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Department of Excise. The report of Commissioners LAUER and EVANS, for the year ending November 30, 1882, shows that on that day there were 2,635 licensed places in the city, divided thus: First class-hotels, 1,522; second class- storekeepers, 192; third class-ale or beer, 921; total, 2,635. Licenses were issued (December 1, 1881, to December 1,
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1882): First class, 1.622; second class, 193; third class, 959; total, 2,776. Amount of fees received for the same, $220,000. Licenses issued from December 1, 1880, to November 30, 1881: First class, 1,461; second class, 172; third class, 1,018; total, 2,651. Fees received for same, $206,800. Excess of receipts of 1882 over 1881, $13,400.
This board assured charge of their part of this department by the appointment of the Mayor, under the new charter, on the 7th day of February, 1882.
" One of the most serious and lamentable difficulties with which we had to contend," said the Commissioners, "was the discovery by us that in this fair city there were, and had existed for many years, on the most prominent streets, houses of assignation and prostitution, which held licenses to sell liquor. We have, with steadiness, refused to renew these licenses, nor have any of these been re-licensed by us. In doing so, we have engendered bitter hate and abuse, and run the risk of persoual violence; but we have been sustained by the official and moral support of the Mayor, and have had the sympathy of the law-abiding portion of the community.
Fire Department .- Uuder the present charter, fire and buildings formed one department, known as the Department of Fire and Buildings. This continued until about 1879, when they were divided and operated under separate depart- ments. The expenditure of the Department of Fire and Buildings, from January 1 to December 1, 1878, was $319,- 487.25. Among the items making up this account, $269,- 887.57 was for salaries; $1,825.65 was for shoeing horses; $3,530 made up the "horse account;" $5,897.16 for feed: $1,309.15 for telegraphing; $1,339.45, gas account; $1,905.60, coal and wood account.
The force in the city on December 1, 1882, comprised 284 men; in addition to these, 39 employees-a total of 323.
Financial .- The amount audited to this department for salaries and maintenance, including balance from 1881, and amounts received from the sale of old apparatus and horses, was $394, 762.32; of this $355,165,54 had been already ex- peuded. It required, to meet liabilities on outstanding con- tracts, $4,832.54; $34,764.24 was estimated as the expense of erecting the engine-house in the 22d Ward, and to purchase supplies and pay salaries for the month of December.
Bureau of Combustibles .- " The work of this bureau," says JOHN N. PARTRIDGE, Esq., Commissioner of the Fire Depart- ment, in his report for the year ending November 30, 1882, " has been conducted in a different manner than iu former years. There was formerly a superintendent, book-keepers, clerks, inspectors and testors, numbering last year 15. Since about the 1st of March the bureau has been managed by the superintendent, Mr. Charles E. Mills, assisted by four fire- men, detailed from the different companies, who have done all the inspecting and testing. In this way the working force has been reduced to about oue-third of that of last year, with an annual saving in salaries of $11,150. For many reasons, an experienced fireman makes the best inspector and tester. During the last session of the legislature, an act was passed, prohibiting the sale of kerosene oil which flashes at a temperature below 100º Fahrenheit, and prescribing a different instrument for making tests formerly used. The euforcement of this law has already produced incalculable benefits."
Losses by Fires .- Of the losses by fire this year in Brook- lyn, $1,028,461, or about four-fifths of the whole amount, was incurred at four fires: Havemeyer Sugar Refinery, $775, 736; Pond's Extract Factory, $109,825; Locust Hill Oil Refinery, $70,000; Brooklyn Oil Refiuery, $72,000.
During the year, 51 firemen were tried on various charges, of which 8 were dismissed, 7 reprimanded; 8 cases were dis-
missed; in the remaining cases, fines imposed amounting to $388.73, which sum was placed iu the city treasury to the credit of the Firemen's Insurance Fund. (See page 582.)
While Brooklyn has a larger population than Chicago or Boston, it had at this time (1882) only half as much appara- tus as either of them, while it spends on its fire department from $116,000 to $185,000 less per annum; while New York, with nearly double the population, has about four times as much apparatus and spends four times as much money.
Department of Health .- Inspection revealed 8,000 people in the city who had never been vaccinated. The vaccinators visited 7,000 houses, and offered vaccination to 15,000 fam- ilies, and 12,000 persons were vaccinated. In 1881, the vac- cinators visited 41,068 families and vaccinated 16,936 persons. During the past year, there were 3,200 complaints made, by citizens, of nuisances. The Board of Healthof Brooklyn were the first to recommend that the construction of the drainage works of dwellings should be made by statute the subject of a proper official supervision and inspection, and there are strict laws regulating the size and thickness of walls, the thickness of beams, etc., etc. The law also provides that no building shall be erected until their plans have been sub- mitted to, and approved by, the Board of Health.
About the year 1877, the attention of the Health Department was called to the pumps in the city (about 311) and the water therein. This was originated by an examination of thirteen cases of typhoid fever, eight of which were attributed to the use of pump water. While the relation between the disease and the well water was not absolutely demonstrated, the conclusion seemed irresistible that some such relation ex- isted, and the wells were closed. (See, also, page 568.)
Impure and adulterated milk, diseased and tainted meats, have been the constant objects of watchfulness on the part of the inspectors of the Board of Health.
New Plumbing Law (referred to on page 568) .- In 1881, the legislature passed au act entitled "An act to secure the Regis- tration of Plumbers and the Supervision of Plumbing and Drainage in the cities of New York and Brooklyn." In April, 1882, the Common Council of Brooklyn made an appro- priation of $2,500 for the enforcement of this law, and it is now being carried out by plumbers generally. "This," says Commissioner Raymond, " is one of the most important acts ever passed for the preservation of health in a populous city. Previous to its enforcement, there was no restriction in the manner in which plumbing should be done, and the builder or plumber had no difficulty in palming off upon the public work which was constructed without the least regard to anything except a quick sale and a speedy return of the money invested. Some of the most recently constructed houses were found, for want of proper plumbing, a constant invitation for disease to enter and do its destructive work. Under the provisions of this act, all the plumbing and drain- age of new buildings must be done in accordance with plans previously approved by the Department of Health, aud the work must be left uncovered until approved by an inspector.
Ambulance Service .- (See page 567.)
Department of Buildings .- This Department was formerly connected, as we have seen (page 580), with the Fire Depart- ment. Perhaps no department under the present city char- ter more thoroughly exhibits the growth and prosperity of the city than this. Every building in the municipality is erected under a permit issued by the Commissioner of Build- ings. The following is the number of permits issued during the year ending November 30, 1881, with the estimated costs of the buildings, their character and the material of which they are constructed, Cost, total, of all buildings erected, $9,115,232.
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Character of Buildings .- Private dwellings, 895; dwellings for from two to four families, 339; stores and dwellings, 133, tenement houses, 47; carpenter and work shops, 73; stables, 148; factories, 59; stores, 24; billiard room, 1; store-houses, 6; foundries, 7; office buildings, 12; club-houses, 2; boiler- houses, 14; brewery, 1; smoke-house, 1; coal pocket, 1; ice- house, 1; green-houses, 8; engine-rooms, 2; churches, 4; slaughter-houses, 2; pump-room, 1; hospital 1; storage- sheds, 71; theatre, 1; elevators, 2; house, 1; asylum, 1; public school, 1; moulding mill, 1; ferry-house, 1; railroad depots, 4; convent, 1. kiln, 1.
Material of buildings erected in each ward, during the year.
WARDS
BRICK.
FRAME.
TO TA L.
First.
25
2
27
Second
8
10
Third ..
14
14
Fourth
11
11
Fifth
1
1
2
Sixth
24
24
Seventh
68
17
85
Elghth
21
63
84
Ninth
15
7
22
Tenth
11
11
Twelfth.
21
20
41
Thirteenth.
13
13
Fourteenth
17
40
Fifteenth
15
20
35
Sixteenth
14
30
44
Seventeenth
13
69
82
Eighteenth ..
24
182
206
Nineteenth
99
17
116
Twenty-first
69
121
190
Twenty-second
206
37
212
Twenty-fourth
20
51
71
Twenty-fifth
107
35
142
Totals
1 157
710
1,867
BUILDINGS. HOW
OCCUPIED.
1 story.
2 stories.
2 stories
basement.
3 stories.
1 3 stories
basement.
4 stories.
4 stories
basement.
5 stories.
6 stories.
Dwellings.
38
196
391
106
321
17
17
Stores & dwel'gs
26
. .
33
Flats
3
55
102
1
:
Of the above number of buildings 579 were brown-stone fronts.
Number of applications made, and permits granted for use of party walls, 236; for moving buildings, alterations, etc., 1,035. There were, during this year, 98 buildings provided with fire escapes.
Permits for new buildings from Dec. 1, 1881, to Dec. 1, 1882. 2,376; permits for new buildings from Dec. 1, 1880, to Dec. 1, 1881, 1,939; increase over last year, 437; estimated cost of new buildings from Dec. 1, 1881, to Dec. 1, 1882, $10,386,263: estimated cost of new buildings from Dec. 1, 1880, to Dec. 1, 1881, $9,498,347; increase over last year, $887,916.
Character of the Buildings .- Private dwellings, 1,096; dwellings containing from four to two families, 454; stores and dwellings, 164; tenement houses, 158; carpenter and work shops, 96; stables, 148; storage sheds, 61; factories, 78; foundries, 6; ice houses, 3; office buildings, 21; stores, 19; store houses, 15; school houses, 5; packing houses, 1; churches, 9; boiler houses, 10; convent, 1; railroad depots, 3; club house, 1; hotel, 1; buildings for manufacturing gas, 5; halls, 4; engine rooms, 4; green houses, 3; homes, 2; billiard room, 1; breweries, 2; hospitals, 4; mills, 1.
BUILDINGS.
HOW OCCUPIED.
9 | 1 Story.
417
435
213
248
3
Stores and dwellings
13
1
88
27
3
Tenement houses.
Flats ..
3
83
1
60
Stores and flats
Factories
18
19
1
It is a singular fact that most of the buildings erected since 1874 are in seven wards in the city. and we give below these wards as follows:
WARDS.
1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881
11 mos of 1882
Seventh
109
118
135
135
106
123
97
98
1,048
Eighteenth
49
116
125
129
145
176
125
119
93
1,038
Twenty-first.
126
234
145
132
162
137
173
233
200
1.542
Twenty-second.
81
155
185
164
200
199
209
251
237
1,681
Twenty-third.
184
123
154
147
160
65
111
256
191
1,311
Twenty-fifth
99
148
200
131
175
145
99
155
233
1,385
From January 1, 1874, to December 1, 1882, permits for new buildings were granted as follows: 1874, 1,344; 1815, 1,648; 1876, 1,743; 1877, 1,708; 1878, 1,748; 1879, 1,703; 1880, 1,705; 1881, 2,005; 1882, 2,238. During the year ending De- cember 1, 1882, 167 buildings were provided with fire escapes; 26 unsafe buildings removed; 177 unsafe buildings repaired; 1,840 new buildings completed; cost of new buildings com- pleted was $8,169,471; number of buildings in course of erec- tion, 660.
The biography and portrait of Mr. WILLIAM H. GAYLOR, the present efficient and popular Commissioner of Buildings, will be found on page 580 Previous to the organization of this department, there were Fire Wardens and Fire Marshals, whose functions (analogous to those of the present Commis- sioner of Buildings) are stated on page 580, together with a list of such officers.
Department of Parks .- As the various parks in the city of Brooklyn have already been referred to (page 595), we shall give simply a brief statistical history. There are 582.57 acres, or thereabouts, devoted to parks in the municipality of Brooklyn, divided as follows: Prospect Park, 521.87; Wash- ington Park, 30.16; City Hall Park, 1.61; City Park, 7.39; Carroll Park, 1.86; Zindle Park, number of acres not given; Tompkins Park, 7.82; Park on Heights, 0.86; Cumberland Street Park, number of acres not given; Reservoir property at Prospect Park, 11; total, 582.57.
1881 .- Expended for the maintenance of these parks, during year ending November 30, 1881, $97,123.84, to wit : Prospect Park, $87,038.07; Washington Park, $4,752.82; Car- roll Park, $4,567.07; City Park, $1,825.92; City Hall Park, $1,657.39; Tompkins Park, $1,658.39; Cumberland Street Park, $71.37; Zindel Park, $7.25.
Revenue derived from the public parks of the city during the year ending November 30, 1881: From boats and skating, $1,000; rents, $3,659; sale of water, $1,882.34; care of wagons, baby-carriages, &c., $27.75; sale of ice, $117.30; royalty on Carousal, $385.15; camera obscura, $31.50; stray animals, $7; labor. $2; total, $7,112.04.
There was paid for music in Prospect Park during 1881 the sum of $1,500. Park Police salaries amounted to $1,502.66. Salaries of park officers and employees during 1881, $8,500.20. Arrests (1881), 112; lost children found and re- turned to parents, 15. There were 3,000 permits issued for the use of portions of the pic-nic woods and for the parade grounds for base-ball, cricket, foot-ball, lacrosse and other field sports.
Basement.|
4 Stories.
4 Stories &
+ | Basement
5 Stories.
| 5 Stories &
Basement.
6 Stories.
8 Stories.
10 Stories.
2 Stories.
| 2 Stories &
Basement.
3 Stories.
3 Stories &
19
1
10
1
60
-. 1
12
12
127 189
418
1,572
Nineteenth
122
141
102
129
104.
103
. .
13
83
Eleventh
Twentieth
23
23
Twenty-third
248
71
30
1
Tenements.
..
248
and
and
and
83
1
1
Dwellings
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Hon. J. S. T. STRANAHAN, President of the Park Commis- ston, in his report for 1881, remarks of the force employed in the parks: " It may safely be said that 80 per cent. of the force then engaged had been in the employ of the Commis- sioners for over five years, the majority of them for over ten years. This force, which at present contains (including the officers) about 42 men, is scarcely adequate for the wide range of service which our necessities demand of it. With this small force, we are required to provide police surveil- lance, night and day, for Prospect Park and Washington Park (these two being the most important and exacting in their requirements), Carroll Park, Tompkins Park, the City Park, the Parade Ground, the Parkway and Coney Island." He also especially notes the storm of January 21, 1881, "con- sisting of rain and sleet, followed by a very low temperature, which, within the space of ten hours, effected great destruc- tion upon the trees and beautiful shrubs in the park. These were so weighted down with ice upon every branch and twig, as to seriously damage many valuable plants. Fifty wagon loads of broken limbs and other debris, resulting from the effects of the storm, were gathered in the Park."
1882 .- A new Board of Park Commissioners was appointed June 17, 1882. The Hon. J. S. T. STRANAHAN retired from the office of President of the Commission at that time, after twenty-two years' gratuitous service to the city. And when, subsequently, December 12, 1882, the City Comptroller, Hon. Ludwig Semler, informed Mr. Stranahan that an exami- nation of the account of the Commission, up to the 17th day of June, then last, showed that there was a deficiency in the account to the credit to the city of $10,605.42, Mr. Stranahan replied on the same day, stating that "acting upon the prin- ciples by which I have been guided during twenty-two years' gratuitous service to the city, I hand to you my check for $10,605.42. to cover such deficiency, so that the books and ac- counts of the Park Commission can be correctly balanced."*
It is proper to say that these deficiencies were distributed over transactions extending through twenty-two years, and many of them only apparent deficiencies. That there should be inaccuracies in transactions running through so long a period, and in which some eight millions of dollars were in- volved, is natural, and forms an interesting and instructive in- cident in the financial history of the Department of Parks. The matter being thus satisfactorily and happily adjusted, the new Commissioners proceeded to discharge their duties under most favorable and prosperous circumstances.
Maintenance of the Parks. This, for the year 1882, was $108,482.42. There was appropriated by the Common Council for the benefit of the parks during the year, $100.000. Paid into the City Treasury, from the Park revenue, as follows: balance received from former board, $2,859.08; received pres- ent board, $5,623.36; total, $108,482.44. Received from the Park Commissioners, from January 1, 1865, to June 17, 1882, $8,438,- 799.56; deposited in addition to this, amounts not entered in cash-book in 1868, 67 cents; 1870, $75; 1872, $1,100.60: Total, $1,176.27; increasing the general receipts to, $8,439,- 975.83; amounts paid and cash drawn, $8,402,212.44; balance, $37,763.39. Total amount of deposits, $8,413,184.42; total amount of checks drawn, $8,386,025.45; balance, $27,158.97; deficiency, $10,605.42.
The above statistical statement is important, as explaining in a most satisfactory manner, the deficiency of $10,605.42,
found on the 17th of June, 1882, and for which Mr. Stranahan gave his check. It also shows the financial condition of the parks of the city, June, 7, 1882, 18 years ending.
License Bureau .- On April 5,1882, the ordinance regulating the issuing of licenses was amended by the Common Council; and certain classes of business and vehicles, which were re- quired to be licensed in former years, were omitted, reducing the classes of license to one-third. Those occupations, etc., subject to license during the years 1881-1882, were as follows: Public carts, dirt carts, trucks and express wagons, peddlers and hawkers, junk dealers, public hacks and cabs, railroad cars, billiard tables, hack and stage drivers, pawn brokers, auctioneers, intelligence offices, stages, bowling alleys, shoot- ing galleries, slaughter houses, ticket speculators, theaters, circuses, shows, fireworks, (wholesale and retail,) dogs, exhi- bitions, hand carts, fish mongers, meat dealers, chimney sweeps, undertakers, real estate agents, charcoal venders, public porters, fish and fruits.
Total fees received for licenses during 1881, $44,733.10; for 1882, $51.914.40; showing an increase of $7,181.30 over 1881.
The Truant Home .- This institution was established by an act of the Legislature passed April 12, 1853, entitled "an act to provide for the care and instruction of idle and truant chil- dren." This act gives the corporate authorities of every city and incorporated village the right to "restrain, take care of, and properly educate all idle and truant children, between the ages of five and fourteen, within their limits." Very soon after the passage of this act (1853), the Truant Home (then known as the Juvenile Home of Industry), was established in the city of Brooklyn. It was soon apparent that the institu- tion was to be both successful and useful. In 1857, it was re- moved to the Old Penitentiary, on Clove road, Flatbush, where it remained until the corporation purchased the J. J. Sneideker Hotel property, on the Gowanusroad (eleven acres, costing $25,000), to which the institution was removed.
The Home has continued to meet the full expectation of its founders, and has proved an excellent auxiliary to the city's system of compulsory education. It is, also, a school where these children are educated in those primary branches de- signed to prepare them for future usefulness.
The boys are taught salutary habits of industry in work- ing on the small farm and garden belonging to it. The course of study pursued in the institution embraces the same studies as those pursued in the graded schools in the city.
Their religious education is not neglected. On the Sabbath, there is a Sunday-school for the Protestant boys, and another for the Catholic boys, conducted by lay teachers of their re- spective denominations, not otherwise connected with the institution.
The duties of the teachers are not merely to give the scholar instruction, but also to see that his behavior is made such as can be approved of by all; and to inculcate, by kind- ness, habits of truthfulness, cleanliness, industry, and many other traits of character heretofore unknown to the majority of boys received into institutions of this description. On the whole, the Truant Home is, and has been for many years, one of the institutions of the municipality of Brooklyn, of which, as a reformatory, as a place of education, and a home for unfortunate children, it may justly be proud.
The officers of the Home are a Superitendent and Matron, teachers, and a farmer, seamstress, watchman, etc. The Su- perintendents of the Home, since the inception, have been: Messrs. Gerry ; A. C. Van Epps ; Charles Demarest ; John A Galvin ; Win. A. McTammany. The average number of boys under instruction is 60. The expenses of maintenance were, in 1881, $12,565.36 (including a balance of $1,043.36 from previous year); 1882, $11,522.
*It was never supposed that this deficiency was in any manner at- tributable to Mr. Stranahan. When on investigating the books, and learning that it did exist, he gave his check for the amount, for the purpose of having the books balanced at the close of his administra- tion, expecting, of course, to be properly reimbursed after a full invest- igation of the deficiency and-its nature.
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The Inebriates' Home. Statistics .- During year ending October 31, 1881, 511 cases were treated, including 123 patients remaining in the Home November 1, 1880, of which 99 were males, 24 females. Of the 511, 72 were re-admissions. Whole number of patients treated, 439; males, 375; females, 64 ; 165 males were married; females, 31. The oldest patient was 65 years, the youngest 19.
During the year ending October 31, 1881, the Home re- ceived from the City Comptroller, $27,435, and from the towns in the county of Kings, $1,766.96, amounting in all to $29,201.96.
A marked increase of "boarders" indicated that the insti- tution was appreciated and constantly widening its sphere and nsefulness.
The average time of a patient's residence in the Home is es- timated at about five months. There was received from
boarder patients during the year, $19,784.43, as against $12,- 274.27 the year previous.
1882 .- This year was advanced to the Home, from the Comptroller of the city, the sum of $34,147.50; and, from the towns in the connty of Kings, $1,752.29; making a total of $35.899.79. There was received from boarder patients dur- ing the year, $32,372.14, an excess of $19,734.43 of the year previons.
There were remaining in the Home, November 1, 1881, 117 patients ; 365 were discharged during the year ; 4 deaths ; 3 transferred to 'other institutions ; total, 372. Remaining in tlie Home November 1, 1883, 133 ; males, 118; females, 15. The total number treated during the year was 505; of these, 117 were married males ; 31 married females. Total, males. 442; females, 63. The oldest patient 65, the youngest, 19 years.
A LIST OF THE
MAYORS, PRESIDENTS OF COMMON COUNCIL, AND CITY OFFICERS OF THE
CITY OF BROOKLYN,
SINCE THE CONSOLIDATION OF BROOKLYN, WILLIAMSBURGH AND BUSHWICK.
1855. Mayor, George Hall; President of Common Coun- cil, D. P. Barnard ; Comptroller, W. B. Lewis ; Corporation Council, N. F. Waring ; Auditor, D. L. Northrup, Clerk, Wm. H. Bishop.
1857. Mayor, Samuel S. Powell ; President Common Council, Edward B. Pierson ; Comptroller, W. B. Lewis; Counselor, R. C. Barnard ; Auditor, D. L. Northrup ; Clerk, Wm. H. Bishop.
1858. Mayor, S. S. Powell ; President Common. Council, E. B. Pierson; Comptroller, W. B. Lewis; Counselor, Samuel E. Johnson ; Auditor, D. L. Northrup ; Clerk, Wm. H. Bishop.
1859. Mayor, S. S. Powell ; President Common Council, Martin Kalbfleisch ; Comptroller, Charles H, Collins ; Coun- selor, Alex. McCue; Auditor, John Doherty; Clerk, Wm. H. Bishop.
1860. Mayor, S. S. Powell ; President Common Council, Martin Kalbfleisch ; Comptroller, Charles II. Collins ; Coun- selor, Alex. Mc Jue; Auditor, John Doherty; Clerk, Wm. H. Bishop.
1861. Mayor, Martin Kalbfleisch ; President Common Council, Alfred M. Wood ; Comptroller, Charles H. Collins ; Counselor, Alex, McCue; Auditor, John Doherty ; Clerk, Wm. H. Bishop.
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