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Museums in New York City

Source: World Almanac Questionnaire

American Academy of Arts and Letters-Broadway, between 155th and 156th Streets. Art exhibitions and museum; Terrace entrance. Closed from June 15 to Sept. 15 Open weekdays, 1 to 5 P.M.; Sundays and holidays, 2 to 5 P.M. Free. American Museum of Natural History-Central Park West at 79th St. Open weekdays and holidays, except as specified, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, New Year's and Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, 1-5 P.M. Free. American Numismatic Society-Broadway and 156th St. Open daily 2-5 P.M., except Sundays in July and August. Free.

Bache Collection, The-814 Fifth Ave. Admission by card on written application to the Custodian. Free.

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Garden), 1000 Washington Ave., Brooklyn. Garden hours: 8 A.M. to dusk; Sundays and holidays, 10 A.M. to dusk. Library hours: Monday to Friday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturdays, 9 A.M. to Noon. Library closed Saturdays, July 1 to September 15.

Botanical Garden, N. Y.-Bronx Park, north of Pelham Parkway, and at south terminus of Bronx River Parkway; also at Bronx Park Station of Third Avenue Elevated R.R. and at Botanical Garden Station of Harlem Division of NY. Central R.R. Open daily until half hour after sunset. Conservatories open 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. (Mar. 1-Nov. 1) and 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. (Nov. 1-Mar 1). Free.

Bronx Zoo (See Zoological Park).

Brooklyn Museum-Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue. Open daily, weekdays, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 1 P.M. to 6 P.M. Free. Brooklyn Children's Museum, 185 Brooklyn Ave. Open daily, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2-5 P.M. Free.

Cloisters, The (a branch of the Metropolitan Mu-
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seum of Art devoted to mediaeval art).
Tryon Park. Open daily 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.,
including holidays, except Christmas, then 1-5
P.M.; Sundays, 1-6 P.M. Mondays and Fridays,
25 cents; other days free.
Conference House Hyland Boulevard, Tottenville,
Staten Island. Open daily, except Monday, 10
A.M. to 6 P.M. Free. (Erected in 1680 by
Christopher Billopp); Peace Conference held on
Sept. 11, 1776, among Lord Howe, British, and
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward
Rutledge, American.

Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration
Cooper Square and 7th Street. Oct. 1 to April
30. Monday through Friday, 9 A.M. to 10 P.M.;
Saturday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. May 1 to Sept. 30,
Monday through Saturday, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Closed New Year's, Memorial Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Closed Saturdays during July and August. Free.
Dyckman House-Broadway and 204th St. Last
remaining farmhouse of the Dutch Colonial
Period, furnished and arranged as was the cus-
tom in that period. Open daily, except Mondays.
11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Free.
Folk Arts, The Museum of Has been acquired by
the New York Historical Society.
Fraunces Tavern-Broad and Pearl Sts.; Museum

of Revolutionary relics and paintings. Open 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. every day except Sunday. Free. On December 4, 1783, General George Washington bade the officers of the Continental Army farewell here. The building was erected in 1719 by Stephen De Lancey, bought in 1762 by Samuel Fraunces, who conducted it as a tavern. Frick Collection-1 East 70th St. Home of the late Henry C. Frick, enlarged and opened 1935 as a museum of paintings, sculpture, Limoges enamels, French and Chinese porcelains, period furniture, etc. Closed Monday, May 30, July 4 and December 25. Hours 10 to 5 on weekdays; 1 to 5 on Sundays and holidays. Staff lectures October to June; Sunday guest lectures and chamber music concerts during the winter. All free. Gracie Mansion-Carl Schurz Park, facing the East River between 88th and 89th Streets. Furniture by Chippendale, Duncan Phyfe, and early empire, up to 1830-35; paintings by English and American artists. Open daily, except Mondays, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Free. Grand Central Art Galleries-Sixth floor, Grand Central Terminal, East 42nd Street. Fifth Avenue Branch Gallery, Hotel Gotham, Fifth Ave. at 55th St. Open daily all year, 9:30 A.M. to

5:30 P.M.; closed Sundays. During summer
closed Saturdays and Sundays (May 15 to Oct.
15). Free.

Hamilton Grange-Home of Alexander Hamilton
built in 1802, at 287 Convent Avenue, near 141st
St. A museum of Hamilton and his time, by
The American Scenic and Historic Preservation
Society. Open weekdays, except holidays, 10
A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturdays 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.
Free.
Hayden Planetarium-81st Street near Central
Park West. Several demonstrations daily. Ad-
mission charged.

Hispanic Society of America-Spanish museum
and library, Broadway between 155th and 156th
Sts. Museum open 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. daily:
Sunday, 1 P.M. to 5 P.M., except Thanksgiving
and Christmas. Library open 1 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.,
except Sundays, Mondays and holidays, and
during August. Free.

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Jewish Theological Seminary Museum of Cere-
monial and Historical Objects-N. E.
Broadway and 122nd St. Open daily, except
Friday and Saturday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Jumel Mansion-(See Roger Morris House, Jumel

Mansion).

Master Institute of United Arts-310 Riverside Drive. School of all arts, including painting. music, drama, dance and allied arts; lectures, recitals, plays and general cultural events; Riverside Museum-Exhibitions of contemporary American art, also foreign exhibitions. Collection of oriental art and art objects. Open daily and Sundays, 1-5 P.M. Closed during June, July and August. Free.

Metropolitan Museum of Art-Fifth Ave. at 82d St. Open 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. daily, including holidays, except Christmas, then 1-5 P.M.; Sundays, 1-6 P.M. Free.

Morgan Library-(See Pierpont Morgan Library.) Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation -Broadway and 155th St. Open daily, 2 P.M. to 5 P.M. (except Sundays and holidays). Closed during July and August. Free.

Museum of the City of New York, Inc.-Fifth Ave at 103rd St. Open daily, except Tuesdays, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 1 P.M. to 5 P.M.; open every holiday from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., except Christmas, when closed. Free.

Museum of Living Art-New York University, 100 Washington Square, east. A. E. Gallatin collection of 20th Century paintings. Open 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. weekdays; 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., Saturdays: closed on Sundays and legal holidays. Free. Museum of Modern Art-11 West 53rd Street. Frequently changing exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, industrial design and the film. Open weekdays, 10 A M. to 6 P.M. (Wednesdays, 10 A.M. to 10 P.M.); Sundays, 12 noon to 6 P.M. Admission, 25 cents; children 10 cents at all times. Reduced admission rate for groups of ten or more.

New York Historical Society Gallery and Museum -Central Park West, between 76th and 77th Streets. Library open weekdays 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. and on holidays 1-5 P. M.; closed Sundays. Museum: 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., Sundays, 1-5 P.M.; closed Mondays; also closed during month of August and on July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's; open on other holidays, 1-5 P.M. Free.

New York Museum of Science and IndustryRCA Building, Rockefeller Center. Open 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. every day in the year. Admission, adults, 25 cents; children under 16, 10 cents. Over 2,000 exhibits, most of them operated by push buttons, demonstrate and explain the latest developments and achievements of modern science and industry against a background of their historic origins. New York Public Library-5th Ave. and 42nd St. (Paintings, etchings, prints, rare books, etc.; reference library of over 2,800,000 books.) Open daily, 9 A.M. to 10 P.M.; Sundays, 1-10 P.M. Free. Old Merchant's House (Seabury Tredwell residence) 29 East 4th St., between Lafayette St. and Bowery. Built 1830. Unaltered example Georgian period architecture with original contents. Open daily 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Sundays and holidays. 1 to 5 P.M. Admission 50c. Pierpont Morgan Library-33 East 36th Street -Open to the public, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Daily, except Sundays, Legal Holidays and month ci August. The Reading Room is open daily except Saturday afternoon, Sundays, legal holidays, and the month of August, 9 A.M. to 4:45 P.M. Free. (Illuminated manuscripts, master drawings, bind

ings, etchings and mezzotints, printed books,
from the 15th to the 19th century, authors'
autograph manuscripts, historical letters and
documents, etc.)

Poe Cottage-Poe Park, Kingsbridge Road and
Grand Concourse, Bronx. Open daily from 10
A.M. to 1 P.M. and 2 P.M. to 5 P.M. except
Sundays. 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Closed all day Mon-
day. Winter, closes 4:30 P.M. Free.
Riverside Museum--(See Master Institute of United
Arts.)
Roger Morris House (Jumel Mansion) (Washing-
ton's Headquarters in 1776)-Edgecombe Ave. and
West 160th Street. Interesting pieces are the
original chandelier, clock made in 1760, Duncan
Phyfe table and chairs, Aaron Burr's desk and
linen squares embroidered by Martha Washing-
ton. The Hall Room contains many old and
interesting maps of New York and vicinity. Open
daily except Mondays, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.: 4:30
P M. during winter months. Free.
Roosevelt House-28 East 20th St. (restored birth-
place of Theodore Roosevelt). Open weekdays, ex-
cepting Mondays, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays
and holidays, 1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Closed on Mon-
days, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.
Wednesdays and Fridays, 25 cents; other times
free.

Staten Island Historical Society, Museum of-Court
and Center Streets, Richmond, Staten Island.
Collections portraying life of the Island-social,
economic, political. Open daily, 10 A.M. to 5
P.M.; Sundays and holidays, 2-5 P.M. Free.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Stuyvesant Place and Wall St., St. George. The
public museum is open on week days, 10 A.M.
to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2 P.M. to 5 P.M. Free.
Statue of Liberty-Bedloe's Island. Visitors may

ascend interior to crown of statue. Boat leaves Battery hourly, 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.. (Memorial Day to Labor Day, inclusive; other times, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M.; returns 9:30 AM. to 5:30 P.M.), returns hourly, 9:30 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. Round trip, adults 35 cents; children 20 cents.

Van Cortlandt House-Van Cortlandt Park, Broadway and 242d St., Bronx. Free (except Thursdays, 25c). Closed during the month of February. From Nov. 1 to Mar. 31, open from 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Other times, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sundays, 2 P.M. to 5 P.M.

Whitney Museum of American Art-10 West 8th St. Open from 1-5 P.M. Tuesday to Sunday inclusive. Closed Mondays. Holds exhibitions of contemporary American painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. Free.

Zoo, Brooklyn-Prospect Park. This collection occupies quarters on the Flatbush Avenue side of the park, near Empire Boulevard. Animal houses open from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M., Monday to Friday; 10 A.M. to 6 P.M., Saturdays, Sundays and holidays during Daylight Saving months; during winter season, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. (10 A M., Saturdays, Sundays and holidays). Free.

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Zoo, Central Park-Fifth Ave. and 64th St. Open daily, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.; summer months to 7 P.M. Exterior cages open 24 hours. Free. Zoological Park-Bronx Park. See page 442. Zoological Society, Staten Island-Barrett Park Zoo. West New Brighton, Staten Island. modern, educational zoo in a charmingly landscaped 8-acre park exhibiting small mammals, birds, reptiles and tropical fish, with facilities for school classes, children and adults natural history groups. Hours: Every day, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; during Daylight Saving Time, Sundays and holidays, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Free.

Principal Clubs in New York City

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The old subtreasury building at Wall and Broad Sts., New York City, was set aside in April, 1939. as a historic site and was dedicated on Feb. 21, 1940 as a national historic shrine-Federal Hall Memorial. The site is under the administration of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

Under the new Constitution, Congress was to meet at the Federal Hall March 4, 1789, but owing to the absence of a quorum, it did not formally assemble until April 6. On that date the votes in the Electoral College were opened and counted, and George Washington's election was confirmed. It was not until April 30 that Washington took the oath because of the distance that had to be Covered by coach and four from Mount Vernon, where the President-elect awaited formal notifica

tion. He arrived in New York, by ferry, April 23. Prior to its use as the first seat of the new Federal Government, Federal Hall, or as it was known before such use, City Hall, it had been used as the meeting place of Congress under the articles of Confederation since 1785. Before that, as far back as 1642, a barn-like structure occupied another site nearby at Coenties slip, on Pearl St., until 1697, when fears for the safety of the Dutch burgesses caused them to refuse to use it further. During 1699 the foundation of a new State House was laid on the present site of the subtreasury, and was finished the following year.

In the present building is contained in a bronze, glass covered frame, the brown slab upon which Washington stood out on the balcony of the building facing Broad Street, when he took the oath of office.

Rockefeller Center-Radio City

Source: Officials of the Development

Rockefeller Center, the largest privately-owned business and entertainment center in America, is located in the heart of New York City, from 48th to 51st Sts., between Fifth and Sixth Aves.; 75,000 men were directly employed in the construction of its 14 buildings. Construction of the first-the RKO Building-was started in Sept., 1931. The final rivet in the 14th and final building--the 20-story U. S. Rubber Co. structure at the N.E. corner of Sixth Ave. and 48th St.-was driven on November 1, 1939, by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

The surface area of Rockefeller Center covers 513.575 sq. ft., almost 12 acres, of which 445,600 sq. ft. are leased for a long period from Columbia University.

Five edifices in the west part of the CenterRadio City Music Hall (121 ft. tall), RKO Building (409 ft. tall), RCA Building (850 ft. tall), RCA Building West (243 ft. tall). Center Theatre (106 ft. tall), comprise "Radio City." The studios and headquarters of the National Broadcasting Co. are located in the RCA Building.

The 9 other Center structures are: The United States Rubber Co. Building (280 ft. tall), British Empire Building (130 ft. tall), La Maison Francaise (130 ft. tall), Palazzo d'Italia (85 ft. tall), International Building East (85 ft. tall), International Building (512 ft. tall), Time & Life Building (409 ft. tall), Associated Press Building (226 ft. tall), Eastern Air Lines Building (275 ft. tall).

The estimated daily population of Rockefeller Center, 151,000, is surpassed by the population of only 51 cities in the United States. More than 26,000 work there and 125,000 persons visit there every day. In the Center are the business offices of more than 2,000 companies and their subsidiaries, including the editorial offices of the Associated Press and many national publications. Practically every other important field of business is also represented in the tenancy.

scaped sky gardens; consulates of 19 foreign countries: an underground bonded warehouse; many special exhibitions; an employee gymnasium; and. in season, an outdoor skating pond, and a roller skating rink.

In gross area, 2,924,036 sq. ft., the RCA Building is the largest office structure in the world. It has a ground area of 99,770 sq. ft., with a frontage of 155 ft. on Sixth Ave., 472 ft. on 49th St., 468 ft. on 50th St., and 191 ft. on Rockefeller Plaza. On the 70th floor are the Observation Roofs, 904 ft. above mean high water level, and 850 ft. above the street. These roofs are built on three levels, are 200 ft. long and 20 ft. wide. From them may be seen a panoramic view of the city, its harbors and surroundings points of interest.

The Radio City Music Hall is the largest indoor theater in the world and seats 6,200 people.

A series of sub-surface Concourses-air-conditioned and flanked by specialty shops-provide pedestrian traffic facilities beneath the buildings and streets, so that it is possible for visitors to pass underground through most of the buildings; air-conditioning plants give the Center the world's largest air-conditioning system for human comfort in a commercial development.

The "Main Street" of Rockefeller Center is Rockefeller Plaza, a private street 60 feet wide, running between 48th and 51st Sts. 355 ft. west of Fifth Ave., and parallel to it. From Fifth Ave. a Promenade, the "Channel", leads down toward the Plaza and the RCA Building. It is 50 ft. wide and 200 ft. long and contains 6 shallow reflecting pools surrounded by shrubs and flowers. At the end of the Channel lies the Lower Plaza, a sunken court 125 ft. wide and 95 ft. long, used for ice skating in the winter, roller skating in the spring, and for an outdoor cafe in the summer. The Prometheus Fountain is located in the Lower Plaza.

Throughout the buildings there are more than 90 examples of the work of outstanding contemporary artists. These include sculpture in stone.

In the Center, are 25 restaurants; the New York Museum of Science and Industry; U. S. Post Office: government passport bureau; group of 12 land-glass and bronze, and murals in many media.

Grant's Tomb

Source: The Custodian

The monumental tomb of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. which overlooks the Hudson River, at Riverside Drive and 123rd St., Manhattan, was built by popular subscription at a cost of $600,000. The architect was John H. Duncan, who died (Oct. 1929).

The tomb, 150 feet high and 90 feet square, is surmounted by a circular cupola and pyramidal top. The exterior is of granite from Maine and New Hampshire quarries.

Ground was broken (April 27 [Grant's birthday], 1891) the cornerstone was laid (April 27, 1892) by President Benjamin Harrison, the body was removed from the temporary tomb (April 17, 1897) and placed in the Mausoleum; the dedication cere

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The recipients of the Foundation Medal (1937) were Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and Ambassador Norman H. Davis.

The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Library, formerly the League of Nations Association Library, is owned and controlled by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 8 W. 40th Street, New York. Librarian. Helen E. Wheeler.

The library is open to the public for reference service during office hours.

The foundation was established (Dec. 23, 1922) and its National headquarters are 8 W. 40th St. New York City. Executive Sect'y. Agnes F. Heaney

New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo)

Source: An Official "The greatest Zoo in the world," is the phrase generally applied to the New York Zoological Park, familiarly known to its 4,000,000 annual visitors as the Bronx Zoo.

The major buildings envisoned in the original plan were all erected by 1922 and for a period of 18 years the Zoo was comparatively static as far as new building and reconstruction along modern exhibition lines were concerned. The animal collections from the very beginning were outstanding among the great Zoos of the world and through the Twenties and Thirties they held their own but in exhibition technique some of the newer Zoos in the United States began to take the lead, with moated and barless enclosures and out-ofdoors exhibits.

Beginning in 1940 and continuing at an increased pace during 1941, the Bronx Zoo undertook a thorough revision of its plan of exhibition. The first major change was the creation of an African Plains exhibition, comprising about 5 acres of rolling land in the southeast corner of the Zoo. A flat, rocky island was carved out as a Lion Island and set off from the rest of the area by moats eighteen feet deep and twenty feet wide. On this 3-acre Lion Island five young lions are at apparently complete liberty-at actual liberty as far as the area of their island is concerned. Planting skillfully hides the moats and from the edge of their island the lions look out over the rest of the African Plains where eleven species of mammals and twelve species of birds roam at liberty. The public walk follows the perimeter of the African Plains, on top of the low wall that restrains the animals. Only African mammals and birds are exhibited in the area and in its fauna, as well as its planting, it is designed to give a lively picture of Africa.

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containing pet wild and domestic animals in houses designed from favorite storybooks, was a second innovation in the modernized Bronx Zoo. A large riding track where elephants, camels and llamas carry children in saddles and on howdahs was laid out and is in daily operation, even in winter except when the weather is too bad.

Restaurants in the Zoo have been completely modernized and in 1941 a new restaurant was added the Zoobar, serving beer on a plane treeshaded terrace while Viennese waltzes are played softly in the background. The Zoo now has four excellent, popular-priced restaurants.

In the late summer of 1941 modernization of the Elephant House was begun, all the heavy iron fences being taken down and replaced by low restraining walls. This important change in the appearance of the building will be completed early in 1942.

The public is now allowed to feed virtually all of the animals in the Zoo, and may throw butterfish to the sealions and pelicans, and feed prepared food pellets or cracked grain to other animals and birds.

Public walks and paths have been widened to take care of the vastly increased crowds; tractor trains salvaged from the World's Fair carry visitors through the grounds; photography by amateurs is not only permitted, but is encouraged, with photo contests each fall; a constant series of animal art and other special exhibitions takes place throughout the year in the Heads and Horns Museum; parking fields have been greatly enlarged.

The Bronx Zoo is open every day in the year from 10 o'clock on week-days (9 o'clock on. Sundays) until half an hour before sunset. Admission is free every day except Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, when it is 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children under 12. All holidays are free. AQUARIUM

A Children's Zoo, built on a child's scale and

THE The closing of the New York Aquarium at Battery Park on October 1, 1941, affected further changes at the Bronx Zoo as a very large proportion of the fishes, including the rare tropical species, were moved to the Zoo and installed in exhibition tanks in the Lion House.

The Aquarium had been under the management of the New York Zoological Society since 1902 and

its closing to make way for the approaches to the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel gave an opportunity for the two parts of the Society's collections to be exhibited together. Fishes that could not be accommodated at the Zoo were given to the aquariums of Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. Plans are being progressed for a new aquarium in another site.

The New York Botanical Garden

Source: An Official The New York Botanical Garden occupies 280 acres of diversified land in the northern and western parts of Bronx Park. The Bronx River, with a gorge and waterfall, is one of its natural features. Along the banks of the river is the Hemlock Grove, including more than 3,000 native

trees.

The gates of the Garden are open daily from 8 a.m. to one-half hour after sunset. Admission to the grounds and the display is free at all times.

The museum includes a herbarium of more than 2,000,000 pressed plant specimens; a reference library of nearly 50,000 bound volumes; exhibits of plants growing naturally within 100 miles of the City of New York; a synoptic collection, that is, specimens representing the principal plant families of the world; a display of the important economic plants of the world; and fossil plants, the ancient ancestors of the plants now living. There also is a collection of historic microscopes. The museum building contains also an auditorium in which popular illustrated lectures dealing with plants or their culture are given on Saturday afternoons during the greater part of the year. The main conservatories house thousands of

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tender plants from more southern climes. In the Floral Display House, also the Tropical Flower Garden, there is a continuous show from November through May. The Tropical Rain Forest, naturalistic plantings of begonias, aroids, aquatics, tropical ferns and of cacti and other succulent plants of the Old and New Worlds, as well as the collections of living plants that are useful to man, are on continuous display the year around.

Worthy of special mention are the rock garden with the adjacent flowering meadow and wild flower garden; the rose garden, flowering shrubs, hardy trees; also the seasonal outdoor displays. beginning in April with four or five acres of daffodils representing about 150 varieties, partly naturalized; followed by tulips, lilacs, irises, peonies. roses, daylilies, water-lilies and borders of annuals and perennials, and closing with asters and dahlias in September and October, and chrysanthemums in early November.

The Botanical Garden offers courses of study for amateur and professional gardeners, for teachers and nature study leaders, and for others who are interested in plant life and the history and literature of gardening.

Mayors of Brooklyn

Source: Official Records

Mayors

1 George Hall

2 Jonathan Trotter. 3 Jeremiah Johnson.

4 Cyrus P. Smith

5 Henry C. Murphy.

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11 Conklin Brush

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1855-1856 23 Seth Low..
1857-1860 24 Daniel D. Whitney..1886-1887
1861-1863 25 Alfred C. Chapin... 1888-1891
1864-186526 David A. Boody. 1892-1893

1878-1881 1882-1885

1866-1867 27 Charles A. Schieren.. 1894-1895 1868-187128 Fredk. W. Wurster..1896-1897 1872-1873

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1851-1852 21 Fredk. A. Schroeder.[1876-1877 1835-1836 12 Edward A. Lambert.1853-1854 22 James Howell.. 1837-1838 13 George Hall 1839-1841 14 Samuel S. Powell. 1842 15 Martin Kalbfleisch. 6 Joseph Sprague. 1843-1844 16 Alfred M. Wood.. 7 Thomas G. Talmage. 1845 17 Samuel Rooth 8Francis B. Stryker... 1846-1848 18 Martin Kalbfleisch. 9 Edward Copeland 19 Smauel S. Powell... 10 Samuel Smith.. 20 John W. Hunter.

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BROOKLYN

Dyker Beach (242.42). Seventh Ave., 86th St. 14th Ave., Ft. Hamilton Reserv. and Gravesend Bay. Course, 86th St. and 7th Ave., 18 holes, 6,624 yards, par 72. Club house, lockers, showers, cafe.

RICHMOND

Silver Lake (207), Forest Ave. to Clove Road. Course, Forest Ave. and Victory Blvd., 18 holes, 6,108 yards, par 70. Club house, lockers, showers, restaurant.

La Tourette (580), Forest Hill and London Road. Course, Forest Hill and London Road, 18 holes, 6,681 yards, par. 72. Club house, lockers, showers, restaurant.

FEES FOR PLAYING
Single

Season permit, $5, good on week days. round permit, Monday to Friday, inclusive, 75c; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, $1. Season lock

GOLF COURSES

ers, $5; daily lockers, 25c. Permit holders for the privilege of reserving starting time of Saturdays. Sundays and holidays for party of four, $1.

PARKS WITH SWIMMING POOLS

MANHATTAN

Hamilton Fish (4.13), Houston and Sheriff Sts.
Carmine St., No. 83.
Colonial (12.77), Bradhurst to Edgecome Ave.,
145th to W. 155th St.

Highbridge (118.77), 155th St. to Dyckman St.,
W. of Harlem River Driveway, Edgecombe and

Amsterdam Aves.

W. 60th St. near 11th Ave.

Thomas Jefferson (15.524), W. 111th St.. First
Ave., W. 114th St. and Harlem River.
Twenty-third St., at Ave. A.

John Jay, E. 77th St. and Cherokee Pl.
BRONX

Crotona (151.48), Crotona Park East, Fulton Ave., 3rd Ave., 177th St.
BROOKLYN

Sunset (24.50), 5th Ave., 7th Ave., 41st to 44th Sts.
McCarren (35.71). Nassau Ave., Lorimer
Leonard St., Bayard St., No. 12th St.

Astoria (56.25), East River, Ditmars. 19th St.,
Flushing Meadow Park, Amphitheatre, Grand

Faber, Richmond Terrace at Faber St.

Red Hook (56.36), Clinton, Bay and Henry Sts. St. Betsy Head (10.55), Hopkinson, Dumont Livonia Aves.

QUEENS
25th Ave.

Central Parkway and Horace Harding Boulevard.
RICHMOND

Tompkinsville, Victory Blvd. near Bay St.
ADMISSION FEES TO SWIMMING POOLS

Weekdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. there is a free period for children under 14 years of age. No adults admitted during free period. After 1 p.m. on weekdays and all day on Sundays Indoor Swimming Pools-Manhattan: Carmine St. and Sixth Ave.; 23rd St. and Ave. "A": 409 West 28th St.; 232 West 60th St.; 35 West 134th

Pelham Bay, Orchard Beach.

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and holidays there is a 10 cent charge for children under 14, and a 20 cent charge for children over 14 and adults.

St.; 324 East 54th St.

Brooklyn: Metropolitan and Bedford Aves.

PARKS WITH BEACHES

BRONX

QUEENS

Jacob Riis (234.50), Jamaica Boy, Atlantic Ocean and Beach 149th St. to 169th St., Neponsit.

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South Beach, F. D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach, Ft. Wadsworth to Liberty Ave.
Wolfe's Pond Park, Cornelia Street, east of Hylan Boulevard.

There are parking fields (25c a day) in Jacob Riis Park and Orchard Beach.

ADMISSION FEES TO BEACHES

There is a 25 cents parking charge for automo- and 25 cents for adults with 50 cents per person biles. The lockers cost 15 cents for a child locker. for dressing room.

OTHER CHIEF PARKS
MANHATTAN

Battery (21.2), Foot of Broadway and State St.
Bowling Green (0.517), Broadway and Whitehall
St. This park, established by the Common Coun-
cil in 1733 as a bowling green, was rededicated on
April 6, 1938 with a historical pageant.
Bryant (9.603) Fifth to Sixth Ave.. 40th St. to
42d St.

Central (840.01), Fifth Ave. to 8th Ave. (Central
Park West), 59th St. to 110th St.

"Cleopatra's Needle," the tall obelisk-covered monument in Central Park, close to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was erected at the Egyptian city of Heliopolis sometime between 1460 B.C., and 1600 B.C., to commemorate the victories of the Pharaoh, Thotmes, in his campaigns in Asia Minor and the Valley of the Euphrates. The Romans moved the obelisk to Alexandria, Egypt, where it was renamed in memory of the late Queen, Cleopatra, in 12 B.C. Presented by the Khedive

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