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storage pit for plants, $2,537.98; Sunset Park, $4,187.12; 

 Eidgewood Park, $4,117.12. There are still outstanding debts 

 contracted for duriug the past year, which will cover the balances 

 at the disposal of the Park Department, outside of the special 

 funds for the construction of new Parks. The Bond accounts 

 to the credit of the Department stand as follows: Park Site Im- 

 provement Fund, bonds of 1889, $3,193.36 expended, $9,064.01 

 balance; Park Purchase Fund, bonds of 1891, no expenditure, 

 balance $18,308.89 ; Park Improvement Fund, bonds of 1894, 

 $5,000.00 expended, $95,000.00 balance ; East Side Park Lands 

 Improvement, bonds of 1894, no expenditure, $50,000.00 bal- 

 ance. 



There is a balance of $271.08 to the credit of the Ninth Ave- 

 nue Bepaving Account, being the amount remaining of the sum 

 transferred from the Maintenance Account to pay for the repav- 

 ing of Ninth avenue from Union street to Third street. There 

 is still a charge against the Department of $14,564.00 for the 

 repaving of Ninth avenue, from Third to Fifteenth street. The 

 inability of the Department to pay this has caused a stoppage of 

 the work. The assessment for this section of the work origi- 

 nally amounted to $12,750.00 ; the remainder represents interest 

 charges, which are constantly increasing. The subject has been 

 twice brought to the attention of the Board of Estimate, but no 

 appropriation was made. 



Another bond account, which is to a degree under the control 

 of the Park Commissioner, is that of the Memorial Arch, the 

 Legislature of 1894 having made the Park Commissioner a 

 member of the Arch Commission. The amount stated to the 

 credit of the Arch at the time of the change of Commission, was 

 $14,505.21; but this sum was less than the amount called for 

 under the contracts that had been awarded. The Legislature of 

 1894 appropriated $100,000.00 for the completion of the Arch, 

 and of this sum $5,000 has been expended. Altogether, since 

 the Park Commissioner became a member of the Arch Com- 

 mission, $8,155.00 have been expended, leaving a balance of 



