Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
A PLAZA AT THE PARK.
Mrs. Schenley Makes Another I'm
portant Gift to the City.
FORBES STREET TO BE wIDENED
And the Park Entrance to Be Reautifed
and Changed.
ANOTHER NEW STREET TO BE OPENED

Chief Bigelow Yesterday made public an
other gift to the city from Mrs Schenley.
This time she gives 1O-foot strip along the
entire front of her property on Forbes
street, opposite the Schenley Park entrance,
for the widening of that thoroughfare. The
city will also add 10 feet to the streets
width from the park frontage, thus giving a
width of 80 feet In front of the park and
forming what Chief Bigelow calls plaza.
The street will be widened at once. Side
walks on either side will be IL feet wide.
Between the outside rail of the street car
tracks and the curb on each side there will
for two carriages to pass on both sides Of
the tracks
This plan was decided upon by Mr.. Bige-
low last Fourth of July. when the neces-
sity for more room for carriages and pedes-
trians at the park entrance was so pain
fully apparent. Previously Booth & Finn
had been repairing Forbes street under q
city contract, but when they reached the
Murdoch property line below the park
work was suspended until the Chiefs inter-
view with Mrs. Schenley. That lady readily
assented to the proposition. Now the re-
pairing will be resumed within day OF
two The old curbs will be removed from
the Murdoch line to Bellefeld avenue, and
the fence on the north side will be set back
10 feet.
The Entrance to Be Changed.
All the earth excavated from the Car
negie Library site is being dumped into the
rsvine along the park front on Forbes
street to make the 10 feet to be added there.
In carrying out his plans Mr.. Bigelow has
decided to change the park entrance. Il
will be moved down almost directly op-
posite the narrow passage which leads down
/ from Fifth avenue but which will eventually
be widened into public street. The park
entrance will be widened to about 100 feet,
narrowing down to its present width some
distance from the street. Nearly the whole
course of the entrance from the street to
the bridge will be moved westwardly and
changed so as to give the best possible effect
to the appearance of the library buildings
Along the Forbes street front of the park q
rough stone wall will be built along the
sidewalk, which will be of heavy stone.
This work will not be done probably until
next spring, when the fill now being made
will have settled sufficiently to prevent its
sinking.
Among the ordinances presented in Coun-
ellis last Monday was one for the location of
Millvale avenue, from the Pennsylvania
Railroa to Cypress street. Only the title
appeared, the balance of the paper being
blank. Yesterday Chief Bigelow made
known the purpose of it.
New Street and New Bridge.
The object Is to secure good street upon
which the Bloomfield bridge over the Penn
sylvania Railroad is to be built. This is
, the bridge for which Councils appropriated
S65, 900 last February. Bids are now being
received for its construction, and Mr.. Bige-
low SAYS it will be erected before winter
sets in.
Millvale avenue is 50-foot street, begin
ming at Center avenue and running to the
ravine through which the Pennsylvania
Railroad passes, where it ends. By the ex-
tension Of it proposed by Mr.. Bigelow
Millvale avenue will cross the railroad just
east of Ben Venue station. On the north
side of the railroad it will cross Aloe and
Yew streets and run into Fitch street, also
30 feet wide, which extends north from
Cypress street to the Garfield hill, crossing
Liberty, Friendship and Penn avenues.
Mr.. Bigelow says the Bloomfield and
Schenley Park Railway will cross the new
bridge. The company will abandon the