Two Proposed Entrances to Central Park, N. Y. 
New York, 
with two other 
figures at the 
ends acclaiming 
her, while in 
the intervening 
spaces on each 
side would be 
room for a 
quadriga. 
The conges¬ 
tion of traffic 
at this point is 
very heavy, for 
here converge 
the north and 
south lines on 
Fifth Avenue, 
and the slower 
movement of 
those passing 
east and west 
on Fifty-ninth 
Street, besides 
the lines enter¬ 
ing and leaving 
the Park Mall 
and the bridle 
path. When the bridge now in course of 
construction over the East River at Black¬ 
well's Island is completed the crosstown 
traffic will be greatly increased. This inter¬ 
section, and especiallv the Park entrance 
proper, is regarded as a danger point be¬ 
cause of the great number of fast moving 
carriages and automobiles. The practical 
problem which Mr. Gilbert has undertaken 
to solve is how to obviate the danger to 
pedestrians, and especially to the women 
and children, and nurses and their charges, 
who frequent the Park. 
Beginning at the walk on the west side of 
Fifth Avenue, above Sixtieth Street, the 
structure would cross the bridle path and 
the roadway to the walk on the west side, 
from which point, making a right angle, it 
would turn southward to a point opposite the 
middle of the block opposite. Each side of 
the angle would be 225 feet long and would 
permit of openings for three arches. The 
extreme eastern archway would be used ex¬ 
clusively by horsemen entering the bridle 
path. The next two would be for vehicles. 
In the pavilions at both ends and at the 
angle would be operated escalators to lift 
and lower pedestrians and baby carriages to 
and from the promenade on top of the arches, 
and in the central pavilion, fifty feet in di¬ 
ameter, would be public comfort stations. 
To provide protection against runaway 
horses, which are such frequent causes of 
accidents in the Park, special gates would 
be placed in the arches over the driveways, 
which could be quickly closed in case of 
emergency bv policemen stationed at the 
arch. 
Including statuary, it is estimated this en¬ 
trance would cost not more than $100,000. 
No steps have yet been taken by the city 
authorities in the matter, but, without regard 
to one set of plans or another, the project is 
regarded by those who concern themselves 
with municipal works as one demanding 
prompt consideration. 
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