8 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
become a serious matter, and at times a burden to the trust, 
the Board decided in June last to improve a portion of a 
tract containing 30,000 front feet, lying just west of 
Grand avenue between Shaw and McRee avenues, and dur- 
ing the summer the full improvement of a portion of it, 
containing 8,400 front feet, was begun, and is almost fin- 
ished, at a cost of about $50,000, but too late to market it, 
although 1,136 front feet have already been sold at an 
average of $50.00 per front foot. We have also sold, to the 
Board of Education, almost an entire block in the western 
portion of the same tract, containing 1,314 front feet, at 
$50,000, upon which a large school building will be erected 
in the near future. 
We have expended during the year the following sums 
for street improvements, and the amount has been charged 
to real estate as a betterment: 
Baaw avetue—.......-.<. Resdway .. . #2... Shae 
Vandeventer avenue. . . Roadway and sidewalks. . 7,866 62 
Rana... .. Reatway.... - . 2 2 AS 
memes aves «<<. .  Sidewalls .-.- 6 aes 519 76 
Magnolia avenue. . eo. ere oe 400 88 
Alley, City Block 4980 . isa oa 998 95 
Alley, City Block 4935 . 1,433 29 
Alley, City Block 4919 . <... =..é- eee 173 18 
Lafayette avenue addition . ....... =. . . £985,500 38 
| SE era cere core . = ee 
A number of streets upon which the Board own property 
are either under construction, or will be in the spring, and 
will require an expenditure of approximately the following 
sums: 
Lawrence street . . . . Roadway... .. . . $10,000 00 
McRee avenue. ... . Roadway..... .. 415,000 00 
Portis avenue . . See SS Se eee 2,000 00 
South Kingshighway. > » Roadway... .3:-es,» ee 
eee; <  OR: . se 7,000 00 
$44,000 00 
No permanent improvements have been made ht the 
Garden, but $2.781.16 was expended for metal cases, furni- 
ture, etc., for the new Library Building. 
