New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-26
cry GOVERNUENT AFFAIRS.

| Stevenson TOWle. consulting engineer in charge
| OF street improvements in the Department of Pub
| l.c Works. has resigned his place, the resignation
to take effect on April next The given for
Mr.. Towle's retirement is i-hcaltf. brought by
too strict attention to the duties of his office The
/ salary Of the place is 5000 a year Mr.. Towle has
| held post in the Public Works Department for
many years. and has had charge Of asphalt paving
ever since asphalt has been used for paving
ton a Commissioner of Public Works Mr. Towle
made trip TO the island OF Trinidad the repre-
to show the superiority Of the asphalt of Lake
Trinidad over all other kinds of asphalt for street
that all contracts for asphalt paving should con-
Mr. Towe was at one time a Park Commits sioner
II was said yesterday that when his health i'm,
the city asphalt companies.
Mayor Strong. Controller Fitch President Barker
of the Tax Department and Corporation Counsel
Scott and General Coils of the Department of Public
Works. visited the Third-ave bridge the
Harlem River yesterday TO make an Investigate ton
in regard 10 the propriety OF running the east ap
preach to the bridge on the east or west side Of
Third-ave The Mayor afterward expressed the
opinion that i would be preferable to APPROACH The
n 6 inc wesf side Of the
easterly approach was adopted.
Commissioner Warlng has cent to the Board OF
Sinking Fund Commissioners requests for an au-
thorizaton to lease three plots OF ground In East
Foriy-clghth-st.. east OF Frs-ave. at Onehundred-
and-tenth-st. and Pcasant-ave.. and at One-hun-
dred-and-thirIeth and Manhattan SITS respectively
tor the erection Of plants for the separation of house
hold rubbish. In each Of tho plants there will be
one oven in which straw. excelsior waste ma per
and similar stuf will he burned. An endless cnain
OF which men or boys will pick out tho refuse Of
vilLe Captain Gibson, of the Street Cleaning De-
partmcnt. said yesterday that the DEPARTMENT ey
pecied TO build about ten OF these stations 10 cost
from $5eD 10 5000 each.
Property holders along Kingsbrdga Road from
Webster-ave. to One-hundred a nd inety-sixth-st
appeared before Mayor Strong yesterday and urged
him to veto the bill changing the grade of the Kings
bridge Road from per cent TO a 60 per cent
grade Commissioner Hafen and the property hold
crs affected declared that the bill was q b,t NJ sno
cla legislation to the detriment of propertv
generally and TO the benefit of one lndividl:ai I'm
sihctr ). CB Webster. of tho Public Works Do
pdrtnent. The Mayor said he would IA ke tho hin
under consideration Def)re taking action on H.
l.. r. Chittenden. who Register OF the Troas
ufy under President Lincoln has written n Ie,,e.
10 Mayor strong, In which he says that his daush
Ter ana MISS Virginia Young have bern accustomel
10 VISIT blackwelIs Island sing to the Inmates of
the Workhouse and to carry TO them fruIt cooo
ana to3acco At one time the girls found ,ba ,,l,,o
dlSgrac"fully dirty and the management bn -
te improved condition OF affairs since tho nreso,
administration TOOK charge is most noteworthv -
have therefore written Won tho in,I...'is ny
that YOU may knov that tn re are somo e'ios,
me CITY VINO know and appreciate wha, IL ~ III
uoile pE REFORM administration " " ''"e