New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-28
BOROUGH GOSSIP
Work To Be Started Soon on New
Wilma of Brooklyn Museum.

Work Will begin shortly upon new wing
q, the Brooklyn Museum. The CONTRACT
for the construction of the foundations
MAS Ief the other day. They VIII cost
ylnn This part Of the construction is to
he compIeted within twenty-five days. The
Van. wing will he built back Of the central
bome Of the museum. n will be three
stories high. with basement and sub-base-
r,ent like the other wings. IL VIII eN'ehe
IN fee, south and will be go feet wide. In
lis centre will he a large. glass covered
oo,rt which will serve for the exhibition
Of large objects The court Will he large
enough IN afford room for an Egyptian
oheIjsk-if one can he obtained. There VIII
be four such courts in the competed
museum The wing Will he used 10 carry
Nh, the present scheme-the first floor Tor
sculpture the second floor for natural MS
tory exhibits and the third floor for pct
,,res While the entire cost of the new
uine will be $4,000. only $4,000 has been
sppropriated so far by the city. The rest
of the money will he appropriated from
time 10 time as it becomes necessary Az
least four years win he required to COM
plete the construction
department is Of the opinion that the city
should provide a prison ward at one OF the
public hospitals. modelled after the prison
ward at Bellevue Hospital. AT It's last
meeting the board expressed its opinion IN
resolution. AS the matter has peeh asl-
tated for several years without erect lhe
resolution will probably be unproductve
Of results as well. but the idea is not the
worse for having been neglected AS Chief
Magistrate Kempner said the other day:
The resolution was passed as the re-
suit Of a suggestion made TO me by Dr.
Moses keschner. the physician IN charge
Of the Raymond Street Jail who has been
sgitating the matter since January. lve.
As he says. there are more than twenty
thousand prisoners coming and goins
through the prison gates annually. Some
OF them are detained only for few hours.
but many are kept anywhere from month
20 a year. The erection of a prison ward
in the ial itself will not help matters, as
experience al the Tombs, in Manhattan.
has shown. II II was small. in accordance
with the needs. IL would not be effective.
while a ward large and we'll equipped
enough 10 handle all cases would be
waste of money The thing 10 do is TO es-
tablsh a ward AT one Of the citys hos
pitals'
The Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad
Company received its permit from MI
Pounds Commissioner of Public Works.
the other day to begin the parking OF
Coney Island avenue For five years Oh
jections have been raised to the plan OF
improving the avenue from Prospect PARK
10 the ocean. but the courts have handed
down their last decision. il would seem.
and all is well for start on the project.
The company will be compelled TO take up
its tracks which are along one side Of the
avenue, and relay them down the centre.
The company will also relay all the side
walks setting back the curb line ten feet
Afterward the avenue will measure seventy
feet from curb TO curb. The width OF the
parking will be twenty-four feet. leaving
streets for general traffic. on each side OF
the central strip. twenty-three feet wide.
This will leave the total width of the road
way only four feet less than it is at pres
ent As soon as the tracks are out of the
way and the new curbs set. the bureau OF
highways will begin the work Of asphalting
the streets.
The residents Of the Greenpoint section
have been made glad by the news that the
unkempt stretches OF McCarren Park are
soon To be put into shape by the Park
Department and that the place viii he
opened for public use in the fall The city
has set aside S6oc10 FOR the work OF the
amount sics 600 will he spent for turning
part Of the park into a great open air
gymnasium Provision will he mace for
diamonds and gridirons and running
track a quarter of mile long. besides the
ordinary gymnasium equipment. \ shelter
house with lockers and baths. is TO be
erected In time near the athletic grounds.
The rest Of the ground will he used for
regular park purposes.
Under the auspices Of the Holy Name So
oisty OF 81. Cecilia's Catholic Church,
What Happened % Jones" 10y George
Rroadhurst which had Il run Of two hun
dred nights in Manhattan, will be pre-
scented tomorrow evening In the GIpenpont
Theatre. Members OF the society under
the direction Of Daniel Doyle who viii
take the part Of Jones. who travels for a
hymn book house will assume the charac-
tiers.
The sixteenth annual convention Of the
German Catholic State 1 Mon If the State
OF New York will he held to-day. to-mor-
row and Tuesday in Arion Hall. Williams
burg. The various committees will be Sc
lccted from the 100 or 900 delegates this
morning and al 10 o'clock the delegates
will march. with several local organiZa-
tons. 20 All Saints Church. a Throop ave
nue. and Thornton street. to attend high
mass The celebrant will be Monsienor
Mundelein Auxiliary Bishop Of Brooklyn.
The Rev. John w. Hauptmann viii deliver
the sermon.
In the afternoon Or. Francis NJ. Schirp
will speak on The Use Of Suffrage" In
. the evening there will he a mass meeting
In the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. The
delegates will he welcomed by Borough
President Steers. and Bishop Mcdonnell
will speak Addresses also will be dcliv-
cred by the Rev V F. Gettelmann, s. j..
OF Toledo. Ohio on The Position Of the
Church In Regard TO Social Reform" by
Joseph Frey president OF the German
Union. and by David Goldstein. OF Boston.
on social Reform in Contrast to Social
ism and Our Duty Thereto"
ON the following days addresses by
clergymen and by others on work peril
the business sessions.
AMERICAN POLICE