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cab, hack, cart or any other vehicle whatsoever on the roadways 

 of the parks or parkways of the City of Brooklyn, under the juris- 

 diction of the Department of Parks of said city, shall be required 

 to carry on such vehicle after sundown and before sunrise, a 

 lighted lamp, so placed as to exhibit a light capable of being seen 

 two hundred feet in the direction in which said vehicle is going. 

 All bicycles, tricycles and other such vehicles shall have an alarm 

 bell attached thereto, and said bell shall be used to signal the ap- 

 proach of said vehicle. 



" Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance 

 shall be liable to a fine of not less than two nor more than ten 

 dollars for each offense. 



"TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, 



" Commissioner." 



BRONZE WORK. 



The Department expected during the past year to have put 

 in place some of the bronzes ordered for the ornamentation of 

 the Park, but as yet none of the work has been completed. 

 Progress, however, has been made that is exceedingly gratifying, 

 and makes certain the production of the Quadriga for the Memo- 

 rial Arch, and the bronze eagles for the columns at the main 

 entrance in the early summer. 



The Quadriga will be one of the most imposing art produc- 

 tions in bronze adorning a public work to be found in this coun- 

 try, and will be worthy of the triumphs it symbolizes. The artist 

 could have produced the work more rapidly, but he preferred 

 perfection rather than completion, and every detail of the work 

 has been moulded and remoulded until it met the complete con- 

 ception of the master mind intent on producing a work to meet 

 the cultured taste of all time by reason of the absolute truthful- 

 ness of all the details. The Quadriga is now in the last stages of 

 production, that is, the reproduction of the perfect model in 

 bronze. 



As soon as this is completed, attention will be given to the 

 groups for the Ocean Parkway entrance to Prospect Park, and 

 then will follow the Slocum monument and the side groups for 

 the Arch. 



The American panthers designed for the Third street entrance 

 are being produced by A. P. Proctor, who is devoting to them 

 his entire attention, and as he is unquestionably one of the most 



