NEW YORK CITY. 



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nonresident. $:!,H11,H40; personal resident, $19,- 

 (i^l.liiii: and nonresident. ^I.'J'J 



Public Works. This depart men!, is under 

 tlif chargo of u commissioner appointed by the 

 Mavnr, independent i >f the Hoard of Alderman. 

 Heooldfl ollicc for four years, and receives a salary 

 of $8,000. The present incmnlient is Mieiiael 

 'I'. Daly, who succeeded Thomas K. Gilroy when 

 the latter became Mayor, on Jan. 1, IHt;}, and was 

 again appointed to that place on May 1. The, 

 headquarters are at 31 Chambers Street. Dur- 

 ing is ( .i;{ the report of the department shows 

 that the average daily water supply received 

 and distributed was 174,000,000 gallons, which 

 was furnished by natural flow except during the 

 summer months, when 12,754,000,000 gallons of 

 water was drawn from the storage reservoirs 

 and lakes. The capacity of the aqueducts is400,- 

 000,000 gallons. Ihe length of water mains laid 

 during the year is 10,630 lineal feet, making 715 

 miles of water mains in the city. About $80,000 

 has been expended on the improvement of the 

 Croton watershed. The contract for the. 155th 

 Street viaduct was made July 14, 1890, and the 

 structure was completed and opened to the public 

 on Oct. 2, 1893, the total cost of which to date is 

 $730,000. Work is in progress under the con- 

 tract for building a new bridge over the Harlem 

 river at Third Avenue, the cost of which will 

 be $1,222,000, and it is believed that it will be 

 completed by the close of 1895. The contract 

 for a drawbridge over the United States Ship 

 Canal, to connect the Harlem and Hudson rivers, 

 was made April 13, 1893. Shortly afterward the 

 work was begun, and it is now progressing fa- 

 vorably. The Criminal Court building is com- 

 pleted, except minor interior details. The cost 

 of the building is $1,500,000, and it is considered 

 the cheapest public building ever erected in this 

 city. The city is lighted by 24,312 gas lamps, 

 2.430 electric lamps, and 152 naphtha lamps. 

 The annual cost of lighting the city is: Gas, 

 $495,000; electricity, $408,000. The area and 

 mileage of new pavements laid during 1893 ex- 

 ceed those of any previous year in the history of 

 the city. To replace worn-out pavements, 336,- 

 650 square yards of granite block and 2'2'i. :;.">'. 

 square yards of asphalt pavement were laid. Of 

 pavements on new streets, 53,415 square yards 

 of granite block and 26,793 square yards of 

 asphalt were laid. The area and mileage of 

 various kinds of pavement in this city are : Im- 

 proved specification stone blocks, 216-50 miles ; 

 old square stone blocks, 66*73 miles: asphalt, 

 52-26 miles ; macadam, 20-80 miles ; cobble stone, 

 0-27 mile ; total, 356-56 miles. Asphalt work is 

 done in Paris for $3.42 a square yard, and the 

 cost of maintenance is reported at a price that 

 in fifteen years would amount to $4, a total of 

 $7.42 a square yard. In this city the asphalt 

 pavement is laid at an average cost of $3.85 a 

 square yard, under contracts guaranteeing that 

 it will be kept in order for fifteen years without 

 additional cost to the city. In extending and 

 improving the sewerage system, about 7 miles of 

 new sewers and culverts, with <>7 receiving 

 basins, were built. There are now 456*37 miles 

 of sewers in the city. An experiment was made 

 of treating sewage and drainage by the Wolfe 

 electrozone process, the result of which has been 

 to destroy bacteria and clarify the water or 



liquid sewage, to ta to render it practically 

 harmle-s. 



Public Parks. This department i under 

 the direction of a board of 4 cnmiiii--i<in<-rH, con- 

 sisting of A bram B. Tappan, President, who re- 

 ceives a salary of $5,000 a year, and Nathan 

 Straus, Paul Dana, and George C. Clausen, who 

 Miccecded Henry G. Winthmn on May 1, 1898. 

 The Secretary of the Boaru is Charles I !'. 

 Hums, and the headquarters are at 31 Chambers 

 Street. During the year the department has 

 cared for more than 40 parks and plazas in tin- 

 city, besides 10 parks and parkways north of the 

 Harlem river. All roads and paths have been 

 repaired to the full extent of the appropriation for 

 the year. Rutgers Park has been thrown open 

 to the public, and a large amount of construc- 

 tion work has been accomplished on the addition 

 to the East River Park. The operations in the 

 way of constructing and maintaining roads and 

 bridges have furnished and continue to furnish 

 employment for over 2,000 people. The Castle 

 (iarden Aquarium has been visited by specialists 

 from other countries, and the construction so far 

 as it has progressed has been approved. Its cost 

 will be upward of $250,000. and it is hoped that 

 the aquarium may be opened in Mav. The obe- 

 lisk in Central Park has been coated with paraf- 

 fin, to preserve it from the action of the ele- 

 ments. This has cost $2,000, and an aluminium 

 cap, gilded, has been placed upon it at a cost of 

 $150, thus restoring one of its ancient features. 



Building Department. This department is 

 under the control of a commissioner, who re- 

 ceives a salary of $5,000 a year. The present 

 incumbent is Thomas J. Brady, with headquar- 

 ters at 220 Fourth Avenue. 



During the year there were filed in this de- 

 partment plans' for the erection of 2,275 houses 

 at an estimated cost of $54,859.318, and 2,014 

 plans for alterations at an estimated cost of 

 $6,804,527. Among the new buildings recently 

 completed or about to be occupied are the Man- 

 hattan Life Insurance building, at the corner 

 of Broadway and Exchange Place ; the Postal 

 Telegraph building, at the corner of Broadway 

 and Murray Street ; the Shoe and Leather Bank, 

 at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street; 

 the Criminal Courts building, at the corner of 

 Center and Franklin Streets; the Bowery Sav- 

 ings Bank building, at the corner of Bowery 

 and Grand Street : the Bank for Savings, at the 

 comer of 22d Street and Fourth Avenue; the 

 Metropolitan Life Insurance building, at the 

 corner of 23d Street and Madison Avenue; the 

 Hotel Waldorf, at the corner of Fifth Avenue 

 and 33d Street; the Herald building, at the cor- 

 ner of Broadway and 85th Street; the Empire 

 Theater, at the corner of 40th Street and Broad- 

 way ; the New Netherlands Hotel, at the corner 

 of 59th Street and Fifth Avenue; and, besides 

 numerous magnificent residences such as that 

 of Cornelius Vanderbilt, at the corner of 57th 

 Street and Fifth Avenue, and that of John Jacob 

 Astor. at the corner of 65th Street and Fifth 

 Avenue there must IH> mentioned the Teach- 

 ers' College, on the Boulevard and Morningsido 

 Heights. 



Vital Statistics. The Board of Health con- 

 sists of the President of the Board of Police, the 

 health officer of the port, and two commission- 



