New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-06
PART II.
PAGES II TO "a.
PARKS FOR THE CHILDREN.
HEARING BEFORE THE MAYOR ON Mn
GILDER'S BILL

ooroxrL. STRONG APPROVES 1T AFTER HEAiIN"
.nnprssEs IN ITS FAVOR DY MIR. GLIDER
,,, ,t,v roIIN Z. pI7V1Ns. AND OTHERS.
,r,.ro was a large gathering in the MAYORS once
os,erlav afternoon favoring Elchhd ""'S'" va
49, mi 10 create small parks aud paNSrou'uN d.,
80 IN public schools. The bill II enac'ed VIII
,,,borize the Board ~ stree; Opening 20 lay ou'
- or +broo wears as many small parts as they
niI, ,,.,ossary not less than two IN the dlstTIct
cos. Of the Bowery and Catharine-St ana Sout" -
F,,nr,h-s; Public baths may be proVd"I III eA'"
p,rk and may be placed on blocks on Whlch ''eIe
aro ecboolhouscs schools may be placed WITHIN
,ba marks and an appropriation Of 100000 IS PROVIDED
for the work. which must begin "i'hh inc "'A'
three years.
companion bill not officially before the Mayor
MS discussed which provides that no school snail
hereafter be erected without playground attached
TO II.
Mr.. Glider addressed the Mayor IN advocacy %
his bill ana said:
The Tcnement-House Committee discovered in
\av-Yolk a condition of OvercrOWding as 10 areas
uneQual.ed in the civilized world; even ASA seems
10 have no city with 50 many inhabitants 10 ne
acre as part Of New-York; \ distric; eNsts IN Inc
lower part Of our city 80 feet from any eXlstnS
or PROPOSED park and 80 feet from either the North
or East River. IL this district there Is a lopua-
tion OF 32i,Vr persons, ana there !. III II MOI one
snail park or sngi e, p4oc P1 ,{ relief
ami benefit that cOu!d pe promptly SIIP.. 10 80
cver,r,Nied population would be- the construction
Of S s s Sa1 T vas m ' S '% f'S %- hS
- name the exact spots which should Dc CHOSEN
- parks: but they did think it wise and necessary
10 point out IN the bill the exact sub-distrct where
the first additional small p3!Ns snould DC Ho 1,
acres cast Of the BoWery ana Cathaf.ne-st, and
south OF Fourth-St There are IN TINS suh-dsttlct
az az o. .re In = r7rion Of this district the density
r;Ss TO the extraordinary figure of over go to the
ni,,,ira OF an average of 81 10000 per year for
and il SAYS THAT there SnOOIQ De at
II was me opinion of the COMMITTEES that sec,
onGary but highly important beneh; might and
should he derived from the opening OF these small
parks by the destruction Of some Of ne worst tene-
men. districts IN this connection l beg leave TO
state that have Just receiyei letter from ~
IN which he says that the destruction Of Sums
and F2kesSb have GONG on faint noon 1 ih Soun
Try. He says that the result Is PROOF positive
-, or Tnn93kes the man Mr Marshall was
tod in London that with the disappearance Of the
rear9nce of the old nature OF their inhabitants"
IL saws that twelve years ago the average highway
hours, whereas q Il now Only one lor e4'h zen
days
Other speakers We're Josephine shaw Lowell. r.
Fulton Cutting the Rev. John Il. Devins the Rev
Or. Kinber. Roger Foster. James 7. Archibald AMI
Health Commissioner Cyrus Edison. The Rev
Messrs Dev!us and Kimb-r represen,e! thu Fei1ra,
ton Of East side Workers. MI Devns eAhiDitei
a map showing how few ana insgnlhcailt We're IN,
portions % the city below Fourteenth-st compared
Il The spacious and magnificent parks above that
,hOroughfare He made earnest appeal for the
bill on behalf OF the working people ami Their
children who are obliged to I've in the thickly
populated sections Of lower New-York. secretary
KELLOGG OF the Charity organization Society; y W.
Niihnry ami represent atve, OF the Clty Vigilance
League. Good Government club ami the American
Ruman!an Union alsp appeared for the bill
10 objections were offered. and the Mayor decided
70 approve the bill a; once aCt forward II 10 Al
panion measure passed the legislature It would be
unnecessary TO have anything beyond formal
hearing - comply with The Procedure act. The
Mayors mind is made up the subject. and he
will apoTove the bill.