New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-23
MORE FAIRGROUNDS SOON
Commissioners Slower and Eliot
Inspect Site in Queens.
10 USE BETSY HEAD FUND
plans Include Park in Queens and
Richmond and Stadium
at Jasper Oval.

r.-t, commissioners slower Of Mammal
ard Richmond and Eliot or queens
ii, a ride over the Greensboro bTluee
- 5sy last week 20 inspect the lana -
!. laid out as a playground N queens
...,i,- the Betsy Head fund. which now &C
-,,,- - Commissioner Stever. amounts
y. Cs-ca. This is the fund that was left
pe,sy Head. OF lslin. 20 the city for the
,,,-rbase and Improvement Of recreation
&c n came into the possession or
II. CITY on September 80, 1905. and various
- have been suggested since then Tor
.hs use Of the money.
',,---r,issiener SteveF. who now has the
..,s~ In charge. said after the trim inst
.t,gt two months ago be had talked over
I'D, controller Prendergast what he be
,..~s6 would be- the plan hnauv chosen for
49,. use ~ ths fund This Includes
..ssiY-, a. Jasper oval small park for
P,.br,ord Borough and a large playground
I'D mark for Queens The final decision
y. ,.s nlane. the Commissioner said. would
e.~s 70 wait until the cost 81 the stadium
=, Jasper oval had Leen determined.
TWO sreAitects, Thomas Hastings and
whitney Warren. are now drawing plans
car the stadium and making estimates or
ps cost One set Of plans has already
tsen drawn. with a tentative estimate or 2
,os- Of s'g5 mo fer a stadium with seat
t,r carscitv Of fifteen thousand. " -
b.rsd that this cost can he reduced so
,,st more money VIII be left FOR Rich
r-ord and Queens boroughs.
only a small amount o. money ~ Wahted
for Pichrond-from $500 20 Eo.eoo-tor the
purchase Of a tract OF about three acres
near West New Brighton. Commissioner
stover would Ike 10 buy this lard now, as
r. can be had cheaply, but he would leave
the development Of II for a later time
under special appropriation. and rot
from the Betsy Head fund.
The Queens plans are more ambitious.
They call for the Improvement Of large
tract Of land under the Queerstoro Bridge
now under the control OF the Bridge De-
rsr,ment. Between Vernon avenue and
The East River is q strip Of land 200 feet
vide and about On feet long that would he
DEVELOPED into a park, while across Vernon
avenue an6 running back under the bridge
for half n mile is another strip 200 feet
vide which would be used for playground
come of this strip. leaving II about ''9
feet wide ard half a mile Ions.
To the north Of the greensboro Bridge
rs a great tract Of swamp land. Commits
sioner Eliot would buy this land and have
~ filed .n and make Of the tract a great
playground. with q stadium capable Of
sealing from $1,000 TO 100000 persons. The
psrS and Fairgrounds are practically de-
c1aI on. but the remainder of the Queens
scheme depends largely on me amount Of
money left from the fund after the Jasper
Oval Improvement is paid for. Commis-
sione- Eliot told Commissions Slower yes
tsr6sv that all he asked was $4,000 20 pro
duce playground IN Queens that would
ha The finest in the city. This was pleas
i-c 10 Commission Slower. as II would
leave him plenty Of money for the Jasper
oval project. which is especially dear 70
him