THE CITY RECORD. VOL. XXXII. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1904. NUMBER 9,590.
THE CITY RECORD. Sunset Park. The work of carrying out the original design of this park has been vigorously prosecuted. The recent additions to the park consisting of two blocks, bounded by OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Seventh avenue, Fifth avenue, Forty-third street and Forty-fourth street, has enabled me to proceed with the carrying out of the walk system of this park. Contracts have Published Under Authority of Section t5a6, Greater New York Charter, by the been let for the necessary sewer-pipe fittings and brick and supplies to build the BOARD OF CITY RECORD. drainage system for this park. I have also let a contract for the necessary materials to install and complete an irrigation system for this park. The slopes bordering on Forty-first street have been made and planted.The GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, MAYOL. work of making the slopes and walks bordering on the Seventh avenue side is now JOHN J. DELANY, Coaroawxtox Counsar.. EDWARD M. GROUT, Cormo■ ta under way, and I have hopes that before the arrival of the winter months they will have been completed. Forest Park. PATRICK J. TRACY, SOP=aviso.. In this park large improvements have been begun. Two greenhouses, capable of taking care of the present needs of the Department, are now nearing completion. Published daily, except legal holidays. The work of building driveways through this park has practically been completed, and the work of building the gutters along the entire length of these drives has been Subscription, $9.3o per year, exclusive of supplements. Three cents a copy. started. It is the intention of the Department to establish in this park, and in fact SUPPLEMENTS: Civil List (containing names, salaries, etc., of the city employees), 25 cents; the work of establishing a nursery has been begun. In this nursery there will be Canvass, to cents; Registry Lists, 5 cents each assembly district; Law Department and Finance grown all the young trees and shrubs required for departmental work in the future. Department supplements, to cents each; Annual Assessed Valuation of Real Estate, 25 cents each The work of laying out new golf links to the south of the drives has been started and section of Manhattan. is at present in very satisfactory state of progress. Published at Room a, City Hall (north side), New York City. Highland Park. This park has received careful attention during the past three months. The work Entered as Second-class Matter, Post Office at New York City. of grading the slopes and sodding them has progressed favorably. The slopes run- ning down to the lake have been formed and sodded, and to-day present a very attractive appearance. The work of grading the embankment north of the lake is TABLE OF CONTENTS. now being carried forward, and will be completed prior to the coming of winter. The roadways have been carefully looked after and repaired where necessary and are Aqueduct Commission— Fire Department— to-day in a very satisfactory and commendable condition. During the conceit season Minutes of Meetings of September 8 Proposals ...... 7923 it was found impossible to accommodate all the people in the near vicinity of the 19o. ...... to x5, and r6, 7915 Transactions from October to music stand. To obviate this difficulty it was found necessary to extend the plateau Proposals ...... 7924 1904 ...... 79'' Assessors, Board of— Health, Department of— in a southerly direction and on a level with the base of the music stand. To do this Public Notices ...... 7920 Minutes of Meeting of October 26, is required about five or six thousand cubic yards of fill and considerable labor. The Board Meetings ...... 7920 1904 ...... 7907 Bridges, Department of— Notice of Amendment to Sanitary walks around the lake have been built and screenings spread thereon. The storms Proposals ...... 7921 Code ...... 7921 of September played havoc with some of the large and old trees, and the work of Bronx, Borough of— Proposals ...... 7922 removing these trees and making good the damage caused by their destruction has Proposals ...... 7920 Manhattan, Borough cf- been completed. The park to-day is in a very presentable condition. Brooklyn, Borough of— Proposals ...... 7920 Auction Sale ...... 7920 Public Notice ...... i 7920 Carroll Park. Proposals ...... 7919 Report of CommissionerCmissi of Public Public Notices ...... 7919 Works, Week ending November A contract was let to lay cement sidewalks on all four sides of this park. 79 5 The work is now under way, and I am sure will be completed within two or three than g es in Departments ...... 7916 Municipal' Change of Grade Damage Commission— Service Commission—.... weeks. Designs have been prepared and the contract is now tinder preparation for 7920 Public Notice ...... Public Notice ...... Municipal Explosives Commission— 792 a new shelter house for this park. The work of maintaining the grounds, trees and ( ollege of The City of New York— Amendments to Municipal Explo- shrubbery and removing all dead trees and branches has been carefully looked after. Proposals ...... 7924 sives Commission's Regulations. 7906 Correction, Department of— Notice to Contractors ...... 9928 Institute Park. Proposals ...... 7920 Official Borough Papers...... 7920 At this park work has been started on a new walk from Flatbush avenue, bor- Docks and Ferries, Department of— Official Directory ...... 79i7 7923 Auction Sale • • • • Official Papers ...... 79792 44 dering the reservoir. This walk is intended as an access from Flatbush avenue to Proposals ...... 7923 Parks, Department of— the Institute grounds, and when completed will be the last walk to be built under Public 'Notice ...... 7923 Proposals ...... 7922 Education, Department of— Report for the original design for this park. The large plateau in the rear of the Institute 7921 1 Quarter ending Septem. Proposals ...... her 30, 1904 ...... 7905 building has been regraded and screenings spread thereon, and the slopes and sides l•stimate and Apportionment,p Board of— Police, Department of— have been made and covered with top soil. The work of seeding and sodding these Hearing ...... 7920 Public Owners Wanted for Lost Property.. 7920 slopes is now being pushed forward. Executive Department— Proposals ...... 7920 Report of Bureau of Licenses, Week Public Charities, Department of— Small Parks. ending November 12, 1904.... 7916 Proposals ...... 7924 Finance, Department of— Street Cleaning, Department of— The small parks under the jurisdiction of this Department have received the Auction Sale ...... 7923 Ashes, etc., for Filling in Lands.... 792t usual care and attention in the way of maintenance and improvement. The trees and Notices of Assessments for Opening Proposals ...... 792t shrubs have been pruned and sprayed with a poisonous solution to prevent the Streets and Parks...... 7922 Public Notice ...... 792! Notices to Property-owners...... 7922 Supreme Court— ravages of caterpillars and other insects. Notice to Taxpayers ...... ... 7922 Acquiring Title to Lands, etc...... 7924 Proposals for $25,000,000 of Three Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, De- Playgrounds. and One-half Per Cent. Cor- partment of- The playgrounds in Williamsburg Park and the playground under the Williams- porateStock ...... 7922 Auction Sale ...... 7923 burg Bridge and at New Lots Playground have been kept in very fine condition during ...... 7922 Public Notices Proposals ...... 7924 the preceding three months. Screenings have been spread over the entire surface of these playgrounds, and attendants and apparatus have been in constant demand. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. Parkways. Highland Boulevard—Along this boulevard a contract has been let to lay cement BOROUGHS OF BROOKLYN AND QUEENS. sidewalks, starting at the viaduct across Vermont street and running in a northerly direction along the boulevard and up Bushwick avenue as far as the sidewalk in Report for the Quarter ending September 30, 1904. front of Evergreen Cemetery. This work has been completed and is a material improvement to the locality. Ocean Parkway—Along the traffic road on the west side of this parkway the Office of the Department of Parks, Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, entire area of the roadway has been rebuilt and resurfaced from the Plaza to Twenty- Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park, J} second avenue. The drive itself has been kept in excellent condition, repairs here Brooklyn, October 1, 1904. and there being found necessary after each heavy rainstorm. The work of taking care Hon. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Mayor of The City of New York: of the bridle paths and improving its condition was started at the Plaza and is being Sir—I have the honor to submit to you herewith, in accordance with the provisions carried out along its entire length. The Bureau of Sewers. through its contractor, of section 1544 of the Charter, a quarterly report of the proceedings and finances of the tore up the bicycle path for a great distance, necessitating the abandonment of this Department of Parks, Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, from July i to September 30, path for bicycle use. The work of building the sewer is now completed and the con- inclusive, 1904. tractor has been notified, and the work of clearing up and restoring the bicycle path Very truly yours, must be vigorously prosecuted. M. J. KENNEDY, Commissioner. The Speedway has been kept in excellent condition by spreading loam over its surface, raking and harrowing same daily. The trees along this fine boulevard have STATEMENT OF WORK PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS been carefully looked after. Dead trees and branches have been removed and new OF THE BOROUGHS OF BROOKLYN AND QUEENS, DURING THE trees set out in their place. THREE MONTHS FROM JULY i TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1904. Glenmore Avenue—On Glenmore avenue, from Fountain avenue to Eldert street, Prospect Park. I have reconstructed the entire macadam roadway. The general work of maintaining, cleaning and improving this park inaugurated Pitkin Avenue—The work of keeping in repair this macadam road has been during the preceding quarter, has been carried on vigorously and is to-day showing very constantly looked after; large holes and depressions have been filled and the road kept good and practical results. The work of building the paths to the south of Willink sprinkled and cleaned. entrance has gone steadily forward and is at present close to completion. The work Eastern Parkway—On the Eastern parkway the macadam road has been recon- of rebuilding and resurfacing the drives has been completed, leaving the drives in the structed from Utica avenue to New York avenue, consisting of five blocks. This park in a very serviceable and presentable condition. A contract has ben let to work is now nearing completion, and when completed this roadway will be in fairly resurface, rebuild and reconstruct the asphalt walks in Prospect Park. When this con- good condition with the exception of some slight holes and depressions in the tract shall have been carried out all of the walks throughout the park will be in first- westerly end. class condition. The work of building the shelter house on the South Lake drive is Eastern Parkway Extension—The work of rebuilding the macadam roadway of completed, and designs for seats for same are now under way. The work of building this drive from Fulton street to Bushwick avenue, begun in the preceding quarter, the entrance at Ocean avenue, though somewhat delayed through the inability of the was carried to completion in the last three months. This drive is now in excellent contractor to obtain stone, is at present within two or three weeks of final completion. condition and is being daily sprinkled and cleaned. On the lower terrace of the Flower Garden extensive improvements have been in- Shore Road—During the last three months contracts have been let to widen this augurated; parts of the lawns that have in recent years settled and become worn out important roadway in several places. To Robertson & Gerehart was let the contract have been lifted and the grade made higher. The work of rebuilding the shore line for widening the Shore road in places between Bay Ridge avenue and Eighty-ninth around the lake has been started and the result so far in every way justifies the im- street. The work has been begun on the section lying near Seventy-fifth street, and provement. The work of improving and enlarging the animal quarters has gone steadily is fairly under way. It will not, however, be completed this year, owing to the near forward, and with gratifying results. A new bear cage, one of the finest in the country, approach of the winter months. This work when completed will completely obviate is now practically completed and awaiting occupancy by the animals. The elk paddock the danger of collision and accidents at this point, and is a very'important piece of has been improved and made larger. The sheep enclosure has been improved and a work. cement floor laid throughout its entire area. A contract has been let for the laying of The work of protecting the banks at the foot of Fourth avenue has been let to sidewalks at the Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street entrance to this park, and is at the Cranford Construction Comp y, and they are now actively engaged in carrying present under way, and gives promise of being completed at an early date. During the out this work. The roadbed and roads over its entire length has been carefully last quarter bids were opened for the cleaning of the lake, and it is my best judgment cleaned and sprinkled and is in a thoroughly satisfactory condition. that this work can be better done and more economically so by park labor and under The Bay Ridge Parkway, from Fourth avenue to First avenue, has been carefully park auspices. The work of regrading the slopes east of the Quaker Cemetery is looked after. Sewer basins have been rebuilt, tops have been reset and all washouts practically completed. The work of regrading, harrowing and trimming the bridle paths occasioned by storms have been promptly looked after and repaired. This parkway has been completed. During the month of September a violent wind and rain storm also is in very fine and creditable condition. destroyed many of the large trees of this park. The work of removing these trees and Fourth Avenue and all similar streets under the jurisdiction of this Department making good the damage done by their destruction has been completed. have been carefully looked after, sprinkled and cleaned. The trees along these
7906 THE CITY RECORD. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1904.
streets have been well cared for. All decayed and damaged trees have been removed P. 5, § 31a and replaced. Resolved, That a new section, to be known as Section 31a, be added to Part 5 Music. of the Municipal Explosives Commission's Regulations, requiring a weekly report The concert season closed on September 25, with a grand concert by the United from certain licensees, and to read as follows: German Singers of Brooklyn, assisted by the Twenty-third Regiment Band. Dur- Section 31a. Every licensed manufacturer and wholesale dealer in fireworks, in ing the season thirty-three concerts were given in Prospect Park and thirty-four in the signals, in paper caps or in torpedoes, whose place of business is located without the smaller parks, making a total of sixty-seven. It is estimated that over one million city, shall render to the Fire Commissioner each week a statement verified as to its people attended the concerts and that they were thoroughly enjoyed by the residents correctness by an affidavit covering sales and deliveries of fireworks, signals, paper of this Borough was fully attested by the large crowds. caps and torpedoes for the preceding week within the city. Revenue From Parks and Parkways. Every manufacturer of caps and torpedoes within the city shall render During the three months from July I to September 30, inclusive, the sum of four to the Fire Commissioner each week a statement, verified as to its correctness by an thousand six hundred dollars and four cents ($4,600.04) was received from rents of affidavit covering sales and deliveries of paper caps and torpedoes for the preced- houses and revenue from park privileges, which amount was turned over to Hon. ing week within the city. Patrick Keenan, City Chamberlain, for deposit to the credit of the "Revenue Fund." Such report shall be in detail as follows: (a)Date of delivery. Finances. (b) Name of buyer. Following will be found a statement of the finances up to and including September (c) Where delivered. 904: (d) Quantity and kind of goods delivered. 30, 1 (Signed) W. A. DOYLE, Statement of Appropriations, Expenditures and Balances of the Department of Parks, Fire Commissioner and Chairman. Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, for the Month Ending September 30, 1904. (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. New York, June 23, 1904. Appropriations. Expenditures. Balances. Approved: (Sinned) GEO. B. McCLELLAN. Mavnr-
Administration ...... $tg,r62 45 St3,292 63 S5,8o9 02 - -•---_~ __....,, ------ '------ rte -'------•- --_+'__~ ..~ ..._ (\lunicipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... 515,000 00 365,647 84 149,352 t6 Honor the Mayor June 23, 1904. Maintenance of Museums ...... 70,000 00 45,448 26 24,551 74 FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. usic ...... Ii,864 00 10,938 00 926 00 M P. 5, § 42 Balances from :903. ...... t35 00 Resolved, That section 42, Part 5, be and is hereby amended to read as follows: Administration ...... 135 00 Section 42. No retail permits will be granted for the sale or keeping of fire- Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... 20,696 94 18,477 19 2,219 75 ,vorks, other than approved firecrackers, in any building or premises, Maintenance of Museums ...... 6,864 6o 6,864 6o ...... (a) Where cigars or cigarettes are kept for sale. (b) Where paints, oils or varnishes are manufactured or kept for use or sale. Balance from 1go2. (c) Where drygoods of any kind, or other light material of a combustible nature, Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... 2,154 87 2,147 76 7 tt :xceptrvg flags, paper lanterns, paper balloons or decorations, are kept for sale. Balance from 1901. (d) In carpenter shops or drug stores; in buildings where kerosene or other Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... 17,287 39 •..••••• 17,287 39 )roduct of petroleum is licensed to be sold, or any building in which gunpowder, )lasting powder, gun cotton, nitro-glvicerine, petroleum, or any of its products, coal Balance from 1899. Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... 1,509 79 ...... •• 1,509 79 )il, camphene, burning fluid, or other products or compounds containing any of said substances, are kept or sold: where matches or cartridges (unless such cartridges are Balance from t8g8. Labor, Maintenance and Supplies ...... ,956 20 ...... 7,956 20 cept in a fire-proof safe or vault) are kept or sold. (e) Any building or place where tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, hay, cotton, or hemp Bond Account (Improvement of Parks, Parkways and s manufactured, stored or kept for sale. Drives). (Signed) Improvement of Parks, Parkways and Drives, Bor- THOMAS W. CHURCHILL, oughs of Brooklyn and Cueens...... ..... 396,524 77 272,168 92 124,355 85 Deputy and Acting Fire Commissioner and Chairman. Improvement and Construction of Parks, Parkways, Playgrounds, Boulevards and Driveways, Boroughs (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. of Brooklyn and Queens ...... 250,000 00 16,777 6i 233,222 39 New York, July 59, 1904. Bonds Accounts (Brooklyn's Balances). Approved: Park Site and Improvement Fund ...... 763 27 ...... 763 27 (Signed) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Mayor. Memorial Monument Fund ...... 5,000 0o 5,000 00 ...... I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the Museum of Arts and Sciences Fund ...... 424 87 ••-••••• 424 87 lunicipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York, and approved by his Memorial Arch Fund ...... 3,018 57 ...... 3,018 57 .Ionor the Mayor July 19, 1904. FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. Park Purchase Fund ...... 115 15 ...... 115 15 County Street Improvement Fund ...... 728 91 ...... 728 91 P. 5, § 49 County Improvement of Streets (Additional)...... 52 74 • • • • • • • • 52 74 Resolved, That section 49, Part 5 of the Municipal Explosives Commission's Museum of Arts and Sciences (Erection of an Ad- 3egulations be amended to read as follows: dition) ...... 623,592 93 1 77,999 6t 445,593 32 Section 49. A special permit may be granted for the keeping of paper caps and (Special Account.) oy torpedoes, for sale at retail only, upon payment of a fee of two dollars. Maintenance and Improvement of Public Parks on (Signed) W. A. DOYLE, Brooklyn Heights ...... r,oz3 43 586 oo 427 43 Fire Commissioner and Chairman. (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. New York, June 23, 1904. MUNICIPAL EXPLOSIVES COMMISSION. Approved: (Signed) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Mayor. P. 5, § 13a Resolved, That a new section, to be known as Section 13 " a," be added to Part I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the. 5 of the Municipal Explosives Commission's Regulations, to take effect on the loth Tunicipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his day of July next, and to read as follows: boor the Mayor June 23, 1904. Section t3a. Roman candles must be packed with the stems all pointing in one FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. direction, and the label must be affixed to package on the end opposite the stems, (Signed) THOMAS W. CHURCHILL, P. 5, § 62j Deputy and Acting Fire Commissioner and Chairman. Resolved. That section 62j, Part 5 of the Municipal Explosives Commission's (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. Zegulations be amended, to take effect on the Loth day of July, 1904, and to read as New York, July 59, 1904. ollows: Approved: Section 62 (i) All bombs of any description larger than three and one-quarter nches in diameter, except in an enclosure prepared for a public display of fireworks, (Signed) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Mayor. Lnd then only under such conditions as the Fire Commissioner may prescribe. I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the (Signed) THOMAS W. CHURCHILL, Municipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his Deputy and Acting Fire Commissioner and Chairman. Honor the Mayor July 19, Igo4. (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. New York, July 19, 5904. Approved: P. 5, § 17 (Signed) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Mayor. Resolved, That section 17, Part 5 of the Municipal Explosives Commission's Regulations be amended so as to establish an annual fee for manufacturers of fire- I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the works, of paper caps and toy torpedoes, and of signals, to read as follows: ,7unicipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his Section 17. The license fee for the manufacturer of fireworks, shall be one hun- boor the Mayor July i9, 1904. dred dollars. FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. The license fee for the manufacturer of paper caps and toy torpedoes shall be twenty dollars; and the license fee for the manufacture of signals shall be twenty P. 7, § 33 dollars. Resolved, That section 33, Part 7 of the Municipal Explosives Commission's (Signed) W. A. DOYLE, 3egulations be amended so as to read as follows: Fire Commissioner and Chairman. Section 33. The quantity of naphtha permitted to be kept for sale in such stores (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. n approved cans shall be limited to a maximum of twenty gallons when said estab- New York, June 23, 1904. ishment is in a building in which there are more than one family living, and in no Approved: -ase shall the keeping for sale or the sale of naphtha be permitted in a tenement (Signed) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Mayor. louse. (Signed) THOMAS W. CHURCHILL, I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the Deputy and Acting Fire Commissioner and Chairman. Municipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his (Signed) Franz S. Wolf, Secretary. Honor the Mayor June 23, 1904. New York, July Ig, 1904. FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. Approved: (Signed) GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Mayor. P. 5, § 26. Resolved. That section 26, Part 5 of the Municipal Explosives Commission's I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the Regulations be amended to read as follows: Vfunicipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his Section 26. All premises for which such permits are issued must be lighted by Ionor the Mayor July 19, 1904. gas or electricity, and all lights must be protected with glass or wire globes or FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary. screens. I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a resolution adopted by the P. 8, §§ 5-6-8 and g -Municipal Explosives Commission of The City of New York and approved by his Resolution adopted by the Municipal Explosives Commission of The City of Honor the Mayor April 14, 1904. Vew York at a stated meeting held at the Headquarters of the Fire Department FRANZ S. WOLF, Secretary, kpril 2I, 1904.
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Resolved, That sections 6 and 8 of Part 8 of the Municipal Explosives Commis• R. H. Macy &