24. No one shall fire or carry any firearm, firecracker, torpedo or fireworks, nor make a fire, nor make any oration, nor conduct any religious or other meeting or ceremony within any of the parks, parkways, squares or places in The City of New York under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks without special permission from the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

25. No one shall enter or leave the parks except at the established entranceways; nor shall any one enter or remain therein after twelve o'clock at night, except as, on special occasions, use thereof may be authorized beyond the regular hours.

26. The drives shall be used only by persons in pleasure vehicles, on bicycles, or on horseback; the bridle-paths only by persons on horseback. Animals to be used on either shall be well broken, and constantly held in such control that they may be easily and quickly turned or stopped; they shall not be allowed to move at a rate of speed on the drives or bridlepaths of more than eight miles an hour; and when it shall be deemed necessary to safety, good order, or the general convenience that the speed of an animal or vehicle should be checked, or that it should be stopped, or its course altered, and the officers on duty shall so direct, by gesture or otherwise, such direction shall be obeyed; and no horse or other beast of burden nor automobile shall be driven or suffered to stand anywhere except on the drive or bridle-path.

27. No hackney coach or other vehicle for hire shall stand within the public parks, parkways, squares or places under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks for the purpose of taking up passengers, other than those whom it has brought in, excepting with the permission of the Commissioner having jurisdiction. No public omnibus or express wagon, and no wagon, cart or other vehicle, carrying or ordinarily used to carry merchandise, goods, tools or rubbish shall enter such public parks, parkways, squares or places without permission of the Commissioner having jurisdiction, excepting upon traffic roads provided for the purpose. No fire engine or other apparatus on wheels for extinguishing fire shall enter or be allowed upon any part of the park excepting the Transverse and Traffic roads.

28. No military or target company and no civic, funeral or other procession, or a detachment of a procession, and no hearse or other vehicle, or person carrying the body of a dead person shall enter or be allowed on any part of the public parks, except by the permission of the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

29. No person shall bring into or carry within the parks any tree, shrub, plant or flower, nor any newly plucked branch or portion thereof without a permit from the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

30. No person shall solicit passengers for any coach or other vehicle for hire within or upon any of the parks, parkways, squares or places within the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks. All drivers or attendants of vehicles for hire standing upon or within any such parks, parkways, squares or places shall remain in close proximity to their vehicles while so standing, and shall not follow, solicit or importune any person entering or leaving the said parks, parkways, squares or places.

Ordinances Relating to the Use of Vehicles in the Public Parks, Parkways and Streets Under the Jurisdiction and Control of the Commissioners of Parks of The City of New York.

1. All vehicles must carry a lighted lamp, showing a white light ahead, from thirty minutes after sunset until thirty minutes before sunrise.

2. All vehicles and horsemen when passing another vehicle or horseman going in the same direction, must keep to the left and leave the vehicle or horseman they are passing on the right hand.

3. All vehicles or horsemen going at a walk or slow trot must keep near the curbstone or gutter on the right hand side of the road; those going more rapidly must keep nearer the middle of the road.

4. No vehicle shall stop for any purpose without drawing up to the curbstone or gutter, and always on the right hand side of the road.

5. Before pulling up and before crossing from one side to the other of the road or street the driver should signal to those behind him by raising his whip.

6. On all drives and parkways where grass plots divide the drive, all vehicles and horsemen must keep on the right hand side drive or bridle-path.

7. Drivers, riders and cyclists must not exceed a speed of eight miles an hour in the parks and parkways.

8. Cyclists must not coast in the parks, nor on the parkways, or bridle-paths, and must keep their feet on the pedals and their hands on the handle bars.

9. Cyclists must not mount or dismount, extreme right of the roads or bicycle paths.

except on the

10. All bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes or other vehicles of propulsion must be provided with a bicycle bell, not to exceed three inches in diameter.

11. Riding more than two abreast is prohibited.

12. Instruction in operating automobiles, bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes or other such vehicles of propulsion, and all trick or fancy riding on the same, is prohibited in the parks and parkways at all times.

13. Wheelmen shall not ride on the paths in any park; those walking upon the park paths may push their wheels

along said paths, but in no case shall the wheels be taken upon the turf.

14. The delivery of supplies to the residences of West Seventy-second street, West Eighty-sixth street, Riverside drive, West End avenue north of Seventieth street, Cathedral parkway and Morningside avenue West, in Manhattan, and the Shore road in Brooklyn, will be permitted in the forenoon, but no business vehicles shall enter upon or pass over said parkways after the hour of noon, except by special permission of the Commissioner having jurisdiction. In passing over the said parkways, business vehicles must go direct to place of delivery, must leave the said parkways without unnecessary delay, and by the shortest route- - the place of entry, if possible. The said parkways must not be used to enable business vehicles to reach places exterior to them. As to West End avenue, see ordinance in effect March 20, 1906, infra.

Ordinances Applying to the Harlem River Driveway.

1. The use of the Speedway is restricted to light vehicles of the classes known as buggies, runabouts, surreys and other like vehicles adapted to the speeding of light harness horses, seating not more than four persons and drawn by one or two horses, except by permission of the Commissioner having jurisdiction. Exercising carts may be used until one P. M. only.

2. Speeding on Sundays and holidays, and after three o'clock P. M. on other days, will be permitted in one direction from north to south only.

Turning is forbidden except at the ends of the driveway and at the bridges.

3. When not speeding, drivers must keep closely to the right hand side of the road and keep moving.

4. Pedestrians must not cross on the Speedway; subways are provided for that purpose.

5. Loud shouting to make horses break or to urge them on is strictly forbidden.

6. The use of hobbles, or other similar device or apparatus to fetter or connect the legs of horses, for the purpose of restricting or hampering their motion or gait, is forbidden upon the Harlem river driveway.

Rules and Regulations for Establishing Limits of Projection for Constructions on the Line of Riverside Drive.

1. No structure or construction of any description or any part thereof shall be placed or permitted on or under Riverside drive until working plans in duplicate, drawn to a scale of one-quarter inch to the foot, shall have been filed with the Department of Parks, with an application for the erection or construction of the said structure; said drawings to show elevations, floor plans and vertical sections of the extent of projections, and that the applicant has

received permission to erect the said projection, as shown on drawings from the Department of Parks.

A (a) Stoops or steps, courtyards and areas, or any part or appurtenance thereof shall not project in the avenue beyond the building line to the extent of more than five feet where the sidewalk is sixteen feet wide, seven feet where the sidewalk is twenty feet wide, eight feet where the sidewalk is twenty-five feet wide, and in proportion to the above where the sidewalk is between sixteen and twenty feet or between twenty and twenty-five feet.

(b) No stoop or steps shall be covered, except over the landing or platform at the top, nor shall they be inclosed except by an open railing not more than four feet in height.

B (a) Bay windows shall not project in the avenue beyond the building line to the extent of more than four feet.

(b) Bay windows, when allowed to project in the avenue, shall not occupy longitudinally with the avenue more than two-thirds of the width of the building from which they project.

C (a) No balcony, cornice or ornament shall project in the avenue beyond the house line to the extent of more than four feet.

(b) No balcony shall be inclosed on the front or side, except by a railing not over four feet in height.

D. No vault or other construction below the sidewalk shall be built except in such manner as shall leave the sewers, gas and water pipes, or space proposed to be occu pied by the same, free and uninclosed and in safe condition, nor in any case to extend in the clear beyond the curb line. The exclusive jurisdiction of the Department of Parks over Riverside avenue was sustained in Ackerman VS. True, 175

N. Y. 353.

Ordinance Adopted, Pursuant to Chapter 453 of the Laws of 1902. 1. No shade or ornamental tree or shrub shall be planted in any of the streets, avenues or public thoroughfares of The City of New York until such tree or shrub shall have been first approved by a duly appointed employee or expert of the Commissioner having jurisdiction, and a permit granted therefor.

2. No holes or excavation shall be prepared for planting any tree or shrub unless sufficient mould of satisfactory quality shall be used, and a duly appointed employee or expert of the Department of Parks shall report that the conditions, such as the absence of poisonous gas and deleterious substances, have been made satisfactory and a permit granted therefor.

3. No stem, branch or leaf of any such tree or shrub shall be cut, broken or otherwise disturbed until a permit has been granted by the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

4. No root of any such tree or shrub shall be disturbed or interfered with in any way by any individual or any officer or employee of a public or private corporation until

a permit shall have been issued therefor by the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

5. The surface of the ground within three feet of any tree or shrub growing on any street, avenue or other public thoroughfare shall not be cultivated, fertilized, paved, or given any treatment whatever, except under permit granted of the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

6. It shall not be lawful to attach or maintain any guy rope, cable or other contrivance to any tree or shrub, or to use the same in connection with any banner, transparency, or any business purpose whatever, except under a permit from the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

7. It shall not be lawful to cut, deface, mutilate, or in any way misuse, any tree or shrub, nor shall any horse or other animal be permitted to stand in a manner or position where it may or shall cut, deface or mutilate any tree or shrub, nor shall any building material or other material of any kind or any debris be piled or maintained against any tree or shrub.

8. It shall not be lawful to attach or string any electric or other wire, or to adjust or carry the same into or over any park or parkway, except under a permit from the Commissioner having jurisdiction.

9. Any person violating the foregoing ordinances of chapter 453 of the Laws of 1902, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof before a city magistrate be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or in default of payment of such fine, by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Rules and Regulations Relating to Projections and Line of Curb and Surface Constructions, Under Provisions of Section 612 of the Greater New York Charter, as Amended by Chapter 723 of the Laws of 1901.

1. Each Commissioner may grant permits for the erection and maintenance of projections on any park, parkway, square or public place in his jurisdiction, and on all streets and avenues within a distance of 350 feet from the outer boundaries thereof, upon such terms and conditions and upon the making of such compensation to the city as in his discretion he may determine with respect to the particular locality.

2. Where permits have heretofore been granted upon the making of compensation and a new permit is desired to correct any irregularity, defect or supposed want of jurisdiction in the granting of such permit, a new permit may be granted without the making of further compensation.

3. Each Commissioner may determine the line of curb and the surface constructions of all streets and avenues lying within any park, parkway, square or public place in his jurisdiction or within a distance of 350 feet from the outer boundaries thereof as he may deem advisable accord