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Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 57, no. 1476: June 27, 1896

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June 27, 189G Record and Guide. 1097 ■^#^^ AeX ■*' £STABUSHED'^/WPH2m>'1868, . Dieted pRfJkLEsTAiE.BuiLDiffc Ap.ci ambitious enterprising meu this must be a source of irritation aud annoy¬ ance. Where the contractor is a man of standing iu the trade .and of good credit, .something less than this should be asked of him. We do not suppo.se th.at tho heating contractor will ask that the guarantee clause shall be omitted from the contract altogether. If he is willing to meet the situation fairly he will. prob.ably, flnd the architects .and owners, notwithstanding tliat they have been called his "common foes,' ready to give proper consideration to any reasonable suggestion*. There are other ways of insuring the jiroper execution of a coutract, besides holding back payments nutil tho success of the work is jirovrd beyond peradventure. The best aud most satisfactory pi obablA is to only employ firms Avho h.ave a reputation to uiaintaiu au'l can no more afford to put in a bad job than the OAVuer can attord to have a bad job put iu. There is also the recourse to sureties who Avould be liable iu au action for damages if the work jiroved to be othei wise than what was called for by the con¬ tract. But tho first ot these suggestions is by far the best. CORLEARS HOOK PARK, formally opened this week, proves rather than satislies the need for opeu spaces in the croAvded downtown East Side districts. The appreciation ofthis resort by the crowded population of tho immediate vicinity is prompt .and hearty. It is alive with young and old people at almost all hours of the day, as would also be the ^Mnllierry Bend Park it it Avere ready. For this reason Comptroller Fitch's letter to the Park Board urging a more .speedy completion ol the last-n.amed park receives general apiuoval, although a little thought will .show that it is not the pieseut board that is to blame. They have been in office less than a year, including the long winter season iu Avhich little or nothiii,g could bi^ done. Mulberry Bend's preseut nusightliuess is oue of the results of the do-nothing policy of their predecessors, which ended in their resignation under severe press criticism, and the appointment of a new bo.ard with Colonel Cruger as president. The Park Board as now constituted is doing its best to give tlie public the benelit of the open spac(!s tlmt h.ave been secured, IE they deserve adviusc criticism at all, it is because, iu tho instances of these small parks especially, they are de¬ voting too much space to their horticultural and too little to