New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-25
PARIS FOR THE CITY.
i LETTER TO THE MAYOR FROM r. w.
GLIDER
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TENEMENT HOUSE

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TENEMENT -ho' :"
COMMITTEE REGARDING MULBERRY BEND
AND OTHER CROWDED PLACES.
r. W. Glider. chairman OF the Tenement house
Committee has written the following letter '''''
date OF January %, 70 the Mayor: .o,,
on the subject Of Mulberry Bend Park peg IAN
to that the Tenement House Conm,,re made
has just sent In its report 10 the i'es'a'. rLs a. a
a careful study OF the question or snia pa na,nert
means OF relief for the overcrowdei "'"'"
The committee found the following to be the s ,b.
alton in regard to the three parks taken u"'e' W.
Th a S nass rarT IN 7 during the MayOray o.,
Mr.. Hewitt and commonly known as as Wv onening
to select locate ami lay out such public PARK - a.
1t may from time time determine SCUM , ~ NO
more than 10000 shall be expended IN any , one
year this amount not being t cmyins expenditures
have been incurred Under the acI
Land and cost Of ,.,o,
mur, Bend Park r s;ss "S's 60 s5s2os' co
h ask Hvrr hh'ehp'o" 500 ~ Isa S22is IS
E rnrn further cost, '- '. So'" '2'o2' ~
rata, .s2.5es. 2o2 ~
30, the above there has been expended to d i,o
only the sum required FOR the East river ENt Ts9i
Park. @22;llsS whereas up to 'a nnar the act
sST0 oc0 The work only one OF these mas KIN KIN
been hegun-,hc East River Extension MAILING
III city itself the unforunate position @i and
lord OF houses ALREADY Xr,ua' ryorGIiion
In order to relieve the financial situation u 49,
20 a. cxtepding to the people the advantas..
which would accrue from the prompt oPPenIns "
suitation WIN ali those branches o. the city gov
eminent Immediately In contact win lhe suu'' ia
Small parks act which. while 1t does not abriege
in any way the million a-year ieature OF i rar
,Se HorIs hut no more than the sum OF one mill
ion OF dollars shall he expended IN any one sgn
%nGsr 5 5as a pTHyis0"' Oh '"'' "''
"Excent that there may be Issued In addition TO
said sum OF one million Of dollars In each year
such additional bonds or stocks ms aD"ve -,
toned OF the Mayor Aldermen ana 10 paw
the expense Of the construction completion an,
ACQUISITION Of The land and Of a n I psks
matter named. and OF the erection and FURNISHING
Of buildings ,neTen to sai w Mulberry Bend Park
being a tract Of and bounded by Mulnerty tar ~
CIV O, Tew-York: ST Johns Park. In the Ninth
Wari Of the said city. and the park commonly
f can no me on he west by Avenue II. the
north and east by the Harlem and East r'"r,i
m,'i the on city OF Nea YORK
But the committee also found mat on ne loNrr
East side Of the city there Is district % M ncr"s
which rs ~ feet distant rom either river. ah'
$40 feet from any eNisums' |"ns', he,, %. go
people This II nearly one-sN'h OF the total 80
mated population % New l"i n q" LUZ
and much more than the number ~ Inhabitants
~ Tho entire city o, either Cincinnati or san iran
cisco as given by the census ~ 1921. IN" density
h., a mol. area rises 10 f,'1 persons per acre
Part OF this area has loubl" iH- i"h'ltf, mn a.
a whole the district Is thc moss crowded ~ me
The committee therefore made the following
specific recommendation 60. ~.
SMALL PARKS WITH FLAYGROt NDs.
THAT within the next three years not less than
two small parks part Of each ~ which shall b.
constructed ~ public Fairgrounds. shall BE- LAID our
and begun in the district east az the io"ery and
Catharine-s 81, and south % Four'hsi. and that the
CITY be authorized issue IT. bonds to the amount
OF 10000 for such purposes
The committees separate I'LL carrying out ms
recommendation permits -choolhou-es ana npol
also municipal baths. should the corporation con
cluIe erect such baths ln ~" future. ana N Wa
III. hope Of the committee thR' Win %" ftr""
millions named at least thre" small park might
be- hutlf
/: .ilI be seen that no BIZ prepared los the com
mittee compels the expenditure 0f -" one million
which NAV annually be- expended under ne Small
Parks act. and that IN simply providing. IN one
bin for tn. payment OF the obligations ALREADY IN
CURED In relation to the three small parks named
and I'm INSISTING In another bill. upon IN" "Sp"ni-
ture OF COCOON mot more. 100 Tact man IN" Sin All
Parks act Itself pcrmitsi. u has made III iaci a
very moderate and reasonable recommendation m
order to alleviate inio"rabl" condition OF things
I'm a phenomenalv overrrOwded neighhOrhOo1.
In relation 10 the general subject or small parks.
the committee recommended that me hole matter
should be more carefully studied hy the proper IA
thoritie- and that there should hereafter be les-
accident and individual Initiative and more system
and science In the se"Ctio of park spaces aiaii' !
especially 20 what be called tn neghborhoo'
4. respectfully submitted. Yours truly ~
Il. W. GLIDER.