THE CITY RECOR • Vot. XXXIII. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1805. NUMBER 9838. THE CITY RECORD. For the elaborate improvement of the approaches to Baird Court, plans and speci- fications have been prepared. The walls will be faced, a handsome entrance built at OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF TIIE CITY OF NEW YORK. the northerly end, a flight of granite steps, etc. This improvement will cost in the Published Under Authority of Section 1526, Greater New York Charter, by the neighborhood of $8o,000. BOARD OF CITY RECORD. Plans and specifications have also been prepared for the erection of a glass court addition to the bird house which has just been completed. This will consist of a glass GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, MAYOR. house addition, with cages for the birds; and it is designed to build these cages in such JOHN 5. DELANY, CORPORATION COUNSEL. EDWARD M. GROUT, COMPTROLLER. a way, furnishing plenty of light and air, that the surroundings may be as realistic and comfortable as possible for the birds. PATRICK J. TRACY, SUPERVISOR. On the contract for the pheasants' aviary, the concrete work, the plastering and Published daily, except legal holidays. rough casts, and the roofing are finished; the half-timber work is in place, and the cages Subscription, $9.30 per year, exclusive of supplements. Three cents a copy. are now being set. The work will be completed this month. SUPPLEMENTS: Civil List (containing names, salaries, etc., of the city employees), as cents; Plans and specifications are also in the hands of the printer for the following im- Canvass, 10 cents; Registry Lists, 5 cents each assembly district ; Law Department and Finance provements in the Zoological Park, and the work will be commenced as soon as the Department supplements, To cents each; Annual Assessed Valuation of Real Estate, 25 cents each contracts are awarded : Public comfort station, men's and women's toilets, and a flight section. of granite steps. Published at Room 2, City Hall (north side), New York City. Bronx and Pelham Parkway. Entered as Second-class Matter, Post Office at New York City. Broken stone and screenings are now being delivered for the resurfacing of this roadway. The enormous traffic of automobiles, etc., wears away the screening surface TABLE OF CONTENTS. very rapidly, and it requires frequent resurfacing. We have purchased a steam scarifier and road roller for the purpose of putting the surface of this important parkway in first-class condition. Aldermen, Board of— Health, Department of- Public Notices 7824 Proposals 7828 This parkway has keen terraced; the sidewalk regulated and graded; borders and Assessors, Board of— Manhattan, Borough of- gutters sodded east of White Plains avenue; and a bicycle path boo feet in length has Public Notices 7827 Public Notice 7827 been constructed. Bellevue and Allied Hospitals— Municipal Civil Service Commission- Public Notices At the foot of the river, a dry wall 250 feet long has been built. Proposals 7829 . 7835 At Pelham avenue and White Plains road, Board Meetings 7830 Notice to Contractors 7836 200 feet of wire fence has been con- Midges, Department of— Official Borough Papers 7829 structed. Received a n d Contracts Official Directory 7824 Bids Official Papers A walk 150 feet long and 18 feet wide has been laid out at the approach to the Awarded 7824 7835 bridge, and the bank terraced. Bronx, Borough of— Parks, Department of- Proposals 7829 Proposals 7835 At the west side of Bronx River Bridge, roo feet of rock has been excavated and Public Notice 7829 Report for the Quarter Ending June 3o, 1905 (Borough of The used for filling in the walk at One Hundred and Eighty-second street and Southern Brooklyn, Borough of— Bronx) 7805 Boulevard. Minutes of Local Board Meetings 7821 Police, Department of- The approach to the Zoological Garden has been terraced, Soo feet of walk on Proposals 7830 Owners, Wanted for Lost Property 7828 Boston road finished, and all washouts repaired. Change of Grade Damage Commission— ProceProceed 9 ings of August 28 and 29, Public Notice 7828 i 5 7820 Changes in Departments 7824 Proposals ... 7828 Pelham Bay Park. Correction, Department of— Public Charities, Department of- Proposals 7827 Proposals 7828 An addition is being made to the bath houses for the purpose of doubling their Docks and Ferries, Department of— Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners, capacity. This work is being done by park labor, and will probably be completed in Proposals 7835 Board of- Public Notice 7835 Proposals 7830 the course of a week or two. These bath houses have proven to be a most popular Education, Department of— Richmond, Borough of- improvement. They are visited by hundreds of people daily, and the capacity has been Proposals 7827 Report of Bureau of Buildings for entirely inadequate. Estimate and Apportionment, Board of— the Week Ending September 2, Public Notices 7831 1905 7824 A trotting track has been laid out in this park, near Bronx and Pelham parkway. It Finance, Department of— Street Cleaning, Department of- varies from 5o to 8o feet in width, and, when completed, will add very greatly to the Abstract of Transactions for the - Ashes, etc., for Filling in Lands 7831 attractiveness of this Park, which is yearly becoming more and more popular with the Week Ending August 5, 1 905. 7807 Proposals .. 7831 Corporation Sales of Real Estate 7828 Supreme Court, First Department- people from all parts of the Greater City. Interest on City Bonds and Stock 7828 Acquiring Title to Lands, etc 7836 Notice to Property-owners 7828 Supreme Court, Second Department- The Shore road, leading from the Eastchester Bridge around Glover's Rock, is Notice to Taxpayers 7829 Acquiring Title to Lands, etc 7836 being widened to 3o feet, its present width, 16 feet, being inadequate to the great Public Notice 7829 Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, De- traffic. This work is being done by park labor, and will be completed about September Fire Department— partment of- Proposals 7830 Proposals I of this year. The surfacing of the road with stone received from the park crusher 7835 will be completed about December r, of this year. The stone crusher has been in opera- tion for the past three months preparing broken stone for the surfacing of this road. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. Owing to the difficulty encountered on account of low tides, the work on the wooden bridge from the mainland to Hunter Island has progressed very slowly. All that remains to be finished now, however, is the removal of the old causeway below low BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. water, and this will be completed within the present month. Plans and specifications have been prepared, and are in the hands of the printer, Quarterly Report, Three Months Ending June 30, 1905. for the erection of a toilet house in this park, near the present bath houses, and the work will be begun as soon as the contract has been awarded. Hon. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Mayor: The nine-hole golf links in this park have been extended to an eighteen-hole course. Sir—Herewith is transmitted the quarterly report of the designs for improve- This work, which has been done by park labor, is practically completed. The course is ment, work accomplished and finances of the Department of Parks, Borough of The now in use, and is very popular among the residents of the neighborhood. Bronx, for the three months ending June 3o, 1905. The old drinking fountain for horses, at Pelham parkway, was removed, and a new Respectfully, fountain erected. HENRY C. SCHRADER, In the cutting away of • large bank, moo yards of earth was removed and used for filling in and grading the roadway. Six hundred feet of wall was built on one Commissioner of Parks, Borough of The Bronx. side of the road to hold the fill. Eight new culverts were made and five hundred feet Bronx Park. of bank was terraced. Rock was excavated and crushed and used for covering 1,000 park- feet of road with gravel. The bridge over the Bronx river at the crossing of the Bronx and Pelham Seven flower-beds were planted with pansies. way has been completed, and final estimate was rendered on May 31, 1905. Fifty acres of new ploughed lands were harrowed and grass seed sown. The work on contract for addition to the green-houses will probably be com- A rustic fence was built around the athletic field. pleted before the end of August of this year. All the masonry work is completed, the iron work is in place and most of the glass work has been put in. Mosholu Parkway. Pour hundred feet of 12-inch drain pipe was laid in the ball field. Work was resumed on the contract for the improvement of Mosholu parkway Rock was removed, and the approach to the Zoological Park terraced. in the spring and has progressed rapidly ever since. The contract will be corn- Three hundred feet of walk on the Boston road was finished. early pleted about October r of this year. In the green-house the usual work was carried on, such as preparing soil for the railroad tracks and Webster avenue on this parkway the potting, propagating plants for use in the various parks and squares, preparing hot- On the bridges over work has been completed, and final payment will be rendered in a day or two. beds and repotting various plants as the season required. One new clay tennis court was constructed. Van Cortlandt Park. In the workshops all tools were kept in repair, also the iron work on sprinklers, The work of surfacing Vault Hill road has been completed, and a road has been carriages, carts, etc.; carriages, monitors and carts were painted, and repairs were built about Roo feet in length, leading to the tremper house.