Review of reviews and world's work . ranahan, of Brooklyn, is vice-presi-dent. The labors of the commissionhave attracted great local attention,and the present legislature has been asked tomake an appropriation for its further work, and tosanction a submission of the main question at aspecial election to the voters of the cities and areasalready specified. Unexpected opposition has beenmet at Albany, but a temporary back-set only ad-vertises the movement and makes its early successthe more certain. MR. GREENS SERVICES AS A CITY-MAKER. The great authority upon this question is His arg
Review of reviews and world's work . ranahan, of Brooklyn, is vice-presi-dent. The labors of the commissionhave attracted great local attention,and the present legislature has been asked tomake an appropriation for its further work, and tosanction a submission of the main question at aspecial election to the voters of the cities and areasalready specified. Unexpected opposition has beenmet at Albany, but a temporary back-set only ad-vertises the movement and makes its early successthe more certain. MR. GREENS SERVICES AS A CITY-MAKER. The great authority upon this question is His arguments and statements have beenmasterly and unanswerable. Perhaj)s no other citi-zen of New York so completely typifies the broadmunicipal spirit as does Andrew H. Green, and cer-tainly no other has been so closely identified withthose public works, , and reforms of thepast thirty years that are most creditable to the cityof New York. His present efforts for consolidationonly revive a plan which he began to advocate more. HOX. ANDREW H. ,Chairman of the (iivater New York Commission. than twenty years ago. His prominence in NewYork City affairs began in about 1857, when as presi-dent of the Board of Education he gave an impetusto the educational system to which it has alwaysowed much. While president of the Board of Edu-cation he was made a member of the commissiona])pointed to lay out Central Park. He was treas-urer of the commission, and as the work progressedhe became also its president, and afterward, underthe title of Comptroller of the Park,he assumed ex-ecutive duties which gave him almost exclusive re-sponsibility and authority. The work of the Boardof Park , then a State board, com-mended itself so highly that this body was chargedby the legislature with various tasks and functionsnot originally intended. Powers were conferredupon it to lay out the north end of the island and tosurvey the lower part of Westchester County, to de-vise ])lan
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