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A similar structure ou the eastern end of the Island, or one 

 of even more substantial character, in which the use of concrete, 

 brick and stone masoniy may be combined, will be found to be 

 necessaiy to prevent the periodical destructions resulting from 

 the prolonged northeast storms to which this portion of the 

 Island is liable, and to which we have referred more at 

 length in previous reports. 



Much responsibility is entailed upon the Commission in 

 maintaining some measure of order among hackmen and others 

 who drive for hire, their conveyances over the Concourse. 



The Commission found it necessary to make arrests, and 

 their action has been sustained generally by the justices of 

 the neighborhood but the comfort and safety of visitors, 

 whose welfare and convenience all parties at the island should 

 regard with interest, must be made secure by proper regulations 

 and a strict enforcement of them, and of the penalty for the 

 violation of them. 



The prominent relation which portions of the Parkway and 

 the Concourse hold to the growing interests of Coney Island, 

 has involved and continues to involve the Commission in 

 serious annoyance and expensive litigation in order to ward off 

 encroachments upon the property under their charge, or to 

 arrest the progress of railroad structures and other enterprises 

 which are calculated to interfere with and subordinate the 

 public interest. 



During the past season the Commissioners were forced to 

 expend for legal purposes the sum of $2,308.83, which the 

 Board of Supervisors, not without inconsistency as it appears 

 to the Commission, have refused to make provision for. Fur- 

 ther suits, one in connection with the railroad crossing of the 

 Parkway, contiguous to the rear line of the Concourse, and 

 another affecting the title to a small portion of the Concourse 

 at the west end, are still pending. These suits have been prose- 

 cuted with vigor, and with the best intelligence at the com- 



