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About one and one-half miles of the main drive were re-graveled. 

 Many trees were planted, to replace dead ones. Heav}' trucks 

 were forced to use the side roads, to save the main drive. By an 

 act of the Legislature, a fund of $50,000 was created, to com- 

 mence the work of paving one of the side roads, for the use of 

 heavy vehicles. Unfortunately, owing to an oversight on the 

 part of the Board of Estimate, the Park Department was only 

 able to obtain a little over $41,000 of this sum. This money is 

 being expended in the work. Early in the spring the road will 

 be extended as far as Parkville. An additional appropriation will 

 be needed to carry it further. 



THE BICYCLE PATHWAY. 



The Bicycle Pathway, constructed during the fall of 1894, was 

 formally opened, from the Park to Coney Island, on the fifteenth 

 day of June of this year. The event awakened great interest 

 among bicycle riders, as this was an historic event, the road being 

 the first one constructed in the United States exclusively for 

 the use of wheelmen. A reviewing stand was built at Parkville, 

 where were gathered the city officials, Mr. Albert H. Angell, 

 President of the Good Roads Association, to whose untiring en- 

 ergy the success of the movement to secure the pathway was 

 largely due, and many prominent citizens interested in the sport. 



The parade was composed of three divisions. It was formed 

 at the intersection of Bedford avenue and the Eastern Parkway. 

 It was led by Lieut. Col. Charles H. Luscomb, of the 

 Thirteenth Regiment, followed by a military escort made up of 

 members of the Thirteenth and Twenty-third Regiments in fatigue 

 uniform, and the members of the police force, using bicycles. 



Then came the three divisions in the following order: 



FIRST DIVISION. — Long Island Clubs. — Brooklyn Bicycle 

 Club, Kings County Wheelmen, Long Island Wheelmen, Pros- 

 pect Wheelmen, Brooklyn Ramblers, South Brooklyn Wheelmen, 

 Amity Wheelmen, Bushwick Wheelmen, Recreation Wheelmen, 

 New Utrecht Wheelmen, Twenty-third Regiment Wheeling Sec- 

 tion, Whirling Dervishes, Florence W^heelmen, Paramount Wheel- 

 men, Ocean Parkway Wheelmen, Falcon Wheelmen, High School 



