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REPORT OF THE 



tent all that his predecessors had done before him. In the two 

 years of his occupancy of the office he more than doubled the 

 area of parks and parkways. He purchased Forest Park, Dyker 

 Beach Park, Bensonhurst Park, Canarsie Beach, Saratoga Square, 

 Irving Square, Cooper Park, New Lots Playground and Lincoln 

 Terrace. He extended the line of the Eastern Parkway to Ridge- 

 wood Park and provided the money needed for the work together 

 with the sum expended in 1896 for the return bicycle path and 

 the Glenmore, Bushwick and Pennsylvania avenue improvements, 

 made contracts for the improvement and converted into park- 

 ways Fort Hamilton avenue and Twenty-second avenue, pro- 

 vided the means for the Shore Drive and purchased most of 

 the land needed, and contracted for the West Drive of the 

 Ocean Parkway. In addition he provided and made contracts 

 for the erection of the first section of the Museum of Arts 

 and Sciences, for the completion of the Memorial Arch, and to- 

 gether with its adornment, the erection of the main entrance to 

 Prospect Park and the Ninth avenue wall, the construction of 

 the marble and granite work in the Vale of Cashmere, the 

 laying out of the Rose Garden and the lily ponds. He built 

 the original bicycle path and made a number of other improve- 

 ments in various city parks. 



THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 



In the selection of the parks Mayor 

 Schieren, at the request of Mr. Squier, 

 appointed Col. A. D. Baird, Gen. John 

 11 Woodward, H. B. Scharmann, The- 

 odore E. Dreier, W. W. Kenyon, Jacob 

 W. Erregger and Walter Parfitt as an 

 advisory commission. The report of 

 this commission in relation to the selec- 

 tion of parks was unanimous. 



In 1896 all the work started by 

 Commissioner Squier was taken up by 

 Commissioner Woodruff and pushed 

 toward completion, and with the assistance of a legislative act a 

 portion of the money raised originally by Commissioner Squier 



TIMOTHY I.. WOODRUFF. 



