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broad driveway, contemplated by the general plan, running 

 through the fruticetum, across the river above the "blue 

 bridge " and thence to Bleecker Street, is constructed. The 

 portion, however, from Bleecker Street to the southern boun- 

 dary, has been built full width just as called for by the gen- 

 eral plan, with the exception of a few hundred feet near the 

 Lorillard Mansion where the roadway was narrowed in order 

 to save existing trees. The cost of this Hart contract will be 

 about $13,000 ; work is being continued on it under consider- 

 able disadvantage during the winter, but it should be com- 

 pleted very early in the spring. The length of this road 

 within the Garden is about 3,600 feet; it extends beyond our 

 southern boundary past the Lorillard Mansion to Pelham 

 Parkway, furnishing a very beautiful drive. 



Under an appropriation of $200,000 made by the city during 

 last vear, finally confirmed by the Board of Aldermen on 

 December 11, 1900, the Commissioner of Parks awarded 

 to Mr. John B. Devlin on January 3, 1901, a contract for 

 the building of the driveways and paths, around the conserva- 

 tories, south and west of the Southern Boulevard, in accord- 

 ance with the plan formerly approved by him and by the 

 Board of Managers. This contract provides for the building 

 of a traffic road from the power house along the southern 

 boundary of the Garden, about 40 feet from the property of St. 

 John's College to the Southern Boulevard where that road 

 enters the Garden from the south ; this traffic road will replace 

 the straight portion of the Southern Boulevard as it now runs 

 between the conservatories and the museum ; the contract 

 will also provide a park driveway between the conservatories 

 and the St. John's College property, as indicated on our 

 general plan ; it also provides for all the grading necessary 

 to place the conservatories on a low terrace, as originally 

 designed, and for the reconstruction of the area through which 

 the straight portion of the Southern Boulevard now runs, to 

 approximately its original surface, by filling in over the old 

 road, and other modifications of the present surface. It is 

 believed that in the development of the Garden this is one of 



