New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-03
DELAY IN REPAvING FIFTH AVENUE.
FORMER ACTION OF THE COMMISSION hLEeAL-
OPINIONS OF A PRoPERrY-HoLDgR.

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The Fifth Avenue requirement. Compassion met
in the, MAYORS office yesterday noon. The Corpora
ton Counsel sent word that the action OF tne So9n-
mission In rejecting all bids at a meeting on July
80 was illegal Accordingly motion TO reconsider
| that action was passed. The Commission then ad.
journed to meet September ~ AT p. M 20 recSio
| The proposals of those contractors VINO hau Wlth
| drawn their bids. - ILL.,
The action of the Commission betrays either
great incapacity or desire 20 cause sucn an
Indignant propertyholder of Lenox Hill yesterday.
"n sixty DAYS time from now IT VIII be imposslDle
TO lay the best kind of and III ninety gay
in May, II the last of July before the 9Gds
and after waiting until this time tho commissioners
ind that they were ACTING illegally and have II 10
all again By the middle sIs gf september
above Fifty-nin th-st., where the avenue is mac
adamized, II is in n wretched condition. worn clear
down to the bed rock In places. No repairs have
been made in three years. Ii has been cleaned
twice in that time and then only at the urgent re-
ouest of committee of Lenox Hi property-hoders
This negligence of the city officials ana OF tne
Commission places the corporation under great
responsibility, for the avenue really isn't safe ior
rapid driving. There have been numerous com
plants. aud many oarriage-springs nave peG =,
dry weather and muddy in wet. LIZ has been re-
ported that certain portion of the Commission
would like to see the avenue covered with nose
less pavement But the experience Of our Depart,
ment Of Public Works shows that It Is Impossible
10 Keep a pavement of that kind In place. Even
in Paris and London, where they understand
these things better, and repair 2 break as
soon as 1t begins TO APPEAR the wooden
pavement which was put down two years ago
begins TO look badly After q rain there are puddles
standing all over it, showing where It is wearing
away unevenly. Every one knows that IL Is i'm
possible to get two pieces of wood even II they are
taken from the same tree to wear alike. In this
country we don't know how to take care OF these
concrete and wooden pavements The holes are al
lowed to 20 untouched until the wheels sinking
into them have pounded the pave
ment out of all shape The granite pavement
called for by the act Of the Assembly is
good enough for the propcrty.holders along the
avenue and oil they want IS 10 see II put down
some time in the near future II is the kind already
IN use between Thirty seventh and Thirty-second
sts The granite blocks twelve by eight by three
inches are land in a bed of cement eight or ten
inches thick IL the best and cheapest in the end
because 1t lasts The WOOD pavement IL good for
couple Of years. Gnd then IL goes all at once.
Another thing he wood pavement, as pun
down i'm Paris aud London. was understood to be
Job. On general principles, then, It would be
much bigger Job here. The law calls for a pave
ment up to Nineteth-st. Ii would hardly be posi-
bic TO do all that before winter, but the thickly
settled portion from Ffty-ninth 10 Seventy
second sts., winch now a. dusty and full o. ruts
almost country road, should be attended to
immedi atcy.D