resolved, That the President of the Borough of curb of Westchester avenue and the west curb Boroughs of Brooklyn cad Queens. of Lane avenue to be a6.s feet above mean high- April, boa. at to. 3o o'clock A. Si. The Br' ax cause to be prepared for submission to this water datum, Resolved, That the Secretary of this Board cause Board three similar maps or plans for certification and No. r. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING 4. The grade at the intersection of the north these resolutions and a notice to all persons affected filing in the manner required by law, showing as BLUE LIME STONE SCREENINGS ON PARKS curb of Westchester avenue and the east curb thereby that the proposed change will be considered nearly as possible the nature and extent of the pro AND PARKWAYS. of Lane avenue to be 25.0 feet above mean high. at a meeting of the Board. to be held at the aforesaid posed change and the location of the immediate ad- The time for the delivery will be as required, before water datum, as heretofore, time and place, to be published in the CITY RECORD Iaent or of intersecting open or established streets, December qr, t904. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 1999

The amount of security required is Three Thousand 'FAIN ALTERATIONS TO THE STEAMER List 7941, No, 12. Laying cement sidewalk on Park, East, and in Crotona Park, East, from sum- Dollars. "THOMAS S. BRENNAN." the north side of Nineteenth street, between Sixth mit west of Suburban place to summit east of One No. 2. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING The time allowed for the completion of the work and ana Seventh avenues. Hundred and beventy-third street. HUDSON RIVER ROAD GRAVEL ON PARKS full performance of the contract is forty (40, consecu- List 7942, No. t3- Laying cement sidewalk on List 7918, No. 21. sewer and appurtenances in AND PARKWAYS. tive working days. the south side of Pacific street, between Fifth and East One Hundred and beventy-sixth street, from The time for the delivery will be as required, before The security required will be Thirty-five Hundred Sixth avenues. Prospect avenue to the summit cast of Prospect December 35, 1904. Dollars ($3,500). List 7943, No. 14. Laying cement sidewalk on avenue. The amount of security required is Five Thousand The bidder will state one aggregate price for the the east side of Washington avenue, between St. The limits within which it is proposed to lay Dollars. whole work described and specified, as the contract is John's place and Degraw street, and on the north the said assessments include all the several houses NO. 3. Fr)R FURNISHING AND DELIVERING entire and for a complete job. side of Degraw street, between Washington and and lots of ground, vacant lots, pieces and parcels TRAP ROCK AND TRAP-ROCK SCREENING Blank forms ana further information may be ob- Classon avenues. of land situated on— ON PARKWAYS. tained at the office of the Supervising Engineer of the the limits within which it is proposed to lay No. I. Both sides of East Thirty-second street 1 he time for the delivery will be as required, before Department, foot of East Twenty-sixth street, The the said assessments include all the several houses from Church avenue to Avenue L; south side of December 31, 1904. City of New York, where plans and specifications and lots of ground, vacant lots, pieces and parcels Church avenue, from East Thirty-first street to The amount of security required is Ten Thousand may be seen. of land situated on— New York avenue; both sides of Grant street, Dollars. JAMES H. 't LILLY, Commissioner. No. I. Northeast side of Broadway, between Vernon avenue, Beverly road and Canarsie ave- The bids will be compared and the contracts Dated MARCH 24, 1904. ms5,a6 Conway street and Rose place, on Block 234, Lots nue and north side of Avenue C, from Last Thirty- awarded at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. Nos. 4 and 5. first street to New York avenue. Blank forms may be obtained and plans may be See General Instructions to Bidders No. 2. East side of Essex street, between on the last page, last column. of the "City Jamaica and Ridgewood avenues, and southeast No. 2. Both sides of Church avenue, from seen at the office of the Department of Parks, Litch- Nostrand avenue to New York avenue; cast aid- field Mansion, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Record.' side of Jamaica avenue, between Essex street and of Nostrand avenue, from Alartense street to it JOHN J. PALLA-, President; Shepherd avenue, on Block 279, Lots Nos. 3 to 8, inclusive; 46 48 and 50. point about 22 feet south of Church avenue, WM. P. SCHMITT, west side of New York avenue, from Church ave- M.J. KENNEDY, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES, FOOT OF EAST No. 3. West side of Essex street, between Jamaica and Ridgewood avenues, and southeast nue to Martense street. Commissioners of Parks. TWENIY-SIXTH STREET, NEW YORK. No- 3. Both sides of Clarkson street, from New Dated MARCH z5, 1904. m25,a7 side of Jamaica avenue, between Linwood and TO CONTRACTORS. Essex streets, on Block 278, Lots Nos. t5 to 19, York avenue to a point about 200 feet easterly $W' See General Instructions to Bidders inclusive, and 21 to 26, inclusive, therefrom. on the last page, last column, of the "City PROPOSALS FOR BIDS OR EST IMATES. No. 4• South side of Jamaica avenue and north No, 4. Both aides of Lincoln road, from Flat- Record." side of Ridgewood avenue, between Cleveland and bush avenue to East Twenty-first street. EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Elton streets, and east side of Cleveland street, be- No. 5. Both sides of Nostrand avenue, from OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, ARSENAL tween Jamaica and Ridgewood avenues, on Block BUILDING, FIFTH AVRNUR AND SIXTY-FOURTH Si REST, S received by the Department of Public Chari. Vernon avenue to Avenue C, and extending ties at the above office until rz o'clock M , on 273, Lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 17 and 28. back too feet therefrom. BORIUGH OF MANHATTAN, Ti CITY OF NEW YORK. No. 5. East side of Rockaway avenue, between EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 15104. last New York and Glenmore avenues, on Block No. 6. Both sides of East Eighth street, from S received by the Park Board at the above FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND 53, Lots Nos. 33, 34, 39, 4o and 44. Beverly road to Church avenue; west side of office of the Department of Parks until 3 o'clock MAIEkIALS REQUIRED TO MAKE ALTER- No. 6. West side of Rockaway avenue, between Loney Island avenue, from Beverly road to Church P. M., on ATIONS '10 OFFICE: BUILDING ON THE East New York and Pitkin avenues, on Block 52, avenue; south side of Lhurch avenue, both sides THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904. LAST END (IF PIER AT F'OO1' OF EAST Lots Nos. II to 18, inclusive; 24, 63 and 64. or turner place, and both sides of ltmctetey TWENTY-SIXTH STREET. No. 7. East side of Rockaway avenue, between place, from East Eighth street to Coney island Borough of Manhattan. Bidders may submit proposals as follows: Gleninore and Pitkin avenues, on Block 54, Lots avenue. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING I. For the entire alteration both of the first and sec. Nos. 3t and 32. No. 7. North side of Bay Ridge avenue, between HORSES. and floors. No. 8. West side of Rockaway avenue, between Shore road and Narrows avenue, on Block 1026, The time for the delivery of the horses and the full 2. For the alteration on first floor alone, or Pitkin and Sutter avenues, on Block 56, Lots Nos. Lots Nos. I to 5, inclusive, and 45 to 62, in- performance of the contract is 15 days. 3. For the alteration on second floor alone. 9, 25 to 31, inclusive; 73, 74, 77, 83, 84, 85 and elusive. The am, unt of security required is One Thousand Bidders are cautioned to read over entire specifica- 86. No. 8. Northwest side of Palmetto street, be- Two Hundred Dollars ($t,soo), tion and acquaint themselves with the exact quantities No. 9. East side of Rockaway avenue, between tween Knickerbocker and Irving avenues, and The bids will be compared and the contract awarded of work to be done on each floor. Pitkin and Belmont avenues, and south side of northeast side of Knickerbocker avenue, between at a lump or aggregate sum. 1 he time allowed for the completion of the Pitkin avenue, between Rockaway and Thatford Palmetto Street and t,ates avenue, on Stuck 81, Blank forms may be obtained at the office of the work and full performance of the contract will be avenues, on Block 57, Lots Nos. 2 to 7, inclusive. Lots Nos. 1, 2, 35, 36, 37, 38, 46, 48, 51, 52, 61 Department of Parks, the Borough of Manhattan, forty (40) consecutive working days on Jobs Nos. t No. Ic. Northwest side of Woodbine street, be- and 62. Arsenal, Central Park. and z, and twenty-five (25) consecutive working days tween Central and Hamburg avenues, on Block 51, No. 9. Northwest side of Schaeffer street be- IOHN J. PALLAS, President; on Job No. 3. Lots Nos. 36, 37 and 44. tween Central and Hamburg avenues, on block WILLIAM P. SCHMIrT, The security required will be Two Thousand No. it. North side of Fourteenth street, between 186, Lots Nos. 24, 32, 33, 34 and 39. MICHAEL J. KENNEDY, Dollars I$z,000) on Job No. I ; Fifteen Hundred Dol- Second and Third avenues, on Block to3z, Lot No. to. West side of Broadway, between Commissioners. lars ($1,5oo) on Job. No z, and Two Hundred Dollars No. 61, Chauncey street and Rockaway avenue, on Block Dated MARCH r8, 5904. mt9,31 ($200) on lob No. 3. No. 12. North side of Nineteenth street, between 1512, Lot No. I. Sixth and Seventh avenues, on Block 88o, Lots t - See General Instructions to Bidders 'I he bidder will state one aggregate price for each No. it. West side of Broadway, between on the last page, last column, of the "City job described and specified, as each contract is entire Nos.6, Chauncey and Marion streets, and north side of Record." and for a complete job. No. 13. Soutth side of Pacific street, between Marion street, between Broadway and Rocka- Blank forms and further information may be obtained Fifth and Sixth avenues, on Block 1127, Lot No. way avenue, on Block 1517, Lots Nos. t6, 22, 32 OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, ARSENAL at the office of the Supervising Engineer of the De- 31• and 36. BUILDING, FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTY-FOURTH STREET, partment, foot of East Twenty-sixth s,reet, I he City No. 14. East side of Washington avenue, be- No. iz. North side of Park place, between BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. of New York, where plans and specifications may be tween St. John's place and Degraw street, and Nostrand and Rogers avenues, on Block 1233, north side of Degraw street, between Washington Lots Nos. 1, 26, 73 and 81. EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE seen. JAMES H. TULLY, and Classon avenues, on Block 1177, Lots Nos. t, No. 13. West side of Prospect Park, West, be- S received by the Park Board at the above 37, 38, 39, 43 and 4p. office of the Department of Parks until 3 o'clock Commissioner. tween Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, and north Dated MARCH 24, 1904. All persons whose interests are affected by the above- P. Si., on side of Sixteenth street, between Prospect Park, mz4,a6 named proposed assessments, and who are opposed to West, and Eighth avenue, on Block 1105, Lots Nos. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1984. , See General Instructions to Bidders the same, or either of them, are requested to present 38 and 40. Borough of Manhattan. on the last page, last column, of the" City their objections, in writing, to the Secretary of the No. 14. North side of Seventy-ninth street, be- FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING Record." Board of Assessors, No, 320 Broadway, New York, on tween Seventh and Tenth avenues, on Block 574, FRESH BEEF DAILY FOR THE CENTRAL or before April a6, 1904, at i P. M., at which time and Lots Nos. I, z, 6 and 8. place the said objections will De heard and testimony No. 15. South side of Seventy-ninth street, be- PARK MENAGERIE. DEPARIPIENT OF PUBLIC CHARITItS, FOOT o. EAST received in reference thereto. The time for the delivery of the materials and the full tween Seventh and Tenth avenues, on Block 575, TWENTY-SIXTH STREIT, Niw YORK. ROBERT MUH, performance of the contract is until October is, Igoq. Lots Nos. 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 28, 33, 36, 53 and 57, amount of security required is Twelve Hundred 10 CONTRACTORS. ANTONIO ZUCCA, No. t6. North side of Seventy-ninth street, be- The CHARLES A O'MALLEY, Dollars, tween Tenth and Eleventh avenues, on Block 547, PROPOSALS FOR BIDS OR ESTIMATES. Board of Assessors. Lots Nos. t, 2, 13, 27 to 35, inclusive, and 38. The bids will he compared and the contract WILLIAM H. JASPER, awarded at a lump or aggregate sum. No 17. South side of Seventy-ninth street, be- EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Secretary, tween Tenth and Eleventh avenues, on Block 546, Blank forms may be obtained at the office of the No. 320 Broadway. Department of Parks, the Borough of Manhattan, S received by the Department of Public Charities Lots Nos. 9, 10, It, 12, i8, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 M. On CITY OF NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, Arsenal, Central Park. at the above office until is o'clock and 29. JOHN J PALLAS, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904. March 25, 1904. mz5,a5 No. t8. North side of Willoughby street, be- WILLIAM P. SCHMITT. For furnishing all the labor and materials required tween St. Edwards and Raymond streets, on Block MICHAEL J. KENNEDY, for 2071, Lot No. zK Commissioners. No. r. THE ADDITION OF AN FAST WING UBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE Dated MARCH 18, x904. m19,3c No. Ig. North side of One Hundred and Forty- TO THE NEW YORK CITY TRAINING SCHOOL P owner or owners of all houses and lots, improved first street, from Beckman avenue to Cypress ave- [oJl; 'See General Instructions to Bidders FOR NURSES AT BLACKWELL'S I LA..D .'r unimproved lands affected thereby, that rue follow. nue, and east side of Beekman avenue, from St. on the last page, last column, of the No. z. THE 1RECTION AND COMPLETION Ong proposed assessments have been completed and are Mary's street to East One Hundred and Forty- "City Record." OF A NEW RECEPTION BUILDING Al THE lodged in the office of the Board of Assessors for ex- first street. CITY HOSPITAL, BLACKWf.LL'd l LAND. amination by all persons interested, viz.: OFFICE OF THE DEPAR"IMENT OF PARKS, ARSENAL The time allowed for the completion of the work and No. 2o. Both sides of Croton Park, East, from BUILDING, FIFTH AVENUE AND SIXTY-FOURTH full performance of each contract is Contract No. I, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. One Hundred and Seventy-third street to a point one hundred and fifty (150) consecutive working days, about 625 feet easterly therefrom, and from One STREET, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, -IHE CITY OF List 6270, No. I. Sewer in East Thirty-second Hundred and Seventy-third street to a point about NEW YORK. and on Contract No. z, one hundred anti twenty-five street, between Church avenue and Avenue C. (Ixsi consecutive working days. 1 55 feet westerly from Suburban place; both ` EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE The security required will be—on Contract No. r, List 6380, No- 2. Sewer in Church avenue, be- sides of One Hundred and Seventy-third street S received by the Park Board at the above Twelve "1 housand Dollars (Si z,000), and on Contract twcen Nostrand avenue and New York avenue. and Suburban place, from Crotona Park, East, to office of the Department of Parks until 3 o'clock List 6?07, No. 3. Sewer in Clarkson street, be- No. z, Seven Thousand Dollars (e7,000), Boston road. P. M., on tween New York avenue and a point 254 feet No. 21. Both sides of One Hundred and Sev- The bidder will state one aggregate price for each easterly thereof. THURSDAY, MARCH 31. 1984. contract described and specified, as each contract is enty-sixth street, from Prospect avenue to a point List 6796, No. 4. Sewer in Lincoln road, be- Borough of The Bronx. for a complete job. about 350 feet easterly therefrom. Blank forms and further information may be ob- tween East Twenty-first street and Flatbush ave- No. I. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVER- nue. All persons whose Interests are affected by the above- ING THREE HUNDRED (goo) BARRELS PORT- tatned at the office of Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen, named proposed assessments, and who are opposed to LAND CEMENT, AND ONE HUNDRED AND Architects, No. 367 Fifth avenue, The City of New List 6797, No. 5. Sewer in Nostrand avenue, the same, or either of them, are requested to present TWENTY-FIVE (t05) CUBIC YARDS COW BAY York, where plans and specifications may he seen. between Vernon avenue and Avenue C. their obieetions, in writing, to the Secretary of the SAND, FOR PARKS, BOROUGH OF 1HE JAMES H. TULLY. List 7358, No. 6. Sewer in East Eighth street, Board o' Assessors. No. 3zo Broadway, New York, on BRONX, Commissioner. between Beverly road and Church avenue, and or before April 59, 1go4. at I P. M., at which time The time for the delivery of the supplies and the Dated MARCH 23, 1904. outlet sewers in Church avenue, south side, be- and place the said objections will be heard and testi- full performance of the contract is before October t, tween East Eighth street and Coney Island ave- mony received in reference thereto. See General Instructions to Bidders nue; in Turner place and Hinckley place, be- on the last page, lot column of the "City ROBERI MUH, e amount of security is Five Hundred Dol- tween East Eighth street and Coney Island ave- Th Record." nue, and in Coney Island avenue, between Church AN I ONTO ZUCCA, lars ($5oo). CHARLES A. O'MALLEY, No. u. FOR FURN ISHING AND DELIVERING avenue and Beverly road. List 7920 No Lain cement sidewalk on Board of Assessors. THREE THOUSAND (3,000) CUBIC YARDS WILLIAM H. JASPER, SCREENINGS OF TRAP-ROCK AND THREE BOARD OF ASSESSORS. the north aide of Bayy Ridge avenue, between Shore road and Narrows avenue. I Secretary, THOUSAND (;,000) CUBIC YARDS BROKEN No. 32o Broadway. STONE OF TRAP-ROCK FOR PARKS, BOR- PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 10 THE List 7y44, No. 8. Laying cement sidewalk on I OUGH OF THE BRONX. owner or owners of all houses and lots, improved the northwest side of Palmetto street, between I CITY OF NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN,) The time for the delivery of the supplies and the or unimproved lands affected thereby, that the following Knickerbocker and Irving avenues, and on the I March 18, t9o4- f full performance of the contract is before November proposed assessments have been completed and are northeast side of Knickerbocker avenue, between I m18,25 I, 1904. lodged in the office of the Board of Assessors for Palmetto street and Gates avenue. The amount of security is Five Thousand Dollars examination by all persons interested, viz.: List 7945, No. 9. Laying cement sidewalk on I - BOROUGH OP BROOKLYN. the northwest side of Schaeffer street, between ($NoO. 3 FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING Central and Hamburg avenues. CHANGE OF GRADE DAMAGE CANOES FOR LAKE IN VAN CORILANDT List 7921, No. I. Laying cement sidewalk on the List 7922, No. to. Laying cement sidewalk on COMM1SS10N. PARK, BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. northeast side of Broadway, between Conway the west side of Broadway, between Chauncey street and Rose place. street and Rockaway avenue. - The time for the delivery of the supplies and the 4, No. z. Laying cement sidewalk on the full performance of the contract is 6o days. List 792 List 7923, No. i t. Laying cement sidewalk on 1 be amount of security is Eight Hundred Dollars east side of Essex street, between Jamaica and the west side of Broadway, between Chauncey I TWENTY-THIRD AND TWENTY-FOURTH Ridgewood avenues, and on the southeast side of and Marion streets, and on the north side of I WARDS. ($800)• Jamaica avenue, between Essex street and Shep- The bids will be compared and the contracts awarded Marion street, between Broadway and Rockaway at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. herd avenue. avenue. List 925, No. 3. Laying cement sidewalk on the List 7y33, No. 12. Laying cement sidewalk on URSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF CHAP- Blank forms may be obtained at the office of the e of Essex street, between Jamaica and D Department of Parks, the Borough of The Bronx, west sid the north side of Park place, between Nostrand I f ter 537 of the Laws of 199. and the Acts amenda. Ridgewood avenues and on the southeast side of and Rogers avenues. tory thereof and supplemental thereto, notice is hereby Zbrowski Mansion, Claremont Park. Jamaica avenue, {tetween Linwood and Essex I JOHN 1 PALLAS, List 7934 No. t . Laying cement sidewalk on ' given that meetings of the Commissioners appointed WILLIAM P. SCHMITT. streets. the west side of 1 rospect Park, West, between under said Acts will be held at the office of the Com- MICHAEL J. KENNEDY, List 7926, No. 4. Laying cement sidewalk on the Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, and on the north mission, No. z8o Broadway (Stewart Building), for- Commissioners. south side of Jamaica avenue and the north side side of Sixteenth street, between Prospect Park, ough of .ilanhattan, New York City, on Mondays, of Ridgewood avenue, between Cleveland and El. West and Eighth avenue. Wednesdays and Fridays of each week, at 2 o'clock me9,31 ton streets, and on the east side of Cleveland i Dated MARCH 17, 1904. List 7935, No. t4. Laying cement sidewalk on P. M., until further notice. street, between Jamaica and Ridgewood avenues. the north side of Seventy-ninth street, between Dated Nnw Y,RK CITY, March a6, 1904. ,r See General Instructions to Bidders List 7927 No. 5. Laying cement sidewalk on the Seventh and Tenth avenues. on the last page, last column, of the east side of Rockaway avenue, between East New WILLIAM E. STILLINGS, List 7936, No. r Laying cement sidewalk on I CHARLES A. JACKnON, 'City Record." York and Glenmore avenues. the south side of eventy-ninth street, betweenee List938 No. 6. Laying cement sidewalk on the OSCARS. BAILEY, Seventh and Tenth avenues. Commissioners. west side of Rockaway avenue, between East New List 7937, No. 16. Laying cement sidewalk on DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARI- York and Pitkin avenues. the north side of Seventy-math street, between LAMONT McLouaHLlx, TIES. List929 Na 7. -Laying cement sidewalk on the Tenth and Eleventh avenues Clerk. east site OF Rockaway avenue, between Glenmore List 7938, No. 17. Laying cement sidewalk on and Pitkin avenues. the south aide of Seventy-ninth street, between DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES, FOOT OF EAST List 7930, No. 8. Laying cement sidewalk on the Tenth and Eleventh avenues, I TwENTY SIXTH .STm rr, NEW YORK. west side of Rockaway avenue, between Pitkin OFFICIAL PAPERS. List 7939 No. t8. Laying cement sidewalk on TO CONTRACTORS. and Sutter avenues. the north side of Willoughby street, between St. List y931, No. 9. Laying cement sidewalk on the Edwards and Raymond streets. American," "The Morning PROPOSALS FOR BIDS OR ESTIMATES. east side of Rockaway avenue, between Pitkin and Morning—"The Belmont avenuesand on the south side of Pitkin I Telegraph." Bosounn or Tsa Baoxi. Evening—"The Evening Journal," "The Daily EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE avenue, between 'Rockaway and Thatford avenues. i rities List 7933, No- to. Laying cement sidewalk on List 7915, No. 19. Receiving-basin at the north- News " S received by the Department of Public Cha Weekly—" The Freeman's Journal," "The New at the above office until I, o'clock at., on the northwest side of Woodbine street, between east corner of East One Hundred and Forty-first Central and Hamburg avenues. I York Realty Journal." WBDBEfDAY, APRIL 8, 1904. street and Beekman avenue. List 794o, No. II. Laying cement sidewalk on List 7917o. ao. Sewer and appurtenances in German—" the New Yorker Herold." FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND the north side of Fourteenth street, between Sec- East One hundredH and Seventy-third street and 1 Designated by the Board of City Record, Janu- MATERIAL REQUIRED TO MAKE CER- ond and Third avenues. Suburban place, from Boston road to Crotona ary 19, 2904•

2000 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. The Engineer's estimate of work is as follows: The amount of security required is Four Hundred line of the block between Ninetyfiftb street and 4,300 cubic yards of earth excavation. Dollars ($400). I Ninety-fourth street to the point or place of be- OFFICx OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH or THE 5,500 cubic yards of rock excavation. No. 3. f OR FURNInHING ALL THE LABOR ginning. BRONX, MUNICIPAL btl DING, 0ORNIRIHIRD AvaNia 49,700 cubic yards of filling. AAD MALERIALn R1.QUIKED FuR CON- h ,d C N P Y bi-RM WA LR THIRTIETH WARD, SECTIONS7• r 18 AND ONE HtNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH STREET, 16,000 linear feet of new curbstone, turnta e AND 19. CROTONA PARK, NEW YORK. and set. SEWER IN RICHOMOND IEKKALE, THIRD too linear feet of old curbstone, rejointed and WARD, from the culvert, rya leet north of Jewett ELEVENTH AVENUE—OPENING, from SEALED B.DS OR ESTIMATEn WILL BE RE- reset. avenue to Bodine's Creek. Eighty-sixth street to Dyker Beach Park. Con- ceived by the President of the borough of T'he 50,500 square feet of new flagging, furnished I he engineer's estimate of the quantity and quality firmed December 31, 19o3; entered March 17, Bronx at the above once until xi o'clock A. S4.,00 and laid. of the material, and the nature and extent, as near as 1904. Area of assessment includes all those lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises MONAAi, APRIL 4, 1904. 200 square feet old flagging, rejointed and possible, of the work required is as follows: relaid. 370 feet of i5-Inch pipe sewer. - situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brook- m,000 CUBIC YARDS OF CLEAN STEAM ii,5oo square feet of new bridgestone for cross- r receiving-basin. lyn, in 'The City of New York, which, taken to- BOILER e+sliES 10 of DELIVnRIID As DI. walks, furnished and laid. I manhole. gether, are bounded and described as follows, RhUiED 'I BU,H 11-Ilia AND IN nUt H Soo cubic yards of dry rubble masonry in re- The time for the completion of the work and the full viz.: QUAnv 11"TIl•S An K. QUIKLDON I nE ST..Ehl'S taining-walls, culverts and gutters. performance of the contract is twelve days. Beginning at a point on the southerly side of IN UNW21-vt ,i, VAN NtSI, WESithES'1'KR 20 cubic yards of rubble masonry in mortar. The amount of security required is your Hunured Sixtieth street and distant too feet westerly of the westerly side of Eleventh avenue; running AND WILLIAMS11.,IDuE, Wli}i1N AN AVER- too linear feet of vitrified stoneware pipe tz Dollars (5400)• Alin Or 27i ro11..E,S UP rnE DOt,KS IN UNION- inches in diameter. N. 4, FuR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR thence southerly and parallel with Eleventh ave- PURL' O.. W11.51'C..EnT'EK. too linear feet of vitrified stoneware pipe t8 AND AIAIEKIALS REQUIRED FOR KLC,,N- nue to the northerly line of Dyker Beach Park; Tiate allowed for the completion of the contract will inches in diameter. SIitUCT1.KG AND REPAIRING A MASONRY running thence easterly along the northerly line be 30 days. The amount of security required will be Twen- BRlDG~. At 1HE INIERSECiION uF POST of Dyker Beach Park to a point distant too feet .,mount of security required will be One Thousand ty-five Thousand Dollars. AVENUE .cND JEWETT AVK.,UE. easterly of the easterly side of Eleventh avenue; Five hundred Dollars (>er,gcu). The time allowed to complete the contract will be The Engineer's estimate of the quantity and quality running thence northerly and parallel with Blank Corms can be ootatued upon application there- 250 working days. of the material, and the nature and extent, as near as Eleventh avenue to the southerly side of Sixtieth tor and the plans and specifications may cc seen and No. t5 FOR REGULATING, GRADING AND possible, of the work required is as follows: street; running thence westerly along the south- other inlormation obtaix ed at said Office. PAVING WITH ASPHALT ON A CONCRETE 1.0 cubic yard. concrete in bridge. erly aide of Sixtieth street to the point or place LuUln F. HAFFEN, FOUNDATION EAST ONE HUNDRED AN s5 cubic yards concrete tot unoerpinning. of beginning. President. FORTY-SIXTH STREET, from Mott avenue to 30 cubic yards cement rubble masonry, THIRTY-FIRST WARD, SECTION ass. I HE CITY OF NEW YORK, March it, 1904. Walton avenue, AND SETTING CURB AND rg500 lbs. steel I beams, rods and nuts. mi4,att 1'1.AGGING THEREON. elo Cubic yards excavation. HOMECREST AVENUE—OPENING, from Avenue T to Gravesend Neck road. Con- A%4-See General Instructions to said The Engineer's estimate of the work is as fol- 140 square yards vitrified brick pavement. lows: The time for toe comptettou of the work and the full firmed December 26, 19o3; entered March 17, der. on the irast page, ra.t column, Of the 1904. Area of assessment includes all those -• City Recurs." i,Soo cubic yards of earth excavation. performance of the contract is sixty days. 85o cubic yards of rock excavation. 1'he amount of security required is one Thousand lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises 400 cubic yards of filling. Dollars ($ ,mo). situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brook- OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF 'INC 385 linear feet of new curbstone, furnished No. 5. PuK FUR\ISHING ALL THE LABOR lyn, in 1'he City of New York, which, taken to- BRONX, )IVNICIY.nL bU1..UING, CORNER I HIND AVENUE and set. AND MAlEn1AL, Rk.QUIKEI FUR iON- gether, are bounded and described as follows, AND U..E nuN..RLLD AND SEVtiTY-S EVENtH STRba:T, I,2zo square feet of new flagging, furnished STRUCTINti A CA,'i - IRON INVERir:D viz.: CRUTONA PARK, NEW V ORE. and laid. Sl.HU.v, W 1'IH IHE NE-En'ART 1cY-PAnSEn, Beginning at a point on the northerly side of 300 square feet of old flagging, rejointed and GATES, GAIL CHAMBERS, h'1C., IN THE Gravesend Neck road where the same intersects SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE. relaid. LINE OM JEWLIl AVt-.NUL S,~.WER AT the centre line of the block between Homecrest Cerved by the ftestuent or inc borough of'I he 640 square yards of asphalt pavement, in- PALMER'S RUN, FIRST ANo THIRD WARUn. avenue and East Thirteenth street; running thence Bronx at the above once until t. o Clock A. N., on eluding binder course, and the keeping '!he Engineer's estimate of the quant ty and quality northerly through the centre line of the block between Homecrest avenue and East Thirteenth Wn,L,».sDAV, MARItH 3U, luU4. of the pavement in repair for five years of the material and the nature and extent, as t. ear as from date of acceptance. possible, of the work requires is as follows street to the southerly side of Avenue T; running No. I. FOR FURNISHING AND DLLIVER- 110 cubic yards of concrete. 5 linear feet 3o-.nch brick sewer. thence westerly along the southerly side of Ave- INU BRUI'.t,N 1KAP KULK JIUNt. Argyll The amount of security• required will be One 30 linear reet or r5 inch vitrified pipe sewer. nue T to the centre line of the block between ,URLLNIN0J TO 'TilE BUREAU Or HIUH- Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. ~o linear feet of 25-inch v1tilhea pipe for by- East Twelfth street and Homecrest avenue; run- ning thence southerly through the centre lines of WAYS. Time allowed to complete the work will be 6o pass. 35,000 cubic yards best quality trap rock stone working days. 25 linear feet of iw-inch vitrified pipe for by- the blocks between East Twelfth street and Home- between )'4 inches and a y4 inches, crest avenue to the northerly side of Gravesend No. 6. FOR REGULATING, GRADING, SET- pass, Neck road; runnin# thence easterly along the averaging i d Incites. TING CURBSTONE FLAGGING THE SIDE- z gate chambers, with iron heads and lock 15,000 cubic yarns best quanty r/i-ineh trap rock WALKS AND LA'IING CRUSSWALItS IN covers, northerly side of Gravesend Neck road to the screeiuicgs. WESTCHESTER AVENUE, from Trinity avenue s manholes rebuilt. point or place of beginning. The security required will be Forty Thousand to the angle westerly thereof; also PAVING 16o linear feet of piles. Dollars. WITH GRANITE BLOCKS THAT PART OF Soo feet, B. lb., foundation timber. THIRTY-FIRST WARD, SECTIONS 20 AND 22. 1 ime allowed to complete the contract will be 1HE ROADWAY NOT PAVED. in cubic yarns concrete. on or before December 3r, 1904. The Engineer's estimate of the work is as fol- a cubic yards „rice. masonry. EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET—OPENING, No. 2. FOR FURNISHINU AND DELIVER' lows: s6 linear feet of cast-iron ,6-inch pipe. from Avenue S to Gravesend Neck road. Con- INO LUMBLR 1'0 THE BUREAU Of H1GH- boo cubic yards of rock excavation. 13 linearteet of special cast-iron ro-Inch pipe. firmed December z6, 1903; entered March 17, NVAYS. 25 linear feet of new curbstone, furnished 8 linear feet of 0-mch cast-iron pipe. 1904, Area of assessment includes all those tz,000 pieces i'4-inch by 9-inch by 13 feet spruce and set. I c-inch cast-iron quarter bend. lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises No. I. 65 linear feet of old curbstone, recut on top, s t .inch low pressure gate valves. Situate, Iping and being in the Borough of Brook- 3,000 pieces 2-inch by 4-inch by 16 feet yellow rejointed and reset. I r5-inch low pressure gate valve. lyn, in The City of New York, which, taken to- pine No. I. 8o square feet of new flagging, furnished and i i3.inch name gate. gether, are bounded and described as follows, 250 chestnut posts, tz feet long, not less than laid. 16-inch g to valve. viz.: 6 inches in diameter. 280 square feet of old flagging, rejointed and 'I he time lot the completion of the work and the full Beginning at a point on the westerly side of too pieces 3-inch by i2-mcb by 25 feet spruce. relaid. performance of ttte coutroct is twenty-five days. East Nineteenth street and distant too feet north- 50 pieces 3-inch by 9-inch by 25 feet spruce. 240 square feet of old bridgestone for cross- I he amount of security required is Seven Hundred erly of the northerly side of Avenue S- running 1,000 feet (B. LL.), iyi-mch white pine, clear walks, rejointed and relaid. Dolrars (x 700). thence westerly and parallel to the northerly side both sides, dressed. zoo square yards of granite block pavement the contracts must be bid for separately, and the of Avenue S to the easterly side of East Seven- Soo feet B. SI.), ya-inch white pine, clear on a sand foundation. bids will be compared and the contract awarded at a teenth street; running thence southerly along the both aides, dressed. The amount of security required will be Four lump or aggregate sum for each contract. easterly side of East Seventeenth street to a point Soo feet (B, u.), y1t-inch white pine, clear Hundred Dollars. '1 rte biduer will state the price of each item or article distant too feet southerly from the southerly side both sides, dressed. 1 he time allowed to complete the work will be contained in the specifications or schedules hereincon- of Gravesend Neck road; running thence easterly sort feet (B. M.) ty4-inch white pine, clear 6o working days. tained or hereto annexed, per linear loot, board meas- and parallel with the southerly side of Gravesend both sides, dressed. No. 7. FOR REGULATING AND GRADING ure, or other unit of measure, by which the bids will Neck road to the westerly aide of East Nineteenth 1,000 feet (B. Al.), Winch white wood, dressed BUILDING STEPS, RAILINGS, ETC. IN be tested. The bids will be compared and the contract street; running thence northerly along the west- both sides. EAST ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINTH awarded at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. erly side of East Nineteenth street to the point or STREET, from Webster avenue to Clay avenue. place of beginning. 1,000 feel (B. M.),5 -inch white wood, dressed kor particulars as to inc quantity au quality of the The Engineer's estimate of the work is as fol- supplies, or the nature and extent of the work, reler- The above-entitled assessments were entered on the both sides. date heteinbefore given in the Record of Titles of As- 1,000 feet UB. M.), x3a-inch cypress, clear both lows: ence must be made to the specibcation on file in the 300 cubic yards of earth excavation. once of the t resident, sessments. and Arrears of Taxes and Assessments sides. and of Water Rents. Unless the amount assessed for 8 pieces 4-inch by iz-inch by to feet oak. 5o cubic yards of rock excavation. bidders are requested to make theirbidsor estimates 300 cubic yards of filling. upon the blank form prepared by the President, a copy benefit on any person or property shall be paid within Iz pieces 3-Inch by to-inch by 13 feet oak. sixty cays after the date of said entry of the assess- zo pieces 2y.-mcb by io-inch by 13 feet oak. 450 cubic feet of new bluestone steps, fur- UI which, with the proper envelope in which to enclose nished and set. the bid, together with a copy of the contract, including meots,interest will be collected thereon as provided 18 pieces 2V4-inch by to-inch by 13 feet oak. in section tuc6 of the Greater New York Charter. 200 feet (B. M.), 2-inch oak. 400 cubic feet of new granite coping in newels, the specittcatlons, in the Corm approved by the Corpor- furnished and set. ation t.ounsel, can be obtained upon application there- Said section provides that " If any such assessment loo feet (B. M.), iy4-inch.oak. shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after 6o feet (B. Al.), 2-tech hickory. 95 cubic yards of random range ashlar for, at tae office of the said President. The plans and masonry. drawings may be seen and other Information obtained the date of entry thereof in the said Record of fides of 6o feet (B. M ), rat-inch hickory. Assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer author- 6o feet (B. M.), t%-inch hickory. 150 cubic yards rubble masonry in mortar. at the ofbce of the , ommissioner of Public Works of too cubic yards of dry rubble masonry. the Borough of Richmond, Richmond Building, New ized to collect and receive the amount of such assessment 6o feet B. M.), iy4-inch hickory. to charge, collect and receive interest thereon at the rate 40 cubic yards of concrete in place. Brighton, Borough of Richmond. To be delivered to the yard of the Bureau of of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated to the Highways, One Hundred and Fatty-third street I 5 linear feet of new curbstone, furnished uEUKUE CROMWELL, and set. President. date of payment from the (rate wnen such assessments and College avenue, as directed and required. became liens, as provided by section 159 of this act." The security required will be Two Thousand 75 linear feet of 12-inch vitrified pipe, fur- THE CITY OF NEW YORK, March aa, I9o4. Seven Hundred Dollars. nished and laid. m2 Section 159 of this act provides s • • "An as- 4,a5 ressment shall become a lien upon the real estate Time allowed to complete the contract will be r7o linear feet of 8-inch vitrified pipe, fur- gSee General. Instructions to hawser. nished and laid. on the last page, last eoismn, of tide .. City affected thereby ten days after its entry in the said on or before December 31, 1904. " a at No. 3. FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVER. 5o linear feet of 4-inch vitrified pipe, includ- Record; record. ing bends and spurs, furnished and The above assessments are payable to the Collector ING LUMBER TO THE BUR' U OF HIGH- of Assessments and Arrears, at the Bureau for the WAYS, FOR VIADUCTS AND RIDGES. laid. 100 pieces 4-inch by I2-inch by 26 feet 310 linear feet of railing in place. FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Collection of Assessments, and Arrears of Taxes and Georgia yellow pine, Mott Avenue 180 squareards of 9rsn01ilKic pavement. Assessments and of Water Rents, in the Municipal Bridge. 8o linear feet of cast-iron gutter, with grat- Building, Borough of Brooklyn, between the hours 65 pieces 4-inch by 12-in by 30 feet ing cover, furnished and set. NOTICE Ok ASSESSMENTS FOR OPENING of 9 A. M. and s P. N.. and on Saturdays from 9 payments made thereon on Georgia yellow pine, endover Ave- z6o linear feet of z-inch gas-main, including STREb;'1'S AND PARKS. A. H. until Ia M., and all nue Bridge. all risers and connections, complete. or before May 16, rgo4, will be exempt from interest, 75 pieces 4-inch by 12-inch by 3o feet 6 lamp-posts and lamps in place, with all as above provided, and after that date will be subject Georgia yellow pine, One Hundred and connections, complete. N PURSUANCE OF SECTION rocs OF THE to a charge of inte•est at the rate of seven per confirm Forty-fourth Street Bridge. z inlets, including gratings, complete. I Urtater New York Charter, the Comptroller ., per annum, from the date when the above assessments 150 pieces 4-inch by 12-ineb by 18 feet The amount of security required will be Two I he City of ,sew York hereby gives public notice of became hens to the date of payment. Georgia yellow pine, One Hundred and Thousand Dollars. the conurrnatlon by the Supreme i, ourt and the enter. EDWARD M. GROUT, Seventy-seventh Street Bridge. The time allowed for the completion of the work ing in the bureau for the ,.ollection of Assessments Comptroller. 75 pieces 4-inch by tz-inch by 3o feet will be 75 days. and Arrears, of assessments for OPENIYSO n..0 CITY OF Naw YORK—DEPARTNaNT UP riNANCx,l Georgia yellow pine, Pelham Avenue Blank forms can be obtained upon application there- ACQUIKL%U 11"lr.e. to the todowtug-named streets CoMrMOLLxx's OFFICE, March 17, 1904. B ridge. for and the plans and specifications may be seen and and avenues in the BOROUGn 01 bi.uOALYL', : m19,ai other information obtained at said office. 75 pieces 4-inch by 12-inch by 26 feet TWENTY-SIXTH WARD, SECTION 12. Georgia yellow pine, Pelham Avenue LOUIS F. HAFFEN, ALABAMA AVENUE—OPENING, between Bridge. President, NOTICE TO PROPERTY-OWNERS. 300 pieces 2-inch by 6-inch by t8 feet THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MARCH I$, x9-4. ,9 Pitkin avenue and Livonia avenue. Confirmed Georgia yellow pine, T. & G., one side December a6, 1903; entered March 17 1904. dressed. 'See General Instructions to bidders Area of assessment includes all those lanes, tene. N PURSUANCE OF SECTION tot8 OF THE 250 pieces 2-inch by 6-inch by 16 feet on the last pege, last column, of the ments and hereditaments and premises situate, I Greater New York Charter, the Comptroller of Georgia yellow pine, T. & G., one side -' City Record.' lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York hereby gives public notice to all dressed. 'Ihe City of New York, which, taken together, are persons, owners ofp y affected by the following 400 pieces a-inch by 6-inch by ao feet bounded and described as follows, viz.: assessments for LOCH IMPROVEMENTS IN TH Georgia yellow pine, T. & G., one side Beginning at a point on the southerly side of BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN: BOROUGH OF RICHMOND. Pitkin avenue where the same intersects the centre dressed EIGHTH WARD, SECTION 3. 3oo pieces 2-inch by 6-inch by in feet line of the block between Alabama avenue and Georgia yellow pine, T. & Z., one side Georgia avenue; running thence southerly along FORTY-EIGHTH STREET—FLAGGING SIDE- dressed. OFFICE OF THE PRRSIOFNT OF THE BOROUGH OF the centre line of the blocks between Alabama WALK north side, bt tween Fourth and Fifth avenues. RICHMOND, FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, ST. zoo pieces 4-inch by a-inch by 30 feet avenue and Georgia avenue to the southerly side of Area of assessment: North side of Forty-eighth street, Georgia yellow pine. GEORGE, NEW BRIGHTON. NSW YORK CITY. Livonia avenue; running thence westerly along the between Fourth and Fifth avenues, on Block 765, Lot 200 pieces 4-inch by 12-inch by 25 feet SEALED BI'-S OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE- southerly side of Livonia avenue to the centre line No-5}~ Georgia yellow pine. ceived by the President of the Borough of Rich- of the block between Alabama avenue and Williams TNENTY-SEVENTH STREET—FLAGGING 200 pieces 4-inch by tz-inch by no feet mond, at the above office until 3 o'clock P st., on avenue' running thence northerly along the centre SIDEWALKS, south side, between Third and Fourth avenues. Area of assessment: South side of Twenty- Georgia yellow pine. FRIDR k, APRIL 8, 1904. lines o the blocks between Alabama avenue and 1,000 pieces IA-inch by 9-inch by 13 feet spruce Williams avenue to the southerly side of Pitkin seventh street, between Third and Fourth avenues, on No. i. one side dressed. Borough of Richmond. avenue- running thence easterly along the south• Block 66o, Lots Nos. 17 and 36. erly side of Pitkin avenue to the point or place of TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET—FLAGGING All of the above to be delivered to the various No, I. FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR beginning. SIDEWALKS, south side, between Fourth and Fifth bridges as named or to yard, Bureau of Highways, AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR REBUII.D- ING A RETAIN NG WALL, t TC., ON THE avenues. Areas of assessment: South side of Twenty- One Hundred and Forty-third street and College eighth street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, on avenue, as directed. NORTH SIDE OF CARROLL PLACE, between THIRTIETH WARD, SECTION t8. Westervelt avenue and Church street. NINETY-FIFTH STREET—OPENING, from Block 6: S, Lot Nos. so, s8 sq, 31 and s. The amount of security required will be Two The Engineer's estivate of the quantity and quality Fourth avenue to Fort Hamilton avenue. Con- TWENTY-NINTH STREET—FLAGGING Thousand Dollars. of the material, and the nature and extent, as near as fitmed December 31, t9o3• entered March :90 14. SIDEWALK, south side, between Third and Fourth Time allowed to complete the contract will be possible, of the work required is as follows: Area of assessment includes all those land tene- avenues. Area of assessment: South side of Twenty. an or before December 31. T904. ;o0 Cubic yards of excavation. ments and hereditament, qnd premises situate, math street, between Third and Fourth avenues, on No, FOR REGULATING AND GRADING, 550 --ubic yards of concrete and cement masonry. tying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, in Block 668 Lots Nos. ay and is . SETTING CURBSTONE, FLAGGING THE The time for the completion of the work and the full 1'WENtrY-NINTHS rREST—FLAGGING SIDE- SIDEWALKS A SPACE FOUR FEET WIDE The City of New York, which, taken together, arc performance of the contract is twenty-five days. bounded and described as follows, viz.: WALK north side, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. (EXCEPTING THE EASTERLY SIDEWALK The amount of security required is Eight Hundred Beginning on the easterly side of Fourth avenue Area of assessment: North side of Twenty-ninth OF CROTONA PARKWAY AT THE EN- Dollars ($800). where the same intersects the centre line of the street. between Fourth and Fifth avenues, on Block 665, TRANCE TO CROTONA PARK, NEAR ONE No. s. FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR block between Ninety-fourth street and Ninety-fifth Lot No. r. HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH STREET, AND MATERIALS REp UIRJ•D FOR REGU- street; running thence southerly along the easterly TWENTY-NINTH STREET—FLAGGING SIDE- TO BRONX PARK AT EAST ONE HUNDRED LATING AND GRADING THE ROADWAY OF side of Fourth avenue and its prolongation to the WALK, south side, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. AND EI(;HTY-SECOND STREET). LAYING PALMER AVFNIIE. FRO\I HEBE .STUN centre line of the block between Ninety-fifth street Area of assessment: South sideof Twenty-ninth street, CROSSW \LKS, BUILDING APPROACHES AVENUE '10 RICHMOND AVENUE. and Ninety-seventh street; running thence eaK- between Fourth and Fifth aventim, on Block 66, Lot AND ERECTING FENCES WHERE NECES- It Engineer's estimate of the quantity and quality erly and parallel with Ninety-fifth street to the SARY IN SOUTHERN BOULEVARD. from Boa. of the material, and the nature and extent, as near as westerly ode of Fort Hamilton avenue; running THIRTY-N IN I H STREET—FLAGGING SIDE- ton road at Cr about East One Hundred and Sev- possible, of the work required is as follows: the westerly side of Fort WALK, south side, between Fifth ~nd Sixth avenues. enty-fourth street to the thencr northerly along prolongation of the 1,700 cub c yards of excavation. Hami'-tin avenue to the centre line of the block Area of assessment : South side of Thtrty much steal t, northerly line ofSit John's College property east- The time for the completion of the work and the between Fifth and Sixth ava fan, on Block yt3,' Ia t wardly and crossing Southern Boulevard. between Ninety-fifth street and Ninety-fourth full performance of the contract is twenty days. street; running thence westerly along the centre Noel, 3, 14, 15, r1, so to s6, inelnsive, s8, q scud go.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 2001

TWENTY-SIXTH WARD. Broadway, Borough of Manhattan, between the hours Bids will be compared and the contract awarded at EIGHTH STREETS, BOROUGH OF THE GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- of 9 A.M. and a P.M., and on Saturdays from 9 A. M. to t2 a lump or aggregate sum. BRO'I X. WALK, north side, between Hinsdale street and M., and all payments made thereon on or before Blank forms may be obtained at the office of the The time of completion is thirty-five (35) working %villtams avenue. Area of assessment: North side May 16, 1904 will be exempt from interest, as Department of Water Supply, Gail and Electricity days. of Glenmore avenue, between Hinsdale street and above provided, and alter that date will be subject to a Borough of Manhattan, Nos. .3 to s1 Park row, and Theamount of security required is One Thousand Williams avenue, on Block III, Lot No. a5. charge of interest at the rate of seven per centum per at the office of the Deputy Commissioner for the Five Hundred Dollars. annum from the date when above assessment became GLENMORE AVE,UE-FLAGGING SIDE- Borough of Brooklyn, Boom a8, Municipal Building, Borough of Manhattan. W ALK, north side, between Ashford and Cleveland a lien to the date of payment. Brooklyn. No, 3, ALTERATIONS, REPAIRS, ETC., AT streets. Area of assessment: North side of Glen- EDWARD M. GROUT, JOHN T. OAKLEY, more avenue, between Ashford and Cleveland streets, Comptroller. No. 246 GRAND STREET, BOROUGH OF MAN- Commissioner. HATTAN. on Block 359, Lot No. ig. CITY OF NEW YORK-DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, Dated, MARCH 24, 1904. GLENMURE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, March 16, Igo. The time of completion is 55 working days. mas,a6 The amount of security required is Eight Hundred WALK, north side, between Elton and Linwood m17,3o streets. Area of assessment: North side of Glen- AV-See General Instructions to Bidders Dollars, on the last page, last column, of the On Contracts Nos, a and 3 bids will be compared more avenue, between Elton street'and Linwood •• City Record.' street, on Block 361, Lots Nos, so, ,r and 22. and the contract awarded in a lump sum to the GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE INTEREST ON CITY BONDS AND STOCK. lowest bidder on each contract. WALK, north side, between Cleveland and Elton Blank forms may be obtained and the plans and streets. Area of assessment: North side of Glenmore1 DRI' ARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELEC- drawings may be seen at the office. of the Superin- avenue, between Cleveland and Elton streets, on Block HE INTEREST DUE ON APRIL r, 1904, ON TRICITY, ROOM 1536, Nos. 13-YI PARK Row, BOROUGH tendent, at Estimating Room, Hall of the Board of 360, Lot No. 38. T the Registered Bonds and Stocks of The City of OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Education, Park avenue and Fifty-ninth street, GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- New York will be paid on that day by the Comptroller, Borough of Manhattan. WALKS, south side, between Jerome and Warwick at h s office in the Stewart BuilLing, corner of Broad- EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE C. B. J. SNYDER streets. Area of assessment: South side of Glenmore way and Chambers street (Room 39). S received by the Commissioner of Water Supply, Superintendent of School Buildings. avenue, between Jerome and Warwick streets, on Block 1 he Transfer Books thereof will be closed from Gas and Electricity at the above office until a o'clock MARCH 24, 1904. m23,a4 393, Lots Nos. I and 2. March 15 to April 1, 1904. P. M., on 'Ihe interest due on April t, 1904, on the Coupon GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1904. WALK, north side, between Linwood and Essex Bonds and -tock of the former City of New York will DFPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, C<.RNHR PARK AVENUE streets. Area of assessment: North side of Glenmore be paid on that day by the Knickerbocker Trust Com- Borough of queens. AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, avenue, between Linwood and Essex streets, on Block pany, No. 66 Broadway. FOR FURNISHING MATERIALS, BUILDING THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The interest due on April 1, ,904, on coupon bonds 365, Lot No. 24. AND INSTAL LING A PUMPING ENGINE AT EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE. of other corporations now included in The City of BAYSIDE PUMPING STATION IN THE BOR- S received by the Chairman of the Executive Com- WALK, south side, between Milford and Logan New York will be paid on that day at the office of the OUGH OF QUEENS. mittee of the Normal College at the above office of streets. Area of assessment: South side of Glenmore Comptroller. the Department of Education, until is o'clock A. M., on EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. The time allowed to complete the whole work will avenue, between Milford street and Logan street, on be roo days. MONDAY, MAY A, 1904. Block 637 Lots Nos. 2,3 and 4. CITY OF NEW YORK-DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE,i The amount of security required will be Five Borough of Manhattan. GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- COMPTROLLEk S OPFICR, March 3, 19u4. Thousand Dollars. WALK, south side, between Montauk avenue and m4, as NORMAL COLLEGE. Milford street. Area of assessment: South side of Bidders will state a price for the pumping engine with all appurtenances installed, complete in place. in No. I. FOR REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS TO Glenmore avenue, between Montauk avenue and Mil- THE NORMAL COLLEGE BUILDINGS, PARK lord street, on Block 633, Lots Nos. 5, 6 and 7. the said pumping station, which price is to include INTEREST ON CITY BONDS AND STOCK. and cover the furnishing of all materials and labor and AND LEXINGTON AVENUES, SIXTY-EIGHTH GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- TO SIXTY-NINTH STREET, BOROUGH 01, WALK, north side, between Powell andJunius streets. the performance of all the work requisite or Proper for the Qurpose, and the completing of all the above- MANHATTAN. Area of assessment: North side of Glenmore avenue, HE INTEREST DUE ON MAY I, 1904, on the The time allowed to complete the whole work will between Powell and Junius streets, on Block 92, Lot mentioned work, of the materials and in the manner T Registered Bonds and Stocks of the City of set forth, described and shown in the specifications be 30 working days for Item t and go working days f,r No. rI. New York will be paid on that day by the Comp- Item 3, as provided in the contract. GLENMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- and on the plans furnished for the work. troller, at his office in the Stewart Building, comer of The amount of security required is as follows: WALK, north side, between Sackman and Powell Broadway and Chambers street (Room 39). Blue prints of drawings most be submitted with the bids or estimates, showing the general arrangement Item t ...... 11,000 00 streets. Area of assessment: North side of Glenmore 1 he Transfer Books thereof will be closed from Item 3 ...... 3,000 so avenue, between Sackman and Powell streets, on Block April 15 to May 1, 1054. and type of the pumping engine the bidder proposes to 99, Lot No. 4,. furnish ; also the space required and the proposed On Contract No. t the bidders must state the price 1 he interest due on May I, 1904, on the of each or any article or item contained in the specifi- GLt.NMORE AVENUE-FLAGGING SIDE- Coupon Bonds and Stock of the present and former location, showing steam pipe connections, and the WALKi, north side, between Wyona and Bradford same shall be approved by the Engineer before the cations or schedules herein contained or hereto an- City of New York will be paid on that day by the nexed, by which the bids will be tested. the exten- streets. Area of assessment: North side of Glen- Knickerbocker'frust Company, No. 66 Broadway. bids or estimates are accepted. more avenue between Wyona and Bradford streets, on sions must be made and footed up, as the bids will be The interest due on May 1, 1904, on coupon bonds of Bidders are requested to make their bids or esti- read from the total of each item and award made to Block 341, Lot No. 24. other corporations now included in "f he Lity of New mates upon the blank form prepared by the Depart- the lowest bidder on each item. York will be paid on that day at the office of the ment, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in Delivery will be required to be made at the time TWENTY-EIGHTH WARD. Comp: roller. which to inclose the bid or estimate, together with a and manner and in such quantities as may be di- EDWARD M. GROUT, copy of the contract, including the specifications, in LINDEN STREET-FLAGGING SIDEWALKS, rected. Comptroller. the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, may Blank forms may be obtained and the plans and northwest side, between Evergreen and central ave- be obtained upon application therefor at the office of tmes. Area of assessment: N orthwest side of Linden CITY OF NEW YORK-DEPARTMENT OF FINANCa,~ drawings may be seen at the office of the Superin- COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, March 3, 1904. the Chief Engineer. tendent of School Buildings, at Estimating Room, street, between Evergreen and Central avenues, on JOHN T. OAKLEY, Hall of the Board of Education, Park avenue and Block 33, Lots Nos. 48, 49, 51 and 52. m4, mar. Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. ST. ,ICHOLAS AVEI.UE-FLAGGING SIDE- Fifty-ninth street, Borough of Manhattan. Dated MARCH 24, 1904. ALRICK H. MAN, WALK, northeast side, between Bleecker and Ralph m25,a6 Chairman, Executive Committee. streets. Area of assessment: Northeast side of DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, CITY OF NEW YORK Dated FEBRUARY 18, 1904, f,8,ma St. Nicholas avenue, between Bleecker and Ralph March 26, 1903. ~.- See General Instructions to Bidders, streets, on Block tax, Lots Nos. 7 and 8. on the last page, last column, of the •t City See General Instructions to Bidders NTIL FURTHER NOTICE AND UNLESS Record." otherwise directed in any special case, one on the last page, last column, of the U '• City Record-" TWENTY-NINTH WARD. surety company will be accepted as sufficient upon all ST. PAUL'S COURT-PAVING, between St. contracts for supplies for furniture and for gas and Paul's place and Ocean avenue. Area of assessment: electric lighting to any amount, and upon the follow- OFFICIAL BOROUGH PAPERS. DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND Both sides of St. Paul's court, from St. Paul's place to ing contracts to the amounts named: Ocean avenue, and to the extent of one-half the block For supplies and furniture, with patented FERRIES. at the intersecting and terminating-streets. articles ...... 15,E BOROUGH of THE BRoNx. Regulating, grading, paving (other than -that the same were confirmed by the Board of As ,, North Side News," " Westchester Inde- DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND FERRIES, PIER "A," sessors on March 15, 1904, and entered on March asphalt)- pendent," " Bronx Sentinel." Not over 2 years ...... 15.0:0 FOOT OF BATTERY PLACE, NORTH RIVER, BOROUGH OF t6, Igo4, in the Recoru of Titles of Assessments, BOROUGH of RICHMOND. kept in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Over a years...... 5,000 MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents, School building repairs ...... lo,000 "Staten . Islander," "Staten Island Star," ~EALaD BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILLBERE- and unless the amount assessed for benefit on any per- Heating and lighting apparatus...... " Richmond County Herald," " Richmond County eeived by the Commissioner of Docks at the son or property shall be paid within sixty days after New buildings-New cocks ...... 25,000 Democrat." above office until 2 o'clock P. M. on the said date of entry of the assessments, interest will Sewers-Dredging and water mains- BOROUGH OF QUEENS. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1904. be collected thereon, as provided in section Io19 of Not over a years ...... so,000 " Long Island Daily Star," Flushing Daily Borough of Brooklyn. said Greater New York Charter. Over a years ...... 5,000 Times," " Flushing Evening journal,' " New- EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. maica R ockaway CONTRACT No. 845. Said section provides that " If any such assessment town Register, '"Ja Standard," ' FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after News," Long Island Farmer." MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR LAYING A the date of entry thereof in the said Record of'l'itles of OF BROOKLYN. NEW GRANITE PAVEMENT UPON A SAND Assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer author- ,. Brooklyn Eagle," " Brooklyn Times," FOUNDATION ON THE FILLED-IN LAND ized to collect and receive the amount of such assess- DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUP- I' Brooklyn Citizen, " Brooklyn Standard ALONG THE NORTHERLY HALF OF FIFTY- ments to charge, collect and receive interest thereon at PLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY. Union," " BrooklTner Freie Presae," " Brooklyn SECOND STREET, OUTSIDE OF THE LINE the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calcu- Weekly News," ' Flatbush Weekly News." OF MEAN HIGH WAIER AND IN THE REAR lated to the date of payment from the date when such OF THE SHEET PILE BULKHEAD BETWEEN assessments became liens, as provided by section 159 BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN. DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELEC- FIFTY-FIRST' AND FIFTY-SECOND STREETS, of this act." ', Harlem Local Reporter " (Harlem District), IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. Section 159 of this act provides • • * "An as. TRICITY, ROOM 1536, Nos. 13-a1 PARK Row, Boa- " Harlem Local and Life " (Washington Heights, 00011 OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEWYORK. The time for the completion of the work and the full sessment shall become a lien upon the real estate Morningside Heights and Harlem Districts). performance of the contract is on or before the expira- affected thereby ten days after its entry in the said EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Designation by Board of City Record March tion of 3o calendar days. record." S received by the Commissioner of Water Supply, t4, 1904 The amount of security required is Two Thousand "1 he above assessments are payable to the Collector Gas and Electricity at the above office until 2 o'clock Dollars. of Assessments and Arrears at the Bureau for the P. M., on The bids will be compared and the contract awarded Collection of Assessments, and Arrears of Taxes and DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. at a lump or aggregate sum. Assessments and of Water Rents, in the Municipal WEDNESDAY, APBIL 8, 1904. Work will be required to be done at the time and in Building, Borough of Brooklyn, between the hours of 9 Borough of Brooklyn. the manner and in such quantities as may be directed. A. M. and a P. M., and on Saturdays from 9 A. M. to II DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CORNER PARK AVENUE Blank forms and further information may be ob- M., and all payments made thereon on or before FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING STOP- AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, tained and the plans and drawings may be seen at the May ,6, Iyo4, will be exempt from interest, as COCKS FOR DISl-RIBUTION MAINS. CITY OF NEW YORK. office ofthe said Department. above provided, and after that date will be subject to a 'I he time allowed for doing and completing the above SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE MAURICE FEATHERSON, charge of interest at the rate of seven per centum per work will be one hundred (loo calendar days. received by the Superintendent of School Build- Commissioner of Docks. annum from the (Late when the above assessments be- The amount of security required will be '1 w Thou- ings at the above office of the Department of Education, Dated MARCH , 1904, m2g,a8 came liens to the date of payment. sand Five Hundred Dollars (fjv,soo). until it o'clock A. M., on qf- See General Instructions for Bidders EDWARD M. GROUT, on the last page, last column, of the The bidder will state the price of each item or MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904. Comptroller, article contained in the specifications or schedules •' City Record ." CITY OF NEW YORK-DRPARTMENT OF FINANCE, herein contained or hereto annexed, per stop-cock, or Borough of Brooklyn. CourTROLLea'S OFFICE, March r6, 1904. f other unit of measure, by which the bids will be tested. No. I. MACHINERY AND FITTINGS FOR mr 7,30 Bids will be compared and the contract awarded at LABORATORIES, SHOPS, ETC., OF MANUAL DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND FERRIES, PIER "A," a lump or aggregate sum. TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL, ON SEVENTH FOOT OF BATTERY PLACE, NORTH RIVER, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Blank forms may be obtained at the office of the AVENUE, BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH NOTICE TO PROPERTY-OWNERS. Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, STREETS, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. `EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE- the Borough of Manhattan, Nos. r3 to SI Park row, The time allowed to complete the whole work will V ceived by the Commissioner of Docks at the above N PURSUANCE OF SECTION ro:8 OF THE and at the office of the Deputy Commissioner for the 7o working days, as provided in the contract. office until a o'clock P. M., on I Greater New York Charter, the Comptroller of Borough of Brooklyn, Room _a8, Municipal Building, The amount of security required is as follows: TUBYDAY, APRIL 5, 1904. The City of New York hereby gives public notice to all Item I...... $6,000 no Brooklyn. Borough of Manhattan. persons, owners of property, affected by the following JOHN T. OAKLEY, Item a....t ...... 19,000 no assessment for LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS in the Commissioner, Item3 ...... 700 00 CONTRACT NO. 844. BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN: Dated MARCH a4, x904. Item 4 ...... I9, aao 00 FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND ma5,a6 On Contract No. I the bidders must state the price MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR EXCAVATING TWELFTH WARD, SECTION 8. of each or any article or item contained in the speci- FOR A NEW MARGINAL STREET BETWEEN See General Instructions to Bidders fications or schedule herein contained or hereto an- ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVENTH i. EAST SIXTY-FOURTH AND EAST' EIGH"TY. on the last page, last column. ofthe "City nexed by which the bids will be tested. FIRST STREETS, EAST RIVER. STREET-PAVING, from St. Nicholas avenue to Record.,, The extensions must be made and footed up, as the Amsterdam avenue. Area of Assessment: Both sides The time for the completion of the work and the full of One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street, from St. bids will be read from the total of each item, and performance of the contract is on or before the expira- award made to the lowest bidder on each item. tion of 150 calendar days. Nicholas avenue to Amsterdam avenue, and to the Delivery will be required to be made at the time and extent of half the block at the intersecting and termi- DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELEC- The amount of security required is Three Thousand manner and in such quantities as may be directed. Three Hundred Dollars. nating avenues. ThICITY, RooM 1536, Nos. 13-21 PARK ROW, BOR- Blank forms may be obtained and the plans and -that the same was confirmed by the Board of Assess- OUGH OF MANHATTAN, THECITY OF NEW YORK. The bids will be compared and the contract awarded drawings may be seen at the office of the Superintend- at a lump or aggregate sum. on on March t5, Igo4 and entered on March 16, ent, at Estimating Room, Hall of the Board of Education, 195 4, in the Record of Titles of Assessments, kept in EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Delivery will required to be made at the time and received by the Commissioner of Water Sup- Park avenue and Fifty-ninth street, Borough of Man- in the manner specified. the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Q hattan ; also at Branch Office, No. 331 Livingston Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents, ply, Gas and Electricity at the above office until Blank forms and further information may beobtained S o'clock P. M., on street, Borough of Brooklyn. and the plans and drawings may be seen at the office and unless the amount assessed for benefit on any per- C. B. J. SNYDER, son or property shall be paid within sixty days after of the said Department. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1904. Superintendent of School Buildings. MAURICE FEATHERSON, the date of said entry of the assessments interest will MARCH 24, 1904. m19,a4. be collected thereon, as provided in section lorg of Borough of Brooklyn. Commissioner of Docks. said Greater New York Charter. -. See General Instructions to Bidders Dated MARCH 23, 1904, m25,a5 Said section provides that "If any such assessment FOR LAYING WATER MAINS AND APPUR. on the last page, last column, of the WSee General instructions to Bidders shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after TENANCES IN SEVENTY-NINTH, EIGHTIETH, •• City Record." on the last page, last column, of the the date of entry thereof on the said Record of Titles EIGHTY-FIRST, EIGHTY-SELOND, EIGHTY- "City Record." THIRD, EIGHTY-FOURTH AND EIGHTY- of Assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer an- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, CORNER PARK AYENux .horised to collect and receive the amount of such as- FIFTH STREETS, AND IN TWENTIETH AND sessment to charge, collect and receive interest thereon TWENTY-FIRST AVENUES. AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND FERRIES, PIER "A," at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calcu. The time allowed to complete the whole work will be THE CITY or New Yoxe, Four OF BATTERY PLACE, NORTH RIVER, BOROUGH lated to the date of payment from the date when such fifty .o) working days. EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE OP MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. assessment became a hen, as provided by section 159 of The amount of security will be Three Thousand Five S received by the Superintendent of School Build- SEALED BIDS OR - ESTIMATES WILL BE this act." Hundred Dollars ((<3,5oo). ings at the above office of the Department of Educa. received by the Commissioner of Docks at the Section 159 of this act provides • • • "An 'the bidder will State the price of each item or tion, until It o'clock A. IL., on above office until 2 o'clock P. at., on assessment shall become a lien upon the real estate article contained in the specifications or schedules MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904. affected thereby ten days after its entry in the said therein contained or thereto annexed, per hydrant, ton, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904. cubic yard orother unit of measure, by which the bids Borough of The Bronx. Borough of Manhattan. Tae shove assessment is payable to the Collector of will be tested. No. s. ERECTING OUTSIDE IRON STAIRS, CONTRACT No, 808. Asanl® eats and Anvers, at the Bureau for the Collec- Delivery will be reqaired to be made at the time and ETC., AT PUBLIC SCHOOL 36, THIRD AVE- NU BETWEEN ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY. FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND ticn of Assessments, and Arrears of Taxes and Assess- in the manner and in such quantities as may be MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR FURNISHING meats and of Water Rents, Room No. 85, No. a6o directed. SEVENTH AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY- 2002 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904.

AND DELIVERING ANEW WOODEN LAUNCH, Borough where such person resides, and in the The time for the delivery of the articles, materials the same in cash at the time of sale, and must remove WITH +LL APPURTENANCES. case of a non-resident carrying on business in The and supplies and the performance of the contract is the articles within twenty four hours thereafter. The time for the completion of the work and the full City of New York, at the office of the Department during the year 1904. All the above property may be seen at any time performance of the contract is on or before the expira- of the Borough where such place of business is the amount of security required will be fifty per before the day of sale at the place above specified. non of ninety calendar days. located, between the hours of to A. at. and a cent. (9 r%) of the amount of the bid or estimate. NICHOLAS J. HAYES, The amount of security required is Three Thousand P. at., except on Saturday, when all applications The bidder will -fate the price of each item or article Fire t.ommissioner. Six Hundred Dollars. must be made between io A. M. and Is noon. contained in the specifications or sched.,les herein con- mzt,x9 FRANK A. O'DONNEL, tained or hereto annexed, per pound, ton, dozen, gal- CONTRACT NO. 838. President; lon, yard or other unit of measure, by which the bids FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND AMES B. BOUCK. will be tested. The extensions must be made and MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COM- MATERIALS REQUIRaLI FOR FURNISHING OHN) BRADY, footed up, as the bids will be i cad from the total for MISSION. AND DELIVERING ABOUT r,5oo PILES. JDWARD TODD, each item, and the contract will be awarded by items for all the articles, materials or supplies specified and '1 he time for the completion of the work and the full SAMUEL STRASBOURGER, MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, NO, 61 performance of the contract is on or before the expira- Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments. contained in the annexed specifications and schedule. Delivery will be required to be made at the time and ELM STREET, CITY OF NEW YORK. tion of iao calendar days. jS,ai The amount of security required is Four Thousand in the manner and in such quantities as may be di- UBLIC NOTICE WILL BE GIVEN OF ALL Dollars. rected. P competitive examinations two weeks in ad- The bids will be compared and the contract awardec Blank forms and further information may be ob- vance of the date upon which the receipt of appli- at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract DEPARTMENT OF STREET tained at the Central Office of the Police Department, cationa for any scheduled examination will close. Delivery will be required to be made at the time anti CLEANINU.- No. Soo Mulberry street, Borough of .'lanhattan. Applications will be received for only such exam- in the manner specified. WILLIAM McADOO, inations as are scheduled. Blank forms and further information maybe obtained Police Commissioner. When an examination is advertised, a person and the plans and drawings may be seen at the office Dated MARCH zr, 1904. mzt,ar. desiring to compete in the same may obtain an ap- DEPARTMENT OF STREET CLEANING, plication blank upon request made in writing, or of the said Department. Nsa YORK, February 9, r904. *1-.see General Instructions to Bidders MAURICE FEATHERSON, on the last page, last column, of the by personal application at the office of the Com- Commissioner of Docks. UBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I' City Record." mission. All notices of examinations will be posted in Dated MARCH i6, 1904. nt14.m4 P written applications for non-competitive exam- inations for the following positions on the steam the office of the Commission City Hall, Municipal See General Instructions to Bidders Building, Brooklyn, and aJvertised in the CITY on the last page, last column, of the I'City dumpers "Cinderella," "Aschenbroedel" and "Cen- POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF New YORK, erentola," pursuant to a resolution of the Municipal NO. 300 MULBERRY STREET, RECORD for two weeks in advance of the date Record." Civil Service adopted January 27, 1904, approved by upon which the receipt of applications will close EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE the State Civil Service Commission February 5, 1904, for any stated position. S received by the Police ..ommissioner of the Police Public notice will also be given by advertise- DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND FERRIES, PIER "A," will beleceived at the Main Office of the Department Department of the City of New York at the above of Str,et Cleaning, on the fourteenth floor of Nos, ment in most of the City papers. FOOT OF BATTERY PLACE, NORTH RIVER, BOat.UGH OF office until z o'clock P. it., on Wherever an examination is of a technical char- MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 13-zi Park row, Room No. 2416, on Wednesdays of each week at z P. M. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1904. acter, due notice is given by advertisement in the EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE- Deckhands familiar with the handling of flat scows. technical journals appertaining to the particular S ceived by the Commissioner of Docks at the above (Signed) JOHN McGAW WOODBURY, FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND profession for which the examination is called. office until z o'clock P. M., on Commissioner. FURNISHING AND ERECTING ALL THE Such notices will be sent to the daily papers f13 MATERIALS NECESSARY TO BUILD AND as matters of news, and to the General Postofce WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1904. COMPLETE THE NEW STATION HOUSE, and stations thereof. The scope of the examina- Borough of Manhattan. PRISON AND STABLE FOR THE SEVEN- tion will be stated, but for more geoeral informa- CONTRACT No 840. ASHES, ETC., FOR FILLING IN LANDS. TIETH PRECINCT, NORTHWEST CORNER tion application should be made at the office of the FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND OF BATH AVr.NUE AND BAY '1WENfY Commission. MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR FURNISHING ERSONS HAVING LANDS OR PLACES SECOND STREET, BOROUGH OF BROOK- Unless otherwise specifically stated, the mini- AND DELIVEEING STONE FOR IrULKHEAD P in the vicinity of New York Bay to fill in LYN. mum age requirement for all positions is al. OR RIVER WALL. can procure material for that purpose—ashes, The time for the completion of the work and the HENRY BERLINGER, Secretary. Class I. Granite headers and stretchers, about 2o,55o street sweepings, etc., collected by the Depart- full performance of the contract is two hundred and la-24-os cubic feet. ment of Street Cleaning—free of charge by ap- forty days. Class II. Granite coping stones, about 7.000 cubic plying to the Commissioner of Street Cleaning, The amount of security required is 'Thirty-five MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE C;oMMISsioN, NEW YORK, feet. Nos. 13 to x1 Park row, Borough of Manhattan. Thou and D.,llars. MARCH 17, 1904- JOHN McGAW WOODBURY, Bids will be compared and the contract awarded at Class Ill. Limestone headers and stretchers, about LIUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT 20,5 o cubic feet. Commissioner of Street Cleaning. a lump or aggrega.e sum. Class IV. Limestone coping stones, about 7,0x0 For particulars as to the nature and extent of the i applications for the position of MALE AND FE MALE CLEANERS, for the public schools, De- cubic feet. work required or of the materials to be furnished, The time for the delivery of the articles, materials bidders are referred to the specifications and lists of partment of Education, will be received on and after and supplies and the performance of the contract is, BOARD OF ARMORY COMMIS- materials, supplies and apparatus to be furnished, and March z3, 1904. to the plans on file at the office of Walter E. Parfitt, "The work requited of Cleaners is to clean all parts for Classes I. and Ill., 1z, calendar days, and for SIONERS. of the building and premises, such as scrubbing, dust- Classes II. and IV., 6o calendar days. architect, No. z6 Court street, Borough of Brooklyn. Further information, if required, may be obtained ing, cleaning windows, washing paint and furniture, The amount of security will be for shoveling snow and caring for the grounds, etc. Class I. Eight Thousand Dollars. at the Central Office of the Police Department of The ARMORY BOARD, STEWART BUILDING, NO. 280 City of New York, No. 9m Mulberry street. '1 he Cleaners will be expected to put in at least eight Class II. Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. BROADWAY. Class IIl. Five Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars. WILLIAM McADOO, hours work per day. Janitors are to assign the duties `EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE Police Commissioner. of the Cleaners and their hours for reporting and Class IV. Two Thousand Eight Hunired Dollars. leaving the buildings. The bidder will state the price of each item or article • 7 received at the office of the Mayor, Chairman ,at The salary of the Male Cleaners is to be $480 per contained in the specifications or schedules herein con- of the Armory Board, in The City of New York, until Dated MARCH 21, 1904. tained or hereto annexed, per pound, ton, dozen, gal- 2 F. I., "See General instructions to Bidders annum; the salary of the Female Cleaners $36o per annum." lon, yard or other unit of measure, by which the bids MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904. on rho last page, last column, of the HENRY BERLINGER, Secretary. will be tested. I he extensions must be made and 11 City Record." footed up, as the bids will be read from the total for FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND each (class) and awards made to the lowest bidder on MATERIALS FOR MAKING AND 6 OMPLE'f'- UBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT each (class). ING THE REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, P open competitive examinations will be held for Delivery will be required to be made at the time TO THE SEVERAL ARMORIES OF THE NO. 300 MULBERRY STREET. the following positions: and in the manner and in such quantities as may be ORGANIZATIONS OF THE N. G., N. Y., IN `EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE MARCH r8, 1904. directed. THE BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN, THE k7 received by the Police Commissioner of the Police DISINFECTOR—WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1904, Blank forms and further information may be ob. BRONX AND BROOKLYN, AS FOLLOWS: Department of'rhe City of New York at the above A 1 to A. M. tained and the plans and drawings may be seen at the No. I.—EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY--Re- office until z o'clock P. M., on The receipt of applications will close on Monday, pairs. office of the said Department. Ap rtl 4, at 4 P.M. MAURICE FEATHERSON, Security required, Five Hundred Dollars ($Sco). TUESDAY, MARCH 99, 1904. The subjects and weights of the examination are Commissioner of Docks. Time allowed for doing the work, to working days. F(lR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING STA- as follows: Dated MARCH r6, 1904. 0.18,30 No. z. TWENTY-SE„OND REGIMENT AR- TIONERY. Duties ...... 6 , See General instructions to Bidders MORY—Repairs. •the time for the delivery of the articbs, materials Experience ...... 3 on the last page, last column, of the Security required, Twenty-five Hundred Dollars and supplies and the performance of the contract is Arithmetic ...... I (z,goo). year 1904. '•City Record." during the The percentage required is 7o. Time allowed for doing the work, sixty (60) working The amount of security required will be fifty days. Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the per cent. (504) of the amount of the bid or estimate. provisions of the Sanitary ode relating to disinfection No. 3. SQUADRON "A" ARMORY—Repairs. 1 he bidder will state the trade name and price of DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND FERRIES, PIER "A," Security required, Three Thousand Dollars (53,o0c). and also with the most approved methods of disiLfec- FOOT OF BATTERY PLACE, NORTH RIVER, BOROUGH each item or article contained in the specifications or Time allowed for doing the work, seventy (70) schedules herein contained or hereto annesed per tiOn. OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. working days. Ten vacancies at present exist in the Department of pound, ton, dozen, gallon, yard or other unit of meas- Health. EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE RE- No. 4. SQUADRON " A " ARMORY— Elec. ure, by which the bids will be tested. The extensions S ceived by the Commissioner of Docks at the trical work. The salary attached to this position is $750 per must be made and looted up, as the bids will be annum. above office until z o'clock P. M., on Security required, Two Hundred Dollars ($aoo). read from the total for each item and the contract will Time allowed for doing the work, sixty (60) working I he minimum age is zt. WL:DNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1904. be awarded by items for all the articles, materials or days. supplies specified and contained in the annexed speci- Borough of Manhattan. No. 5. SQUADRON " A" ARMORY—Stable. fications and schedule. MARCH r8, 2904. CONTRACT No. 84s~ . Security required, Eight Hundred Dollars (Soo). Delivery will be required to be made at the time and MARINE ENGINEMAN—FRIDAY, APRIL 8, FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND Time allowed for doing the work, sixty (60) Norking in the manner and in such quantities as may be di. T804, AT to A. M. MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR FURNISHING days. rected. The receipt of application will close on Monday, ABOUT s,5oo HOUHS TOWING ON THE No. 6. THIRTEENTH REGIMENT ARMORY Blank forms and further information may be obtained April 4, at 4 P. M. NORTH AND E.ST RIVERS —Electrical work. at the Central Office of the Police Department, No. The subjects and weights of the examination are as The time for the completion of the work and the full Security required, Five Hundred Dollars ($gco). Noo Mulberry street, Borough of Manhattan. follows: Time allowed for doing the work, sixty (6o) working performance of the contract is on or before the expira- WILLIAM McADOO, Technical knowledge ...... 6 tion of 6 months. days. No. 7. THIRTEENTH REGIMENT ARMORY Police Commissioner. Experience...... 3 The amount of security required is Five Thou- I sand Dollars. —Leaders. 0.1 7,29 Mathematics...... The bids will be compared and the contract awarded Security required, Five Hundred Dollars ($Soo). Dated MARCH 17, 2904. Percentage required, 75 on technical paper and 70 On at a lump or aggregate sum. Time allowed for doing the work, sixty (60) working $a` bee General Instructions to Bidders total. Towing will be required to be done at the time and days. on the last page, last column, of the Candidates should have a thorough knowledge of in the manner and in such quantities as may be di- No. 8. TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT AR- I. City Record." the construction and management of marine engines. rected. MORY—Leaden;. There are no existing vacancies. Blank forms and further information may be ob- Security required, Five Hundred Dollars (boo.) The salary attached to this position is $3.50 per day. tained and the plans and drawings may be seen at the Time allowed for doing the work. sixty (60) working PoLica DaPAaTnaxT—CITY of Naw YOM 1899. The minimum age is zr; office of the said Department. days. WNERS WANTED BY THE PROPERTY MARCH 18, Igo4 MAL,RICE FEATHERSON, No. 9. TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT ARMORY O Clerk of the Police Department of The Commissioner of Docks. —Lighting plant. INSPECTOR OF FUEL—i UESDAY, APRIL is, City of New York. No. goo Mulberry street, Room 1904, AT to A. M. Dated MARCH 26, 1904. mi8,3o Security required, Ten Thousand Dollars (Sro,00.). No. 9, for the following property, now in his Time allowed for doing the work, one hundred (loo) The receipt of applications will close on Tuesday, See General instructions to Bidders custody, without claimants: Boats, rope, iron, April 5, at 4 P. M. on the last page, last column, of the working days. lead, male and female clothing, boots, shoe., wine, •• City Record." The bids will be compared and the contracts awarded blankets, diamonds, canned goods, liquors, eta, The subjects and weights of the examination are at a lump or aggregate sum for each contract. also small amount of money taken from prisoners as follows: Bidders are requested to make their bids or esti. and found by Patrolmen of this De partment. Technical knowledge ...... 5 mates upon the blank form prepared by the Armory Experience...... 2 DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND THOMAS F. O'CONNOR t Board, a copy of which, with the proper envelope in Property Gtlerk. Mathematics...... ASSESSMENTS. which to enclose the bid, together with a copy of the Report ...... s contract, including the specifications, in the form ap- Percentage required, 75 on technical paper and yo on Tas CITY Of Naw Yomm, DEPARTMENT Of TAxzs proved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained Ponca Dsma11uxr--CiTY or Nnw Toe=, Boa- total. AND ASSESSMENTS. MAIN OFFICs. BoaouGH or upon application therefor at the office of the Armory oven or BaooKLYN. Candidates should have a thorough knowledge of the MANHATTAN, No. 28o BsonnwAY, STawArT BDILD- Board, No. amo Broadway, Stewart Building, Man- conditions and methods of the fuel market in this city; ING, January 8, 1904. battan. WNERS WANTED BY THE DEPUTY should be able to judge specimens, and, in short, be ex- OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, AS RE- THE ARMORY BOARD, O Property Clerk of the Police Department of perts in this matter. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, The City of New York—Office, No. t6 Smith The salary attached to this position is $t,,00 per N quired by the Greater New York Charter, annum. that the books called " The Annual Record of the Mayor; street, Borough of Brooklyn—for the following Assessed Valuation of Real and Personal Estate TAMES McLEER, property, now in his custody, without claimants: The minimum age is at. of the Boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, Brigadier-General, Commanding Second Brigade; Boats, rope, iron, lead, male and female clothing, BUILDING INSPECTOR OF MASONRY AND Brooklyn Queens and Richmond, comprising The GEORGE MOORE SMITH, boots, slides, wine, blankets, diamonds, canned City of New York," will be open for examination Brigadier-General, Commanding First Brigade; goods, liquor, etc., also small amount of money CARPENTRY—THURSDAY, APRIL t4, 1904, AT and correction on the second Monday of January FRANK A. O'DONNEL, taken from prisoners and found by Patrolmen of to A. M. and will remain open until the FIRST DAY OF President of the Department of Taxes and Assess- this Department. The receipt of applications will close on Thursday, APRIL, 1904. meats; JOSEPH CAREY April 7, at 4 P. at. CHARLES V. FORNES, Deputy Property acn e- The subjects and weights of the examination are as During the time that the books are opm to President of the Board of Aldermen. follows: public inspection, application may be made by any THE CITY or Naw Yoax, March ii, tgo4. Technical knowledge ...... person or corporation claiming to be aggrieved by m si,a4 Experience ...... 1 a5 the assessed valuation of real or personal estate to , See General Instructions to Bidders FIRE DEPARTMENT. Mathematics ...... I have the same corrected. port...... In the Borough of Manhattan, at the main on the last page, last column, of the Re office of the Depa •• City Record." Percentage required, 75 on technical paper and 7o rtment of Taxes and Assess- HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, Nos. 157 AND on total. ments, No. ago Broadway, I$9 EAST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET, 13ORCUGH OF MAN- Candidates will be expected to have a general In the Borough of The Bronx, at the office of HArrAN, March 19, '9o4. the Department, Municipal knowledge of building construction and must be pre- POLICE DEPARTMENT. A. SEBASTIAN, AucTIoREra, pared to read plans. dred and Seventy-seventh~Thve street ti Third a- For this position a physical examination is a nec- nue. N BEHALF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT essary preliminary to taking the mental. In the Borough of Brooklyn, at the office of O of The City of New York, will offer for sale at The salary attached to this position is $r,soo to POLICE DEPARTMENT or THE CITY or Naw YORK, the Department, Municipal Building. public auction to the highest bidder, at the Repair st 5o0 per annum. In the Borough of ens, at the office of the NO. 300 MULRRRRY STREET. shops, Nos. i3oand 132 West Third street, on Tuesday, The minimum age is at. Department, Hackett Building, Jackson avenue EALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE the agtb inst., at it o'clock A. M., the following prop- HENRY BERLINGER, and Fifth street, Long lsland~ ty- city of the Department: Secretary. S received by the Police Commissioner of the Police Lot No. I. 115 lengths of canvas hose. In the Borough of Richmond, at the office of Department of The City of New York at the above the Department, in Building, Stapleton. office until z o'clock P. M. on Lot No a. 56 lengths rubber hose Corporations m all the Boroughs must make Lot No. 3. bundles of Croton hose. MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMItIrN, LABOR 7 BUREAU, CORNER WHITE AND CraTRa STRaaTa, CITY application only in the main of5ce in the Bor- TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1901. Lot No. 4. 4 auctions, 41K/-inch. ough of Manhattan. Lot No. 5, 4 hydrant connections, 33s-inch. or Naw YORK, March g. tgo4. Applications in relation to the assessed vain.- FOR FURNISHING AND DELIVERING Each lot will be sold separately. The right to reject UBLIC NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT fion of personal estate must be made by the per- PRINTING, BOOKS, BLANKS AND LITHOG- all bids is reserved. The highest bidder for each lot, APPLICATIONS for position in the LABOR son assessed at the office of the Department in the RAPHY. in case the bid is accepted, will be required to pay for CLASS will be received as follows: TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. THE CITY RECORD. 2003

For all positions in Part III., including Blacksmitl o'clock in the afternoon on that day, or as soon there- the t5th day of September, 19o3, and duly filed in the thereby, and of ascertaining and defining the district Bricklayer, etc., commencing Monday, z8. after as counsel can be heard; and at said time and office of the Clerk of Kings County, a copy of which benefited by said assessment, and the extent and bound- For all positions in P,.rt II., including Battery-man place, or at such other time and place as the Court order was filed in the office of the Register of the aries of the respective tracts and parcels of land par- Bri.ige Mechanic, etc., commencing Monday, April 4. may direcc, the said Commissioners may be examined County of Kings, on the zid day of September, 1903, ticipating in said benefit, and of performing the trusts For all positions in Part I., including Bridge-tender under oath as to their qualifications to act, and are and indexed in the Index of Conveyances in section 25, and duties required of us by title 4 of chapter r7 of the Driver, etc., commencing Monday, April as. subject to challenge by any party or person interested Blocks 7191, 7192, 7210, 7211, 7231, 7232, 7-49, 7250, Charter of I he City of New York, and the acts or parts HENRY BERLINGER, in this proceeding, as provided by section 973 of title 7270 and 7271, Commissioners of Estimate and Assess- of acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof. Secretary. 4 of chapter it of the Charter of The City of New ment, for the purpose of making a jest and equitable All parties and persons interested in the lands and York. estimate of the loss or damage, if any, to the respective premises taken or to be taken for the purpose of opening Dated NEw YORK, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, March owners, lessees, parties and persons entitled to or said street or avenue, or affected thereby, and having 29, 1904. interested in the lands and premises to be taken for any claim or demand on account thereof, are hereby re- SUPREME COURT. JOHN J. DELANY, the purpose of opening the said street or avenue, quiredto present the same, duly verified, to us, the undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate and Assess- SECOND DEPARTMENT. Corporation Counsel. as particularly described in the petition of The City m29,a8 of New York, filed with said order in the office of the ment, at our office in the bureau of Street Openings of the Law Department, No. 166 Montague street, Borough In the matter of the application of The City of Nev Clerk of Kings County, and for the purpose of making a just and equitable assessment of the benefit of said of Brooklyn, in The City of New York. with such art- York, relative to acquiring title to BENSON AVE SECOND DEPARTMENT. davits or other proofs as the said owner or claimants NUE, from Bay -Thirty-fifth street to Stillwell ave street or avenue so to be opened, to the respective owners, parties and persons respectively entitled to or may desire, within twenty days after date of this flue, in the Thirty-first Ward, in the Borough o In the matter of the application of The City of New notice. Brooklyn, The City of New York. interested in the lands and premises and not required York, relative to acquiring title to EIGHTY. for the purpose of opening said street or avenue, but And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend. SEVEN I'H STREET, between Fifth avenue and ance at our said office on the 5tb day of April, t324, OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT HERSEI benefited thereby, and of ascertaining and defining the Narrows avenue, in the Thirtieth Ward in the Bor- district benefited by said assessment, and the extent at 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, to hear N Egginton, M. Shaler Allen and Frank G ough of Brooklyn, The City of New York. the said parties and persons in relation thereto; and Miller were appointed by an order of the Suprem and boundaries of the respective tracts and parcels of land participating in said benefit, and of perform- at such time and place, and at such further or other Court made and entered the 15th day of March, rgoq OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT T. time and place as we may appoint, we will hear such Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in th ing the trusts ad duties required of us, by title 4 of N Ellett Hodgskin, Samuel 1'. Maddox, Jr., and chapter 17 of the Charter of The City of New York, owners in relation thereto and exnmme proofs of above-entitled proceeding. Richard J. Meehan were appointed by an order of the such claimant or claimants, or such additional proofs Notice is also given, that the above-named Commis and the acts or parts of acts supplementary thereto Supreme Court, made and entered the ,5th day of or amendatory thereof. and allegations as may then be offered by such owner, sioners will attend at a Special I erm for the hearin. March, 5904, Commissioners of Estimate and Assess- or on behalf of The City of New York. of motions, appointed to be held at the Kings Count] All parties and persons interested in the lands and ment in the above-entitled proceeding. premises taken or to he taken for the purpose of Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY •io Near Court-house, in the P.orough of Brooklyn, The City a Notice i., also given, that the above-named Commis- YORK, March to, 1904. New York, on the sith day of April, 1904, at'a o'cloc'!a opening said street or avenue, or affected thereby, and sioners will attend at a Special 'Term or the hearing having any claim or demand on account thereof, are ANDREW J. PERRY, in the afternoon on that day, or as soon thereafter a of motions, appointed to be held at the Kings County HARRY A. TERREL. counsel can be heard ; and at said time and place, o hereby required to present the same, duly verified, to Court-house, in the Borough of Brooklyn,'Ihe City of us, the undersigned Commissioners of Estimate and SAMUEL T. MADDOX, I a., at such other time and place as the Court may direct New York, on the rtth day of April, 1c04, at 2 o'clock Commissioners. the said Commissioners may be examined under oat''. A ssessmentr at our office in the Bureau of Street Open- in the afternoon on that day, or as soon thereafter as ings of the L'w Department, No. 166 Montague JAMES F. QUIGLEY, as to their qualifications to act, and are subject to chat counsel can be heard; and at said time and place, or at Clerk. lenge by any party or person interested in this pro .street, Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New such other time and place as the Court may direct, the York, with such affidavits or other proofs as the m loan ceedng as provided by section g7g of title 4 of chap said Commissioners may be examined under oath as to ter 57 of the Charter of The City of New York. said owner or claimants may desire, within twenty their qualifications to act, and are subject to challenge days after date of this notice. JOHN J. DELANY, by any party or person interested in this proceeding, b ,(,UND DEPARTMENT. Corporation Counsel. And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend- as provided by section 973 of title 4 of chapter t]7 of the ance at our said office on the 5th day of April, 1904, YORK, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, Marc] In the matter of the application of The City of New Dated NEW Charter of The City of New York. - at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of tha, day, to hear 09, r9o4- Dated New YORK, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, March York, relative to acquiring title to HART Si REET, mz9,a8. the said parties and persons in relation thereto; and from Irving avenue to the Borough line, omitting the 29, 1904. at such time and place, and at such further or other JOHN J. DELANY, property occupied by the tracks of the Long Island time and place as we may appoint, we will hear such Railroad ( ompany, on Hart street, between Irving SECOND DEPARTMENT. Corporation Counsel. owners in relation thereto and exam•ne the prools of mzg,a8 avenue and Wyckoff avenue, in the Twenty-seventh such ciaimant or claimants, or such additioral proofs Ward in the Borough of Brooklyn, The City of New In the matter of the application of The City of Net and allegations as may then he offered by such owner York, relative to acquiring title to WEST T HIR York. FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT or on behalf of The City of New York. TEENTH SI'REEI', between Eighty-sixth scree Dated , BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE Ctav cc NEW and Grevesend Basin, in the Thirty-first Ward, i YORK, March to, r9c4. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE the Borough of Brooklyn, The City of New York. undersigned, were appointed by an order of In the matter of acquiring title by The City of New WILLIAM H. WHITE, N York to certain lands and premises situated on the the Supreme Court made a- d entered herein on the ~TOI ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT W ALTFI S. W. IESIIF, ad day of I tecember, 1903, and duly filed in the office easterly sideof ELTON AVENUE, x30 feet north. Commissioners. v G. Rooney, Henry B. Ketcham and Walter C erly from the northeasterly corner of Elton avenue of the Clerk of Kings County, a copy of which order hornton were appointed by an order of the Suprem JAMES F. QUIGLEY. was filed in the office of the Register of the County of and East One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, in the Clerk. mro,ar Court, made and entered the 15th day of March, r9o, Borough of The Bronx. in '1 he City of New York, Kings on the trth day of December, r9os, and indexed Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in th duly selected as a site for a public bath according to in the Index of Conveyances in Section No. ti, Blocks Nos. azao, 322, 3222, 322 above-entitled proceeding. law. SECOND DEPARTMENT. 3, 3224, 'aa36, 3237. 3238, 3-39, Notice is also given that the above-named Commit 3240, Commissioners of Estimate and Assess. sioners will attend at a Special Term for the hearin E, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSION- ment for the purpose of making a just and equit- of motions, appointed to be held at the Kings Count W era of Estimate and Appraisal, appointed in In the matter of the application of The City of New able estimate of the loss or damage, if any, to Court-house, to the Borough of Brooklyn, The City e the above-entitled proceeding by an order of the Su- York, relative to acquiring title to JEFFERSON the respective owners, lessees, parties and per- New York, on the rxth day of April, 1904, at a o'cloc preme Court bearing date the zzd day of March, 1904, STREET, from Irving avenue to Cypress avenue, sons entitled to or interested in the lands and prem- in the afternoon on that day, or as scon thereafter a and duly entered and filed in the office of the Clerk of excepting that portion occupied by the tracks of the ises to be taken for the purpose of opening the said counsel can be heard ; and at said time and place, or s the County of New York, on the 23d day of March, Long Island Railroad ( ompany, in the Twenty- street or avenue, as particularly described in the such other time and place as the Court may direct, th 904, do hereby give notire that we will apptar at seventh Ward, in the Borough of Brooklyn, T he petition of The City of New York, filed with said said Commissioners may be examined under oath as t Special Term, Part II., in the County Court-house, in City of New York. order in the office of the Clerk of Kings County, and their qualifications to act, and are subject to challeng the Borough of Manhattan, on the 7th day of April, for the purpose of making a just and equitable assess- by any party or person interested in this proceedinf r5o4, at rr o'clock A. M., to be examined as to our OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE ment of the benefit of said street or avenue so as provided by section 073 of title { of chapter t qualifications to act as such Commissioners of Esti- N undersigned, were appointed by an order of the to be opened, to the respective owners, parties and of the Charter of The City of New York. mate and Appraisal. Supreme Court, made and entered herein on the zd persons respectively entitled to or interested in the Dated New YORK, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, Marc Dated MARCH 25, 1904. day of December, 903. and duly filed in the office of lands and premises and not required for the purpose 29, r9c4. the Clerk of Kings County, a copy of which order was of opening said street or avenue, but benefited thereby, JOHN J. DELANY, E. DANIEL MINER, filed in the office of the Register of the County of and of ascertaining and defining the district bene- Corporation C ounsel. WILLIAM G. FISHER, Kings, on the rath day of December, 19e3. and indexed fited by said assessment, and the extent and boundaries ms9,a8. JEROME F. HEALY. in the Index of Conveyances, in Section No. II, Blocks of the respective tracts and parcels of land partici ms6,a7 Nos. 3x67, 3268, 3169, 3176, 2277, 3178, Com- pating in said benefit, and of performing the trusts and missioners of Estimate and Assessment for the duties required of us by title 4 of chapter t]7 of the SECOND DEPARTMENT. purpose of making a just and equitable estimate SECOND DEPARTMENT Charter of 'I he City of New York, and the acts or of the loss or damage, if any, to the respective parts of acts supplementary thereto or amendatory In the matter of the application of The City of Ne' owners, lessees, parties and persons entitled to or thereof. York, relative to acquiring title to SILLIMAI In the matter of the application of The City of New interested in the lands and premises to be taken for All parties and persons interested in the lands and PLACE, between Second avenue and Third avenw the purpose of opening the said street or avenue, as premises taken or to he taken for the purpose of open- in the Thirtieth Ward, in the Borough of Brooklyn York, relative to acquiring title to SEI'.LEY STREET, from Gravesend avenue to Nineteenth particularly described in the petition of The City of ing said street or avence, or affected thereby, and The City of New York. street, in the Twenty-ninth Ward, Borough of New York, filed with said order in the office of the having any claim or demand on account thereof, are Brooklyn, The City of New York. C Jerk of Kings County and for the purpose of making hereby required to present the same, duly verified, to OTICE. IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT MORTI a just and equitable assessment of the benefit of said us, the undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate and N mer S. Brown, Andrew McCreery and Theme street or avenue so to be opened, to the respective Assessment, at our office, in the Bureau of Street 1) Hoxsey were appointed by an order of the Suprem NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE owners, parties and persons respectively entitled to or Openings of the Law Department, No. 166 Montague Court, made and entered the 15th day of March, ego, undersigned, were appointed by an order of the interested in the lands and prem ses and not required street, Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in th Supreme Court, made and entered herein on the 25th for the purpose of opening said street or avenue, but with such affidavits or other proofs as the said owner above-entitled proceeding. day of September, 1903, and duly filed in the office of benefited thereby, and of ascertaining and defining the or claimants may desire, within twenty days after Notice is also given that the above-named Commie the Clerk of Kings County, a copy of which order was district benefited by said assessment, and the extent date of this notice. sinners will attend at a Special Term for the hearin filed in the office of the Register of the County of and boundaries of the respective tracts and parcels of And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend- of motions, appointed to be held at the Kings Count Kings on the zzd day of September, 19o3 and indexed land participating in said benefit, and of performing ance at our said office on the 9th day of April, Court-house, in the Borough of Brooklyn, The City( in the Index of Conveyances in Section No. t]6, Blocks the trusts and duties required of us by title 4 of chapter 1904, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, to hear New York, on the a th day of April, r9o4, at 2 o'cloc Nov. 5260, 526,, 526.1, 526, Commissioners of Estimate 17 of the Charter of The City or New York,and the the said parties and persons in relation thereto. And in the afternoon on that day, or as soon thereafter a and Assessment, for the purpose of making a just acts or parts of acts supplementary thereto or amenda. at such time and place, and at such further or other counsel can be heard; and at said time and place, c and equitable estimate of the loss or damage, it tory thereof. time and place as we may appoint, we will hear such at such other time and place as the Court may direc any, to the respective otaers, lessees, parties All parties and persons interested in the lands and owners in relation thereto and examine proofs of the said Commissioners may be examined tinder oat and persons entitled to or interested in the such claimant or claimants, or such additional proofs as to their qualifications to act, and are subject t lands and premises to be taken for the purpose of premises taken or to be taken for the purpose of open- ing said street or avenue, or affected thereby, and and allegations as may then be offered by such owner, challenge by any party or person interested in thi opening the said street or avenue, as particularly de- or on behalf of The City of New York. proceeding, as provided by section 973 of title 4 < scnbed in the petition of T'he City of New York, filed having any claim or demand on account thereof, are hereby required topresent the same, duly verified, to us, Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY OF NEW chapter t]7 of the Charter of The City of New York. with said order in the office of the Clerk of Kings YORK, March to, 9O4. Dated NEW YORK, BOROUGH i_F I;RoOKLYN, Marc County, and for the purpose of making a just and the undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, at our office in the Bureau of Street Open- ARTHUR C. SALMON, 29, 5904. equitable assessment of the benefit of said street or CHAS. J. WEBER. JOHN J. DELANY, avenue so to be opened, to the respective owners, ings of the Law Department, No. x66 Montague street, Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, with JOHN J. McGINN1SS, Corporation Counsel. parties and persons respectively entitled to or inter. Commissioners. mz9 all such affidavits or other proofs as the said owner or csted in the lands and premises and not required for JAMES F. QUIGLEY, the purpose of opening said street or avenue, but claimants may desire, within twenty days after date of this notice. Clerk. SECOND DEPARTMENT. benefited thereby, and of ascertaining and defining mio,ar the district benefited by said assessment, and the And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend- ance at our said office on the 5th day of April, 1904, at In the matter of the application of The City of New extent and boundaries of the respective tracts and parcels of land participating in said benefit, and of 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, to hear the In the matter of acquiring title by The City of New York, relative to acquiring title to AN ADDITION said parties and persons in relation thereto. And at such TO SUNSET PARK, between Forty-third street performing the trusts and duties required of us by York toremises situated on the southerly side of title 4 of chapter 07 of the Charter of The City of time and place, and at such further or other time and FIFTIETH STREET, between and Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue and Sev place as we may appoint, we will hear such owners in enth avenue, in the Eighth Ward, in the Borough of• New York, and the acts or parts of acts supplementary and I bird avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan, in thereto or amendatory thereof. relation thereto and examine proofs of such claimant The City of New York, duly selected as a site for Brooklyn, The City of New York. or claimants, or such additional proofs and allegations the Fire Department of said City, according to law, All parties and persons interested in the lands and as may then be offered by such owner or on behalf of OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WILLIAM premises taken or to he taken for the purpose of open- The City of New York. W E, THE UNDERSIGNED, APPOINTED V J. Carr, George S. Billings and Robert S. Bus- ing said street or avenue, or affected thereby, and Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY OF NEw singN were appointed by an order of the Supreme Court, Commissioners of Estimate and appraisal by having any claim or demand on account thereof, are YORK, March to, 1004. an order dated March 57, 2904, and entered in the made and entered the 15th day of March, 1904, Com- herebyrequired to present the same, duly verified, to WALDO R. BLACKWELL, missioners of Estimate and Assessment in the above- office of the Clerk of the County of New York on the us, the undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate and AMES W. WEBB, 18th day of March, 19o$, will appear at Special Term, entitled proceeding. Assessment, at our office, in the Bureau of Street DWIN V. MORRISON, Notice is also given that the above-named Commis- E Part II., at the County Court-house in the Borough of Openings of the Law Department, 166 Montegue Commissioners. Manhattan, on the 1st day of April,1904, at It o'clock, sioners will attend at a Special T erm for the hearing street, Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New TAMES F. QUIGLFY, of motions, appointed to be held at the Kings County to be examined as to our qualifications to act as such York, with such affidavits or other proofs as the said Clerk. mre,at Commissioners. Court-house, in the Borough of Brooklyn, The City of owner or claimants may desire, within twenty days New York, on the r ctb day of April, t9o4, at v o'clock Dated NEw YORK, March t]8, 2904. after date of this notice. CHARLES W. DAYTON, JR., in the afternoon on that day, or as soon thereafter as And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend- SECOND DEPARTMENT. counsel can be heard; and at said time and place, or at GEORGE W. MILLER, and ance at our said office on the 5th day of April, 1904, HERMAN ALSBERG. such other time and place as the Court may direct, the at ro o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to hear the nrsr,3t said Commissioners may be examined under oath as to said parties and persons in relation thereto. And at In the matter of the application of The City of New their qualifications to act, and are subject to challenge such time and place, and at such further or other time York, relative to acquiring title to BEVERLY by any party orperson interested in this proceeding, as and place as we may appoint, we will bear such owners ROAD, from Bedford avenue to East Thirty-first FIRST DEPARTMENT. provided by section _title 4 of chapter x7 of the in relation thereto, and examine proofs of such street, in the Twenty-ninth Ward, in the Borough of Brooklyn, The City of New York. Charter of The City of New York. claimant or claimants, or such additional proofs In the matter of acquiring title by The City of New Dated NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, March and allegations as may then be offered by such owner York to certain lands and premises situated on the 59, 2904• or on behalf of The City of New York. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE westerly side of ALLISN STREET, one hundred JOHN J. DELANY, Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY OF NSW IN undersigned, were appointed by an order of the and sixteen (r:6) feet eight (8) inches south of Riv- Corporation Counsel. Yoga, March ro, 290 . Supreme Court, made and entered herein on the 25th mag,a8 ington street, to the Borough of Manhattan, in The GEORGE W. MARTIN, day of May, 1903, and duly filed in the office of the City of New York, duly selected as a site for a Jl'LES A. GUEDON, Clerk of Kings County, a copy of which order was public bath, according to law. SECOND DEPARTMENT. GEORGE C. BRAINERD, filed in the office of the Register of the County Commissioners. of Kings on the 27th day of May, 1903, and indexed in In the matter of the application of The City of New JAMES F. QUIGLEY, the Index of Conveyances in Section No, z6, Blocks Nos. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Yolk, relative to acquiring title to AVENUE S, Clerk, mto,at 5134, 5135, 5136, 5137, 5138, 5134, 5140, 5568, Sr67, 5170, N report of Adam Wiener, August H. Stebbins between Coney Island avenue and Ocean avenue, in 5173 , 51 72, 5'73, section No. t]5, I lock Nos. 49i5, and Charles W. Dayton, Jr., Commissioners of Esti- mate and Appraisal, duly appointed in the above-en- the Thirty-first Ward, in the Borough of Brooklyn, SECOND DEPARTMENT. 4916, 4y30, 4931, Commissioners of Estimate and Assess. The City of New York. ment for the purpose of making a just and equitable titled proceeding, which report bears date the 15th estimate of the loss or damage, if any, to the respective day of March, 7904, was filed in the office of the OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IOHN S. In the matter of the application of The City of New owners, lessees, parties and persons entitled to or in- Boars of Estimate and Apportionment of The City of N Griffith, John F. Coffin and Solon Barbanell York relative to acquiring title to SHELL ROAD, terested in the lands and premises to be taken for the New York, at their office in the City Hall, on the 18th were appointed by an order of the Supreme Court, from Avenue X to Canal avenue and West Sixth purpose of opening the said street or avenue. as par. day of March, I9o4, and a duplicate of said report made and entered the 15th day of March, t9o4, Com- street, from Neptune avenue to Sheepshead Bay ttcularty described in the petition of The Pity of New was filed in the office of the Clerk of the County of missioners of Estimate and Assessment in the above- road, in the Thirty-first Ward, in the Borough of York, filed with said order in the office of the Clerk of New York on the same day. entitled proceeding. Brooklyn, The City of New York. Kings County, and for the purpose of making a just Notice is further given that said report will be Notice is also given that the above-named Commis- and equitable assessment of the benefit of said street or presented for confirmation to the Supreme Court of the sioners will attend at a Special Term for the hearing of avenue in to be opened, to the respective owners, State of New York, at a Special Term, Part III., motions, appointed to be held at the Kings County OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, parties and persons respectively entitled to or interested thereof. to be held in the County Court-house in The Court-house, in the Borough of Brooklyn, The City N the undersigned, were appointed by an order in the lands and premises and not required forthe pur- Borough of Manhattan, in The City of New York, on of New York, on the ritb day of April, r9o4, at a of the Supreme Court, made and entered herein on pose of opening said street or avenue, but benefited the 31st day of March, 5904, at the opening of the 2004 THE CITY RECORD. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, I904..

Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon having any claim or demand on account thereof, are The City of New York, on the s5th day of April, 1go4r land participating in said benefit, and of performing the thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a motion hereby required to present the same, duly verified, at the opening of the Court on that day. trusts and duties required of us by title 4 of chap- will be made that the said report be confirmed. to us, the undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY OF NEW ter 17 of the Charter of The City of New York, and the Dated NEW YORK, March r8, 1904. and Assessment, at our office in the Bureau of Street YORK, March r5, 5904 acts or pans of acts supplementary thereto or amend- JOHN J. DELANY, Openings of the Law Department, No. 166 Montague JOHN B. LORD, Chairman, atory thereof. Corporation Counsel, street, Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, GEORGE W. PALMER, All parties and persons interested in the lands and No. Tryon Row, with such affidavits or other proofs as the said own- DANIEL QUINN, premises taken or to be taken for the purpose of open- Borough of Manhattan, ers or claimants dray desire, within twenty days after Commissioners. ing said street or avenue, or affected thereby, and hav- New York City. date of this notice. JAMES F. QUIGLEY, ing any claim or demand on account thereof, are hereby m19,30 And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend- Clerk. mr5,3t required to present the same, duly verified, to us, the ance at our said office on the 4th day of April, tyo4, undersigned, Commissioners of Estimate and Assess- SECOND DEPARTMENT. at it o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to hear SECOND DEPARTMENT. ment, at our office, in the Bureau of Street Openings the said parties and persons in relation thereto. And of the Law Department, No. ,66 Montague street, Bor- In the matter of the application of The City of New at such time and place, and at such further or other In the matter of the application of The City of New ough of Brooklyn, to The City of New York, with such York relative to acquiring title to the lands, tene- time and place as we may appoint, we will hear such York, relative to acquiring title to the lands, tene- affidavits or other proofs as the said owner or claim- ments and hereditaments required for the purpose owners in relation thereto and examine proofs of ments and hereditaments required for the purpose of ants may desire, within twenty days after date of this of opening EIGHTY-THIRD STREET, from such claimant or claimants, or such additional proofs opening FIFTY-Si,COND STREET from former notice. Tenth avenue to Stewart avenue, and from Fourth and allegations as may then be offered by such owner city line to the Old Road from Flatbush to New And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attend- avenue to Shore road, in the Thirtieth Ward in the or on behalf of The City of New York. Utrecht, in the Thirtieth Ward, in the Borough of ance at our said office on the 7th day of April, 1904, Bon,ugh of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, as Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, THE CITY CF NEW Brooklyn, of The City of New York, as the same has at ro o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to hear the same has been heretofore laid out. YORK, March to, 2904. been heretofore laid out. the said parties and persons in relation thereto. And JOHN WATSON, at such time and place, and at such further or other OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE THOMAS D. HOXSEY, time and place as we may appoint we will heat such supplemental and additionalbillofcosts, charges Commissioners, W E, THE UNDERSIGNED, COMMISSION. owners in relation thereto and examine proofs of N JAMES F. QUIGLEY, ers ofEstimate and Assessment in the above- such claimant or claimants, or such additional proofs and expenses incurred by reason of the proceedings in entitled matter, hereby give notice to all persons the above-entitled matter will bepresented for taxation Clerk. m roar and allegations as may then be offered by such owner, interested in this proceeding, and to the owner or or on behalf of The City of New York. to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State owners, occupant or occupants, of all houses and lots 1 erm thereof, to be held SECOND DEPARTMENT. Dat, d, BOROUGH OF BPOOKLYN, THE CITY OF NEW ~f New York, at a Special - and improved and unimproved lands affected thereby, for the bearing of motions at the Kings County Court- YORK, March to, rqo.} In the matter of the application of The City of New and to all others whom it may concern, to wit: CHARLES A. COIRADY, house, in the Lorough of Brooklyn, to The City of First-That we have completed our estimate and New York, on the 31st day of March,1004, at 10.30 York, relative to acquiring title for the opening and GEORGE O. EMMONS, o'clock in the forenoon of that day, or as soon there. extending of the Public Park bounded by FULTON assessment, and that all persons interested in this pro. Commissioners, STREET, (HAI NCEY STREET, LEWIS AV- ceeding, or in any of the lands, tenements and heredita- JAMES F, QUIGLEY, after as counsel can be heard thereon, and that the ments and premises affected thereby, and having objec- said supplemental and additional bill of costs, charges ENUE AND STUYVI!SANi AVENUE, also Clerk. and expenses has been deposited in the office of the bounded by LEWIS AVENUE, FUL ION STREET tion thereto, do present their said objections in writing, mro,ar AND CHAUNCEY STREET, in the I wenty-third duly verified, to us at our office, in the office of the Las, Clerk of the County of Kings, there to remain for and I)e during the space of ten days, as required by the pro ' and in the Borough of Brooklyn, The City of New partment, No. 166 Montague street, in the Borough ter 57 of chapter York. of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, on or before FIRST DEPARTMENT. visions of section 999 of title 4 of chap the 6th day of A 378 of the Laws of 5897, as amended by chapter 466 of pril, 1904, and that we, the said Com- OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE missioners, will hear parties so objecting, and for that the laws of 59ox. purpose will be in attendance at our said office on the In the matter of the application of The City of New Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, New YORK, March undersigned, were appointed by an order of the York relative to acquiring title, wherever the same SupremeN Court, made and entered herein, on the ad 8th day of April, 1004, at 3 o'clock P.M. 18, 1904. Second-T hat the abstract of our said estimate and has not been heretofore acquired, to EVELYN CORNELIUS VAN BRUNT, day of December, 2903, and duly filed in the office of PLACE (although not yet named by proper author- PETER F. W. RUTHER, the Clerk of Kings County. a copy of which order assessment, togetHer with our damage and benefit maps, and also all the affidavits, estimates, proofs ity), from Jerome avenue to Aqueduct avenue East, Commissioners. was filed in the office of the Register of the County of in the Twenty. fourth Ward, Borough of The Bronx, Kings on the rrth day of December, 1903, and indexed and other documents used by us in making our JAMES F. QUIGLEY, report, have been deposited in the Bureau of Street in The City of New York. - Clerk. mt8,29 in the Index of Conveyances, in Section No. 6, Blocks Nos. 1689 and 5690, Commissioners of Estimate, for Openings of the Law Department of The City of SECOND DEPARTMENT. the purpose of making a just and equitable estimate New York, in the Borough of Brooklyyn, No. 166 Mon- OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE of the loss or damage, if any, to the respective owners, tague street. in the Borough of Brooklyn, in The City N bill of costs, charges and expenses incurred by Ii, the matter of the application of The City of New lessees, parties and persons entitled to or interested of New York, there to remain until the 15th day of reason of the proceedings in the above-entitled matter York, relative to acquiring title to the lands, tene- in the lands and premises to be taken for the purpose April, tgo4. will be presented for taxation to one of the Justices of ments and hereditaments required for the purpose of of opening and extending the said Public Park, as par- Third-That the limits of our assessment for benefit the Suureme Court of the State of New York, First opening SEVENTY-FIRST STREET from Third ticularly described in the petition of 7 he City of New include all those lands, tenements and hereditaments Department, at a Special 'Term thereof, Part I., avenue to the Shore road in the Thirtieth Ward in York, filed with said order in the office of the Clerk of and premises situate, lying and being in the borough to be held at the County Court-house, in the the Borough of Brooklyn, of The City of New York, Kings County, and of performing the trusts and duties of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, which, taken Borough of Manhattan, in The City of New York, on as the same has been heretofore laid out. required of us by title 4 of chapter t7 of the Charter together, are bounded and described as follows, viz.: the 5th day of April, I904, at moo o'clock in of I he City of New York, and the acts or parts of acts Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Fifty - forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel E, THE UNDERSIGNED, COMMISSION supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof. second street, where the same is intersected by the can be heard thereon ; and that the said bill of costs, ers of Estimate and Assessment in the above- All parties and persons interested in the lands and former city line of Brooklyn, now dividing the Eighth charges and expenses has been deposited in the office entitledW matter, hereby give notice to all persons in- premises taken or to be taken for the purpose of open- and Th'rtieth Wards ; running thence northerly along of the Clerk of the County of New York, there to re- terested in this proceeding, and to the owner or owners, ing and extending said Public Park, oraffected thereby, said former city line to the centre line of the block be- main for and during the space of ten days, as required occupant or occupants, of all houses and lots and im- and having any claim or demand on account thereof, tween Fifty-second street and Fifty -first street ; running by the provisions of section qqq of the Greater New proved and unimproved lands affected thereby, and to are hereby required to present the same, duly verified, thence easterly along the centre line of the blocks be- It ork Charter, as amended by chapter 466 of the Laws all others whom it may concern, to wit: to us, the undersigned, Comtuissioners of Estimate tween Fifty-second street and Fifty-first street to the of r9or. First- I hat we have completed our amended and and Assessment, at our office i the Bureau of street westerly side of the Old Road from Flatbush to New Dated, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, supplemental estimate and assessment, and that all Openings of the Law Department, No. 166 Montague Utrecht ; running thence southerly along the westerly March 23, I904. persons interested to this proceeding, or in any of street, Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, side of the Old Road from Flatbush to New Utrecht EMANUEL BLUMENSTIEL, the lands, tenements and hereditaments and premises with such affidavits or other proofs as the said owner to the centre line of the block between Fifty-second JOHN M. LINCK, affected thereby, and having objections thereto, do or claimants may desire, within twenty days after date street and Fifty-third street ; running thence westerly CHARLES E. F. McCANN, present their said objections in writing, duly verified, of this notice. along the centre line of the blocks between Fifty- Commissioners. to us at our office in the office of the Law Department, And we, the said Commissioners, will be in attendance second street and Fifty-third street to the former JOHN P. DUNN, No ,66 Montague street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, at our said office on the 8th day of April, t904, at 3.30 city line, and thence northeasterly along the former Clerk. mzs.az in The City of New York, on or before the 9th day o'clock in the afternoon of that day, to hear the said par- city line to the point or place of beginning. of April, 1904, and that we, the said Commissioners, ties and persons in relation thereto ; and at such time fourth-That our report herein will be presented for will hear parties so objecting, and for that purpose and place, and at such further or other time and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the State of PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AND ESTIMATES New York, Second Department, at a Special Term will be in attendance at our said office on the rsth day place as we may appoint, we will hear such owners in FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. of April, Igoi, at 3 o'clock P. i.e. relation thereto, and examine proofs of such claimant thereof for the hearing of motions, to be held in the Second- I hat the abstract of our said amended and or claimants, or such additional proofs and allegations County Court-house, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. as may then be offered by such owner, or on behalf of The City of New York. on the 29th day of April, tgo4, supplemental estimate and assessment, together with GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. our damage and benefit maps, and also all the affi- The City of New York. at the opening of the Court on that day. davits, estimates, proofs and other documents used by Dated BOROUGH OF BRO_.KLYN, THE CITY OF NEW Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, Tux CITY OF NEW The person or persons making a bid or esti- us in making our report, have been deposited in the YORK, March r5, 1904. YORK, March 15, 2904. mate for any services, work, materials or supplies Bureau of Street Openings of the Law Department WILLIAM VANAMEE, HENRY F. COCHRANE, for The City of New York, or for any of its of The City of New York, in the Borough of Brook- S. L. BRINLEY, Chairman; departments, bureaus or offices, shall furnish the lyn, No. 166 Montague street, in the Borough of Brook- CLARENCE B. SMITH, JOHN WATSON, same in a sealed envelope, indorsed with the title lyn, The City of New York, there to remain until the Commissioners. HENRY MARSHALL, of the supplies, materials, work or services for tsth day of April. 1904, JAMES F. QUIGLEY, Commissioners, which the bid or estimate is made, with his or JAMES F. QUIGLEY, p Third-That the limits of our assessment for benefit Clerk. mt5,a6 their name or names and the date of resentation include all those lands, tenements and hereditaments Clerk. mr5.3t to the President or Board or to the head of and premises situate, lying and being in the Borough SECOND DEPARTMENT. the Department at his or its office, on or before of Brooklyn, in 1 he City of New York, which, taken SECOND DEPARTMENT. the date and hour named in the advertisement together, are bounded and described as follows, viz.: In the matter of the application of The City of New for the same, at which time and place the esti- Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Sev- York, relative to acquiring title to the lands, tene- In the matter of the application of The City of New mates received will be publicly opened by the enty-fourth street and distant too feet easterly of the ments and hereditaments required for the purpose York, relative to acquiring title to the lands, tent- President or Board or head of said Department and read, and the award of the contract made easterly side of Third avenue; running thence north- of opening FORTY-FIFTH STREET, from Old ments and hereditaments required for the purpose of City Line to West street in the Twenty-ninth and opening GRANITE STREET, from Bushwick according to law as soon thereafter as practicable, erly and parallel with Third avenue to the southerly Each bid or estimate shall contain the name side of Bay Ridge avenue; running thence westerly Thirtieth Wards in the Borough of Brooklyn, of a4enue to Evergreen avenue, excepting the land The City of New York, as the same has been here- lying within the lines of the land now occupied by and place of residence of the person making the and along the southerly side of Bay Ridge aye •ue and same, the names of all persons interested with him its prolongation to the bulkhead-line: running thence tofore laid out. the tracks of the Long Island Railroad Company, in the Twenty-eighth Ward, in the Borough of Brook- therein, and, if no other person be so interested, southwesterly along the bulkhead-line to a point W E, THE UNDERSIGNED, COMMISSION- lyn, in The City of New York, as the same has been it shall distinctly state that fact • also, that it is where the prolongation of the northerly line of Sev- made without any, connection with any other per- enty-fourth street, if carried out, would intersect the ers of Estimate and Assessment in the above- heretofore laid out. entitled matter, hereby give notice to all persons in- son making an estimate for the same purpose, and bulkhead-line; running thence easterly and along the is in all respects fair and without collusion or prolongation of the northerly line of Seventy-fourth terested in this proceeding, and to the owneror owners, OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE occupant or occupants, of all houses and lots and im- N bill of costs, charges and expenses incurred by fraud, and that no member of the Board of Alder- street, as well as the northerly line of Seventy-fourth men, head of a department, chief of a bureau, street, to the point or place of beginning. proved and unimproved lands affected thereby, and to reason of the proceedings in the above-entitled matter all others whom it may concern. to wit: will be presented for taxation to one of the justices of deputy thereof or clerk therein, or other officer Fourth-That our report herein will be presented of The City o? New York is, shall be or become for confirmation to the Supreme Court of the State of First-That we have completed our estimate and the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a Special Term thereof, to be held for the hearing of interested, directly or indirectly, as contracting New York, Second Department, at a Special Ierm assessment, and that all persons interested in this party, partner, stockholder, surety or otherwise thereof for the hearing of motions, to be held in the proceeding, or in any of the lands, tenements and motions at the Kings County Court-house, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, to or in the performance of the contract, or in County Courthouse, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in hereditaments and premises affected thereby, and hav- the supplies, work or business to which it relates ing objections thereto, do present their said objections on the 31st day of March, 1904, at ro.3o o'clock in The City of New York, on the 25th day of April, t9o4, the forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid at the opening of the Court on that day. in wnting, duly verified, to us at our office in the counsei can be heard thereon ; and that the said bill or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writ- Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, IHE CITY OF NEW office of the law Department, No. 166 Montague ing, of the party or parties making the estimate street. in the Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of of costs, charges and expenses has been deposited in YORK, March 58, 1004. the office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, there that the several matters stated herein arc in all ALFRED H. MARQUIS, Chairman, New York, on or before the 6th day of April, 1904, and to remain for and during the space of ten days, as respects true. W. A. FISHER, that we, the said Commis-ioners, will hear parties so Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by JAMES GRAHAM objecting, and for that purpose will be in attendance required by the provisions of section 999 of title the consent, in writing, of two householders or of chapter78 of the Laws of 1897, as Commissioners at our said office on the nth day of April, 1904, at a 4 of chapter r y freeholders in The City of New York, or of a &clock F. M. amended by chapter 466 of the Laws of rgor. aranty or surety company duly authorized by JAMEs F. QUIGLEY, March gu Clerk. Second-That the abstract of our said estimate and Dated BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, law to act as surety, and shall contain the mat- mt8. at assessment, together with our damage and benefit t8, t9o4. ters set forth in the blank forms mentioned below. maps, and also all the affidavits, estimates, proofs and JAMES Z. PEARSALL, No bid or estimate will be considered unless, as SECOND DEPARTMENT. other documents used by us in making our report, have M. C. STANTON, a condition precedent to the reception or con- been deposited in the Bureau of Street Openings of CHAS. A. O'MALLEY, sideration of any proposal, it be accompanied by In the matterof the application of The City of New York the Law Department of I he City of New York, in the Commissioners. a certified check upon one of the State or Na- Bor,ugb of Brooklyn, No. 166 Monts a street, the JAMES F. QUIGLEY, relative to acquiring title to VANDAM S I REET Clerk. mr8,zq tional banks of The City of New York, drawn from Meeker avenue to Bridgewater street, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in The City of New York, there to the order of the Comptroller, or money to the Seventeenth Ward in the Borough of Brooklyn, The to remain until the 15th day of April, 1904, amount of five per centum of the amount of the City of New York. Third-That the limits of our assessment for benefit SECOND DEPARTMENT. bond retIaired, as provided in section 4ao of the include all those lands, tenements and hereditaments Greater New York Charter. VTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE and premise; situate, lying and being in the Borough In the matter of the application of The City of New The certified check or money should not be undersigned were appointed by an order of the of Brooklyn. in The City of New York, which, taken York relative to acquiring title to SHERMAN inclosed in the envelope containing the bid or SupremeN t. ourt made and entered herein on the 15th together, are bounded and described as follows, viz.: STREET, from the southerly side of Reeves place estimate, but should be either inclosed In it day of September, 1903, and duly filed in the office of Beginning at a point on the northerly side of Forty- (formerly Adams street) to the line dividing the land separate envelope addressed to the head of the the Clerk of Kings County, a copy of which order was fifth street, where the same is intersec•ed by the old or formerly of the Windsor Terrace Land Association Department, President or Board, or submitted filed in the office of the Register of the County of former city line of Brooklyn now dividing the Eighth from the land late of Thomas Murphy, in the Twenty- personally upon the presentation of the bid or Kings on the 23d day of eptember, 1903, and indexed and Thirtieth Wards ; running thence northeasterly ninth Ward in Borough of Brooklyn, The City of estimate- in the Index of Conveyances in Section No. 9, Blocks along the old city line of Brooklyn to the centre line New York. For particulars as to the quantity and quality of the block between Forty-fifth street and Forty- Nos. 2662, 2663, 2693, 2694, Commissioners Of Esti- of the supplies, or the nature and extent of the mate and Assessment, for the purpose of making a fourth street t running thence easterly along the OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, work, reference most be made to the specifica- just and equitable estimate of the loss or centre line of the block between Forty-firth street and N the undersigned, were appointed by an order of tion, schedules, plans, etc., on file in the said damage, if any, to the respective owners, lessees, Forty-fourth street, to the westerly side of West the Supreme Court, made and entered herein on the office of the President, Board of Department parties and persons entitled to or interested in the street; running thence southerly along the westerly agth day of May, rgo3, and duly Qkd in the office of No bid call be accepted from or contract lands and premises to be taken for the purpose of side of West street to the northerly bide of Forty- the Cleric of Kings County, a copy of which order was awarded to any person who Is in .,.asr+ '' The opening the said street or avenue, as particularly de- fifth street ; running thence easterly along the pro- filed in the office of the Register of the County of City of New York upon debt or contract, v. 0,ho scribed in the petition of The City of New York, longation of the northerly line of Forty-fifth street to Kings on the 27th day of May, 2903, aq1 indexed in is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any filed with said order in the office of the Clerk of the easterly side of Franklin avenue : running thence the Index of Conveyances, in Section No. r6, Blocks Obligation to the City, Kings County, and for the purpose of maktn* a just southerly along the easterly side of Franklin avenue No•. 5275 5376, 5x78, 5279, Commissioners of Estt- The contract must be bid for separately. and equitable assessment of the benefit of said street to the prolongation of the southerly side of Fatty fifth mate and Assessment. for the purpose of making a The right Is reserved in each case to reject or avenue so to be opened, to the respective owners, street; running thence westerly along the prolongs just and equitable estimate of the loss or damage, if all bids or estimates if it is deemed to be for the parties and persons respectively entitled to or inter- taon of the southerly side of Forty-fifth street to the any, to the respective owners, lessees, parties and per- interest of the City so to do. ested in the lands and premises and not required for the westerly side of Franklin avenue; thence southerly sons entitled to or interested in the lands and premises Bidders will write out the amount of their bids purpose of opening said street or avenue, but benefited along the westerly line of Franklin avenue to the to be taken for the purpose o(opening the said street or or estimates in addition to inserting the same in thereby,e and of ascertainingcr and defining the district centre line of the block between Forty-fifth and Forty- avenue, as particular described in the petition of The figures. benefited by said assessment, and the extent and sixth streets; running thence westerly along the City of New York, filed with said order in the office Bidders are requested to make their bids or boundaries of the respective tracts and parcels of land centre line of the blocks between Forty-fifth street and of the Clerk of Kings County, and for the purpose of estimates upon the blank forms prepared and participating in said benefit, and of performing the Forty-sixth street to the old city line of Brooklyn; making a just and equitable assessment of the benefit furnished by the City, 'a copy of which,.with the envelope in which to inclose the bid, to trusts and duties required of us by title 4 of chapter running thence northeasterly along the old city line of of said street or avenue so to be opened, to the respec- proper r7 of the Charter of The City of New York and the Brooklyn to the point or place of beginning. tive owners, parties and persons respectively entitled to gether with a copy of the contract, Including the acts or plots of acts supplementary thereto or amenda- Fourth- I hat our report herein will be presented for or interested in the lands and premises and not required specifications. in the form approved by the Cor- tory thereof. congrmatton to the Supreme Corot of the State of for the purpose of opening said street or avenue, but poration Counsel, can be obtained upon applies' All parties and persons interested in the lands and New York, Second Department, at a Special Term bcne5ted thereby and of ascertaining and defining the Lion therefor at the office of the Department for premises taken or to be taken for the purpose of thereof for the heanej of motions, to be held in the district benefite4 by said assessment, and the extent which the work is to be done. Plana and drsw- opening said street or avenue, or affected thereby, and County Court-house in the Borough of Brooklyn, in and boundaries of the respective tracts and parcels of ings of construction work may also be ssm tiara