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repairs and replacements for the coming season. Part of the 

 better results for this year must be attributed to the war garden 

 which occupied most of our vacant land and supplied a large 

 quantity of fresh vegetables, and part to a larger percentage of 

 boarders who paid the higher rate and remained later in the 

 season, including members of the Woods Hole Naval Section. 



In accordance with the vote of the Board of Trustees on 

 December 29, 1916, the executive committee adopted regulations 

 with reference to the development of the Gansett property and 

 to sales and leaseholds of parts thereof. Roads have been sur- 

 veyed through the property and partly built; about 1,000 feet 

 of six-inch water main has been laid; a provisional plan of sub- 

 division of the property into 63 lots has been adopted, prices 

 fixed, and part of it has been accurately surveyed for registration 

 with the land court of Massachusetts, in accordance with the 

 blue print submitted. The sale of five lots to three parties has 

 been negotiated for the sum of $5,235. It is also proposed to 

 reserve from sale for the present certain parts of the property 

 for possible construction by the Laboratory of cottages for rent. 

 Mr. Crane has furnished $5,613.56 for this work of development. 

 It is hoped that in the future the receipts from sales and lease- 

 holds will carry the property completely. 



In connection with the future development of this property, 

 Mr. Crane has also purchased the Newman lot 100 X 60 feet 

 with bungalow for the sum of $2,000 and presented it to the 

 Laboratory. 



We are farther and most deeply grateful to Mr. Crane for 

 presentation to the Laboratory of the harbor property known 

 as the Bar Neck Wharf, comprising 54,624.4 square feet with 

 355 feet of harbor frontage. This is a direct continuation of our 

 present frontage on the harbor, and for Laboratory purposes 

 undoubtedly the most valuable piece of real estate in Woods Hole. 

 This property has been conveyed to the Laboratory and was 

 accepted by the Board of Trustees at the summer meeting (1917) 

 subject to a lease of forty years to the Bar Neck Corporation, 

 with the provision, however, that they may be dispossessed at 

 any time by vote of our Board of Trustees that the Laboratory 

 requires the use of the property. 



