BROOKLYN PARK COMMISSIONERS. 19 



With suitable means, its usefulness could be increased a 

 hundred fold. Provisions for carrying out the project sub- 

 mitted for the consideration of the Supervisors would not only 

 enable the Commission to ensure to the citizens of Brooklyn 

 greater comfort and enjoyment at the Island, but would increase 

 the value of important parts of the Island itself. The interests 

 controlled by the Commissioners for the people are too im- 

 portant not to have impressed upon them the responsibilities 

 concerning its extended development as a seaside resort. In 

 previous reports it has been suggested the necessity for a more 

 efficient police surveillance of the Island. A still more serious 

 subject is the provision for the removal of sewage. No suit- 

 able plan of sewerage can be effected otherwise than by uniting 

 all the interests that would share its benefits. The conditions 

 would seem to limit the resources of engineering, within 

 reasonable expenditures, to two projects ; the first, that of the 

 rather complex arrangement of collecting the sewage at various 

 points, its preparation by disinfecting processes or by compost- 

 ing, and its frequent removal, and its use for fertilizing purposes. 



The second plan would be to construct a tidal sewer, parallel 

 with the ocean line, of suitable dimensions to meet present and 

 reasonable future requirements, having its outlet at the west 

 end of the Island, where all material discharged from it would 

 reach a permanent current that would carry it away from the 

 shore. The latter project would seem to be the most practicable, 

 and would be most likely to prove the more servicable, as it 

 certainly would be the most economical in the end. It is a 

 matter of surprise that a scheme for improving the sewerage 

 at the Island has not been effected, in view of its importance 

 and of the great interests to be favorably affected by it. 



EASTERN PARKWAY. 



The renovation of this important thoroughfare has been pro- 

 vided for during the coming Spring by the purchase and stor- 

 age upon the line of the necessary material. The renewal of the 

 entire surface from the Plaza to Brooklyn avenue is contempla- 

 ted as early in the season as will be favorable for this impor- 



