New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-24
HACKETT,
CARHART
& co.
HONEY FOR IMPROVEMENTS.

ASPHALT PAvEMENTS. SMALL PARKS,
SCHOOL SITES. ETC, PROVIDED FOR.
The sum Of N34aIss was yesterday appropriated
bv the Board OF Estimate for various improve
mcn,s including $4,000 for asphalt improvements
and $500 90 additional for the Eighth-ave. work.
providing that the Metropolitan Railway COMPANY
has Arst done It's tearing w for the change OF
motive power: sl3 NoO for the FOrdham Hospital an
additional $1,000 for small parks sSsslS for school
sites and $3.50 FOR bridges and the Melrose-ave'
viaiuct.
The 1907 COO for street asphalting will he distrib-
utcd follows:
Fortv-eirhth-st from First to Lexington ave {:
sevonfy-arsf from Columbus to West End-av"
Twelfth from Firth TO Sxth-avo.: Thirty-frs' rom
Fourth 10 Fifth-ave.: Thrty-sevenih. rom Lex'he-
ton TO Park-ayc.: Sixty-hrst. from First to Third
ave: Forty-nfth. from Sixth to Seventh-ave.'
Eighty-irst. from First to Thrd-aye.; Eishty-hrst
from Park to Madson-ave.: Eighty-hrst. from CEN
trail Park West to Columbus-aye Eighty first from
Amsterdam-ave TO Riverside Drive; Eighteenth.
from Seventh 20 Eighth-ave.; Eghty-fonrth' from
Coumbus-ave. to Boulevard: Edgecombe-ave rom
one -hundred-and nd thirty-seventh 10 One-hundrel-
and-thrty-eighth- Seven;y-tourth-st. from Cen
trail Park West to Boulevard; Seventy-eighth-st.'
from Madison 10 Third-aye.: SiXty-hnh-st. rom
Seventh-ave. 10 Irving Place and Broad"hy' from
Forty-seventh to Fi!ty-eighth-st
President Jeroloman said that his Information
rs 70 the rishth-ave paving. from Forty ninth-s'
hunlrt l-aild-t 'Nll III tl-ht N' ''''''
to the comrany's trouble with the injunc'ons ana
other court proceedings. nothing would be done In
EIghth-ave until next year. General coins rephed
that he had issued the perm, FOR the change ABOVE
Fitty-ninth-st hut below that point nothing was
70 be done at present. Corporation Counsel scott
remarked that General Coils should remember that
the company had promised TO make the changes
at once.
The sum OF $1,000 FOR a new building for Fordham
Hospital on leased ground nj Aqueduct-ave ana 81
Jarnes-st TO be connected with the OLD buHdihg
by a closed bridge was authorized. Tho new build
nc witch has been greatly needed. Will be SHtSi7
feet with elevators and all appliances ,.
An additional $1,000 voted for making PARK
Of the bio, OF ground at seventh ave Driveway
and near the approach to Centre br'as"' I yf
One-hundred-and-hfty-thir ana the Harlem
Three new school sites were groyided for ey sp
and ne-hundrcd-and -nfth SITS between tirs' ana
second ayes to cost SO, AIdHhar ana ON
Northumberland and one hundred and fourth
stf. between Madison and Fith aycs sl5ss
For bridges on railroad tracks on Walton. Girhrd
and River avcs ana For, Indcpendcnc".st $500
was appropriated. and $500, Tor M'rose ave
An application Of The commssoners Of tsiinn,e
for the Thrd-ayc bridge oEer the maf,"n Ior nna,
fron 1895 to 1891 and included taking 5'75 typewrit
Trraii i"n counsel He win decide wha, tho
pensnton should be. N" applicants having named
4 letter from State Superintendent skinner Of the
Department, Of Education wns read compla ming Inn :
the school census was pelhR u"!hy'u ny IN" puaa"
and saving that y the money for n" census "hF
no, fort Incoming he could take the census himself
according 20 law. and charge the city with IN" OK
nerso lie couli withhold school morcy he said
su'iccnt u DO the work Controller Fitch said
that there were no uncVpcrdod balances In ~"
school fund that could he used 70 take the census
('orporaflon Counsel Scott said that tho law IN
doub,cdlv gave the State Superintendent the power
IN he tho census but gave him 10 appropriation
for tho purpose The Sup@rint"r Gcnt could charg"
II 70 Tho CITY Tho subject was l1id over.
Tho Board decided to holl public meeting on
next Wcdn. sdav II u o'clock on N" subject of tho
Bronx Park Botanical Garden. Corporal ton toun-
col scott 10 whom the subject referred for AN
opinion nst week. said That Will" the bill passed
nv the Legislature clearly provides that The {tn
0o1 orrropr.tod must be used for complete build
ing tho structure planned by L. W. Gibson ana ap-
proved by the Park Board IS really complete. hu'
90 constructed that Il may be added 10 hereafter