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red to, has likewise been delayed, and while recently deliv- 

 ered, cannot be put in position during the winter. 



Front Approaches to the Museum Building. Under a 

 contract awarded early in the year by the Commissioner of 

 Parks to the Wilson and Baillie Manufacturing Company, 

 work was begun in the spring, and was continued until stop- 

 ped by cold weather in December. Reference to the part of 

 this contract covering grading and road-building is made 

 elsewhere in this report. The contract includes in addition, 

 provision for the construction of a drinking fountain and mar- 

 ble seats on the south side of the driveway, a garden foun- 

 tain with similar marble seats on the north side of the driveway, 

 and the foundations, basins and copings for the statuary foun- 

 tain immediately in front of the Museum Building ; also the set- 

 ting of the additional ornamental terra-cotta on the pavilions of 

 the building itself. All this work is in accordance with plans 

 drawn by the architect, Mr. Gibson, and duly approved by you 

 and by the Commissioner of Parks. It has been exasperatingly 

 delayed, and the contractors have long ago exhausted their 

 time-limit under the contract ; the foundations of all three 

 fountains have been built and much of the marble has been 

 set, but it will require at least a month's work in the spring 

 to complete the contract, especially as some of the stone-set- 

 ting has been found to be faulty and will have to be rebuilt ; 

 the terra-cotta has been delivered, but none of it put into 

 place. 



Under instructions from a subcommittee of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, Mr. H. A. MacNeil, sculptor, was invited 

 in May to submit a model for the statuary fountain, the 

 model previously submitted by Mr. Kemensky not having 

 proved satisfactory. Mr. MacNeil has not yet sent his 

 model in, but he has informed us that it is now essentially 

 ready for examination. 



2. The Public Conservatories. These buildings have 

 stood the test of a year's operation satisfactorily. They 

 have been open to the public every day from ten o'clock 

 until four-thirty or five ; breakage of glass from expansion 



