The sun., 1910-01-30
MORE BRIDLE PATHS WANTED
EOUESTRIANS COMPLAIN or
CENTRAL Park CONDITIONS.
Roads Crowded Through the Growing
Popularity Or HOrseback Midin9
Plans Of Relief Under Considefn4
tIOn by Park rOmmIseiouer @torefs


Popularity OF Horseback Riding
Plans Of Relief Under Considerns
tIOn by Park COmmIssioUer @toyef
Pedestrians and bench sftters m oentfal
Park may be apt 10 look over at the hridle
road and envy the lot OF the equestrian
but the equestrian has been Complaining
a great deal OF late.
II is getting absolutely dangerous. saF4
the equestrian, TO ride with tbs graAA
crowds that now abound. OF course ~
is deplorinR not the multiplication of
riders which the years have brought
about but the lack OF proper extension
and addition to the bride paths. which
were made many years ago. without
proper allowance for the multiplication.
It seems a great pity. be continues,
that the bride paths In the other paris
Of the city are not connected with those
OF Central Park so that they may Be used,
To get over to Riverside Drive he nasisf
cross q stretch OF slippery asphalt pave
mcnt. encounterins additional perile--
the elevated railroad. the automobllee
with their honking Immediately beeiti@
the horses. The least clip might thr6w
the horse, and the equestrian doesnot care
to take the chance, he admits.
Park Commissioaer Slower says he car \
understand the grounds for the equeetxt-
ans dissatisfaction. The main idea OF tha
park system has been and is to have CefI4
tral Park and the smaller pArks bound
together by communicating parkways.
Such an artery is Seventy -secoAd
street; II is the main avenue OF exre1t
from Central Park into Riverside Drive
For the benefit OF the pleasure trafdc
the city has laid restrictions On ali truck-
age. But the elevated IL here. Eighty
>sixth street ia also included In the park
system. Along here. however. street
railway track complicates matters.
$50 you see.. says the Park Commits
sioner. how hard Il IL 70 get across but
three blocks or 90. Even taking away
these difacultice there arises the queetion \
side streets will like the propoeit tior.
There Is one possibility for betteftnE
equestrian road conditions which Com
missioner Slower says he is going 70 con-
Central Park bride road system endinM
about l04th street in some manner ~
Anord an entrance at the 10th and CEN
tral Park West corner. From here the
path could SoSSSy mainly d GSs a ios
Riverside Drive. This cross street be-
longs to the park system and IL wide. In 4
far enough uptown to be free from ccs}*
gestion and. highly important In this&
case. escapes conflict with the eievatst
The chief obstacle would be the top0o-
raphy OF the upper park itself, which
from the present end OF the bride Gath 4
rocky. precipitous and rugged. IL would 4
be something of an undertaking, says
Chief Construction Engineer Miller. 70
construct even a comparatively marrow
bride path through here. and the Oh
penditure would DO large. much greatef
than the Approximate s2o, zoo requisite
for constructing a twenty foot path front
the park entrance through to hivsrsiar
Drive.
The chief construction engineer resents
the statement that there has been no
extension OF Central Parks bride paths
for many years. During the years l1<N-
%. he says. the bride road was wideneu
from Ninety-fifth street to Mc0owuaH
Pass Tavern around the northern lbop
Another extension was made at Bridge
x, Ninety-seventh street and East Drive
When the entrance was made at Seventh
avenue and Fifty-ninth street an extern
sion was made crossing the lawn from
South Drive 10 the bride road, A bridIs
road entrance was made at Sixty-aixth
street and Transverse Road Connecting
with West Drive in reference TO CON
structing new entrance 70 the park
bride path from Sixty second street ard (
Central Park West, running through the
meadow. crossing the old Sixty-third
street entrance. passed on north 70 join
the bride road
The bay for mounting and disnountinx
has also been added at Fifty ninth streek
and Fifth avenue. Most of these improve-
ments and additions have token place Y
within the last ten years Last year the
path along the Ninety-odd streets was
widened.
-EquestriAns like to converse" says the
chief construction engineer in partial ex-
PLANTATION OF the disabilities Of the present
bride road system. They ride four or
five abreast. II they would break away
and ride in singles or doubles conditions
wouldn't be so bad. but they are Just
like the pedestrians along the walks-they
are gregarious. Widening the path would
not be enough"
The Commissioner and the engineer too
will consider the 10th street Connection \
The Commissioner says he 4
IL much pleased with a communication
he has received from the Horsemen. an
equestrian association, which expresses
itself as pleased with the parks bride
paths. A member OF the West End
Association also in writing to him re-
Gently spoke highly Of the condition
OF the roads. The Commissioner admits
however, that the conditions can hardly
meet with general approval. The matter
will be lookeS into.