DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 3 I 



" Brooklyn, September 28, 1896. 



"The Commissioner of the Department of Parks hereby 

 grants permission and authority to the Coney Island & Brook- 

 lyn Railroad Company to construct, maintain and operate its 

 railroad by single tracks upon and across the Ocean Parkway and 

 upon the surface thereof at Neptune avenue; provided, however, 



" I. The Company shall lay tracks across the Ocean Park- 

 way of a kind and in a manner to be approved by the Commis- 

 sioner of the Department of Parks, and the whole construction to 

 be made by the Company upon the surface of the Ocean Parkway 

 shall be to the satisfaction of the Commissioner. 



" II. The Company shall pave Neptune avenue, from Coney 

 Island avenue to West Fifth street, between its tracks and three 

 feet outside thereof, with asphalt or other pavement, to the satis- 

 faction of the Commissioner, or, at the election of the Commis- 

 sioner, the whole street from Coney Island avenue to the Ocean 

 Parkway. 



" III. No cables to conduct electricity, except trolley wires, 

 shall at any time be strung across the Ocean Parkway, without the 

 consent of the Commissioner of the Department of Parks. All 

 feed wires and cables shall be placed underground. 



" IV. No cars shall cross the Ocean Parkway at a greater 

 rate of speed than three miles an hour. 



"V. The Commissioner of the Department of Parks and his 

 successors shall have power from time to time to regulate and 

 control the operation of cars across the Parkway. 



"TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, 



" Commissioner, Department 0/ Parks." 



LIGHTS ON VEHICLES. 



Rules having been adopted in relation to bells and lights on 

 bicycles, it was thought advisable to extend the rule in relation 

 to lights to carriages. The Corporation Counsel, upon being con- 

 sulted, decided that the Commissioner was empowered to make 

 such an ordinance, and the following was promulgated : 



" Office of the Department of Parks, 

 "Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park, 

 "Brooklyn, May 22, 1896. 

 " Under authority conferred upon me under the provisions of 

 the Charter, Title XVI., Section 16, I hereby give notice that I 

 have this day adopted the following ordinance in relation to the 

 use of lights on vehicles using the parks and parkways of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



" Any person using a bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, carriage, 



