The evening world., 1894-02-06
WORK FOR 5000 MEN.
Many Unemployed Will Be Re-
lieved in the Near Future.
$3.50, 900 Bonds for $1,000, 600
Improvements Ordered.
$500, 600 Appropriated for Work e
BE Begun Immediately.

The Board OF Estimate and Appor-
tionment took action to-day that will be
cheering news to the unemployed.
The Board authorized the Issue of $780,
900 bonds for park improvements under
law permitting the expenditure of s1,000.-
600 for that purpose, signed by Gov.
Flower, last Friday.
or this sum-, 500, 900 Is to be expended
at once on improvements, the plans for
which were approved at to-day's meet
lngs.
The issue OF bonds to-day Includes the
estimated cost of additional work to be
done. plans for which Will be ready by
next Tuesday. The balance of the bonds
amounting to $4,000, will be issued when
required.
The work authorized to-day is as fol-
lows:
Widening the birdie road In Central Park, from
One Hundred and Third street. East Drive. to
Ninety third street. West Drive. as per plan ap-
Improving Central Park, from Ninety-seventh
street to One Hundred and Second street. between
exclusive Of bridges and arches. $b5, 900.
Preliminary work on Cathedral Parkway, earth
and rock excavations per days work, $4,000.
Hundred and Twentieth street. and walks south
of Ihat street; Estimated cost, 1000,
improvement VI hlNtrhlue fhFh, from ElkutJ.
arst street to Ninety-sixth street. Estimated cost.
$3.50. 900.
Total. $500. OCO.
This work will be begun immediately.
and will give employment TO $50 men
and IL foremen. Between 800 and 400
more men Will be put to work after e
Tuesday.
Thursday. a special melting of tho
Board of Aldermen will be held for the
purpose of approving the list of streets
10 be paved by the Public Works De
In the city budget for 1894, and about
one thousand more men will be put to
work by March /.
These improvements. together with the
work on the Speedway and the Park
avenue grade, will give employment to
about five thousand men within a few
weeks.
The plans for park improvements were
submitted in accordance with the re-
quest made yesterday. The Park De-
partment was not ready with new plann,
ments which had been prepared years
ago. with the exception of one.
Corporation Counsel Clark thought
p pnrE EN- ,h TaP nPpema,6 schemes msre for imb siying
cal. and might prove very expensive.
For instance, he said. the widening Of
the bride road required filling in. Cou.d
such, work be done at this season. and
could filling be secured? Then there
were bills pending for completing Cathe-,
dral Parkway and Riverside Drive. Was
Nv pa 'lf''o't vi n I NC VI
TO he done Jointly with the work included
In the pending bills?
Engineer Kellogg informed Mr.. Clark
that he thought he could do filling in" Mt
this time of the year and secure The filling
from cellars.
you are building a new entrance gate
to Central Park at Eighth avenue. Why
didn't you increase the force there by
80 mem" demanded Mr.. Clark.
Engineer Kellogg offered in reply the
excuse hat a good deal of the work on
the gate was masonry, which could not
be lone at present on account of the
weather.
Mr.. Clark objected to paying for the
Improvement Of Riverside Park at Sew
enty-niath street, where, he said, there
was nothing but coal-yards. The Park
Department wanted to begin at Seventy
ninth stree. At Mr.. Clark's sugges-
ton the improvement was ordered to
begin at EiEhty-first street.
The Mayor said Central Park was not
completed above one Hundred and Sec
ond street. A couple of hundred men
could he employed on it's completion.
President Happen said he would have
plans for beautifying Manhattan Square
prepared. He would be ready with more
plans Tuesday at II o'clock. at which
time the Board will meet TO act on them.