New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Oiled Roads in FIatbush Cause
TroubIe-NeW Hospital.

ne people out in Fiatbush have been
having a perfectly dreadful time Win
the streets to take their word for it the
section has large number of macacaa-
ICED streets and IT is the custom OF the
CITY officials 10 lay the dust with OIL
Not long ago the oil was laid on SO thlck-
IL that the pedestrians were compelled 10
wade through pools OF il. and dogs thought
there had been rainstorm and went oath-
ing in the fluid Borough President
Steers's dog was no exception. ana 'he
traces he left on the Steers hcuseEolo
furnishings raised two ructions. enc OF
them in the Bureau Of Highways AS
result The worknen were sent down to
Flatbush TO sop up the oil pudcies Win
sand The authorities say that the Oil
should he allowed TO soak in--that 1t is
simply a waste of good oil to pour sand
over it Commissioner Pounds of the De-
rartrnent of Pubic Works had these re-
marks 10 make on the situation yesterday:
when the streets are not oiled complaints
come in from the citizens, and when the
streets are oiled more complaints come III
K is absolutely necessary to put GOWN
enough oil at one sprinkling TO DO the "orh'
because tie Bureau of Highways cannot go
over Us miles of macadaTnized streets Two
or three times. No complaints come from
any section bur F'latbush. live out there
myself but If any of the citizens Of that
section want the streets oiled hereafter
they must send in a request for IL
ii is expected that the party that will
20 from Brooklyn 10 attend the memorial
exercises for Senators McCarren. Raines
and O'Nein at Albany tomorrow Will have
about one hundred members. George N
Young has general charge Of the arrange
r,ents He has contracted with the New
York Central Railroad for two special par
lor cars, which Will start upstate at 2:5O
o'clock IN the afteIpoon At Albany the
party will go to the Hotel Ten Eycl for
dinner, and later viii march TO the Cap
ttoi. where the exercises will be held in
the Assembly Chamber.
The dedication exercises for the new
Corey Island Hospital, in the Ocean Park
way, between Avenue z and coney Island
Creek, will be held next Wednesday after
noon at . o'clock. DIR. T. L. Fogarty, Dep
my Charities Commissioner in charge of
Brooklyn. viii preside, and Miss Rose NJ
Drummond, daughter of Commissioner NJ
] Drurnmond will unveil a tablet The
buildings cost $3.50. e0a They are so placed
that they may be added to as time requires
While the initial cost of the institution has
made the beds cost about 5000 each, the
additions can be erected at a cost of about
$1,000 a bed This is due to the installation
of plant large enough TO care for many
more than the present number OF beds
The Polytechnic Institute has determined
TO raise an endowment fund Of $4,000. The
twenty-one trustees of the institution have
subscribed s5eoeoo of the amount. and they
5o,l ~ the friends Of the school 10 con-
tribute the other s2s0,eoa. The work of rails
ing the fund has been turned over to
committee of ten. composed Of Colonel
Willis l. Ogden. chairman: Theodore F.
Miller David C. Ieggett. Walter Hamrnitt.
William H Childs, Frederick B. Fiske.
County Judge Norman S. Dixie, Colonel
William y Dykman. Albert L. Mason and
Morris L. Ely. Of the amount. 100000 will
Re devoted TO the liquidation Of the mort
cage on the property of the school, in
Livingston street. The school has about
ore thousand students According to the
authorities il is impossible for an institu-
ton of the kind to charge the pupils the
lull amount required for their schooling.
Though the preparatory school is self-sup-
porting. there is deficit Of between $4,000
and $4,000 in the collegiate department
account each year This has been met an
nually by the trustees, but they do not like
10 have the burden continually resting on
their shoulders. The death of one or two
OF the wealthiest trustees would put the
institute in a difficult financial situation.
1t is TO provide for the annual deficit that
$4,000 Of the endowment is TO be raised
The committee will meet next Tuesday and
talk over the ways and means Of securing
the funds desired.