New-York tribune., 1895-10-20
TWO OFFICIALS WHO DESERVE PRAISE
WHAT COMMISSIONERS WHITE AND soUIER HAVE
DONE EoR RICYCIE- RIDERS IN BROOKLYN.

WHAT COMMISSIONERS WHITE AND soUIER HAVE
DONE FOR BICYCLE-RIDERs IN BROOKLYN
None OF the Brooklyn papers have made mention
OF the fact that at the meeting OF the Executive
Committee OF the Good Roads Association last week
a resolution was adopted thanking City Works COM
missioner White and Park Commissioner squier LOT
what they have done in behalf of the wheeimen OF
the city, Their refusal to publish such an item Of
news Is surprising, for the praise accorded to the
two officials is certainly mer.ted. What they nave
done was told a day or two ago by Assistant Cor
poraton Counsel Furst. who has been an active
wheelman for a dozen years or more. He Is men,
Der of the Good Roads Association and has taken
a keen interest in the Improvement OF the streets
OF the city and the requirement OF additional
privileges for wheelmen.
1.-THE recognition Of what Commissioners Squer
and White have DONE" said he. "is most certainly
deserved. Look at the asphalt pavements Whlch
have been put down by the present CITY works
administration in different parts OF the city, en-
abling wheemen in almost every section to get
easily to the main thoroughfares leading 10 Pros
pect Park. OF course these things are not lot lhe
advantage of whee.men alone, but wheeiinen nave
their share of the comforts and advantages thus
afforded. Still has been done by Park Com
missioner Squer J. am speaking simply as
wheelman. not as a city official and know what L
am talking about when j say that Mr.. Squer mas
done vastly more than any Of his predecessors.
know It because ! have been member or COM
mittees to consult with the Park authorities 70
see what could be done for the benefit OF wheelmen.
Before Commissioner Squier's time Substantially
nothing was DONE When Mr.. Luscomb was a
member of the Park Commission he succeeded IN
getting wider stone bridges placed at the street
crossings along the Ocean Parkway, but in those
days we had only a little narrow pain there.
Bicycle-rlders who have gone to Coney Island only
since the Cycle Path was built can have no con-
ception of what it used to be like along the road
in the old times.
Now take the Cycle Path. Without Mr.; Squler,s
active efforts il never eOId have been @ m DS bnt # was IS
hard work to get it and think a T9aiq paS merely
fa4 ss 'Cp ID dresg afsh All laying
the grading and the putting on of of the me t1p r com
missioner ns and done too not by getting special
appropriation for It, but by using care IN eHpena, @
IN of Ss Ten Besides the
has undertaken to care for the pain ~ Rran
ivn owe to him for this Improvement alone IS i'm
mense. and do not see why they should be grudg-
But the path is not the only thing At the point S
has had pavement of vitrifed brick put down in
place Of cobblestone-a vast benefit to every one
ave. to the Park He has made It easier for wheel
men ride on the paths around the fark py guu h
listened readily to suggestions regarding the i'm, i'm,
provement Of these walks. which are mpch a1 usea e
syadsd sy one Of the walks M 'o on the Euad
FOR benefit Of wheemen and aanssd nn hem tns Wb
comparative ease Why should there be any hee
men OF Brooklyn ever had friend that iriehd
is Park Commissioner Squier. ,,, .A..
Commissioner Squier is so well pleased with the
work of widening the Cycle Path which was begun
about a week ago. that he intends to carry 1t con-.
sderaby further this fall. good beginning IL Is
expected will also be made in macadamizng ,rti ne
west drive the Coney Island Bou.eVaI,G, ms ms
work for which contract has just been gwen oui.
viii cost about $1,000 a mile. and the 5000 at the
commissioners disposal for this purpose VIII carry
the Improvement over three miles from Prospect
park or more than half way to Coney lsAhd
with a good If1acadamiZed road ALONGSIDE OF me
great path the question of return pain wnlch & mas
been indus triousy agitated In some quarters VIII
probably be settled. The northery part or tne PAN
il most crowded, and the improved road, even II ~
is not carried all the way to the is.and al one VIZ NJ
relieve much Of the pressure on II and remove me
element OF danger that is involved in going on 1t on
SATURDAYS Sundays and holidays.
second-ave is now under way, under a. a contract ,
ma de by the Park Commissioner Win tnis avenue
running directly 10 Bensonhurst, and tlghteenlhn n
ave. to Bath Beach the conges.HPn H Ois Fjrb
feenth-ave. is now in good condition all the way
and affords pleasant change from the usual trip
10 Coney Island by the pain.