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A small park in the Twenty-sixth Ward, offered by the Ger- 

 man-American Improvement Company, and embraced in the list 

 approved by the Supreme Court, was purchased by Commissioner 

 Woodruff in August last. No steps have as yet been taken 

 toward its development. It has been named Linton Park. 



HOW THE NEW BICYCLE PATH WAS BUILT. 



Under the provisions of Chapter 640 of the Laws of 1895, 

 there were placed under the care of the Park Department a num- 

 ber of streets in the Twenty-sixth Ward, and the road to Flat- 

 lands. Just why this was done was not particularly apparent, as 

 most of the streets named should have been left in the care of 

 the City Works Department. Under the provisions of this law 

 $350,000 were raised for the improvement of these streets by the 

 County of Kings. 



During the session of the Legislature of 1896 the people 

 interested in bicycling had the law amended, omitting some 

 streets and inserting others, so that the law, as amended, reads in 

 this way : 



CHAPTER 230, LAWS OF 1896. 



AN ACT to amend Chapter Six Hundred and Forty of 

 the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, 



ENTITLED " An ACT IN RELATION TO THE CARE, CUS- 

 TODY, Control and Improvement of Certain High- 

 ways in the County of Kings, and to Provide Means 

 for the Improvement Thereof." 



Accepted by the City. 



Became a law April 8, 1896, with the approval of the Governor. 



Passed, a majority being present. 

 The People of the State of Neiv York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as folloivs : 



SECTION I. Section one of chapter six hundred and forty of 

 the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled " An Act 

 in relation to the care, custody, control and improvement of cer- 

 tain highways in the County of Kings, and to provide means for 

 the improvement thereof," is hereby amended so as to read as 

 follows : 



SECTION I. On and after the passage of this act, the care, 

 custody and control of Eastern Parkway, east of Ralph avenue 



