DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 7 



WORK OF COMMISSIONER SQUIER. 



When the year began, Mr. Frank Squier occupied the posi- 

 tion of Commissioner. He held the office until the 1st day of 

 February, when his term expired and he retired, much to the re- 

 gret of the people, who realized that he had accomplished a work 

 for Brooklyn equal to that of the Commissioners who created the 

 Park system as he found it when he entered upon the duties of 

 the office. 



The concluding days of the administration of Commissioner 

 Squier, like those of the preceding years, were devoted to secur- 

 ing for the Park solid improvements to last for years for the in- 

 struction and education of the people. His last contracts were 

 for the Museum building for the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, a bronze statue of General Henry W. Slocum, bronze 

 lamps for the Memorial Arch, bronze finials for the Willink en- 

 trance, and a base for the equestrian statue of General Grant, 

 given to the City by the Union League Club, and located on 

 Bedford avenue, near the Club house. He also secured before 

 the end of his term a contract for the lighting of the Ocean Park- 

 way with electricity, an improvement long desired. 



His services were appreciated by the Trustees of the Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences, who, before he left office, expressed their 

 sentiments in the form of the following resolution : 



BROOKLYN, January II, 1896. 

 Hon. Frank Squier, 



32 Ninth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences, held on Friday afternoon, January 3d, 

 the following was adopted, by a unanimous vote : 



Resolved, That this Board of Trustees extends to the Hon. 

 Frank Squier, Park Commissioner, its sincere thanks for his serv- 

 ices to the Institute as a member of the Museum Commission of 

 the City of Brooklyn, in securing a favorable contract for the 

 erection of the first section of the Museum building; for his co- 

 operation in the arrangement for the exercises connected with 

 the breaking of ground on September 14th, and for the exercises 

 of laying the corner-stone on December 14th ; also for his efforts 

 to promote the interests of the Institute as Park Commissioner, 

 and in grading the Museum site preparatory to the work on the 

 building. Very respectfully yours, 



FRANKLIN W. HOOPER, Director. 



