THE CITY R CORD. OFFICIAL JOURNAL.

VOL. XXIV. Fb1' VORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. NUMBER 7,112.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN. The stairs approaching the elevated stations, on account of the necessities of construction, are STATED .MEETING. not all at the same angle and are sometimes broken by a platform is the middle of the rise, so that TUESDAY, September 22, 1896, 2 o'clock P. v1. the mere description in the statute, if the resolution became a law, would give greater facilities to The Board net in Room 16, City Hall ` ome stands than to others. ['RESENT : Again, the tesolulion should be so amended as to provide that, while only papers and periodi- 1-Ion. John Jeroloman, President. I cals may be sold, tile license to be granted should he upon the express conditi,,n that the privileg, John P. iVindolph, Vice-Pre,ident, Aldermen Nicholas T. Brown, Thomas M. Campbell, I is to be exercised in person by the licensee, and that there shall he no right of assigning suct~ William Clancy, Thomas Dwyer, Christian Goetz, Elias Goodman, I-rank J. Goodwin, Joseph T. privilege, and that upon its being so assigned, or the privilege being use l by any per,on other th;,,~ Hackett, jereniaii Kennchcic, Francis J. Lantry, Frederick L. Marshall, Robert Mull, John J. the licensee, it becomes void. Murphy, John '1'. Oakley, (ohn J. O'Brien, William M. K. Olcolt, Charles A. Parker, Rufus R. Again, the resolution should be further so amended as to require the consent f the abuttin. Randall, Andrew Robinson, Joseph Schilling, Henry L. School, William 'I ait, Frederick A. Ware, 1 property-owners or lessees for the erection of the stands referred to, and to require that uo cum Charles Wine.,, Collin 11. Woodward, Jacob C. \\•mid. i pensation shall have been or be received for such consent. W. L. STRONG, \layor. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. I AN ORDINANCE to regulate the use of the sidewalks of the streets of the City „f New Viii underneath the stair a leading to the stations of the elevated railroads for stands for the sale MESSAGES FROM IIIS HONOR THE', MAYOR. newspapers and periodicals. The President laid before the Board the following message from his Honor the Mayor The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York do ordain as follow, CITY OF NEW YORK—OFFICE OF THI: MAYOR, September 14, 1896. 7' the 110noiable t/7 e Section I. Any person desiring to erect a stand underneath the stairs of the elevated railroad /?~ urrt of Alder men stations for the sale of ne+vspapers and periodicals shall File an application in the office of the Clerk I return herewith, without approval, resolution of your Honorable Body, adopted Septembe r of the Board of Aldermen, in which the applicant shall state (t) his name and residence ; (2) that 3, 1896, permitting the New York Turn Verein Bloomingdale to erect a show window at Nos. 955- he is a citizen of the United States ; (3) the locatiu desired for such stand. 919 Eighth avenue. Sec. 2. At the last meeting of the Board of Aldermen in each and every month it shall he The diagram attached to the accompanying resolution shows that the proposed show-windo w the duty of so:id Clerk to transmit thereto all such applications received and filed, which shall then i, designed to project twelve (I2) inches b.yond the building-line oil Eighth avenue. It would and there be referred to the Committee on Law Itcpaitment ; which committee, at the first iueeting thus occupy a portion of the street and be an encroachment beyond the authority of the Board of f of the Board in the following month, shall report its decision ill each case separately. .\ldermen to grant, as expressed iu the opinion of the Counsel to the Corporation, under date of Sec. 3. Iu case the Board shall approve the location of the stand at any place or places men- 5, 1896. W. L. STRONG, Mayor. tioned in such report, it shall pass It separate resolution for each location of the stand ; (2) shat it shall Resolved, That permission he and the same is hereby given to The New York Toni Verein not exceed the height of over seven feet nor he wider than the width of the stairs under which it is Bloomingdale to place, erect and keep a show-window in front of their premises, Nos. 915, 9 I 7 and placed ; (3) that said stands shall be constructed, elected and maintained at the applicant's expense, 919 Eighth avenue, as shown upon the accompanying diagram, the work to be done at their own under the direction of the Connntssioner of Public Works, upon plans to be approved by the Chief r.speuse, nuclei the direction of the Ccunmi,sioner of Public \Yorks ; such oermission to continue Engineer of the Railway Company, Si) as to permit of a ready removal of so much limy during the pleasure of the Common Council. thereof as may be necessary to enable the said company, its agents or employees, to get convenient Which was laid over, or_lered to be printed in the minutes and published in full in the CITY access to the under part of said stairways for the iuspectioii, painting or repairing thereof ; and (4) R ECORD. shall be painted the same color as the stairs of the elevated road, and no advertisement shall be The President laid before the Board the following message from his Honor the Mayor painted or displayed thereon ; and (;l that the permission shall continue only for the period of one CITY OP NESS' VuRK—OF1ICE of THE slAYOR, September 16, 1896. 7' the 1lonczabte the year; (6) an annual license fee of ten (I llars shall be charged on the granting of the permit by the Board o/ ~Ildee/ecu : Mayor for stands under the steps of the elevated railroad as above provided. ( EN I LEVn•aN-1 return herewith, for amendment, resolution of vour Honorable Body calling for Sec.4. Every permit granted pursuant to this ordinance shall contain the following reser- the laying of waler-mains iu [cfler.on avenue, from Kingsbridge road to One hundred and Eighty-first vation : street, on the ground of the report of the (,ommissioncr of Public Works that the street should be °' It is expressly agreed and understood that this permit is ,„iVen subject to the right of the graded and a sewer laid before water-mains are laid. Manhattan Railway Company, its agents, empl„yeos, successors, or assign,, or the owner of said Respectfully yours, AV. L. STRONG, Mayor. stairway, at any tinie properly to inspect, paint, repair, renew, reconstruct or remove of said stair- Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Jefferson avenue, from Kingsbricige road to One IIuu- way, or any portion thereol, and without claim on the part of said licensee as against said company, dred and Eighty-first street, in accordance with section 356 of the Consolidation its agents, emplocees, successors or assigns, or the owner of said stairway, for damages to, or inter- Act of ,882. ferei ce with, said booth or staid, or the business therein conducted, occasioned by such inspec, ion, Which was laid over, ordered to be printed in the minutes and published in lull in the CITY painting, repair, renewal, reconstruction, or removal.” 1, ECORD. See. 5. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. The President laid before the Board the following message from his Honor the Mayor Which was laid over, ordered to be printed in the minutes and published in full in the Cl iv CITY ur• NEW YunK—OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, September 15, 1896. 7o the Honorable the RECORD. /,'raid o/ 4/dernrwz REPORTS. GENTLEMEN I return herewith, for amendment, resolution of your Honorable Body to lay (GO. 1033.) water-mains iu West h:unls road, from West Farms to Classon avenue, on the ground of the report The Committee on Law Department, to whom was referred the annexed proposed ordinance ul the Cummis..iuuer of Public AV'ork., that it would he impracticable to carry out this resolution in favor of prohibiting the diiviug of vehicles through the streets, avenues and thoroughfares of the bec alltiPause. tf le Ie " .ale ie cot;o ~ titer-tnalns tocon connec ect t wail for a supply of water to \\vest harms road, from City of New York, where sick persons are confined, respectfully \\ vest Farms to Classon avenue. Respectfully. W. L. STRONG, Mayor. R 1-:1'O R'l' : Resolved, That water-mains be laid in West Farm, road, from \Vest Fauns to Classon ave- That, having examined the subject, the •5 believe the proposedI 1 ordinance to lie in the generalgeneral ,tue, as provided in section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882. of the public weifart. 'Igey lhcrcioie iccmmend that the saidordinance be adopted. Which was laid over, ordered to be printed in the minutes and publi hed in full in the CITY 'Ihe Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of N,w York do ordain as follows : Sictioil t. 'Irtickiticit, express men and drivers of vehicles of any and all kinds and character The A'resident laid before the Board the following message From his Honor the Mayor are prohibited from the toe of any street, avenue or highway in the City of New York within ttvo Cryv OF NEW YORK—OFF tCl•: OF THE MAYOR, September 15, 1896. 7b the Honorable the blocks in any direction of any residence or building in which are confined any person or pcisouc horrrrl of Alderumen who may be sick, and to whom the Board of Police, under the condition; hereinafter mentioned, GEN I LerrtEN-1 return herewith, for an endment, resolution of your Honorable Body, calling have granted the right of protection against the noises of passing vehicles. tor the laying of wateranains in Nord street, from Webster avenue to a point about 400 feet west, Sec. 2. '1•he Board of Police shall have power to grant any request as set forth in the preceding tool the ground of the report of the Commissioner of Public Works that Ford[ street should be section if, in the judgment of the said Board of Police, the emergencies and conditions warrant it. iii a led and ., sewer laid before water-mauls are laid. Sec. 3. Upon affirmative action on any request for protection as contemplated by section I of Respectfully yours, W. L. STRONG, Mayor. this ordinance, the Board of Police shall provide some sign or distinctive marl—unifurm in all Resolved, That water-mains be laid in lord street, from Web ter avenue to it point about four cases—to place at the point on each street, avenue or highway beyond which no vehicle shall be hundred feet west, in accordance with the provisions of section 356 of the New York City Consoli- permitted to pass. daiion Act of 1882. Sec. 4. '1•hisordinance shall not be construed to prohibit the Police from allowing such vehicles Which was laid over, ordered to be printed in the minutes and published in full in the CITY to pass, hotvever, as may seem to be necessary ; they and they only, to have the right to so RECORD. discriminate. '11w President laid before the Board the following message front his Honor the Mayor : Sec. 5. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, pay a CITY OF NEW \'uRK—OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, September 15, 1896. To the Honorable the penalty of not more than twenty-live dollar for each offense. /bard of Aldermen Sec. 6. All ordinances or pats of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. GENrl.t•:MEa—I return herewith, for amendment, resolution of your honorable Body calling Sec. 7. 1 his act shall take effect immediately. for the laying of water-mains in Kappock street, I wenty-fourth \Yard, on the ground of the report FREDERICK A. WARP;, RUFUS R. RAND)ALL, JACOB C. \VUNi1, Committee our of the Commissioner of Public Works that Kappock street should be graded and a sewer laid before Law Department. water-mains are laid. ke.;uectfully yours, W. L. STRONG, Mayor. Ott nwt~on of Alderman Brown, the report was laid over and ordered to he printed. Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Kappock street, from Spuyten Duyvil parkway to the The Committee on Law Department, to whom was referred the annexed commurication in Primary ,school (No. 46), Kingsbridge, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, relation to all ordinance regulating the use of the sidewalks inside the stoop-line for the erection of as provided in section 356 of the Cousltdation Act. boot-black stands, respectfully Which was laid over, ordered to be printed in the minutes and published in full in the CITY REPORT RECORD. That they have reported on the matter and that it is now before the Board in the shape of a The President laid before the board the following message from his Honor the Mayor Special Order. CITY OF NEIV YORK—OFFICE OF TIIE MAYOR, September 15, 1896. To the Honorable FREDERICK A. WARE, RUFUS R. RANI)ALL, JACOB C. W UND, Committee on Law /ke hoard of 11dermen : Department. Gi•:NiI.EhiEN--I return herewith, for amendment, resolution of your Honorable Body to pave No. 26 CEDAR STREET, NEw YORK, September I, 1896. 7b the Honorable Board of Alder. the west side of Park avenue, from One Hundred and First to One Hundred and Second street, men, New York City: with asphalt, on the ground of the report of the Commissioner of Public Works that this part of GE::TLESSEN—I should very much like to know the reason of so much delay in the regulation Park avenue is too steep for an asphalt-block pavement, and the resolution should therefore be of the new irdniance for the City of New York. Surely your honorable Board have seen hat in amended to read " granite pavement " instead of asphalt pavement. both branches of the Legislature there was passed and approved by the Governor. and became a Yours respectfully, W. L. STRONG, Mayor. law on February 2r, r896, an act to regulate the use of sidewalks inside the stoop-hue for the Resolved, That the roadway of Park avenue, west side, from One Ilundled and First to One erection of booths and stands for bootblacks, etc. Your Board has male but one attempt to approve Hundred and Second street, be paved with asphalt-block pavement on concrete foundation, and said ordinance, on May 26, 1896, and frc,ut that day until this nothing more has been accomplished. that crosswalks be laid at each intersecting and terminating street where not already laid, under Kindly approve this ordivauce as soon as possible and issue the permits to Site bootblacks, who the direct,on of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor are lawfully entitled to this privilege. be adopted. Kindly give me whatever information you can in this matter, and oblige, Alderman Parker moved that the resolution and ordinance be amended in accordance with the Yours respectfully, G. I'. CAGGIANO, ['resident United Bootblacks' Protective League. recommendations of his Honor the Mayor. The President put the question whether the Board would agree to accept said report. Which The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said amendment. Which was decided in the affirmative. was decided in the affirmative. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which favor of the amendment of City assessment rolls, respectfully was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : REPOi-i.l : Affirmative—The President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, That, having examined the subject, they believe the amendment and relief sought can now Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, only be obtained, if at all, by the passage of a law by the New York Sate Legislature, and they Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. therefore recommend that the said resolution be referred to the Committee on Legislation of this The President laid before the Board the following message from his Honor the Mayor Board. CITY OF NEW YORK—OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, September 14, 1896. Zo the Honorable Aiizenanzent of City Assessment Rolls. the Board of Aldermen Whereas, It appears by the report of the City Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments, dated I return herewith, without approval, resolution of your Honorable Body, adopted September July I, 1895 (page ibl, that by chapter 934 of the Laws of 1895, much territory formerly in the 3, 1896, regulating the placing of stands under elevateel railroad stairs. 'lawn of West Chester, in Westchester County, embracing an area of 13,500 acres, was thereby The resolution appears to have been passed in pursuance of the authority conferred by sub- annexed to and became part of the 'Twenty fourth Ward of the City of New York ; and division 3 of section 86 of the Consolidation Act, as amended by chapter 718 of the Law, of 1896. Whereas, Said law of annexation of said property was passed on the 1st day of June, 1895, The section of the Consolidation Act thusamended prescribes the maximum length along the side- and took effect immed.ately, which was after the contpleti-m of the assessment rolls for general walk which may be occupied by any booth, which length is to be determined by a line drawn from taxation in the City of New York for 1895, and all sa,d property was consequently omitted there- the under surface of the stairs where they come in contact with the sidewalk, to a point from which, from ; and if a perpendicular were erected from the sidewalk to the under surface of the stairs above, said Whereas, Said property was not subject to taxatio t in the County of Westchester for the year perpendicular would not be greater than seven (7) feet. The resolution should specify particularly 1895, because it was not in said county at tie time of the making up of the town assessment rolls the length of the stands. for the year 1895 ; and -534 THE CITY RECORD . '1'11111su:,v, SEPTEMBER 24 1596.

\Vhereas, The last assessedl value of the said property in the said Annexe 1 District was, in f 1 `,O.j, at a toll] valuation of about nine million dollars for that year ; and aubscr Id. \\'heieas Said tro >erl is not included and is nut mnv upon the asscssutent rolls of the City Davie!r I). 1lallo y, No. 3c9 I lancock street. Brooklyn, L. I 20 I \'cw 1-otl: for taxation for the year 1895, and is emitted therefrom, and said prop_•rty has never \Vill>ur F. Rossell, M. y l)ehevoisc place, Brooklyn, L. I 20 I ,crn assessed nor paid any taxes for the year 1895 ; and W. N. tichtvab, I:icl,ctield Park, New Jer,cy ...... ...... ~u 1Vhereas, By chapter 9o4 of the Laws of 12896, whi h took effect on the 15th June last, John W. B1rrett, Nu. 234 \Pest Seventy-fotutIt street, Ncw York C'ity ...... 2u i- provided by ection fifty-three, ,ubdivision second, among other thin s, that when any prop- 1Vm. A. Zell, ];ay Seventeenth street, lath I each, N. 1' .. , , .. , , ... 20 h;t. been omitted bunt the assessment roll of the preceding year the lionrd of 5uhcrvi,urs In witness whereof, we have made, si6ned and acknowledged. this certificate thls ei litecuth .s I d ll place the same oil the rolI of the current year at its valuation for the preceding year, and the clay of June, 1896. ,Lune shall be taxed at the same rate of the precedim year, and said section also provides that in I)AVIU 1). MAT LO::1', No. 380 Ilane )ck street, I rooklyn, L. I. ; \V11,IlUR I.. ROS- making said re-assessntcut the assessors ,hall or may ln- es ,nt a petition to the Board of Supervisors SELL, No. o I)ebevuise I~lace, Brooklyn, L. I. ; W. N. S( if\1';\L' l: idteiicicl I ;;tl: u o Jersey ; therefor, showing the names and the amount of the valuation of the property thereof for the pre- JUI-IN W. BARRETT, No. 243 West Seventy-fourth ,trecl, N. V. L. ; \\"'.I. .1. Zl?LL, Bay cr, ling year, and that a cof>y of the petition with a notice ul the presentation thereof to the Board Seventeenth street, Lath Beach, N.Y. of ul,ervisors shall be personally served on each person alleged to be liable to taxation for the Slate of New York, County of New York, ss. land , )iili1ted from the assessment roll, at least ten days before the meeting of the Board of Super- On this eighteenth clay of June, 1896, before me per,uraliy came havid 1). iyIalhuv. AV'ilbor 1. i> i:,, and that the hoard of Supeivi.;or., shall give to each person alleged to be liable to taxation Rossell, \V. N. Schwab, John W. Barrett and \V. A. Zell, to lice personally knuwu to be the f .r such omitted land an oupon.unity to be heard, and on such hearing and review the Board of individuals described in and who executed the foregoing, certificate, and severally doily :icknotcI- 'ul)crvts ,rs ,hall have, as to such omitted property, all the powers of the assessors of a tax district edged to me that they executed the same. All reviewing and correcting the assessment roll ; now, ther:fore, be it WILLIAM E. ill i\1), Jr., Notary Public, Kings CO. Certificate i1 ii to N. 1.Cu. Resolved, That the Finance Committee be requested to wait upon the said City Tax Comnn<- No. 84. State of New York, City and County of New York, ss. : si,,ners and ascertain with all convcnizut speed the pre.;cnt means and information now existing I, Ilenry 1). 1'urroy, Clerk of the said City and Comuy, and Clerk of the Supreluc I uri of I id matter and ascertain if it is now possible or expedient for said "1'ax Commissioners to sup- said State for said County, do certify that I have e.>nitiared tiie preceding with the oI1,1 1 ci ccrtill- IIt the required information so as to allow this Board to proceed in the matter to amend the assess- sate of incorporation of tee New York Fuel Gas Company on file in my office, and that rite same is count rolls fr the year 1896, now ;n the hand of thi- Board, in the manner provided by said law a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original. of IS96, in correcting said assessment roll, in the par!icular, aforesaid. and that said committee Ltdoised, filed aid recorded June 22, 1896, t h. 5o m. have full potter to act in conjunction with said City Tax Commissioner, and to immediately proceed In tviuuss whereof, I have hereunto suhsci ibed my nalne and affixed my official -cal tui: in the matter in compliance with said section 53 of chapter 904 of the Laws of 1896, so far as the thirtieth day of June, 1896. [SE,v..] HENRY 1). PURR(_)Y, CIer! . same may he neces-ary to have the i natter legally and properly acted upon by this Board, so as to include the pr,perty otuitled from taxation for the year 1895, and include the same upon the assess- CE1cTI1'ICA'rE OF TNcoic I'URA'I'ION, Inc nt rolls for 12896, now in the hands of this Board. State of New York, County of New York, ss. We, the un(lersi iced, desiring to form a corporation pursuant to the provisions of the I cc IIc,~ Said committee is required to rcpurt to this Board it the earliest opportunity, and, if necessary, Corporations I.aw, all being of full age and two-thirds beinc citizens of the United Stue., wt ,l n a -pocisi meeting of this Board may be called to act in the matter, so as to have said a•sessmcnt majority residents of the State of New York, do hereby certify : I ll, completed at the time rcrluired by law. First—The name of the proposed corporation is New York Fuel Gas Cotupa:ty. WILLIAM M. K. ULCOTT, FRANh J. GOOD\VIN, JOHN P.AVINI)ULL'll, ROBERT Second—The purposes for which it is to he t,rmecl, to ntanufacttire non-illuniinatiu: I .II 11, l RLiiI RICK L. t1ARSIJALL, Counnittee on Finance. for fuel and supply the same to customers in the City of New York, ant to do ,ucit o;hcr 1'he President I,ttt the question whether the Board would agree to accept said report. Which as is incidental to or necessary for the manufacture and supplying of the same. 0 decided iu the affirmative. I Third—The amount of the capital stock is one million dollars. MESSAGES FIcOM tits ttowtc •rtu< MAVOl RESUMED. Fourth—The number of shares of which the capital stock shall consist is tell thuusi III 1 ,itarc., The President laid f,cdoic the Board the following message from his Ilonor the Mayor; and the amount of capital with which said corporation will begin business is tell I Ill u,,oi(I 11,1 Ill Ct'IS' IF Nis A'ottk— UFriCE OF '1'1fF 'ciAvoR, September r5, I596. 7i the honorable the Fiftlt—The t ity of New York, in the County and State of ,Nets Vork, i., the city ill tvhicll its 1' arel e/':lll'rnro/c : principal business office is to be located. I,l NrLE>MEN-1 return herewith, I'll amendment, resolution of your Honorable Body calling I Sixth—Its duration is to he fifty years. r the lavutg of water-maim in One hundred and IAghty-second sweet, from Amsterdam avenue I Seventh—The number of its directors is to be five. to King,l,ridge toad, un the gruuuf of the report of the Coinmissioner of Public 1Vork, that One Eighth--The names and post-office addresses of the ditcctors Iur file first year :cc a, fuilows, l lundred and Eighty-second street should be graded and a sewer laid before water-mains arc laid. viz. l'espectfully yours, W. L. SI'l:UNG, Mayor. David I). Mallory, 389 Hancock street, Brooklyn, I. 1. Resolved, That Croton water-mains be ]aid in AVest One Ilundred and Eighty-second street, AVill>ur 1'. Ro,sell, 9 Dcbevoise place, lirooklyn. L. 1. iron Aciislerdam avenue to Kingsbrid, e road, as provided by section 356 of the New York City \V. N. Schwab, Ridgefielci Park, New Jersey. Cun,ohdation Act of 1852. John \V. Barrett, 243 West 74th street, New York City. Which was Lail over, ordered to be printed in the minutes and published in full in the Ctrs W'm. A. Zell, Bay 17th street, bath ileach, N. Y. isi.CORD. Ninth—The plot-office addresses of the subscribers and a statement of the nunther of share, Pcrrrto S. f i y :\lderman Muh- o s tuc,. 1 w l•ut, 1 i eat 1I agrees to late1 tit LI tc cotpotatton, Luc as111 o ua, . Stutemeut If T,, Ore 11ouorcabl, h'ocard of A1d(rnreu of 11 i'zu ) wk C:it), No. of Shares .uhcribI•d. The petition of The New York lucl Gas Company respectfully show., - David 1). 11[allory, 389 Hancock street, Brooklyn, L. I ...... 20 f ir,t—'that said company cc as duly incorl,orated on the 20th day of June, 1896, under and Wilbur F. Rossell, 9 I)ehevoise place, Brooklyn, L. I ...... zo ],nnuaut to lice act of the Legislature of the Stale of New York entitled '~ lice Business Corpora- W. N. Schwab, Ridgefield lark, New Jer,cy ...... 20 tion Act," and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto : that said company John \V. Barrett, 24-1 West 741h street, New York City ...... 20 is now duly Dn;ailited, and is a Valid and existing corporation ; that a copy of the certificate of \V-m. A. Zell, l;ay 17th street, Bath Beach, N. V ...... 20 incorporation of said company is hereunto annexed, marked "A." In witness whereof, we have trade, signed and acknowledged this ectlificalLe this ei,dh tech tic Second—That said company rcrluests permission to lay its mains and pipes in the streets, day of June, 1896. avenues and pudic places in the City of New York fur the purpose of supplying non-illuminating DAVIT) I). AL\LLORY, No. 389Ilancock street, I,rooklyn, N. V. ; 1V'TI.11UR 1. RUtisE I i., full t,,as to the consumer, thcreuf in said city. No. 9I)ebevoise place, Brooklyn, N. V. ; W. N. SCHWAB, Ridgefield Park, N.J. ; l~)IIN \V. '1'I I ird—'1'haI the ~aidl company stipulates as follows llARRL"1"l', No. 243 West Seventy-focntit street, New York ; \Vl1.LIA)1 A. ZLLL, Bay Seveu- 'I' hat the mane actury or works for the purpose of producing and furnishing fuel gas shall be teentli street, I;ath Beach, N. 1'. n cou,tructccI as not to he in any way detrimental to the public health or otherwise create a State of New York, Comity of New York, ss. nui. once. Oct this eighteenth clay of June, 1896, before me personally came David 1). Mallory, Wilbur that the fuel gas to be supplied shall be free within limits not injurious to the public health T. I:os,ell, W. N . Scl>wab, John \V. Barrett and William A. Zell, to the personally known to lie the from ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen and other sulphur and noxious compounds, and shall he individuals describeiI in and who executed the foregoing certil,cate, and severally duly acknatcI- of such odor as may, in case of leakage, make its presence as easily detected as is ordinary edged to me that they executed the same. illuminating gas. [sr,at.] \VILLIAM E. LIRD, Jx., Notary Public, hings County. Certificate filed in Nctic 'V'hat the fuel gas shall be c.upplied to all persons residing or doing business on the line York County. or lines of the mains of said company who may desire t1ce same fur domestic purposes at a State of New 1"orl:, Office of the Secretary of State, ss. rate not to exceed 50 cents per t,000 cubic feet, and at reduced rates for manufacturing, I have compared the preceding with the original certificate of incorporation of New York Fuel industrial and other purpooes. Gas Company filed and recorded in this office Odd the twentieth (lay of June, 1896, and do hereby 'file said company shall supply fuel gas to the public buildings of the City of New York certify the same to be a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original. situated along the line of its plains at a price not to exceed forty cents per 1,000 cubic feet. \Vitness, my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the City of Albany, this That the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York shall hatc the right to order the thirtieth 'day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. mains or pipes of the company to he extended in or along any of the streets or avenues of [SEAL.] ANI)RE?\V DAVIDSON, Deputy Secretary of State. the city, I rovided the said company shall not he compelled to spend in the laying of such pipe, or mains a yearly sutu exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars. The mains or piles Aldermen Ahuh moved tic at it be referred to the Cocm) lice on Streets. shall Ise laid :o as not to interfere with the public sewers or sewer connections or Leith the Alderman Goochnan utwed as a ..,ub,titot_ that it be referred to th_ Committee ou Lacuu, a cl Croton mains or water connections which are now laid or may hereafter be laid in any of the Gas. streets, avenues or public places of the city. The President put the question Alictlier the Board would agree wit '.t said substitute of Alder- man Goodman. AWhich was decided in the negative by the following vote : The said company shall Ice governed by the laws and ordinances of the Board of Alder- Affirmative—The \ice-\'resident, Aldermen Goetz, Goodman, I lackett, Olcott, School, Ware, men of the City of New York and by such general rules and regulations as the Commissioner and Woodward—S. of Public A\ urks, his successor or successors in office, may prescribe for the laying of pipes anal Neative—The President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Clancy, Goodwin, Keuncfick, Lanti5, mails and the 1,rol,er protection anal filling of the trenches or excavations, and for the taking up, 1\lar..hall, Mall, O'Brien, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Tait, and \Vend-15. replacing and rebut ing of tide l avements, and ,halt also he governed by such general rules and The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said nw:iun of A!dcrman regulations as the Rapid •1 ransit Commissioners may prescribe for the opening, of the streets on Muh. Which was decided in the afluurative. the lines of the propo

'rllUksDAY, SEPTEMBI?R 24, 1596. THE CIT Y RECORD. 2535

August \Vorther. Jacob Keller. John Lica. !)L'l'-I/7:1//i.\'T.IL iSVy/.r/.1 y/s O/•' 7'//!z /'UL/('/s 0/i/'.1/''/1i1XI , O/•' ZZIA, Cl/ 1' J. Cernorsky. Anton Bolek. Josef Uezort. O/'' ,'/:If/ YO/t'h' O!•' 7///i .!.h[OUVT J'/ OU//t'/i/) I•U!. E.1"I'E.V.VES FOR %//,'': F. Kropacck. F'rancisI)kara. Ad, Chartcat, O. K. YhA/i' 181)7. Frank Kubovetz. Dan'I Gallagher. Ad. Knorr. Mt. 5hh,gelimek. Jos; ph l seller, Fred. Schwarz. A..uotwr I A.slot•NT John IL Ileckmann. john Noonan. Jacob Tollaeek. Rm,w wu colt!At.l.ow FOR INCREASE.. DRCRC'• „ Chas. F. Voigt. Arthur Jones. Adelard Chevalier. 137. 1896. Clarence Gordon, Secretary Gco.'1'racy, Ph. Steucrnagel. fVlt,"e/K,ld-l ,r,S(Z ' ,r !•8'/4(z/!zlsi(,Z "S / ILiee,.. and Resident Manager S. Lowenfrerz. Saul Federman. CY,e/j; nl r •, Ul.Itut)r C:li, / njl btice, Ins"ectrs r/ East Side House. Jake Leddy. Frank May. I the •, .Su , Ck/1« rus, Sergeants, liou/r i n,en. M. E. Ilamblcn. J. New. K. 1ieneski. /tltrolnfen, Doormen rinrt LIe.'ect ve .;,r{t'an/s, as~l E. Fendrych. V. Donnigan. A. 13eroansky. I Salorits of 4 lommiss oners of Police, at So-o cacti..., szo,, on co 52n,oco so ...... V. Perochazka. Albert J. Carr. 1). Breen. Salary of Chirf,d Pull, e ...... ...... 6.o /s es 6,eeo no ...... F. Truetnan. J. II. \lablcr. 13.N advoinck. '`atary It I !op,tty Chief of Policy ...... ,000 o o ' ...... `aluncs of 6 1 nspcc[nrs of I'„ Vychodek. Tomas Doughty, J. 11olcra. Otice, at '.3. 500 each ...... noon co 1',500 a $3,500 0- Adolf P_ehner. Ilerman Moss. >aaries of t6 Surgeons •,f Poles, It =3uu, each,...... 43,•- 0D oo 48,0 o to ...... Josef Cejke. :,laries of 39 Capt.d.Is of Po;ice. at 52,J50 each...... '. 1-7,250 cm , Albert Ilebeler. Minnie W. AVaytisek. L. SLlner. xo . boo 00 2.750 00 Salaries of r7z Ser.4ean:s If Police, at S2.0 ..0 each...... , 344,( 00 0.! 336,co oo S, co,,os John Finneran. John Maehh IIaler. ll.Outi, ,do ...... 5.629,939 08 4.645,652 30 983,286 78 ia!arics of 84 I )rormcn nt Pout,. a -i.00_, or l ...... 84,coo 00 82,000 00 2,000 co Ferdinand 13emd.t. Ln). Ca,the. J. $u k. salaries of 6o lietacbve Sergeants '.fish e, art ,z,000cach xzo,000 co 8;,000 oo 4,ono 00 Clu. iic•zz. A. Ka!z. S. Schummacher. salaries of 6o Patrolmen of Police, it cr cats e of fore :.... 30,0 0 to ...... . 30.0r o o0 I Iera an Brurrow. L. I'olacuk. J. Golstt•nburg. c6,715,185 08 $5,6o9,6-2 30 Or -, - hiss Knorr. J. Muller. Charlie Batz. NotNola.-The salaries of x `;erg ant, z Round:- ' Christian Muller. Edwartl 1;ender. Sigmund Levy. men and .17 pat(, Imen, detaiteot to the 7 srl , I W. Schlegel. Fred. l'ynsowsky. Sol. liamberger. Health, to be provided for in the appropriation •:rade Henry C. Alync. Hugo Altschul. to the ILealth I)ep:•runert. I 1. Garlic. Ounts of Patrolmen. N.rnst Schmidt. Adolph Katz. Dlac GoltIhamcr. Rrun'smell ...... 2col George Doctor. 1). Sclitc,inger. Sans. Landau. Patr,dnten ...... 4397 John \Iianrowteke. Emanuel Navotny. Orth Kahu. Let, c ive Ser:cap. is ...... °I ;:,,aid uf I'_. Ililker. Theodore Veit. ih. 11uIts. Hea!th ...... 49 F. Adler. \Vil!iant Paider. A. Made. 6 Jos. Swl)anek. A. l ueimer, Max Kohler, Increase off_ rye ...... ...... .... 4, 76.i Fr. Goctze, Berth. 'chot-arz. Max Orboch. 4.766 I:d. A. Ihlenburg. Louis S.:Itwaiz. H. Ilerrmann S: Son. P,/ice fowl .Sal • ries njClcr/cal 17,rce, or. James Fay. Ig. \1anIcer. Ad. lfabich. Chief Clerk ...... $ ,oco 00 $5,000 00 jului'saxt. T. A. Pulpit. Ch. Rosenhauin. First Deputy i. I k ...... 'i,o 0 c I 3,000 00 Fr, Ic L'encs. W. Prangs. I'h. Sillion. Second Deputy Clerk ...... 2,400 00 Treo,urcr's RookkeCper ...... James Cassidy. J. Damla. Frank Belerky. 3,5110 Oct 3,500 00 Clerk to Chief of Police ...... 3A(o 01 3.000 1,0 John Novack. Chas. Sci)wartz. G. Jenosth. Property Clerk ...... ...... 2,500 on 2,500 00 \\ . IIolstater. A. Roseuherg. G. Goldsmith IT Deputy I;lerk ...... 2,0u , 00 4,0°° 00 II. hlammctsc hem 3 1 )cpnty Clerks, at 5r,goo each...... 5,70 10 5,700 00 Frank I)anes. u. Edward Johnson. 3 I)cputy Clerk-, at 51,801 eact...... •john Illavdiek. Jos. I lerda. T.N aphal 5.400 00 5,400 01 r Deputy Clerk, Ass; tans 1lookkeeper ...... t,8co 'o x,800 o, lo.. I ertatt. Louis Cohn. L. Goldsmith. 4 Clerks to Commissioners, at $1,70o each ...... 6,8ro oo Alt. I lala. Vied. 'V' 011. W. Meyn. I Dnputy Clerk ...... I x,foo oo L:n)il Vlach. I\I. Zelenka. I. Stenger. z Deputy Clerks, it gc,ioo cacti ...... 3,000 00 3,000 00 Charles Frobisch. 6 Dc pity Clicks, at -x,zco cacti ...... 7 :.o1 co 3,600 00 V'aclav •1'varsha. J. Laecey. 3 Deputy Ciirks, at >t,000 each...... 3,cc, oo .Anton liozbk. Jos. Zelenka. 1'. A. Nluraos. I "teno;4rat to r and'I'ypcoriter ...... r,2o1 00 2,40 of L. C. Frank. Y. Syh1citen. E. \Veisswange. 4 Stcnographcrs. x to Board of Police, a $r,coo cacti ... 6,00s on 4.5°0 000 Joseph Tauber. Jos. Iydlicha. A. Todtenhaupt. Stenographer and Secretary to Chi, f of Police ...... r,5w) of Gustav Pais. Patrick Chambers. h'lichael I. Cosker. '64,60 co l..., Anton Ltuhardt. Alfred Limner. Jac. Stiller. 005. "P j. 1;alabra, A. E. 13. Eoyocital. C. Schmidt, Secretary to Civil Service Board ...... $2,000 00 52,00; 00 led. Riegel. 11. parties. Ch. Laing. Chief Examiner...... 2,0.0 of 2,oro Os Clerk to Civil Service ...... r,5CO 00 ,,aeo oC James J. Fitzpat.iick. Morris Charwat. C. C. Rcnnerauller. Clerk and Stenographer ...... t,5co 00 August Lan erbthn. Jacob Katz. A. Harlow. t_'harles Strol:cl. Aug. Kuvasnicka. 1. J. Desmond. $7,°Os Oct 6 400 00 \V'illi;ou I. .lullane. Nathan ATalks. R. lienger. f'alice I... ra,oh. \Ix Delkler. Jacob Laut, F. F. L'orst. Superintendent of'Pcleeraph and Telephones...... $3.oco o~ $3,000 00 \I. i?irich. Assistant Sit1mriritcndei tifF clrgraph and Telephones. 0000 1 )anicl IIaycs. T. Naumann. 8 Operators of Telegraph and Telephones, at 0,,3oo each 52!C) o° x-,500 oc 1?rnest 1'luele. V. Bilek. T. Albrecht. 3 t,ttieiiin, 2 at Vii, too and It at sr,000 ...... 3,zo.) 00 \Villiam J.tsorchtcr. n'I. lioerns. Albert Reichenberg. I itattcryman ... ...... 9 0 00 goo 00 Nicholas I locker. I. L. Butt,. Chas. I,angenbach, Jr. Taut llrede. Joe Rokos. Fred. \Iohrmann. S2x,r00 Co $19,600 o° Itrunrl Zumtu., Fusel Genie ca. Herman Rabinis. Enrple yees. i anitor at Headquarters ...... ,\l ax E. \Villever. Frank Schmatul. David Etntcin. J ...... L,coo 00 ... •... 1,1,0) 00 1l art iit I'u let z. Matron at Heactquarters ...... U aoc O0 400 00 Ilcnjamin Steen. Ad. Kru.spe. llessen,er at H cadquariers ...... : John j. Con )n)erford. \Villiam ScI astian. E. Gostely. got 00 go , 00 .. . `72o to 8 Cleaners at Headquarters, 530 prer month cactih 2,880 as 2,160 cc ...... dames P. Shanagay. '\I. Flci~clnuanii. F. Praz.Lk, I C'eaner,'fhiity-seventh precis,. t, . u per ntont h..... 1 241 00 zoo Oc i \\']rich was referred to the Committee un Salaries and Offices. 5 Laborers at Hc:tdquane, s, $6s per mouth e.i h...... 3,6co to 2,x60 co as Hos ltrs-3 it I Lirt)-lirs', Thirty-serum'.. 'thirty.. 1,4.40 °° ...... REPORTS RESUMED. third and Thirty-tourth Precincts ; 4 at Thirty fifth and 4 at Thirty-eighth Precinct., at Sao per non thl Ni. s YnRK, September• 22, 1896. each...... I 12,000 00 ,o,Soo no I 1,200 1 7b the Ilmorable the Board y .11dernien 30 Matrons ci Police, at ;6o per month each ...... The under,igned, Committee on Legislation, beg leave to 21,foo Co 18,720 or z,£Bo oo ...... z Engmccrs , n .teaniboit, at ',oz-) each ...... 2,040 00 s,olo 00 Cook on s'toambo.,t, at S3 , per month ...... REPORT : 6000 60500 Steward on .tea, boat, nt 530 per month ...... 360 01 3'0 co ...... That on ]one 30, 1896, the foilmving resolution was, on recommendation of this Committee, Cabin hay i n steamboat, at tic- per month...... 240 °) 24000 ...... ...... adopted, to wit : 2 Oilers ou steamboat, at 165 per month each ...... 1 i,55o oo x,5 o oo \\'hercas, 'Pile Greater New York Commission has organized and proceeded with the duties 3 1 irime u en -te till h alt, it 96o per mouth each...... 260 co o,t6o co ...... 3 I 'cykF:ulds on -teamLoat, at Koo per mo:,th uach...... 1 2,16C CO 2,16J as ...... entrusted to it ; and 2 Elevator-men at Headquarters, at 66o per month each. 1.440 co 1.440 00 .. \Whereas, Every city official is more or less interested in the work of said Commission and 40 I)n rers ofPatrol w ~°us, at 6oPper month...... , . z8,800 cc ••.•..... •..•.•.•z8,8o, o, ...... may be able to occasionally present valuable suggestions, prompted by the record of proceedings $80,980 0o of the Commission ; therefore $16,940 00 S3S040 co Resolved, That the I,oarcl of City Record be and it is hereby requested and authorized to offfr Sul/lirs Jor Police. Binding, printing and stationery ...... ~ to the said C:rcater New York Commission the columns of the CITY RECORD in which to publish $13,000 03 ...... I ...... regul.irly the minutes of the meetings as they are held from time to time. 1'1adgec, emblems and e.teipnaitt...... Fuel for Station-hg-uses- ...... Resolved, That the Greater New York Commission be and is respectfully urged to accept the z,3zo tins coal, at t3.75 per ton...... $8,7co 00 oiler of the Boarcl of City Record, when made, and to order its Secretary to arrange with the Super- 21.0 tui.addiiiuna1 coal, at $3.75 pr t 750 oo visor of the City Record, Hon. John A. Sleicher, for the publication of the minutes as above 15 cords of wood, at jrz per cord...... ,io co referred to. 9.6000 ..... .... Fuel for the Cental Deparnnent- On August 4, ISg6, it was also 551 tots coal, tit 53.75 p"r ton...... 5593 50 Resolved, That the Board of City Record be and it is hereby respectfully requested to grant 35 tons soft coal, at 3io per ton...... 35, oa to the General Committee rcpreFentmg the legislative bodies of territory composing the future x5 cords ut wood, at $12 per cord...... ,Co as Greater New York sufficient space in the CITY RECORD for the publication of the minutes of the 1,032 50 ...... Gas and light for s!:,tion-houses ...... 17,1,01 co ...... said General Committee. Gas and light for the CentriI Department ...... ' I,4° oo ...... Supplying, clianing and furnishing atation-hauses, viz. \Vc learn that both requests were duly considered by the Board of City Record, resulting in the Carpets, oil-cloth, Isno!et nt, diction- opinion that the publication of the minuses of both buclies would to some extent confound the two arics ...... :x,800 as i in the minds of the public and causes line confusion of ideas in consequence. That in Order to Furniture ...... L..54o oo make no invidious distinction affirmative action was deemed inadvisable. Stove pipe and repaii s ...... toss oa Aarchvare amt lumber ...... z.;o oo \Ve appreciate the force of this reasoning and concur in the opinion that it might lead to some Other supplies, soap, brnoms, trashes, mistaken impressions should the minutes of both Com tnittees be published as intended. \Ve also mops and hcmdl, s, I and rg•:s, dust- ers, spit tuons, tin pas s, coa ccut- feel that all important matters decided on by the Aldermanic Advisory Committee will naturally dcs, iron pokers, directories, ice, be referred to the Charter Commission, with certain requests and recommendations. and thus will be stamps, etc ...... xo,cco no published as pirt of the minutes of the said Commission. 14,540 o> In view of these conclusions, and the advisability of our original request being carried into 'I'ele: r.tph expenses, repairs and supplies.. -,5oo os Rent of teleplion:s ...... effect, we offer the following : 3,100 0o ...... 6,to o 00 Resolved, That the Board of City Record be and it is hereby informed that this Board with- Lost clnldren ...... 40, oo draws its request. of June 30, 1896, relating to the publication of the minutes of the Aldermanic Purchase of bicycles ...... 1 _,000 Co Subsistence of witnes-es at House of Detention...... 5 30 °U Advisory Committee, and renews the request of August 4, 1896, which asks for space in the City Music tar annual parade and expenses of erect n gI RECORD for the minutes of the Greater New York Charter Commission ; and be it further reviewingstanJs...... -..... .. . , oo Resolved, That the cost of such publication be met from the funds of the Greater New York Photograph Bureau cand L'rtillun systent of id:nit-i i Charter Commission, and that it shall be published at the prices now paid by the City for matter cation...... .. ...... I g(co o+ School for pilot practice...... ...... ,o o0 published in the CITY RECORD. Athletic examinations of candidates for Patrolmen...... Soo to JOHN 1'. 1VINDOLPH, ROBERT IsIUH, JOHN J. O'BRIEN, ELIAS GOODMAN, Meals for prisoners ...... t 700 ar I FREDERICK A. WARE, Committee on Legislation. $78 $t15,000 < ...... The President put the question whether the Board would agree to accept said report and Pa.'ral II'ago is and /Mounted It "cc Service. ,587 5° 536,4/2 co adopt said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative. Feeding 188 hr ryes for the \lotmred squad $24,0r7 co <.eeping 2 horses, at $z5 per month each. . 6o0 no COMMUNICATIONS FROM DEPARTMENTS AND CORPORATION OFFICERS. $21,6x7 no 3orseshoeing rgo her es, at

~~36 THE CITY RECORD. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

AMOUNT I AMOUNT RKQUIRBD POR N ALLOWED FOk'~ INCREASE. DECREASE and orders in proceedings commenced by the Surrogates to compel accountings of delinquent 1897. .896. executors, guardians and others. Respectfully submitted, FRANK 1'. FITZGERALD, JOHN H. V. ARNOLD, Surrogates. .Stea,xdoat and harbor Police Service, Estimate of Expenditures Required in the Surrogates' Court and Office for the Year one thousand Steamboat expenses and supplies: eight hundred and xinety.seven. PSo tons coal, at S+ oer ton...... $3,400 00 Surrogate (salary fixed by Legislature) ...... $15,000 00 t tit wa,te, packing, paints, rope, etc.... 1,200 00 Expenses of running 4 launches, 365 Chief Clerk ...... 7,000 00 days at S5.40 per day each...... 7,884 00 First Law Assistant to Surrogate ...... 4,000 00 512,484 00 ...... $12,484 00 ...... Second Law Assistant to Surrogate ...... 3,000 00 P.dice Station-hr.uses-Alterations, Fitting Up, Addi- 4,000 00 ,ions t an I Repairs...... $35,000 00 635.000 00 I~ ...... ...... Deputy Chief Clerk ...... t'ontingent and incidental expenses of the Central De-I Clerk of Court .. ...... ...... . 4,000 00 partn1ent and Station-houses, including expenses of: Deptity Clerk of Court ...... 2,000 00 Detectives, Patrolmen and others, execution of cnm-' Stenographer (salary fixed by Legislature) ...... 3,000 00 inal process, investicatinn and trial of charges against' Police officers, apprehension and arrest of criminals, Assistant Stenographer ...... 1,500 00 bills of costs paid by order of the Courts, etc...... 512,000 00 $1r,o0o 00 $1,000 00 ...... Clerk to Surrogate ...... 1,500 00 Probate Clerk ...... ...... 4,000 00 Police signal and telegraph system ...... $25,000 00 ...... $25,000 00 ...... First Assistant Probate Clerk ...... 2,000 00 I'olirc -,,ation-houses-Rents- Andrew H. Green, executor and trustee, Second Assistant Probate Clerk ...... I,o5o 00 W. Ii. Ogden, Thirty-first Precinct. Sr,800 co Certificate Clerk ...... 1,500 00 looeph H. Godwin, Thirty-fifth Precinct 2,000 00 Surrogates' Stenographer ...... 1,400 00 lIuismpher Cunningham, additional i Accounting Clerk ...... i,9oo 00 accommodations for the Thirty-filth Preci~ct ...... ...... 950 00 ~ Assistant Accounting Clerk ...... I,600 oo William Henderson, Westchester...... 6co oo 1 I Administration Clerk ...... 2,200 00 Flei•ch oan & Sherwood, Westchester.. Soo no First Assistant Administration Clerk ...... 2,000 00 Volunteer Fire Department, Wakefield 800 00 Ann Weaver, City Island ...... 180 00 Second Assistant Administration Clerk ...... 1,200 00 F. C.Ir .w n, Westchester ...... 600 no Third Assistant Administration Clerk ...... 1,200 00 v. H. P,tym-, New Precinct for Thirty. Supeiindendent of Recording Clerks ...... I,tsoo 00 eighth Precinct...... 4,000 00 Special Searcher (for Delinquent Executors, Administrators, etc.)...... 1,500 00 --- rr,53o co 48,930 00 $2,600 0.2 I ...... Recapihelalron. Guardian Clerk ...... 1,500 00 I'nlice Fnml-S2iiries of Police Commissioners and Assistant Guardian Clerk ...... I,000 00 Police F-,-a ...... ...... (6,115,181 o8 $5,6o9,65a 30 $1,105,536 78 .....,.... Guardian Accounting Clerk ...... t,5oo 00 Police F,md-Sala:-ies of Clerical Force ...... ...... 64,600 co 59,700 00 4,900 00 ...... Calender Clerk and Superintendent of Supplies...... 2,000 00 Police Lund -ialarjes of Civil Service ...... 7,000 00 6,400 0) 600 oo ...... Police F,md-Salarie- of Telegraph ...... also. co 19,600 00 1,500 co ...... Librarian and Chief Messenger ...... 1,500 00 Police fund-Salaries of Employees ...... 80,980 no 46,940 0 '34,040 00 ...... Searcher ...... 1,200 00 Supl lic. for 1', lice ...... .... $78,587 50 Entry Clerk ...... ...... ...... ... ...... i,600 00 Supplies Patrol Wagons and Mounted Police Clerk of Records ...... 1,300 CO Service...... .. .. .. .. ...... 64,030 00 -applies Steamboat an l Harbor Police Ser- ~ I Assistant Clerk of Records ...... I,000 00 vi.e ...... 12,484 00 ChiefExatninet ...... 1,500 00 _. .- - . __ 255,101 50 115,000 00 40,101 50 ...... Assistant Examiner ...... 1,200 00 Pol ce Siatior.-houses, Alterations, etc ...... 35,000 00 35,000 oo ...... ...... 12 Record Clerks, at $i,000 each ...... 12,000 00 Contingent Expenses of the Central Department, etc.,. 22,0,0 00 11,c00 00 1,000 of 11.11..... Police S goal and Telegraph Syst.sii ...... 25,C00 00 25,000 00 I Court Attendant. ... ...... 1,200 00 Police Station-houses-P.eats ...... 1:,530 00 8,930 0,, '~~ z,600 00 2 Court Attendants, at $i,000 each ...... 2,000 00 2 Messengers, at $goo each ...... I,800 oo $5,912,222 30 ! $1,215,278 z8 ...... 57,127,500 58 IMessenger' ...... .. ..... I,000 00 Patrol Wagons, Horses, Harness and Subsistence...... 7,188 co ...... ...... 'Three Steam Launches ...... 6,000 no ...... ...... 3 Copyists, at $i,oco each ...... 3,000 00 13,088 o-r ICopyist ...... ...... ...... ..... 800 00 Stenographer's Amanuensis...... I,000 oo 85,935,4lo 30 ; ur,zoz,0co v8 2 Clerks for Recording bonds, at $t,000 each ...... 2,000 00 BUREAU 01, ELECTIONS. ------$IO8,45o 00 /!'mina Expenses-Estim(flte /or the Year 1897, on the Basis of I,400 Election Districts. Office contingencies ...... ...... 1,200 00 Contingencies-Sheriff serving citations, etc ...... 1...... 1,000 00 AM 01) ST. Additional Surrogate (chapter 642, Law's 1892) ...... $15,000 oo I Clerk Additional Part ...... ...... ...... 2,500 00 4 Inspectors of Election, 4 days each, 16 day=, at 55 per day each $8a. IRegistratioa) ...... $212,200 00 IStenographer ...... 2,500 00 4 ln.peCIr, of l'.leOtiOii, r clay each, 4 days, at O,ro per da y each. ((,El ection ...... 56,000 00 :, Poll Clerks, t day eoc!i. 2 days, at ;cro per day, 520. Election l ...... 28,000 00 I Clerk to Additional Surrogate ...... 1,500 00 Ilallot Clerks, r day each, z days, at 55 per day, $,o. (Election ...... 14,000 00 2 Recording Clerks, at $f,000 each ...... 2,000 oo Rent of ,,too politic places, 4 day s. at cs per day, $20. R _ oistratiun', ...... z8,000 00 3 Court Attendants, at $1,200 each ...... 3,600 oo Kent of ,, too polling places, r day, nt 830 per day. Election;...... ...... • ..... 42,000 o) 75 portable houses, at <,00 each ...... 1...... 7,500 cO -- 27,100 00 Sala,y of Chit of flu reau of Ele tions ...... 4,000 00 FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MUTILATED RECORDS. Salary of Chiel Clerk of ltiire.,u ,.1 Electors ...... 1111.. . ...... I 2,00) 00 I Examiner and Superintendent ...... $1,500 oo C'Oatioge;ci cs, l ttim up p.ling pE,e0.e 1:0 iuding additional voting booths and repairs...... 5,000 0, 8 other Clerks, at $1,200 each ...... ...... 9, boo oo Stationery. m fps, printing, etc...... ...... 15,, 00 on ( nrting voting booths, I:all01 Loxes, etc ...... 1...... 1....1...... 1111. 3,oco 00 ISLibers, at $30 each ...... ...... 540 00 fiallots official and sample :...... ...... 5o,oco oo Stationery, 7I00 ...... 100 cc 1[isee1Iane0u-, ins udiug g,00 for r,freshment'. for Clerks on E'ection n;ght ...... r,oco 00 -- 11,740 00 \dvertis n, „lest ion districts, pollins place., and official eanv.,ss, for adverti ing notices by the (:I )rk 3o,0.0 0) of the C„mmou Comtcil ...... 1dv, rti,ing li,ts of nomination, by the Police Commissioners, pursuant to section 6r, chapter 909, 40,000 00 $149,490 00 Lac' of I.5 6, and or :advertising by the County Clerk ...... CHAMBERS 01' THE SURR(,GATGS' COURT, GIPS AND Coi:NTY OF Nt:AV YORK, NEW YORK, j )san,m tier ('Jerks to hoard f County Canvassers ...... i 20oo w September IS, 1896. 7i, the Honorable the Boa,d of Estimate and Apportionment 439,500 o0 Iii purvuance of the authority vested in us by chapter 57 of the Laws of 1883, as amended by chapter 467 of the Laws of 1890, we hereby certify that we have examined the following books of Which was 1efcrrel to the C,.mmitn-e on ]Finance. - - record in our office and that each of them has, by reason of age and continued use, become 1'he President laid before the Board the following communication from the New York Infant mutilated or obliterated and rendered unfit for public use and service and needs to he recopied, .\vitro and it is necessary for the security and safety of the Public Records of and in said otlice and of NEw YORK INI ANT ASVLunl, AVSTERDAyl AVENUE AND Stx'rv-PIRS'r STPEE'r, NE\v YORK, said books that the said books should be recopied and tiauscrihed : :1uiuvt 25, 1896. 7o the Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, City Hall, New York City: Liters of Wills 67, 151, 172, 182, 18(, iSS, tr)S, too, 205, 200, 20S, 211, 218, 223, 225. 230, DEAR SIR-In reply to the circular of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, dated July 238, 243 . ,3o, I woull state that the estimated amount required for the sul,port and care of the inmates of Index to Accountings No. 2. our insti ution for the year 1897 spill be ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight Index to Real Estate Proceedings No. I. dollars in lolioociitg proportions FRANK T. 1"1'FZG131\t.]), JOAN Ii. V. ARNOLD, tiunro„ate'. 430 children, at 38 cents per day ...... ,59,641 00 CitAyllirtICs Of '1111: SURROGAi'ES' CUURr, Ci-i ' AVD COUNTY ur Ni 1'oRK, NEW YORK, I,2 uontcn, at $I8 per month ...... 32,832 00 September 16, 1896. 7'o tlri' !liwra/,le Bo:rrd of Estimate trial .-Ip ortion,ient ;c:l ,,hstetrical cases, at $25 each ...... ...... 7,525 00 GENTLEMEN -In presenting the estimates of expenditure required for the maintenance of the Surrogates' Court and office for the year 1897, we desire to say that no increase in the appropria- $99,998 oo tion has been asked for except in two instances. An advance of $1,500 per annum, instead of 1'ursu itt to section 22, chapter 26), Laws of 1872. SI,200 per annum, is requested in the salary of the Guardian Accounting Clerk. Y(iurs very truly, FRANCIS 13. GRIFFIN, 'Treasurer. I-Ii, office is an important one, and by special provisions of law the duty is made incumbent 14 hick was referred to the Coultntttte on Finance. upon him of preparing annually lists of guardians se ho have failed to file in this office their I lie president laid before the Board the following communication from the hifth Judi ,- ial accounts, as required by statute, and of notifying them in cases of default, and, unless satisfactory l)i.trict Court : re>ponscs are nlade, of preparing citations requiring them to show cause why such account should 1't1• tit ltoc[eh. lllsreicr COURT, No. 154 CLINTON STREET, NEVN YORK, August 24, not be filed. The business in this department has greatly increased daring the past two years, 189(. 'I) Ike Ilonor.rl,le• Me Board of .11,ler/ne,r o, the Ci'l' of Ai -o York lisle no additional force has been employed. The salary of the Guardian Accounting Cleric was GH.N i IT'y1EN-In compliance with the resolution of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for several years $1,500, but was reduced to $1,200 ill 1894 by reason of the increase to $1,500 of calling for an estimate of the expenses of this court, for the year 1897, the following statement is the salary of the Guardian Clerk, whose duties are independent of the Guardian Accounting Cleric. Ou[,mittctl We think the salary of the last-named officer should now be restored to $t,5oo. The office is FOR SALARILS. an exacting one, its duties are onerous and responsible, and the incumbent has been at all times I lenry M. C;oldfogle. Justice... $6,000 oo I Arthur F. Ducret, Stenographer.. $2,000 00 faithful and attentive to his duties. jcremiah I (ayes, Clerk...... 3,000 00 Charles J. Newman, Janitor, , , ... goo 00 The only other increase asked for is in the salary of the officer designated as r' Stenographer's Janie, II.'hicls, Assi.tant Clerk.. 3,000 00 I Jacob Kati. Interpreter...... 5,200 00 Amanuensis." 'There has been no increase for several years in the number of the Official Sten- James 'iIc.\lariie,, Attendant.... I,oco 00 --- ograplieis who take the minutes of proceedings in court in contested will cases. These cases are James I.aoerty, Attendant...... 1,000 00 $i8,too 00 multiplying in number, and the calendar of such contest; is very large. The whole business of The foregoing .alE1ies were fixed by chapter 410, t.alvs of i8S2. the office is constantly increasing at a very rapid rate. Mr. P1ayter, who has filled the office of P0nards the erecb., n of a nets court-house pursuant to chapter 748 of the Laws of tS94, Stenographer's Amauuensis for some time, has been necessarily detailed to regular Stenographic $IOO,000. work at the Trial Perm. His present salary is only $840, while the salaries of the other Sten- It is imperatively necessary that a court-house should be erected within the Fifth Judicial ographers are much larger. 1Ve believe his compensation should be increased, and have asked for District Court for the use of I Ii; court. The i resent building is dilapidated. It is unfitted for an addition of $ 16o, making his salary $t,000 instead of $840 per annum. the purpose; of a curt. It cannot I,e used for court purpose., and is in an unsanitary condition, Very truly yours, FRANK T. FITZGERALD, JOHN 1I. V. ARNOLD, Surrogates. and ha, been gencral!v co,identnetl, and is wholly unfit fin- Occupancy as a court by those who Which was referred to the Committee oil Finance. have had ucca-ion to cuu,e within it ; anti as the act prcn•ttiiu for the erection of a court-house The President laid before the Board the following communication front the Coroners' Office : limits the expenditure to one hundred thousand dollars, it is respectfully urged that at least this CORONRRS' OPFtCE, CRISIINAL COURT BUILDING, NESS' YORK, September 5, 1896. Jo sum be appropriated for the purchase of land and the erection of a building where the court may the Itonorat'le the Board of Aldermen, 1Vew York Cite : 1,e prr>pet'ly held. GNN'ILEMEN-The Board of Coroners transmits herewith a statement of salaries and expenses All of which is respectfully submitted. HENRY 1\l. GOLDFOGLE, justice. required for the Coroners' Office for the year 18g7. Which wax referred to the Committee oil finance. Very respectfully, EDW. F. REYNOLDS, Clerk of the Board of Coroners. The Piestd& iiI laid before the IS and the following communicationIII frow the Surrogate's Court Statement rJ Salaries 21id Expenses required for the Coroners' Office for the rear 1897, sub- (Copy). trritted to the Board of E'stimat' and Apportionment by the Board of Coroners Sepieanber 4, CHAMBER,, Of. [III StRRo ;A1'FS' COURT, Crry AND Couv•ry uF NRty YORK:, NEW YORK, 1896. September 15. 1896. 7o the honorable the Board, f 13sisr,l,lte acrd Af 19ortiuunrerrt Salaries of four Coroners, at $5,000 each (section 1767, New York City Consolidation An estimate of the amount of expenditure required for the maintenance of the Surrogates' Act), to wit : Court and office for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven is herewith respectfully E. T. Fitzpatrick ...... $5,000 00 submitted for your consideration and action. For the ensuing year is required the same appropria- William 11. Dobbs ...... 5,000 00 tion as was matte for the previous year for the Clerks employed pursuant to chapter 57 of the Laws 'Theodore K. Tuthill ...... 5,000 00 of 1883 as amended by chapter 467 of the Laws of 1890 in the preservation and transcription of Emil W. Hoeber ...... 5,00o CO mutilated and obliterated records. Eight Clerks are so ell at a salary of $1,200 a year each, and a Superintendent and Examiner at $1,500 a year ; eighteen liters at a cost of $30 each and Contingent expenses of four Coroners, at $3,000 each (section 1767, New York City $loo for stationery will he required for the prosecution of this work next year. The necessity for Consolidation Act), for the payment of clerk hire and for the preservation of this work has been duly certified in accordance with the act, mentioned. A certificate as to the the records of the Coroners and the records of the Board of Coroners, and all same accompanied the communication of September I I, 1890, of the then Surrogate submitting other incidental expenses, to wit : the estimate for the succeeding year. A similar certificate was annexed to the estimates submitted E. T. Fitzpatrick ...... $3,000 00 August 16, 1892, another to the estimates submitted September 5, 1895, for the current year, and William H. Dobbs...... 1111 .. ... ... ..:...... 3,000 00 a third is presented herewith. Theodore K. Tuthill ...... 3,000 00 For office contingencies $1,200 are required, being amount appropriated for same purpose for Emil W. Hoeber ...... 3,000 00 this year. $5,000 are needed for the payment of the Sheriff for services in serving citations, -^- 12,000 00

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD . 2537

Salaries of four Physicians at $3,000 each (section 1769 and 1770, New York City f Ciry OF NEW YORK-FINANCE DEPARTMENT, CoxIgTRoLLER'sOFFIcE, September t9, 1896. ConsolidationAct), to wit : I Ia the Honorable Board of .41dermen Edward J, Donlin ...... ...... ...... $3>000 co \Veekly statement, showing the appropriations made under the authority contained in section Albert T. Weston .... ...... ...... 3,000 00 189, New York City Cunsoiidntion Act of 1882, for carrying on the Common Council from January Philp F. O'I1anlon ...... _ ...... ...... 3,000 CO I t to December 31, 1896, both days Inclusive, and of the payments made up to and including the Otto H. Schultz ..... ...... ...... 3,000 CO I (late hereof. for and on account of each :mpropriatin, and the amount of unexpended balances I2,00000 -.._ - __ _. - _ - - Salary of the Clerk of the Board of Coroners (section 1768, New York City Con- AMOUNT „r AMOUNt OF solidation Act), to wit : ' ['Pi'I.ES Of. APPROPIIATIOM• PAVMIE\TS. UNEXPENDRI. ArrRnPRUrtovs.1 I:ALANCES. Edward F. Reynolds ...... ...... ...... ...... 3,500 Salary of Stenographer to the Board of Coroners (chapter 443, Laws of 1889), to wit : I - Frederick A. Baker ...... .. .. ...... . 2,500 CO City Contingencies ...... $2,000 00 $576 75 $1,423 80 Salary of Replevin Clerk (approved by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Cootin'encies-Clerk of the Conisnou Council.... 5e0 co 200 co 300 00 December 31, 1891), to wit : ! Salaries-Common Council ...... ' 86,3oo oo 57,531 52 28,768 48 Francis J. Hawkes ... ...... ... ...... 2,200 00 Salaries of two Assistant Clerks (chapter b46, Laws of 1895, and chapter 732, Laws of - F - - 1896), to wit : I DCAR f LEVEN', Assistant Deputy Comptroller. George W. Cook ...... $1,500 00 ! Which severally ordered on file. James T. Malone ...... [,500 00 The President laid before the Board the following communicati~n~ f h I I~•I f II C,ty -- 3,000 00 Coot : 1 1-t-nlortem examinations (sectionssections t t and t 2, New York City Consolidation...i - Crn' COURT of NE),%- Yosk. .. .77 pct. ...... • - • .' 5 1'o the Ilonwrable Board of AImrmmen . y - In compliance with circular front Finance Department, I respectfully uan.siyts i I /t inn Total amount ...... .. .... ...... z o0 00 $57,7 Departmental Estimate of expenses for the year 1897, to wit SUMMARY . S10,000 ou Salaries of four CCoroners, at $5,000 each ...... Robert A. Van Wyck, Chief Justice ...... James M. Fitzsimons, Justice...... ...... to,000 oc, Contingent our o s ne tour Coroners,e, h $3,000 each ...... ...... $22,000 00 henry McCarthy, ...... 10,000 oo Salaries of four Physicians, at $3,000 ...... [2,000 00 John ...... Lewis (.onlan, [0,000 a, Salary of Clerk of Board of Coroners ...... 3,5 .' " " " '.. ...... ' john P.S hucl)wye :` ...... [0,000 00 Salar of Stenographer ...... ...... 2, o0 00 Edward I'. O'Dw yer, " ...... 10, ono 0o 'alary of Replevin lerk ..... .... ...... , 2,200 00 ;atones of two Assistant Clerks, at $t, co each... .. o^o5. 0o - -- Frederick J. Warburton, Stenographer ...... I'I,st-nwrtem examinations ...... 5 ...... z, o0 0o $2,500 co ' __ Farrell O' Uowd, .....: ...... 2,500 00 John el Yot e l 2,500 00 Total anlount ...... ...... 0o $57,700 Michael J. K e l ly, ...... I ...... 2,5o0 00 \Ve herebyY certify that the amounts asked for in the foreI. oin g statement are rec1 utred to 1pay Y Io,cloo oo he cxpcl'St of conducti ng.g bWMlesHof the Office and year 97 j Philip McGolitt, Interpreter ...... r,5oo 00 e E. sW i tlD., eTHEO. K. TUT- jnlsis B. \lcG0tllrkks Clerk ...... $4,500 00 I111.l„ Board of Coroners. Edward II. l'iepenbring, Deputy Clerk ...... 3,500 00 \Vhich was referred to the Committee on Finance. . Patrick A. Gilroy, ...... 2,000 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Civil Service Board : ! Terence Duffy, Deputy Clerk ...... ...... 2,000 00 NEW YORK CITY CIVIL SRICVICE lloARos, NEW CRIMINAL COURT LUILDING, NEW YORK, i George Cioker, Assistant Clerk ...... 1,500 00 S(1,tswSer 8, 1896. WILLIAM It. TEN EYCK, Esq., Clerk, Common Council, City IIall. New James J. McCloskey, 1.500 00 fork, N. V. : Thomas Carroll, " ...... ...... 1,500 00 DEAR SIR-I enclose herewith copy of letter sent to the Comptroller, as per instructions of Peter F. Murray, • - - • ...... ..... 1,500 00 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Respectfully, john Graham, ...... ...... r,5oo 00 S. W [I.I,IAbi BRISCOE, Secretary. I clward G. Tilly', ...... ...... 1,500 00 NEW YORK CITY CIVIL SERV[CE BOARDS, NEW CRIMINAL. COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK, l leery P. i\1cGow11, Jr., '` ...... 1,500 00 September 2, 1896. Ilon. Asrtnr:1. I'. Frrcii, Comptroller r Simpson I lanlburger, ...... 1,500 00 DEAR SIR-In reply to your letter under (late of July 30, 1896, containing the resolution of j Richard J. Sheerin, 1,500 00 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, calling for an estimate in writing of the amount John Quig„ ...... 1 ...... ... 1,500 CO required to conduct the business of the New York City Civil Service Boards for the year 1897, I McCormick,John 1,500 00 present the following statement : c 22 I. S. William Briscoe, Secretary. $2,500 00 13. Alfred S. Houghton, M. D., Frederick TourcI1e, Attendant ...... .... $t,000 00 2. Frederick G. Ireland, Chief Examiner ...... $1,2C0 oo Moses Levi, ...... ...... , t s000 00 Examiner ...... 3,600 00 14. George H. Eberle, Junior Edward Il1neks, ...... ...... 1,000 00 3. I)aniel M. Simpson, Clerk.... i,800 oo Clerk ..... ...... 480 00 Frederick Straus, ...... .. , ...... 1 .. 1,oclo on 4. Frank A.Shencer,Labor Clerk t,5oo 00 15. James J. McCormack, Junior Frank P. Dunlap, ...... t,000 00 -. William Ctnlvers, Stenog- Clerk...... 480 00 John 1). Vi, eking, ...... 1,000 u', rapher and Typewriter.... 1,000 00 116. James 1). Dunlap, Clerk.. boo on John Courtney, t,000 00 6. Lewis Steiner[, Stenographer 17. Isidor S. Schweitzer, Of1iee 11'tlbaco Arbuthnot, ...... 1,000 00 and Typewriter...... 750 00 Boy ...... 216 00 John F. Scully, .. -.•...... ...... I...... t,000 00 7. Emil Bach, Clerk...... 1,200 00 Five Examiners, paid by the sex- John C. McDermott, ...... r,cwo on S. Mamie Cafiley, Clerk ...... goo 00 non.... ...... S,000 00 \\%illiam 11. Keegan, t,000 a, 9. Charles W. Fisher, Clerk..... goo 00 Experts . ...... 2 500 0 Theodore A. l lanrilton, ... ...... 1,000 Oo ro. Francis Collingwood, Exam- Contingencies, including telephone Leon Phillips, ...... 1,tloo ou finer ...... ...... 2,500 00 ! and messenger service, post- - --- t .i,co. cc, II. A. II. Brown, M. D.,Examiner 1,000 00 age, etc ...... 2,874 on ----- I 2. Chailcs lt. Jessup, Examiner.. 1,000 00 Total... ...... ...... ...... ...... Sr 12,500 00 Total ...... - 35aoo . 00 • sctrr:DUt.r•.. Comparative St,lement. Six Justices, each, at Sto,000 per year ...... $6o,eoo for 1896 (grand total) on 1. inal 1''sti,uate ...... $30,000 CO 1 Four Stenographers, each, at $2,500 per year ...... . . . . to,000 00 Proposed estimate for 1897 ... ...... ...... : 35,000 00 J One Interpreter, at $1,500 per year...... [,500 00 In explanation of the increase of the amount as compared with the appropriation for 1896, I One Clerk, at $4,500 per year ...... desire to state that this is trade necessary by the large number of positions 4,500 00 recently classified in One Deputy Clerk, at $3,000 per year ... ...... ...... 3,000 00 the examinable schedules, and the consequent increase of the ordinary business of the Depart- ; Two Deputy Clerks, each, at $2,0oo per year ...... ...... • ...... .. 6,500 00 meat ; the appiicattons received durinr; the past six months heirs` only 2,000 short of the Iota] Eleven .\ssistant Clerks, each, at 51,500 per year ...... ... year [6,500 00 nuinler filed Thirteen Attendants, each, at $r,oco per year ...... t3,000 00 alI I)cl Civil Service leeulations6 J Sef,rebeingbeing y[udited byY the Finance ------Depattment, has devolved a large amount of extra work upon this Department, thus relieving the T ,tal ...... ... ...... ...... $112,500 ocl l inance Department of labor rightly devolving upon this office. The large increase of applica- TOEIN B. MCGOI,DRICK, Clerk , City Court . tions and the verification of the pay-rolls necessitates additional office assistance and extra Which was releried to the Committee on hinance. examiners, both permanent and expert. In retard to the item for contingencies, postage, etc., the attention of your Honorable Board lit I lesfifisnt 1nill before the hoard the following communication from the Fire Department 11F AD tEl is called to the fact that the postage disbursements of this office arc ueeel.atily late, as various .AeptRS Dm,AR•rstr:w-r, NOS. 157 AuD 159 Est ' ',i\ f shst•:veu'I'I[ S'1i11o:'rs notices.have to be sent to each applicant, and his four vouchers have to be communicated with, AF'~~' YORK, September r4, 1896. Uoizo,nhle Aunrd oI -llrter~icrn, 'I t IIall, New York etc., besides the regular correspondence with the various l )epartments and the public. (ZEN 'rl.ENIEN-In conformity with the provisions of section 189, chapter 410 of the Laws Cl I would further state that a considerable portion of the amount required is compo;c l of items j 1892, 1 have the honor to inclose herewith a duplicate of the departmental c,tiutate for thi: which are subject to variation, it heing impossible to anticipate the number anct character of i Department for the year 1897. Very respectfully, O. H. 1.A GR.ANt.i-:. I'reC ci t, examinations to be held during the year, and the amount of expert assi-tones which may he ! required to properly conduct the saute. For this reason it has been the custom of your I lonorable »I=l'-7h Tl//z~V7:17, 1is7'fltf 1 TA' FUI; Board to make our appropriation in a lump sum, and I respectfully request that such custom be FOR SA1.ARIFIS. continued. 111caclquarters lay-roll (sections 46, 48 and 52, chapter 410, 1882)- EVERI TT P. WI IEELER, Chairman ; S. WILLIAM BRISCOE, Secretary and Executive I 3 Commissioners, at $5,000 each ...... 5, i• I? on Officer. Secretary ...... ...... - Which was referred to the Committee on iF ivance. .. ' )',S0' oc' Assistant Secretary ...... 2,500 oo The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Finance Depatt- Secretary Relief Fund ...... .. ...... 3,000 I_S meat: Attorney ...... 4,000 00 CITY OF NEW YORK-FINANCE DRPARTMEN I', COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, September 5, 1896 4 Medical Officers, at $2,000 each ...... To the honorable Board ei Atiernien: ...... 8,000 on Bookkeeper ...... ,,,00ct cn Weekly statement, showing the appropriations made under the authority contained in section Bookkeeper ...... ...... 1,500 co 589, New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, for carrying on the Common Council from January Bookkeeper . ...... I to December 31, 1896, both days inclusive, and of the payments made up to a;td including the 1,200 00 Btiiklin, Superintendent ...... 2,000 00 date hereof for and on account of each auDIOprlal[oa, and the amount of unexpended balances_ Purchasing Agent...... - - 2,000 co Clerk ..... ...... . ...... 2,00.E 00 AnoiNT OF AMOUNT OF •t II LES OF Ai,PROPPtATIONS. 4 Clerks, at $[,500 each...... 6 ono 00 APt'ROPSIA] IONS. PAYMENTS. UNEXPENDEt) ! "' " " • " - " " " " " • • ' • • • • BAI.ANCESN Clerk ...... ...... ..... . 1, 200 O() Steno„rapher...... ... ...... t,5oo cw City Contingencies .... ...... ...... $2,000 00 2 Stenographers, at $1,200 each ...... $564 25 $1,435 75 , Weichnlaster...... .... 2 4~ o0 Cantiisgencies-Clerk of the Common Council..... 500 00 150 00 J50 00 1,875 00 Salaries-Comlron Council ...... ,0000 2 Engineers, at $t,400 each ...... ...... 2,800 00 3 5757,531 ~3 y5' I 28z=~ ,768g 48 3 Stokers, zs $912 each ...... each ...... ...... I.... 2,736 oo 2 Night Watchmen, at $j,000 each ...... ...... 2,000 00 WILLIAM J. LYON, Dc ut Comptroller. 2 Cleaners Attendants,its, a ..... each ...... 1,700 C N EW PARr\ttCNT, CoSIt IROLLEI' S OFFICE, September 12, t$ 6. i . ~ •' p g 3 Cleaners, at $qoo each ...... 2,700 COu 70 YtO RK o111Nll[teYllte,z /0_' tCiry f 2 Scrub Women, at $300 each ...... 6 00 Weekly statement, showing the appropriations made under the authority contained in section 1 4 Drivers, at $312 each ...... 3,648 o0 189, New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, for carrying on the Common Council from January I $7i,259 00 I to December 35, 1896, both days inclusive, and of the payments made up to and including the -- --- date hereof, for and ou account of each appropriation, and the amount of unexpended balances: 'The appropriation for 1896 is $69,251. The increase asked is therefore $9,000, _ which is accounted for as follows -- - -- -- J AMOUNT OE Secretary's salary increased .. .. ...... $8o0 o0 TITLES OF APPROPRIATIONS. AMOUNT OF Secretary Relief Fund, additional ...., • ...... AYpRoFRIATIONs. PAYMENTS. UNEXPEN UND Y ... .... . . 3,000 00 BALANCES. I Medical Officer, additional., ...... .sss..s..ss ... 2,000 00 - - Building Superintendent, additional. ..... 2,000 00 Clerk to same, additional ...... City Contingencies ...... $2,0$2,000 00 $576 75 $1,423 25 __1,200 00 Contingencies-Clerk of the Common Council... , 5oo oo 200 00 300 Salaries-Common Council...... 86,300 CO , 28,768 48 As to the SecretarY 's salary,y> same, and in some cases more, is paid in 9 '~ 57 531 52 other City Departments, The Secretary of the Relief Fund is needed for the proper administration EDGAR J. LEVEY, Assistant Deputy Comptroller. of this important fund.

2538 THE CITY RECORD , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

The additional Medical Officer is also needed to cover the enlarged territory Apparatus, Supplies, etc., (sections 181, of the city. 424, 425 and 426, chapter 410, 1882)- Buildings-Repairs ...... $48,000 00 The Building Superintendent, who was taken from the Repair Shops roll Contingencies ...... 6,000 00 in the departmental estimate for this year, and placed on a separate roll (for Incidentals, Fire Marshal ...... 2,000 00 which no provision was made by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment) is Fuel: now added to the roll. Coal ...... $40,000 00 The Clerk for the Building Superintendent is also very much needed. Wood ...... 2,000 00 Chief of Department and Assistants Pay-roll (chapter 710, 1892)- -- 42,000 00 Chief of L)epartment ...... $6,000 oo Gas, etc.. ...... 16,500 00 2 Deputy Chiefs of Department, at $4,200 each ...... 8,400 00 General Supplies ...... 22,500 00 14 Chiefs of Battalion, at $3,300 each...... 46,200 00 Horses, etc ...... 18,000 0o --- $6o,600 00 Forage . ...... 50,000 00 Horse Shoeing ...... 16,500 00 Engine and Hook and Ladder Companies Pay-rolls (section 48, chapter Harness Shop ...... 6,5oo 00 410, 1882; chapter 354, 1883 ; chapter 2j4, 1884 ; chapter Hose Shop and New Hose ...... $30,000 00 552, 1885 ; chapter 710, 1892, and chapter 269, 1895)- Materials, etc ...... 6,500 00 91 Foreman, at $z,16o each ...... $196,560 00 36,500 00 96 Assistant Foremen, at $1,800 each ...... ...... 172,800 00 Machine and Paint Shop Supplies ...... 15,000 00 150 Engineers, at $i,600 eat.h ...... 240,000 00 Rents.. .. . ...... ...... 6,700 00 2 Engineers, ununifornicd, at $1,600 each ...... 3,200 00 Telegraph Supplies and Repairs : I Engineer, ununiformed ...... 1,400 00 Telephone Rent ...... $3,500 00 646 1•iremen, 1st grade, at 51,400 each ...... 904,400 00 Materials, Supplies, etc ...... 10,000 00 69 Firemen, 2d grade, at $1,200 each ...... 82,800 00 Repairs, etc ...... 4,500 00 97 Fireman 3d grade, at $1,000 each ...... . 97,oco 00 New Boxes .. ...... .. ... .... 3,000 00 4 Pilots, unuui.lormed, at $1,500 each ...... ... ...... 6,000 00 Keyless Doors ...... 1,000 00 13 Stokers, ununiformed, at $2.50 per diem ...... ..... 11,862 00 Box Signs ...... I,000 00 - 2,716,022 00 New Apparatus ... ...... I,000 00 $1, 713,300 was appropriated for this pay-roll for this year. The increase, Equipment for New District ...... .. 5,000 00 $2,722, covers various minor changes. --- 29,000 00 Bureau of Combustibles Pay-roll (sections 48, 427 and 428, chapter Maintenance, Fire Boats...... 20,000 00 410, 1882)- New Boilers, " Zophar Mills ". ...... 10,000 00 - $387,100 00 Inspector of Combustibles ...... $3,~ 00 Clerk...... 1,500 Co Appropriation for 1897 ...... $342300 00 At the end of the year 1895, the Commissioners were able to provide for Clerk. ...... ...... I,200 00 Oil Surveyor ...... 1,200 00 considerable apparatus and hose out of that year's appropriation, thus lessening 2 Oil Collectors, at $1,200 each ...... 2,400 00 the demand for these items for the year 1896. '1 o keep up the requirements z Oil Collectors, at $1,100 each ...... 2,200 00 made l,y the Chief of Department for the proper equipment of the fire extinguishing force an increase over the allowance made for apparatus and hose 5 Surveyors, at $1,200 each ...... 6,000 00 --- 17,500 00 for the coming year amounting to $36,400 is necessary. Add to that amount the requirement of Sto,000 for new boilers for the Fire-boat 11 Zophar Mills," which Bureau of lire Marshal Pay-roll (sections 48, 427 and 428, chapter has become absolutely necessary (the present boiler having been in service since 410, i882)- 1882, when the goat was built), together with the farther very necessary increase h ire Marshal ...... ...... $3,000 00 called for under the head of Telegraph Supplies and Repairs, and the total Deputy fire Marshal ...... 2,200 00 incicase over the appropriation for Apparatus, Supplies, etc., for the current year ( oulidential Examiner ...... ...... 1,800 00 is fully accounted for. (lerk... 1,500 00 ...... For a new Fire-boat (sections 424, 425 and 426, chapter 410, 1882) Stenographer 1,200 00 .... q0,0oo 00 ...... This is to provide for an additional boat principally for service on the Ilarlem 9,700 00 river. The North Side Board of Trade have petitioned for this additional pro- ]lurcau of Fire Alarm "Telegraph and Electrical Appliances Pay-roll (sections 48, tectiott to the valuable property situated upoti and near the Harlem river and 428 and 517, chapter 410, 1882)- adjacent waters. The nearest of the three boats now belonging to the Depart- Superiutendent of F ire Alarm Telegraph and Electrical Appliances. $3,500 00 mcnt (one of which is generally undergoing repairs) is stationed at the foot of Fifth Chief Operator ...... 2,250 00 street, East fiver, too far away to be as effective at fires on the upper waters of I Operator ...... 1,503 00 the city as it should be. --- 4 Operators, at $1.380 each ...... 5,520 00 Agglegate ...... $2,459,412 00 5 As,i,tant Operators, at $1,200 each...... 6,000 00 The foregoing estimate, amounting to two millions four hundred and fifty-nine thousand four Chief In,pector ...... 2,000 00 hundred and twelve dollars ($2,459,412), is adopted as the sum of money which will be required Assistant Chief Inspector ...... ...... I,800 00 for the expense necessary to the administration of the Fire Department of the City of New York Inspectors, at $1,200 each .... 8,400 00 7 ...... ...... for the year 1897. O. II. LA GRANGE, AUSTIN E. FORD, Fire Commissioners. 2 Stenographers, at ,$,,t,2ooeach ...... .... 2,400 00 Clerk...... I,Coo 00 ...... Comparative Statement to Aecoonpam' Opari,genial Estimate for ('able Splicer ...... ...... 1,200 00 1897. 2 Assi,taut Cable Splicers, at $1,000 each ...... 2,000 00 iattetynian . ...... I,200 00 ESTIMATE FOR APPROPRIATION ]s, 5rUrA/'r Fit Assistant Batteryman ...... 1,000 CO 1896. FOR x896. 1897. Instrument Maker ...... I,200 00 For Salaries- 4 Box Inspectors, at $1,000 each ...... 4,000 00 Hcadquarters ...... • .•• ...... •••••• $77,184 00 569,051 oo $78,299 oo Foreman of Linemen ..... ...... 1,000 00 Chief of 1)epartment and Assistants...... ...... I...... 60,600 co 6o,600 on 6o,toa oc 3 Linemen, at $goo each ...... 2,700 00 Engine a d Honk and L.tdder Comp sties ...... 1,746,030 00 1,713,300 00 1,716,022 oc Instructor, Corps Sappers and Miner s ...... 2.000 Co ...... Poreinan of Climbers ...... ...... 1,000 00 Bureau of Confbustlhles ...... 20,100 00 17,500 oo 17,500 oc 6 Climbers, at $800 each ...... 4,800 00 Bu i eau of I, ire Marshal ...... 12,000 00 9,700 00 9,700 oc 4 Groundmen, at $625 each...... 2, ~C{o0 00 Bureau of I- ire Alarm Telegraph and Electrical Appliances.. 60,400 00 57,745 00 60,594 00 Drivers, at $912 1,624 00 Repair Shops*...... ...... 61,643 00 61,643 00 66,321 oc 2 each ...... Painter. goo 00 Puilding Saperin:cndent...... I...... 13.965 oo ...... ...... Hospital and Training Stable...... 13.316 ao 13,316 00 13,316 00 M achinist's IIelper ...... 900 00 -- 60,594 00 Total Salaries ...... 52,067,238 00 $2,003,055 CO $2,022.312 oa The appropriation for the present year for Salaries-Bureau of Fire Alarm For Apparants, Supplies, etc...... 412.600 00 S42,300 00 387,100 oa Apparatus Homes...... 100,000 00 ..... I...... Telegraph and Electrical Appliances, was $57,745. The increase, $2.849, is I ...... 50.000 00 ...... due to the necessity for the employment of two additional Box Inspectors and For a New Fire Boat ...... 50,000 oa one additional Cable Splicer. Aggregate ...... fa,6,9,838 oo >(0,345,355 00 $2,459,4tx co Rel,air Shops Pay-roll (sections 48 and 428, chapter 410, 1882)- Clerk...... $1,200 00 * Request was made for a transfer of f4,5oo from the appropriation for "Apparatus, Supplies, etc.," to the 1, ngineer ...... ...... I,200 00 appropriation for " Salaries-Repair Shops Pay-roll." Foreman ...... 1,525 00 Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Receiver of Supplies ...... 1,216 00 Machinist...... ...... 5,064 00 COMMUNICATIONS. \lachinist ..... ... ...... .. 1,216 00 8 Machinists, at $912each ...... 7,296 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from D. L. Fulton 5 Machinists' I-Ielpers, at $608 each ...... 3,040 00 AMERICAN SOCIETY MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS, D. L. FULTON, SECRETARY. ALLEG1IENY, 3 Mechanics, at $912 each ...... 2,736 00 PA., September to, 1896. To the City Councils of the City of Nero York, N. Y.' Boiler Maker... .... ...... 912 00 SIRS-The third annual Convention of the American Society of Municipal Improvements will 3 Steam fitters, at $912 each ...... 2,736 00 be held In the city of Chicago, Ill., from October 14 to 16, 1896. Coppersmith ...... 912 00 I desire to call the attention of your Honorable Bodies to the fact that the city officials in 2 Blacksmiths, at $1,064 each ...... 2,128 00 charge of public improvements have been holding annual conventions for the purpose of discussing 6 Illatksmiths, at $912 each.. .. ...... 5,472 00 the best ways and means of promoting information on subjects relative to their several duties. 5 Tlack;tuiiFs' Helpers, at $684 each ...... ...... 3,420 00 Last year we had representatives from all the large cities in this country and several from 2 Carpenters, at $912 each ...... 1,824 00 Canada at our convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and all who were there said they were greatly bene- Wheelwright.. .... ...... ... ...... I,o64 00 fited in the discussions of public improvements, and all acknowledged they had learned something 3 \Watchmen, at $912 each .. ...... 2,736 00 to their interest. 5 \\'heelwrights, at $912 each ...... 4,560 00 Committees of prominent authorities are preparing papers on the subjects of Improved Street \Mood woti.er ...... 912 00 Pavements, Electric Lighting, Sewerage and Sanitation, Water Works and Water Supply, Taxa- 3 Harness Makers, at $912 each ...... I ...... 2,736 Oo tion and Assessment, City Government and Legislation, and the Disposition of Garbage and Street 2 llose Repairers. at $912 each ...... ...... 1,824 00 Cleaning. 1,520 00 2 I lose Repairers' Helpers, at 5760 each ...... These papers are being prepared by the best authorities and will be freely discussed at the Painter ...... 1,216 00 convention. 6 Painters, at $$912 each ...... 5,472 00 2 Laborers, at $6o8 each ...... ...... 1,216 00 Now, if your city is in need of any information on the above questions, then your best and Boardman.. .... ...... ...... 6o8 00 cheapest plan to pursue is to send to this convention the several officers of your city who have 5 Drivers, at $912 each ...... 4,560 00 charge of these matters, and they will find information there of much benefit to themselves and to --- 66,321 00 your city. . The appropriation for 18g6 was $61,643. The increase for the year 1897 Last year we had delegates from California, Alabama, Maine and Wisconsin ; so you see the is $4,678. It was found impossible to properly run this branch of the Depart- cities are awaking to the benefits to be derived from this convention. ment during the present year upon the appropriation allowed for it, and a trans- Let inc know as early as possible how nary delegates your city will send. fer in the amount of $4,500 was therefore recently asked for. The amount and Most respectfully, D. L. FULTON, Secretary A. S. M. I. character of the work clone in the shops, and the resultant excellent condition of Which was referred to the Committee on Streets. the Department's plant, justifies this demand. COMMUNICATIONS FROM DEPARTMENTS AND CORPORATION OFFICERS RESUMED. hospital and Training Stables Pay-roll (sections 48 and 428, chapter 410, 1882)- Superintendent of Stables ...... $2,200 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Board of Educa- Deputy Superintendent of Stables ...... ...... I,600 00 tion : Feedman ...... 732 00 To the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City and County of New York. 12 Stablemen, at $732 each ...... 8,784 00 The Board of Education present herewith to your Honorable Body their estimate of the sums - 13,316 ao which will be required for the support of the Public Schools of this city for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (1897) Total salaries...... ...... $2,022,312 00 To the Board of Education. Apparatus, Supplies, etc., (sections 181, 424, 425 and 426, chapter 410, 1882)- The Finance Committee, as required by the by-laws, and in response to the request of the Apparatus: Board of Estimate and Apportionment, presents herewith for the consideration of the Board an New .... ...... ...... $23, loo 00 estimate of the sums required on account of Public Instruction for the year 1897, the aggregate of Repairs ...... 10,800 00 which is five millions nine hundred thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-six Implements, etc ...... 8,000 Oo cents (55,900,517.46), being an increase over the apportionment for 1896 of two hundred and $41,900 00 twenty-one thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-seven cents ($221,214.87).

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, X896. THE CITY RECORD. 2539

ESTIMATE OF FUNDS REQUIRED FOR CONDUCTING THE BUSINESS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEJIIBER 31, 1897.

APPROPRIATIONS E .TIMATES PROVISIONS OF LAW. APPROPRIATION. FOR 1896. r 'R 187. * * Salaries of Teachers in Grammar. Primary and High .Schools, and of Supervisors of Special Branches. Synopsis, based on pay-roll of June, 1896. Principals_ 71 Male Gramma_...... $2x6.250 00 45 Female Grammar ...... 8r,400 00 140 Female Primary ...... 224,350 00 w - $512,000 OJ 256 (An increase of rg over May, 1895.) Vice-Principals- rx Male Grammar ...... $22,176 00 II Female Grammar ...... Ia.8ao co 27 Female Primary ...... 28,000 00 - - 62,976 ao 49 (A decrease of g from May, 1895 ) - ! $574,976 00 Teachers- 236 Males, Male Grammar ...... $354,672 00 595 Females, Mile Grammar ...... ...... 477,679 0) 122 Females, Mixed ...... x70,775 00 696 Fem,iles, Female Grammar ...... 515,41) 00 2,856 Females, Primary ...... ...... ..... 1,137,522 00 385 Females, Minimums ...... ...... 288.750 00 3 Females, Special Salariee ...... 3,760 00 - - 2,950,570 00 Laws of ,882, chap. 410, New I 3,993 (An increase of 280 over May, 1895.) York City Consolidation Special Teachers-Special Subjects- Act, General Po.vers 11 Frei,ch ...... $x2.867 50 Laws of 1694, chap. 296; 6, German ...... 68,725 60 Laws of .896, chap. 387; 17 M u.ic ...... ...... ...... xo,z68 8o Manual, edition 1895, xo Drawing ...... 24.172 So secs, 53-58, 984, 130 and 5 Phonography ...... 5,167 50 13-11 ...... 1 4 Cooking ...... 5,755 co II Sewing ...... ...... 9.I3u co II Workshop, annual salaries ...... 14,744 0) ' 2 Physical Exercise, annual salaries ...... ...... I,800 00 - 152,632 20 132 (An increase of g over May, 1895.) Regular Teachers-Special Subjects- German, 123 Music, 25 Drawing, I Phonography, 151 at $6o per school year (an increase of z5 over May, 1895) ...... $9,060 00 202 Regular Substitutes at $I.2o per school day, for 199 school days (an increase of 25 over May, 11895) ...... 48,x37 60 Additional Substitutes (as may be required) ...... I2,00.) 00 69,297 60 $3,747,475 So New schools and additions, etc ...... i6, i8 00 Inereisod attendance in schools now established ...... 15,0 000 Maximum sal iry to Principals of 14 years' service ...... 3,xco 00 Minimum salary to Teachers of 114years'service ...... 5,..00 Co Technical Manual and Industrial Edo ation, for salaries of Teachers in additional schools ...... ...... 6,500 00 Salaries of Instructors, etc., in High Schools ...... 15,000 00 I nstruction in Kmdergar;en-Extension of the System ...... 10,000 00 Salanec of Supervisors of Special Branches ...... 20,300 00 $3,9- ,4Oo 8o *3,734,3o4 22 An increase over the appropriation for ,895 of ...... $204,156 58 * NOTE.-Original fund, $3,728,327 ; transfer, $5,97 -.22-total, $3,73f3s4•32• *The title is changed from "Salaries of Teachers in Grammar and Primary Schools" in order to cover new items.

The following statement contains the details of the above estimate

ANNUAL No. ANNUAL No. POSITION. SALARY. AMOUNT. POSITION. SALARY. AMOUNT.

53 Principals, Male Grammar...... ,.. $3,000 00 $159,000 00 3 Principals, Primary ...... $t,400 on $4,200 00 2,750 00 33,-00 co 5 „ •• ...... I,3oo 00 6,500 00 2,500 00 7,5 0 00 6 " " ...... x,100 00 6,600 00 11 3 .. .. ~...... 2,25. Oo 6,750 00 to " " ..... ... I,000 00 10.00) 00 z8 Female Grammar...... 1,900 00 53,200 00 It Vice-Principals, Male and Mixed 2,x16 oo 22,176 00 1,700 00 18,700 00 Grammar...... 115 ,. .< ...... 1,600 00 8,000 00 9 Vice- Principals, Female Grammar.... r,zco 00 10,800 00 ti 2,500 00 1,500 00 2 " " .. 1,000 O' 2,(0) 00 Primary .. 2,750 00 127.750 00 8 " Primary ...... I,zon 00 9,600 00 '973 ., „ ...... •...... 1,700 .o 3z,300 00 I} ,• ...... 2,000 00 14,000 00 2,000 00 I:,, coa 00 3 14 „ I' ...... • 1,500 00 21,000 00 2 " " ...... 900 Oo 2,7 00 00

256 Principals and 49 Vice-Principals..... $574.976 00

No, POSITION. ANNUAL No. POSITION. ANN L'AL SALARY. AMOUNT. SALARY. AMOUNT.

39. Assistants, Male Grammar...... $2,or6 00 $78,624 00 49 Assistants, Female, Female Grammar $1,056 oo $51 ,744 00 40 " " ...... 1,728 oo 69,120 o.) 53 " " " 9co 00 50.880 00 ~4 " " ,. " " .,656 00 39,744 oc 85 873 00 74,205 00 27 " " ...... 1,476 00 39.852 co 104 " 795 00 8z.68o oo 311 " " ...... 1,332 00 41.292 00 72 „ •, 726 00 52.272 00 z8 '< ..... I,a6o 00 35,280 0o 9 666 co 59,940 00 47 ... ...... bolo oo 50,760 00 rob " " " 615 oo 65,190 00 50 Female, Male Grammar.. I,rr6 co 55,800 O0 137 " " 573 00 78,502 oo SI " " " 1,020 00 52,020 00 135 " Primary ...... goo 00 I2t,soo 00 65 ( " .. 931 00 61,578 00 202 " 716 ', ...... 774 ' 7 z ~ " " 'I 85555 00 61,605 oo t 3t " '' 77} 0o 103,7163 0CO 78 " " 786 00 61,308 00 52 " " ...... 720 00 37,440 00 Si " " 726 oo 58,8c6 oo 94 " " ...... 672 Co 67,108 0- 93 •` •` 675 00 62,775 00 129 " " ...... 630 00 8r,27o 00 104 " " " „ 633 00 05,832 uo 144 " ...... 594 00 87,912 00 13 Mixed Grammar I,o81, oo r4,r18 co 172 " ...... i 564 00 97,008 00 17 ,• " •` 99, oo 16,830 00 201 •` ...... 540 00 108,540 00 25 " '• •' 903 00 22,575 00 194 '• " ...... 522 00 10x,268 oo ,. .r .. 825 00 27,225 00 192 .. .. ...... 510 00 97,9zo 0) 3332 .. .. ,. 'I 756 00 24,192 00 303 " ...... 504 00 152,712 00 " 696 00 22,958 0o r .. Special ...... ...... , 880 oo 3330 '," .." ., ,. „ 645 00 19,350 00 a ...... 2,440 0o 2,880 00 39 '. " " 6 00 23,517 00 385 Minimum, 114 years ...... 753 00 288,750 00 3,993 Assistant Teachers ...... 2,950,570 00

No. SALARIES- - 1051110 N. JUN,E Ilig6. SPECIAL TEACHERS, AMOUNT.

II French ...... $1,286 75 Salaries for lo months...... ...... I $12,867 50 61 German ...... 9,872 5o xo " ...... j 68,726 60 17 Music ...... r,oz5 88 " to " ...... 1.,,168 8o 10 Drawing ...... 2,417 28 " ro " .....,...... ,4,172 8o Phono r a hy ...... 5r 70 xo ...... 5 . .. S,t67 50 4 Cooking...... 575 50 Io " ...... ...... 5758, c.o II Sewing...... ...... 913 co to " ...... 1 9,r3o 00 2 Workshop ...... Annual Salary, $1,o8o co ...... 2,,6o oo 3 " ...... I,r6x oo...... 3,780 Oo 4 ...... I,400 oo...... 5,6' o 0o I ...... ...... 1.476 00...... 1,476 00 I ...... 1,72800...... ,.,...... ,...... , r.7 28 oo a Physic'al Exercise ...... For b0rA...... ...... ,...... rs800 00 132 Special Teachers of Special Subjects ...... $152,632 20

POSITION. ANNUAL No. SALARY.

2 German ...... $60 oo ...... $120 00 123 Music...... 60 oo ...... 7,38) co 25 Drawing ...... 6o oo ...... x,500 00 I Phonography ...... fo oo ...... 60 00

151 Regular Teachers of Special Subjects ...... $9,o6o 00

Total Special Teachers ...... 161.692 ao 202 Regular Substnutes, at $1.20 per school day (1g9 school days :...... 48,237 60 Additional Substitutes ...... 12,coo 00

For salaries, based on pay-roll of June, 1896 ...... 13,747,475 8o Increased attendance in schoo:s now established, 30 teachers at $goo per annum (averaged) ...... 15.000 00 Maximum salary to Principals of 14 years' service ...... 3,000 00 Minimum salary to Teachers of 14 years' service ...... 5,000 00 I ethnical Manu .I and Industrial Education, s,.Iaries in additional schools ...... 6,soa 00 Instru ttrn in Kindergarten -Extension of the System (in 20 schools) ...... 20,000 00 Salaries of Instructors et al. in High Schools ...... 15,000 00

2 540 THE CITY RECORD. ThiuRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

A PPROTRTAlIONSl I'N, \'ISION,, OF I„AII. APPROPRIATION. HATlMRTRs FOR 1896. FOR 1897. New Schools, and Additions, etc., as under :

LOCATION. NO. ANNUAL .. ,TEACHERS. SALARY, PERIOD. AMOU N7'.

Redford Park-New Building ...... 2z Per Schedule. St Year. $fi,zg; oo Public School No. 5, Fast 4th street-New Budding ...... 19 ...... 1S 4•33 Si. Ann's avenue. ,471h and 148th streets-New Building ...... 4z ..... ...... t'z tz,z49 co Anthony7• avcuue, Mount HnP a-New Ituildin K...... ••••...... ..... zt ...... I i., 2,556 vo 191h ;t roe .md -New Puild mg.... .. ...... 48 ...... r 42,597 00 (;ra,m.r School No.9. Bad street and %Vest End avenue-New Building ...... 33 ...... r •' 22,083 00 Citylilaod-.New liuilding ...... ¢ '~, ...... ~n „ 00 Grammar Sch,.ol No. 37, East 87th street-Annex ...... 1z ...... -. i 6,yto 00 . (' .Anne., ...... Is IF 2,875 ~ Public Schoo:No.3 •11 uirdale-Annex ...... . I ...... _. _-..... 14,504 Oct _...... .- --2[--_-_.~. z 8116,185 0o Salaries of Su,ierr,isors of .Special Branches. (Authorized by New School Act, Chap. 387, Laws of r896.) I Manual '1•raining, pz,5oo; z Sewing, 8t,800; z Physical Exercise, 62,000 ; I Physical Exercise, ;?2,503; r Kindergarten, $z,5oo; t Cooking, S2,000; z Music, 62,500; r Drawing, $2,500 ...... ...... -20,3oo 00

$3,938,46o 8o

1 .Sn/are.c o/ 7arritors i,a Gram,,zar, 1'rintaty and flig/z Sc/tools. 1 -.s, I ... For shools in operation July t, 1896, including the annual rate of salaries to be paid to Janitors in new school buildings, etc., to be openel during the ,:,w. ,,t ,c; ,r..' present year, computed per by laws ...... r ...... $263,046 00 'N:u\u ,l. e(I'ti .r. I For new• buildings, extensions, etc...... 9,6 4 00 .... For Watchmen ...... 1,600 00 $074,050 1 `2'3,075 c) An increase of ...... The following statement contains the details of the above estimate : For schools iu o E teration July) Y 1:, z89 6, includin g salaries to he P•paid to J•Janitors in new school buildings,g etc , to be openedp" during the present year

SCHOOL. i `1.\I.iRI'. SC11001,. SA LAI:1'. . SCHUOI SALARY. SCHOOL. SAI.A RV. Scoot.. SAt AR\'. -__ (;. S. z.... y,t.352 CO V S. 34.... $1 768 co G. S. 6z $3,318 o ('. S. 92...... 51,924 00 I'S. tq $l,oz 00 (i. S. c•.... z,l 45 00 G.S. z,(. iz t o U.S 6; ...... x,547 0o 1..5 S. 13...... r 2: z-6r a. P. S. zo...... I,00z co (;.S, .~.•... 1,4go so G. ti. 36...... 1,703 co G. S. b¢...... t,9z¢ oa G.S. qq...... 2,002 co Y. ti. zz...... z,oz3 00 G.S. 4 x,8.;8 co ( ti 37 .... ... 2,756 o 1 ( S.65...... 1,313 00 (;.S. 9i...... t 001 to P.S. z- ...... e,z88 00 (;. S. 5. .. 3,835 co l ti 38...... 1,534 co ( 5 6b...... 1,807 00 C S. y't...... 3,445 'o 1 5. 2;.... ... 1:x96 00 (;. S. b. =,899 o:r ( 5.39...... 1,833 01 1 C 67 ...... 2,873 00 ( S. 97 ...... I 1,x83 r P S. 24...... 723 on ('.S. 7 '-,76 9 0o ( 5. 39 .l n.)•• 533 co ( ..F.8....,... r, 586 'o U , g+ (An.),. y:4 co 1 5. z5...... z,4o4 o3 (;.S 8 t,9b5 co ( S.4c'...... t,7z9 00 l S.:9 2,444 co l S. 98...... I 988 oo Y S z6 ...... x,509 co 1:.~ 9 3,3t1 oo ( S.41 .. ..... 2,755 00 ( '..70 --,I 2,oz5 0o ( S. n9•••••• 754 0o I S. z7...... 1,198 00 S. C.5 zc -' 3,770 co ( S.4m... .... r,yo3 ou C 7z ..... •1,703 0o ( S. ioc...... 1 754 ao P S. z3...... 1,017 00 (;S zl z,7o; ou l t.13 . ..... 2,444 00 (.'1.7z...... j 2,158 uo ( S,lor ...... 1,339 00 P S. zq.... 962 00 G.S 'a. I,-47 00 , (. S.44 ...... 1,nzz oo (. S.73.. ..... x,703 ro (.. 5. to2 ... ... 754 o , I.S. 3, ...... 998 oo (;.S. z3. I I,7=9 oo 1 (. S. 45...... 1,3 zo co (.. S. 7q,,...... 1,054 0. /toth st. Alad.av 3,458 00 1.'t 3r...... 780 00 . S. 14.... co (,. S. 45 ...... ~; G 3,471 z,600 0, ;..S. 79 ...... f z.oz8 0o I'. S. t ...... ' r :z;5 co 1'.S. 3z...... 75 4 O:, G. b. r5.... x,547 00 G. S. ¢6 (An.).. 533 00 (;. s. 76 ...... t,F:z5 co Y. S. s...... 67x1 oo P. .', 33...... x,045 co 7 ,,690 0o .. G. S.47...... A38 cc G.`:. 77...... 3,1-.9 cn P. S. 3 ...... I t,2o9 oo P.S. 14...... 53:3 00 (.ti 1 1,859 00 l S. 4d...... r,710 uO (3 5.78 2,171 oo P S. 4 ...... i z,z35 co 1 5. 35...... 1,x58 co (;. S d 1,8:9 u(, l S.49 ...... z 310 0o t S.79 z,z88 co P.S. 5...... toot oo 1 S. g6...... x,179 oo (i.5 1y 3 18' oo 1 S. o...... t, l ♦.8a 1,274 00 1'.ti 6..... .. r,z6t oo I S. .7.....;.. 1,547 oa li. S. ru. t, z9 oo (,. S. 5t...... t 576 00 („ 5. 8:....: ... 2,041 oo P.S. 7 ...... 1,351 ou I.S. 38...... t3; o0 l;. S.1x.... 1,430 co 1:. S. 5 sOo (.S 33 2,18 4 uc Y.S. 8.... ... 988 co 1'. ti. 39...... 897 00 (;.S 2011.. 1, c IL S. 0...... r 936y 4 II C 5,83 `,n - 5x3 0o i 1'. S. g. ...... I 1,287 00 1 S a o...... 1,430 ca 1 ;. S. 15.... 1,6;8 co l 5.54...... 2,9x1 o5 ( 1.84 ..I x,709 0o I S. to ... ...i 7,093 cO 1 S. 41 ...... 1,300 ou C.b. z4.... 8.g o: ( S. 5...... z,be5 0o ( S.8 g,o8t ..o 1 5. It...... 87, c I S. 41...... z,,o6 oa (;. S. z5.... ^,7;6 oo (. IS. 5`...... x,899 00 ( .8c (.-1n.)..i 754 co 1 S. 12 ...... 897 oo 1 S. 43 ...... 754 co ,. au.... t;. 1.859 ru l S. 57...... 2,184 co C S.86..... ..i 2,522 :o 1 S. z3...... (,u9 z oo I S. 44-~••••-~ 754 oo (i. ,. 27.... 1,6x1 oo ('. 3. 58...... r,gb3 00 l;. S. 87...... 1 2,r2o o:: P. S. 14...... t,t;t o:, P. ti. 4t (An.i.. 754 00 (;. S. z8.... zu.,z so 1.;. S. 5q...... x.755 00 (;. S. 88 ...... 1,305 co P. ti. t5...... 533 ao P.S. qg...... 754 00 1 G Say.... 1,677 00 '.6o (G. I) . I,5o6 0 ( S.87...... 1,171 o 1 S. t6...... t,o6 oo P.S. 46...... 2,547 00 C. S.3t.... x,3:1 co ( .6otP 1).. r5ec Co C, S.9o. .. 3.497 +o 1 5. 17.... ...I t,orz ao P.S. ¢7.. 1111 754 00 G. S. 3z. ... 5,223 0o C, `.6z...... 2,184 oo ( S.9x..... .. 1 1.493 n- li I S. 13. ...... I x,027 oo P.S. 48...... , 754 o0 l:. S.3... 1548 a _ $265,010 00

J)EDUCTIONS FROM ABOVE SCHEtULE, w1IE\ INCREASED CHARGES 11'ILL On].41N, NEw SCHOOLS I\" C.-URSE OF CONSTR('(:TION FOIZ \WHICH PRUVtaIUN IS MADE IiELO\\'. ~CHUOL. PF:IZ I(+ll. SA: AI: Y.

Estimated tine when increased payment will go into effect ...... G. :, :, :: S. z z months. $204 0o .. .. ,: ...... C; S. 1oz a • Szz oo 1111 ... ...... .. .... ... 1111 ... .. ...... .. ..i P. S. 45 4 " 231 o0 .. .< .. ...... 1111 . ... ...... 1111. ...... 1111. 5 q 280 co ...... ...... 1111 1111.. 1111.. G. 5. 6; z zzz 'o

1,964 00

Net...... ...... $063,046 00

AMMOUNT i NEl\' Nt'ILDINGS, Exi L•'N510s5, F.TC. 1~1?RIOD. I SALARI. A!110U NT.

Grammar School N o. t-Ilemtry street ...... ...... ...... $3,679 uo z months. 3566 00 (; rammar Scholl Nu. 34-Including Anncx ...... 1 2,119 co 4 •` 651 oo Net (;r0tnmar 5. tool No. 63 ...... 4,1-52 oo s •• 6x4 00 Grnminar School No. zoo--C ny Island ...... t,a 4 00 9 ' I,o6z oo ., St. Ann s avenuc ...... 3,783 0,) 4 1,,114 o0 y12t 21 x,1 et .md 1st avenue ...... 1111...... 1111...... 1,678 00 8 x,698 co 135th street and Cypress 0vcnn' : .... ...... 1,989 oo 8 '' ,,•a24 ou .. BedfordPark ...... ...... z.;t5 on 4 6ac oo Primary School N o.5-1 a.t 4tlt.u-cct ...... 1,840 oo 4 '' 568 uo I'rintary School N o.4o-88th st. eet, east portion...... ...... I 1,391 10 6 642 eO Ptm3ry School No.45-Mount Hope ...... 1,678 oo 4 814 00 9,604 0o Watchmen ~'. Old P,imary School N O.oS, East zoth street, present storeroom of the Board ...... $6so oo On new buildings, until appomtm•:nt of Janitor, eyu.il to one man-zo mo.. the at $so ...... : 2,000 00 r,6co oo

---$274,250 00 - .Salaries of "/eac/rers and •~'a uitm:c ire B~✓ 111x15 Si"kools. _ I ' Ward l'vening Schools: 27 Principals, at 54.50 per session ...... ..... 5121 50 367 '1'c:, It,:rs, at E9 per session ...... z,roz ce II 8 J.Inilors, at 52.b0 per sCssion ...... ...... 20 ho t9Janitors, at 5o. z5 ncr scs,tun ...... ...... 4z 75 I 9 'leachers: Vocal lfuac, at z5 cents per sessiou ...... 2 25

Co•t per sessio., ...... 1111 ...... .. ... I,z88 0 Numb, r of so'sioe during 90 ...... 1897, $115,947 -1 Cost of reg,Stra i.n of pupils in Ward h.vening Sehool21me1uding one new school ...... ...... 2,872 5o E5vcxti0ti Iii911 Sdr"uls: ...... 1-s- .i -F, i l II 3 P incipal5 v -6 per session ... ...... ...... ...... q 4 :. r, ,. .,I....,; 72 N'etmclterS, at-:4 per session ...... ...... ...... a8s ao I..o:3 J0unxntsi at 13. z5 per sesston ...... I~usrf !Loc6ap,.83 zIy. l 3 ...... 9 75 1 au s of 1 8'. ;- ..- 1111.. .. . _ ---._-- I.,~1-:4 1 xopt Cost per s a xon ...... ...... \1:.,: '. i Number of.-es00ns during r89L t:o ...... 11111111 ...... ...... 5315 75 .hap., ...... 1111. 1111. 890 00 iI„i C tit of registration of pup.ls m f?vcning Hig') Schuols ...... 37, ...... 957 5o 1 'r Adutmno.al l[,stiucturs, to at $4 per session, for tzo sessions ...... ...... Additional: 4,800 00 'l'52 establish new school for Seniors (male' z Prim ipal :rt 44.30 per s s,iou : ...... ::,:::.:..::..:..:...:: l) :6 'fcaelters, at 3 p_r ...... :: 44 So session ...... ...... q8 oo z Janitor, al c,.6o per session ...... 2 60 Costper session ...... ::.,.:....,...... ,:,11..1.1...... 10 N umber of s: ssions during $55 1897, 90...... ...... I I II Cost of rea,trati„n ...... 4,959 00 ...... ...... t3, ao I f F'ur coi,tingenc,es and increased attendance ...... 2.443 0 177,000 co - t7o,co0 00 A decrease of...... ...... $7,coo 00 N(,T-'1'ese are provided o teach new subjects to be added to the course of study and to provide classes for students formerly in attendance at the Central F:vei,ing High Oclioul, which has been discontinued. i Salaries tf C cer.r Clerks, and otlaer R31tp/$ec of the Board of L'ducation ICe:C t annual pay-roll ...... 1111.. ]saws n1 ,881, chap. 410 ; $5x,43 Laws of 1896, chap. 389 5) • •. • • • • • •. • • . AoditioOal : 1 So Four Patrol Inspectors, at $I,aco per annum..--...... :hool ...l.i g Manual, edition ...•1895, ...... 4,800 w Clerical help, includ,ug '1'ypewr.ter in o•uce of Superintendent of S:tool Buildings ...... ...... sec 6...... , •:...... 1,767 5o An increase of ...... 58,000 00 1 *51,174 6o 1'( ...... 6a-t t.l ...1 174.60,...... 11 11 . $6,825.40 i Jriginal appropi 10x100, .y;¢y,7oo ; transfer, Sz,474.6u-total, $5t,ryq,6o.

Laws of 1882, chap. 4m ; Salaries of the Board of School Suj8erinlexmiens. Laws of 169"•1 chap. 387 ; S ...... 1111 City Superintendent ...... Mann..:, edition x856. J1 Assistant S. ipermtendent ...... 1111.."...... $7,500 00 secs. 6, 7. 8, 9...... Assistant Superintendents-z5 at $4,00 5,000 00 0 per annum ...... 60,00.] 00 *$57,411 zo An increase of ...... $15,087. 8o 72,500 0o * Original appr:priation, $52,124.97 ; 'Transfer, $;,287.23-Total, $57,4:2 20. Non F.-The title of this appropriation is changed from `• Salaries of City Superintendent and Assistants," in order to conform to designation in new sch, of act.

HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER T 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD . 2541

APPROPRIA7ioNti PROVISIONS Of LAW. AI•P HUI

L,«s of r882, chap. 410; ( Enlorcrmeni aof the Act, drafter 671, Lagos of 1894, entitled "An Act to Provide far the Cmnful,ory Educaltan f Children.' Laws of 1 Salaries 894, chap. 67r ; g t1!!endance (7/Jfcers, and Jnr /lee Eslublisle nent and _Wsi/eManee of Schools or Classes parsursr,t to nedion 9 of cttaptet 671, Laws of 1894. Manual, edition r895, }, ...... 20 Attend. nce Officers, $r,zoo per annum ...... ...... ...... $24,000 00 secs. 18,1, ...... I I Establishment and Maintenance of Schools or Classes ...... 40,E oo 1 564,000 oc, $65,000 00 A decrease of...... ...... ...... e ...... s l ...... ,.,...... $1,000.00 ($4o 000 alto we d for truant schools last year, unused, and will be relinquished ) ( Support of the Xartttcal Sc/tool-Wages, Current Expenses, Repairs, etc. Salaries- Superintendente $1,500 00 Executive Officer ...... 1,500 00 Senior Instructor...... '...... ,..... ..,...... ,...... 1,o;o co Junior Instructor ...... ...... 8o0 on Surgeon and Instructor ...... r,000 on Laws of 1882, chap. 4ro;J - $6,3oo no Laws of 18g6, Chap. 387 ; Crew, zz men, at $68o per month ...... 8,x60 00 secs. 1068, 1070, to7 r ...... • $[4,460 on and Io7z; Manual, edi- Provisions, etc.-5 Officers, at $r Pp er daY ...... ...... ...... ...... $r,8z5 W tiun 1899, secs. 185-188. 56222 Crew and 8o boys-loo, at, say, 23 cents per day ...... 90 8, Water, drags, etc ...... ...... S6z Io 10,950 co Repairs, shipchandlery, etc.-Ropes, blocks, hardware, tools, nautical instruments and repairs of, sail elcth, paint, oil, varnish, lumber, etc...... 3,coo no Wharfage and docking ...... 250 00 Piloting and towing ...... ISO 00 Summer cruise ...... ...... ... . s,5co 00 Contingencies ...... 500 00 ;r,8to 00 32,810 00 No increase. ( Rents of School Premises, and Premises Na, 16o and r66 Elm Street far Annexes to the flail of the Board s/ Education. Rent of buildings now leased, and which will be required in 1897: 1 WARD. I SCHOOLS---- LOCATION I A NNUAL RENT, II Primary School No. 5...... 624 Fifth street ...... ...... I $1,500 on :3 Grammar School No.4 Annex 7x-73 Pitt street ...... ~~ 1,100 00 12 Primary School No.23...... 263-5 West 124th street ...... 5, 000 co xz Grammar School No. 57...... 171 East It4th street ...... , r,roo 00 12 Primary School No. 3...... 509-17 East Roth street ...... I 3,950 00 22 Grammar School No, 46...... 155th street and Loth avenue ...... I 2,8~o no 12 Gr.,mmar School No. 39...... 230 East rz5th Street...... ...... I z,000 on 13 Primary School No. 4o...... Ioz Norfolk street...... ...... 350 00 Laws of 1881, chap. 4 ;1 13 Grammar School No. 34...... 25 Sheriff street ...... r,2oo co 10 Annex Hall, Board of Education..... Laws of 1896, chap. 387 ,. 160 Elm street ...... 'i x,700 00 Manual edition, 1895, . 166 Elm street ...... 8co on secs. t8, z3 ...... ) 19 Primary School No. 17...... East 77th street ...... 7.oOO 00 24 Grammar School No. ro:..... City Island ...... .... ...... .... .. r8o co 23 Grammar School No.85...... r4zd street and Brook avenue ...... 1,000 on rz Grammar School No,95...... x3-r7 East ra5th street ...... 5,000 co 22 Primary School 7s o. z8 ...... 179-81 East rz4th street ...... 23 Primary School No. 44 ...... Springhurst ...... i 3 7720 00 12 Primary School No'q...... yyth street and zd avenue ...... I 3,800 00 is Primary School No. 19 ...... 135th street and 6th avenue ...... 4,0o0 0o 12 .. .. ...... ...... \ladison Hall, IzSth street...... 4,Soo 00 rz Grqmmar$chool No. 83 Annex 225 East rioth street ...... I,000 00 23 Primary School No. 43 Annex 599 East 140th street ...... ...... ...... I,800 no 24 1 Grzmtmar 6c000l No. 64 Annex Suburban street and Webster avenue ...... 780 00 $56.130 o.t Allow for additional buildings ti be leased in 1897, same amount as allowed for 1896 ...... Taxes, assessments, etc...... 5,500 00 ...... ...... ...... 2,500 00 66,370 00 Adecrease of ...... -- 63.r3o at .... ... ...... .... ...... 73,140 Fuel for all the ,Y hosts and the flail of the Board of Education. Lacs of 1881, chap. 4co; 1 I 24,294 tons of coal, at g4.5o per ton (estimated cost) ...... ...... laws of 1896, chap. 387 $109,323 00 ...... { 804 cords of wood, at $8 per cord (estimated cost) ...... llanaal, edition 1895 Weighers' wages, two, at $8o per month ...... 6,432 o:, Ices. 8r, 8s, 84...... 1,920 00 Repairing and removing scales ...... ...... Removing coal and wood Coo Ott ...... 200 00 118, 212,342 96 Anincrease of ...... $6,132.04 -- 475 w Laws of r8 8z cha ro Gas and outer methods of Ligltting for all the Schools and the Hall of the Board of Education. P• 4 t te Laws of 1596.9 i chap.P 38 7 , Es ima d1 expenditureexP en d for r89 6, viz. the whop appropriation ...... .. ...... ...... ...... .... ..... \Ian uel, edition r8y5, Additional : $4-,.100 co 1 secs. r8, 741-... • • • • •.. For new schools and annexes 'to be opened in latter part of 18.76), for full year of 1897 ; also new schools, etc., to be opened during 1897 ...... Forlectures-new locations ...... 2,000 00 1,000 00 - . - - 45,000 00 42,000 00 An increase of ...... ...... $3,000 Sujf,'lies-Books, 11aps, Slates, Stationery, etc., for the use of all the Schools. Estimated expenditures for 1896, viz.. the whole appropriation ...... ~ 8234,270 00 Now SCHOOLS To BE OPENED IN 1897• New Building in East 88th street- Ten class rooms for grammar pupils, 6o to a room, 6co at $4. 25 ...... $2,550 00 Ten class rooms for primary pupils, 6o to a room, boo at $1.25 ...... 750 00 Annex to Grammar School No. 37, East 87th street- 3,300 00 x class rocins for grammar pupils, 6o to a room, Si 360 at $4.25 ...... $1,530 00 Six class rooms for pr maiy pupils, no to a room, 360 at $r.z5 ...... 450 00 New Building, St. Ann's avenue, 147th and 148th streets- 1,980 00 Twenty-four class rooms for grammar pupils, 6o to a room, 1,44o at $4.25 ...... $6,I2o 00 Twenty-four class rooms for primary pupils, 6o to a room, 1,440 at $1.25 ...... i,8 no New Building on Anthony and Tremont avenues- 7.920 00 Eleven class rooms for graatmar pupils, 6o to a room, 66o at $4.25 ...... $2,805 00 Ten class rooms for primary pupils, be to a room, less 300 to be transferred from old school, 300 at $1.25 ...... 375 OD New Building, Bedford Park- 3,180 00 en class rooms for grammar pupils, 6o to T a room, boo at $4.25 ...... $1,550 00 Ten class rooms for primary pupils, 6o to a room, 600 at $r.z5 ...... 750 00 Laws of ,881, chap. 4to;~ New Building, Primary School No. 5, East 4th street- 00 00 Laws of 1896, chap. 387 ; 3,3 Laws of 1895, chap.2o4i; Eighteen class rooms for primary pupils, 6o to a room, r,o8o, less 600 transferred from present building, 480 at $1.25 ...... $600 on Laws of x895, chap. zzz ; Annex to Primary School No.39, 13ronxdale- 600 no .Manual, edition 1895,1 One class room for primary pupils, 6o to a room, 6o at Sr.25 ...... secs.80-93 ...... $75 00 Annex to Grammar School No. 34, Broome street- 75 00 'Chree class rooms for grammar pupils, 6o to a room, 18o at $1.25 ...... Three class rooms for primary pupils, 6o to a room, =8o $765 o- at ..... ...... 765 00 New School Building, City Island- 990 00 Three class rooms for grammar pupils, 6o to a room, Izo at $4.25 ...... $Sr5 Three class rooms for primary pupils, 6o to a room, 6o at $I.z5 ...... 75 00 00 To complete the substitution ct pencils and paper for slates and slate pencils ...... 590 ...... 2,500 00 MANUAL TRAINING AND COOKING. Workshops-6 at $55o, benches and tools...... ...... Kitchens-6 at $350 each and supplies for year ...... " 3.300 00 2,100 00 Supplies required for six Male Departments for year t897-Drawing board, compasses, clay, etc., $375 each...... Supplies required for six Female Departments for year 2897-Modeling board, sewing material, etc., o at $aro each...... 2,250 00 Kindergartens-zo at 5250 each (itrcluding supplies for first year) ...... r,s6o no ...... 5,000 00 PHYSICAL EXERCISE. For establishment and maintenance in additional schools ...... 3,500 00 RENEWAL OF FLAGS. Amount required for 7897 (chap. 222, Laws of 1895( ...... •...... 2,500 00 PHYSIOLOGY BOOKS. For books on alcoholics (chap. 1041, Laws of 1895) ...... $1 , 4 * $269,271 00 An increase of...... I,000 00 $IO,345 00 279,616 00 * The appropriations for " Supplies, etc.," $234,271, and " Purchase of Text Books, Alcoholic Drinks, etc„" $3S,000, are here consolidated, latter being in the nature of supplies. the Libraries. Laws of 1892, chap. 573 • • 12,437 66 United States Deposit Fund, apportioned by the State of New York to the City of New York for 1896...... No incroase, 12,437 67 It is believed that it will be necessary to appropriate a slightly larger figul e than the above, in order to obtain from the State the full amount due the Cit of New York, but inasmuch as the apportionment by the State will not occur until after the consideration of the Provisional Estimate, the above fYgures are inserted, to be amended on receipt of the necessary informatics from the State Department of Education, which will be before the passage of the Final Estimate. some time Laws of .882, chap. 4ro;~ Incidental Expenses of the Board of Education. Laws of x896, chap. 387; ((( ...... Estimated expenditure for 1896, viz., the whole appropriation ...... Manual, edition 1895, Additional to meet the increasing demands upon the fund for printing and incidental expenses due to the abolition of the trustee system ...... $22,500 00 sec. r8...... J 2,500 00 25,000 00 22,500 00 An increase of ...... $2,500.00 I Laws of 1882, chap, 410; Laws of x886, chap. 309; Laws of 2887, chaps. 119, 240, 341 ; Laws of 1889, ...... Incidental Expenses of the Evening, Schools. chap. 34; Laws of 1896, Estimated expenditure for 2896, viz., the whole appropriation ...... chap. 387 ; Manual, I 2,500 00 No addition for 1897 is asked, """""" r,5oo uo editficn 1895, secs. 158, 282 ...... General Rrftair Fund. 2omprising the following : (a)Incidental Expenses of Schools-Repairs ...... • $67,146 ao (b)Bui.dings Contingent Fund ........ (c) Sanitary Work, Changes and Repairs of...... . •"" 57,800 co ' 5-12 THE CITY RECORD f IIU1tsDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

A PP K' 'PR I ATIONS - -- - - _ - -I ESTIMATES I.S'' A I'I'ROI'it F,,It 1896. IION. FOR 1807.

ld) Repairs to Buildings ...... :...... ...... • St9Q,253 00 (e) Heating Apparatus-Changes and Repairs of, etc ...... I...... 38,956 50 5484,062 coo 1 he amounts appropriated for tl.e above purposes for the year 1896 aggregated ...... $505,900.00 'I he aggrrgate decrease from tF9fi is ...... zr,838.00 Nora.-In the interests of simpli,ity, it is strongly recommended that all Repair Funds be consolidated under the one head of "General Repair Fund " ; but in order to 'pecifically show the details and purposes of the proposed expenditures, the funds are separately stated, in accordance with the met) od of former year, as follows ( (a) Incidental Expenses of Schaols-Repairs. Computed per by-laws

No. r,000 ~ --- No. r,000 ------No. r,000 S?UARE SQUARE SQUARE SCHOOL. KATE. AMOUNT. SCHOOL. RATE. AMOUNT. SCHOOL, RATE'. A%:OUNT• F Eli't' i FEEr FEET SUHh ACE. j SURFACE. SURFACE.

G., F. r.... z8 /r~ $rz co !!339 co (;. 5. 53.... 5r/ar $12 00 --$615 00 G. S. xoz.... 4 frz oo 657 00 G. S. 2.... 51% t2 tO 615 co (',.S. 54--.. 6 %3 I Iz ou 789 co I t,9th st., rz co q3o 00 G. S. 3 .... rz co 516 co G.S. 55.. 31/ 12 00 381 c0 111ad'n ay.{ 77 s G. S. 4 ....j 46 12 CO 952 co ' G. S. 56.. ,.1 34 rz co 408 co P. S. r... u9/( IC co 351 00 G. S. 5 ...•. 86 I rz oo 1,032 00 G.S. 57•. . 563 tz co 675 co P. S. z.... 13j 12 oo 165 00 G. S. 6•... 72 12 CO 864 co (i.S. 58...• 453 rz 00 549 co P. S. 3 ...• 20 Iz CO 240 00 G. S. 7.... 6u54 rz 00 750 CO ~ i G.S. 59.... 40% rz 00 483 CO P. S. 4 . ... zz% Iz oo 273 CO G. S. 8....1 34 rz oo 417 00 G•^. 6o•••. 32 rz Cr 384 00 P. S. 5•,••' I43/y rz 00 177 00 G. '. 9 ....1 6ara rz oo 747 00 P. 1). fo.,.. 23 % tz co z8z oo P. S. 6....i r9 12 00 23! 00 G. S. to.... 93 ry co 996 00 (.S. 6r••,• 59Y4 rz 00 721 00 P. S. 7•... 25 12 00 300 00 G. S. II.•.. 37!. 12 co 450 00 G.S. 62•... 9534 Iz 00 1,146 00 P. S. Si r5 Iv oo 18000 G. S. rz.... 3z4 rz os 390 00 G.S. 63•,.. 28 rz 00 336 00 P. S. q ....l za 12 00 264 00 G. S. t3...., 36Y4 1 tz 00 441 co G.S. 64•... 38 4 rz co 465 0o I P. S. to. ... 19 12 co 2z8 00 G• S.rq..... 74?4 rz co 897 00 U.S. 65..., zo% rz oo 243 00 P. S. rt.... t6y rz 00 j zor 00 G. S. u .... 32 y:- ! rz 00 390 00 " G.S. 66.... ~6 % 12 00 435 00 P. S. so...,'I 14% t2 00 174 00 G. S. 16•.•. 38 to 00 156 00 j G.S. 67.... 62X Iz o0 753 00 1 P. S. 13...., r8% i rz oo 222 00 G. S. r7.... 424 rz oo 520 00 I (,S. 68,... 4r% tz oo Sot Co P. S. rq, ...1 27 s2 oo 204 CO G. S. r8.... 42 % rz 00 510 00 ' G.S. 6q..., 55 Iz co 66o ,.o P. S. t5.... q% rz 00 66 oo V. S. rg.. ., 76ii 12 oo 915 co i G.S. 70.... 47 12 00 564 oa . P. S. r6....j 27 12 oo 324 00 G, S. 20.... 4014 rz 00 483 00 G.``. 71.... 33% rz 00 402 00 1'. S. t7 .... 32'y 12 co 387 00 I.. v.n of l,.ai, Thal.. 410; 1 G. S. 2..... 31 rz 00 378 co L G.S. 70.... 5e% 12 co 675 00 ' P. S. 18.,.. 1 27% 12 oo 207 CO Laws of r0,6. chap. 87 ; G. S. 22....' 474 ra co 570 00 (.S. 73.... 35% rz 00 426 oo P. S. i....,' u44 rz 00 294 00 Manual, edition 1895. G. S. 23 575 12 co 693 00 : G.S. 74.... 58% Iz o0 7C5 00 P. S. zo....; r4% r2 00 j 174 co ec'. 3t. ( 4 -• ...... G. 3. 24 .... r7% 12 00 2O 00 , G.S. 75...• 45 % rz o0 546 co P. S. 21...•[ 35'/u 12 co 42600 G. S. 25....1 6A % rz oo 822 oc G,S. 76.... 44Y rz 00 531 00 I'. S. .a....i1 401% zz co 483 CO G. S. 26. •.. ;i 43 10 00 516 co ~ G.S. 77• • • • 70% 12 co 846 oo 1'. S. 23.... 25% rz co 306 00 G• S. 27.... 32 % Ia 00 390 00 (i.S. 78.... 5o 12 co 600 00 P. S. 24.... r4% rz co 174 CO G. S. z8.... 47% ra o0 567 00 ' G.S. 79...• 45% rz 00 546 00 . P. S. z5..., 27 % 12 00 330 CO G. S. 29..., 25% rz CO 306 oo G.S. 80.... 17% rz oo 007 00 P. S z6....1 03Y Iz co 279 00 G. S. 3t.... 25 12 00 300 00 t. S. 8z...• 37 rz 00 444 00 P. S. z7.... zz 12 oo 264 00 G. S. 3z.... 50 % to co 603 oo G. S. 83.... 5o3z rz co to6 oa I P. S. 28...-, so rz oo 240 00 G. S. 33•... 644 Iz oo 774 00 Annex 83. .. 5 rz 00 6o oo P. S. z9... r5'/4 to oo 183 co G. S. 34••.. 4o 12 00 480 00 G.S. 84.... 48/y1 12 00 579 co P. S. 30.... 16 12 co 192 00 G. S. 35•.•• 34% rz 00 414 0o j G.S. 85.... 74 is rz ao P94 co P. S. 31.... r6 rz oo sqz 00 G. S.36.... 38% 12 00 459 00 j Annex 85•., to Iz co 120 00 Ij P. S. 32.... 7 L tz 00 8400 G. S. 37.... 6r% rz 00 735 00 G. S. 86.... 6t rz o0 73z oo P. S. 33•. . r8 rz ou 3s6 00 G. S. 38.... 34% tz co 411 cO G.S. 87,.., t7% rz 00 8ro 0o j P. S. 34.... 7% 12 00 87 00 G. S.39 42 12 00 5e400 G.S. 88.... r5 rz oo 660 oo P. S. 12 00 519 co Annex 39...1 7% 12 00 90 00 j G.S. 89.•. 5034 12 00 6o6 co P. S. 36.... 2CY 12 oo 249 00 G. S. 40.... 363. rz oo 435 00 G.S. 90. •.• 87 12 on 1,044 CO P. S. 37. . . .j ICJ 12 oo Ia6 oo G. S. 41•... 38 rz co 465 00 G.S. 91•••• z64 rz oo 321 00 ...i P. S. 38....', r4.;,', rz 00 177 00 G. S. 42„ •. 38 to 00 456 00 G.S. 9z..., 4 8 rz o0 57 6 oo P. S. 39••••' 4%tt Iz oo 42 co G. S. q3.. .. 53% rz o0 645 00 G.S. y3.... 75 rz co 900 00 Y. S. qo.... ¢4~ ~, rz co zgr 00 G. S. 44...• 33Y rz 00 405 00 II G.S. 94.... 48 rz 00 5;6 oo P. S. 4r....I 33% rz 00 399 00 G. S. 45.... 34 rz CO 408 00 G.S. 95.... 153. tz oo 183 00 P. S. 4z..... 353 s2 oo 423 00 G. S. 4n.... 6443 Iz o0 777 00 G.S. 96.... 87 12 oo 1,044 00 P. S. 43.... 8 1 ra co g6 oo Annex 46 8 rz oo 96 co G.S. 97..., 24% 12 00 294 ro P. S. 44.... lz rz 00 144 00 G. S. q7.... 34 zz 00 408 00 Annex 97... z5 rz oo 07 00 Annex 44•.. 8 12 00 96 00 G. S. 48.... 38 1200 4(z co . G.S. 98 r6 rz oo I92 co Y. S. 45....1 6 1200 7200 G. S. 49., . 54g 12 00 651 co C. S. 5g.... 8 to oo g6 oo P. S. 46•••, 30 zz CO 360 00 G. S. 5o....I 344 rz oo qrq co G. s'. roo.. .. rod rz co rzg oo P. S. 47.• ..I 5 rz oo 6o 00 G. S. 5r....t 44Y, rz 00 531 00 I G. S. rya...• 3tX Iz co 38: oo P. S. 48 .... 4 12 00 4800 G. S. 5z.... t3 rz oa 156 co $67,146 00 67,597 00 A decrease of ...... ..... .....1451.00 Law, of 1582, ,. ha1.. 4x0; Laws of 1896, chap. 387 ; 11 (b) Builain,eu (be/rag-end Pund. 170 buildings at $340 each. This is an average al:owance of 585 for each of the following-named contingent items, viz, Manual, edition 1895, Repairs to buildings, furniture, heating and sanitary apparatus in each of the r7o buildings ...... sees. 67, 68, 69 ...... 7,800 00 57,800 00 No increase.

Laws of 1882, chap. Oro; c) Sanitary 6Vork, Changes and Reparrs q/. Laws of .896, chap. g87 ; 1 Repairs, etc., per detailed statement following...... •...•••••••.•...... ,•.••..... -•...••.•....•.•,••.,.•• ...... •,••..,...... -... 51r3,925 DO Manual, edition u8g S, r 1 Draughtsmen ...... 2,756 co secs. e3, 4s, 6. , (;, • • , .. Inspectors . ...... ...... 4,225 50 140,651 00 A decrease of ...... ...... $ 9,744.50 W r2o,go6 5,,

The following statement contains the details of the estimate

SCHOOL. I NATURE OF WORK. I AAIGUNT. SCHOOL. I NATURE OF WORK. I AMOI'NT

G. S. 2 Raise water-pipes and house tank ; one new water G. S. t8 Pupils' closets and urinals in yards; concrete cellar', closet for teachers repair drains ...... $1,875 co and drain ...... i 5,600 oc G. S. 3 3'yphon on girls' and boys' water-closets; rebuild G. S. 6g General repairs ...... ...... ...... ; zoo oc slate urinals ; raise and protect water-pipes; new G. S. 70 Remove primary girls' ce crete yard...... , 5, o oc soil-pipe and teachers' water-closet ...... 800 oo G. S. 7t General repairs...... rco oc G. S. 4 New water-closet for boys in east yard ; concrete G. S. 7z ...... I loo oa cellar ; raise water-pipes ...... 3,500 co G.S.733 Soo cc G. S. 5 General repairs ...... rob 00 G. S. 74 ...... .I rob cc 6 Syphons for pupils' closets ...... G. S. .• 500 00 G. S. 75 ...... ~ rob oc G.S. 7 ...•...... •....••..• 600 0o G. S. 77 " ...... I zco oc G. S. 8 New water-closet for teachers; repairs to waste- G. S. 78 " aoo oa pipes, etc ...... I...... • r,,,00 00 G. S. 79 New water-closet and urinals in yard for boys • , .... 7,500 oa G. S. 9 General repairs ...... roo 00 G. S. So Build trap-pit and vent new water-closet ; skylights L. S. so ...... rob 00 in girls' closet ..... ...... 1,500 oe G. S. it Drinking sinks,...... .... ...... ...... 850 00 G. S. 8z General repairs...... • ...... too 00 G. S. rz Two drains and repairs to girls' water-closet ...... • 1,500 00 G. S, 84 t, ...... ...... •... .. .. .. •.. f00 OO G. S. 13 Concrete cellar ; raise water-pipes ; new closet in G. S. 85 " ..... ... ...... .... zoo 00 yard for girls and drinking sinks for pupils...... 5,700 00 G. S. 86 Repair Grammar boys' urinal ...... .. 65o 00 G. S. 14 Five syphons for pupils' closets ; repairs to plumbing G. S. 87 General repairs ...... • rob 00 of entire building ; new urinal flush trough .... • 6,a00 Go G. S. 88 " ...... .... ..... ...... • zoo co General repairs ...... G. S. r6 „ rob 00 G. S. 89 Reset urinals in Primary boys' closets ...... 700 00 G. S. r7 ...... •.. zoo 00 G. S. gr B'iild pupils' closets in yards ...... • 3,coo 00 G. S. r8 " ...•.• ..• „ zoo co G. S. gz General repairs ...... • zoo 00 G. S. 19 ...... •.... ...... • zoo co G. S.93 ...... • zoo co G. S. or Concrete cellar; ne.v water closet for teachers; G. S. 9q ...... .-,••..••...... ••..•. zao 00 build vault under girls' water-closet and vent G. S. 95 " ...... Boo 00 traps; drain area ...... 6co 0o G. S. 96 •.... .•• ...... •..• rob 00 G. S. sz Syphons on girls' water-closet ; repairs ...... .. 4~Soo 00 G. S. 97 Pupils' closets in yards ...... 3,5co 00 U. S. 23 Five syphon attachments ; new flush trough for Annex, Water supply ...... ...... • 450 Oe urinals; new water supply ...... r,5oo 00 G. S. 98 Connect to sewer in street ; repair fixtures ; water G. S. 24 General repairs ...... rob 00 supply ...... .... .. ...... ...... 1,500 co . S. z6 ...... 200 G .. 00 G. S. gg Pupils' closets in cards and water supply ...... • z,5oo oo G. S. 27 ...... ..... ... .. ... .. . 200 00 G. S. too Introduce water from street for hydrants...... G. S. z8 New water-closet in yard for girls and drinking sinks• 4,200 00 P. S. t General repairs...... 5co 00 G. S. z9 General repairs ...... ...... zco 00 P. S. 2 " •..•....••••.••,• „ ...... too ou G. S. 31 Water-closet in yard for girls ...... 3,000 00 P• S• 3 .• • ..... .... ...... ...... loo ca G. S. 32 General repairs ...... • zoo 00 P• S. 4 Syphons in pupils' water-closet; repair urinals.. •.. 800 co G. S.33 ...... •...... • zoo 00 P. S. 6 General repairs ...... • coo co (;, S. 35 New water-closet for pupils in east side yard...... 2,900 00 P• S. 7 „ ...... 5o 00 G. S. 36 New urinals in yard for boys ...... • 600 co P.S. t1 ." G. S. 37 General repairs ...... zoo 00 P. 5. g ...... •..I.. ...... roo 00 G. S. 338 ...... ...... coo 00 P. S. to .... ...... 100 00 G S• 39 " ...... zoo 00 P. S. 13 Syphon attachments and drinking troughs ...... • 5eo 00 Annex...... .. ..... ...... ...... coo 00 P. S. 14 General repairs...... epairs ...... coo 00 G, S. 41 Concrete cellar; six syphon attachments to water- P. S. rs ...... Too co closets and yard drain ...... 6,5oo 00 P. S. r6 ...... coo 00 G. S. 42 General repairs ...... ..... ... .. ... Boo 00 P. S• 07 New urinals, new trap, vault ; syphons on boys' and G. S. 43 Rebuild boys' urinals and change fresh air inlet; girls' water-closets, outside and under building; furnish new traps and cleaning screws on main valves on drain in cellar ...... 3,000 00 drain to replace defective traps; new water. P. S. r8 General repairs ...... zoo co closet and wash basin for teachers...... t,cou 00 P. S. ao " coo oo G, S. 45 General repairs ...... • rco co P. S. at Build vault from boiler- room• to below pupils' closets 1,000 oo G. S. 46 Vent water-closet and urinal traps, pupils' water- P. S. zz General repairs ...... coo 00 closet ...... 500 00 P. S. 24 ...,••• ...... •...... loo 00 G. S. q7 General repairs ...... „ =oo 00 P. S. z6 .......... ...... ........ ...... coo 00 G. S, 48 ••.••,•••...... •....•..•••••... loo 00 P. S. z7 ' ...... •...... ••••....•...... 5o 00 G• S. qg " ...... ...... zoo 00 P. S. z8 .' coo 00 (G. S. 5r New drains and fresh air inlets; concrete and P. S. 29 New water-closets and urinals for pupils in yards; asphalt floor ...... • 5oo 00 concrete yards and cellar ...... • 3,800 00 G. S. 5z New closets in yard for pupils ...... • e,7oo 00 P. S. 30 Concrete cellar and ventilate same ...... z,coo co G. S. 53 Remodel girls' water-closet ...... 2,500 00 P. S. 33 General repairs ...... coo 00 G. S. 54 General repairs ...... zoo 00 P. S• 34 ...... .... I...... too 00 G. S. 55 20000 P. S. 35 " ...... coo oo G. S• 57 •' ...... •,.. zoo 0o P. S.36 " ...... • too 00 G. S. 58 .... .... .. .... ... ..... ...• rco 00 P• S. 38 " ...... too oo G. S. 59 Pupils' water-closet, east side yard and drain; new P. S. 40 ...•,•••,•••..-..•.....••....•.•.•. 100 00 wash basins concrete cellar ...... 4,600 00 P. S. 40 ...... too 00 G. S. 6o General repairs ...... coo 00 P. S. 44 Repairs to pupils' closets ...... Soo oo G. S. 6r •...... ...... , zoo 00 P. S. 46 General repairs ...... aoo 00 G. S. 64 ...... .. ...... ...... zoo 00 P. S. 47 New vaults and closets for pupils ...... ..... s,600 00 G. S. 65 Pavement in playroom and drinking sinks...... r,5co 00 P. S. 48 New closets for pupils ; repairs to well and pump G. S. 66 General repairs ...... too 00 for same . ...... z,600 oo G. S. 6, ...... 300 00 Irrt,n2q 00

'I IIURSDAY, SN,P'I'rMUR 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD. 2543

ESTIMATE. A PPROI`R I Al' IONS APPROI'RIATtON. --- PROVISIONS OF LAW. FOR 1896. FOR 1897.

Three Inspectors, 31- days. at 54.50 each ...... •• ...... ...... $4,225 80 Draughtsman, 52 weeks. at $2q..o ...... 5,555.. 1,300 00 93600 52 •• ! e.on ...... 52 '' xo.ox...... I...... 52000 $6,98. 50

Iota] ..... ...... 5120,906 5', i !A) A'1,4airs to Buildings. Laws of 1882, chap. 410; 1 Repairs, per detailed statement following ...... ...... 6189,915 0, Laws of 2896, chap. 387 ; ' Cement Inspector:, 313 days at 54...... I ...... •...... 5.5...... 5..5...... 1,252 a, Manual, edition r895, secs. General Inspectors, 4 o 313 days at $4.50 per i lay ...... 5,634 Sill ...... 2,392 o0 23, 42, 6z, 63 ...... . Draughtsm,:u, 52 weeks at 946 'total salary fir thr_e) ...... $199.253 co 4203,418 00 Adecrease of ...... ...... 41,.65 m The following statement contains the details of the above estimate :

SCHOOL. NATURE OF WORK. AMOUNT. II SCHOOL. j NA I IRE OF WORK. ASIOUNT.

G. 5. r I General repairs... . g p $roo2 co U S. 70 ' New sidewalks, floors, wind ,ws, painting ...... $3,275 00 G. S. 2 Repairs to r.-thn s, doors, steps, windows, walls, G S. 71 New floors, painting, repairs, etc., iron stairs...... ; 3,700 00 ceilingss and aintin ... ... ...... ...... r, oo oo G. S. 72 New pavements, fence walls, sin IC steps, repairs,' G. S. 3 Repairs rerof,pairs i carp enter work .... 65. 00 ...... 3,525 00 G.S. 4 }tepairs to roofs,paintingand paing and carpenter-work:::::: 650 CO Ij G. S. 73 New ppainting, s„ stallstalls, `'tairs ...... 3, Sco 00 G.S. 5 General repairs ...... zoo oo Ij G.S. 74 ! Repairs, pain Ling, stone steps, et: ...... 1,5oo, 00 .. (.i.S. 6 ..... .... ... 5uo CO i (e. S. 75 I General repa,r.;...... 2:a 00 G.S. 7 Repairs to roofs, gates, plaster-work, windows, G.S. 76 I New floors, stone steps, pamtiug, outside stairs..... I,5oo 02 G.S. 77 painting ...... x,775 00 New floors, painting, repair,, etc...... '. 3.355 G G. S. 8 New floors, windows and p,inting ...... r,5oo no G. S. 78 New fliers, repairs, painting...... ! 3,100 00 G. S. ro General repairs ...... aoo 0o G• S. 79 I Relaying flagging, pavements, new sesf,, doors,' G. S. rz Repairs to brick wall and painting, new floors and painting. etc ...... 2,735 00 concrete play-r„ours ...... z,000 0o (;. S. So General repair,...... 5 465 00 G. S. rz New floors and r pairs ...... Soo oo v S. 8z New Ilrors, metal ceiling<, painting ...... 2,500 00 G. S. 13 New floors, rep sirs and painting ...... 2,`145 00 Ii • S• 83 New t10"rs, stone steps, painting, etc...... 1,485 00 G.S. r4 Fireproof a portion of main stairs, new floors, stone I G. S. 84 General repairs ...... 2oo 00 ,. steps, pam Hng, etc ...... 2,465 oo G.S. 85 ! , ...... 500 00 G. S. r5 New floors and repairs ...... 1,000 o, G.S. ae, i Repaip rs and paatntinintin g~ 01 woodwork, ruo's, nnewew 5floors,'0 5., G. S. x6 General repairs ...... 350 00 I pavements, general repairs ...... 2,500 00 G. S. 07 General repair,, painting, pavements ...... z,5w oo ('. S. 87 General repairs...... 200 CO G. S. r8 Fircpruofiug a portion of main stairs, metal ceilings, G. S. 88 ' Repairs and pamting of woods ok, windows and! painting, new sash, etc ...... z,tco on stairway...... :...... , 1,000 00 G. S. 19 Fir5proofiug a portion of main stairs, metal ceilings, G. S. 89 New floors, stone steps, painting ...... x,425 00 painting, new sash, etc ...... 2,800 on U. S. yo Repairs to walls, roofs, pavements, etc ...... 2,500 00 G. S. ao General repairs, painting, ctc ...... t,415 00 lG.S. 9r General repairs...... aoo co G. S. 21 Paint walls ano ceilings, wood-work, repair iron G. S. 92 Repairs and paintings of walls, ceilings and roots.... a,000 on stairs ...... o,000 co G.S. 93 General repairs...... eoo 00 G. S. zz Iron stair;, metal ceilings, repairs to stairs, paint- (3• S. 94 Painting of walls and stairways ...... 50) 00 11g. etc ...... 1,700 , G.S. 95 General repairs...... ...... zoo 00 G. S. e3 Repairs to roof, plastering, windows, panting, etc.. 875 oo G. S. 96 " ...... 500 -- G.S. 24 General repairs ...... roo 0o G.S. 97 New floors, repairs to walls, pavements, etc...... 3,000 00 G.S. a5 ...... 405 on G. S. 98 Iron stairs, metal ceilings, floors, fences, etc...... 5,l00 00 G. S. 26 Repairs to stone and brick-work, pavements, win- G. S. y9 Repairs to roofs, floor, paining, pavements, etc.... e,o5o 00 down, painting, etc . ...... 1,630 co G. S. Too New partition, iron stairs, painting, etc...... 3,200 oa G. 5. 27 New floors, sashes, painting ...... ...... 2,185 00 G. S. rot New roots and floo s, pamtinc, ceilings...... 3,950 0) G. S. 28 Fireproofing a portion main stairs, new sashes, P. S. e Repairs, painting of woodwork, walls, stairways, etc. 1,020 Co floors, Paintiug,etc ...... 2,040 00 Y.S. a Repairs to cools etc...... .` 225 00 G.S. 29 General repairs ...... 450 00 P. . 3 Repairs to sliding doors and painting ...... ~ 63o oO G. S. 31 Painting, repairs to iron railings, fire escapes, new P. S. 4 General repairs ...... roo 00 floors ...... r,oro on ' P.S. 6 New floors, pa nting,iron ladder...... 480 00 G. S. 32 Repairs, painting, etc ...... • .... 500 ou P. S. 7 Painting ceilings, side walls, repairs to roof, floors, G.S. 33 New floors, pavement, paintings, etc ...... 3,500 00 etc...... 5555 555,5. ...... x,705 00 G. S. 34 General repairs...... .....: ...... 5oo oo P.S. if New ceilings and repairs...... 440 ao G. S. 35 New sash, stone steps, ceilings, painting, etc...... ' 1,970 00 P. i. y New floors, pavements ...... ...... Soo 00 C;. S. 36 . New fl .,ors, p-,int,ng, etc ...... t,coo 00 P. S. to New sash, repairs and painting...... 590 00 G. S. 37 General repairs ...... ...... 1 zoo 00 P.S. xr General repairs...... aoo 00 (;.5, 38 New floors, painting, etc ...... ...... x,500 oo P.S. in 5555 ...... ...... 200 00 G. S. 39 Repairs to railings, doors, walls, ceilings, paintings, P. S. 1 3 New'~~ew roof, Ramtiu g, nnew floors ...... r,a7o o0 etc ...... .... 1 x,650 00 P. S. r4 Metal ceihogs, new floors, painting, etc...... 1,3x0 oe G. S. 40 General repairs and painting ...... 500 0o P.S. 25 General repairs...... I...... 150 so G. S. 41 Repairs to walls of the building, painting, new coil- P.S. r6 New steps, sash, pavements, floor,, painting...... a,3w oo mg', etc ...... x,405 00 P. S. 17 General repairs to walls and ceilings, painting...... z,aoo 00 (;. S. 42 General repair s and painting ...... Soo no P. 5. r8 Repairs to pavements, roots, etc...... 1.000 no G. S. 43 1 Repairs to wimplows, railings, painting, etc ...... 1,825 oo P.S. rg General repairs ...... 5uo 0o G.S. 44 General repairs... .... ... soo oo P.5, ao ...... •...•.• ...... z,000 o0 G. S. 45 New floors, pai.uing of walls, ceilings, etc...... r,5oo on P. S. 2z Repair plaster of walls and ceilings, painting, etc.... I,000 on G.S. 46 Repair and paint wafts a:id ceilings, windows, etc... 2,000 00 P. 5. as General repairs ...... z_o oo (;.S. 47 General repairs...... ..., ...... 500 co Y.S. 23 ...... ...... ..... 5555.. 5 o0 ou G.S. 48 New floors, ceiling, painting, etc ...... 1,53- e. P.S. 24 •° ...... •...... • zoo 00 G. S. 49 ~ New flo')rs, sash, p'painting g,, stone stepps ...... 3,000 oo P. 5. z5 •` ...... • • ...... ...... zo 00 G. S. 50 Metal ceiling, new fl srs, sash, par„tmg, etc... ... I 2,5oo 00 P. S. a6 General repairs and painting...... 6o.' on G. S. 5r Fireproofing a portion cf main stairs, new sash, 1'. S. 27 General repairs ...... ...... 200 00 sidewalk. floors ...... 3,000 0o P.S. 28 " ...... a0o o:: G.S. 5z Sheds, general r_pair s, painting, pavements...... 750 00 I P.S. 29 `• ...... • ...... 200 00 (.;.S. 53 General repairs, painting, n.,w floors ...... x,550 0o P. S. 30 ...... 2)0 00 G.S. 54 New floors, painting, etc ...... 1,410 00 ' P.S. 31 ...... 5.5...... 300 00 G.S. 55 New floors, 1>aintin g, repairs to windows, etc ...... I 735 00 P.S. z2 " ..••.....••.•• ...... • 200 00 G. S. 56I Repairs to roofs, cornice,brick walls,p-u1ntin etc.'. zoo 00 P g r,aa000 P. S. 93 •••••••••••••••••••...•.•.••••••• C.. S. 7 New iron stairs, sash, linen of windows...... '. 4,375 0o P.S. 34 ...... ...... 100 00 G. S. 58 General re P irs, iron stain.a Y s, etc...... 1,703 oo P. S. l5 Painting, repairs to sidewalks, etc ...... 1,425 00 G. S. 59 New II ors, metal csilings, painting, etc...... 2,5oa on P. S. g6 General repairs ...... ...... 485 00 G.S. no General repairs ...... ...... r,aoo oo P.S...... ...... I...... zoo 00 G.S. 6r New floors, repairs to plaster-work, roofs, newt P.S. 38 Metal ceilings. columns, girders, general 2,750 00 pavements, painting, etc,...... 4,201 Co P.S. 3y Glneral rep,irs...... zoo 00 G.S. 6z Repairs to brick wal.s, carpenter-work, pavements, P.S. 40 Now floors, steps, repairs and painting ...... 1,775 00 painting, etc ...... I 3,050 00 , P.S. 44 General repairs...... zoo o0 G.S. 64 Alterations to partition work, stairs, new floors .... 4,525 00 P.S. 45 ••••• •••••••• .• ••••••••••••.••• 200 00 G. S. 05 Ir,,n stairs, retaining walls, pavements ...... 4,200 00 P. S. 46 Repairs to pineinnot, painting, etc...... 752 00 G.S. 66 linnet al repairs ...... ' 5co 0o P.S. q7 General repairs...... .... ...... ...... aeo 00 G. ~. 67 Repairs to plaster-work, roofs, etc ...... 350 uo P. S, 48 Metal ceilings, repairs to roofs, plasterwork, new G. S. 68 New wardrobes, repairs Ti) roofs, painting, etc .... . j z,2ro 0o floors, retaining-wall, etc ...... a,r25 co G. S. 69 New floors painting, repairs...... z,o3o on 5189.975 W

FourInsaectors, 313 days at $4. go per day ...... ...... $5,634 00 One Inspector, Cement, at $4 per day ...... 1,252 on 'Three Draughtsmen at total salary of 446 per week for 5z weeks ...... 2,392 02 9,278 00 Iot,il .... ...... ...... 5!99,253 00 laws of AS chap. axe (r, flea/log and !•e'ttrlalirzy Ap era ties-Changes and !Ke/teus n/. Laws of 1896, chap. 387; Repair; per detailed statement following ...... ...... $33,852 o Manual, edition x85, Draughtsman and inspector ...... 2,604 50 secs. z3, 42. 22, 64..... Operation and maintenance of electric motors for ventilation ...... 2,200 00 538,9565o 39,434 GO Adecrease of...... ...... $477 50 The following statement contains the details of the above e,timate

SCHOOL.. NATURE OF WORK. AMot'Nr.. SCHOOL, NAIURE OF WORK. AMOUNT.

G. S. r General repairs...... 3200 00 G. S. 38 1 General repmrs ...... 00 00 G. S. z ...... zoo 00 i G. S. 39 ...... ...... 75 00 G. S. 3 New tubes in east boiler, reset new boilers, new air G. S. 40 ...... •...... z -o w valves and general repairs...... repairs...... 5555 .. 8qz542 co (i. S. 42 " ...... 5..5...5...... 5.... zco 00 G. S. 4 General repairs ...... ...... .. 5555...... zoo oo I G, '1, 43 " ...... I...... zoo 00 .1 .' G. S. 5 ...... zoo co Annex. ' ...... 75 ou G. S. 6 ...... zoo 00 (i. 5, 45 ...... zoo oo G. S. 7 New air valves on indirect radiators, general rep.tirs goo 00 : (l. S. 46 .. ...... aoo 00 G. S. 8 General repairs ...... aoo no Annex. . ,. ...... 85 on G. S. ...... ... .. ...I ...... 9 .. zoo 00 I aoa o G. S. ro ...... zoo 00 G. S. 48 .. ...... zoo c G. S. it ...... rro oo ' G. S. 4 5555......... . roo on U. S. •xa ...... zoo no t G. I „ ...... 200 oo .. S. 50 ,. G. S. 14 ...... ...... aoo on ' G. 5, 5x I ...... I 20000 Annex. New boiler fronts and general repairs...... : zoo 0o G. S. 5a • ' • - • • • • • • - • •' • • • • • "" • • • 150 00 G. S. r5 General repairs ...... i 175 0o it G. S. 53 ,• •...•...... zoo 00 G. S. r6 ...... zoo 00 I .Annex. " ...... 200 00 G. S. z7 Two new boilers, new castings. new air valves aud. i~ G. S. ...... Zoo 00 general repairs 5555... .... l Annex ...... , zoo on , . G.o.z89 GeneralrcPairs. ...... 1500o G. S. 1 ....... ...... ono Go j G. S. 56 ! „ ...... ...... 200 eo .Annex. 2ti 00 ; G• .5. 57 i Reset two boilers, new castings and metal sheathing G. S. so ...... 2a' o~ ii over boilers, additional heating surface and gen- G. S. zz 5555.55555555.5555...... 5555.. .< 5555.... oral repairs .. 5555 5555...... ' 1,000 00 G. S. 2...... I 200 0i I G. S. 58 General rpairs ...... .. .. aon cm G. S. z3 5555 5555 .. 5555 5555 ...... ...... .. zoo 00 ~ G. S. -g ... zoo 00 G. S. zq .......... .... .. ...... zoo 00 G. S. 60 ...... ...... 200 00 G. S. z5 ...... zoo 00 t P. U. 6o '' ...... ..... ...... i 200 oa Annex. I '' ...... , ein co G. S. 6x Increase size of steam mains, additional heat in old:. G. S. a6 200 00 building, general repairs ...... I r,00o 00 U. a• 27 " •• ••-•••••••• •• •• •••5555. zoo on G. S. 6a General repairs, new vent ducts and new air valves x,000 0o G. S. 28 New grates in two boilers, metal sheathing over G. S. 63 General repairs ...... rion 00 boilers, increase size of mains, general repairs... Soo 0o G. S. 64 ...... 150 00 G. S. zg General repairs ...... ooa on G. S. 65 .. ...... ..... ...... 200 00 U.• s. 331 ...... •: i zoo 0o G. S. 66 ~~ ...... ...... 5555... goo 00 G. S. 32 Main building, new tubes m two boilers, new cast-, G. S. 6 ...... 5555...... 200 00 rags, line twoboilers...... boilers...... o 5555. 750 00 G. S. 687 " ...... ~ aeo o) G. S. 34 General repairs ...... •...... ' ,. ! .. ISo 0o G. S. 69 ...... zoo 00 6. S. 35 ...... 'I on no G. S. 70 ...... I...... goo on . S. 36 G " ...... ... 5555 ...... goo 0o G. S. 7r " ...... I zoo 00 G. S.37 " ...... ...... I I 200 cm G. S. 72 New tubes in two boilers, general repairs...... 450 00

2544 THE CITY RECORD. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

PROVISIONS OF LAW APPROPRIATIONS1 SCHOOL. FOR 1896. NATcRF. OF WORK. AMOUNT. Scno01.. NATURE OF WORK. AMOUNT. ESTIMATES FOR 1897. G. S. 73 New tubes in two boilers, new castings, reset two !i P. S. o 1 General repairs ...... $8o 0o boilers, general repairs ...... ...... $600 uo P. S. 7 •` .. ...... ZOO 00 G. S. 74 General repair . ...... Soo ou P. S. 8 ...... ISO 00 G.. S. General repairs ...... 150 P. S. 9 ...... roo 00 S. 76 Reset two pboil rs, metal sheathing over boilers,' castings, . general ...... 600 00 P. S. rr .... ...... ...... ... ...... .... 75 00 G. S. 99 Generalarepairs ...... roo „ 00 P S rz New furnace pipes throughout, general repairs..,., 275 00 G. S. 78 zoo 00 P. S. 13 General repairs ...... 8o oo 99 air g re airs ...... G. p 4O° oo ! P. S. cq b .e , gen r ...... ...... roo 00 G. S. Sc, New tubes in two boilers, enews castings,g general I P. S. rg New tubes in boiler, general retaira•••••••••••.... 5o 00 repairs ...... 350 00 ; P. S. r6 General repairs ...... 125 ao G. S. 8z General repairs ...... roo o' , P. S. 17 ., ...... zoo oO G. S. 83 ...... ' 200 00 , I'. S. r8 •• ...... 70 00 .. ...... ...... Annex. 5o 00 I I'. S. rq ...... 2oo co G. S. 84 Increase size os .steam .aorB, generageneral 1epntr.....•.... Sao Oo P. S. 20 " ...... zoo GO L. S. 85 General repairs ...... ' 200 0o 1', S. zr ...... Zoo 00 Annex z Repairs to stoves ...... 1 25 oo •I'. S. 22 ...... zoo oo Annex 2 .,..i z5 0o P. S. 03 " ...... 150 00 G. S. 86 General repairs ...... ,. „ 200 0o P. S. 24 ...... rgo 00 G. S. 87 .... ...... ...... ...... .. .... ..~ xo co P. S. 25 .. ...... ..... ...... aoo 00 Annex. " ...... Zoo ao 1'. S. z6 " ...... zoo on G. S. 88 •' ...... , ., „ zoo 0o I P. S. 27 ...... .... .. 200 00 G. S. 89 ...... ...... 200 00 P. S. 28 •• ...... , zoo oo G. S. go •• ...... zoo oo ! P. S, 29 ...... roo 00 G. .,.` qr ~~ ...... r5o 00 ~~ Y. 5. 30 ...... ...... ...... .... roo 00 ...... G. S. 92 ! 100 CO P. S. 31 " ...... 15o un G. S. 93 ...... ~ 200 co P. S. 32 General repairs and new stoves...... Zoo 00 G. S. 94 ,< ...... ~ zoo oo . P. S. 33 Felt steam and other mains, general repairs...... 35v 00 ...... rz5 00 P• S' 34 ('e neral repairs ...... qo 00 G. S. 96 Connecting g plower.. main to heatingg chambers, ggeneral 1" S. 35 ....I...... I ...... zoo ao repute ...... .... ......... ...... 6co oo P. S. 36 '' ...... too oo G. S. 97 Increase size of mains, felt pips, odditi- ual heating ~;I P. S. 37 .....• ...... ...... 125 00 surface, general repairs ...... I Goo oo I'. S. 38 Heat playroom, additional heating surface,increasc Annex. General repairs ...... 20 00 size of mains, felt steam and return pipes...... 600 oo G. S. 98 ...... I.... 20o ao P. 5. 79 General repairs ...... z5 00 G. S. ga Felt mains, general repairs ... ...... 200 0o P. S. 40 ...... 150 00 G. S. roo General repairs 95 00 P. S. r " ...... 125 00 G. S. rot Additional heating surface, general repairs...... 800 00 P. S. 44 5 00 G. S. ro2 General repairs ...... So oo Branch. •' ...... 25 00 P. S. r ...... loo 00 P. S. 45 •' ...... 70 00 P. S. z ...... rz5 co P, S. 46 ...... 125 00 P. S. 3 ...... r5o 00 P. S. 47 ...... P. S. q ...... 125 00 P. S. 48 r` ...... 5o oo P. S. 5 `• ...... I Soo 00 $33,852 00 Electric motors, operation and maintenance, for ventilating purposes...... 2,500 00 Draughtstuan, 52 weeks, at $23 per week ...... 1,196 oo Inspector, 313 days, at $4.50 per day ...... ...... r, 4o8 So . Total ...... $38,956 5o Placing Fire-alarm Telegraph hires in the Sulneays. L:.uo of 1881, chap. 410; To comply with the request of the Fire Department, to provide subway facilities to a number of the public schools to connect them with the Fire Laws of i8g6, chap. 387• Al arm System of that Department, about no buildings ...... dh2o, o0 14,400 00 A decrease of ...... ...... 200.00 La„ • of 188a. chap. 470 ; l Furniture and Repairs of.. Repairs and new furniture, as per statement herewith Laws of 1896, chap. 397; ...... $4r,S35 oo > lanual, edition 1895, ••••••••••••j woInspectors, 303 days, at 4 and 64.50 peeer da ••••••• 2,661 oo secs. z4, 4a, 6s, 6 One Draughtsman, 52 weeks, at $15 ...... 780 0 - 45,075 00 37,544 CO An increase of ...... $7,732,00 The following statement contains the details of the above estimate

SLHOOL. NATURE OF WORK. AMOUNT. SCHOOL. NATURE OF WORK. AMOUNT.

G. S. 2 New furniture, new slates, repairs, etc. ; furniture G. S. 68 Furniture repaired, refinished and reversed ; new reversed ...... $t,275 00 slates, repairs, etc...... $ 5 co G. S. 3 Furniture reversed ; repairs, etc. ; new slates...... 400 00 G. S. 69 New furniture, repairs, etc. ; furniture reversed, ... 1,450 o0 G. S. 8 " ...... 300 02 G. S. 7o Furniture repaired and refinished ...... :.. 400 00 G. S. 13 °, 1r 450 0o r ew• slates, repairs, etc. ; furniture reverse . ... . 600 00 G. S. 23 New furniture, new slates; furniture reversed...... r,r5~_ oo ' (;. 7 i` a, .. „ 5. 74 Furnuure rc P•nlred, refiwshed and reversed ; new G. S. r5 ,, ...... 350 00 '~ slates ...... 650 00 G. S. r6 ".. r,t5o oo G. S. 73 New furniture ; present furniture repaired, refinished G. S. 19 New furniture ; present furniture repaired and and reversed ; new slates, repairs, etc...... 950 GO refinished ...... ..... ...... ... x,450 00 G. S. 76 New furniture; present furniture repairzd,refinished G. S. so New furniture, new slates ; furniture reversed. .... r,roo oo and res'cr;ed ; new slates, repairs, etc...... 950 00 G. S. z5 New slates ; furniture reversod ...... 400 00 G. S. 77 Furniture repaired and Lefiriished ...... 350 00 G. S. z8 Furniture reversed ; repairs, etc. ; new slates...... 425 00 G. S. 78 Furniture repaired, refinished and reversed ; new G. S. 3r New lurnitttre ; repairs, etc. ; new slates ; furniture slates ...... ... ...... . 500 00 reversed ...... ..... ...... 650 02 G. S. yq New furniture, present furniture repaired, refinished G. S. 32 New furniture; repairs, etc. ; new slates ; furniture and eeversea ; new slates ...... 8 o oo reversed ...... sere ersed ...... goo no Annex New•furniture and new slates .. G. S. 33 New slates ; furniturereversed ...... ;0000 G. S. 83} """""""'•• 60 co G. S. 34 New furniture, new slates; furniture rever,ed...... 400 0o G. S. 86 New furniture and slates; furniture reversed...... 65o oo G. S. 36 `• ...... 550 00 G. S. 89 New furniture ; old furniture repaired, refinished i G. S. 38 Furniture repaired, etc.; new slates ; furniture and reversed ; new slates ...... r,oso 00 39 reversed.P...... ... .. 300 0o G. S. 93 New furniture; present furniture repaired and G. S. Furniture repaired, refinished and reversed ; new reversed, etc ...... ...... 1 700 00 slates ...... 700 00 G. S. 97 New furniture; present furniture reversed,...... 9zo 00 Annex. New furniture ; repairs, etc., to old fn1rinnre...... Soo 00 G. S. coo New Easrnilure ...... 750 00 G. S. 4o New furniture, new slates; furniture reversed ... 700 00 P. S. it New furniture; present furniture repaired and G. S. 42 New furniture ...... 700 00 reversed...... 425 00 G. S. 42 New furniture, new slates ; furniture reversed...... 700 00 P. S. 3 New furniture, new slates ; present furniture G. S. 45 Furniture repaired, etc., and reversed ...... 28o oo reversed...... ...... ....I goo co G. S. 46 New furniture, new slates, repairs, etc. ; furniture P. S. 4 Present furniture repaired, etc., and reversed ; newt reversed...... ...... 700 CO sates...... .. !, 250 00 G. S. 48 New slates, repairs, etc. ; furniture reversed...... 300 00 P. S. 9 New furniture, new slates furniture reversed 500 <, ,. „ „ ; 00 G. S. 49 ...... 60, oo P. S. to ,. .. ...... 550 00 G. S. 5o Furniture repaired, refinished and reversed ; new P. S. 13 •' `• „ „ ., gto 0o slates ...... Soo oo P. S. r6 ...... , 1,550 00 G. S. 51 Furniture reversed; new slates ...... 20o 00 P. S. 27 Furniture repaired and reversed; new slates...... i 350 00 G. S. 53 New furniture, old repaired and refinished ; new P. S. 20 •' 11 •` ...... z;o 00 slates; furniture reversed ...... goo ao P. S. z6 Furniture repaired, refinished and reversed ; new G. S. 55 New furniture, new states ; furniture reversed..... 550 00 slates ...... ...... 500 00 G. S. 56 ..... 900 00 P. S. 36 Furniture repaired, refinished and reversed ; new G. S. 59 New slates ; furniture reversed ...... 450 00 slates. repairs, etc...... 375 GO G. S• 6L Furniture repaired, etc., and reversed ; new slates.. 6oa 00 P. S. 41 New slates, repairs, etc. ; furniture reversed...... 400 00 G. S. 62 New luruiture, now slates ; furniture reversed ..... 850 00 P. S. 48 New furniture ...... I...... too oo G. S. 64 New furniture, and present desks and seats reversed 68o oo - 41,835 00

SO MMAit V --- - Nev furniture-Slates ...... Q8,634 00 Desks, etc ...... rq 475 00 $28,109 00 404 rooms of furniture reversed ...... .. ...... ... ...... 4,oc5 00 Repairs, etc ...... ...... .... ...... ...... 9,721 oo 00 One Inspector, 313 days, at $4.5o ...... ...... 00 „ „ 313 ,• $4 r,4o9 „ 54 ...... r,z5 2 o0 Draughtsman, 5z weeks, atr5...... 780 00 545,276 00 ! Pianos and Repairs of. Twenty upright pianos for Kindergarten purposes, at $250 each ...... $5,000 00 New square piano for G. S. No.rS ...... $300 00 Laws of x382, chap. 410;1 New square porn ,for G.S. No. 19, P. D ...... 300 00 Laws of 1896, chap...... New square piano for G. S. No. 66 ...... Manual, edition x895. 3oo 00 New square piam,for G. S. No. 98 ...... 302 00 sec. 24 ...... New square piano for I'. S. No.zz ...... 300 00 1,500 00 Repairs to old pianos ...... ...... ...... ...... 500 00 of 1882, chap. 4ro;sees.~ 2,000 00 r An increase of ...... p ...... $5,000 7,000 00 xoz8, 1062, 1043 and Cor orate Schools, asher Acts o the Le islaiure. ro66 ; Laws of 1872, Necessary expenditure for 1896 ...... $130,797 o8 Estimated for increased attendaneo in r897 ...... chap. 835; Lawsof 1874, 9,202 92 chap. 230 • Laws of r88o :40,000 02 chap. 598; Laws of 1896, As the consideration of the Provisional Estimate occurs before the State apportionment of funds, and the declaration of the taxable value of real chop. 387; Manual, and personal estate in New York City, upon which facts a true computation is based, the above figures are submitted ; but prior to the passage of the edition 1895,sec. rgr.... Final Est mate, the Board of Education will probably be in receipt of such information as will enable it to declare the actual amount needed. *133,735 55 An increase of ...... ...... $6,264 45 * NOTv.-Original appropriation, $145,000 ; Less transfers, $11,264 45-Total, $133,735 55. Laws of 1882, chap. 410 ; 1 Lectures to NVorkixgnzen and IVorkingroonten-Free. For Lectures in thirty locations during the year 1897, 1,100 lectures, at an average cost of say $35 per lecture, to include all expenses...... $38,500 00 Laws of 1888, chap, 545 Six additional Lecture Centres-two of which are to be in the Annexed District ...... Laws of 2889, chap. 38 • ...... 8,400 00 Iarws of r8g, chap. 305 1 I ! Fitting up New Lecture Centres ...... 2,000 00 Laws of 1891, chap. 71. J ! Salary of Supervisor of Lectures (heretofore paid as Assistant Superintendent) ...... 4,000 00 I. Clerk and Incid,:ntal Expenses ...... ...... 1,000 of 37,500 00 An increase of ...... $22,400 },900 on Laws of ,88e, chap. 4ro;l Transportation of Pupils in the 7iaenty-third and 7zuentyjourtic .lards. Laws of 1896, chap. 387;Ir Estimated requirementsel u oC 1897, the whole a ro ria ion .... .. .. ...... ...... $4,000 00 Manual, edition 1895, Two Stages-\Yo,,dlasen and Fordham ...... 1,200 00 sec. r8 ...... L Two Stages-Pelham and 1'hruggs Neck ...... ...... 1,200 00 4,000 00 On increase of ...... ...... 42,40,1 1 Bientnial School Census. I 6,{oo a, Laws of 1895, chap. 550...... lJ For clerical help in examining acid tabulating the census to be taken in October, x897, provided the Police Department will afford the assistance of enumerators as heretofore...... ...... $2,000 00 Stationery, Blanks, etc ...... 500 00 A new appropriation. 2,500 00 `5,635,277 19 * Appropriations for salaries of clerks to trustees, special alterations to Janitors' apartments and purchase and display of U. S. flags, etc.-not again *44,025 40 requested this year. 02 59 Total for 1897 .... ...... ,.......... ,...... ~2z t,2rq.67.... 95,679,3 ..... ••• I 65,9 A total increase oL .... ... ... 00,5t7 46

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, L896. THE CITY RECORDD. 2545

The following resolution is submitted for adoption Names, Position and Annual Salary Paid Employees of the Board of Trustees of the Normal Resolved, That the foregoing Estimate of the moneys that will be required for the support of College and T'rainrn„ Department. bike Common Schools of the City of New York during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven NORMAL COLLEGE. (1897), amounting in the aggregate to the sum of five millions nine hundred thousand five hundred Thomas hunter, President...... $7,500 00 I Eva B. IIickinbottom, Tutor.... $1,500 0 and seventeen dollars and forty-six cents (5,900,5 17.46), he duly authenticated by the President Arthur H. l)uudon, Professor.... 4,OZO 00 Grace B. Beach, •' 1,200 00 and Clerk of this Board, and submitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and a Joseph A. Gillett, " .... 4,000 00 Margaret B. Wilson, " ... 1,200 00 112 of chapter of duplicate thereof furnished the Board of Aldermen, as required by section 335 Eugene Aubert, .... 4,000 00 Christabel Flood, '' ... 1,200 00 the Laws of 1873, and that the statement of the suns appropriated for 1896, requested for compari. Isictor Keller, .... 4,000 00 I Julia R. S. Chellborg, 1,100 00 ,on, be also submitted. Edward S. Burger, " .... 4,000 00 Annie E. Hickinbottom, " ... 1,IGO 00 CHARLES C. WEHRUM, Chairman, JOSEPH J. LITTLE, EDWD. H. PEASLEE, George Mangold, " ... 3,000 00 ' Helen G. Cone, <' .... 1,200 00 WM. J. VAN ARSDALE, HENRY A. ROGERS, Finance Committee. Eliza Woods, Superintendent.... 2,400 00 Gertrude P. Barrington, '' .... 1,000 00 A true copy of resolution adopted by the Board of Education, September g, 1896. Sarah E. H. hall, Secretary and Elizabeth Mathews, '' .... 1,200 00 ARTHUR MCMULLIN, Clerk. ROBERT MACLAY, President. Librarian ...... I,Boo 0o M. Christine V. Reid, " .. I,5o0 00 \Vhich was referred to the Committee on Finance. Lavinia M. Holman, Tutor ...... 1:,800 0o Alice M. Isaacs, " .... goo 00 'l'he President laid before the Board the following comm(m colon from the College of the Helen G. Morgan, °' ...... I,800 00 Harriet II. Keith, '' .... Boo 00 City of New York : Laura E. Leal, '° I,800 oa Daisy J. Conklin, " Soo 00 HAI..L OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, No. 146 GRAND STRERF, NEW YORK, S_ptember Jessie McGregor, '' ...... I,Soo Oct Kate Louise Hartt, °' .... 800 Oct I I. 1896. WM. II. TF_N EYCK, Esq., Clerk, Board of 4fdermen . Mary S. Kennedy, " ...... I,800 00 Marie Camenen, °, .... 800 00 DEAR SIR-I send herewith copy of estimate of moneys required for the support of the College Jenny B. Merrill, '' t,800 cc Lao G. Simons, '' .... Boo 00 of the City of New York for the year 1897, filed with the Board of Est:mate and Apportionment Ifonora McDonough, " ...... 1,800 Oct Louisa M. Webster, 8eo 00 this day, together with a list of the employees of the College. Laura Friend, " ...... 1,800 00 Marie Constant, " .... 800 00 Very respectfully, ARTHUR MIcMULLIN, Secretary. Frederica J. Constantini, Tutor , . i,68o Oct Annie L. Jessup, Sewing, per OFFICE BOARD OF I'RUSi'EES, COLLEGE OF TILE CITY OF NEW YORK, No. 146 GRAND Emily I. Conant, Tutor...... 1,680 00 month ...... . .... 35 00 S tesc r. NEW YOLK, September To, 1896. To the Board of Estimate out Apportionment : Betsy B. Davis, " ...... i,68o oo Charlotte A. Sherwood, Cooking, The Trustees of the College of the City of New York, pursuant to the provisions of section 1059 Elizabeth It.. Beckwith, 'Tutor.. 1,500 00 per month ...... 6o 00 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, hereby report to your Honorable Ludy that they Fel;cie Diaz, Tutor ...... 1,500 Oct Ernest C. hunt, Secretary to the will require for the payment of the salaries of Professors, Tutors and others of said college, for Emma M. Requa, Tutor...... 1,500 00 President...... ...... t,500 00 obtaining and furnishing scientific apparatus, books for the students and all other necessary supplies Eleanor Boese, " 1,500 co Denis 5hane,Janitorand Engi,leer 2,500 00 therefor ; for repairing and altering the college buildings, and for the support, maintenance and Florentine E. Artmann, Tutor • .. , 1,500 00 general expenses of said college for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897), the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,cOO). TRAINING DEPARTMENT. AR'riluR MCMULLIN, Secretary. ROBERT MACLAY, Chairman. Isabelle l'arsels, Superintendent. $1,900 Oct Miriam L. "Taylor, Assistant...... $710 00 EMPLOYEES OF '1.315 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Jane \V. McElhinney, Assistant. , 1,056 00 Lilian Linsleey, '' 700 00 Annual Salary. Annual Salary. Catharine E. Coleman, .. gic oo Mary E. Bole, " ...... 700 00 Alex. S. Webb, President ...... $7,500 Do Ernest N. Perrin, Tutor...... $1,400 00 Eugenia J. Bowne, " . , goo 00 Mary C. Low, " ...... 6go 00 R. Ogden Dorelnus, Vice-Presi- Howard S. Meighan, Tutor...... 1,400 00 Ella Calkins, Assistant and Music 875 00 Sadie N. Levy, •' 665 co (lent and Professor...... 5,000 00 Fredenck G. Reynolds, Tutor.... 1,400 00 Maggie L. Rollo, Assistant ...... SOD co Agnes McElhinney, " ...... boo 00 Adolph \Verner, Professor...... 4,500 00 Harold E. Lippincott, Tutor..... 1,400 00 Fannie Sandford, " Soo 00 Elizabeth Carrington „" ... 504 00 Alfred G. Compton, Professor.... 4,500 00 Edmund Burke, Tutor...... t,400 00 Margaret F. Brangan, " ...... 800 0o Mary E. S. Uaviclson, '' ...... 408 00 Charles G. iferbermann, Professor ; henry S. Carr, Tutor...... 1,400 00 Elizabeth E. Fegan, '' ...... 800 Oct Marie Bell Coles, Kindergartner.. Boo 00 and Librarian ...... 4,750 00 Samuel FIanaway, Tutor...... l,600 oo Rebecca R. Elliott, •' ..... • 800 cc 1 Mary D. Kr.ox, Temporary Tutor 504 00 Solomon Woolf, Professor ...... 4,500 00 Franz Sigel, Jr., 'Tutor, , . , ...... 1,200 00 Bessie Stratton, '' ...... 800 00 Francis J. ]Sealy, Janitor and ln- Fitz Gerald Tisdall, Professor.... 4.500 00 Georges Auge, Tutor...... I,200 00 Jennie S. Keith, '' ...... Soo oo pineer ...... ...... .. 1,500 00 James Weir Mason, Professor .... 4,500 00 Arthur Bruckner, "Tutor...... 1,200 00 Theodora Kramer, '' ...... Boo 00 Arthur McMullin, Secretary to henry 1'. J.,hn ton, Professor.... 4,500 00 Conrad 1I. Norclbv, Tutor...... 1,600 00 Anna M. Palmer, '' ...... 775 00 Board of Trustees...... 500 00 William Stratford, Processor..... 4,500 00 j Robert F. Smith, 'Tutor...... 1,600 oo Charlotte E. Bowtell, " ...... 775 00 ! Edward E. Van Saun, Assistant Ca,imer Fabregon, Professor..... 4,500 03 Gabriel Engelman, Tutor ...... 1,400 00 Juliette Hirsch, '' 765 00 Secretary to Board of Trustees. 250 00 George E. IIarcly, Professor ..... 4,500 00 Walter Timine, Tutor...... 1,000 00 Maud Frank, '' ..... 765 00 C. B. J. Snyder, Superintendent of William G. McGuckin, Instructor. 2,375 00 Gaston A. Laffargue, 'Tutor ..... 1,000 00 Ella Keith, '' ...... 725 00 , Repairs ...... 500 00 John R. Sim, Instructor...... 2,375 00 Bernard Naumburg, Tutor...... 1,000 00 Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Leigh I I. Ilunt, Instructor , ..... 2,000 00 IIarry C. Krowl, Tutor ...... I,000 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Department of loin Sickles, Instructor...... 2,000 CO Paul L. Saurel, Tutor...... 1,600 oo Street Improvements of the Twenty- third and Twenty-fourth Wards : Calvin Rae Smith, Instructor .... 2,000 00 Stephen Pierce Duggan, Tutor... t,600 cc CITY OF NEW YORK-COM..MIS5IONER OF STREET IMPROVEMENTS, •TWENTY-THIRD AND Charles A. I)oremus, Instructor.. 2,375 00 Moses S. Levussore, Tutor...... T,000 co TWENTY-FOURTH \YARDS, THIRD AVENUE AND 141ST SIREE'r, NEW YORK, September 14, Gustave Lc ras, Instructor ...... 2,000 00 Clarence Galicenstein, Tutor.. . 1,000 00 1896. To the Hnnwaole the Board of Aldermen : Lewis F. Mott, Instructor...... 2,000 00 Henry Mayell, Secretary to Presi- GENTLEMEN-In accordance with section t8q of chapter 410 of the Laws of 1882, 1 have Ernestllgeu, Instructor...... I,8o0 00 . dent . ...... 1,900 00 the honor to present to you a copy of my departmental estimate for 1897, as presented to the John J. McNulty, Instructor..... t,800 00 Henry E. Bliss, 1)eputy Librarian 1,300 00 Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Respectfully, (._•. Itoward Parnily, Instructor... 1,600 co Benjamin A. Sheldon, Assistant LOUIS F. HAFFEN, Commissioner. St.ulislas C. Constant, Instructor. 1,600 00 in Office and Library...... 750 00 CITY OF NEW YORK-GCl\i\i1S8IONER OF SrREicr IJMi'ROVE\lENTS, TWENTY-THIRD AND August Rupp, Instructor ...... 2,000 00 James '\'Ober, Assistant in Office TWENTY-FOURTH WARDS, Nu. 2622 THIRD AVENUE, CORNER 141ST STRF.E'r, NEW YORK, John A. '.slandel, Instructor...... 1,800 0o and Repository .....per month, 70 00 September io, 1896. Board of Estimate anal Appartiooiiient: William Fox, Instructor...... t,800 Oct Michael F. Bonney, Janitor...... 1,650 00 GENTLEMEN-In compliance with section 189 of chapter 410 of the Laws of 1882, I have the Charles A. Downer, Instructor... I,8o0 00 James Reed, Engineer ...... 1,200 00 honor to present the subjoined estimate of expenditures required to conduct the public business of Louis A. Basalt, Special In•-tructor 2,000 00 J. T. Leavy, Assistant iu Labora- this Department for the year 1897, prefaced by a seminary thereof, as well as with the items of James H. 1)eGroodt, Special In- tory ...... pet- month, 30 00 appropriation of last year also stated. structor , ...... 1,200 00 William Stewart, Assistant in Nat- SUMMARY. Robert H. (latch, Special In- oral History Hall. ..per month, 30 00 :897. 1896. structor ...... 1,700 00 Arthur McMullin, Secretary, Salaries-- Office of Commissioner of Street Improvements, Twenty-third Henry G. Kost, Tutor ...... 1,800 00 Board of Trustees...... 750 00 and Twenty-fourth Wards ...... ...... $26,550 00 125,000 00 Ludwig H. Friedburg, Tutor .... I,Soo 0o Edward E. Van Saun, Assistant Telephonic Services and Contingencies ...... ...... 1,500 00 1:,500 00 Walter O'Brien, Tutor...... I,600 00 Secretary, Board of Trustees.. 250 00 111aiutenaoce-Including supplies, salaries and wages of all employees. 592,t90 00 400,000 00 Which was referred to the Committee oil Finance. New Stables and Workshops ...... ...... 20,000 00 ...... The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Board of Street Bronx River and other Bridges-Repairing and Maintenance...... 8,000 00 8,000 oo Opening and Improvement : Cromwell's Creek Bridge-Repairing and Maintenance ...... 1,000 00 I,OCO 00 OFFICE OF TIIE BOARD OF STREET OPENING AND IMPROVEMENT, Room No. IO, STEWART Bridges Crossing New York and Harlem Railroad Depression...... 5,000 00 5,000 00 Brn,ulroc, NFav YORK, September 14, 1896. To the honorable the Board ofAldcrmell Sewers and Drains-Rebuilding, cleaning and repairing sewers and SIRS-By direction of the Board of Street Opening and Improvement, at a meeting held on the drains, and for the construction of temporary drains, as requested I tth instant, I herewith transmit to you a copy of resolutions, adopted by said Board at said by the Health Department ...... 5o,oeo 00 40,000 00 meeting, for the laying-out, opening and widening of We,t One Ilundred and 'Twentieth street, 7opo,Qraphieal Bureau. between Morningside avenue and Riverside avenue, in the 1'wellth Ward of the City of New York. Surveying, Laying-out, Maps, Plans, etc., Twenty-third and Twenty- I am, very respectfully, V. 13. LIVINGS FON, Secretary. fourth Wards...... 65 ,500 00 45,5 00 00 OFFICE OF TILE BOARD OF STREET OPENING AND IMPROVEMENT, ROOM No. 10, STEWART Monumenting Avenues and Streets...... ...... .. 23,000 Co 21,450 00 BUILDING, NEW YORK, September 14, 1896. Surveying, Laying-out and making Topographical Survey and Map of The following is a true copy of resolutions relating to the laying-out, opening and extending new part of Twenty-fourth Ward ...... ...... 55,000 00 40,000 00 of West One Hundred and Twentieth street, adopted by the Board of Street Opening and Improve- Making Tax Maps of Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, in con- ment, at a meeting held on September I I, 1896 : formity with Final Maps and Profiles ...... 10,000 00 ...... Resolved, That the Board of Street Opening and Improvement of the City of New York, Copying Records-\Vhite Plains ...... 1,500 on 1,500 00 deeming it for the public interest so to do, propose to alter the map or plan of the City of New Lithographing and Printing-Final Maps and Profiles ...... 000 000 York by laying out, opening, extending and widening West One Hundred and Twentieth street, 5, 00 5, 00 Construction Bureau. between Morningside avenue and Riverside avenue, in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, Preliminary surveys and the preparation of plans, specifications, etc... 38,550 00 25,E 00 more particularly described as follows : Purchase and Repair of Surveyii g Instruments, Apparatus, etc...... Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Amsterdam avenue, distant 161 To 3,500 00 ...... feet inches Making rock soundings, etc ...... ...... 18,350 00 northerly from the northerly line of One Hundred and Nineteenth street ; thence easterly and ..... ...... ...... 10,000 00 Sounding and Boring Machinery, for purchase of appliances for tools parallel with said street, distance 427 feet 4) inches to the westerly line of Morningside avenue, and apparatus, carts, etc ...... 3,000 00 ...... \Vest ; thence northerly along said line, (iistance 4o feet 4J. inches to the southerly line of old Purchase of Paving-Block Testing Machine, etc ...... .. ...... I,o5o 00 One Ifundred and Twentieth street ; thence westerly along said line, distance 421 feet 0%2 inches Standard Bench marks .. ...... ...... 3,700 00 3,000 00 to the easterly line of Amsterdam avenue ; thence southerly along said line, distance 40 feet, to the Purchase and Planting of Shade Trees .... 20,000 00 point or place of beginning...... Rebuilding Receiving-basins ...... ...... 4,000 00 ...... Also, Beginning at a point in the westerly line of the Boulevard distant 161 feet to inches northerly from the northerly line of One Hundred and Nineteenth street, thence westerly and Total Departmental Estimate ...... parallel with said street, distance 200 feet, to the easterly line of Claremont avenue, thence north- $955,340 00 erly along said line distance loo feet, thence easterly distance 200 feet to the westerly line of Final Estimate for 1896 Boulevard, thence southerly along said line distance loo feet to the point or place of beginning...... ...... $633,000 00 Also, Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Riverside avenue, distant 161 feet to incites, ES'TLL'U.I7B I'V DL? 7'.41L. northerly from the northerly line of One Hundred and Nineteenth street ; thence easterly and SALARIES-OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER. parallel with said street, distance 200 feet to the westerly line of Claremont avenue ; thence Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $25,000 00 northerly along said line, distance loo feet ; thence westerly, distance 200 feet, to the easterly line Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 26,550 00 of Riverside avenue ; thence southerly along said line, distance Ica feet, to the point or place of Provision is made in this Estimate for the following : beginning. Commissioner ...... $5,000 00 Clerk...... 1,500 CO . Resolved, That such proposed action of this Board he laid before the Board of Aldermen of Deputy Commissioner...... 3,500 00 Clerk ...... 1,200 CO the City of New York, and that full notice of the same be published for ten days in the CITY Secretary ...... 3,250 Oo Timekeeper...... goo CO RECORD. V. B. LIVINGSTON, Secretary. General Bookkeeper...... 2,500 00 Stenographer and Typewriter... , qco 00 Which was ordered on file. Clerk (Contract) ...... 2, too 00 Stenographer and 'I') pewriter.... goo 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Board of Educa- Clerk ...... ... I,68o cc - tion : Clerk ...... 1,620 00 Total...... $26,550 00 HALL OF TILE BOARD OF EDUCA'YION, No. 146 GRAND STREET, NEW MURK, September Clerk ...... 1,5Co 00 16, 1896. Mr. WILLIAM H. TEN EYCK, Clerk Board of Aldermen: One additional clerk is provided in the above estimate. The increase of the business of the SIR-I send herewith copy of estimate of amount of moneys which will be required for the Department through recent annexation makes it absolutely necessary to have another clerk. support of the Normal College during the year 1897, which was filed with the Clerk of the Board TELEI'IIONIC SERVICES AND CONTINGENCIES. of Estimate and Apportionment on this day, same having been adopted at a meeting held Septem- Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $1,500 00 ber 15, 1896. Respectfully, ARTHUR McMULLIN, Secretary. Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 1,500 00 HALL OF THE BOARD OF f,DUCATION, No. 146 GRAND STREET, NEW YORK, September MAINTENANCE. 16, 1896. 7o the Board of Estiorale and Apportionment. For the Maintenance of Streets, Roads and Avenues of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth The Trustees of the Normal College, pursuant to the provisions of section 1059, New York Wants ; for sprinkling of macadamized roads, and for salaries and wages of all persons employed : City Consolidation Act of 1882, hereby report to your honorable body, that they will require for Final Estimate for 1896.. ...... $400,000 00 the payment of salaries of professors and others of said college ; for obtaining and furnishing Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... • ... • ...... • • • • • • • • 592,190 00 scientific apparatus, books for the students, and all other necessary supplies; for repairing and alter- This estimate provides for amount necessary to keep in proper and safe condition for travel ing the College Buildings, and for the support, maintenance and general expenses of said College 208 miles of unpaved streets and 87 miles of macadamized, about too miles of unpaved streets and for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897), the sum of one hundred and fifty 25 miles of macadam roads being in the new territory. thousand dollars. ROBERT MACLAY, Chairman. Provision is made for about 20 miles of new macadam roads, in addition to the maintenance ARTHUR McMUI.LIN, Secretary. of repairs of those flow existing.

2546 THE CITY RECORDD. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

It will be necessary to purchase one (I) steam road-roller, six (6) sprinkling trucks, six (6) LOp)'in, Records and Maps on File in the Register's Office at Whitte Plains. horses, two (2) yard wagons, two (2) stone trucks, five (5) sheet-iron carts, two (2) carriages, five The sum of $1,500 was appropriated last year. This work is to be continued, and is required (5) sets of harness ; also replace worn tools such as arc used to repair public highways, and about as an auxiliary to the topographical survey as well as to the acquisition of title to streets. forty thousand (40,000) cubic yards of broken stone and screenings for macadamizing. Estimated cost ...... ...... $1,500 00 SALARIES, SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. Lithographing and Printing Maps, Etc. General Superintendent ...... S3,000 oo An appropriation of $5,000 was made in 1896, and an equal amount should be available for 1,800 00 Superintendent, east of Bronx River ...... 1897• General Inspector and Foreman ...... 2,750 00 Thirty map pages of the final naps of the 'Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards were Clerk (Maintenance) ...... ...... 1,500 00 copied and lithographed in two (2) different scales. Clerk ...... ...... ...... 1,320 00 I propose to have the sewerage plans also lithographed, and such other maps as are necessary Clerk (Permit) ...... ..... ...... 1,320 00 in the Topographical Bureau. Timekeeper ...... ...... 9oo 00 Estimated cost .... ...... $5,000 00 Timekeeper ...... 9°° 00 Clerk ...... ...... ...... goo 00 List of Ecnplr,rees in Topographical Bureau. General Inspector, Twenty-fourth Ward, north of Tremont avenue and I Topographical Engineer and i Mechanical Draughtsman...... 840 00 west of Bronx river ...... 1,800 00 Engineer of Concourse...... 55,000 00 1 Assistant ...... 1,260 00 General Inspector, Twenty-fourth Ward, south of Tremont avenue and I Principal Assistant Topographi- I Assistant ...... 1,200 oo wet of Bronx river ...... ...... 1,500 00 cal Engineer ...... 3,500 00 5 Assistants, at $I,o80...... 5,400 oo l:enoral Inspector, Twenty-fourth Ward, east of Bronx river...... 1,500 00 2 Assistant Engineers, at $2,000.. 4,000 00 1 Transitman ...... 1,320 00 - $19,190 00 3 Assistant Engineers, at $t,800.. 5,400 00 1 Transitman ...... 1,080 oc MACHINERY, SUPPLIES, ETC. I Assistant Engineer, at...... 1,740 00 2 Transiteten, at $1,200...... 2,400 OO Steam road-roller 115 tons each] at $4,000 ...... ...... $8,000 00 I Computer and Draughtsman .. 1,920 00 2 Transitme), at $1,020...... 2,040 00 (2), Sprinkling trucks (b), at $300 ...... ...... 1,800 00 I Computer and Draughtsman... 1,500 00 I Rodman ...... 720 00 I Computer and Draught,nlan... Six horse,, at $200 ...... ...... .... 1,200 00 1,320 00 2 Levelers, at $960 ...... 1,920 Oo Two stone trucks, at $175 ...... 350 00 I Computer and Draughtsman... 1,200 00 1 Leveler ...... 78o oo Five sheet-iron carts, at $100 ...... 500 00 I Computer ...... 1,920 00 1 Chairman ...... I,000 00 Two carriages, at $200 ...... .... ...... 400 00 I Computer ...... I,56o 00 i Chainman ...... 960 00 Two yard wagons, at $250 ...... 500 00 I Computer...... I,5oo 00 I Chairman ...... 780 00 live sets of harness, at $50 ...... ...... 250 00 I Computer ...... 1,,320 00 1 Chainman ...... ...... 66o 00 Feed, sundry, supplies, repairs, tools, etc ..... ...... .. 30,000 00 I Computer ...... 1,140 00 1 Chainman ...... 600 00 Broken stone and screenings (trap and limestone)...... 80,000 00 4 Computers, at $1,200...... 4,800 00 2 Chaiumen, at $900...... 1,800 00 Tnrcricn, itlechanics, Laborers, 'Teams, etc ...... 450,000 00 8 Computers, at 5I,o80...... 8,640 00 ' 4 Chainmeu, at $840...... 3,360 00 573,000 00 4 Computers, at $1,020...... 4,080 00 2 Chaiumen, at $720...... 1,440 00 2 Computers, at $goo...... t,800 00 ! I Axeuian ...... t,coo 00 Total...... $592,190 00 2 Draughtsmen, at $1,560...... 3,120 00 1 Axeman ...... 900 00 I Draughtsman ...... I,38o 00 I Axeman ...... 780 00 MW STABLES AND WORKSHOPS. IDraughtsman ...... i,o8o 00 ' I Axeman ...... 7zo on Pruci',iuil is required for the erection of stables and workshops, near the new building proposed I Topographical Draughtsman... 1,140 00 2 Axemen, at $840 ...... I,68o oo to he occupied by this Department, at 1 bird avenue and One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street, I Topographical Draughtsman... I,o8o 00 17 Axemen, at $600 ...... $20,000 CO 10,200 00 and also in \Villiamshricige, to the amount of ...... I '1'opo raphical Draughtsman... 720 00 1 Stenographer and Typewriter.. goo 00 tlRONX RIVER AND O'I'I-IIcR BRIDGES. 5 Topographical Draughtsmen, at I Clerk ...... 1,440 00 -final Estimate for 1896 ...... ...... $8,000 co $1,020..... ... 5,100 00 1 Clerk ...... 1,200 00 Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 8,000 00 4 Topographical Draughtsmen, at -- 'There are many small timber uridges and culverts covered with timber which ale in need of $840 ...... 3,360 co Total...... 1 19.260 no immediate repairs. 2 Topographical Draughtsmen, at CROMWELL'S CREEK BRIDGE. $780 ...... 1,560 00 f inal Estimate for 1896 ...... ...... $1,000 00 Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... .... ...... 1,000 00 CONSTRUCTION RUREAC. For the repairing of Bridge over Cromwell's Creek and others than those over the Bronx PrTfir1irary Surrrrs, Estimates and the Preparation of Plans, .Specifications, Etc. River and the IIa rid m Railroad Depression. The amount asked for tinder this head is to defray the cost of such preliminary work as is LItIIrG I(s I'Ill 55C5C IllI- NEt1 YORK AND HARLEM RAILROAD DEPRESSION IN THE rWEti'rY- necessary to place tinder contract all street improvement and sewer construction demanded by the TIItRD AND '1'WEN'1'Y-FOURTH WARDS. property-owners. The new territory east of the Bronx river requires consideration, and provision R,p(Ilring, Reptanking and Rcpoi1lI/)z r. for surveys an,l other work should be made. The amount charged to preliminary work is returned 1 in,tl 1. [i,u.ur f,rr ttici() ...... .... $5,OoO 00 to the City with interest when asse-sments are collected. Additional amounts for disbursements Departmental h:stituatc for 1897 ...... 5,000 00 for traveling and other incidental expenses are also required. In order to bring the records for completed street improvements up to date an increased force SEW4:RS AND DRAINS. is demanded in the drafting-room. For the rebuilding, cleaning and repairing of sewers and drains, and far the construction of temporary drains, as requested by the I lealth Department. Here follow the amounts require,! final 1?stimate for 1896 ...... $40,000 00 Regulatin',, Grading, Paving, cur. I)epwrtmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 50,000 00 Otto-quarter salary of Engineer of Regulating, Grading and Paving.... $750 00 The increare of ten thousand ($IO,000l dollars in the estimate for sewers and drains is due to 2 Assistant Engineers, at $I,Soo each ...... 3,600 00 the work required in the new part of the Twenty-fourth Ward ; also to the fact that the sewers 2 Transitmen, at $1,200 each ...... 2 400 00 i,uilt recently impose additional labor in cleaning and maintaining them properly. t Leveler ...... 1,200 00 IRodman ...... 1,000 00 TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU. 2 Chainmen, at $goo each ...... 1,800 00 sORVEYING, LAYING-Ot'T, MAPS, PLANS, ETC., IN THE TWENTY-TCIIRD ANI) TT'R"ENTY-FOURTH 3 Axemen, at $660 each ...... 1,980 00 WARDS. 2 Draughtsmen, at $1,200 each ...... 2,400 00 Several acts were passed by the Legislature at its last session changing lines of streets and IClerk ...... 900 00 grades. These changes, with other incidental work of that character, will cost about $7,500 00 ------$16,030 oe Plans for sewerage districts have to be prepared, and all former plans of sewerage districts that were not retained on the Final Maps of the Twenty-third and '1'wenty-fourth Wards have to Sewers and Appurtenances. be remodeleci, and maps and plans for the construction of drains requested by the Board of Health, One-quarter salary of Engineer of Sewers ...... $750 00 will cost ...... ..... ...... $7,500 00 2 Assistant Engineers, at $i,800 each ...... 3,600 00 Surveys and maps for acquiring title to avenues and streets have to be made as follows: 2 Trairsitmen, at $1,320 each ...... 2,640 00 1st. Rule maps in triplicate and technical description of lands to be taken by the City for ILeveler ...... 1,120 00 streets, etc. IRodman ...... 1,000 00 2d. Surveys to locate and to obtain the dimensions of lands, buildings, fences, etc., within the 3 Axemen, at $720 each ...... 2,160 00 lines of the streets to be opened and to ascertain the materials of which the buildings are con- 3 Draughtsmen and Computers, at $1,000 each ...... 3,000 00 siructed. --- 14,270 on 3d. Draft damage maps, showing the lands, tenements, etc., to be taken...... $15,000 00 Wilhamsbridge Office. 4th. Draft benefit naps, shot ing the plots or parcels of land to be assessed. I Assistant Engineer ...... $1,500 00 5th. Damage and benefit maps, two (2) sets of final copies. I '1'ransitnlan .... ...... .. .... ...... 1,320 00 6th. Profiles and miscellaneous maps required by the Commissioners of Estimate and Assess- I Chainman ...... ...... 980 00 ment. 2 Axemen, at $600 each ...... 1,200 00 7th. Preparation of maps and catalogues for the sale of buildings and other encroachments --- 5,000 on I aken by the City in acquiring title. Requisition, petty disbursements, etc ...... ...... 2,000 00 About two hundred and fifty proceedings are pending, and probably one hundred and fifty Chief Engineer (one-quarter salary, both Bureaus) .... ...... 1,250 oe more will be requested by the Board of Street Opening and Improvement during 1897. This work is of great importance, and the greatest accuracy is required to determine which Total...... $38,550 00 pieces or parcels of land are required for the legal opening of streets. The cost of this work, as For the Purchase and Repair of Surveying Instruments, .-Ip/aratus, etc. done by this Department, is from forty to fifty per cent, lower than the rates for such work allowed The, increased work of the Bureau and the additional labor imposed by the territory added to to City surveyors. purpose be $50,000 00 the City east of the Bronx river make it necessary that a larger appropriation for this Lstimated cost ...... made this year. An appropriation has to be made for printing notices of public hearings in the matters of I request, as follows adopting plans of sewerage systems and of auctions for the sale of incumbrances on legally opened 2 Combination transits, at $350 each . ...... $700 00 streets. 2 Levels, at $150 each ...... ...... ...... 300 00 Estimated cost ...... ...... $500 00 3 Leveling rods ...... 50 00 Tapes, plumb-bobs, etc ...... 100 00 Total...... $65,500 00 ----- $1,150 00 Repairs on instruments, etc ...... ...... 350 on 26lantnnenlitg Avenues and Streets. 2,000 oo The street system in the Twenty-third Ward, and in that part of the "Twenty-fourth Ward For draughting supplies ...... ...... west of the Bronx river, is shown on twenty-eight maps or plan pages, and fifty-eight profile pages, 00 00 which were filed prior to January 1, 1896. It is necessary to establish the location of avenues and Total..... ..... ...... $3,5 street, on the ground, and to set the monument stones and bolts at the proper offset lines at the For Making Rock or other Soundings or Borings, etc. street intersections and at the changes of courses. Careful work tinder this head will reduce to a minimum variations between preliminary and Instructions have to be prepared by the office force for making necessary surveys, and a num- final estimates of quantities, a consideration which will be, of course, appreciated. ber of field parties mist be employed in running transverse lines and setting monuutent stones and I request the following appropriation : bolts. Regulating, Grading, Paving, etc. Five thousand seven hundred and eighteen (5,718) monuments will be required for the twenty- 2 Chainmen, at $85o each ...... $1,700 00 eight sections into which the Twenty-third and 'Twenty-fourth Wards were subdivided. The 6 Laborers, at $a per day ...... 3,300 00 estimated cost for setting monument stones, including office and field work, is $16 per monument. --- $5,000 00 It is supposed that calculations for about 1,300 monuments can be made and stones set. An Sewers and Appurtenanees. appropriation of $21,000 should be made therefor. In addition to this amount, the sum of 2 Chainmen, at $1,000 each .... ...... $2,000 00 $2,000 will be required for traveling expenses, repairing, instruments, etc. 16 Laborers, at $2 per clay ...... ...... 8,Soo 00 Estimated cost ...... ...... ....,...... $23,030 00 ------to,800 on Suvveyirrg, Laying-out and Making Topographical Survey and Maps of that Portion of Twenly- Williarnsbridge Oface. lourth Ward Lying East of Bronx River. I Chainman ...... $900 00 The triangulation of the territory east of the Bronx river, connecting the same with the coast 3 Laborers, at $2 per clay ...... 1,650 00 survey, has been begun, and a number of surveying parties are in the field making the topograph- --- 2,550 no ical survey. The general plan for laying out the street system is in progress. Estimated cost ...... ...... $55,000 00 Total...... $18,350 on Making Tax Maps, Twenty-Aiird and Twenty-fourth Wards. APPLIANCES FOR SOUNDING AND BORING-TOOLS AND APPARATUS, CARTS, ETC. The plan for the street system in the Twenty-third Ward, and in that part of the Regulating, Grading, Paving, etc. Twenty-fourth Ward lying westerly of the Bronx river, having been completed and a new street- For additional tools, apparatus, carts, etc ...... $boo 00 system, differing in a great many instances from the former plan, having been filed, it becomes For repairs, etc ...... ...... 100 00 necessary to remodel the maps which are in the use of the Department of Taxes and Assessments. --- $)0o no It is impossible to make such corrections on the existing maps, and an entirely new set of maps Sewers and Appurtenances. will have to be prepared. There are 9 volumes containing 225 maps of the Twenty-third Ward, For additional tools, apparatus, etc ...... $1,000 no and 12 volumes containing 325 maps of the Twenty-fourth Ward. For repairs ...... 200 00 Estimated cost (first year) ...... $10,000 00 ------I,200 00

THURSDAY, SEP'IEMBEk 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD. 2547

IVillian:sbridge Office. O'Connor, Michael I'.....September 27, 1896. Shepard, Gerald F...... September 18, 1896. For tools, apparatus, etc ...... $800 oo Payne, Timothy F ...... 18, " Sichel, Maurice ...... 18, For repairs, etc ...... too 00 Phillips, H ...... " 18, " Solomon, David ...... 27, -- - $goo 00 Phyte, Alexander R 27, " Wells, William J...... " 2, Platzek, Al. Warley 2 Weinberg, George ...... , " 18, Total...... $3,000 00 Schappert, John A ...... 2, STANDARD BENCH MARKS. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. The work of establishing bench marks has been continued throughout the year, as the improve- ments have extended into new sections. The President laid before the Board the following communication from the District Attorney'- I request that provision be made as follows: Office : t Assistant Engineer ...... $1,500 00 DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, September 7, 1896. it Rodman ...... ...... I,000 00 To the Honorable Board of Aldermen 2 Axemen, at $6o0 ...... ...... 1,200 00 GENTLEnIEN-In compliance with section 189 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, I herewith transmit an estimate in writing, being the Departmental Estimate in said act Total ...... $3,700 00 referred to, of the amount necessary in conducting the business of the District Attorney's Office of SHADE TREES. the City and County of New York for the year 1897, specifying in detail the objects of such For the Purchase, Planting and Maintaining of Shade Trees on Streets and Avenues Regulated, expenditure and including a statement of the salaries of each of the officers, clerks, employees and Graded, etc., to Permanent Grade and Lines. subordinates in such office as follows : In improving and widening old roads it is the custom to preserve all shade trees where possi- ble, but it can be readily understood that the conditions are rarely such as will permit this result. For salary of the District Attorney (section 1503 of the Consolidation Act of 1882)... $12,000 00 The outlay for doing this work will be light compared to the benefit derived, both in comfort For salary of eight Assistant District Attorneys at $7,500 each (section 1503 of the afforded by the shade and in picturesque effect. It is, perhaps, in any event, no more than right Consolidation Act of 1882, as amended by chapter 693, Laws of 1895)...... 6o,000 co where g.)od trees are removed to permit street improvements that they should be restored, or, at For salary of Deputy Assistants, Clerks, Employees and Subordinates...... 113,080 00 least, new ones put in place of them. For fees and compensation of Stenographer to Grand Jury (chapter 348, Laws of 1885) 2,500 00 I respectfully urge an appropriation as follows 5,000 shade trees, maple or other suitable variety ...... $20,000 00 Total ...... $187.58o 00 FOR REBUILDING RECEIVING-BASINS, ETC. For expenses in procuring the arrest of prisoners in this and other States, attendance In view of the fact that many chant es have been and are being made in the position, width, of witnesses from other States, expert witnesses, fares, law hooks, postage, tele- etc., of streets and avenues in old localities, it frequently becomes necessary to change the position grams, messenger and telephone service and other necessaries for the office..... 20,000 c') of receiving-basins, manholes, sewers and drains so as to conform to the new condition. These structures are also subjected to more or less damage, and need repairing frequently. A fund For expenses for telephone service, law books and other contingencies, being defi- vhonl l be available for this purpose so that the matter may receive immediate attention. ciency and arrearages ...... ...... 6,500 a; Irequest the sum of ...... ...... ..... ...... $4,000 00 For fees of Clerk of Court of General Sessions in furnishing certified copies of indict- LIST OF EMPLOYEES -BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION. ments and other records ...... 4,500 0. I Chief Engineer ...... $5,000 00 ' 1 Rodman...... $1,200 00 The net appropriation for salaries for the current year was $172,350. 3 Assistant Engineers, at $3,000. To this was added an 9,000 00 I Rodman .... ...... 1,140 00 appropriation of $7,500, made July last, for the appointment of Assistants and Clerks under the 4 Assistant Engineers, at $1,800. 7,200 00 3 Rodmen, at $i,o8o ...... .... 3,240 00 new liquor tax law and other requirements of the office, which additional appropriation then mad,- I Assistant Engineer ...... 1,740 00 2 Rodmen, at $1,020...... 2,040 00 was equivalent to an appropriation of $15,000 for the entire year, thus practically making th,- t Assistant Engineer ...... I,68o 0o j 5 Rodmen, at $960 ...... 4,800 00 appropriations to my salary account for the year 1896 on the basis of $187,350 ; the estimate 6,; 4 Assi.taut Engineers, at $1,620, 6,480 00 3 Rodmen, at $900 ...... 2,700 OD net salary account of $185,080 for 1897, therefore, is $2,270 less than the allowance for the yeai I Assistant Engineer ...... 1,380 00 1 Chainman ...... I,o8o oo 1896. 2 A'sistant Engineers, at $1,200. 2,400 00 1 Chainman ...... ...... 960 00 I Assistant ...... .... 1,56o oo i Chainman ...... .... goo 00 The appropriation of $20,000 for contingencies is the same amount as was appropriated for I Assistant ...... I,5oo 00 1 2 Chainmen, ac $840...... 1,680 00 this year, which is the normal amount required to meet the running expenses of the office. I Assistant ...... 1,320 00 1 5 Chainuten, at $780...... 3,900 00 The appropriation of $6,500 for arrearages is due to the fact that, by reason of extraordinary I Assistant ...... 1,200 00 i 5 r'hainmen, at $720...... 3,600 oo charges arising against the contingency account for 1896, notably in the prosecution of the police 2 :Xssistants, at $1,140...... 2,280 00 1 Chainman ...... 660 oo bribery cases, the Fleming murder trial, etc., that fund, applicable to the payment of the running 2 Assistants, at $1,020...... 2,040 00 2 Chainmen, at $600...... 1,200 00 expenses of the office and ordinarily sufficient therefor, has become practically exhausted, and the 2 Computers, at $I,o80...... 2,160 00 1 Axeman ...... t,oSo oo liabilities contracted against the same will have to be met by this appropriation for deficiencies. I Draughtsman ...... 1,320 co t Axeman ...... 780 00 I am, respectfully yours, JOHN R. FELLOWS, District Attorney. I Drauihtsman ...... ...... 1,200 00 2 Axemen, at $66o ...... .. .. 1,320 00 2 Draughtsmen, at $1,020...... 2,040 00 8 Axemen, at $600 .. ...... 4,800 00 John R. Fellows, District Attorney.. $12,000 Co I John O'Connor, Calendar Clerk, I Draughtsman ...... g6o 00 I Cement Inspector...... 1,140 00 Bartow S. Weeks, Assistant District i Part IV .. ...... 1,200 00 I Draughtsman ...... 600 oo t Typewriter ...... 840 00 Attorney ...... 7,500 00 John J. Buckley, Calendar Clerk, I Mechanical Draughtsman ..... 1,200 OD I Clerk ...... 1,500 00 Vernon Al. Davis, Assistant District Supreme Court ...... 1,250 00 I Mechanical Draughtsman .. ., goo Oo I Clerk ...... 1,200 00 Attorney ...... . ... 7,500 00 James A. Donegan, Bail Clerk...... 1,300 00 I Mechanical Draughtsman ... 780 00 1 Clerk ...... I,o8o 00 John F. McIntyre, Assistant District Pierce N. Poole, Assistant Bail Clerk 1,200 00 I 'L'ransitman ...... 1,320 00 1 Clerk ...... goo 00 Attorney ...... 7,500 00 Adolph Sanger, Record Clerk...... I,5oo 00 3 'I'ransitmen, at $1,200...... 3,600 00 t Junior Clerk ...... 600 OD John N. Lewis, Assistant District John Creighton, Assistant Record I Transitman ...... 1,020 00 --_ Attorney ...... ... . 7,500 00 Clerk . .. ...... .. .. . 1,200 00 I Leveler ...... 1,140 00 Total...... $107,600 00 John 1). Lindsay, Assistant District David Anderson, Liquor Tax Clerk. 1,200 00 I Leveler ...... 1,080 Oe I Attorney...... 7,500 00 Francis J. Gunner, Liquor Tax Sub- James W. Osborne, Assistant District RECAPITULATION. pacna Server ...... .... .. . 1,000 oo Salaries-Office of Commissioner of Street Improvements, Twenty-third and Twenty- Attorney ...... ..... 7,500 00 Matthew F. Lynch, Liquor'l'ax Sub- fourth Wards-To pay entirely the salaries of the Commissioner, his Deputy and Robert Townsend, Assistant District poena Server ...... l,000 00 Attorney.... .. ...... ... ... 7,500 00 the clerical force in his office ...... .. $26,550 00 Thomas Kean, Librarian ...... 1,000 00 Stephen J. O'Hare, Assistant District Edward Telephonic services and contingences ...... .... J. Cull, I)raugbtsman...... 840 00 1,500 00 Attorney ...... ..... ... 7,500 00 Maintenance-Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards-For the maintenance of Alfred Herring, Copyist...... 475 00 streets, roads and avenues, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, including George Gordon Battle, Deputy As- Valentine Carleton, Indictment Clerk 1,200 00 supplies, salaries and wages of all persons employed on the work, and including sistant District Attorney...... 5,000 00 Charles J. Gossweiler, Grand Jury Francis V. S. Oliver, Deputy Assist- sprinkling macadamized roads ...... ...... 592,190 00 Clerk ...... 1,3oo 00 ant District Attorney...... New stables and workshops ...... 20,000 4,500 00 ! Jeremiah F. Kennaly, Register Clerk 1,250 00 co Forbes J. Hennessy, DeputyAs,istant Bronx River and other Bridges-Repairing and maintenance of ...... John W. Reilly, Office Clerk. 1,200 00 8,000 00 District Attorney .. ...... Cromwell's Creek Bridge-Repairing and maintenance of ...... ...... 1,000 00 .. . 4,000 00 Robert E. Nicholls, Stenographer... 1,300 00 Bridges Crossing the New York and Harlem Railroad Depressions in the Twenty- Randolph B. Martine, Deputy Assist- Labelle E. Shortridge, Stenographer 1,200 00 alit District Attorney...... third and Twenty-fourth Wards...... .. ... ... 5,000 00 4,000 00 , Kate Gould, Stenographer...... 1,000 o0 Sewers and Drains, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards-For the rebuilding, Henry C. Allen, Deputy Assistant William H. Broderick, Chief Sub- District Attorney...... cleaning and repairing of sewers and drains and for the construction of tem- 3,250 00 i poena Server ...... ..... 1,400 00 Alfred Lauterbach, Deputy Assistant porary drains, as requested by the Health Department ...... 50,000 00 Joseph F. O'Neill, Subpoena Server. 1,200 00 Topographical Bureau. District Attorney ..... ...... 3,250 00 1 Eugene Coffey, Subpoena Server ... 1,200 00 Terence J. McManus, Deputy Assist- Jefferson Surveying, Laying-out, Maps, Plans etc .. ..... .... ...... ...... . 65,500 00 F. O'Reilly, Subpoena ant District Attorney...... . .. 2,750 00 Server ...... ... . 1200 00 Monumenting avenues and streets establishing under authority of chapter 545 of the .. .. . .. Jacob Berlinger, Deputy Assistant Michael Roche, Subpoena Server.... Laws of 1890, and chapter 443 Of the Laws of 1893 ...... ...... • ...... 23, 00 1,200 00 Surveying, Laying-out and Making Topographical Survey and Maps of new part District Attorney ...... 2,400 00 Frank Dowling, Subpceua Server... 1,200 00 Henry S. Davis, Deputy Assistant of Twenty-fourth Ward ...... 55,000 00 Theodore Sc,hoeppler, Subpoena Making Tax Maps of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, in conformity District Attorney ...... 2,CA)O 00 Server...... .... 1,200 00 Ezekiel R.'fhompson, Deputy Assist- with Final Maps and Profiles...... Io,000 00 James F. Seery, Subpmna Server... 1,200 00 ant District Attorney...... ..... 1,500 00 Copying Records and Maps on file in the Register's Office at White Plains...... t,5oo 00 Cornelius Roche, Subpoena Server. , 1,200 00 Keyron J. O'Connor, Deputy Assist- Lithographing and Printing-Final Maps and Profiles ...... 5,000 00 Patrick Brady, Subpoena Server .... 1,200 00 Construction Bureau. ant District Attorney... ...... , . r,000 00 Charles Becker, Subpeena Server ... 1,200 00 Preliminary Surveys, Estimates, and the Preparation of Plans, Specifications, etc... Edward 1'. Flynn, Secretary...... 3,800 00 John J Moore, Subpoena Server.... 1,100 00 38,550 00 Henry W. Unger, Deputy Assistant Purchase and Repair of Surveying Instruments, Apparatus, etc ...... 00 James F. Lynch, Subpoena Server... t, too oo 3,500 and Chief Clerk ...... 5,000 00 Joseph A. Redmond, Making Rock Soundings, Borings, etc...... ...... 18,350 00 Subpoena Sounding and Boring Machinery-For the purchase of appliances for tools and William J. McKenna, First Deputy Server ...... ...... 1,000 00 Chief Clerk ...... 3,000 00 apparatus, carts, etc ...... 3,000 00 Thomas E. Holland, Subpoena Andrew Fay, Second Deputy Chief Standard Bench-marks ...... .. ...... 3,700 00 Server ...... t,000 00 Clerk ...... 2,000 00 Richard Couch, Subpoena Server..., Purchase and Planting of Shade Trees ...... ...... 20,000 00 1,000 00 William H. Rachan, Witness Certifi- Rebuilding Receiving-basins, etc ...... 4,000 00 James Owens, Subpoena Server..... i, 00 cate Clerk .. ...... 2,000 00 Hugh R. McFadden, Subpoena ames Smith, Clerk, Part I...... 1,500 00 Server ...... Grandtotal ...... $955,340 00 J ...... 1,000 00 Respectfully submitted, Cornelius Leary, Clerk, Part II..... 1,200 00 William Fuchslocker, Subpoena Harry Bickart, Clerk, Part Ill ... 1,200 00 LOUIS F. HAFFEN, Commissioner of Street Improvements of the Twenty-third and Server ...... 1,000 00 Twenty-fourth Wards. William Gallagher, Clerk, Part IV„ 1,200 00 Joseph Johnson, Subpoena Server., . 1,000 co Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Edmund V. Greene, Clerk, Supreme James McAloon, Subpoena Server... r,000 00 Court ...... The President laid before the Board +.he following communication from the County Clerk ...... 1,200 00 John J. Donohue, Chief Messenger. 1,300 00 David H. Sheerin, Clerk, Special Tony McCarthy, Messenger...... COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, NEW YORK, September 6, 1896. 1,200 00 Hon. JOHN JEROLOMAN, President, Board of Aldermen. Sessions Court ...... t,2oo 00 John Redmond, Messenger...... I,0o0 00 John F. Brennan, Calendar Clerk, DEAR StR-Inclosed find list of names of Commissioners of Deeds whose terms of office will Timothy Golden, Messenger...... i,000 oo expire during the present month. Respectfully, HENRY D. PURROY, County Clerk. Part I ...... 1,200 00 John Thistle, Messenger...... 750 00 John J. Carroll, Calendar Clerk, Joseph McCue, Messenger ...... 6o 00 Term Expires. Term Expires. Part II ...... ...... . 1,300 00 Harold Halliday, Messenger...... 640 oo Blauvelt, Ella C ...... September 2, 1896. Hotaling, George P...... September 23, 1896. Thomas F. Maguire, Calendar Clerk, Richard Battersby, Messenger...... 575 OD Benjamin, B. P ...... `< 18, `• Harlem, I. W...... " 27, Part III ...... I,300 00 Billington, Reno R...... " t8, " Hamilton, Frank C ...... " 27, " Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Bloch, Adolph ...... 18, " Isaaca, Isaac S...... 27, " Bissinger, John P ...... 18, " Jessup, Charles B...... " 23, " The President laid before the Board the following communication from the County Clerk : Babcock, David E...... 27, " Jacobs, David... ...... 27, COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, NEW YORK, September 8, 1896. Brady, Peter P...... " a7, " Krulewitch, Isaac A " 2, " To the Honorable Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Brookheim, Julius A " 27, " Kruger, Ella J...... 18, Cohen, Isidore ...... 18, " Kennelly, William H..... 18, " GENTLEMEN-I have the honor to herewith transmit the following estimate for the County Clerk's office for the year 1897 Casey, Joseph P...... 18, " Lewis, James T...... " 18, Clark, John E ...... 27, " Lohse, Christian F...... 18, Salary, County Clerk (chapter 299, Salaries of Searching Department... $t8,g8o oo Cleveland, J. Wray...... 27, " Lorch, Felix...... 27, Laws of 1884) ...... $15,000 00 For Contingencies ...... . 400 00 Dempsey. J. A..... ..... 18, •` Leland, F. S...... " 27, Salariesof Deputy Clerk, Comparing Estimate of expense necessary for Durrant, Reginald S 27, " Matthews, Patrick ...... 18, Clerks, Recording Clerks, Docket carrying out the requirements of Egan, John A ...... ... 27, " Merk, F. W ...... " 18, << Clerks, Stenographer, Custodians, chapter 536, Laws of 1893-Chief Flanagan, Thomas H " 2, " Mathewson, Douglas ..... 27, Messengers and Janitor (chapter Clerk, Clerks, books and sta- Morris ...... 18, " Morrison, Abraham...... " 27, " 295, Laws of 1884), and 2 Clerks tionery ...... t i,000 00 Freeman, Jacob...... 27, " Mylius, Adolph...... " 27, of Records of the old Superior and Gilroy, William J...... " 27, " Marsh, E. Grant...... 22, " Common Pleas Courts (chapter Total ...... $97,230 Co Hershfield, David...... 18, " Nunan, Denis ...... " 18, " 885, Laws of 1896) ...... 51,850 00 18, " Hullihan, William ...... O'Neil, Charles A...... " 2, Very respectfully, HENRY D. I'URROY, County Clerk. 2548 THE CITY RECORD 'I H U I:SDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, i S56

EST MATLS FOR SALARIKS-COUNTY CLZRK'S OFFICE, 1897. David J. Daly, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part II ...... $1,500 os Henry D. Purroy, County Clerk... , $i,000 00 Michael J. Deviney, Clerk of Old 'Thomas Boese, Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, fart III .... ...... .... I'. J. Scully, Deputy County Clerk. 4,001 o~ 5,000 0o Records . ...... $1,000 00 Edwin M. Coe, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part III...... 1,500 o0 John A. Wrede, Cashier...... 2,250 00 Louis G. Ilassett, Custodian of Nicholas J. Hayes, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part III ...... I William H. Ilornidge,JudgmentRoll, 5 o0 o9 Records ...... ...... I,000 00 Joseph F. Earley, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part III...... I,Soo a Docket and Assistant Law Clerk. 2,250 00 John W. Mott, Custodian of Lispen- James B. F. Smith, Ass:stant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part IV...... 2,000 o0 Thomas F. Penny, Certificate Clerk 2,250 00 (lens Room ...... ...... 1,000 00 Clifford Boese, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part V ...... 2,000 0. Patrick Curley, Clerk of Records and Jacob Blumenthal, Subpoena Duces J. H. Hobart Ward, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part VI...... 2,000 ora Recording Index Clerk...... 2,000 00 ! Tecum Clerk ...... ... 1,000 00 William J. hill, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part VII, .... , ..... 2,000 o0 Erastui C. Wilson, Chief Docket I Michael Whelan, Assistant Clerk William H. Buck, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part VIII ..... .. 2,000 o0 Clerk .... ...... ...... 1,500 00 ! Records and Messenger...... 1,050 00 Frederick D. Storey, Stenographer, Appellate Division ...... 2,500 oe Charles Raah, Transcript Docket Vacancy, Assistant Clerk Records Benjamin H. Doane, Stenographer, Appellate Division ...... 2,500 o0 Clerk ...... 1,200 0o and Messenger...... 800 00 Emilie M. Rautenberg, Stenographer, Appellate Division ...... 2,5 -o oo Henry M. Jennings, Mechanics' Lien Andrew J. Ford, Messenger and William C. Iluson, Stenographer, Criminal'1'erm, Part I ...... 2,500 o0 Docket Clerk ...... 1,200 00 Janitor...... I,000 00 William A. Donnell, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part II .. ...... 2,500 00 Caesar Loforte, Lispendens Docket Norman Andrus, Jr., Messenger... goo 00 Edwin N. Robbins, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part III ...... z„oo 00 Clerk ,,,,,,, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,, , , , 1,100 00 i William Steigerwald, Janitor ...... 750 00 Edwin A. Kingsley, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part IV ...... 2,500 0o Michael J. Deery, Comparing Clerk 1,400 Oct Joseph I1. 1lolland, Stenographer... 1,500 00 John Cotter, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part V ...... 2,500 00 Charles C. Marrin, • 1,200 Oct Edward J. Atkinson, Searcher...... 2,500 00 Peter J. Loughlin, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part VI .. ... ...... 2,500 o0 Maurice ti. 1)e Vries, Docket Com- Bernard J. Gallagher, " ...... 2,000 Co Bartholomew Moynahan, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part VII ...... ..... 2,500 00 paring Clerk ...... 1,200.... 1,200 00 JohnJ Kennedy,Y, , ..... 2,000 Co James E. Munson, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part VIII ...... 2,500 00 I harks F. Flillsburgh, Recording Philip 13, Benjamin, " ...... 2,000 00 Jolln Standfast, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part IX ...... 2,500 00 and Index Clerk ...... 1,300 00 Henry Berlinger, ...... 2,000 00 Edward J. Shalvey, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part X...... 2,500 0o Charles A. Soteldo, Limited Partner- j Vacancy, " ... 2,000 00 William F. Bonynge, Stenographer, Trial Term, Part II ...... 2,500 00 ship Clerk ...... 1,200 00 Joseph L. Moss, Index and Continua. Albert E. Cochran, Stenographer, Special 'Term, Part I ...... 2,50 00 Frederick C. Klinker, General As- tion Clerk ...... 1,500 00 James J. Ncalis, Stenographer, Special Term, Part II ...... 2,500 00 signment Clerk ...... 1,000 Co Peter J. Heinlein, Custodian and John P. Martin, Stenographer, Special Term, Part III ...... 2,500 00 John M. Willis, Recording and Copying Clerk ...... 1,200 o-) Robert Macklin, Stenographer, Special Term, Part IV ...... 2,500 cc Assistant Equity Clerk ...... 1,200 00 William H. Driscoll, Custodian and Henry D. Alexander, Stenographer, Special 'Perin, Part V ...... 2,500 00 William If. Kehue, Assistant Cashier 1,000 Oct Copying Clerk...... 1,000 00 Clifton B. Bull, Stenographer, Special Term, fart VI ...... 2,500 o0 .Joseph L. Ilaskin, Chief Recording John Fitzpatrick, Custodian...... 780 00 Robert Bonynge, Stenographer, Special Term, Part VII ...... z,5ea 00 Clerk ...... ...... 1,200 00 !1 John B. Shea, Clerk of Old Records 2,500 00 Henry G. Smith, Stenographer, Special Term, Part VIII ...... ...... 2,500 00 James C.Me Shane, Recording Clerk 1,200 0o James ll1leche.Jo 2,500 00 laugo Schulties, Interpreter ...... ...... 2,500 00 Edward' J. horn, 1,200 00 George Dessoye, Searcher...... , . 2,000 00 J ohn 1I. Loos, Naturalization Clerk ...... 1,500 00 Thomas Loughlirt, t,000 00 Estimate of expense necessary for Joseph I1. Brown, Naturalization Clerk ...... 1,5oo 00 Thomas F. Commerlord, 1,000 00 carrying out the requirements of John W. Guntzer, Naturalization Clerk ...... r,5oo Go Edward Kenny, " 1,000 00 ~ chapter 536, Laws of 1893-Chief William P. Richardson, Stationery Clerk ...... 1,50 00 William O' Brien, • 1,000 00 1 Clerk, Clerks, books and stationery i t,000 Co Marcus W. Hehbard, Clerk to Van Brunt, P.J ...... ...... t 800 o0 John E. Rooney, Clerk of Old i - David J. Lees, Clerk to Lawrence, J ...... ...... 2,50 00 Records ...... I,000 Co Total. ...... $97,230 00 Peter McAleer, Clerk to Andrews, J . ...... ...... 1,800 oo COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, NEW YORK, September 8, 1896. George T. Campbell, Clerk to Patterson, J . ...... 1,800 00 Gti`'rLE.MEN-In accordance with the provisions of chapter 57, Laws of 1883, and chapter 467, Augustus H. Murphy, Clerk to O' Brien, J ...... ...... 1,800 00 Laws of 1890, 1 hereby certify that the work certified in a communication to your Honorable Samuel 1). Davis, Clerk to Ingrah.uu, J ...... 2,500 co Board, under date of September 24, 1886, requires for the year 1897 an appropriation of fourteen David R. Daly, Clerk to Giegerich, J ...... 1,800 00 thousand six hundred dollars ($14,600), to be expended as follows : Samuel Shortridge, Clerk to Beekman, J ...... ...... 2,000 Oct Forsalaries, II Clerks ...... ...... $12,300 00 Robert P. Williams, Clerk to Williams, J ...... ...... 2,500 00 1orsalaries, 2 Bookbinders ...... 1,80 00 David Rumscy, Clerk to Rtunsey, J.. ...... 2,500 Oct Ir Pooki>inders' materials, stationery, etc ...... ...... 50 0 John P. Browning, Clerk to Bookstaver,J ...... .. 1,800 Oct Frederick Kropp, Clerk tc Dugro, J ...... I,8o 0o Total .... .... .. .. ...... ..... ..... .... $14,600 00 A. Sidney Norton, Clerk to Daly, J ...... ...... 2,500 00 I also inclose herewith a detailed statement showing the names of the Temporary Clerks and William J. A. McKim, Clerk to Bischoff, J ...... ...... 2,500 01) 1;. ,kbinders aforesaid. Very respectfully, HENRY D. PURROY, County Clerk. Thomas F. Keogh, Clerk to McAdam, J ...... 2,500 00 Reginald H. Williams, Clerk to Gildersleeve, J ...... 1,800 Oo ESTIMATES FOR SALARIES=TEMPORARY CLERKS FOR 1897. ohn dames (. Fitz Gerald, Chief 'Tempo- Arthur Arctander, Temporary J llermingham, Clerk to Smyth, J ...... 2,50 Oo Re- Obed 11. Sanderson, Clerk to Pryor, rary Recording Clerk...... ..... S1,400 00 1 cording Clerk ...... $r,15o Co J ...... 2,500 00 Arthur D. Truax, Clerk to Truax, J Michael J. \Valsh, Assistant Tempo- John Reid, Temporary Recording .. ...... 2,500 00 Raymond I). Thurber, Clerk to Barrett, J ...... ...... ...... rary Recording Clerk...... 1,225 00 Clerk ...... 75 00 1,800 00 John S. Hill, Temporary Recording Thomas Daly, Temporary Recording Gerald H. Gray, Clerk to Sedgwick, J ...... .... 1,800 00 Frank A. Erwin, Clerk to MacLean, J...... Clerk ...... 1,075 00 Clerk ...... I,o75 00 ...... 2,500 00 Vacancy, Clerk to john F. Carrol, Temporary Record- Beach, J ...... 2,500 00 • John E. Mulry, Bookbinder ...... t,000 00 Lewis H. Freedman, ing Clerk ...... I,o75 00 ...... Clerk to Freedman, 1 ...... t,800 00 ...... Daniel J. Dunn, 800 00 Julia F. Walsh, Typewritist, Thomas J• Cronin, Temporary Re- Appellate Division ...... 1,200 o0 cording Clerk ...... 00 I,000 $14,100 00 SUPREME COURT ATTENDANTS. William J. Martin, Temporary Re- For stationery, binders' material, George W. Nash ...... cording Clerk ...... I,075 ao bookbinders, etc.... ...... 500 00 $i,000 o j Theodore J. Henry ...... ...... $1,20 00 lames F. Roon, Temporary Record- - Nathaniel A. Jarvis...... . I,oco 0o I Thomas Sweeny ...... 1,200 00 i 1,075 John 11. Bambach ...... i,000 0o John G. 'sVestfall...... I,000 00 ng Clerk ...... 00 '1'otal...... $14,600 00 \icholas I. Eberhard, Temporary Andrew l3 McDonald...... I,000 Oct John W. Jones ...... I,00 00 John J. Recording Clerk ...... taco no Breen ...... I,000 cc Aaron M. Ehrlich ...... I,000 00 Edward J. Hastings ...... Very respectfully, HENRY D. PURROY, County Clerk. I,00 0o Matthew Patten ...... 1,000 00 Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. John J. Doyle ...... I,oco o George A. Tallman ...... I,00 00 Michael Martin ...... 1,20 0o George L. Green ...... 1,000 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from the County Clerk, for Michael Brophy ...... 1,200 o James P. Rogers...... 'supreme Court : I,000 00 Philip Furlong ...... i,000 oo Andrew Hanneman...... I,000 cc 'UPREMF. COURT-COUN't'Y CLERK'S OFFICE, NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, NEW YORK, Henry Q. Howe ...... I,000 oo ; James Murphy ...... , 1896. 1,000 Oct 1i the /ionorable Board of Estimate and Apport onnieni Alexander J. McConnell..... ... I,00 0o John H. Hackett ...... ..... t,000 00 t,EN'rt.t•:Mu.N-'I he Justices of the Supreme Court submit to your Honorable Board the follow. Thomas Brennan ...... I,000 0o John Schutz ...... 1,200 00 ing estimate for their Court for the year 1897 : ohn K. Arnold ...... ... 1,200 00 Julio [McQuade...... Salaries of Justices ..... J 1,000 no ...... ...... ...... ...... $325,00 00 Joseph H. Treanor ...... ... i,000 0o Albert Stern ...... Salaries of Clerks, Criers, Librarians, Stenographers and Interpreters ...... I,o. o oo 149,700 00 Itlichael L. Burke ...... I,000 oo John F. Fitzpatrick ...... 1,000 00 24 Justices' Clerks, at $2,500 each ...... 6o,00a oo James E. McVeaney ...... 1,20 00 James Campbell...... ... I,oco 00 to Attendants, at $1,-o each ...... 12,000 00 ohn McCartny ...... l,000 o John Murphy...... `6 Attendants, at J ...... 1,200 00 $i,000 each ...... :...... 86,00 co James McGuire ...... t,000 c John J. McCarthy...... ... I,000 00 t •Oinpcnbation of justices from other counties . ...... 25,000 CO Thomas F. O'Connor...... I,00 Oct Adolph Schillinger .. ...... I,000 0o Joseph P. Strack ...... .. I,o o cc John \V. Martin ...... 1,200 00 Total...... ...... . $657,700 00 John J. McDermott...... .. I,000 oo David Cahn ...... ..... I,000 00 Very respectfully, HENRY D. PURROY, County Clerk. George Schan ...... t,00 00 John Rottkatnp ...... 1,000 00 EsY1l7A"mE:.ti FOR SALARIES FOR THE SCPREME COURT, 1897. Charles Dremel ...... I,000 00 William G. Clark...... r,oco 00 t:ftarles IL Van Brunt...... t1,500 00 1 Miles Beach ...... ...... $17,500 00 Michael Sullivan ...... I,000 0o Robert J. Browne...... .... I,oao co Abraham R. Lawrence ...... 11,500 00 ; Henry W. Boukstaver...... 17,50 00 James Green ...... r,000 0o J, Louis Strahan...... I,oco 00 George C. Barrett ...... 11,500 00 Henry Bischoff, Jr...... 17,500 00 Hiram Van Tassel ...... 1,000 o George P. Raynaud...... I,00 00 t;eorge P. Andrews ...... 11,500 o Roger A. Prvor ... ...... 17,50 00 James E. Ricketts ...... I,000 uo Thomas J. Dolan ...... 1,000 no Edward Patterson ...... 11.500 o Leonard A. Giegerich...... 17,500 00 George I. Woolley ...... i,000 oo Daniel A. Sheehan...... I,000 00 Morgan J. O'Brien ...... 11.500 00 John Sedgwick ...... . 17,50 00 Lynn W. Thompson ..... ..... r,00 00 John Garnett ...... I,000 00 (,eorue 1..ln taham ...... Ii,Soo Oo Jahn J. Freedman ...... 17,500 00 Jaya A. Gibbs ...... I,000 cc Peter W. Maguire...... I,o0 00 Charles F. M ac Lean ...... I:t,5oo Oct P. Henry Dugro ...... .... 17,500 00 Redmond Keating ...... I,000 00 Frederick Merz ...... 1,200 00 I.rederick Smnyth ...... 11,500 00 David McAdam...... 17,500 00 Kane cc Martin Saibert ...... 1,00 00 Charles II. Truax ...... 11,500 00 henry A. Gildersleeve...... 17,500 00 JThomas ...... I,o o Edward R. Watson ...... .... I,000 00 Tn eph 1`. I)aly ...... 17,500 no , Henry R. Beckman ...... 17,50 00 William I-I. Tisdale ...... t,000 0o Albert F. Wehle ...... t,000 0 SUPREME COURT CLERKS. Samuel Scheuer ...... 1,000 00 ~ John F. Bcrrigan ...... t,00 00 Edward J. Stapleton, Jaw Clerk ...... $3,500 00 Patrick Daly ...... I,000 00 John D. Newman...... I,000 00 George II.hahrbach, Equity Clerk ..... ...... 3,50 00 Alexander B. Smith ...... I,00 00 John F. McCabe...... 1,000 00 Thomas S. plume, Librarian ...... 2,500 00 William P. Meehan ...... i,000 Oct John G. Roesch...... t,eo,1 o0 William G. Scott, Assistant Librarian ...... 2,000 00 Thomas J. McCormick ...... 1,000 Oct James I . Wallace ...... 1,000 00 William II. Ricketts, Crier ...... ...... ...... a.,5-o 00 James Owens, Jr ...... ...... t,000 00 John F. Reilly...... 1,000 00 William J. Lynch, Assistant Crier ...... ...... 2,000 00 Edward II. Finney ...... t,000 cc James W.Lecfwith...... 1,000 00 William Lamb, Jr., Special Deputy Clerk, Appellate Division ...... 2,500 00 Jeremiah F. Collins ..... ...... I,000 oo Albert Sanders ...... 1,000 00 Denis A. \lcLaughlin, A>si,taut Deputy Clerk, Appellate Division ...... 2,000 00 Edwin A. Watson ...... I,000 oo i William A. Whelpley ...... 1,00 00 Peter I,. Ilalpin, Assistant l)epnty Cletk, Appellate Division ...... 2,cOO 00 Hugo Kraemer...... I,000 oo Nicholas Haughtcn ...... 1,000 00 John F. Carroll, Clerk, Criminal Term, ]'art I ...... 2,00 00 lleur B.Ilenze ...... ...... i,00 oo James R. Cherry...... I,000 00 J. Lewis Lyon, Special I)eputy Clerk, Trial Term, Part II ...... 4,000 00 Rudolph Proll ...... I,000 co ; Vacancy...... t,000 Oct James J. Duffy, Assistant Clerk. Trial Term, fart I1 ...... I,5o 00 Robert 131um ...... 1,000 0o i Vacancy...... ...... I,000 00 John Lerscl,cr, Special Deputy Clerk, 'Trial Term, Part III ...... 2,000 00 Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. George F. ],yon, tipccial Deputy Clerk, Trial '[elm, fart IV ... ...... 2,000 00 The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Health Department: Walter A. Brady, Special Deputy Clerk, Trial Tern,, Part V ...... 2,00 0 Coruclius J. Kane, Special I teputy Clerk, 'Trial 'term, Part \ HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK, September if, 1896. 71...... 2,00 00 I.Ja,t. JOHN JEROLOMAN, l'rssi1ten1, Board at Aldermen. Michael F. •Tobin, Special Deputy Clerk, 'Trial 'Term, Part V 11 ...... ... z,000 0 Willis 1'. Minor, Special I )eputy Clerk, 'Trial Term, Part VIII ...... 2,000 00 DEAR SIR-At a meeting of the Board of Health of the Health Department held August 25, Morris II. Brown, Special Deputy Clerk, 'Trial Term, Part IX ...... 2,000 00 1896, the following preambles and resolution were adopted : Isaiah Kayser, Special Deputy Clerk, Trial Term, Part X ...... 2,00 00 Whereas, This Department requires a naphtha launch of ten-horse power, with as little delay as possible ; I-lugli Donnelly, Special Deputy Clerk, Trial Term, Part XI ...... 2,000 00 and . Henry C. Reilly, Special Deputy Clerk, General Term ...... 2,000 00 Whereas, Section 64 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, provides that the Ambrose O. 1slcCall, Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part I...... 2,00 00 method of procuring supplies, exceeding in aggregate cost the sum of one thousand dollars ($I,00), James J. Duffy, As,istant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, fart I ...... 1,500 00 shall be by contract, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of Three-fourths of the members elected Vacancy, As.istant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, fart I ...... ...... 1,500 00 to the Common Council ; therefore be it James R. Kiernan, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special 'Term, Part I...... 1,500 00 Resolved, That the Honorable the Board of Aldermen be and is hereby respectfully requested James L. McNeirny, Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part 1I ...... 2,500 00 to order, under the provision of law above quoted, that a naphtha launch of ten-horse power, Stephen H. Kea, ing, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Ternl, Part II...... 1,500 00 requied by this Department to transport patients sick with contagious diseases, may be procured by ~Yiiliam L. Taylor, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Term, Part II...... 1,500 00 the llealth Department in the open market, and in such manner as the Commissioners may deem William Geoghegan, As,istaut Special Deputy Clerk, Special 'I erm, Part I1...... 1,50 00 necessary and for the best interests of the public. Edward 1'. McCryslal, Assistant Special Deputy Clerk, Special Ternt, Part II, , ... , 1,500 00 A true copy. C. GOLDERMAN, Chief Clerk.

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IIEALIH DEPARTMENT, CIUMINA1, COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK, September 14, 1896. Rogers, Noah C., 65 East 64th street. Mills, I). C)., 634 Fifth avenue. WILLIAM If. '1'E` EY'cK, Esq., Clerk, /toardof Aldermen, City Ifa ll, New York City : Smith, Andrew A., 9 East 87th street. l'inkus, Fredcr,ck S.. 7o East 56th street. SIR--At a meeting of the Board of Hcalth ul the health Department held September 8, 1896, Squier, J. Bentley, 21 East 79th street. S;recht, Henry F., 229 East 52d street. a preamble and resolution adopted August 25, 1896, wa; amended to rc.u1 as follows : Stern, Isaac, 858 Fifth avenue. To nnelle, John I.., 48 East 68th street. Whereas, This Department requires a naphtlia launch of ten-horse power, with as little delay Smith, Rev. Cornelius II., Ioi East 69th street. 1Velch, Alexander M., 447 Ii xington avenue. as possible ; and Steers, Edward t'., 153 East 125th street. \Va_ ucr, Albert, 76 Eat 92d street. Whereas, 'ection 64 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882 provides that the method Schaefer, Edward C., 529 Madison avenue. Francis Crawford, 24 East 42d street. of procuting supplies exceeding in aggregate cost the sum of one thousand dollar., ($I,000) shall Schwarz, F. A. 0., 20 Ea,t 61st street. Martin Ungrich, t3oth street and Eighth avenue. be by contract, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of three-fourths of the members elected by the Schnugg, Francis J., 78 Ea,t 96th street. Melvin S. Griffin, 42d street and Sixth avenue. Common Council ; therefore be it Stadler, Hon. Charles A., 155 East 6oth_street. 1Vm. Hoag, 135111 street and Eighth avenue. Resolved. That the Honorable the Board of Aldermen be and are hereby respectfully Schaefer, George G., 8 East 82d street. E. Steiger & Co., 25 Park place. requested to order, under the provisions of law above quoted, that a naphtha launch of ten-horse Schwcyer, Edward, 403 East 54th street. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., Church and power, required by this Department to transport patients sick with contagious diseases, may be Sherman, Vin. Watts, 838 Fifth avenue. Cortlandt streets. procured by the Health Department in the open market, and in such manner as the Commissioners Stetson. Francis L., 576 Madison avenue. D. R. Fox, too West 81st street. may deem necessary and for the b ,st interests of the public, at an expense not to exceed two Shriven, 1Valter, 686 Park avenue. James 13. Lyon, 129th street and Third avenue. thousand eight hundred dollars ($2,800). Swartwout, Frank G., 157 East 125th street. L. J. Phillips & CO., 72d street and Columbu, A true copy. EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. Stern, Louts, 993 Fifth avenue. avenue. In connection herewith ti'e President offered tie following : Tracy, John M.. I I i East 62d street. Bradly Hubbard Mfg. Co., 26 Park place. Resolved, That the Board of health of the I-lealth Department be and they are hereby Trask, Benj. I. H., 6 East 82d street. Sidney Whittimore, 25 Park place. authorized to purchase in the open market, without competing bid:, a naphtha launch, at an Von Bernuth, Loui;, 26 Gramercy Park. E. Steiger & Co., 25 Park place. expense not to exceed the sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars ($2,800), the amount to be Volkening, Henry L., 48 East 60th street. Babcock, Wilcox & Co., 29 Cortlandt street. paid out of the appropr_ation made to the Board of Health of the health Department for such Van der Etude, R., 56 East 92d street. Nauss Bros., 1538 Second avenue. purpose. \\are, James E., 1285 Madi,ou avenue. Leister I)owenwend, First avenue and 8th street. Which were severally referred to the Committee on Finance. Williams, D. U., 59 East 127th street. E.J. Sultan, 23d street and Third avenue. Wells, George A., 1o67 Madison avenue. Gibney & Brennan, Canal street and Bowery. COMMUNICATIONS RESUMED. White, George W., 23 East gist street. Peter M. Corcoran, Canal street and Bowery. The President laid before the Board several communications from the Craig Colony showing Weingait, Samuel, 22 East 91st street. Pat'k Clarke, 1785 Third avenue. the number of epileptics received by that institution, whose sustenance is to be paid for by the Wheeler, Hon. Everett P., 731 Park avenue. Albert Chellorg, 23d street and Thirrl avenu . County of New York. Williams, George N., Jr., 24 East gist street. MeyerHellman, 15 East 92d street. Which were referred to the Committee on Finance. Webber, Richard, 1871 Madison avenue. L. Marquet, 142 ltleecker street. The President laid before the Board a large number of communications from citizens protesting Wormser, Leopold, I IS East 79th street. M. Simon & Sons, 143 Bleecker sir ct. against adoption of ordinance relative to stands under elevated railroad stairs, of which protest the Wells, Wm. Storrs, i6 East 57th street. John R. Cooper, 2525 Eighth avenu' . following is a copy : Wallace, lames G., 236 East 50th street. Claus Ahehes, 2282 Second avenue NEW YORK, September, 1896. To the Honorable Board of .4kdamen, City of New York \Vilnierding, L. K., 57 East 53d street. Samuel Goldstein, 73 Canal st. DEAR SIRS—I desire to place my name in protest against ordinance relating to news-stands Wchrenberg, I). W., 507 Manhattan avenue. Sanford Estate, 14th street and Nin:!.:, kinder °'L" station stairs, as passed by your Honorable Body, on September 3d instant, unless it Yetter, Andrew B., 222 East 62d street. B. F. Kenney, 300 Vest Houston street. is amended so as to include clause requiring consent of owner or lessee of property in front of which Zucker, Alfred, 132 East 72d street. Rogaliner & Greenberg, 1293 Broadway. stand is to be placed. ROSA E. BARTELD. Banzer, George G., 407 East 69th street. Wm. Callahan, 145th street and Eighth aver On motion of Alderman Goodman, the lists of all signatures were ordered published, which Coleman, George B., 25 East 61st street. Hudson River Bank, 260 Columbus avenue. are as follows Cassidy, Henry G., 670 Lexington avenue. Mrs. 13. M. Farley, 58 West 72d street. George McGovern, 877 Third avenue. Conrad, H. B., M. D., 102 East 74th street. Riedel, Henry, 320 Pleasant avenue. Harriet P. Brown, 127th street and Second ave. John Gantt, 93d street and Columbus avenue. Costello, P. Carroll, 13 East 66th street. Franklin, Eugene B., 392 Pleasant avenue. J. H. Prichard & Co., 14111 street and Sixth ave. G. G. Nolan, 1922 Third avenue. Clark, Charles F., 831 Madison avenue. Gordon, Clarence, 536 East 76th street. Ed. B. Densel, I Hudson street. john Maje, 34th street and 3d avenue. Clark, Horace M., Madison Avenue Hotel. Haggerty, George A., 531 Fifth avenue. John Cromwell, Grand and Allen streets. R. Steuyvesant, 142 East 18tlr street. Doyle, John F., 14 \Vest 87th street. Hearn, George A., 46 East 69th street. H. Oppenheimer, Grand and Allen streets. Wm. C. Schmidt, 699 Sixth avenue. Disbrow, Griffin B., 244 East 86th street. Higginson, James J., t6 East 41st street. M.J. Aitkem, 472 Grand street. Meycrhofl & Sievers, 390 Third avenue. Dngro, lion. 1'. Henry, Hotel Savoy. Ketchum, Alexander P., 32 Mt. Morris Park, W. Chas. Adrian, 248 \Vest 104th street. Mullen Bole, 2383 "Third avenue. Dayton, Hon. Charles 1V., 13 Mount Morris Lissauer, Max J., 64 East 83d street. Prichard & Hamilton, 23d street and Sixth ave. Adolph Stern, 84th street and 3d avenue. Park, West. McLean, James, 53 East 55111 street. Leopold Wor.nser, 2295 Third avenue. Janes Borrell, 155 West 14th street. Dun, R. G., 261 Madison avenue. Milmine, George, 29 East 80th street. W. F. Prelle, 454 Greenwich street. Volk Bros., 14th street and 6th avenue. Deanc, M. D., William C., 114 East 60th street. McCormick, Peter, 214 East 48th street. John Yunk. 2125 Third avenue. 1Vm. Beck, no address. Danziger, Max, I I East 79th street. Proctor, Frederick F., 58th street, near Third J. M. Williams & Co., 525th street and Third 1). Warenburg, I17th street and 2d avenue, De Milt, Henry R., $4 East 68th street. avenue. avenue. ('olumbian Furnishing Company, 3d avenue and Daly, Hon. Joseph F., 19 East 62d street. The papers were then ordered on file with the Clerk. 23d street. Dieterleu, Theodore, 124 East 129th street. Wm. harms, 1924 Third avenue. Elias, Albert J., 1119 'I'hinl avenue. The President laid before the Board the following communication from the State Comptroller I'angburn & Adams, 1923 Third avenue. Ehret, George, 1197 Park avenue. STATE OF NEW YORK—COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, ALBANY, September 16, 1896. To the Herman Seckanye, 1923 'Third avenue. French, Samuel G., 550 Park avenue. President of the Board of Alderoe<.n of the County of Aew York, New York City, N. V. : henry Rosenberg, 135th street and 8th avenue. Frank, Samuel, 793 Lexington avenue. SIR—The Board of Equalization of Taxes, in pursuance of chapter 908 of the Laws of 1896, I )antel Casey, S Division street and 7 Bowery. Fraukenthal, J., b62 Lexington avenue. have fixed the valuation of property in your county at the sum of $2,026,435,023, upon which Daniel Buckley, 30 Third avenue. Friedlander, Albert, 66 East 79th street. amount a State tax of $5,451,110.21 must be levied for the fiscal year, commencing October i, Daniel Buckley, Columbus avenue and 104th Fitch, Hon. Ashbel P., 1388 Lexington avenue. 1896, as provided in said act, being 2,e~a mills on the dollar, for the following purposes, viz. : street. Fryer, William J., 504 Ilavetneyer Building. For Schools...... 10a mill, per chapter 945, Laws of 1896 ...... $1,884,584 57 (;has. Gates, 229 Greenwich street. Ford, Simeon, Grand Union Hotel. For State Care of Insane.. I mill, per chapter 944, Laws of 1806 ...... 2,026,435 02 Kellogg & Co., 1031 Sixth avenue. Friel, John J., 139 East 52d street. For General Purposes..... 2 mill, per chapter 945, Laws of 1896...... , I , 54o , 90 62 Mary 1:. McCullough, 786 Second avenue. Fleischmann, Louis, Broadway and Loth street. For Canals ...... r*r, mill, per chapters 945, 946 and 947, Laws of 1896 I Ed. Ridleyy & Sons, 309 Grand street. Fennell, George, 121 West 121st street. Kerns & Co., 126 Third avenue. Forman, A. J., 24 East 75th street. Total...... 255 mills ...... $5,451,110 21 John Mete, 400 \Vest :4t1> street. Gulden, Charles, 15 East 83d street. lour obedient servant, JAMES A. ROBERTS, Comptroller. 1-coward Cooper, 281 Bowery. Guggenheimer, Hon. Randolph, 8 East 81st Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Julius Later, 874 Third avenue. street. The President laid before the Board the following communication from J. T. Bright & Co. Bishoff & Bohling, 1084 Second avenue. Gorsch, Arthur, I4. Third avenue. CITY OF NEW YORK—OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, September 14, 1896. HOn. JOHN JEROLOMAN, Estate of John S. Young, 874'1'hird avenue. Hirsch, Morris J., 9 East 92c1 street. President of Board of Aldermen, Nero York Estate of John S. Voting, 1084 Second avenue. Hirsh, Hettry, 206 Broadway. DEAR SIR—The Mayor directs use to enclose to you for your consideration the within com- Estate of John S. Young, 943 Second avenue. Hirsh, Edv ard, 120 East 61st street. munication from the J. T. Bright Co., Midway, Ky., concerning their " Spark Arrester." Eimer & Amend, zo5 Third avenue. Heert, Henry H., 162 West 136th street. Very respectfully yours, JOB E. HEDGES, Secretary. M. Newman, 89 Greenwich street. Horwitz, Otto, io6 Erst 73d street. MIDWAY, KY., September 7, 1896. To the Mayor of New York City, New York : (;eorge Buliwinkle, 51 Cortlandt street. Hickey, John, 83 East I loth stre^t. DEAR SIR—We are led to believe by what we have seen in your daily papers that the cinders Max 7,agat, 42d street and 9th avenue. Haggerty, J. Henry, 137 East it street. from the smoke-stacks of the engines of the elevated railways of your city is a great nuisance. Tarrant & Co., Greenwich and Warren streets. Hall, William W., 503 Fifth avenue. VVe have a Spark Arrester which completely prevents the ejection of sparks and cinders from the liarveson Bros., 139 Columbus avenue. Higgins, James, 138 Ea,t Both street. ,smoke-stacks of steam-engines, and would be glad if your City Council would investigate the Ed. Ridley & Son., Grand and Allen streets. I-!owe, Samuel, 989 Lexington avenue. reliability of our Spark Arrester. Bloomingdale Bros., 59th street arid 3d avenue. Hall. Hon. Benjamin L., 44 East . Inclosed we send you a copy of an affidavit given by a railroad engineerand fireman. Hoping R. II. 11lacy & Co., 14th street and 6th avenue. Hawes, 1-ion. James W., 41 Park Row. you will investigate the reliability of our claims for our Spark Arrester, we are Hinrichs & Co., 33 Park place. Hayes, Hon. Jolts, 217 East 50th street. Yours truly, J. T. BRIGHT & CO., J. T. BRIGHT, Patentee. Geo. M. Keiser, 93 \Vanen street. Ragan, James, 1651 Madi,on avenue. Geo. 1Vm. Oggers, 93(1 street and Columbus Horner, Charies I'., 44 East 49th street. BEATTYVILLE, KY., September 4, 1896. avenue. Hankunsou, John H., 142 East i8th street. This is to certify that I am an engineer on the Beattyville and Cumberland Gap Railroad, and \Vm. 1'. Dougless, 234 Broadway. Jackson, Andrew, 327 East 124th street. that on September 4. 1896, we had in the smoke-stack of our engine a spark arrester, invented by Vanro Aub, no address. Jordan, Alexander A., 163 East 62d street. J. T. Bright, of Midway, County of Woodford, and State of Kentucky, and that it in no way J. Clarence Davies & Co., 149th street and 3d Jungmann, J., 170 East 61st street. interfered with the dralt of the engine, and there were no cinders ejected from the smoke-stack. avenue. Johnson, Alexander B., 21 Ea,t 69th street. 'I'rte spark arrester is under perfect control of the engineer and in every respect is perfectly satis- Henry Bahmfalk, 66o Third avenue. Kavanagh, John j., 71 East 84th street. factory, it being impossible for either cinders or sparks to be ejected from the smoke-stack. In John Denier, 944 Second avenue. King, James, 1038 Park avenue. token of the full iudor.,cmect of the above statement I herewith subscribe my signature. Fred. Worley, 1 16th street and 3d avenue. Kerbs, Edward A., 1020 Second avenue. nl. 1. CONNELLY, Engineer, H. SMITH, Fireman. Ogden & Wallace, Houston and Greenwich Kassing, Edwin S., 152 East 46th street. Sworn and subscribed to before me by M. J. Connelly and H. Smith. I certify that they are streets. Kernochan, James P., 824 Fifth avenue. credible persons. Given under my hand and official seal at Beattyville, Lee County, Ky., this 4th Geo. Herold, 2161 Second ivenue. Kelly, Edmond, 107 East 6oth street. day of September, 1896. THOMAS PRYSE, Notary Public, Lee County, Ky. Brakeman Bros., 886 Sixth avenue. Lauterbach, Edward, 2 East 78th street. [SEAL] Emil Trotta, Allen and Rivington streets. Lessler, Montague, 131 East 86th street. My commissi,,n expires February 7, 1900. L. Singara, 92 Greenwich street. Lindsey, Edward U., 438 Lexington avenue. Which was referred to the Committee on Railroads. Martin Kisby, 2305 Second avenue. Livingston, Philip, 708 Madison avenue. CO\ISIUNICATIONS FROM DEPARTMENTS AND CORPORATION OFFICERS AGAIN RESUMED. The Association, organized Lyons, Jere C., 67 East 127th street. The President laid before the Board the following communication from the Department of May 15, 1895. Roll of members : McCafferty, Robert, 754 Park avenue. Public Work; : Addoms, Moituner C., 73 East 56th street. Miller, M. D., E. A., 1034 Park avenue. DEPAR't'1IEN't' OF PUBLIC \\'ORBS—COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, No. 150 NASSAU STREET, Amend, Bernard, 165o Avenue A. Muldoon, Joseph A., 547 Park avenue. NEW YORK, September r4, 1896. Hon. JOHN JEROLOSIAN, President, Board of Aldermen. Alexander, James 1V., 4 East 64th street. Miller, Win. S., 141 East 40th street. DEAR SItt—In accordance with the requirements of section 189 of the New York City Con- Bloomingdale, itt. W., 644 Madison avenue. Malcolm, James F., 17 East 80th street. solidation Act of 1882, I have the honor to transmit herewith a duplicate of my departmental Burghard, E. M., 14 East 93d street. Milliken, Seth M., 990 Madison avenue. estimate of the amounts required to conduct the business of this Department for the year 1897. Brill Henry S., 805 Lexington avenue. Murphy, John S., 124 East Sist street. Very respectfully, CHARLES H. T. COLLIS, Commissioner of Public Works. Bloomingdale, Joseph B , ii East 67th street. Morris, A. Newbold, 19 East 64th street. Buse, Frederick, i io6 First avenue. Marscheider, E.. 763 First avenue. DEPAR'rsIENT OF PUBLIC \YORKS--COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, No. ISO NASSAU STREET, WILLIAM L. STRONG, Mayor and C7,airman Board Boyd, Robert, 1929 Madison avenue. Mullen, Thomas J., 2048 Madison avenue. NEW YORK, September 15, 1896. 1[011. Blessing, Francis, 65 East Iloth street. Mundorf, George, 57 East Itith street. of L'stlmate and 4)5portionment: Bookman, Jacob, 9 East 62d street. McCreery, James, Sol Broadway. DEAR SIR—In compliance with section 189 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, Bloomingdale, Lyman G., 2t East 63d street. McGinness, Peter, 1048 Park avenue. 1 have the honor to present the following estimates of the amounts required to conduct the public Brady, John T., 310 East 124th street. Meyer, Charles, 125 East 64th street. business of the Department of Public Works for the year 1897 : Brown, Charles 0., 20D Bushwick avenue, Mark, Jacob, 327 East 55th street. AQCEDUCT—REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE. Brooklyn. McMillan, Samuel, 104 Havemeyer Building. Final Estimate for 1896— I Dek artmental Estimate for 1897 - Blake. I. 0., 635 Park avenue. Morris, Henry Lewis, 12 West 53d street. General account ...... $231,735 co General account...... $237,007 CO Blanchard, James A., 3 East 77th street. Neidliuger, Adam, 63d street and East river. Salary account ...... 28,000 00 Salary account ...... 28,000 00 Bell, Enoch C., 157 East 125th street. O'Reilly, Cornelius, 34 East 45th street. Burden, James A., qo8 Fifth avenue. O'Grady, David, 948 Third avenue. Total ...... $259,735 00 Total...... $265,co7 Co Berwind, Edw.J., 603 Madison avenue. Oldham, Joshua, J51 East 61st street. This appropriation is required for the labor, material, services and superintendence in the care Cassidy, Peter A., 245 East 49th street. Phillips, L. J., 21 East Both street. of the entire Croton water system, with the exception of the distributing mains in the city. It Cozans, Ilon. Luke A., 1965 Madison avenue. Palmer, John, Third avenue and 122d street. includes over 340 square miles of watershed ; six artificial storage reservoirs ; all the lakes, ponds Crimmins, Hun. John D., 5o East 59th street. Poggenburg, 1-I. F., 115 East 69th street. and streams which have been made tributary to our water supply ; 75 miles of Old and New Crimmins, Thomas E., 5o East 59th street. Rhinelander, Est. Wm. C., 155 West 14th street. Aqueduct ; the receiving and distributing reservoirs in the city, and the high-service pumping Carpenter, A. H., 41 Liberty street. Ringler, F. A., 1316 Madison avenue. stations and machinery. Cary, Robert F., 130 East 129th street. Ruppert, Jacob, 1639 Third avenue. The increase of $5,272 over the Final Estimate for 1896 is required for additional fuel and fire- ,. Cannon, James G., 72 East 54th street. Ramsdell, E. Benj., M.D., 581 Lexington ave. men to operate the high-service pumping works. Campbell, John B., 2075 Third avenue. Reinhardt, Henry, 148 East 89th street. , The estimate for the salary account calls for the following salaries

2550 THE CITY RECORD. THURSDAY) SEPTEMBER 24. 1896.

1 ir,t Assistant Engineer, one-half Four 1?nginemen, $1,000 each.... $4,000 00 PUBLIC 11113LDINGS-CONSTRIICTION AND REPAIRS. alary ...... ...... $2,560 00 I Clerk ...... 1,800 00 Final Estimate for 1896, less transfer of $5,000...... $65,000 00 Transitman ...... ...... 1,500 00 Messenger...... 1,000 00 Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 69,386 00 Two Keepers, $1,400 each...... 2,00 00 Weigher of coal, part time...... 600 00 This appropriation is required for the repairs of the municipal buildings, public markets and 'siIx Keepers, 1,000 each 6,oeo 00 armories under the charge of this Department. Two Enginetnen, $1.500 each.... 3,000 00 '1)tal ...... $28,000 00 PUBLIC DRINKING-iiYlRANiS. Four Enginemen, $1,200 each.... 4,800 0o Final Estimate for 1896 ...... ...... ...... $5,000 00 BORING EXAMINATIONS FOR GRADING ANO SINVER CONTRACTS. Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... .. .. ... ...... 2,000 00 Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $5,000 00 The c timate for 1896 contemplated the erection of additional drinktug-hydrants. The Ilepartmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... 5,000 00 present esiimate is only for the repairs of the hydrants now in use and is sufficient for that purpose. This appropriation is needed for boring examinations to determine the approximate quantities REMOVING OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREETS .AND AVENUES. I earth and rock excavation in grading and sewer works as a basis for preliminary estimates and Final Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1897- bids for contracts. General account.. ..., ..... $15,000 Co I General account ...... $15,000 oo BOULEVARDS, ROADS AND AVENLJ S, MAINTENANCE OF. Salary account...... ..... 9,900 03 Salary account ...... 10,100 00 Final Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1897- General account ...... Spo,000 00 General account...... $124,500 03 Total ...... $24,900 00 Total...... $25,500 00 Salary account ...... 2,500 CO Salary account...... 2,500 00 The full amount of $15,000 will be required for the prompt and effective removal of obstruc- tions on streets and sidewalks. Total ...... $112,5co 00 Total...... $127,000 00 The estimate for salary account provides for the following salaries 111i. appropriation is required for the maintenance, repairs and sprinkling of about twenty 1 Clerk ...... $1,500 oo I Keeper of Corporation Yard.... $900 00 )riles -,t macadam roadways. They were designed for suburban pleasure drives and light wagon 2 Clerks, $i,000 each...... 2,0(10 oo ---- traffic, but for a number of years past they have been subjected to the heavy business traffic which I Inspector ...... 1,200 oo Total ...... $eo,ioo oo is excluded from the park drives. The natural consequence follows in the rapid wear and grind- 5 Inspectors, $goo each...... . 4,500 00 ing of the road surface, and the necessity of constant repairs and renewal of surface material. REPAIRING AND RENEWAL OF PIPES, STOP-COCKS, ETC. V. ithout adequate means for this purpose these macadam drives will lapse into the state of ill- Final Estimate for 1896 ...... ¶212,000 00 I aved or unpaved country roads. Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 212,000 00 The increase of $14,500 over the Final Estimate for 1896 is required for the following pur- There are now 766 miles of water-mains, 8,090 stop-cocks and 10,150 fire-hydrants to he 1poses: maintained in efficient condition cutler this appripriation. In the course of next year there will he For additional sprinkling, to prevent the present complaints of insufficient sprinkling, $4,000 added about 27 miles of mains, with a corresponding number of stop-cocks and hydrants. sodding, fencing and improving the park spaces on the Boulevard, $10,500. REPAIRS AND RENEWALS OF PAVEMENTS AND REGRADING. The estimate for salary account is for one Clerk $1,500 and for one Rodman $i,000 ; total, Departmental Estimate for 1897- S2. 500. Finnl Estimate for 1896- General account...... $J50,0O BRONX RIVER \VORKS-]IAINTENANCE ANI) REPAIRS. General account ...... $290,000 00 00 Salary account ...... 17.000 00 Salary account...... 18,oco oo Ifinal Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1897- (.cneral account ...... $20,000 00 General account...... $29,655 00 Total ...... $ c ,000 00 "Total ...... $368,000 00 Salary account ...... 2,400 00 Salary account...... 3,900 00 Under recent contracts 68,208 square yards of asphalt pavement are now maintained by the City at an annual cost of 8i4 cents per square yard, amounting to $6,123.76. Next year there will $22,400 00 Total ...... Total...... $33,555 00 be added to this 34,803 square yards, on which the period of the contractors' responsibility will Isom this appropriation must lie paid the wages of the working force employed in the care expire, and the total cost of maintaining asphalt pavements will be $9,012.76. This will leave In l repairs of the Bronx river conduit and watershed, the materials and tools required in the $340,987.24 for the repairs of 8,139,0.'0 square yards of stone pavement. repairs, and the taxes on city property. The following are the salaries included in the estimate for salary account The increase of $9,655 is needed because next year the care and maintenance will have to be I General Inspector ...... $2,500 00 1 Rodman ...... $1,000 00 cstended to the 13yram river conduit and reservoir, which will be added to the Bronx river system. 2 Assistant General Inspectors, 5 Inspectors, $3.50 per day each.. 6,ozo 00 The estimate for salary account is for the salaries of two Keepers at S1,2oo each, one at Wil- $1,750 each ...... 3,500 00 1 Stenographer, $15 per week.... 78o Co liamsbridge reservoir and one at Kensico reservoir, and one-half salary of the Assistant Engineer I Clerk - -- in charge. 2 Clerks, $1,200 each ...... 2,400o 0 Total ...... $18,000 oo BRIDGE OVER HARLEM SHIP CANAL, MAINTENANCE OF. REPAIRS OF EIGHTH AVENUE PAVEMENT. Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $7,500 00 Final Estimate for 1896 ...... ...... $19,200 00 Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 10,000 co Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... ...... 19,200 00 The increase of $2,500 over t!te Final Estimate for 1896 for the care and maintenance of this This expenditure is fixed by the existicg contract at the yeariy sum of $19,200, and is there- midge and the operation of the draw is necessary because in future the draw must he operated at fore not subject to increase or decrease in the annual estimates. night time as well as in the (lay time. REPAVING STREETS AND AVENUES. CONTINGENCIES-DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Finai Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1897 - Final Estimate for 1897 ...... $5,000 00 Genetal account ...... $225,000 00 General account...... $250,000 00 Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 5,000 00 Salary account ...... 13,000 00 Salary account...... 13,000 cw Out of this appropriation are paid the traveling expenses of officers and employees on official Fluty, postage, expressage, telegraphing and other incidental expenses. Total ...... $238,000 00 . Total...... .. $263,000 00 FLAGGING SIDEWALKS AND FENCING VACANT LOTS IN FRONT OF CITY PROPERTY. The appropriation for general account is to be expended Oil repaving contracts under resolu- Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $2,000 00 tions of the Common Council. Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 2,000 00 The estimate for salary account 1)rov)c!es for the following salaries This is necessary to keep in proper order the sidewalks and fences in front of city property. 2 Clerks, $1,203 each...... $2,4co 00 1 Examiner of Complaints...... $1,500 co I Assistant General Inspector..... 2,000 00 Inspectors on Contract Work..... 3,300 00 FREE FLOATING BATHS. I Inspector ...... 1,800 Co ---- 131131 Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1897- I Assistant Engineer ...... 1,500 00 Total ...... $13,000 00 00 General account ...... $20,000 General account...... $16,920 00 ROADS, STREETS AND AVENUES, UNPAVED-MAINTENANCE AND SPRINKLING. Sala y account ...... 29,078 00 Salary account...... 28,635 00 Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $35,000 00 Oc.l Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... ...... 35,000 00 Total ...... $49,078 00 Total...... $45,555 The appropriation is necessary to keep in proper repair about 6o miles of unpaved streets ;Ind "l 'he reduction of $3,oSo in the general account is practicable because certain repairs were roads in the upper part of the City. made to the baths this year which will not have to he made next year. SALARIES-DEI'AR•1'MEN•I' OF PUBLIC 'WORKS. The estimate for salary account calls for the following salaries : Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $91,720 00 I Bath Attendant, 365 days, at 42 Male Attendants, 125 days, at Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... .. ...... ...... ...... 90,000 00 $3.50 ...... ...... $1,277 50 $2.50...... $13,125 00 This appropriation is for the salary of the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, heads of a Male Attendants, 365 clays, at 34 Female Attendants, Iio days, bureaus and the regular ohicials, Clerks and Messengers whose services are not directly chargeabk. $2.50 ...... 4,562 50 at $2 ...... 7,480 00 to some specific work or appropriation. The following are the salaries included in the estimate : I Male Attendant, 365 clays, at I Carpenter, 313 days, at $3.50... 1,095 50 Commissioner ...... $8,000 oo Assistant Cashier...... ..... $1,8co 00 53 ...... 1,095 00 deputy Commissioner...... 6,000 00 2 Clerks, $2,coo each...... 4,eoo 00 Total ...... $28,635 50 General Bookkeeper ...... 4,oco 00 5 Clerks, $1,500 each...... 7,500 co 00 4 Clerks, $1,200 each ...... 4,800 00 J.AMt's AND GAS AND ELECTRIC-l.IGH'I'IN ;. Chief Clerk ...... 3,000 l Inal Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1897- Corresponding Clerk...... 3,000 00 4 Clerks, $1,000 each .. ...... 4,000 00 • 2,000 00 1 Clerk ...... 1,40(1 00 General account ...... $$1,087,831 00 General account...... $I,166.967 00 Assistant Corresponding Clerk ... 2,5co CO I Map Clerk...... 1,200 co Salary account ...... 6,500 00 Salary account...... 6,5oo oe Contract Clerk ...... Chief Engineer of Croton Aque- I Inspector of Vaults...... ),Boo 00 duct ...... 7,000 00 3 Messengers, $1,200 each...... 3,600 oo Total ...... $1,094,331 00 Total ...... $1,173,467 00 Water purveyor ...... 4,000 00 • 2 Stenographers, $1,040 each..... 2,080 00 The present departmental estimate for general account is on the basis of the present contracts Water Register ...... 4,000 00 1 Stenographer,...... 780 00 for lighting and maintaining the public lamps which will be in use at the close of this year, and 4 Heads of Bureaus, $2,750 each. 11,000 00 ---- such additions for extending the public lamp service into new streets and districts as, in the opinion Cashier of Water Rents ...... 2,500 00 Total ...... $89,960 00 of this Department, are necessary. There are now in use 25,207 gas lamps, 3,527 electric lamps and 1,226 naphtha lamps. The SALARIES OF ENGINEERS, CLERKS, INSPECTORS AND MEASURERS. c-timate for 1897 provides for I,o3o additional gas lamps, 161 additional electric lamps and loo Final Estimate for 1896...... ...... $65,000 00 additional naphtha lamps. Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... 65,000 00 The estimate for salary account is for the salaries of a Clerk, $1,500, and five Inspectors, at The folllowing are the salaries included in the estimate : 5i,000 each, $5,000 ; total, $6,500. First Assistant Engineer, half time $2,500 00 I General Inspector, $5 per day • . $1,565 oo LAYING CRO'1'ON 1'I1'YS. I Clerk ...... ...... 2,COO co 2 Inspectors of Meters, $4 per day, Final Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 18 4 Clerks, $1,500 each...... 6,coo co each ...... ...... ... 2,532 00 97-- 3,600 co IS Inspectors of Meters, $3 per day, General account ...... $220,000 00 General account...... $230,030 00 3 Clerks, $1 ,2C0 each...... 22 Clerks, $i,000 each ...... 22,000 eo eacb ...... ...... 16,523 00 Salary account ...... 19,780 00 Salary account...... 19,970 00 5 Junior Clerks,$6Co each...... 3,000 00 1 Stenographer ...... Ito 00 I General Inspector ...... 1,500 CO Total ...... S239,780 00 Total...... $250,000 00 3 Measurer:, M ,000 each...... 3,000 CO j Total ...... $65,000 Co Since 1875 this appropriation has by law been limited to $250,000 annually, and the full amount was considered necessary each year for the extension of the water service into new streets, This appropriation is for the salaries of the officers, Clerks and Inspectors in charge of the except that for some reason or another the Board of Estimate and Apportionment reduced the cr tire system for distributing the City's water supply, of the water revenue accounts, and the appropriation for 1895 to $235,710, and for 1896 to $2i9,78o, which 1 presume was an arithmetical witcr-meter system, as itemized above. error. SEWERS-REPAIRING; AND CLEANING. By an act of the Legislature of 1896, chapter 669, $1,000,000 is appropriated for additional F nal Estimate for 1896- Departmental Estimate for 1$97- water-mains, but this special legislative appropriation is not intended for and will not be applied General account, less transfer .. $122,500 00 General account ...... $525,000 co to the purpose of extending the water service into new streets. It will be applied to increase the Salary account ...... 10,003 Co Salary account...... 10,000 00 volume of pressure of water in the already densely populated parts of the city, where the increase is very much needed. It will, therefore, not diminish the necessity for extending the water service Total ...... ...... $132,500 00 1 Total...... $135,oco 00 into new streets. The appropriation for general account is required for the cleaning and repairs of 470 nil of The following are the salaries included in the estimate for Salary Account sewers and 5,570 receiving-basins. I Assistant Engineer, two-thirds time. at $3,600...... $2,400...... I...... $_ CO The estimate for salary account includes the following salaries: I "fransitmau ...... ...... ... 1,500 OD I ;ewer PermitCleik ...... ...... $1,800 00 I Leveler .. ...... 1,200 00 I General Inspector ...... ...... 2,OCO CO I Draughtsman, 320 days, at $5 ...... 1,600 00 5 Inspectors of Sewer Connections, $4 per day each ...... 6,200 00 I Foreman of Pipe Yard, 365 (lays, at $6 ...... 2,190 co I Clerk ...... ...... 1,000 00 Total ...... $IO,Oco 00 2 Inspectors on Manufacture of Pipes and Stop-cocks, 320 days, at S5 each...... 3,200 00 SEWERAGE SYSTEM--SALARIES. 5 Inspectors on Laying pipes, 320 days, at $3.50 each ...... 5,600 00 Final1..stimatetor 1896 ...... $8,4eo 00 I Inspector on Masonry, 320 days, at $4 ...... 1,280 00 Departmental Estimate for 1897 . ...... 8,400 00 This estimate is for the salaries of the officials engaged in making surveys, plans and forms of Total ...... $19,970 00 contracts and specifications for the general management and extension of the sewer system. The ONE HUNDRED AND FIFry.FIFrlI STREET' VIADUCT-MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS. following salaries are included in the estimate : Final Estimate for 1896 ...... ...... $2,100 00 Engineer of Sewers, one-half time . $2,400 00 1 Messenger ...... $900 00 I)epartntental Estimate for 1897 ...... .. ...... ...... 2,100 00 I Clerk ...... 1,5CO 00 ---- This amount is necessary for the labor of sweeping the stairways and removing snow and ice I Clerk and Typewriter...... 1,200 00 Total ...... $8,4co 00 from the structure. 2 Draughtsmen, $1,200 each ..... 2,400 CO

THURSDAY, SEPTEbrBEl 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD. 2551

STREET IMPROVEMENTS-FOR SURVEYING, MONUMEN'1'ING, E'I'C. The President laid before the Board the following communication from Mr. Miller Final Estimate for 1896 ...... ...... ...... $4,000 cc NEW 1'()RK, September ii, 1896. To Board o1 alderure,r Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 4,000 00 GEN't'I.EM ItN--Would you kindly inform me how I could obtain a permit to lout a how out This is required to maintain and renew monuments showing street lines and grades and for in front of my store, No. 1431 First avenue, N. V. surveys and inspections in allotting and rearranging house numbers. There are quite a number of stores liialaries : That we have performed the duty assigned to us. The resolutions of condolence to the family I Clerk...... ...... $5,300 00 of the deceased have been appropriately engrossed and will be duly presented. A photographic copy I Messenger ...... ...... ...... I,oco 00 thereof has been procured and will be hung in the Aldermanic Reading-room. The expense 5 Inspectors, $3 per day each ...... 4,700 00 involved, viz., one hundred dollars, is to be paid from the City Contingent Fund, for which purpose we offer the following : Total ...... ...... $7,000 00 Resolved, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Messrs. SURVEYS, MAPS, ETC., FOR STREET OPENINGS AND NEW STREETS-SALARIES. Ames & Rollinson the sum of one hundred dollars for services performed its the matter of engrossing Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $7,600 00 resolutions on the death of Deputy Comptroller Richard A. Storrs, adopted by the Board of Alder- l departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... ...... 7,600 00 men May 52, 1896, and approved by the Mayor May t2, 1896, the same to be paid out of the This Department is required by law to furnish all surveys and maps required by the Board of appropriation for " City Contingencies." Street Openings, the Counsel to the Corporation and the Commissioners of Estimate and Appraisal WILLIAM M. K. OLCOTT, ELIAS GOODMAN, JOHN JEROLOMAN, HENRY L. in proceedings for laying out new streets and parks, closing old streets, acquisition of title to new SCHOOL, NICHOLAS T. BROWN, JOHN T. OAKLEY. streets and establishment and alteration of grades. The estimate includes the following salaries : Which was laid over. Assistant Engineer in Charge ...... $4,000 00 MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. By Alderman Oakley- 3 Draughtsmen, $1,200 each ...... 3,600 00 Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to The General Committee of Total...... $7,600 00 Tammany Hall to erect three separate stands on the sidewalks, the property-owners' permission having been already secured, one stand in front of No. rzo East Fourteenth street, one in front of WATER SUPPLY FOR THE TWEN'T'Y-FOURTH WARD. No. I10 East Fourteenth street, and one on the west side of Irving place, fifty feet north of the Final Estimate for 1895 ...... $7,500 00 Fourteenth street building line, the work to be done at its own expense, under the direction of the Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... 10,400 00 Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue only until September 30, 1896. This is to pay the City of Yonkers for water supplied by contract with this city to the residents 'file President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which on the high grounds in the 'Twenty-fourth Ward who cannot be supplied from the Croton Aqueduct. was decided in the affirmative. The contract price is 13 cents per loo cubic feet, and the estimate allows for a total of 8,000,000 By Alderman Goodwin- cubic feet. Resolved, That the ordinance relative to the discharge of fireworks in the City of New York SALARY OF CONSULTING ENGINEER ON PAVEMENTS. be and the same is hereby suspended so far as it applies to the Tammany Hall mass meeting on Final Estimate for 1896 ...... $5,000 00 September 29, 1896, to be held in Fourteenth street, between Third and Fourth avenues (Irving Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... :...... 5,000 00 place), and fit Union Square, on the (late above mentioned. This salary has been included in the annual appropriations for 1895 and 1896, and it is proper The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which to provide for it in the Final Estimate for 1897. Prior to 1895 it was paid from the legislative was decided in the affirmative. appropriation for repavements. By the Vice-President- RESURFACING SEVENTH AVENUE. Resolved, That the resolution granting permission to the Johnson Subway Trolley Company, Departmental Estimate for 1897...... $$64,000 oo which was approved November 26, 1895, be and the same is hereby extended until October 31, The present condition of this pleasure drive calls for a special appropriation. The road surface 1896. is so worn that the rough substructure is bared and exposed on the greater part of the avenue. If The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which it is to be restored to and maintained in the condition of a pleasure drive, it will have to be was decided in the affirmative. resurfaced in accordance with this estimate. Fly Alderman Dwyer- RESURFACING THE BOULEVARD NORTH OF ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH STREET. Resolved, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks in the City of New York be Departmental Estimate for 1897 ...... ...... ...... $25,000 Co and the same is hereby suspended so far as the same applies to the Democratic political meeting to The condition of this part of the macadam roadway of the Boulevard is the same as that of be held at the corner of Hudson street and St. Luke's place on Wednesday, September 23, 1896. Seventh avenue. The resurfacing of the avenue is, therefore, a public necessity. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which A statement showing the final estimates and transfers for 1896, and the present departmental was decided in the affirmative. estimates for 1897 accompanies this document. Very respectfully, By the same- CHARLES H. T. COLLIS.. Commissioner of Public Works. An amendment to an ordinance of the Honorable Common Councilers as to licensing vendors offruit, vegetables, garden truck, etc., etc. : ESTIMATE--DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. That each and every person (of lawful age) applying for a license to vend fruit, vegetables, __ S'/owing b¢nam' Estimate and Transfers for 1896 and Departmental Estimate for 1897. garden truck etc., shall state that he is solely the directly interested party in the granting of the afore-mentioned license. DEPART- Shall it (at any time) appear that any person holding such a license has made a false statement, APPROPRIATIONS TITLES OF APPROPRIATIONS. NTAL ESTI- then the license shall be de2uled void and canceled. FOR 1896. STATE FOR 1896. Which was referred to the Committee on Law Department. By Alderman Goetz- Aqueduct-Repairs and Maintenance...... :Sa3r.735 00 $237,007 00 Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the U. S. Grant Republican Aqueduct-Repairs and Maintenance-Salaries ...... 28,coo on 28,000 00 Repairs to Fence, etc., around Old Reservoir in Central Park ...... 1 3,000 00 Club of the Sixth Assembly District to parade through the streets of the city bounded by Grand Boring Examinations for Grading and Sewer Contracts...... 5,000 00 5,000 00 street, the Bowery, Canal street, Broadway, Fourth street, Third avenue, Eighth street, Second Boulevards, Roads and Avenues-Mmntenance of...... r,o,000 00 ar3,500 co avenue, Third street, First avenue, Houston street and the East river, in the morning and on the Boulevards, Roadsand Avenues-Maintenance of-Salaries...... , 2,5.o 00 2,500 00 evening of Monday, October 5, 1896, under the direction of the Chief of Police. 'Bronx River Works-Maintenance and Repairs ...... l 20,000 CO '9,655 w Bronx River Works-Maintenance and Repairs-Salaries ...... 2,400 00 3,900 00 Resolved, further, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks in the City of Contingencies-Department of Public Works ...... 5.000 00 5,000 00 New York be and the same is hereby suspended ii the territory above mentioned for the evening Flagging Sidewalks and Fencing Vacant Lots in front of City Property...... 2,000 00 2,000 00 of Monday, October 5, 1896. Free Floating Baths ...... ...... 20,000 00 16,920 00 Salaries ...... The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolutions. Which Free Floating Baths- 39,078 00 28,635 00 was decided in the affirmative. Lamps and Gas and Electric Lighting ...... 1,.87,831 00 1,167,000 no Lamps and Gas and Electric Lighting-Salaries...... 6,5oo 00 6,500 no By Alderman Goodman- Laying Croton Pipes ...... i 220,000 00 030,(30 00 Resolved, That permission be and it is hereby given to R. Hoffman Sc Son, of foot One Hun- Croton Pipes-Salaries ...... r9,78o co Laying 19,970 00 dred and Twenty-third street, East river, to drive an advertising wagon through the streets of One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street Viaduct-Maintenance and Repairs...... 2,roo Go 2,100 00 Public Buildings-Construction and Repairs ...... 73,000 00 69,386 00 Harlem, announcing a " Shoot the Chutes " project ; the same to be under the direction of the Public Drinking Hydrants ...... 5.000 on 2,000 00 Chief of Police and to continue only for four weeks after approval by his Honor the Mayor. Removing Obstructions in Streets and Avenues ...... 15,000 00 15,000 on The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Removing Obstructions in Streets and Avenues-Salaries ...... .... 9,500 00 ro,tc0 00 was decided in the affirmative. Repairing and Renewal of Pipes, Stop-cocks, etc...... 212,000 00 2i2,COD CO Repairs and Renewals of Pavements and Regrading...... 290,0_u co 350,000 00 By the same- Repairs and Renewals of Pavements and Regrading-Salaries...... 17.000 00 r8,000 co Whereas, The Commissioner of Public Works has supplied a stand for the Assembly and other Repaving Streets and Avenues ...... 225,000 00 250,000 no Repaving Streets and Avenues-Salaries ...... 13.000 00 13,000 00 district maps, etc., conformably to request of this Board, as per resolution adopted August 14, 1895 Roads, Streets and Avenues. Maintenance of, etc...... 35,000 00 35,000 00 (see Journal, page t38). which stand is elegant in all respects and perfect in all but one particular, Salaries-Department of Public Works...... 91,720 00 90,000 00 therefore Salary of Consulting Engineer ...... 5,coa on 5,000 00 Resolved, That the Clerk of the Common Council be and he is hereby instructed to make Salaries of Engineers, Clerks, Inspectors, Measurers, etc...... 65,800 00 65,800 co Sewers-Repairing and Cleaning ...... 120,500 00 ra5,coo co request that the stand be altered to conform to the requirement of a resolution in the particular Sewers-Repairing and Cleaning-Salaries...... 10,000 00 ro,0.0 00 which differs from our expressed desire, to wit : Sewerage System-Salaries ...... 8,400 00 8,400 00 I. Instead of boards on which the maps are evidently to be pasted, frames be provided covered Street Improvements-For Surveying, Monumenting, etc...... 4,000 00 4,cco co Supplies for and Cleaning Public Offices ...... 177.325 00 with glass, so that on each side thereof maps and mats be placed and thus be free from careless .82.325 00 use, etc., besides appearing neat, uniform and properly finished. Supplies for and Cleaning Public Offices-Salaries...... 33.3'6 56 39,840 00 Supplying Water to Shipping, etc-Salaries...... 8,095 on 7,000 00 2. The maps and mats be procured and placed in the same frames. Survef s, Maps. etc., for Street Opening and New Streets-Salaries...... 7,600 co 7,600 00 3. The "Self-Binder" referred to in original resolution, and copies of the CITY RECORD Water SupPPply Y for the Twenty lo.,rth Ward ...... 7,500 03 ro,400 00 Water Supply for the 'I'wenty-t0orili Ward-Salaries...... 1,200 00 therein mentioned, be also provided. Bridge over H -rlem Ship Canal, Maintenance of ...... 7,500 00 10,000oo oo Resolved, further, That the said stand when completed be placed in the City Library, when Repairs of Eighth Avenue Pavement...... 19,200 00 r9,aoo 00 in order, for the benefit of the general public, instead of in Room 13, as originally intended. Soldiers' Monument in Calvary Cemetery...... 4,350 00 The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative. Total...... - ...... I $3.262,53o 66 68 00 I $3,5.5.5,9 (G. O, 1035•) Which was referred to the Committee on Finance. By the same- DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS-COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, No. 150 NASSAU STREET, COMMUNICATIONS AGAIN RESUMED. NEW YORK, September 14, 1896. Hon. ELIAS GOODMAN, Board of Aldermen : The President laid before the Board a number of communications from citizens touching the DEAR SIR-I enclose herewith draft of a resolution and ordinance to fence vacant lots on the matter of restricting the Boulevard for the use of bicycles. block bounded by One Hundred an :l Thirty-sixth and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh streets, Which were referred to Alderman Robinson. Fifth and Lenox avenues. 2552 THE CITY RE C O R. D. TIIURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

As this location is in your Aldermanic District, you are respectfully requested to introduce the the work to be done at their own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public resolution in the Board of Aldermen and to use your good offices to secure its passage. Works ; such permission to continue only until November 4, 1896. Very respectfully, IHOWARD PAVSON WILDS, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Resolved, That the vacant lots on the block bounded by One Hundred and Thirty-sixth and was decided in the affirmative. (tne Hundred and Thirty-seventh streets, Fifth and Lenox avenues, be fenced in, where not already By the same— done, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordi- Resolved, 'flint permission be and the same is hereby given to Samuel Greenberg to place and nance therefor be adopted. keep an ornamental lamp over the doorway in front of his premises, No. 8o5 Amsterdam avenue, Which was laid over. provided the lamp be kept lighted during the same hours as the public lamps, the lamp not to By the same- exceed two feet in diameter and not to be used for advertising purposes, the work to be done and e.esolved, That the Young Men's Christian Association (Harlem Branch) he and it is hereby gas supplied at his own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permitted to place and retain on unused lamp-posts transparencies announcing educational classes permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council. as follows : Southeast corner Lenox avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, northwest The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which corner Madison avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, southwest corner Lenox ave- was decided in the affirmative. nue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, and northwest corner Seventh avenue and One By the same— Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, the same to remain in position as placed for a period of two Resolved, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks in the City of New York weeks after the approval hereof by his Honor the Mayor. be and the same is hereby suspended in Ninety-ninth street, between Columbus and Amsterdam The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which avenues, and in Ninety-sixth street, between Columbus avenue and Central Park, West, for the was decided in the affirmative. evening of Wednesday, September 23, 1896. By Alderman Goodwin— The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Resolved, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks in the City of New York was decided in the affirmative. be and the same is hereby suspended so far as the same applies to the political meeting of the (G. O. 1036.) 'Thomas Murray Association, in Twenty-eighth street, between Tenth and Eleventh ave.tues, on the By the same— evening of September 28, 1896. Resolved, That the carriageway of West One Hundred and Fourteenth street, ft-cm the Boule- The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which vard to the Riverside Drive be paved with asphalt block pavement on concrete foundation, under was decided in the affirmative. the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance there- By the same— for be adopted. Resolved, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks in the City of New York Which was laid over. be and the same is hereby suspended so far as the same applies to the open-air meeting of the (G. O. 1037.) Pequod Club, in Twenty-fifth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, on the evening of Sep- By the same— tember 25, 1896. Resolved, That water-mains be laid in One Hundred and Tenth street, between Central Park, The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which West, and Riverside Drive, as provided by section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act of was decided in the affirmative. 1882. By the same— Which was laid over. Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the Ninth Assembly District By Alderman Parker— 'Tammany Hall Organization to erect a stand on Twenty-fifth street, one hundred feet east of Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the Church of St. Francis de Eighth avenue, for the purpose of holding an open-air meeting, the work to be done at their own Sales to place and keep a transparency on each of the following lamp-posts : Southeast corner of expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue Sixty-seventh street and Third avenue ; southeast corner of Ninetieth street and Third avenue -, only from September 24 to September 26, 1896. southeast corner of Ninety-sixth street and Third avenue ; southwest corner of One Hundred and The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. \Vhich Sixth street and Lexington avenue, and the northwest corner of One Hundred and Sixteenth street was decided in the affirmative. and Third avenue, the work to be done at its own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner By Alderman Hackett— of Public Works ; such permission to continue only for two weeks from the date of approval by his Resolved, That permi,sion be and the same is hereby given to '' 1 he New York Morning Honor the Mayor. Journal " to extend their frame screen over the sidewalk a distance of eighteen feet in front of the The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Abingdon Hotel, for the purpose of using a stereopticon lantern, the work to be done at their own was decided in the affirmative. expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue By the same— only until November t5, 1896. Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Carl Kohler to place and keelb The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which an ornamental lamp-post and lamp in front of No. 1491 Lexington avenue, provided the lamp be kept was decided in the affirmative. lighted during the same hours as the public lamps, that the posts shall not exceed the dimensions lt) the same— prescribed by law (eighteen inches square at the base), the lamp not to exceed two feet in diameter Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Trustees of Grammar School and not to be used for advertising purposes, the work to be done and gas supplied at his own Nn. 16 to place and keep a transparency on the following lamp-post : Abingdon Square and Bank expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue ,treet, the work to be done at their own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of only during the pleasure of the Cuniunon Council. Public Works ; such permission to continue only during the term of the evening school for the The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said reolitteon. AVhicli winter of 1896 and 5897. was decided in the affirmative. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which By the same-- was decided in the affirmative. Resolved, That permission I>e and the same is hereby given to the V'orkvilie Republican Club By Alderman Goodwin— to place and swing a political banner across Lexington avenue, in front of chub house, No. 1390 Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the Thomas Murray Associa- Lexington avenue, to No. 1389 Lexington avenue, opposite, the consent of the property-owners tion to erect, place and keep a wooden stand for the purpose of holding an open-air political having been obtained ; the work to be done at their own expense, under the direction of the nireting in front of No. 510 West Twenty-eighth street, on September 28, 1896, provided the said Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Thomas Murray removes paid stand immediately after said meeting, the work to be done at their Common Council. own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to con- The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said re luiion. Which tinue only until September 29, 1896. was decided in the affirmative. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which (G. O. 1038.) was decided in the affirmative. By the same— By Alderman Murphy Resolved, That an additional lamp-post be erected and street-laittli placed thereon and lighted Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Michael McGuinnes.- to place in front of Blimm Memorial'Church on East One Hundred and 'Third street, seventy-five feet and keep an ornamental lamp-post and lamp in front of No, 293 Third avenue, provided the lamp west of Lexington avenue. be kept lighted during the same hours as the public lamps. that the post shall not exceed the Which was laid over. dimensions prescribed by law (eighteen inches square at the base), the lamp not to exceed two (G. O. 1039.) feet in diameter and not to be used fc,r advertising purposes ; the work to be done and gas supplied By the same— at his own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to Resolved, That the sidewalks on the north side of Seventy-first street, from Madison avenue continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council. to Park avenue, be flagged full width for a distance of three hundred feet, and that a similar The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which flagging be laid on Park avenue for a distance of one hundred and two feet, from Seventy-first was decided in the affirmative. street to Seventy-second street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works; and that By Alderman Marshall— the accompanying ordinance therefor be a lopted. Resolved, That so much of G. O. 1029 as is contained in the application of the following- The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which namerl persons to keep stands within the stoop-line at the location set opposite their navies, for the was decided in the affirmative. sale of fruit, soda-water, newspapers and periodicals, be and the same is hereby adopted By Alderman Randall— Seventh Assemoly Drslrict. Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the McKinley and Hobart Adam Arnold, 54 Avenue B. Edward Rosenstein, zos East Fifth street. iccnzo Garramoni, southwest corner First avenue Jones H. Fitzgerald, 54 Bleecker street. Campaign Club of \Voodlawn to suspend a banner across Two I tundred and Thirty-third street, and Third street. Angelo Marcori, 15 Prince street. near Verio avenue, in front of the premises of Roemer & Son, the work to be done at its own Joseph Thalmann, 37 First avenue. expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvernents, Twenty-third and - Twenty-third Assembly District. Twenty-fourth Wards ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common ;eor„e Bock, 994 Columbus avenue. C. H. Magna, 9o2 Columbus avenue. Council. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which 'Is as decided in the affirmative. By Alderman Schilling— was decided in the affirmative. Resolved, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks be and the same is hereby By the same— Resolved, That the Commissioner of Public Works be and he is hereby requested to report to suspended on First avenue, between Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth streets, for the evening of Tues- this Board when the tunneling of the Old Aqueduct at Burnside avenue will be completed. day, September 22, 1896. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative. was decided in the affirmative. By Alderman Maisliall- By the same--- Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Bruno Scholz to place and Resolved, That the' Park Commissioners be and they are hereby requested to light with electric- keep a sign, one foot by two feet in size, on the tree in front of his premises, No. 92 Second avenue, ity Crotona Park. North, viz.: two lights between Fulton and Franklin avenues, one light between the work to be done at his own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works Franklin (or Crotona) avenue and Clinton avenue. such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative. was decided in the affirmative. By the same— Whereas, The residents living between Tremont and Fordham avenues demand the erection By Alderman Olcott- of bridges across the Harlem Railroad at every crossing now open and laid out; therefore be it Whereas, It is desirable that the various kinds of traffic on the Boulevard be regulated and Resolved, That the Commissioner of Street Improvements be and is hereby requested to take directed for the mutual benefit of all persons who use that thoroughfare ; and Whereas, Either from lack of power vested in this Board, or because of reasonable objections such action as the above demands warrant. made to or filed with it, neither the pending resolution intended to reach this subject nor any of The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which the compromises suggested appeals practicable ; and was decided in the affirmative. Whereas, It is believed that the difficulties and dangers of traffic on that thoroughfare could By the same— be largely dispelled by the bicycle police force, provided an ordinance were passed establishing Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Ferdinand Weisenburger to rules of the road not inconsistent with the rights and convenience of all classes of travel ; therefore place and keep an iron awning in front of his premises, No. 138 White Plains road, between Jerome Resolved, That the following ordinance be and the same hereby is adopted : avenue and First street, provided said awning conforms in all respects with the ordinance passed Section r. Except when going or coining directly from or to their place of departure or des- April t3, 1886, the work to be done at his own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner tination on said boulevard, and except when actually passing another vehicle or an obstacle, all of Public Works ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council. trucks, express wagons, vans and business vehicles of all sorts shall keep in single line upon their The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which extreme right of the Western Boulevard at all points between Fifty-ninth street and Manhattan was decided in the affirmative. street. (G. O. '04°.) Sec. 2. Except when going or coming directly from or to their place of departure or destination By the same— on said boulevard. and except when actually passing an obstacle in the roadway, all bicycles and Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Pelham avenue, from Southern Boulevard to Main passenger vehicles shall use only those portions of the Western Boulevard between Fifty-ninth street, and in Main street to a point one thousand feet north of said Pelham avenue, Bronxdale, street and Manhattan street not set apart in section i hereof for the use of the vehicles therein men- Twenty-fourth Ward, as provided in section 336 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882. tioned ; and all bicycles and passenger vehicles shall keep to their right of those portions of said Which was laid over. boulevard by this section allotted for their use. (G. O. 5041.) Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect immediately, and any person violating any of the By the same— provisions thereof shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for each offense. Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Anthony avenue, from Southern Boulevard to Garfield Which was referred to the Committee on Streets. street, as provided in section 356 of the New York City Consolidated Act of 1882. Alderman Robinson's motion that Committee on Streets hold a public hearing on this matter Which was laid over. at an early day was put to vote and lost. (G. O. 5042.) By the same— By the same— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the Tip-Top's Association to Resolved, That One Hundred and Eighty-ninth street (Welch street), from Webster avenue to place transparencies on the following lamp-posts : Southwest One Hundred and First street and Fordham road, be regulated,and graded, the curb-stones set, the sidewalks flagged a space four feet Columbus avenue, southwest Ninety-third street and Columbus avenue, southeast Ninety-sixth in width, and crosswalks laid at each intersecting or terminating street and avenue where not street and Amsterdam avenue, northeast One Hundred and Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue, not already laid, approaches constructed where necessary, and fences built where required, under THURSDAYS SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD 2553

the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Wards ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. was decided in the affirmative.- Which was laid over. By the same— (G. O. 1043•) Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Bergin & Crombie to By the same— place and keep a storm-door at the side of their premises, No. 151 Seventh avenue, provided the Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted dimensions shall not exceed those prescribed by law, the work to be done at their own expense, in Fleetwood avenue, from East One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street to a point about one under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue only during hundred and fifty feet north, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. the pleasure of the Common Council. Which was laid over. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with

(G.O. 1o59.) Affirmative—The President, the Vice-president, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, By the same— Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS—COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, No. i5o NASSAU STREET, NEW Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Tait, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. YORK, September 17, 1896. To the Honorable the Board of Aldermen: Alderman Wines called up G. 0.997, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows GENTLEMEN—In accordance with the provisions of section 32! of the New York City Consoli- Resolved, That the vacant lots on the southeast corner of One Hundred and Fourteenth street olation Act of 1882, as amended by chapter 569 of the Laws of 1887, I hereby certify and report to and Pleasant avenue be fenced in with a tight board fence, under the direction of the Commissioner your Honorable Board that the safety, health and convenience of the public require that a crosswalk of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. of two courses, with a row of new, specification stone blocks between the courses, be laid across The President put the question whether he Board would agree with said resolution. Which Seventh avenue at its intersection with the northerly and southerly sides of One Hundred and was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : Forty-first and One Hundred and Forty-second streets ; the materials to be used for said work to Affirmative—The Piesident, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, be b idge-stone of North river blue stone of the dimensions and according to the specifications now Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, used in the Department of Public Works. Very respectfully, Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. HOWARI) PAYSON WILDS, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works. Alderman Goodman called up G. O.955, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows Resolved, That a crosswalk of two courses, with a row of new specification stone blocks Resolved, That the sidewalks on the east side of Pleasant avenue, from One Hundred and between the courses, be laid across Seventh avenue at its intersection with the northerly and south- Nineteenth street to One Hundred and Twentieth street, be flagged full width where not already erly sides of One Hundred and Forty-first and One Hundred and Forty-second streets ; the done, and that all the flagging and the curb now on the sidewalks be relaid and re-ct where neces- materials to be used for said work to be bridge-stone of North river blue stone of the dimensions sary, and that new flagging and curb be furnished where the present flagging and curb are defecvfve, and according to the specifications now used by the Department of Public Works, under the direc- as provided by section 32401 chapter 410, Laws of in32, as amended by chapter 569, Laws of 1887, tion of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be under the direction of the Commis-ioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance adopted. therefor be adopted. Which was laid over. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which By the President— was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : Resolved, That Thomas J. Falls, of No. 347 West Forty-fifth street, be and he is hereby Affirmative—The President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. By Alderman Brown— Alderman Goodman called up G. O. i000, being a resolution, as follows: Resolved, That William J. Gilroy, of No. 470 Pearl street, be and is hereby reappointed a Resolved, That an improved iron drinking-fountain be placed on the southwest corner of One Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Hundred and Thirty-first street and Madison avenue, under the direction of the Commissioner of Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Pubic Works. By Alderman Campbell— The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Resolved, That Abraham Morrison, of No. I2go First avenue, be and he is hereby reappointed was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : a Con- mt>sioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Affirmative—The President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. .Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy. O'Brien, Olcott, Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. By Alderman Dwyer— Resolved, That Ignazio T. Reves be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds Alderman Woodward called up G. 0. 657, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows in and for the City and County of New York. Resolved, That the sidewalks on the north side of One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, com- Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. mencing at Amsterdam avenue and extending east about one hundred feet, be flagged eight feet By Alderman Goetz— wide, where not already done, and that all the flagging and the curb now on the sidewalks be Resolved, That Benjamin P. Benjamin, of No. t5o Nassau street, be and he is hereby re- relaid and reset where necessary, and that new flagging and curb be furnished where the present appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. flagging and curb are defective, as provided by section 321, chapter 410, Laws 1882, as amended was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. by chapter 569, Laws 1887, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that \\ hich the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. By Alderman Goetz— Resolved, That James H. Robinson, of No. 203 Broadway, be and he is hereby appointed The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Affirmative—'l he President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, Parker, By Alderman Lantry- Resolved, That M. Warley Platzek, of No. 29t Broadway, be and he is hereby reappointed a Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Alderman Woodward called up G. O. 730, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows Resolved, That all the flagging and the curb now on the sidewalks on the south side of One \\ hich was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Hundred and Forty-fourth street, commencing about one hu ndred and twenty-five feel west of By Alderman 1)wyer- Resolved, That William E. Turner, of No. 8 Sixth avenue, be and he is hereby appointed a Eighth avenue and extending west about fifty feet, be relaid and reset where necessary, and that Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. new flagging and curb be furnished where the present flagging and curb are defective, as provided Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. by section 321 of chapter 41o, Laws of 1882, as amended by chapter 569, Laws of 1887, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor By Alderman Muh- be adopted. Resolved, That Louis Jarmulowsky, of No. 54 Canal street, be and he hereby is appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the alfirmat.ve by the following vote : Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Affirmative—The President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, By the same— Resolved, That David Salomon, of No. 12 East Eighty-seventh, be and he is hereby appointed Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling. Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Alderman Olcott called up G. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. 0.945, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows Resolved, That the carriageway of Ninety-eighth street, from the Boulevard to West End ave- By Alderman Oakley— Resolved, That William O. Gillon, of No. 390 Cherry street, be and he is hereby appointed a nue, be paved with asphalt-block pavement on concrete foundation, under the direction of the Com- missioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. The 1're, Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. iclent put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : By Alderman Olcott- Resolved, That Benno Ziegel, of No. 32 Morningside avenue, be and he is hereby appointed Affirmative—The President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Mnh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, \Woodward, and Wund-24. Alderman Wund called up G. 0.965, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows By Alderman Parker— Resolved, That David E. Babcock, of No. 1894 Second avenue, be and he is hereby reappointed Resolved, 7 hat One Hundred and Sixty-third street, from Brook avenue to Courtlandt avenue, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. be regulated and graded, the curb-stones set, the sidewalks flagged a space four feet in width, and Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. crosswalks laid at each intersecting or tenu'nating street and avenue where not already laid, and that fences be built where required, under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improve- By Alderman Randall- Resoived, That Douglas Mathewson, of No. 964 East One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street, be ments of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth \yards ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : By the same— Affirmative—"i he President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, Resolved, That Louis Curtis, of No. 2096 Washington avenue, be and he is hereby appointed Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, 1\9arshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Parker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and \Vend-24. Vt hich was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Alderman Wund called tip G. O. 976, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows By Alderman Robinson— Resolved, That One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street, from Third avenue to Webster avenue, be Resolved, That Oswald N. Jacoby, of No.5 West Fifty-third street, be and he is hereby regulated and graded, the curb-stones set, the sidewalks flagged a space four feet in width, fences reappointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. placed where necessary, and the crosswalks laid at each intersecting or terminating street and Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. avenue where not al eady done, under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements By the same-- of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be Resolved, That Leon Laski, of No. 271 West Thirty-sixth street, be and he is hereby appointed adopted. a Commis,ioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of .\ew York. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : By the same- Affirmative—The President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, Resplved, That Ike W. Harlem, of No. --, he and he is hereby reappointed a Commissioner Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Parker, Randall, RoSinson. Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Alderman Randall called up G.O. 1031, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows: By Alderman School— Resolved, That the carriageway of Tremont avenue, from the Boston road to the Bronx river, Resolved, That Gilbert A. Rollins, of No. I I i Broadway, be and he is hereby appointed a be regulated and paved with granite-block pavement, and crosswalks be laid at each intersecting Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. or terminating street and avenue. where not already laid, under the direction of the Commissioner \Vhich was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. of Street Improvements of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards ; and that the accompanying By the Vice-President- ordinance therefor be adopted. ' Resolved, That Adolph :Nlylius be and he is hereby reappointed a Commissioner of Deeds in The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which and for the City and County of New York. was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Affirmative—The President, the Vice-f'resident, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, By Alderman \Wines— Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Kennefick, Lantry, Marshall, Muh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, Resolved, That John 11. Flynn, of No. 598 East One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, be Parke., Randall, Robtr,on, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund-24. and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Alderman Randall called up Which was reterred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. G.O.904, betng a resolution, as follows: By Alderman Ware— Resolved, That gas-tnains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Resolved, That Joseph B. Rosen, of No. t35 East One Hundred and Nineteenth street, be in St. Lawrence avenue, from West Farms road to Merrill avenue, Van Nest, New York City, and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. G. O.905, being a resolution, as follows : By Alderman Woodward— Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed the;eou and lighted Resolved, That Henry J. Pattison, of No. 579 \Vest One Hundred and Forty-sixth street, be in One Hundred and Eighty-third street, from Webster avenue to Washington avenue, tinder the and he hereby is appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. York. G. 0. 9C6, being a resolution, as follows: Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted in One Hundred and Eighty-first street, from Prospect avenue to Clinton avenue, under the direction UNFINISHED BUSINESS. of the C,,mmissioner of Public Works. Alderman Goodman called up Special Order No. 33, relating to proposed ordinance relative to G. 0.907, being a resolution, as follows: hucksters, and moved that it he taken up section by section. Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Alderman Lantry moved that the whole matter lie made a special order for next Tuesday, in One Hundred and Eighty-third street, from Webster avenue to a point about four hundred feet September 29, at 2.30 o'clock r. M. west, under the directi,.n of the Commissioner of Public Works. The Vice-President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which G. 0. 9o8, being a resolution, as follows: was decided in the affirmative. Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Alderman Wines called up G. O. 1030, being a resolution and ordinance, as follows in Commonwealth avenue, from West Farms road to Merrill avenue, Van Nest, New York City, Resolved, That crosswalks of two courses, with a row of new specification stone block between under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. the courses, be laid across Jay street, at its intersection with the westerly side of Staple street, the G. 0. 909, being a resolution, as follows materials to be used for said work to be bridge-store of North river blue stone of the dimensions Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-pasts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted and according to the specifications now used by the Department of Public Works, under the direction in Park avenue, from One Hundred and Eighty-second street to One Hundred and Eighty-fourth of the Corn nrissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. The President put the question whether the Board wouid agree with said resolution. Which G. 0. 910, being a resolution, as follows: was decided in the affirmative by the following vote : Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and

7 HURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. THE CITY RECORD. 2555

lighted in One Hundred and Eighty-fourth street, from Webster avenue to Park avenue, West, Accident.-Fractures and Contusions, 14 ; Burns and Scalds, z ; Drowning, 8 ; Surgical Operations, 9 ; Railroad, and in Park avenue, West, to One Hundred and Eighty-third street, under the direction of the It ; Rupture of Liver, r ; Gangrene of Arm, I. r Cher Gru,eo.-Oliiis, 2 ; Lymphadenoma, 2 ; Exophthalmic Goitre, r ; Addison's Disease, t ; Multiple Cyst Commissioner of Public Works. of Thyroid Gland, r ; Bronchocele, t , Placenta Prnvia, r ; Childbirth, t ; Spina l3t6Ja, t. G. U. 9! i, being a resolution, as follows Homicide, 2. Resolved, That gas-maths he laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Deaths According to Cause, Annual Rate per i,000 and Age, with .1feteorology and Number in Ford street, from Webster avenue to a point about four hundred feet west, under the direction of of Deaths to Public Institutions for 13 Weeks. the Commissioner of Public Works. G. U, 931, being a resolution, as follows WEI.:e ENUth'G- Resolved, That gas-maids be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted in Hoc street, from Jennings street to One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street, under the direction of June July July July July j Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Sep;. Sept. the Commissioner of Public Works. G. O.933, being a resolution, as follows : ]'Dial deaths...... ] SSg I 896 g67 r,t2z 8,6 883 Soq I t,8 to 8zz '. 73 75r 73z Resolved, That gas mains be laid, lamu-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted 6 745 in Crescent avenue, from Cambreling avenue to One Hundred and Eighty-seventh street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. Annualdeath-rate...... 23.18 1 24.17 26.07 30.22 23.05 23.76 21.76 4865 1 22.08 19.76 20.e0 20.14 19.62 G. U. 934, being a resolution, as follows : Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Diphtheria ...... 40 39 a6 23 24 24 2! 32 12 z8 27 24 20 Croup ...... 2 2 2 1 2 z 3 j .. 2 1 .. 4 4 in Waterloo place, from One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street to One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Malarial Fevers...... 4 2 4 r 3 r 4 3 .. 3 2 3 street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. Measles ...... 15 XI to 19 6 7 8 9 5 5 4 4 1 G. O• q35, being a resolution, as follows ; Scarlet Fever...... 5 9 6 6 5 3 4 2 1 2 4 e 3 Resolved, ]'hat gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Small-pox ...... .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. typhoid Fever...... I 3 5 4 7 7 9 15 to 6 8 10 to in One Hundred and Eighty-third, from Bathgate avenue to Bassford avenue, and in Bassford TyphusFever...... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. avenue to a point two hundred feet north, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. d uouping Lough...... 6 9 ,t 14 10 15 r3 8 7 r4 15 16 11 G. O. 961, being a resolution, as follows : otarrhwal Dissases..... 166 t8r 242 302 180 164 169 194 134 106 86 66 72 Dturrhwal Discasesunder, Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected and street-lamps placed thereon and rc6 74 66 lighted in Suburban street, from Boston road to Penfold avenue, and in Pendlold avenue to a 5 years ...... 155 173 2z8 273 x58 143 143 268 rzz 60 t'hthisis ...... 103 89 79 82 81 87 66 x14 87 205 79 91 94 point one hundred and fifty feet east and one hundred and seventy-five west of said Suburban Bronchitis ...... z6 r6 8 r1 15 17 9 2? 15 19 21 14 zl, street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. Pneumonia ...... 52 63 67 63 51 57 35 6t 40 49 67 70 7' G. U. 962, being a resolution, as follows : Other Diseases of Res- ro 3 11 8 to 6 9 6 8 Resolvett, That gas-trains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted piratory Organs...., 8 9 I 8 Violent Deaths...... 4z 51 53 74 43 1 6r 82 720 107 35 48 5o 46 in Fleetwood avenue, to a point three hundred and fifty feet north of Walnut street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. G. 0.977, Ming a resolution, as follows : Under one year...... 342 349 424 499 328 310 278 391 255 257 244 235 21` Under five years...... 473 472 59 605 443 427 38S 552 366 362 368 333 3.' Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted Five tosixty-live...... 327 344 343 377 337 36o 341 t,o32 369 304 307 339 341 in East One Hundred and Sevei.ty-fourth street, from Webster avenue to Worth avenue, and in Sixty-five yearsand over 59 80 65 8o 76 7o to zz6 67 70 71 79 53 Worth avenue to a point about one hundred feet north, under the direction of the Commissioner of In Public and Private i Public \Yorks. Institutions...... 216 205 207 200 176 191 175 184 G. U. 984, being a resolution, as follows 224 ' 227 229 zt6 436 Resolved, That gas-mains be laic, lamp-posts erected, street-lamps placed thereon and lighted in Pelham avenue, from One Hundred and Seventy-sixth street to One Hundred and In uestCases...... - 92 118 tot 112 119 5 5 zs9 677 I 112 93 rot Seventy-seventh street, under the direction of the Couunission=r of Public Works. ~~ ~ And No. 1023, being a resolution, as follows Mean0. barometer...... 09,99.96rz671 9.947 z9.Q53,29.884 27.925 29.894. 29.856 29.925 29,959 -9.994 29.945 29.87629.837 Resolved, That gas-inailn be laid and lamp-posts erected, street lamps placed thereon and glean hmmdHy...... t8 04 75 68 70 64 t,8 I 72 69 70 60 72 85 Inches of ruin and snow, t.8s .z8 2.24 t:. 05 2.64 x.15 .27 I .41 .65 .o6 z.rt .63 1.39 1i,,hted in Anthony avenue, from a point three hundred and fifty feet north of Burnside avenue Vl e a it temperauire 72.a° 69.7° to a point about one hundred and fifty feet north of One Hundred and Eightieth street, under ((Chrenheit)...... 72.3° 74.4° 77.41 77.4 1 75.00 78.30 '52.2° 84.2° 69.o1 73.10 '68.2 0 the direction of the Commissioner of Pubiic \Vurks. ~laxtmmnt temperature (F.Jvenhclt)...... 92° 91° 89° 91° 86° 91° , 97° 98° 83° 84° 1 88° 89° 84' 1'he President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolutions. Which Sliutmum temperatw c leas decided in the affirmative by the following vote : IFaYn enhcit).. 5S° 60' 66° 6o° 65° 63° 68° 73° 57° ;.n° 55' 6O 58° Affirmative - 1'he President, the Vice-President, Aldermen Brown, Campbell, Dwyer, Goetz, Goodman, Goodwin, Hackett, Keunefick, Lantry, Alatshall, it4uh, Murphy, O'Brien, Olcott, In/cc/zoos ana Contai.tous Diseases in Hospitals. l'a,ker, Randall, Robinson, Schilling, Ware, Wines, Woodward, and Wund--24. MOTIUNS AND RESOLUTIONS RESUMED. H'• [LI. use PALKEk Alderman \Vund moved that the Board do now adjourn. Ili\1'11 .1[., RIVER51DR HOSPITAL• The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which vens decided in the affirmative. And the ]'resident declared that the Board stood adjourned until Tuesday, September 29, ~ ~~ r •C~ y w _ `t or v 1896, at 2 o'clock r. M. WILLIAM 11. TEN EVCK, Clerk. v ~~ W n I _ v!-L3o i art HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. - n 3 f- W1;,FK ENDING ',ATUEDAV, 12 M., SEPTEMBER 19, 1896. Remaining Sept. 12 27 30 97 - 3 3 7 t 4 28 Estimated 1'upul;,tion, II 1, Death-rate, 19.62. 946,454. Admitted...... . z 8 to „ . 1 . , z • , , o -.• Cases of Infectious and ConIa,ious Diseases Reported. Discharged ...... to t3 23 z ...... ,. 5 .. .. .. 6 •' Died ...... 3 3 I r WEEK ENDING- Remaining Sept. rg.' 29 22 41 2 .. 3 .. „ 3 1 • 4 x3 ,

June June July July July July Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Sept. Total treated.. 29 38 67 1 4 .. - 8 >; 4 ao

Plithis:s ...... 257 167 169 96 171 122 214 142 149 156 157 204 143 136 Cases o/' Injecliorts and Contagious Diseases Reported and Deaths from th.• Sauce, by Wards, Diphtheria...... 222 203 211 199 204 182 154 139 105 67 125 230 122 ttr Croup ...... ro 5 2 z .. 5 2 8 I r 3 4 6 9 6 Measles ...... 2x3 176 155 r8o 145 115 98 92 - 64 57 32 25 42 31 a y I SICKNESS. DEATHS REPORTED. Scarlet Fever..... 92 56 77 5a 33 44 45 41 22 r2 24 22 21 31 Small-pox ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7 1 20 I `I 'I'y5i ord lever.., to 22 15 IC 15 27 37 48 15 28 51 50 WARDS. - TyphusFever.... .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ' c a d,. _, tz, _? ; s. •~_ s ..°.+ v w ?, I o:~, Total ...... 804 I 624 636 545 573 488 528 449 378 343 357 4i6 388 365 P, CO U n un a. r n n IMF' i;a .6 arriages reported ...... 295 Burial permits issued...... M 732 First ...... x2,508 .. z .. i 7 .. 2 12 13itths ...... 991 Transit permits issued ...... 24 Second ...... 2,038 .. .. .. „ .. Deaths ...... 732 Searches made...... 305 third ...... 4,014 .. .. .. .. .. i . I r Still-births " ...... 62 Transcripts issued...... 260 Fourth ...... 18,405 .. .. .. 6 t .. .. z 17 Filth ...... • to, 03 ,. .. ,. •I 3 .. . 4 9 ij z Deaths 4ccord,n, to Cause, Age and Sex. Sixth ...... 22,897 z .. .. .. .. 1 z .. .. z tz Seventh...... 74,227 7 z 3 t 5 3 34 Eighth...... ••. 3x,374 z .. .. •• z .. t6 .d N u Ninth...... 60,987 3 „ I r i 3 3 .. . .. 3 25 x11 i1 ...... 70,168 I~ 4 .. r ' r2 2 • t .. .. y, a • c GY 7 3 r 24 Eleventh...... 86,7zz j 3 1 z .. „, i 2 z .. z j .. t 4 36 Twelfth...... 364,412 24 3 7 9 . j to 17 , 5 . . .. z I . r8 129 °1 Y L N -O N b Thirteenth..-...... , 58,8oz 5 5 3 r 5 2 .. I t r8 Fourteenth...... 31,s04 1 2 1 ., 8 z ...... z 2 it Fifteenth...... 26,216 2 .. .. .. .. ` t 2 „ z ' 7 Sixteenth ...... 57,430 4 .. .. .. . .. 3 j , 6 fotal,alicause...... 732 763 825.3 411 321 5o 166 61 5! 328 zt 5z rqg 119 6 Seventeenth...... 1614,727 3 3 2 3 :2 1 • i 4 37 Eighteenth ...... c7,4v9 4 z .. ' .. .. 7 .. . .. I .. 3 18 Nineteenth...... 267,076 ' 8 .. t j 5 „ 5 II I 2 .. .. z .. zo I too Diphtheria ...... 2z .2 22.4 1 II 10 z 6 rr z8 3 Twentieth...... 94,969 14 .. z 4 6 2 ...... r 9 38 roup .. ...... 4 4 10.5 2 2 3 1 4 twenty-first...... 72,144 7 •. I •• . 5 ro 3 3, Walarial Fevers ...... 3 2 6.4 z 2 t r .. .. Twenty-second,..... 194,893 II t a z 9 2 z z g 70 ileasles ...... ...... ~ r 5 5.3 ...... r .. r . Twenty-third ..... 8:,567 5 .. .. z 6 r z I 4, 31 icarlet Fever ...... 3 r 6.9 z r • r z g Twenty-fourth ...... 26,o8 I q .. .. 4 .. .. . .. q t8 imatl-pox ...... .. .. z.3 ...... ~ 16 16.8 ryphotd Fever...... ° 6 4 z 3 4 Total...... z,85r,o6o lit 6 3z 31 .. 50 136 zz z 3 .. ro 94 732 rvphus Fever...... Whoopng Cough...... tz z3 '. rr.5 5 6 3 5 3 rt )earrhual Diseases...... 7z 123 116.6 44 28 3 45 t5 3 66 Inspections of Premises. hthis...... ...... 94 98 ! ,or.7 57 37 r t t 3 2 16 5z zo Totalnumber of inspections made ...... 9,6c5 )therTubercidous Diseases.. 2O 17 .... 7 z3 8 4 2 z4 3 4 Classified as follows . zz 4 )tseasesofNervousSystem.. 54 6, 7x.3 42 zl 4 2 21 z 3 8 1 Inspections of tenement-houses...... 3eartl)iseses...... 4z 34 39.2 24 18 r z 9 16 8 ...... ...... 4,888 3rouchitis ...... 26 z7 26.8 12 z4 2 14 z 5 22 ... .. r 2 " tenement apartments (at night) to prevent overcrowding ...... 649 57 58.2 e1 'neumonia .... ...... 76 4z 34 r 26 9 9 45 z 4 613 4 private dwellings ...... 295 )ttter Diseases ofRespiratory u lodging-houses ...... 230 Organs...... 9 7 ... 5 4 r .. z z z 2 z )iseases of Digestive System. stables. ...... ...... ...... ..... 417 72 76 ... 3d 34 z 31 9 5 47 3 2 7 ro 11 slaughter-houses ...... )tseases of Urinary System.. 58 46 .... 19 619 •• •• •• •• •• .• 2 5 t8 z 1 180 ongenital Debility$...... 59 73 .... 3' 28 36 20 z z 59 . other premises ...... ...... 3,036 )ld Age ...... 8 o .... z iuicides ...... 7 5 6.2 6 r .. r 2 3 Total number of citizens' complaints attended to ...... ...... )ther violent deaths...... 38 38 33.2 26 tz z 4 5 z 4 19 5 3 ., r 539 -- - - - verified ...... ... ...... 290 Ofothercauses ...... i 3o 34 64 52 I I •••• II •. 36 3 4 2o29 z " found baseless, or nuisance already abated...,.,.. 249 " original complaints by Inspectors ...... ...... ...... 637 * 'Ihiscolumn contains the average number of deaths for the corresponding week of the past ten years,increasee to eorrevpond with the increase of population. 1 Thiscolumn gives the total number of deaths for the corresponding week of the previous year. Inspection qj Foods, Chemical Analyses, etc. I Including prematurebirths,atrophy, inanition, narasmus,ate1ectauis, cyanosis and preternatural births. total number of inspections of milk ...... 1,290 II Police Census, April 15, 1895, 1.851,060. Population of Annexed District estimated at z7,000 on July r. 1 specimens examined...... 1,308t,3o8 I. quarts of milk destroyed ...... 8 Causes of Death not Specified in tite Foregoing Table. inspections of fruit, vegetables and canned goods ...... 4,727 Zyrnotic.-Erysipelas, r ; Syphilis, z ; Cerebro-spinal Fever, 5 ; Pywmia, 3 ; Puerperal Fever, 2. Dietetic.-Alcoholistn, 9. 1 pounds of same condeinnetl and destroyed ...... 46,285 Coast#utional.-Cancer, z7; Tubercular Meningitis, z3; Tuberculosis, etc.,6; Tabes Mesenterica, z; `• iuspectlonsof meatand fish ... ...... ...... 2,187 Diabetes, 5. " pounds of same condemned and destroyed ...... Nervous.-C .avulsions, 9 ; Meningitis and Encephalitis, 13 ; Apoplexy, 19; Paralysis, z ; Insanity, 5 ; Tetanus, II 55,206 2 ; Chronic Hydrocephalus, z ; Locomotor Ataxy, z ; Facial Paralysis, z. analyses of milk and other foods ...... 28 Circulatory.-Aneurism, 2 ; Embolism, 2 ; Senilr Gangrene. T. " experimental analyses, Respiratory.-Hydrothorax, 3; Hemorrhage of Lun*s, i ; Chronic Bronchitis, 5. D/Festive.-uastro-enteritis, 39 t Gastritis, 8 . Enteritis, 3; Cirrhosis, 9; Hepatitis, 3 ; Peritonitis, z; Obstruc- Analytical Work-Summary. tion of Intestines, x ; Typhlitts, 2 ; Hernia, i ; Gall Stones, It ; Ulceration of Intestines, 2 ; Tonsititis, x. Bilk-Adulterated ...... ...... 6 Genrio-rndnary -Hi ight's Disease, 35 ; Nephritis, 5 ; Diseases of Bladder and Prostate Gland, z ; Diseases of " Uterus and Vagina. t ; Ovarian Diseases, I. Unadulterated .... ...... 6 Locamotory.-Hip IJisease, r. ,roton water-Partial sanitary analysis...... I Inregumentary.-Carbuncle, r ; Impetigo Contagiosa, t. 11 Complete sanitary analysis (see below) ...... ...... r

2556 THE CITY RECORD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.

Ivaporated milk—Unadulterated...... City hospital-- Minutes of meeting of Medical Board held September i. Approved. ream—Unadulterated . Beer— Almshouse--Superintendent Terry states that Eliza Johnson, instate, who died on September Foreign bitters, negative ...... .. . 4, leaving in cash $6.22, requested that $5 be given to a Miss Hunt, a lady visitor, and the balance andy—Injuuou, ingredients, negative ...... to Geo. Robinson, an inmate. Superintendent Terry informed that unless will was made, legally Paste—Contains opium ...... drawn and executed, the funds should go to the Public Administrator. 'l'he Superintendent of the Almshouse was informed that Secretary Devine has placed the records of the Charity Organization Experimental Analyses. keaction of tartarates. . , ... . at the disposal of this Department by way of assistance in Almshouse Investigation. ~nnparative ,delicacy of tests for boric acid in milk ash ...... 4 Appointments, Etc. Bellevue Hospital--September 8—Dr. Frank W. Robertson, House Physician, $I,2oo per Analysis of Croton Water, September t8, 18g6. annum. September to—Isabelle C. Dunkinson, Attendant, $360 per annum ; Samuel Collins, Appearance, very ,lig'itly turbid ; color, light yellowish brown ; odor, marshy. Attendant, $48o per annum. September 1—Martin Loughlin, Attendant, increased from $24o to $36oper annum n ; Albert D. Hahn, Attendant, increased from $240to $36o per annum ; James Arm- RESULTS EXPRESSED RESULTS EXPRESSED strong, Attendant, increased front $300 to $36o per annum ; Jacob Curtis, Attendant, increased IN GRAINS PER IN PAR-IS BY U. S. GALLON OF WEIGHT IN ONE front $120 to $18o per annum ; Charles Jones, Attendant, increased from $18o to $zoo per annum ; 231 CUBIC INCHES. HUNDRED I'HOUSANP Thomas McElroy, Attendant, increased from $120 to $i8o per annum ; Edward O'Neil, Attendant, increased from $96 to $t8o per annum ; Mary Murphy, Attendant, increased from $300 to $36o per Chlorin, in Chlorides ...... F:gn,valcnt 0.119 0.256 annum. September to—Robert B. Brown, Attendant, increased from $240 to $300 per annum. i 1 to Sodium Chloride ...... 0.045 I 0.421 sph:ua, Phosphoric Acts (P, 0a) in...... None. None. Gouverneur hospital—September io—Frederick E. Glaser, Attendant, appointed, $240 per \itrogenin Nitrites ...... n_ No e. None. annum ; E. J. Kempton, Attendant, appointed, $240 per annum. \ itro ;en in Nitrate; (Method of Martin and Merry) ...... ...... 0.0137 0.0235 Almshouse—Septeir ber 14—Peter F. Masterson, Fireman, appointed, $300 per annum. Ire Ammonia...... ...... 9 s Metropolitan Hospital—September to—Thomas J. Brown, Druggist (temporary), $48o per :NI,um,noid Ammonia ...... 0.0093 0.0160 Iotal Nitrogen...... 0.001 0.0379 annum. September i i —James Farrell, Attendant, $240 per annum. Hardness equivalent to Carbonate of Lime I before boiling...... ! Randall's Island—September ti-Joseph J. C. Dunne, Plasterer, $goo per annum. t lr ~. l Attcr boiling ...... 2 .52 4.33 I.am0 and volatile (lo,s on ignition) ...... ... ...... ... . 1.341 2.30 A'esignations. \Buera) matter (non-volatilc)—I,o+t Carbonic Acid it restored..... 'I stal solids 3.932 6.40 Gouverneur I-lospital—September 8—Thomas F. Bush, Driver. by evaporation, at 230° F.~br.)...... I 5.073 8.70 Metropolitan Vo pital—September i—George F. Marquart, Attendant. September 3—Annie Temperature at hydrant, 67' laltr Whiteman, Domestic. Randall's Island—September 5-Jennie Kearney, Nurse ; Lizzie Higgins, Nurse ; Maud L. Infectious and Contagious Diseases. Total numl,er of cases vi.ited Miller, Nurse. by Inspectors ...... 92f (Dismissals. premises visited by Di;infectors ...... 16) Steamboats—September to—Michael F. Shaugnessy, Pilot (temporary), services dispensed with. rooms disinfected ...... 331 Gouverneur IIospital—' eptember g—William J. Murray, Attendant, absent without leave other places disinfected ...... John Haggerty, Attendant, absent without leave. pieces of infected goods destroyed ..... ...... ...... 8c Harlem llospitai—September 2—Frank J. Larkin, Attendant, absent without leave. pieces'Af infected goods disinfected and returned ...... 41C City Hospital—August 31—Albert Muller, Attendant, failed to return. persons removed to hospital...... t t Almshouse—September 3—James Dwyer, F'iretnan, failed to return. September to—William primary vaccinations ...... ...... 64( Wilcox, Attendant, absent without leave. revaccination, ...... t,5oi Metropolitan Hospital—September 8—Dennis Callahan, Fireman, using profane language certificates of vaccination issued ...... 9! Thomas Quinn, Attendant, using profane language. cattle examined by Veterinatian ...... ...... 9! II. G. WEAVER, Secretary. glandered horses destroyed ...... ...... „ ...... Pathology, B,]Merialq,y and Disinfection. APPROVED PAPERS. Ti pal number of premises visited by Inspectors ...... tic Resolved, That water-stains be laid in Independence avenue, from Boston avenue to Broad- autopsies (human o, animal o) ...... ...... way, as provided in section 356 of the Consolidation Act. bacteriological exaiisinations, 4eIteral ...... 6c Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September t,Ictcrilogical examinations of suspected diphtheria (true 76, pseudo 14, 16, 1896. indecisive 9, viz. : Culture ntacle too late in disease 2, insufficient Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Hall place, between East One Hundred and Sixty- gr,wth on culture medium 4, culture medium contaminated 2, second street and Intervale avenue, as provided by section 356 of the New York City Consolidation culture mcdinm dried up t, suspicious bacilli only found o, no Act of 1882. diphtheria bacilli were found, laryngeal case o) ...... 9ç Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September bacteriological examinations of convalescent cases ot diphtheria, preeecl- t6, 1896. II inL disinfection ...... ...... 18f Resolved, That the carriageway of East One Hundred and Sixty-second street, from Park I. bacteriological examinations of healthy throats in infected families..... avenue (Railroad avenue, West) to Morris avenue ; East One Hundred and Sixty-third street, from bacteriological examinations of suspected tuberculosis (tubercle bacilli Park avenue (Railroad avenue, West) to Morris avenue ; One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street, ii found 18, not found 2o, suspicious bacilli fount) o) ...... 3E from Park avenue (Railroad avenue, West) to Morris avenue ; Teller avenue, from Park avenue ii points of vaccine viruscollected ...... 2,431 (Railroad avenue, West) to One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street, he regulated and pared with capillary tubes of vaccine virus filled ...... Amount of diphtheria anti-toxin serum produced in c. c granite-block pavement, and that crosswalks be laid at each intersecting and terminating street or ...... 3,8OC avenue where not already laid, under the direction of the Commissioner of Sheet Improvements, tetanus anti-toxin serum produced in C. c. ...... .. '1'uceuty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be Total number of dead annuals removed Iran streets...... adopted. 1,602 Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September iz.recufive Action. 16, 1896. Total number o'f orders i.,sued for abatement of nuisances ...... 837 Resolved, That permiasion be and ti: same is hereby given to E. L. Buckenthein to place and Attorney's notices issued for non-compliance with orders ...... ...... X44 keep a storm-door in front of his premises, No. t58 East Eighty-sixth street, provided the dimensions civil actions begun ...... 66 shall not exceed those prescribed by law, viz. : Ten feet high, two feet wider than the doorway and arrests made ...... 12 not to exceed six feet from the house line, the work to be clone at his own expense, under the judymeII:s obtained in civil courts ...... ... . direction of the Commissioner of Public Works; such permission to continue only during the criminal courts ...... 36 pleasure of the Common Council. permitsissued...... 213 Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September persons removed from overcrowded apartments...... 16, 1896. The 732 deaths represent a death-rate of 19.62 against 20.14 for the previous week and Resolved, That permission be and is hereby given to Adolf A. Krunemeyer to keep and main- 2i.Of) for the corresponding week of 1895• tain a watering-trough in front of his premises, corner West Farms road and St. Lawrence avenue, I ontagious and infectious diseases show a slight decrease, the number of ca>es reported of Van Nest, New York City ; water to be supplied and said work to be done at his own expense, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid fever and small-pox being respectively Ill, 31, 31, 50 under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works. and o, against 122, 42, 21, 51 and o for the previous week, a total of 223 against 236. The Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, Septemlter increase if diphtheria was mainly in the Twelfth Ward, and the decrease in the Seventeenth and 16, 1896. 'Twentieth Warils. The increase of measles was most marked in the Twelfth Ward, and the Resolved, That the Police Commissioners be and they are hereby authorized to perform work , (,'crease in the Tenth Ward. 'I he increase of scarlet fever was chiefly in the Tenth and Twelfth and procure supplies enumerated below, without contract founded off public letting, viz. : \\ ants, and the dsecvase in the Twenty-second and 'twenty-third Wards. Eighteen of the 5o cases 1'irst—Constructing or procuring polling-booths for use in the streets in election district* where d typhoid fever reported were above Fortieth street, and 12 were below P'ourtcentlt street. No ❑a suitable room can be leased. case if .,mall-pox was rel orted. Second—Fitting up and furnishing polling-places for use on registry and election day.;. by order of the lloartl. E\111UNS CLARK, Secretary. Third—Supplying ballots for inspection and public use. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, Septembt r 16, 1896. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. 'iI],I- Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Seventh avenue, between One Hundred and Tenth and I I s (it •rift: Ori-I(;iai. l'KUCPBUiNOS oG THE BOARD uF 1 uitt.tc CHARITIES FOR THE )ne hundred and Fifteenth streets; in One Hundred and Sixth street, between Eighth and \VEEic 1,NLiING SEI'tEAt13ER 12, iSg6. :olumbus avenues ; in Oue Hundred and Eighth street, between Eighth and Columbus avenues ; I- i ni the Comptroller—Returning proposals of William 1'. Youngs & Bro. for lumber ; Joseph D One Hundred and Ninth street, between Eighth and Manhattan avenues ; in Ono Hundred and I kl,cr for winter clothing, and \Vtlliam Klenert for repairing roofs, etc., at Randall's Island, Eleventh street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues ; in One Hun )red and Thirteenth street, with approval of the sureties. )ethveeu Seventh and Si. Nicholas avenues, and in One Hundred and 1 ourieenth street, between t cntial Uificc- .enox and Seventh avenues, as provided by section 356 of the New York City ('oil solid at ion Act \Vhereas, The estimated cost of equipping a suitable lodging-house for homeless men is about if 1882. ut thousand dollars ; and Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September \\'hereas, There is on hand an unexpended balance belonging to this fund of one thousand 16, 1896. a phi t hundred and sixty dollars ; and Res,lved, That water-mains be laid in Lafontaine avenue, from Tremont avenue to a point \\ hereas, The stun of five thousand dollars was set apart by the L'oard of Estimate and me thousand feet north, as_ provided by section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act of Apportionment for care of the poor in the annexed district, which has not been used ; therefore be it .882. Resolved, That application be and the same hereby is made to the Board of Estimate and Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September -Apptrrtiounmcnt tot transfer of such suns to the fund for Lodging-house for Homeless , len. 6, 1896. Whereas, It is deemed desirable that the Lodgiog-house for Homeless Men be opened not later Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Park avenue, East, from One Hundred and Eighty- than November i ; therefore be it econd street to One HIundred and Eighty-fourth street, in accordance with the provisions of Resolved, 'flat application be and the same hereby is made to the Board of Estimate and ection 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882. .\pportionment for the transfer of four thousand dollars from such fund as may be available, in Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September under to provide for estimated operating expenses of the Lodging-house for Homeless Dien for the .6, 1896. months of Novemler and 1)ecernber, t896. Resolved, That water-mains be laid in One Hundred and Eighty-third street, front Webster Proposals for repairs, etc., to City hospital were opened in the presence of Commissioners venue to Washington avenue, in accordance with the provisions of section 356 of the New York t2roft, Fatire and O'l;eirne and the Clerk of the Finance Department. ;ity Consolidation Act of 1882. The bids of Greenlie, Wyatt & Co., George F. Werner, Mackwirth & Smith and John D. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Ottiwell for repairs, etc., City Iluspital, were rejected. Bids to be readvertised. 6, 1896. Reports for 1889, 1892 and 1893 sent to the Librarian of the Columbia University of the City Resolved, That water-mains be laid in One Hundred and Eighty-fourth street, from Webster of New York, at his request. venue to Park avenue, West, and in Park avenue, \West, to One Hundred and Eighty-third street, Copies of statistical report of the Lodging;-house for Homeless Men by Commissioner Faure is accordance with provisions of section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882. forwarded to his Ilonor the Mayor, Secretary Folks and Hon. E. P. Wheeler. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Report received from the Cereal Machine Company upon its deuton,trations at the various 6, 1896. institutions of this ileparttnent. Copy referred to )leads of Institutions for their comment. Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Bryant street, front Home street to Jennings street, and Storehouse-- Resoivcd, That front and after October I, 1896, the position of Keeper at the I Longfellow street, from Home street to Jennings street, as provided by section 356 of the New Storehouse, Blackwell's Island, be abolished. 7ork City Consolidation Act of 1882. Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Bellevue Hospital—Suggestion from Superintendent Murphy that the Secretary inquire into 6, 1896. the bill, passed a few year; ago, providing for ambulance call boxes to be stationed at different Resolved, That water-mains be laid in East One Hundred and Seventy-eighth etreer, from suctions of the city, the same as fire boxes ; Secretary instructed to obtain copy. Minutes of ,afoutaine avenue to Park avenue, in accordance with section 356 of the New York City Con- meeting of Medical Board held September 5, approved, with the exception of the nominee for olidation Act of 1882. House Physician. proposal of John O. Kleeman to put up six window guards and cover two sky- Adopted by the Board of Aldtrmen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September lights with wire cloth for the sum of $S5 ; accepted. In regard to paving, the Supervising 6, 1896. Engineer states that, as the property belongs to the City, it is the duty of the Department of Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Fifty-first street, from Twelfth avenue to thirty feet from Public Works to make the necessary repairs ; Department of Public Works so notified. ulkhead ; thence parallel to bulkhead to south side of Fiftieth street, as provided by section 356 General Drug Department—llr. Rice recommends that Articles Nos. 41 and 42 of the New f the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882. Rules and Regulations concerning Medical and Surgical Supplies he rigidly adhered to. The Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September attention of the I leads of Institutions was called to this request. 6, 1896.

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Resblved, That water-mains be extended and laid in Anthony avenue, from a point about ALDERMANIC COMMITTEES. CORPORATION NOTICE. three hundred feet north of Burnside avenue to a point about one hundred and twenty-five feet Law 1)e artmen[. uBl.lc NOTICE I~ 111:RI:I;Yt;IVI N'PO7'HN: north of One Hundred and Eightieth street ; also laid and extended in Ryer avenue, from a point P , of all LAW Dl•1 AR FMENT—The Committee on P owner or owners, occupant or occupnntx, about six hundred feet north of Burnside avenue to One Hundred and Eightieth street, and in One houses and lots, improved or unimproved lands affected Hundred and Eightieth street, from Ryer avenue to Anthony avenue, as provided)' in section 356 of Law De1 )artment will hold a publicP meetingE on thereby, that the following assessments have been con- the Consolidation Act of 1882. Monday, September 28, 1896, at 2 o'clock t'. hi., pleted and are lodged in the office of the Board of As- I in Room 16, City Hall, '' to consider proposed sessors for examination by all persons interested, vii.: Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 18x6. Approved by the Mayor, September List 5127, No. I. Alteration and improv, men, to sewer 16, 189b• ordinance relatingg to illuminatingg ssigns.'' g in Fifth avenue. betrceen Ninetieth and Nine:y-eighth Resolved, That water-mains be laid in One Hundred and Sixty-second street, from Amsterdam) I 'AM. H. TEN EYI.K, Clerk, Common Coun- streets (east side', and tocurves at Ninel -first, Ninety- :1venue to the Boulevard, as provided for by section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act eil, second. Ninety-third, Ninety-fourth, Ninety -filth and Ninety-sixth streets. of 1882. List sr55, No. z. sewer in Eighth avenue, betwe'n Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. I One Hundred and Fiftieth and One Hundred and 16, 1896. Fifty-third streets, with branch sewer in One Hundr,, d sec. mains be laid in East One Hundred and Eighty-ninth street, between and Fifty-first and One Hundred and Fifty- Re..,olved, That water- .Nlayor's Ojlfce—No. 6 City Hall, g A. M. to 5 P. M. streets. Third avenue and Washington avenue, as provided in section 356 of the Consolidation Act. Saturdays, 9 A. nt. to in M. List 5223, No. 3. Alteration and improvement toseww Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Mayor's Marshal's Office—No. it City Hall, q A. Si. to in Sixt h street, between East river and Avenue D. 16, 1896. 4 P. M. The limits embraced by such assessments include•,''.~ Cor,nissionersa/Accounts—Stewart,, Building, 9 A. M. R esolved, That Croton water-mains be laid in Lexington avenue, between Ninety-ninth street the several houses and lots of ground, vacant lot ,. to 4 F. M1,• pieces and parcels of land situated on— and One Hundredth street, as provided by section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act Aqueduct Commissioners—Stewart Building, Sih No. r. Bo h sides of Fifth avenue, from Ninetieth t ~)f 18112, floor, g A. M. to 4 V. M. Ninety-eighth strert ; both sides of Madison avenue. Board of Armory Cotnuuissioners—Stewart Building Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, t896. Approved by the Mayor, September from Ninety-firsty to NinetYy - fourth street ; west side of g A. M. CO 4 P.M. ; Saturdays, q A. at, to to Si. Madison avenue, from Ninety-fourth to Ninety- txth 16, ISG6. Clerk of Common Council—No. 8 City Hall, g A. nf to I street ; west side of Park avenue, from Ninety-second to Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Wales avenue, between One Hundred and Forty-ninth 4 P. St. Ninety- fourth street ; both s des of Ninety-first erect, aud. One Hundred and Fifty-second streets, as provided by section 356 of the New York City Debariniento/Public H'orks--No. r90 Nassau Street, from Madis It to Ffth avenue; both sides of Ninety- Consolidation Act of 1882. 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. secon1, NinetYy -third and NinetyY -fourth streets, from Department of Street Jmprovements, Twenty-thirri I Park to Fif h avenue, and both sides of Ninety-fifth and Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Wards—No. z6zs Third avenue, Ninety-sixth siree:s, from Madison to Fifth avenue. 16, 1896. 9 A. Al. to 4 t . Si. ; Saturdays, i2 M. INo. 2. Both soles of Eighth avenue, from One Htm- Resolved , That water- mains be laid in One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, between Rider Oefrxrtment of Buildings—No. zzo Fourth avenue, jdred and Fiftieth to One Hundred and Fifty-third street : S A.M. to 4 P. Si. avenue and Gerard avenue, and in Gerard avenue, between One Hundred and Thirty-eighth and west side of Macomb's Dam road, from One Hundred Comptroller's 00ce—No. 15 Stewart Building, 9 A. M. j and Fiftieth to One Hundred and Fifty-second street ( ))e Hundred and Forty-ninth streets, as provided by section 356 of the New York City Consolida- to 4 V. at. both sides of Bradhur,t avenue, tr. m south side of Om tion Act of 1882. Auditing Bureau—Nos. 19, zt and 23 Stewart Build- Hundred and Fifty-first to centre line of One Hundr.d Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September ing, 9 A. M. to 4 P. nr. and Fifty-second street. and both sides of 0 ,e Hundred Bureaujort/ce Collection ofAssessme,rtsandArrears Fifty-second 16' and Fit.y-first and One Hundred and li;9 b~ of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Tiexts —Nos. streets, from .Nlacontb's Dam road to Bradhurt avenue. Resolved, That water-mains be laid in Ninety-ninth street, from Park to Madison avenue, as qt, 33, 35, 37 and 39 Stewart Building, y A. M. to 4 P. Si. jNo. ~. Both sides of Sixth street, from Avenue D Ire provided by section 356 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882. No money received after z P. nl. I East river; both sides of Avenue D, from a point about Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Bureau for t/,e Collection of C/ty Revenue and of 82 feet south of Sixth street to Li g th street ; both sides Markets—Nos to and 3 Stewart Building, g A. Si. to of Sixth street, eatemaing about zoo feet we•tcrly from Ili, 1896. 4 P. a,. No money received after 2 P. nt. Avenue U ; both sides of Seventh street, extending Resolved, That One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street, froom Brook avenue to the Southern Bureau for tlteCotlectionof Taxes—Stewart Build- about 175 feet westerly from Avenue D, and both sides lioulevar~l, he regulated and graded, curb-stones set, sidewalks flagged a space fottr feet in width, ing, 9 A. M. to 4 P. 61. No money received after z 1'. M, of Lewis street, from Fifth street to a point about 92 feet City C/aamberlaira—Nos. zg and 27 Stewart Building, fence, placed where necessary and crosswalks laid at each intersecting and terminating street or north of Sixth •trect. P 9 A. nt. to 4 1'. M. All persons whose interests are affected by the above- :tvenue, where not already laid, under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements of Couusetto theCorforation—Staats-Zeitung Building named assessments, and who are opposed to the same, the 'twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be 9 A. at. to 5 P. Al. ; Saturdays, 9 A. nt. to in si. or either of them, are requested to present their objec- ado fed. City Pc+yruaster—Stewart Building, 9 A. nt. to 4 P. 51• tions, in writing, to the Chairman of the Board of ,,ration ANornry No. ng Nassau street, 9 A. M. pAdaAdopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 18 6. Approved.roved byb the Mayor, September Lorp — Assessors, at their office, No. z7 Chambers street, P P 9 I F Y t to 4 r'. Al- within thirty days front the date of this notice. 16, 1896. Attorney for Collection of Arrears of Personal I The above-described lists will be transmitted, as pro- Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the Lincoln League of the Trxes—Stewart Building, 9 A. ,t. to 4 P. nt. vided by law, to the Board of Revision and Correction Eighth Ass rn)bly District to parade through the street; of the city bounded by Stanton street, Bureau of Street Oen:ngs—Nos.go and 92 West of Assessments for confirmation on the t th day of shth Pub/icA 9 y I'rince street, Broadway, Grand street, the Buw_ry, Division street, Grand street and the East 1 October, r AS Public Adixiuritrator—No, rig Nassau street,y A. M. fH01\1A5 J. RUSF[, Chairman ; PATRICK M. river, in the morning and on the evening of Wednesday, September 23, 1896, under the direction to 4 r. nt. I HAVER FV, JOHN W. JACOBUS, EDWARD Mc- of the Chief of l'olice. Police Dep artben/n —Central Office, No. 3cu Mulberry CU t, L'u.tr l of Assessors, Resolved, further, That the ordinance relating to the discharge of fireworks in the City of street, 9 A. M. to 4 P.M. N t•: w h ,r,e, Sc ptenrbcr ,8, rsg6. Board of Ecfucalion — No. r 46 Grand street. be and the same is hereby suspended in the territory above mentioned for the evening of 'ets York DeparLzze,zt of Ckarilies—Central UILce, No, 66 nUBLtC NOTICE 15 HEREBY (IVEN TO THE Wednesday, September 23, 1896. Third avenue, 9 A.M. to 4 P. M. r owner or owners, occupant or occupants, of all Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September Def,artment of Correction—Central Office, No. r48 houses and lots, improved or unimproved lands affected Twentieth street, 9 A. nt. to 4 P. Si. I j, 1896. East • thereby, that the following assessments have been corn. Pine De,bart,nent—Headquarters, Nos. 157 to r59 East J pleted and are lodged in the office of the Board of As- Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Eleventh Assembly District Sixty-seventh street, 9 A. Al, to 4 P. nt. ; Saturdays, tz St. sensors for examination by all persons interested, vin : Republican Association to parade through streets, front 'Thirtieth street to l'ortieth street, west of Central Office open at all hours. I,ist cv5, No. r. Regulating, grading, curbing and setenth avenue, Ott the evening of September 17, and that the ordinance relating to the discharge lleartl+ D,6,rtment—New Criminal Court Building, i flaccin One Hundred and 'Ihiny-third street, from Centre street, q A. nt. to 4 P. M. of firework, be sus )eusion be and the same is hereby given to the John F. Ahearn Associa- No. rI, Fifth avenue, corner Eighteenth street. Court I BUI1.1)lRS opens at t r. M. ~HE 1EPAR'I'\lFNF OF BUILDINGS HAS Linn t i erect poles] and rwin ~r a 1 political banner therefrom, one polepole to be l--laced.' on the sidewalk Suj rc•sre (,'oea rt—County Court-house, to .'o, a. nt. [o 4 estal,bstted a branch office at J lmction of Third and near the curb in front of Nu. 290 East Broadway, and the other pole on the op posile sidewalk in p. M. Cuurtlandt a%e.iucs, c, ht re all plaits for the erection or front of No. 291 East Broadway, provided the said J ohn 1. Ahearn Association stipulate with the Criminal Division, Su/re,nc Court—New Criminal f olteraiion of buudings above the Harlem river may be submits d and file I. L.onlmissiun,, r of Public Works to restore the said sidewalks to their present condition after the Court Building, Centre street, opens at 10.30 A. M. Court a/ Generic! Sessions—New Criminal Court 51 EVF,,NSON CON57'AItLE, Superintendent Build- ren)oval of said poles, the work to be clone at their own expense, under the direction of the (tom- Building, Centre street. Court opens atrr o'clock A.St,; ros. missiouer of I'tiblic \'\ Oita ; such permi.;sfou to continue only until December I, 1896. adiourns e t'. to. Clerk's Office, to A. Si. till q p nt- ldopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 1896. Approved by the Mayor, September city Court—City /tall. General'I'erm, town No. no. Trial Term, Part I., Room No. zo; fart 11., Room POLICE DEPARTMENT. 1 6, IS6.~ Na. zr; Part Ill., Room No. rS; Part 1\., Room No. u. Special Term Chambers will be held in Room No. 19 p"t rc,c Ur:tar. I st"IT—CIry „r Ness 1'o,K, ,896. Resolved, That v%atcr-mains be laid in Elmwood place, from Clinton avenue to Piospect avenue, I Cie I:S the I ti) f to A.M. to 4 Si.Clerk's Office, Room No. to, Cit y 0 61' elt 1'ROl'tity o a-. lprovided 1, Y section 3S356 of the New York CityY Consolidation Act. P. Y Clerk of the Police Lcpa rimer[ of the laity of Hall, o A. M.to 4 P. St. I Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, September 8, 189 6. A I P roved byY the Mayor,Y September Court tr s r .. Opel —\ew New York, No. s o Nlulberr}sire! t, Room No. 9, for the P P i Criminal Court following property, now iu his custoJy 16, 1596, Centre ,except Saturday, , without claim- : floats, rope, iron, lead, ma '.e and female clothing, Resolved, That, in pursuance with the provisions of section 321 of the New York City Cou_oli-c atttr oding, C ntre street. 16 teens Bail y, except Saturuay boots, shoes, wine, blankets, diamonds, canned good<, lotion Act of 1882, as amenox, and The sale will commence at the Cc,pnrotinn Yard, No. Lv the- Committee on Buildin_,, at the (fall t f no estimate can be deposited in said box until such ERSONS HAVING BULKHEADS'I'I) FILL, IN 4.9 West OneHmtdredand Isventy-Ihirdstreet; thence II ,rd of 1'ducannn No, 146 (:ram! .ti-eet, New York check or money has been examined by said officer P the vicinity of New York Boy, can procure material to Pilty-sixth street, bete can F:Iev,mth nd '1'wellth ave- I I: y. until 3 o'clock P. n,., on Thar-,day, (lettuce I, or clerk and found to be correct. All su_h deposits, for that purpose—ashes, street s,cupin s, etc., such as 51ttm 0 thence to Twenty fourth street, Fast river, and . for the erection Of a new School 13r.dding nu Union except that of the successful bidder, will be returned is colt-cted by the Department of Street Cleaning--free Riviugt ,u strce', ho St river, respectively. u t= rnuc, near One Hundred and Fi,rty-ninth street. to the persons making the same within three days after of charge. by applying to the Commissioner of Street '1'ER>ts or iAI.E: Plans and pecifications may he seen and blank pro the contract is awarded. If the successful bidder still:] Cle;uuo„ in the Criminal Court Building. Payment in bankable funds at the time and place of I ----ls obtained at the office of the (-uperintcndent of refuse or neglect, within five days after notice that the (A,!ORGI? E. W_VRING, Jr.., sale, all articles purchased t be r clot 'vs d within three tis hnol I;uildinl;s, No. 146 Grand street, thief floor. contract has been awarded to him, to execute the same, Commissr.ner of Street ('leaning. days, uticrwise purchase money and articles will Le The Committee reserve the rag_ ht to reject any or all the amount of the deposit male by him shall be forfeited furfcited. of the proposals submitted. to and retained by the City of New York as liquidated CHARLES I1. '1'. COLLIS, Commissioner of Pui,lic ,I he party submitting a proposal, and the parties pro- daurages for such neglect or refusal ; but if lie shall axe- FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Works. I ing to become stir- -ties, must each write his name cute the contract within the tinteaforesaid, the amount ml place of r,-silence un -aid 1.rop,rsal. of his deposit will be returned to him. NOTICE' OF ASSESSMENT f~OR OPEN- OTICE IS HEREBY I;lVEN I'HA F ''HE' CI t11- -I',,- responsible tutd apprc veil sureties, residents of Should the person ur persons to whom the contract ING S'I'RI?ETS AND AVENUES. N missi•.sner 5 Public 1Vorks, deeming it for the iLl. city-, or,- -equired in :dl case-. may be awarded neglect ur refuse toaccept the contract N PURSUANCE OF Si:C i ION 9r6 OF THE public interest so to do, proposes to alter or change the No proposal will be considered from person-s whose within five days after written notice that the same has I "Nets' York City Consolidation Act of r8£z,” as grade In ( )ne 1l tmdred and Twenty-eighth street, I- I. rac- er and anbscu-r:ant d, alingc with the I oard of been awarded to his or their bid or proposal, or it he or amended, the Comptroller of the City of New York between •lntsterdant and Conv.mt • yellow, in the 'I'wclfth W:vdol the City u1 New York, more parttcn- ErlucLion render their iespoio ibility doubtful. they accept but do not execute the contract and hereby gives public notice of the conlinu:ition by the I lie party submitting a proposal mast include in his give the proper security, he or they shall be considered Supreme Court of the assessments for OPEN INI; AND Ltrly descrii:cd as fulluws : pr p•0sal the moues of aC suL-contractors, and nochange as having a6;mdoned it and as in default to the Cor- ACQUIRING 'II PEE to the fulluwiug-mooed avenue Beginnoutg at a pntnt in the easterly liuc of Amsterdam avenue, and the center line of A\cat ,t- iii be permuted to be made in the subcontractors poration, and the contract will be rcadvcrtised and rclet and street in the tuuus tl with,,ut the r„n*eat „f the Committee and Super- as provided by law. One Hundred and 7'cv:nty-etghmtlt street, elcvatinu 1'W I:N 1Y=I'HIRI) \YARD. above r I,y i:,:eudent of Scho, I lhtildings. O. H. LA GRANGE, JAMES R. SHEFFIELD, WALES AV1•:NUl', from Southern Boulevard ti a pro sent •urfice and 09.6o feet, base ; thence easterly and through the center It is required as a C m:ition precedent to the recep- Commissioners. to St. Jo-eph street ; confirmed Jmie 8, 1806, entered line of said street, ttistance 3:,0 feet, elevation Ii- is or catsidcru ion of any proposals, that a certified Septembcr,rn, 18y6. Area of ts,essment : All those e8.5o feet ; lhcuce ca-;terly distance 300.48 feet to the C ii .:, k upon or it cc rtiiicatc r I deposit of one of the lots, pieces or parcel; of loud situate, lying a nil wcstrrly line of Convent avenue, elevation :o feet. Sr., to or Naiional banks or I rus: Cnmp:snies ofthe City CITY CIVIL SERVICE BOARDS being, in tie City of Nuw 'tot k, w-lliclt, taken ,,I New Y',rrk, dr:ntn to the order of the President of together, arc hounded and descrlb:-d as fi,Ilnws, viz. All elesat.ous above city base or datum line. CHARLES H. 'I'. COLLIS, Commissioner of Public tle Board If Educ:;inn, shall accompany the pro- (yn the north by the sou'hcrly side of Kelly street ; un Ni: v Crl%IINAI. Cctalcr I;hl,o INc, Niam Punic, S-spten- Works, I 'Cl :u an amount of not less than three per cent. ber 19. n196. the south by the notthcrly side of Fast (In-- I lundred Dated NEW YoRK, September 14, 1896. •f .,uch prol,osal when said proposal is for or ex- x llANATIONS WILL BE HELD AS FOL- and "Thirty-ninth street prot1.w.l and a line drawn I- .. ten thou- and dollars, :.nd to an amount E loirs : parallel to the Southern Bsiulev:u-d and distant zoo feet of not less than fire per Calif. of such pro- southerly front the southerly side thereof from the GinumiltimssNEui's OFFICE, Nit. 150 NASSAU Suit rIT. September a8, to a. t. FEMALE KEEPER. NFw YORK, September r i , x896• p = I alien .aid pn,po-al is for an ammint m,cler ten September a9, to A, v. 'I'VPLWRITERS. Must he middle line of the bIcch I etwern Onc l I dred and t Ii' t t.;tnd r oilars; that nu demand, within one say after IDti OR i1 ROPOrALS FOR ]'ROVIUIN(; fantiLar with legal berms. Fw-ty-first street and f ne Ilundred tail Forty-second w•h;vfage and storage for the fifteen Free Float Ong tl,;_ awarding of the cortrar_t by the Committee, the streets produced to the mid-slit' line of tie block b,-twcen B October t, to A. M. JUNIOR CLERKS, MALE AND Baths, fr um the C use of the bathing scam(( of rby(i to Iie_-ilcut of the hoard will retu in all deposits of checks One Hundred and Thirty-north s:rcet eEd I)ue Hun- FEMAL.EE. the b,-ginning of the h aching s_a-un of 1897. ii ! ccrtificatus of d, po,its mach,, to the persons moth. Notice is h, rely given that no applications shall be dred an I Fort iethst ruct- ; un the cast Ly- the mid- Ihe ]me Bids or prapo:als, inclosed in a scaled envelripo, ii —, the lam, , exa•pt that made by the person roc,-ivcd excepting from residents of the State of New of the blocks between Wales avenue and Beach acm,, e, r 1, rrns who-a Lid Ii is lacn so accreptcI ; and indorsed as )J ova, and with the name and address of Volk. front the southerly side of Kelly street to rite middle the bidder, will be rccciced at No. 150 Nassau street, m 1101 if tl e person or persons whose bid has been S. WILLIAIMI I:1.ISCOE, Secretary, line of the 1-lock betwer-n Crane street and St. Joseph Ic iipted shall reface or neglect, within five days c,rnor of Sfruce street, in the Chied (lark's. office, street ; thence by the- wesurly side of the Southern Ruum No. 17u4-7, I0r.til tz O'clock %I. „u Friday, Sep tum- titer dle notice has icon given that the contract is 'fiat• V-,nit (larch to, 'S06. Boulevard to the so,, therly boundary of the area of as- rc:,•V Is aeccotian, to execute the same, the amount of t,er es, tSy6. The bids will be publicly opened by the N OTICE IS GIVFN THAI' 1 HI•: R l(;1i RA-' sessm(-n,, and , it the west by the ai'd'e line of the bc.td of the 1)cparnnent in the has mcnt at No. Ina tIii d posit or ut the chuck or certificate ofdeposit made tion days in the Labor Bureau will be Nlnndav, blo-ks b::twucn Wales avenue and Concord avi nee, Nassau street, at the hour above- mentioned. Inc hint or them shall he forfeited to and rclained by 1\'edncrdav and Friday, and thatesaminations will take from the southerly side cf Kelly street to the middle tl:i- lioomiI, not as a penuay, but is liquidated clans- The bidder must state the amount, in writing, and also place on ti usc day s at z r. at. line of the block between Crane street and St. Joseph in figures, at which Inc will a/ree to provide the wharf- ' see for s m h neglect or refusal, and shall street ; thence by the middle line of the blocks b tweets S. WILLIAM BRISCOE, Secretary. age and to r:Ige for eai-h bath per lira. I„ Iasid iu'o th_ City Trcusury to the credit of the Concord avenue and Robbins avenue to the southerly 7'he c sti m:ued period the w,1uirla,,e wi I be required i- 5iukln; ILnd of time City of New York ; but if the said bounda,y ut the an a of assessment. pea'. it i,r p, eons wlo-e hid has bcett so ae_cepLail shall froor (hotelier 5. 1896, m,til clay rq, 1£97. STREET CLEANINC DEPT. EAST' ONI? Hi;NIfigF:L) AND FORTY-FIRST In the storage it baths thunt tnust he ample moat f o cx I.I. t, the conlroot wiilun the time aforesaid, the SI'RliF;C, from Thin) avenue to St. Ann's:. van tut ; con- the: labs to t,e stored ficetnsix fact apart. No obstric- l i ii oi his sr ,hr lr clap- sit if chuck or certificate of Ih m-.as toeot nF STRI.ET CLEaxtNc, No. 3z Cola. firmed Jtmc z6, 1891•, entered S -promber 14, t86. d -iii it =(all he r, turncu to hint ut then. Area of assessment : All those Tots, pieces or parcels tion ul any kind to I,e allowed in tl,c Lusin or plaec of I3FcS oTREE'r. storage for the baths. ICI)id-:R'1 \I-ACL-\Y. NA'lHANIl-l. A. PREN- CONTRACT FOR IF URNISIIING I-JAY, of land situate, lying and being iu the City m f Nc w I I-s-.. RICHAi6I I II. lDi\1S, CHAS.C. WEHRUbI, The pr vilcge of re0 n:ring baths at the place of storage STRAWY, OATS, BRAN, COARSE SALT, York, - which taken together are bouncled and is essential and must be a wn::ftlnt of the leas,'. N" (((b II 11(1<1 IIC I, Comm ttec on Iittddings. described as follows, viz.: On the nort'.1 by extra Cit;urge to be made for material ill any kind that lei sot 'she .\It t1.1 :, Clerk. ROCK SALT AND OII,i:E AL. the southerly side of Lowell sires t, fruut a I/.,tcd Ns i', \ r,itt<, rcptc(fl! cr Cu, (896. PUBLIC NI) ICE. nray be delivered at the piaC'ti' turayc, nor '-n the point r Loufeet westerly lion the westerly side of Third dock or place adjoining it. E SI]MA'1'ES INCLUSEI) IN SEALED ENVEJ. avenue to the easterly side of [lined avenue ; th,-ace by opes and indorsed with the name and address of 'rite Canuni nub oner of Public Works reserve; the right the middle line of the blocks between I•:ast One Huu- to iilcre:fsc or diminish the lunpth of the period the the pi r=on or persons making the same, and the date of sired and Forty-firs) strreet and East Une Hu-ldred and FIRE DEPARTMENT. (laths may be m storage. preseutgtiou, and a statement of the work and>ttpplies to Forty-sec no 5-tree's to the middle line r-I the block fis--tIlnl'\Itti-;is Ito c-: Ilt:e:tl i:-.i, Nros. 157 AND which they eel., tr, will be received at the office of the between Willis :avenue and L'r.ok avenue; the:. cc by e..tcu estmutte Most contain the name and place If residence of the person making the sante, the names t,, I:asr Sixrv,Ikinru Sun_-r, Nine YoRK,Septem- I.te, artment of Street f leaning, Criminal Court Building, the southerly side of East One Hundred aid F. rty- of all persons interested with hint therein, and if no 1 r r u), t89'. _ Centre-street, in the City of New York, until to o'clr ck set ocd street, from the middle line of the block between 'If) UONTR \(TORS. zL Ofthe first clay of Octsber, x196, at which time and Willis avenue :utd b'rruk aver tie to the caste, ly sich: of other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state place the estimates will be publicly opened and read fur St. Ann's avenue ; thence by the mid llc tine of the block that fact ; that it is made without any connection with F:ALED I'ROI'O,,AIS FOR FURNISIIINC any other person makingan estimate for the same work, S is tu,:t-ri.lh.:uu I l)5.' and doing the try rl: required the furnishing and delivery of : between last One IIon/red and Forty-fir-t strcct and. and is ill all respects fair and withoutcollusionor fraud ; :n r• I.uirie4 cod :lteriug tae building of this Dt-part- 710,022 pounds hay, of the quality and standard known St. Dlary's street to the east crly sire of Beckman ave- as I rime hay. nue, anal thence by the southerly smile of St. Nlary's that no member of the Common C'ourtcil, head of a sic- tvout, to Se ,.ccupied as Quart•_rs of I-nginc Coutpiny p;iituitent, chief of at bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk \,,. aq, it Nu. ru-s ChamLcrs s rec-, still be rcceivud I75, 1 58 pounds good clean Rye Straw. street and said sotuheriy side produced to this westerly 1247,537 founds :]cal No. r White Clipped Oats, to be side nl 'Iu,tun avenue ; thence by it line drawn parallel therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is direct lv Lc the Board of Comnti-sioncr-o at the bend or indirectly interested in the estimate, or in the work „f the Dire Department, at 'hc office o1 said I)•-part- bright, sound, wiif cleaned, : nd rea-ona'.,ly free from to East Onc Hundred and 1-rcry-first street and distant other gram, weighing not Ifs+ than 36 PC euncls to the nra thu'ly ¢.fo feet Irutn the northerly sidc thcrcuf to the to which it relates or in the profits thereof. (11 111, Nos. 157 and 159 1-;t Sixty-seventh street, iu the Each estimate must be verified by the Oath, in wril- I its of New Aurk, mrti] , r,'clocl .a. pt. , Wea'u--- n,c sure bushel. fast rimer ; oil the south by the its-thcrIy side of East hug, of the party matiut the ,ante, that the several ii, .It. ,Ioy , t )ctoler ;, i8o, ;ct which tinge and place Lb y will n4,637 pounds first quality Bran. One Hundred and Fortieth ,'tree', tnmr a point to• tcrs therein stated are true. Li publicly opened by the head of said 1 )epartment tool 5,,x,5 p, r: u, s first quality Coors Salt. feet wc•stemly from the westerly side of 'Chird Ni estnnate will oe considered unless accom- j.o•.o pounds first yua!ny Rock Salt. n•crue; thence by the middle bit-- of the • panied by either a certified check upon one of the St:uc N o estimate will he recciced or considered after the _,55.a pounds first quality (I. lamed. bh.ck between East (Inc Hundred and Fortieth or National banks of the City of New York, drawn to L our named. 'Elie p,r:on r,r prortan to wham the contract may be street and East (Ine Hundred and Forty-first street, the order ut tlrc C omI ,troller or mouey to the amount of in- iArm ti. n as to the amount and kind of work to awarded will be ri quirt d to attend at this Oil cc Willi tl;e the nfidd.e line of the block between \kThs avenue and sureties,,ffcrcd by him or t litm,:ool execcte sudt cotltract Brunk avenre : the ace by the northerly side of Fast One

-1-IIURSDAV, SM'TI: 1BEI 24, 18 6. THE CITY RECORDD. 2559

N. 5. F'OR LAYING 1VA'1'I:K-MAINS IN zoo lineal feet 6-inch stoneware drain-pipe. Blank forms for proposals, and form, of contracts thereof as the s lid owner or claimant may desire, nn "r ELVEEN'Iit, CROIO' A, 1iA"lIlGA'l'l•;, I,I?XIN(- t3,60o square Ii•et walk pavement of cr,ncretc and which the successful bidder m e:cch case will be required 6efo a the 5th day ut October, 1896, at our rib u, fUN ANI) RYI?R AVI•.NL'I:>; IN ()NI I1UN- mortar of Portland cement, including rubble stone tu execute and informal un rela tive thereto, can be had R,inm Nn. z, on the fourth fluor ut ththe Sta:,n- I)RED AND 11;H1'H, ()NI•; IIUNURI7) AND fi>undation. at the attire of the IFepartment, Arsenal, Sixty-fourth Zeittmg Buihling, No. z Tryon Row, in the City of :s 'I'flII I'I:1{."PII, ONE IIUNDRFa) ANI) FOUR- '1 lie wore to be a nsmenced within ten days utter the street and Fifth avenue, Central lark. I York, and that we, the said Commissioners, will L,: in Tl•:I;NI'H, ONE II[NDKHi) AN]) '1'WI:NL'Y- execut' on of the contract and to Ire fully corn; leted rn S. V. It. cAl%l;l;R,,;DfuE•;l. .\Ic\lILLAN, \VIL1.- l attenlrince at our office un the 9th day of Octrll.. r. 'I'}iIRI),UNI•. IIUNDPFD AN'(1 I'l!IRI'Y-SIXTH, ace rrlancc with the terms o" this agreement on •rrhefore IA)! A. SII1.1_s, 5\II If] 1•:LY, Commissioners of 18), 01 it O'clock in the furenoonof that day, to hear ONI HUNDRED AN!) IIIP'i1-f?V16.\"1]-i3 ONI: the fifteenth clay of April, eighteen hundred and nin-:•ty- lwblic fair; . said parties and persons in rilation thereto, and In HUNDRED AND FORIY I II"fIL. ONE HUN- neven, and the dant.,g's to be paid by the contractor for C,se an)' sttch person Cr r la,mamt shall desire at sir' I. DRI.0 AND SEVEN IA -II (:H'1I AND ONE each day that the contract, or any part thereof, may be S'L'. JOHN'S l E:111 1 F,RV. llLJ1)iON, CLARKSO time and place to offer further and additional pro, I. , HUN1)REDANI) Sh:VENIN'-NINTH S'1I(F:E.Is, unfulfilled after the t. m'' fixed for the c_,nipletioii thereof AN 1) Ll-,ROV' S 11.1.1" I ti. test imony, such p,-rron or elaim:mt will be heard ,iil Each but ur estimate shall contain and slate the has espircd, are fixed at Fifty Dollars per day. O WHOM II' MAY CU\C iii ', : NOT'ICE IS ' s.tid pn•ofs or testiniony wit be receive l by us, and it name and place of residence of each of the persons The amount of securi-y required is Eighteen I housand T hereby given that tale to thi. Pnp''rty has been such time and place, or at sui;h further and other tin. making the same, the lames of all persons inter- Dollars. acquired by the Crty of New i ark, .end that rt is to Ire and place as we kill appoint, we will heir the proofs iii ested with him therein, and if no other person be No, e—AnovE MEsifnrvEn. laid out :is a public park. Yersons nf m-sinotis of removing oVcgannos of any owner, lessee or other person in a I • so interested it sh.li distinctly state, that fact ; that 6m mimic yards of excavation of ail kinds. any remains therein interred will, upon applicart in t., way entitled to or intere,ted in such r:al estate, or :lit it is made without any connection with any other per. I, 30) cubic, yairls of filling to be furnished in place. this Department, be given permits to make such remov- peer; nr p:u';' I tiler- of and also such proofs and allege- son makin;,, :in c>tousle hr tire came prop se, aml is in 1,300 cubic yards of wall masonry. aPr until November tg, 1896. After that dale wort: tai ns :u prIy h,' thou u fl'e'ed on behalf of The Mayor, all respects lair and without collu-.ion or fraud, and that 40 cnhic yard.; of c,mcrete in f.undat on. upon the park will be started, the remains of the dead Alrlsrni';n and ;;unuoitalty of the City of New York. no mewl. yr of the Common Council, head of a depart- 382 lineal feet of granite coping, to furnish and set. will not he tii- turbed, but thr' gm:mvest'mes will lie buried I latcd Srav V n: K, lip ember 2s, r8)6. menl, chief of a bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk ; grutite piers above coping, to furnish and 'et. By order of the Department of Public Park,. FR \N KLIN BIF:N, JA'CES J. MAR'I' IN, then in, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly 446 lineal feet galvanized-iron railing, to furnish ind \WILLIAt1 LEAKY, Sucrclary. EM ANU1•El, ld.U.\FEN,'I'FIl„ Commiss;oncrs. lit indirectly interested thr rein, or in the supplies or cro,'t. Tate AIired ar 1 1V1. 'N bill of circle, charges and expenses, together w.tlt :cmauut of the work by whit, the bid., are tested. P h I r. s. n o n;~ ~~ t., :d ~r ~tthe nr , Lm of fIxel c a t 'I wen[ ' llo Lirs per day. t d P }ou t .t or I, o the a'>tateutent of the am lint', ioevi.,usly taxed, to whunm Hie consent la-t above mentioned must be accom } P City of Noy , York, by laying out, opening exlendirg 1 y th The am• iunt of recu-i'.y required is Twelve '}'I:nttsand u m tt re, bl am d th . datr. f s t h facett tun in. I' w em- b e c Tttt or afhtmation in writing, of ca ch of and \V, It t)ne Hundred and Twentieth P y Dolku S. widenim; cm- tcd bt re,as n c f Ili.. t ~r c erbn~ - m to above cnutl •r1 the per,ons sign nL the vu ire that I c is it hors'-holder or su c t :c t w• n Slot oin stde ac nu aidRtvere i de ate- 'Cite bidder m=t de 1nsti wttitt' Ite st mm iss lbnr 5oof matisr, siji ii, ) tcc.0 d for tai tun it) one of the hrehohlcr to tire I eny of New York, and is worth the nuc rit I t t I'tvell ttW:. td sa 1 city, ~ ,articular1 t r c ar.mcnt of Priiriie Parks at le st isvodays before 1 Y Justuces of the S pr m - C.rurt, at a Special I crm tlicre- :uuuvul c f the Stow ny required for tire completion of fellows maki :g his bid, samp:es of materials lie intends to use, bounded and described as if, fart I , to lie held in and for the City and C.,nnty of I ri contract, over and at,ove all his debts of every I-EMa"wl at a point in the castoly line of Amsterdam nature, and c rcer and above his lial.iliti, s a< bail, surely, as follows : New York, at the County Court-hous^, in the City of nt. Specimens of a,phaltum, with a certificate stating ''venue distant ,6, feet to inches northerly front the New York, on the Ia day of October, 1895, at cc r otherw isr-, and that he has ntiered hitnstIf as surety m,rtherly line of ( me Hundred .rnd Niuctrenlh street ; in good frith, with the iutuntrou to execute the bond where the asphaltum it. s mined. o'clock in the ti rennun of that day, or as soon there- theuc': easterly znd Unrutlrl with said strict istanc ncuoired by Liw. ad. A spccin•_n of atp oilt cement, with a statement 427 after as counsel can Ile heard th ere''n, and that said bill of the elements of the composition of the bituminous lcet4~;x inches to the scesi er.y lineof of costs, barge' :ltd expenses, together with sal I state- No estirteOe will lie considered ii tless accont- AV'`~'t; thence e south er along =mil lirer ime dis.uncemince ed feet cements used in th,•. conipositian of the paving surface. c nient, has been deposited in the office of the Clerk of 1 a tied by eithar a certified check upon one of the 4`x ii,ch, s to the s theimce I es 3d. Sp'cimtn. of vain intended to be utud. One Hundred and the City aid County r'f New York, there to remain for r.tate or National hanks of the City of New York, 1 `ventieth street ; thence westerlyw esterly ;along said line dis- 4th. Specimens of pulverized carbonate of lime and (luring the space of ten days, as required by la- v. dawn to the Urd er of the Comptroller, or money lance 4cr feet q,4 inc hes to erl easterly laic of inter,ded to be used. I laced .A F's V'uRtc, trpt.mlier 18. 5)96. to Ihu amount of live per cc, turn of the amount of the dorm as c'tuc ; ih115 distance Specimens of the asphaltic roc r, with a certificate souther h• along ;aid line distance AI.BI(R'I' It. W)AI:UAIaN, chairman, SA)II'I' 1. xecw it) required f.ir flee faithful pertorrumice of the 4o feet to the point ur plac, of 6ogin o other evidence that it is of even fabric and a product or he e ' W111l tAN K, CHIRLE-I FI. AVElii;, Comm ssioncrs. c„ntracl, Such chock or money n.ust so't' be iodised Also, beginning at a point the easterly line of the first quality and from the mines herein:elter in of JoHN.AHumssrrl•:ri_s', Clerk. iu it sealed cnvelg:e runt airing the estimate, but Riverside av-uuc distant r -r feet to inch s northerly must be handed to the officer ur Clerk of the Depart- designated. 6th. A statement of the locat'on and the capacity (in from the northerly line if( fins Hundred and Nor teeoth In th a matzo of theapplicati ,n of The Mayor. aldermen ment tvho has charge of the estimate.box, :rid no esti- square yards per day) of the works or factory where the street ; thence easterly anal parallel with said siren and C mtm,nalil of the City of New York, relative to ni;rre can Ire deposited in said box tmtil runt check or distance zoo feet to the t%esterly line of Cl:a:n,ont money has been examined by stud offccr or cleric and paving material is prepare,. acquiring tit Jr. w;,er„ver the stmc ha- not been herc- No. 4 AnovE MENTIONED. 'avenue; thence n,rrtlre ly along say I line ti stance ruo tofore acquired, to EAST' II',i; HUNDRED A`I1 liquid to be correct. All such deposits, except that of 64,400 cubic feet of 'tone-filled crihwork, including feet; thencew'es:erly de; th e zoo ,eel to the cagterly FY)R•L'Y-SIX ill S I'REl•:1' (altho,gh u I yet nano I the ware nful bidder, will be returned to the persons line of Riversi c avcto ; thr.m'c southerly :long said square-face timbers above mean low water. by proper aulitun t y'i, front Mutt avenue to Ii is, r snaking the same within three days after the contract is line coo feet to the point or place of be„innt i_. a5,ouo feet 13. At. of squared timber work in ribbon avenue, in the l'wcnty third \4;,r .I ul tie Cityy ul New Ott irded. It the successhd bidder shall refuse or n. glect, AlAlso,so, beginning at a point in the we,tul ly title of the piece runway plank, sheathing and framework. York, ns t. me seine has Iacun heretufure Laid out and tcithm five days all, r notice that the contract has been or t hevard ne feet to The aim ± allowed for the completion of the whole list nit inches northerly from the designate.l a, it first-class street or ro il. awarded to him, to exectue the saute, the amount of the northerly line of (life Hundred and Ninet reeth street ; stork will be seventy consecutive working days, deposit made by him shall be I. nutted to and relamid thence wto and parallel -with said st reet distance UR-UA\"L' 'I', ) 7'HE SI'AI'UI'ES IN SUCH 'Ihe damoee; to be paid by the contractor for each I. made :e nl provided, ii .t ce is hereby given Ly the City of New York as liquidated damages for such 2 r feet to thethe ea line to Claremont avenue; , e eet- P negicct or refusal; but if lie sloill execute the contract dsc that the contract, or any part thereof, may be un- that an application mill Ine male to tits .5 iprenu• Court fullillc l after the time ft xed for the lion, burly :tlun,G sasaidid linlinee distance t ro feel ; thence e.o-[- within the time aforesaid the amount of the deposit will completion thereof erly of the S'taiu of New York, tit a Special tarot of said has expired arc fixed at Four Dollars per clay, distance zoo feet to the westerly line of Boulevard be returned to him. thence southerly along said line di-tanec Ico foot to the Court, to be multi :u Part 1, thereof, in the County Court- l Ill, COMMISSIONER OF T'UI;LIC WORKS T'lie :uno•int of security required is Three Thousand hou,c, in the City of New fork, tin Tucs•7ay, th : 291 mm day Five Hundred Dollars. point or place of beginning. Ill i l•;kVI•;5•FHb: RIGII'1''It) REJECT AT,l, BIDS And that such proposed action of the said Board of cfSeptember, r895, ar th_ uueniu.n of the Court tin th:'t CICl IVEI) FOR ANY PAR'LICUI AR WORK IF The estimates received will be publicly opened by the day, or as soon tier as c.,tcis.l can he heard tint r•- head of die said Department at the pace and hour last Street Opening and Improventent has been duly laid It F, DEEMS 1.1' FOR THE' BEST IN'TEREST'S OF bcf-_ru the Board of Al. 11. l n. oil, for the app>in'm •nt of C,mmis-inner, of 1?.Bloat.' iii; C l i x'. above mentioned and read. and As vs>nicut lit Lite above-colitl_d mitt •r. Ti, Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name V. B, L1V 1 NGSTON, Secretary. i;lank forms of bid or estimate, the proper envelopes Dated NEw' YORK, September re,, t8g6• nature and ,.•.'nteut of the ;mprov. mare hereby intend, .I to which to inclose the same, the specifications and and place of residence of each of the persons making the i? the acquisiti,-,n of title by The \'.ayor, Al deem en amt acre rntents, and anvfitrther information desired, can be same, the names of all persons interested with him or Contmoual ty of th, City f Nety Y,•rh, Ii r the u:e of the them therein, and it no other be so intereeswith-ted it riunined at the Water Purveyor's Office in the base- ■ DEPT. OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. public, to all the Lords avid premises. w-ith th •: buildings mcul and in Room No i7,5. hall distinctly state that factperson; thta it is mad thereon and the apptu-tent cm , thereto but ,aging, rn- CHARLES H. '1'. CLLIS, Commissioner of Public out any connection with any other person making an quired for the op n n, of a c.•rtain street or averutu estimate for the same purpose and is in all respects fair lIe'tliT., E''r ur I'cut.lc CH,vtrrins, No. 6> TtnRu \forks, \t. 'i:.N Yo K, Scptcmbur ty, ,896. known :t, 1-.itt Oiic Hundred and F1 rly-,ixth sir. e't, and without collusion or fraud, and that no member of fr In .Mott avenue to Itmver av_-nnc, in Lite'I\venty-'bird the Common Council, head of a department, chief of rt.Hf', UNI)1?R,,IC%VED WILL 'ELL AT PUBLIC tt[PARTniENT OF PUBLIC W(iRKS, COynnISSIONER's 1 .Auctiun, by ord r of the Cotnmissioner, of Public Ward m the City if New York, loci 'y the following Oirice, No. ISo NASSAU STREET, NEw YoI:K, August a bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk therein, or other described lots, pieces or parcels of land viz.: off cer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly later. day,1, p p at their oi896, at t 6o'c' avenue, on 'flow - 6, 1896, A. ested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it re- day, 5ep;entbcr sg, r8g6, at t i o'o'clockclock Si,, the follow- PAItcEl. "A." OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE tog' vac' Beginning at a point m the ea,torn line of G. rard as charge firr vault permits is fixed at the rate of gs lates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. 'I'he bid N or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, 6,00n pounds Rendered Tallow. nee distant 430 feet 'outherly from the intersection c,f per square foot, under and pursuant to ordinance of the 7,QoO pounds Ren of the party or parties making the estimate that apGrease.-ir the eastern line of Gerard avenue wit i tho southern line Common Council relating thereto. the 30,Cal pounds Scrap-iron. several matters stated therein are in all respects true. of Last One Hundred and Forty-ninth street, HOWARDPAYSON WILDS, Deputy Commis- 6o Calf Skins. Where more than one person is interested it is requisite 1st. Thence southerly along the eastern kite of Gerard siuner of Public 1L' orks. 5 ~o pounds Rag,. that the verification be made and subscribed avenue for 6o.r.5 feet. by all All quantities to be " more or less." the parties interested. y All qualities to ad. Thence easterly dcflec in; 87 degree'. minute, NO17CE '1'O I'ROPER'J'Y-OWNERS, BUILDERS, be "as are." All the above !except Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the con- roan) to lie re- 5 se'c.mds t„ the left for 469.61 feet. FLAGGI•:RS ANI) OTHERS. eeived by the purchaser at Pier foot of East Twenty- sent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in 3d. "Phence m,rtlierly deflecting 88 degrees 3g minute, OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE sixth street, :mil removed [h eady City of New York, with their respective places of m immediately upon 7 seconds to the left for 6 on fit t. practice of placing concrete or other triable curbs being noticed that saute are ready fur delivery. N business or residence, to the effect that if the contract be 4th. Thence we.,terly for 473.55 feet to the point on the streets of this city i; m contravention of chapter Iron to be received at Pier on awarded to the person making the estimate, they inlet ropolitnn Hospital beginning. I , Article 7, sectiva 105, Revised Ordinances of 188o, ('rounds, east side, near north end of a yer,well's Island, will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his PtRCEI " R." Cshich reads: "All curl,-stores * * * shall be of in a lighter to be provided by the buyer, immediately sureties for its faithful performance, and that if Beginning at a point in the wi,stern line of Gerard avc- the best bard blue or gray granite." And this Depart- he upon being notified that the same is ready for deliver)-. ment will find it necessary to prosecute to the fttll shall omit or refuse to execute the same they will nue distant 499.94 feet scutacrl ' Crum the inter;ectio , ; pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum Each successful bidder will be required to pay twenty. the west•:rn line of l a+u'd avenue with the s:u,hern ]toe penalty imposed by law persons setting or making such five per cent. of the estimated amount of his purchase to to which he would be entitled on its completion and of Past l One Hunar_d and horty- ninth s.reet. curbs, whether they have broken tip or removed the me that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay at he time and place of sale, and•the balaare to the t;t. Thence southerly :long the western line of Ger.ird curb-stones provided by the City or not. General Storekeeper, at Illackwell's Island, in cash or Further notice is given that this Department will in no to the person or persons to whom the contract may be avenue for 6o.o5 feet. awarded at any subsequent letting, the certified check on a New York City bank, upon delivery case entertain claims or damages to concrete or other amount in of the goods, ad. T'hcnce westerly deflecting 92 d grees 24 minnt', m'tlficial sidewalk.; that are caused by repair or setting each case to be calculated upon the estimated 55 seconds to the right for zoo. t8 feet, to th-- east•.ru amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The Commissioners reserve the right to order resale of hydrants, or by other work which tine City does for of any goods that shall NO1' have been rmoved by the line of River avc rue. The consent above-mentioned shall be accompanied the pe north good. purchaser within TEN days after he shall have be!•n 3d. Thence northerly along the eas'ern I ne of River CHARLES H. 1' COLLIS, Commissioner of Public by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the avenue Ii 60.c5 feet. persons signing the same that he is a householder or free- notified that they arc ready, and in case of such resale Works. ----- --- to 6,rfeit to the use of the I) epartment of Public Charities 4th. l'hence east''rly fir aoo 18 feet to the point cf holder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount beginning. of the security required for the completion of t re the TWEN l'Y-FI VE he D CEN L', paid in at the time - and place of sale. tract, over and above all his debts of every nature d Goods can be examined nt Black- East One Hundred and Forty-sixth street isdesigmrt.-ri mid well's ]stand by DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS. over and above his liabilities as bail, surety or otherwise, intending bidders on any week-d,ty as a street of the first cl.tss, and is sixty fe,-t a-i,le, and before the clay of sale, is shown on section 7 of the Final 1Iao,s and Profilt = Nets YORK, September 53, 5896. and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by GE 1. W. W,INMAKER. Ptu'chaeing: \e.nt, of the I'a enty-third and Tw•enty.f uurtit Wards of the TO CONTRAC I URS, section 27 of chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of the I, ity of New York, filed in the Office of the Commi e sinner EALED ]SIDS OR ESTIMATES FOR THE City of New fork, if the contract shall be awarded of .'ire,t Imnrovcnr_ms of the I %venty-third amt T'iven ty- S following-ntentioned works, with the title of the to the person or persons for whom he consents to be- SUPREME COURT. fourth Wards of line City of New Vurk on October it, work and the name of the bidderindorsed thereon, will 18g;. in the office of the Register of the City mini County come surety ; the adequacy and sufficiency of the In the matter of the application of 1'he Board of be received by the Department of Public Parks, at its security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of of New I ark on Nncemhur a. 1895, and in the office „t offices, the Ar>mtal, Central Park, until z o'clock P. nt. Street Opening and Improvement of the- City of New the City of New York. York, by the Counsel to the Coriroration of said city, the Secretary of State of the State of New York on N„- Monday, Oct„ber 5, 1996: No bid or estimate will be received or considered vember z. t8)5. No. I. FOR T'HE CONSTRUCTION OF WALKS, relative to acquiring title ii) The Mayor, Aldermen and unlees accompanied by either a certified check upon one Commonalty of the City of N'ety York, to certain Innds, 1).tted Nr:w YORK. S ptember 17, r896. GRANI1E 5'iEI'S AND OTHERWISE I\lpROV- of the State or National banks of the City of New York, FRANCIS H. SC0'1 I', Counsel to the Corperati„n ING THE GROUNDS SURROUNDING THE tenements, heredita:nes(.; and premises in the drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money to the ELEVENTH No. z'L'ryun Row, New York City. 'I'O11B OF' GENERAL U. S. GRANT, RIVERSIDE WARD of tine City of New York, amount of five per centum of the amount of the security bided by HOUS I ON, STAN f! IN, P1 11, AV'lL- PARK, IN 'SHE CITY OF NEW YORK. In the matter „f the application of the Baird 01 5tr, em required for the faithful performance of the contract. LET'I' AND SHERIFF' ST'REET'S, duly select, d, No. z. FOR T'HE ERECTION OF A SEA-WALL, Opening and Improvement of the City if New York, Such check or money niustfor he inclosed in the sealed I ,cared and laid out as and for a public park under WITH GRANITE COPING AND PIERS ANI) for and on behalf of T'he \I iynr, Aleermcn and Com- envelope containing the estimate, but must be handed and in pursu:mce if the pr uvisions of ch later 293 of IRON RAILING, ON 'IHE NORTHERLY SIDI; mnn:day of the City of New fork, relative to acquit- to the ulTiceror clerk of the Department who has charge the Laws of 1895 and of chapter 320 of the Laws of OF 1'HE EX'IENsION OF THE EAST RIVER of the estimate-box, and no estimate can be deposited tug title, wherever the sem: h.ts not b.eu hcretofun: PARK, IN IHE CITY OF NEW YORK. x887, ac lured, to P ;RRY AVF;NUE. althou„h nit yrt in said box until such check or money has been ex- OTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT WE, THE No. 3. FOR REGULATING AND PAVING WITH amined by said officer or clerk and found to be correct. A. named by proper authority , emit,. am from the undersigned, were appointed by an order of the, Southern Boulevard to Nosh du P.rrk way, in the ASPIIAL"1' PAVEMENT, ON PRESENT t\'IACA- All such deposits except that of the successful Supreme Court, be.tring date the loth (lay of July, DAM PAVEMENT, THE CARRIAGEWAY OF bidder will be returned to the persons making 1896, and T'wven'y-fourth Ward of the City r,f Now York, as tit-:d and entered in t''te office of the Clerk of the same has been heretof,re laid Brut and deignated ,, THE CIRCLE," AT FIFTY-NINTH S'1'REEI' the same within three days after the contract is the City and County of Now York on the i4th day of as a fir;t-class strict or road. AND EIGHTH AVENUE, IN FHE CITY OF NEW awarded. If the successful bidder shall refuse or Jttly, 1896, Commissioners of E,timate for the purpose of YORK. neglect, within five days alter notice that the contract making a just and equitable estimate of the loss and E,'THE UNI)ERSR,NEl) CUJIyHS$IONERS No. 4. FOR CONSTRUCTING AND PUTTING has been awarded to him, to execute the same, the damage to the respective owners, lessees, parties and W of Estimate :m1 Acs'-sme,n in the above- IN PLACE A CRIB-FENDER, INCLUDING THE amount of the deposit made by him shall be forfeited persons respectively entitled to or intere,ted in the entitled mat cr, hereby' give notiCo to all persons in- SQUARED TIMBER FRAMING, FOR THE PEL- to and retained by the City of New York as liquidated said lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises terested in this proceeding, and to the owner or owners, HAM ROAD DRAW-L'RlDGE, IN PELHAM BAY damages for such neglect or refusal t but if he shall duly selected and laid out by the Board of Street Opening occupant ur Occupctuts. of all houses and lots and tin- PARK, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. execute the contract within the time aforesaid the of the City of New York under the provisiu s of chapter proved aucl u:,uuproved lands affected thereby, and t., The Engineer's estimates of the works to be done, and amount of his deposit will be returned to him. 293 of the Laws of '895 and chapter 3zo of the L'nvs of all others whom it may concern, to wit : by which the bids will be tested, are as follows N. B.-1'he prices must be written to the estimate and 1887, as and for a public park in the Eleventh Ward of Fir-t—That we have completed our estimate and No. t—ABOVE 1MMENTIONED. also stated in figures, and all estimates will be con- the City of New York, and proposed to be taken for the assessment, and that all pers ins interested in this pro- 425 cubic yards earth excavation. sidered as informal which do not contain bids for all purposes named in said acts, and to perlorn such otter reed,ng, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and 7,S75 cubic yards filling, in place. items for which bids are herein called or which contain duties as are by said acts prescribed. The real astute having objections thereto, do present their said 3,075 cubic yards mold or topsoil, in place. bids for items for which bids are not herewith called so proposed to be taken for said purposes compri.es all objections, to writing, duly verified, to us, at our office, 55,E square feet sod, furnished and laid. for. Permission will not be given for the withdrawal of the lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises within No,.gc and gm- Wert Broadway, oth floor, in said city, on 450 cubic yards dry rubble masonry in foundations, any bid or estimate. No bid will be accepted from orcon- the two blocks bounded by Houston, Stanton, Pitt, or before the Igth day of U~.:toner, 1896, and that we, the 6:5 cubic yards rubble masonry in cement mortar tract awarded to any person who is in arrears to the Willett and Sheriff streets, in the Eleventh Ward of the said Commissioners, w II hear parties so objectittg within in foundation,, Corporation upon debt orcontract, orwho isa defaulter, City of New York, within the limits or boundaries of the the ten week-days next after the said rgth day of October, 444 square feet granite platforms. as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the parcels of land laid out, appropriated or designated for r8-6, and for that purpase will be in attendance at our 1,475 lineal feet granite stets. Corporation. said public park by said acts of the Legislature. said office on each of said ten days at 2 o'clock P. nt. r,Tlg lineal feet granite coping, straight and curved, The Department of Public Parks reserves the right to All parties and persons, owners, lessees or other per- Second—That the abstract of our said estimate and furnished and set. reject any or all the bids received in response to this ad. sons interested in the real estate above descrined and assessment, together with ourdamage and benefit maps, 33 granite posts, furnished and set. vertisement if it should deem it for the interests of the to be taken for the purposes of said public park, or any and al.o all theaffrdavits, estimatesand other document, or walk-basins, complete. City so to do, and to readvertise until satisfactory bids part thereof, and having any claim or demand on account used by its in making our report, have been deposited 1 surface-basin, complete. or proposals shall be received, but the contract when thereat, are requested to present the saute to its, duly in the Bureau of Street Openings, in the Law Depart- 450 litteal feet 8-inch stoneware drain-pipe. awarded will be awarded to the lowest bidder. verified, with said affidavits, or other proof in support ment of the City of New York, Nos. go and 92 West 2560 THE CITY RECORD. 'I'iiuRSlAVII, SEI''r.MBI.R 24

Ilrnadway, gth floor, in the .ail city, there to remain Grand View place is de,igi at d is Si street of the first of A circle tangent to the preceding cour=e whose radius opened, as such area is flown upon our benefit map de- until the zoth day of October, 18o6. class, and is shown in> Cc' i'iii 9 of the Final Maps and is r5 lent lb,' 3z,oC• feet. positcd as aforesaid. 'f hird-1'het the limit. of our asses ment for bone tit PmiJes of the 'Twenty-t ird and 'Pwent} .fol r,lt Wards 6th. 'Thence -outhcrly for 1,074 97 feet to the point of Fourth—That our report herein will be presented to include all those It., )C CS or iarcels of land sit late, of the City cl New York, filed in the office of the Co. bregi n ni,' g. a Special 'Term of the Supreme Court, Part I11„ of the lying and being in the City of New York, which taken miss:oner of >trect Improvements of the Twenty-third Andrews avenue, front East One Hundred and Eighty- State of New York, to be held in and for the City and together are b.,undcd and described a, I flows, viz, : and 'Twenty-lomtlt Wards of the City of Ni. w York on third street to Furdham road, isdesiguated as a street of County of New York, at the County Court-house, in On the north by the middle line of the hl,.ck, between October 31, 1895, in the office of the Register of the the first class and is shown on section 16 of the Final Maps the City of New York, ::n the aoth day of November, i8g6, Bainbridge av, n ie and Briggs avenue, from the westerly City and County of New York on November a, 1805, and Profiles of the 'Twenty-third and '1'wenty-fo.trth at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then side of Mosholu Parkway to a point distant zoo feet and in the office u' the Secretary of State of the State Wards of the C ty of New York, filed in the olfi..e of and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be we,terly from the wsterly side of the Southern Boule- of New York oil November a, t8g5, the Commissioner of Street Improvements of the heard thereon, a motion will be made that the said card ; oil the souta by the m,ddle line of the blocks Dated New Yong, September t7, 1896- 'Twenty-Ihirrt and 'Iwenty.G.urth Wards of the City of report he confirmed. between Marion avenue and Decatur avenue, from the FRANCIS M. SCOT!', Counsel to the Corporation, New York on November t8, t8u5, in the office of the Dated NEw YORtc, September it, t896. westerly side of Mosholu Parkway to a point distant zoo No. z Tryon Row, New York City. Register of the City and County of New York on LOUIS F'. MURRAY, Chairman ; JOHN 1). test westerly from th westerly side of the Southern Ni,vetnber :8, 1895, and to the office of the Secretary of CR1 \IMINS, Jr , Commissioners. Uoulevard ; on the east by the westerly side of Mosholu In the matter of the application of The Mayor, Aldermen State of the sate of New York on November zo, 18g5. Rhesus IIE Foiicsr BAI.Dis'tN, Clerk, Parkway ; on the west by a line drawn parallel to the and Commonalty of the City of New York. relative to Dated NEW VoRR, S ptember 17, 1896. northern Boulevard and distant 200 feet westerly front acquiring title, wherever the same has not been here- FRANCIS H. ScOTr. Counsel to the Corporation, In the matter of the application of The Mayor, Alder- he westerly side thereof; cxcepti g from said area all totore acquired, to FREE..\IAN STREET (although No.z T'ryr.n Row, New York City. men and Commonalty of the City of New York, ,t .,sets, avenues, roads, or portion; thereof, heretofore not yet name d by prol.cr authority), front the Southern relative to acquiring title, wherever the .cme has nut I g:dly opener(, as such area is shown upon our benefit L'oulerard to We,tche,tcr avenue, in the 'I'wenty- In the totter of the application of The Mayor, Alder- been heretofore acquired, to the lauds, tenements and .,.;it depositc d as al resaid. third 'A rc, of the City of New York, as the same has men and Commonalty of the City of New York, rela- heredi aments required for the purpose of opening Fourth-1 hat our report herein will be presented to a be, n heretofore laid out and designated as a first-class tive to acquiring title, wherever the same has not CROI'ONA AVEN 11i (although not yet r,amcd try npeaal Term of the Suprrnte Court, Part III., of the street or road. been heretofore acquired, to TRINITY AVENUE proper authority), from Boston road to the touthern tate of New York, to be held in and for the City and URSU NT TO 'l'HF; STATUTES IN SUCH although not yet named by proper authority,, from Boulevard, as the same has been heretofore laid out County of New York, at the County Court-house, in the P cans made anti provided, notice is hereby given Dater street to \V estchester avenue, in the Tw•enty- and designated as a first-class street or road, to the City of New York, on the 19th day of Ncvembe,: IE96, that an application wi.l be made to the Supreme Court third Ward of the City of New York, as the same 'Fwi-my-third and Twenty-fourth Wards of the City at the opening of the Curt on that day, and that then of the State of New York, at a Special 'Term of said has been heretofore laid out and designated as a first- of New York. and there•, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard Court, to be held at Part 1. the reof, in the County Court- class street or road. OFICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAI' WE, Tlll? thereon, a u.otiou will be m:,de that the said report be house, in the City of New I ork. on 'I'uosday, the a9th URSUANI' TO THE STATUTES IN SUCH NL~ undersigned, were appointed by nit order of the Supreme Court, hearing date the 7th day of July.. confirmed. day of Septemlter, x896, at the opening of tie Court on P cases made and provided, notice is hereby given Dated NEW YORK, September 14, t806. that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard that an applicati to will be made to the Supregte Court tIc6, Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment for 1,LOYI) McK1M GARRIhON. Chairman; J. Dc thereon, for the appointmt nt of Commissioners of Esti- of the State of New York, at a Special 'term of said the purpose of making a just • nd equitable estima e aurl C(JUR(EY IkELANI), Af ILLIAM M. LAW- mate and Assessment in the above-entitled matter. Court, to be held at Chambers thereof, in the County assessment of tha loss and damage, it any, or of the RENCE, Commissoner,. The nature and extent of the improvement hereby in- Court-hoe=e, in the City of New 1 ork, on Tuesday, benefit and advantage, if any, as the case may be, to the HtN. t of Fort COT BAt.uwtn, Clerk. tended i- the acquisition of title by The .Slaver, Alder- the z9th day of September, t89o, at the opening of the respective owners, lessees, parties and persons respect- men and Commonalty of the City of New York, for the Court on that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel c.ut ively entitled unto or mtere,ted in the lands, tenements, In the matter ut the apph.:atrot of he Mayor, Aldermen use of the public, to all the lands and premises, with the be heard thereon, for the appointment of Commissioners hercditaments and premises required for the purpose by and Cn'nnur,ualty C f the City of New York, relative to buildings thereon and the appurten,.nces thereto be of Estimate and Assessment to the above-entitled matter. and in cut segoeuce of opening the shove-menti,nted ueloiemg title, w'here,er the same has not I. ecn here- lunging, required for the opening of it certain street or ['hc nature and extent of the improvement hereby street or avenue, the same being particula ly set forth tofore acquired, to CRA\I'. SIREE1' although avenue known as Freeman street. from Southern Boule- intended is the acquisition r, f title by The Mayor, and described in the pctiti'm if flue Mayor, Aldermen In, It yet named by proper authority„ from Robbins II vard to Westchester avenue, to the Twenty-third Ward Aldermen and Common:dty of the City of New York, and Commonalty of the City of New Yo k, a u1 also in the .,yen ue to'1'impson place, in the ha c my- tl. ird Ward ~ of the City of New York, being the following-described for the use of the public, to all the lands and premises, notice' of tlic application for the said order thereto t, e City of New York, as the same has been 1 lots, pieces or parcels of land, viz. : with the buildings thereon :and the appurtenances attached, filed herein in the office of the Clerk of the r_,rcrof -re laid out and designated as a first-class t 'AI CEI- " A." thereto belonging, required for the opening of it certain City and County of New V'ork on the z8tb day of Judy, -trert or road. Begim'ing at a point in the eastern line of the Southern street or avenue known as 'trinity aveum , front Dater 18gb, and it just and equitable e,timate and assess- Boulevard distant t,47r.49 feet sout Inc rly from the street to Westchester avenue, in t e Twenty-third cncnt of the value of the benefit and advant ge of said I)UR1UANT TO IHE STA'IUIE5 IN SUCH street or a eel ucso to be opened or laid out and formed, r case'. made and provided, notice is hereby given intersection no the ea-tern line if S,wthcrn Boulevard Ward of the City of New York. being tile following- with the southern line of East One Hundred and described lots, pieces or parcels of land, viz, to the respective owners, lessees, parties and persons Lau an application will he made to the Supreme Court respectively entitled to o: ir.tere,ted in the said respect- i the State (if New York, at a Sp' cial 'rerun of said Seventy-second street. 1st. Ihene southerly along the eastern line of the iArcrt. " A." ive lands, tenements, hereditameuts and prem sus not ('.ourt, to be held at ['art I. thereof, in the County Beginning at a point in the southern line of Fast One require fur file purpose of opening, layin' out and i ur rt-home, in the City of New York, ,m 'Tuesday, the Southern Boulevar,l for 6o.oz f ut. ad. 'I hence easterly dell cting go degrees to the left Hundred and Forty-ninth street, distant zt fcc-t west- furmmg the name, but benefited thereby, and of ascer- - fl tin day' I Sept( Other, ,891, at the opening of the Court fir 4Co feet. erly from the interse-,:tion of the southern tine of East taining and defining the extent and boundaries of the ,•, chat d: y, or assort thercaft:r as counsel can be he and O,,e H, ridred and Forty-ninth street with the western retreet with the catLott line of Wales venue. r,teciLi_ ,, is „ EiIMANUEL BLU\1F:\SPIEL, JAMES O. FAR- ist. 'I he cc romherly ailing the eastern line of \Pales lice inning. Freeman street is de"i;n:,tcd as a street of the fr,t Beginning at a point in the n"rthern line of East One REL, WIL1.1nt F'UAVLER, Commissioner,, ceuue for 50 feet. Hundred and For s--ninth street distant zo) feet west- H InNxv (iii For.ESI lt.sfauuvis, Clerk. el. I'Lence easterly deflecting yo degrees to the left class and is shown on section it of the Fiu:d >iaps and Profiles' f the 1'wenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards erly from the ititer-c ci ion of the northern line of Eust of the- City of Nw York, filed in the office of the One Hundred and Foi ty-ninth street with tine Western In the matter of the application of The Mayor, Alder- (ii. Thence south, rly deflecting F9 degrees 43 minutes line of R"bbins avenue. men and Commonalty of the City of New York, t'' the right lur 5 ao feet to the western Irate of Southern Cr -mini-sion,r of S rest Improvements of the Twenty- third and 'Twenty-fourth Wards of the C ty of New Y rk r-t. 'Thence westerly along th6 northern line of East relative to a.:q.uu'tn; title, wherever the -ante' has not It, uler aid. , gister of e City One Iautdrrd and Fony-ninth str' et for to feet. been heretofore acgwred, to the lands, tenements and 4th. I hcne,: nor hcr~y along the western line of r,n June 13, 1894, in tine office of the R and i.,ruiiltycf New Verb on June r;, 1994, and in the (I. 'l'h. ncc northerly deflecting go degrees to the heredttum,nts regwred for the purpose of opening . eethem Boulevard f,,r 55.37 feet, office of the Secretary of State of the State of New right for 835 51 feet t, the southtrn line of Westchester EAST ONE. HUNDRF.1)AND SIXtVSl?vEN'lH ~ 5th. I Ilcucc westerly for 204.24 feet to the point of York on Juuit r„ 1094. avenue. STREET (although not yet named by proper author.. hc_t min. 3d. -:'hence easterly along the southern line of West- ity;, from Sher dun avenue to the New York and meet-t. ^r. " Dated New Yogi, September 17, x896. chester avenue for 6a. 4 fr-ct, Ni. Harlem Railroa'I, a,the same has been heretofore laid Ileginning.rt a point in the easurrn line of the aonth- FRANCIS SCOTI, Counsel to the Corporation, 4th. 'Thence southerly for 85a.o3 feet to the point of out and designated as a first-class street or road, iu r en (ion ward distant t,s f,.36 f et oulhwestcrly frntn No. z'I'ryen Rose, New York City. beginnit g. the'1'wenty-third Ward of the City of New York. th,' irater,cctiun , f t'u, castes it line of hnuthern Boule- tinny avenue is dcnignated as a street of the first I 0110E, In HEREBY GIVEN IHAI WE, FILE e rr,1 wth the southern line of !.a,t One Hundred and In the mater of the application ofT'be Mai ne, Ayluu"men cla,< and is shown ,m seal n 2 of file Vital Maps and I-„ray i it.t}t >t, en t. 1'rofiks of the'1'wenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards N . underrsigned, were appointed by an order ofthe- and C.mmn,ralty of the City of New Y„rk, relative to Sulrefine Court, near,ng date the arst day of August, 1st. 'thence soother 'y :,lo, g the cast_rn line of South- Lcgweing title, wherever file same has not bee-, here- of the City of New York. filed In the nBc of the. Com- crn 1 'oulevard f r 1 u. ja feet. 1896, Com ntissioners of Estimate and Assessment hunt- ii fore acquired, to AN t Rl':WS AVEN UE ialti ouglt mi,sioner of Street I 1 pr„vements of the Twenty-third the purpose of making a just and equitable estimate and ad. 'I(wecn easic rlr deflecting 2g d egree'S 43 minutes not yet named by pr gyp' r authority , from Ea-t One • nd I wenty-fourth Will ds of the City of New York on assessment of the loss and damage, if any, or of the I, the left for 15c,.4t feet. June r3, r89i. in the office of the Ri-gister of the City Hundred and Ei hty-first stre• it (lormerly University be„efit and advantage, if any, as the case may be, to the ",d. I hence tcrtmicn-tr rly deft, cling 45 degrees 30 averue) to Fordham toad, in the'fwenty-fourth Wand and County of New York on June 15, 1894, and in the respective owner., lessees, parties and persons respect- minutes 3.f seeurds to the left for 84.tu fe. t. office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York of the City of \ew York, as the same has been herr- ively entitled unto or interested in the Lulds, 4tlt. 1-hence Sensory fir ',13.5., lent to the point of toforc laid out and des.gnated as a first-class street or on June r=, t894. I„ i-'ii- ng. tenements, hereditaments and premises required road. Dated New YoRr„ September 17, x896. for the purpose by and in consequence of Ci titer greet is de.ignatedas a street of the first- f RANCID M. SCOT1, Counsel to the Corporation, cluss and is -hown on section. z of the Final Maps URSUANT '11) THE STATUTES IN SUCH opening the above-mentioned street or avenue, the cases made an,l pruvidcd, notice is hereby given No. z Tryon Row, New York City. :1 iii P, (,files of the -Iwenty-tbird and T'wenty- P s:,mc being particularly set forth and described in the fontth W..rds I the l:i:y of N 1 irk, hid in the that an apple an ion will be made to the Supreme Court p tition of'1'he Mayor Aldermen and Cnma on:dty of the of the State of New Yolk, at a Special font of said In the matter of tite application of i he Mayor, Alder- 'fi,:e of file Coo missi net of titre et Improvements if City of New York, and also in the notice of the applica- C,n.rt, to Inc Ii, Id at Part I. thereof, in the County men an Commonalty of the City of New York, rela- the Tv. cn ty third and I ws:nty-f aurth Wards of the City tive to acquiring title, wherever the same has not been ti it for the said order thereto attached, filed herein in .•f New Airk on Jung• t3, t894 in tee office of the I,'ourt-!souse, ill the City of New York, on 'Tuesday, the office of the Clerk of the City and C..unty of the 29th clay of Septeml er, 1896, at the opening of t. e heretofore acgmred. to the lands, tene.uents and here- 1:ugi,+ter of the Ci y and County a', New V. rk un lone ditamcnt= requir d for the 1 urpose of opening New York on the 58th day of August, ISg6, and 1;, r- :;4, ;md in the , ffice if the Secretory of St.ae Ccnut on that day, or as soon thereafter as cootsel can a just and equitable estimate and assessment of the be heard there' n, for the appointment of Commis-ioners BA R R E'1'TO SPREE I' [formerly Fos street]'although ,d the Mate (It New York on tun- t;, 1£94. nor yet nutted by proper authority(, from We-tchester value of the benefit and advantage of said street or of Estim.itc ai.d As-c,sment in the above-entitled matser. Dated 1VEw YoRU, Sep' cmi,er 17. 1896, avenue to Int,'rv..le avenue,as the same has been avenue so to be oriented or laid out and formed, to the FI.ANCIS M. St. (SI'1, Cowts,i to the Corporation, 'Elie uin.terr: and ext, nt if the impruvumeut her, by respective owners, lessees, patties and persons respect- intends-d is the acquisition of titleby The May r, heretofore laid out and d sigoated as a first-class \o. a' L'tyou Row, New York City. -- --- street or read, in the Twenty-third Ward of the City ively entitled to or interested in the slid reipertive Aldrrm it and Commonalty of tire City of New Y irk, lanes, tenements, hereditameots and premises not re- of New York. 1 n tin ntattet i t the application of The Mayor, Ald,'rmen fur the use If the public, no all the lands and pretenses, quired for the purpose of opening, laying out and cu d C inn monalty of tt.e City of Ncw Y, rk, relative to WI lh the building= ihereon and the appurtetaoces (hereto E, THit UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS forming t he same, but benefited thereby, and of .cscer- ,,,lei ing title, wherever the satin has not bet -n here- ben>ng ng, required for the opening of a en rtain street or W of Estim:de and Assessment in the above-cnti- taining and defining the extent and boundaries of the t,d. ani1uircu, to GRAND Vli':W PLACE'ahh(uu;h avenue 6nuwu a: Andrews avenue, from East On.: Hun- tied matter, hereby give notice to all perso -s interested respective tracts or parcels of land to be taken or to be t,,,' SLt am,d by pt otter :,u:hurity), trout E:ot One dred and ]'aghty-nest street (for~nerly University ave- in this proceeding, and to the owner or owners, occu- assessed therefor, and of performing the trusts and Ilundn d and Six,y-srvcnth street to Fact I inn Hun- nue, to 1'l~rdham road in the Twenty-fourth Ward of pant or rice :: ants, of all houses and lots and improved duties required of us by chapter t6, title 5, of the act dn in and i-ixly-eiahtli street, in the '1\centy-third the City of New York, being the following described and unimproved lauds affected thereby, and to all others enttt,ed ' An act to consolidate into one act and to Wald of th- City of New York, as the same It s been lots, pieces or parcels of land, viz. whom it may concern, to wit : declare the special and local laws affecting public , a fir-t class t'AhCirr 1. "A" Ftr,t—'That we have cont.plete(( our estimate and interests in the City of New York," passed July r, r88a, hcr,tofnre lard out and designated a assessment, and that all persons interested in this street n-r read. Beginning at a point in the southern line of East One and the acts or parts of acts in addition thereto or Hundred and Eighty third street (leg.,lly opened as proceeding, or in any of the lands affect d thereby, and amendatory thereof ULSCAN'I' '1'O THE STATUTES IN SUCH having objections thereto, do pr.:sent their said objec- Hampden street) distant asg.tt feet ca't' rly from the All parties and persons interested in the real estate P c, scs made semi provided, uo. ice is hereby r iv en lion.s, in wnti,lg, duly verified. to us, at our office, Nos. go taken or to be taken for the purpose of opening the said that au appl canoe wi,l be nude to the -uprewe Court inters ction of hue suu,hern line of East One Hundr, d a,. d Eighty-thij d street with the eastern line of Loring and 9z West Broadway, nm!It floor, in sail city, on or street or avenue, or affected thereby, and having any cat the St,tc of New Y, rk, nt a Slice iii l erm of -aid before the 19th day nt October, x896, and that we, the claim or demand on account thereof, are hereby I ourt, to be held at Par t i. thee, „I, in the Court y Cour.- place. Ist. "Thence easterly along the southern line of Fast said Commissioners, will hear parties so objecting required to pteent the same, duly verified, to its, the Ir"u;c , in the l :,ty of N nut York, on lliesday, the agth day within the ten week-days next after the said rgth day undersigned Commiss.oners of Estimate and Assess- .f `cpt. tuber, r8r,6, at the opcnii,g of then ours on that One Hundr, d and Eighty-rhtrd street for 6o feet, ad. Thence southerly dellecting go degrees to the right of Octobc-r, t$96, and for that purpose will be in attend- ment, at our ofiic~, Nos. qo and 92 West Broadway, gth , lay, 'in as-mutt therea, ter as coun-el c:,n be h• and thereon, ance at our said office on each of said ten days at z floor, in the City of New York, with such affidavits or intmcnt of Commi.,toncrs ul Estimate and for 731 29 feat. Inc the spp,, 3d. 'hence northwesterly curving to the left on the .'clock P. M. other proofs as the said owners or claun.tuts may As';c.-mcnt to the :r' eve entitled mat cc. I he nature Second—That the abstract of our said estimate and desire, within twenty days after the date of this notice. ,,nd extent of the iii pr..vement hereby mien tied is the arc of a Circ e whose radius prawn southeasterly from the -outhern extremity of the preceding course assessment, together with our damage and benefit maps, And we. the said Commissioners, will be in attendance :smUi itll n of title by The \lallor, A,dcro:en and Cont- and also all the affidavits, estimates and other docu- at our said office on file r4th day of October, x896, at on r the use of the forms a., angle of z3 degrees 5' minutes aq seconds- to mo all ' n,f th. ( ity of New York, fc, ments used by its in making our report, have been o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to hear the said publc, to all the lands and premise , with the building, the west from the southern prolongation of said course - r idius is 66o feet for 64.36 feet. deposited in the Bureau to S.reet penings in the Law parties and persons in relation theteto, and at such t'n' reon and the at.prirtenlauce,theret 1-clonging, re- and whos, 4th. Thence northerly for 7 8.08 feet to the point of Department r f the City of New York, Nos. go and qz time and place, and at such further or other time and (m ired for the ripening of a certain street or avenue Vest Broadway, gth floor, in the said city, there to beginning, place as we may appoint, we will hear such owners in Ii, nun as Urat'd View place, from 1' ant One Hundred remain until the zuth day of October, 1896. relation thereto and examine the proofs of such claimant ,rod sixt}-seventh street to Ea-t One Hundred and I herd—That the limits of our assessment for benefit or claimants or s ch additional proofs and allegations -axty-eighth street, in the T'weuty-th.rd Ward of 11 ginning at a point in the northern line of East One • Hun (red Old Faghty-third street (legally opened is include all those lots, pieces or parcels of land situ cte, as may then be offered by such owner or on behalf of th e City of New 'i ork, beiac the following described lot, lying and being in the City of New York, which taken The Mayor, Alderm5n and Commonalty of the City of pieces ur parcels of land. viz.: Hampden street) instant 199 57 feet easterly from the intersection of the northern line of East One Hundred together are bounded and described as follows, viz. New 4 ork. I cgtnnung at a point in the northern line of the East Dated NEW YORK, September 12, 1896. t Inn Hundred and Sixty-seventh street approach to the and Eighty-third street with the eastern line of Sedg- On the north by the southeasterly side of Intervale the northwesterly side of RIGNAL D. WOODWARD, N. T. M. MELLISS, Grand Itmt(evard and Crnncuur a distant 57.10 feet wick avenue. avenue ; on the south by ist. Thence easterly along the northern line of East Westchester av,nue ; on the east by the middle line of Commissioners. west' rly of the intersection of the northern line of East the blocks between Barretto street (Fox street , HENRY DE FOREST BALDWIN, Clerk. t Itie I ftmdt ed aid -'iaty-seventh street with the western One Hundred and Eighty-third street for to feet. ad. Thence not therly deflecting go degrees to the 1. ft Fox street (Simpson street) ; on the west by tile mdd,e line of Gt, nd Boulevard and Concourse. line of the blocks between Barrett , street (Fox street) 1st. T'hem.e westerly along the northern line of said fer 1, i toy6 feet. 3d. 1 hence northeasterly curving to the right on the and 'Tiffany site t, from Westchester avenue to East THE CITY RECORD. appru. ch for fo feet. One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street and thence by a ad. , hence northerly deflecting go degrees to the arc of a circle tangent to the preceding course whose radiu' is 50 feet fur 5o,aa feet to the southern line of line drawn par;,llel to Barretto street (Fox street) and HE CITY RECORD IS PUBLISHED DAILY, right for 477. ti feet. Sundays and legal holidays excepted, at No. a ,d- 'i hence easterly deflecting go degrees to the right Fo.dilam road. distant westerly about 125 feet from the westerly side T 4th. T'hencc westerly all ng the southern line of Ford. thereof, from Fast One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street City Hall, New York City. Annual subscription, $9.30, for 6o feet. postage prepaid. JOHN A. SLEICHER, 4th. Thence southerly for 472.11 feet to the point of ham road for 125.87 feet, to Intervale avenue ; excepting from said area all streets, 5th. 'Thence st,utherly curving to the right on the arc avenue;, roads, or portions thereof, heretofore legally Supervisor beginning.