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the fountains on the driveway in front of the museum build- 

 ing and also supplied with hose-taps. A two-inch line was 

 run from this to connect with pipes already laid to the rail- 

 way station and the plantations about it. The large statuary 

 fountain, now under construction, will be connected by a three- 

 inch pipe with the six-inch line, which supplies the Museum ; 

 part of this has been laid. 



Partly b}- means of city appropriation for construction and 

 partly from our appropriation for grading, drainage and 

 water supply, a six-inch line was laid from a point just south 

 of the museum building along the driveway to the west lake ; 

 from here a two-inch line was run off across the park to the 

 east along the driveways and under the Bronx River to the 

 stable, nurseries and propagating houses, and another to the 

 west along the lake to the public comfort station. 



The City Department of Water Supply under permission 

 granted them by you November 2, 1898, began in the spring 

 the laying of a four-foot main through the grounds from a 

 point on the western boundary northwest of the museum 

 building, southerly in front of that building to the Southern 

 Boulevard and thence on that road beyond the garden reser- 

 vation ; this line is a part of one of the primary distributing 

 systems from the new Jerome Park Reservoir, and is designed 

 to supply a large part of the eastern and central portions of 

 the Borough of the Bronx. It runs through the Garden along- 

 side of the old three-foot pipe from the Williamsbridge Reser- 

 voir. The work within the Garden was completed in No- 

 vember, with the exception of a few feet near the western 

 boundary, where this main has to pass under the right-of-way 

 of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad ; it ap- 

 pears to be unlikely that this will be finished until spring. A 

 one-foot connection directly in front of the museum building 

 has been left for the use of the Garden, when desired, in ac- 

 cordance with the terms of the permission given the Depart- 

 ment. This connection with the new line, and the eight-inch 

 connection we already have on the old one, ensure the park 

 an abundant water-supply. Water will probably not b' 

 turned into the new main for two vears or more. 



