REPORT 



OF COMMITTEE ON THE OFFER OF ED3IUXD DRIGGS AND OTHEES 



TO IMPROVE THE LAND EAST OF FLATBUSH AVE2JUE. 



PROPOSAL 

 To the Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park : 

 Gentlemex : — 



During the recent meetings and investigations you and your en- 

 gineers estimated the expense of improving the 137 acres of Prospect 

 Park, lying East of Flatbush Avenue, at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. 

 The undersigned believe the estimate to be exaggerated, and that such 

 exaggeration may have a tendency to prejudice the public against the 

 restoration and improvement of this portion of the Park lands. We 

 therefore offer to lay out and improve this land not including fences 

 or bridges, over, or tunnels under Flatbush Avenue, under the man- 

 agement and supervision of Genl. Egbert L. Viele, or some equally 

 competent engineer, and in accordance with the plan presented by 

 him, for a sum not exceeding $625,000. Roads to connect with the 

 present roads lying west of the Avenue, and will add over bridge of 

 Flatbush Avenue, of elegant construction, and a tunnel under the 

 Avenue for a further sum not exceeding $150,000. These sums are the 

 extreme limit of expense, but we will fulfill our proposition for the ac- 

 tual cost of the work, we will furnish adequate security for the per- 

 formance of our undertaking. 



This offer will be open to your acceptance until the first day of July 

 1869. 



Dated May 22d, 1869. 



Yours respectfully, 



EDMUND DRIGGS. 

 J. W. HUNTER. 

 CHARLES JONES. 

 WM. W. GOODRICH. 

 J. CARSON BREYOORT. 



