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was at once commenced on them on the site indicated by our 

 general plan, on the east side of the Garden near the stable 

 and nurseries. These buildings are now completed and are 

 being operated by us, although awaiting some slight changes 

 to be made by the contractor, they have not yet been for- 

 mally accepted by the Park Department. 



Drainage and Sewerage. 



In connection with the building of roads, the Department 

 of Parks constructed large earthenware pipe land-drains 

 along the driveways built during the year together with nu- 

 merous surface basins, all essentially as contemplated in our 

 general plan. I have supplemented this work by the con- 

 struction of several additional surface basins to drain low 

 places near the driveways. Two main drainage systems 

 have thus been established, the one extending from the tri- 

 angle south of the museum building northward to the rail- 

 road station, the other extending from a point east of the 

 curve in the Southern Boulevard northeast to the western lake ; 

 a portion of the roof water from the museum building now 

 flows into this second system ; as soon as the final grading 

 along this line is accomplished, sufficient water will be sup- 

 plied from ordinary rain storms to fill the two lakes. The 

 eastern one of these two lakes nearly east of the museum 

 building has been made by merely overflowing the former 

 marsh at this place, by means of a dam at its eastern end ; 

 an iron drainage pipe with a water gate has been placed in 

 this dam in order to permit the drawing off of the water should 

 occasion require it. The western lake has never yet been 

 completely filled with water, owing to the deficiency in rain- 

 fall since the portion of the main driveway separating the 

 two lakes, and serving as a dam for the western one, was com- 

 pleted. The two lakes are connected through the embank- 

 ment of the driveway by an iron pipe also with a water gate, 

 and an overflow earthenware pipe has been laid through the 

 embankment at a level calculated to give about 4 feet of 

 water in the western lake, at its deepest point ; it may, per- 



