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of material, including ashes, garbage, ami street 

 s\ver| lilies, hare been collect ea. < M this amount, 

 I.IMI.II-JI loads have been sent to sou, and the 

 remainder lias bccn.uscd for filling in lots. The 

 amount of snow and ice removed was 86,155 

 cart loads. The department has swept 882'70 

 inili-s of [wvi'd streets daily, and removed the 

 ashes ami i;arl>a:, r e from .V.4'44 miles of street. 

 It has seized and removed 1,042 vehicles, of which 

 ti',17 were redeemed at a cost of 1 1,282. There was 

 collected *,-). r.M;9.68 for the privilege of trim- 

 ining scows and sorting out the bones and other 

 material worth saving, and $1,676.87 from auc- 

 tion sales of old material. The total expendi- 

 tures to Dec. 1 were $2,054,152.83, out of $2,367,- 

 :{!() allowed by the Board of Estimate and Appor- 

 tionment. 



Monuments. During the year an unusual 

 mi m her of monuments were added to those that 

 already adorn the highways of the metropolis. 

 Among these, the first in point of time was the 

 unveiling of a bronze tablet by the veterans of 

 the Seventh Regiment, on the southeast corner 

 of Fulton and Nassau Streets. This event took 

 place on the evening of April 19, which was the 

 sixty-ninth anniversary of the organization of 

 the regiment, and the thirty-second anniversary 

 of the regiment's departure for Washington at 

 the outbreak of the civil war in 1861. The tab- 

 let is of bronze, 5 feet high and 2J feet wide. 

 It bears the inscription : " On this site, the old 

 Shakespeare Tavern, was organized the Seventh 

 Hegiment, National Guard, State of New York, 

 Aug. 25, 1824. This tablet was erected by the 

 Veterans of the Seventh Regiment, 1893." A 

 monogram of the initial of the organization and 

 the number 7, with a representation of the old 

 tavern, all in bas-relief, combine to make a fine 

 piece of art. Encircling the monogram are the 

 words, " Pro patria et gloria." 



A monument to the memory of John James 

 Audubon, the distinguished ornithologist, was 

 raised over his remains in Trinity Cemetery on 

 April 26. A popular subscription of $10,000 

 was collected by a committee appointed by the 

 New York Academy of Sciences, m co-operation 

 with committees named by other scientific or- 

 ganizations. The memorial is in the form of 

 a cross of North river blue stone, at the base 

 of which is a likeness of Audubon carved in 

 stone, and his name beneath. The pedestal is of 

 granite. On the evening of the same day a me- 

 morial meeting was held in the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, when a eulogy on 

 Audubon was delivered by Daniel G. Elliot, a 

 former president of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



On April 27, in accordance with a special 

 act of the State Legislature passed in 1891, a 

 monument erected by the Commonwealth to the 

 memory of John Ericsson was transferred to 

 the city. The statue, which represents a heroic 

 figure of the great inventor, is 8 feet 3 inches 

 high, stands on a well-proportioned pedestal of 

 granite 8 feet 9 inches high, and cost $10,000. 

 On each of the four faces of the pedestal there 

 are bronze panels 27 by 12 inches, presenting in 

 low relief views of the engagement between the 

 " Monitor " and the " Merrimac," the first screw 

 steamship, the " Princeton," and various other 

 inventions of Ericsson. Both the statue and the 



panel- an- by J. Scott Hartley. The monument 

 stands just north of the. Whitehall boat basin, and 

 aliont fifty feet west of the I'nited States Harp- 

 (ttlice. facing the Hatter) 1 . The formal cere- 

 monies included the presentation of tin- monu- 

 ment liy the State represented t>y Ashley W. 

 Cole, and its acceptance by Paul Dana, President 

 of the Park Commissioners, followed by an ora- 

 tion on the life-work of Ericsson by his biogra- 

 pher, Col. William C. Church. 



On Evacuation Day, Nov. 25, the Sons of the 

 Revolution continued their work of commem- 

 orating important events in the War of Inde- 

 pendence bv unveiling five tablets, as follow: 



At Broadway and 43d Street, with the in- 

 scription, " Near this sjiot, Sept. 15, 1776, the day 

 before the battle of Harlem, Gen. George Wash- 

 ington and Gen. Israel Putnam met and consult- 

 ed during the movement of the American army." 



At Golden Hill, John Street, with the in>c"ri|- 

 tion, " Here, Jan. 18, 1770, the fight took place 

 between the Sons of Liberty and the British 

 Regulars (Sixteenth Foot). First blood shed in 

 the War of the Revolution." 



At southeast corner Washington and Laight 

 Streets, with the inscription, " To commemorate 

 the landing of Gen. George Washington at the 

 foot of Laight Street, North river, accompanied 

 by the troop of Philadelphia City Horse, on Sun- 

 day, July 23, 1775, on his way to take command 

 of the American army at Cambridge, Mass." 



At No. 1 Broadway, with the inscription, 

 " Here stood the house (Kennedy) once occu- 

 pied by Gen. George Washington and Gen. 

 George Clinton as headquarters during the Rev- 

 olutionary War. In the Bowling Green, oppo- 

 site, the leaden statue of George III, King of 

 England, was destroyed by the people, July 9, 

 1776, and later made into bullets for the Am- 

 erican army." 



At 153d Street and Eleventh Avenue, Battle 

 of Harlem Heights, with the inscription, "In 

 Memory of Col. Thomas Knowlton and Major 

 Andrew Leitch, of the American Army, killed 

 near this spot, Sept. 16, 1776, at the Battle of 

 Harlem." 



Subsequently, on the same day, a bronze heroic 

 statue of Nathan Hale, by Frederick MacMonnies, 

 w;is unveiled at the southwest corner of City 

 Hall Park. It was presented to the city by 

 President Tallmadge on behalf of the Sons of 

 the Revolution, and accepted by Mayor Gilrov. 

 Suitable addresses followed by Gen. Oliver 6. 

 Howard and Edward E. Hale, a descendant of 

 the hero. 



A bronze statue of Roscoe Conkling, by John 

 Q. A. Ward, was unveiled on Dec. 8 at the 

 southeast corner of Madison Square, without any 

 ceremony. The site of the monument is the 

 spot where Mr. Conkling was overcome by the 

 blizzard. March 12, 1888, and contracted the ill- 

 ness that ended his life. 



The formal presentation of a bust erected by 

 the Hancock Memorial Committee, aided bv the 

 W. S. Hancock Post, No. 259 G. A. R.. in Han- 

 cock Square, at the intersection of Manhattan 

 and St. Nicholas Avenues, took place in the Gov- 

 ernor's Room, City Hall, on Dec. 80. The pres- 

 entation speech was made by Gen. Horace Por- 

 ter, and on behalf of the city and the Park Com- 

 missioners the gift was accepted by Mayor Gil- 



