Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-06

of plans for city Improvements, and the
gray-coated police will before long canter
through the shady lanes of Pittsburg's sum-
mer retreat 1t is understood that no an
tagonism will exist between the gray of
Chief Bigelow and the blue of Chief Brown,
as the former will be separated from the
latter by the palings of civilization which
will surround the park.
81 have two more applicants, said Chief
Bigelow, yesterday, "for the positions of
park policemen. One claims to be feet
inches in height, and the other 6 feet 8
inches, so you see it is possible to keep up
the standard. There is another point I
wish to enforce, and that is a grade of In
telligence and politeness which will enable
the men to answer questions promptly and
with profit to the public.
IMPROVEMENTS ALREADY MADE.
q ''The work done so far on Schenley..Park
has certainly improved 1t, but it is not vet
what you might call a show place. The
weather has been so unpropitious that work
progresses very slowly. Still, week or
two of fine weather will make it worth see-
ing. 1 have no doubt that there will be a
large number out there tomorrow, and if
the day is fine it will repay them.
"I have plan prepared for about half the
ground and will probably finish it within a
week or So when it will be ready for inspec-
tion. The work, of course, will be long and
tedious, but Nature has been so bountiful in
that locality that no landscape gardener is
needed. The only attractions required are
those which can be artifcially supplied"
A LITTLE TOO EARLY.
1t was generally hinted in City Hall yes
terday that some enterprising artist had
asked Mr.. Bigelow to give the complete
plans OF the park, with the intention of max
ing an illustrated guide to the different at
fractions, but had received little encourage
ment. Mr.. Bigelow said that no proposition
of this kind had been made to him and had
it been no information of that kind could
be given until the plans were all settled
and definitely determined. The only point
of attraction in connection with the park
project at present, outside of the springs,
ravines, woods and green turf, is that to
men feet 8 inches or over, to get job as
park policemen, and the impression among
the City Hall people is that Chief Bigelow
made that Limitation in order to get rid of
the consideration of mediocre applications,
which had already come in by the score.
One thing which the Chief has to contend
with is the suggestions which pour in by
the hundred to have the glens, springs, ra-
vines and other features of the park named
for themselves or some of their friends. The
suggestions as to naming the roads are as
various as they are amusing. "Gourley
Vale" is one of the names mentioned;
Browns Grotto'' is another, while "Pan-
ther Hollow" is universally approved.
"Mulligan's Spring" is brought into prom
inence In a badly-spelled letter, which
came in the same mail with proposition to
erect beer stand, probably in opposition to
the spring proposal. Communications of
this kind invariably find their way into
Chief Bigelow's waste-basket, and the
nomenclature of the park features is still an
open question.
The greatest boon, as far as the interests
of the people are concerned, conferred BY
the proposed improvements is the chance to
get work. There will be probably from
2, 500 10 5000 men employed on the various
contracts for a year. which means bread and
butter for women and children and an era Of
for Pittsburg workingmen, as
full work always implies.