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of 1901 this organization was abolished on Feb. 

 3, 1902, and a new board was appointed, of which 

 Charles C. Burlingham was chosen president. 

 The borough superintendent is William H. Max- 

 well; and John Jasper, formerly superintendent, 

 but more recently an associate superintendent, 

 was retired with a pension, to take effect Sept. 

 1, 1902. The headquarters are at the corner of 

 Park Avenue and 59th Street. According to a 

 report issued on Sept. 10, the school attendance 

 on Sept. 8, in Manhattan was 203,500; Bronx, 

 36,110; Brooklyn, 123,181; Queens, 24,901; Rich- 

 mond, 8,703; total, 396,425. Increase over first 

 day, 1901; Manhattan, 17,616; Bronx, 4,379; 

 Brooklyn, 12,748; Queens, 1,327; Richmond, 429; 

 total, 36,499. Number over six years refused ad- 

 mission: Manhattan, 890; Bronx, 14; Brooklyn, 

 1.003; Queens, 4; Richmond, 20; total, 1,931. 

 President Burlingham said : " While thousands of 

 children are deprived of a full day's schooling, 

 there are thousands of unoccupied seats in the 

 schoolhouses of this city. This is due in part 

 to a shifting of population. It is impossible to 

 move little children, but the older pupils of the 

 schools can be transported and put in less 

 crowded schools. In the outlying districts of the 

 Bronx we make contracts for carrying the chil- 

 dren in stages. I see no reason why we should 

 not enter into contracts with the city railway 

 companies to carry children from the congested 

 to the less crowded parts of the city." 



Carnegie Libraries. The trustees of the New 

 York Public Library and of the committees in 

 Brooklyn and Queens of the Carnegie Library 

 fund recommended in March to the Board of 

 Estimate the following sites for Carnegie li- 

 braries : 



Manhattan and Bronx. Nos. 29, 31, and 33 

 East Broadway; price asked $102,000. A plot 

 on the southerly side of 82d Street, 100 feet east 

 of West End Avenue; price asked $47,000. On 

 the southerly side of 138th Street, 175 feet east 

 of Lincoln Avenue; price asked $20,000. Tre- 

 mont, near the Harlem Railroad station and the 

 borough building. Nos. 224, 226, and 228 East 

 125th Street, to be acquired by condemnation at 

 an estimated cost of $17,000 or $18,000. 



Brooklyn. Entire block bounded by Marcy 

 Avenue, Rodney Street, and Division Avenue; es- 

 timated cost, $50,000. Vacant plot in Franklin 

 Avenue, opposite Hancock Street, between Ful- 

 ton Street and Jefferson Avenue; price asked 

 $25,000. Vacant plot on northwest corner of 

 Clinton and Union Streets; price asked $26,000. 

 Plot on southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and 

 Pacific Street; price asked $30,000. Plot on 

 south corner of Bushwick and De Kalb Avenues ; 

 price asked $30,000. Northwest corner Norman 

 Avenue and Leonard Street; price asked $36,000. 

 Southwest corner of Fourth Avenue and 51st 

 Street; price asked $12,500. 



Queens. Southeast corner of Broadway and 

 Cook Avenue, in the old village of Elmhurst, now 

 part of the Second Ward of Queens. Northwest 

 corner of First Avenue and 13th Street, in the 

 old village of College Point, now part of the 

 Third Ward of Queens. Northeast corner of 

 Broadway and McCormack Avenue, in the old 

 village of Ozone Park, now part of the Fourth 

 Ward of Queens. 



A site on East 79th Street, between Second 

 and Third Avenues, having been acquired by the 

 Board of Estimate in 1901, and a building of 

 Indiana limestone having been erected, the first 

 of the series of Carnegie libraries was dedicated 

 on Dec. 13. The building is constructed in con- 

 formity with the general type adopted by the 



Advisory Board of Architects appointed by the 

 Board of Trustees, under the provisions of the 

 Carnegie gift. It is a three-story and basement 

 structure, 40 by 90 feet, having on its roof a 

 fourth story for the janitor's use. It cost, with 

 equipment, $70,000. 



Rapid Transit. The charge of the rapid- 

 transit movement is in the hands of a commis- 

 sion, consisting of Alexander E. Orr, president; 

 Woodbury Langdon, Morris K. Jesup, George L. 

 Rives, who was succeeded on Jan. 1 by John 

 Claflin, J. H. Starin, Charles S. Smith; the 

 Mayor and the Comptroller, ex ojficio. In July 

 the Rapid-Transit Commission submitted to the 

 Mayor an extensive report, describing the work 

 accomplished by the commission up to Dec. 31, 

 1901, and about the same time an unofficial re- 

 port was made, showing that the subway had 

 been more than half completed. The statement 

 was made that more than two-thirds of all the 

 rock and earth excavation had been completed, 

 and of the earth alone 80 per cent, had been re- 

 moved. The total amount of earth excavation 

 called for was 1,700,000 cubic yards; earth al- 

 ready excavated, 1,327,000 cubic yards; total 

 amount of rock excavation called for, 1,300,000 

 cubic yards; rock already excavated, 662,000 

 cubic yards. Of the 65,000 tons of structural 

 steel necessary for the whole work, 36,076 tons 

 have been delivered, and 16,000 tons have been 

 erected. If this progress is continued, it is esti- 

 mated that the entire work will be completed in 

 August, 1903, and therefore the statement that 

 passenger service will be in existence on Jan. 1, 

 1904, was warranted. In May Chief-Engineer 

 Parsons was requested to make a report, involv- 

 ing the building of a complete system of roads 

 connecting all the boroughs, and an offer has 

 been made to the commission to provide money 

 for any tunnels the city may desire to build for 

 itself in the future. The building of a subway 

 to connect with Brooklyn was decided upon. 

 Also the extension of rapid transit to Staten. 

 Island has been presented before the commission, 

 and plans submitted, connecting Long Island 

 with Staten Island by means of a tunnel at Fort 

 Hamilton. An announcement was made on Nov. 

 26 that the Interborough Rapid-Transit Com- 

 pany, which controls the railways that, will be 

 operated in the subways, had leased the elevated 

 railways, covering all the franchises and property 

 of the Manhattan Railway Company, for nine 

 hundred and ninety-nine years, the lease to take 

 effect on April 1, 1903. 



Tunnels. The commissioners appointed in 

 September, 1901, to report on the feasibility and 

 desirability of the proposed Brooklyn-Manhat- 

 tan rapid-transit road, recommended the plans 

 prepared by the Rapid-Transit Commission, 

 which show that it is to run under Broadway 

 from the City Hall, south, and through a tunnel 

 beneath the East River. This report says there 

 was no opposition, even from abutting owners, to 

 the route proposed, and the testimony showed 

 that the general public was satisfied that this 

 was the best route that could have been selected, 

 and the commission finds that the cost of the 

 road as planned is safely within the statutory 

 limits. Bids for this work were called for by 

 the Rapid-Transit Commission, and were opened 

 on July 21. On July 24 the commission, after 

 an extended public hearing, awarded the con- 

 tract for the tunnel, by means of which the sub- 

 way rapid-transit system is to be extended to 

 Brooklyn, to the Belmont-McDonald syndicate. 

 The tunnel is to be built for $2,000,000, and the 

 terminals for $1,000,000 additional. The commis- 



