Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-03
TO START THE PARK.
chief Bigelow Will Turn Loose on
Mrs. Schenley's Gift To-Day.
1T WILDE In GOOD SHAPE BYJULY
General Spring Cleaning to be Given
the City's Streets,
AND PAVE EAST END THORoUGHFARES

The park business will commence to-day.
Chief Bigelow will put a large number OF
men to work this morning on the Schenley
Park grounds to study dentistry. Their
professional experience will commence with
the practice of extracting roots. The park S
progress will be marked BY the disappear
ance OF stones. leaves and other material
which impairs the beauty of the surround
ings, and a perspective different from that
illustrated by Hogarth will, Chief Bigelow
says, greet the eye of the aesthetic Pitts
burger within six months.
The Chief has not yet perfected the plans
for the Schenley Park, which will include
the labyrinth, suggested by THE DIS
PATCH, possibly a geological garden, and
drives, rustic bridges, grottoes, ponds, nat
ural and artificial, and other attractions.
calculated to make Central Park, New
York, and Paramount Park, Philadelphia,
turn green with envy, without the adven-
titious aid of spring weather.
IN GOOD SHAPE BY JULY.
By July Chief Bigelow expects that the
park will show a very preSentable appear
auce, but of course it will take years to
make it q model place of recreation, the
left lung of Pittsburg nearest to the heart OF
the Department of Public Works.
The attention of the department is no less
directed to the cleanliness of the lower part
of the city. On Tuesday night two street
sweeping machines made the rounds on
Liberty, Fifth avenue and Smithheld
street, making the gravel and dirt fly. Last
night the spring cleaning was added to by
two more sweeping machines. The ma
chimes are navigated bv accomplished
engineers, who threw the mud and gravel
upon the sidewalks with the utmost pro-
fusion. Chief Bigelow said yesterday that
all that was needed was little education
in the matter aud ne was sure that
before long the drivers would be
able to pile the dirt in symmetrical heaps at
lust sufficient distances to leave the cross
ings clear and keep the cutters from being
clogged. He said that a short time ago
while in Boston he watched the cultivated
bean-nourished drivers pillow through thick
mushy mud, and although the machines
were guarded by canvas hangings, some
holes in the sides of the hangings poured
out streams of liquid mud upon the just and
the unjust, those who were just near enough
to catch them and those who were too near
to escape.
STREETS WILL BE KEPT CLEAN.
He said that tonight there would be six
sweepers at work if necessary, as he was de-
termined that the streets of Pittsburg should
be kept clean. The sweeping machines are
made of rattan, the brush beiug set dag
onally to the line of motion, and can be
regulated to the proper degree of pressure
by loot lever.
Chief Bigelow also said yesterday that
contracts would be advertised within day
or two for the paving of all the streets in the
Shadyside district for which ordinances
have been passed, and all other improve
ments that have been authorized will be
taken up as rapidly as possible and CON-
pleted as quickly as the weather will permit.
The repaving OF Ellsworth avenue will be
begun within a very short time, and it is
thought the whole length of the street will
be repaved. The appropriation for this pur-
pose only contemplated the paving of about
one-haf the street, but the DuquesHe Trac- |
tion Company having agreed to pave be- |
tween its tracks and one foot on either side,
in consideration of the privilege of laving
double track on this street. has made it pos
sible for the city to pave the entire length
of the street on the sum allowed in the ap-
preparation. The traction company's paving
will be block stone and the city will pave
on the sides with asphalt.