The New York herald., 1875-12-03

following
the application Of Andrew H Green Comptroller
and Treasurer OF the Central Park =
Seventh avenue twidening3, 10th street TO
sixth avenue widening iioih street to Har,
Circle Fifiy ninth street Eighth
Boulevard Fifty ninth street to i55th street sc79is 20
PLAZA Fith avenue and Fifty 53s5so so
Avenue ST Nicholas and widening Manhattan 80 ea GO
Twelfth avenue fity,nnth to street.. 4S42l5 90
aorangde PARK and 173ois2 40
rgsGTd street s5s .a 19s 19ss so $50 90 60
Erosdwsy wdenlns 9sessSs s.
IIS..ssS .ssss 1 18Th Ss &c &c
Total $40 7s4 ss4 ls
plication Of ihe Department Of Public Parks,
Triangle At Boulevard Ninth avenue
Bousyard rom i55th street. to ia@ood street oas5 q
Aingsbrldge 18th oo4 w
Total cost Of openings s23. .24s, ,s25 IS
You reply that "ths is a Misrepresentation, /" and
that during the time you were in the service Of that
department the total incurred for such objects
amounted to only ST. 456 472 so. AS the awards
IN made after the date you name, your
assertion is plausible but as none Of those awards
could have been made without your antecedent author
ity, my stStements remain correct IN fact The
moment you filed your maps required by law, the
lands therein mapped out TO be taken for public use,
condemned, and the city became by your act re-
sponsibe for the cost OF the improvement,
later, as the openings might take place. In tho
records referred your mind will be refreshed not
only as to the general history of the parks but of
persistent leadership in every movement that looked
to the purchase and working Of other property that
you say twas not required for many years"
RIVERSIDE PARK.
General Porter proceeds TO state Mr. Green's agency
in the acquisition OF lands for Riverside Park from the
time August H. 1866 when Mr. Green offered the FIRST
resolution for IT, till August 2, 1872, when its value
fixed over Sc, 600 600 He shows that Thomas c.
Fields June 10 1872 offered resolution to stop the
hutG
omsead voting in the negative the motion lost and
the job permanently saddled upon the city In reference
to Mr. Green's assertion that from 1870 TO 1872 ne had
no influence in the Board it is mentioned that tho
record shows him helping to elect himself treasurer in
1870, with t59s 600 to disburse; May "a he voted
with the majority acquire land widen Kngsbndge
road September, o. 1870, he helped to take land for
Fort WASH gon Park. In a schedule appended TO the
letter brief illusions to several hundred In
which Mr Green voted, most Of them calling for the
expenditure Of The public money. or 100 resolutions
passed between April 20 1870, and November 2 1872
calling for S. 559713 there thrty-two offered by
Mr. Green 1o7 passed with his and thirteen with
out It. Mr. Green is alluded as the promoter Of the
scheme for the parade ground Inwood the designer
Of the 'Circle and the "Plaza !" Fifty ninth street
and Eighth and Fifth avenues; he is noted as voting to
buy "Highbrdge Park, being responsible 'for
the unnecessary and extravagant width Of the Boule
wards and OF Sixth and Seventh and ST. Nicholas ave-
nues y
These, your bantings, you now denounce as
prohgate, forgetting your published pathetic appeals
'for rapid improvements, +" and for outlets even into
Westchester county So long you remained the su-
preme power in the Park Board and the dispenser
Of the patronage and funds OF the department all
we'll and public improvements were urged forward
Now you longer control the works or dispense that
patronage and y suits you 70 insist that the works
must be stopped
AS before remarked you have referred TO Thomas o.
Fields cunning and corrupt representative and
efficient aid Of the Rngn You had every opportu-
nifty TO know him we'll Yet 6nd by the Journal or
the Park Commission this record
'For six OF the sixteen years you were together in
the service parks each gave his In favor Of
the other for the position to which he was elected
Treasurer or Secretary Il was on motion Of Mr.
Park increased June, 1866, from $500 to
$4,000 per annum, and that (by arrangement which
has since been stigmatized as salary grabbing the
increase made TO date back January / Of that
year You seem to have favored the back pay system
then and prior in 1869 though only for the benefit Of
your own pocket The records further show that In
July 1868, Mr. Fields secured TO you the payment OF
$1,000 extra compensation IN part for compiling the,
az yet, unseen history OF the Parks" The same day
and on Mr. Fields motion, leave OF given
you for ninety days TO visit Europe when you
turned, ana on motion OF Mr. Yields again,
you were paid by the department ST. 600 Tor
the expenses Of the trip, though you your salary
for the whole time Of your absence. II was by Mr.
Fields notion andIby your own vote with his that the
city paid the cost Of lobbying Albany and your ex
penses there also that the house on Great BfwaS
ntted al the expense Of S13 900 as residence for
you II appears that whenever an Increase Of salary
TO be voted Fields offered the resolution and both
he and you voted FOR t. So, too OF resolutions grant
Ing you leave Of absence to abroad with no dimBu
ton Of pay, &C, &C, &C. These we're friendly acts
very-as between you and this 'cnnnng aud corrupt
representative and efficient aid Of the Ring
DEPARTMENT PUBLIC WORKS
You refer 10 the waEefu manner in which as you
aege the affairs of this department arc now conducted
and give especial attention 70 the previous occupation
Of OF the inspectors You also state that upon
Their inspection my demand Ia made upon your depart
nnent for payment OF employee Replying TO these
statements in inverse order, remark that payment IA
made upon the certificate Of these inspectors and
that all has from time to time finally 20 undergo
the inspection Of competent mechanics and also
OF educated and trusy engineers, and this you
knew when you wrote, because the certificate
of such inspection accompanies the vouch-