NEW YOKK CITY. 



fr- included the wi ioe by 



becinninif at ChamU-rx Slrret and cutting off 25 

 CTootiM west side of Murray Street, making 

 It 10 feel wide, and thence rutting "tT -j:> feet on 

 tl wett tide of Barclay Street, widening it to 80 

 fe*Caad soon until the entire street been: 

 ftetwid*. The estimated cost of widening and 

 MlaiSJllll ~ II.HNI.IIOO. of whirh t 

 pay one half and the persons benefited 1 1.. 



retting to note that all the pr 



.... i , rifinaU) to Trinity 



rhurrh. 



Mark \ Christ, St. EfpritGraoe. Lutheran Kpi- 



\l . -. - .,,. rtft bardie* and 



tot** Society for Promoting Religion. Several 



of the aU.to churches have parted with some of 



PArfctVhis department is under the id in, - 

 Uoo of a board of 4 commissioner*, of which t he 

 receives a salary of $5,000. At the 

 of the year the board was composed 

 oTAbrara R Tappao, nn iward Hell, 



George C. Clausen, and Nathan Strauss. During 

 February this board was succeeded by one con- 

 iattaf of David II. King, Jr., president, A. D. 

 Julliard, George <;. li.i\.n. and James A.Roose- 

 velt, and it in turn resigned on Sept 22. On 

 'lowing board Stephen V. K 

 Cruger. Stnith Kly. Samuel McMillan, and Wil- 

 liam Stile* was named by the Mayor, and Col. 

 Cruger became president. The secretary of the 

 board was Charles De F. Burns, who toward the 

 close of the year resigned to give place to Wil- 

 liam Ix*ry. The headquarters are at 81 Cham- 

 bers Street, During the year plans wen- fur- 

 nished, the contract let. and work begun on the 

 Coriears Hook Park, which is between Corlcars 

 Jackson Streets, from Cherry Street to the 

 or. The park is ten acres in extent and 

 a perfect nqnare. 



Y<>rk i to have an immense botanic 

 garden, to cost $500,000. exclusive of the ground, 

 and an endowment of $250,000. The incorpora- 

 tes of the New York Botanic Garden met on 

 June 18. and learned that the remainder of the 

 $100.000 required by the act establish intr the 

 garden had been subscribed. The city must is- 



for $500.000 to erect the necessary 

 buildings, and mutt set vide 250 acres for the 

 we of the garden. The ground selected by the 

 irectors in on both sides of Bronx fi v, ,-. 



. 



New BrHge. The Central Bridge oret Il.ir- 

 leai river at Eighth Avenue was formally opened 

 1, although the approaches were not corn- 

 It took three years to build the 1 



4 during its construction 8 . kilk d 



-t $2.000,000, a i 



fc* la length from the eastern approach to the 

 g bH has a roadwav 40 feet 



< 



2.407.188 pounds. Sixty-four cluster 

 . 



lis department is 

 -. who re- 

 Mcuin- 



- w jcr was Thomas 

 [ wan removed and gave 



?^ 111 * 16 - TheofBcVS 

 I>orhigthe year there 

 plais for new 



. 



1,885 il;m- for . at ;m t^tiinal. 



of $8.? v l. ''.'}. The nther it-ins in Ih, 

 (H.rt are: Unsafe buildings r 

 huildii . l'.; vinhitj. 



casis repori : flre-escafM' nol 



plans rec< 



\ainiTird. irj.JMMi; ca- 



warded to the department ati..rn.-\ t 

 tion, 4,478; and new buildings ami 

 in progress, 2.908. 



\i1al M.itMirx. Th( I',,.ard of I! 

 sists of the president of th. I 1 ., a "I of 1 

 health oflh-cr of tin- port, and 'J cnininis^ 

 1 of whom must have been for five years n 



i-hysiriiin. The r<mimi- 

 a physician is president of the l.oard . 

 a salary of $5,000, while the other 

 paid $4.000. The er^offirio coin mi 

 ceive no salary. The officials during IHjr, 

 as follow: President Charles G. V 

 Cyrus Edson, who was SUCH d-d on 



r, H.-alth-nm,-. 

 ulli-. who was suceeedi-d \>\ I ' 



Doty on Jan. 1, and I're-ident of the Ifc.;. 

 Police .I.in tin, who was PI: 



Theodore Koosevelt. The EM 

 i- Knnnons Clark, and the headijuai 1 

 the Criminal Court Imildin-. 

 The vital statistics were as follow : 



Death* under one year 

 Deaths under fire yean 



Total deaths 



Total if ported birth* . 



T.:;il n-|,.,rt.-.l in.-irri.ii:-- 

 Total reported stillbirths 

 Death rate per 1,000 living 



The principal causes ..f deat!. 

 in-:: Pneumonia, 5,7<7: phth 

 rlm-al diseases, 8,208 under five years, 2,889; 

 heart disease, 2,286; Bright 's disease 

 tis, 2,681; diphtheria. 1,628; bron 

 measles, 766; influenza, 566; whoo: 

 scarlet fever, jr.". : crou 

 : '.l; cerebro-spinal menintri'. 

 larial fever, 90 ; and small po\. in. 

 deaths by violence were the foil. 

 6; Miieide, :{7o; homin 

 sunstroke, 85. 



To the introduction of diphtheria ant; 

 its production by the Moan I of Health. 



;. this city during the 

 tril.uted the decrease in the mortal ii 

 disease. Tl isfurnisheil w;- 



: itals. to the public and el 



stitutions. and to the poor of th- 

 in tin- division of f 



sive trades, the invest i-;it ion- in i 



character of the milk have been it, 



number of analyses bein^ 



arrests made, 695, against i '.: fr : 



fines collected, $12.^ 



The numl)cr of pounds of fn. 



seized and condemned wa- 

 ^trt Cleaning-. This depart n. 



aged by a single commis-i' n<-r. \\ : 



salary of $6.000 a year. At the i 



the year William S. Andrews was commissioner. 



