The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-22

| ing IT, laying out was 10 cost an amount
| IN, iutcrc-t on which should not exceed
go 0o0- that is siaW,0n. IN 1861 an act
was pase'd fofbillug the adoption Of
! plans II the entire expense cxccc1-
cd >iNOO00 TIE Commis -ioncra. how
ever, conceived OF - much Prdndcr city
| pleasure p.ouud tlau TIM. They p'aGu-
ally added To its hotmdirics until in ~
| they were Obliged 10 obtain legislative att
! nIoritv to issue Park bomb for S3crDc0D;
and m 1870 authority to issue 100000
| more. and thc total of the debit incurred
y them fol the Park improvements Park
WY. and the like, is over si0,0W,O00-
| Prospect Park Is beautiful pleasure
pro,nd; there's not u finer in the country;
yet its e., II La. been great; aud now that
the tnNpnycrt arc called ON TO pay it,
they begin 10 think " economy.
ono of the Most instructive achievements
Of the Ring was that 10y which they pre-
tended To- get the consent OF the majority
OF property owners 10 the paving of At
lHntic street. Tho Commission in 1859 con-
sisted of WILLIAM A. FOWLER. THOMAS
kiNsrLIA. and A. NJ. Bliss They failed
to obtain the requisite consent. and there
! fore frsoricd to the trick Of getting the
Legislature to bass in 1870, II hill giving the
Water Board power 20 rcpGr any street
with patent paVomcnts upon q petition of
| q majority of the ownei~-not ma icrty
OF the property owned. The outrageous
injustice of this is apparent. Reinforced
by this bill the Water Board revived the
Atlantic street paving scheme. They got
such OF the owners OF property as they
could SO induce 20 sign petition for re-
| pavement. Those-aud they were the
largcst-whom they could not persuade TO
do this they easily entrappcd into signing
petition for dispeneary on Atlantic
str, CT. Thee latter comprised thriy-four
highly reputable citizens and property
owners. In July, $50, building was
bought NJ $500, and the dispensary start
ed. Then soon followed the workmcn lay
ing down Guidet and Nicolson pavemcrts
on th" street. The sicners TO the dispen-
sary petition, who had opposed the pave
mcut job, were astonishcd. aud fairly over
come with amazcment when they found
! that their petition FOR the other object had
| been tackled on TO the patent pavement
petition, thus securing the requisite ma
joiity of owners Of property Beginning
M the Atlantic street ferry. the Water
Board put down 81 ,4GG square yards of Gut
Diet patent pavemcnt-nothing hut COM
mon blocks of stonC-at cost OF S3ni ,2jG.3s,
or G.i7 yard. Othcr strcets-for instance
Myrtle avcuue-havc since been paved
with like blocks nj from S170 to 50 per
square yard. The rest OF the street they
laid with Niool,on blOcks-37 $50 square
yards at s5.1s yard. The Same pavement
has been put down in other cities at from
500 10 $500 per yard. The Ncolsou
pavement was "a failure. and has since been
taken up and replaced by stone. II is
hardly necessary to add that WILLIAM {.
KINGSLEY controlled both the Nirolson
and Guidet companies. The following
figures, relating to the Atlantic paving,
are suggestive. Since 1870 there have been
paid for hy the taxpayers and property
owners:
90 ESQ i.idf Of $40 's1n .......... - ti9i ~ Gs
'.' - st.Hc fo replace Dove, at 80 lladr, uu
ifi'N sAi4- 10 NA.t.... ............. 5Of,'ii ~
Total. OF
The work might have been done and
welt done al - per square yard. making
the total CO i 500, lCi. Thus the Ring and
TIN paving confcdcrntr~ made haul Of
s35'"id. And this is only sample.