The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-31
PARK BOARD PLANS l TO CONSTRUCT SIX
 NEW TENNIS COURTS
More Acquisitions Returned to. Auditor Today Sewer
 Estimate Is Large

Three new tennis courts at Seaside park and three at BeardsIey park to cost in total $3, 00O are included in the requisition which the board of park commissioners has forwarded to the city auditor. The board also asks for $20,000 for the extension of the seawau at Seaside park and $12sOOO for a comfort station at State street and Fairfield avenue. Altogether the board wants $96,95O for next year. This is about $50, 1000 more than last years requisition including the $20,- 900 for seawall extension which was refused last year.
 The other items of the reQuisition are:
 < Labor payroll for general rna,inten- ance work, all parks .$21. 300; pre- servation of trees, spraying. cement ing etc., $1,000; filling at Seaside park west of Barnum dyke, $4,0O0; salary of superintendent, $2,400s sal ary of clerk, $500; electric lighting, $4OO; gasoline lighting, $1,2O0; feed. including hay, oats, bran, etc, s1, 100; telephones, $100; water supply, $2O0; for maintenance of automobiles. $750; general repairs, $2,000; insurance, $500; repairs and maintenance of vehicles. $500; new harness and re- pairs, $1O0; flowers and trees. $1. 200; and general supplies, $2,000; new team of horses (not needed if auto truck is alIowed)y $600s oils, paints. etc, $100; printing and stationery. $1OO; fertilizer for all parks, $1,O00; coal, $10O; crushed stone for top dressing at BeardsIey and Seaside parks. $2,ooo; repairing and madnten- ance of seawaH at Seaside park. $1,- GOO; maintenance of playgrounds $2,- GOO; development of upper end of Beardsley park, $8,O0O: band concerts. fireworks during summer of 1915,
 
 ous stable expense. $250; maintenance of golf links, $75O; total $54s650.
 Specials: Six tennis courts (three for BearsdIey and three for Seaside parlxs), $8,0O0; three ton automobile truck, $3.5O0: ney sidewalks Marina park. $500; for extension of sea wall ] at Seaside park, $20,000; new play Beardsley park, $50Osi public comfort station at State and Fairfield avenues as directed by Common Council $12,~ 900; old Mill Green Improvement. 1 $50O;, total, $42,300.
 The harbor improvement cpnnndttee ] asks $2,000. for dredging slip and face of dock at city yard. s
 The committee on claims ask for: Personal damage $7,o00; claims coTn- rnittee, $1,7OO; pension fund.- $1,Q Qz2; personal damage deficit, S, ,00o: clainss $S5O; total. $13.572.
 The committee on sewers or the common council this year will ask the board of apportionment for $257,70o or more than, SEQ, 600 which this conn rnittee asked for last year. Included in this requisition are these items which had been previously ordered but about which nothing had been. done: t Freeman street, storm water sewer, $4,500; Housatonic avenue trunk, $95,OO0; Howard avenue, $8, 600; Wells street. s70O: Unquowa Hill St.. $1,2O0; total, $109, 400.
 Under contract, estimated cost to finish January 1. Brooks street. $1O,- 700; East Main street, $500; Knowl- ton street, $1s,800; Lindley street, | $8;1OO; total, $46, 6,100;
 New work, Bond street. $4,0O; Ann sterdam avenue, $12,000: Brewster street, Fairfield avenue, 200 feet north, $500; Henry street, relief, $10,- 0O0; Warren, Lafayette and Broad streets, relief, $6O,Oo0: Sherman street outlet, s3,000; total N$a9, 300.
 New work, Extension of Deacon street trunk, Central avenue to Sixth street, $4.7O0; Dewey street overflow without land damages, $2,2O0; sewer we'll construction, $6,000; total, $12,- 800.