CITY OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN STREET PAVING AND MAINTENANCE A REPORT BY HENRY WELLES DURHAM CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE BUREAU OF HIGHWAYS DECEMBER 31, 1913 210980 MAY 26 1917 SRC ·D9 6371928 "They order," said I, "this matter better in France." "You have been in France?" said my gentleman, turning quick upon me, with the most civil triumph in the world. "Strange!" quoth I, debating the matter with myself, "that one-and-twenty miles sailing (for 'tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais) should give a man these rights. I'll look into them." |