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The sides of the driveway built east of the Bronx River 

 through the arboretum were graded sufficiently to make 

 them safe, but no attempt was made to bring them to a final 

 finish. 



Under the Park Department contract with John B. Devlin, 

 awarded Jan. 3d, 1901, referred to in my last annual report, 

 for the grading and building of roads and paths about the 

 public conservatories, much work has been accomplished, in- 

 cluding the rough completion of the terrace about those 

 buildings except at its eastern side and a portion of the 

 northern ; the approximately complete shaping of the grounds 

 along the driveway and traffic road south and west of the 

 conservatories, and its partial completion to the east and 

 north of them, including partial reconstruction of the line of 

 the Southern Boulevard. This work is still going forward ; 

 the provisions of this contract should be satisfied by June or 

 July. Under a contract awarded in the spring by the Com- 

 missioner of Parks to the Wilson and Baillie Manufacturing 

 Co., for the construction of the front approaches to the 

 museum building, the unsightly hill south of that building 

 has been removed, and part of the area brought to approxi- 

 mately finished grade ; some rock excavation still remains to 

 be done there in places and the top-soil stacked there in re- 

 serve must be spread. A very large rock surplus was ob- 

 tained from the hill thus removed. Some of it was used at 

 once in the Telford foundations of roads and paths and the 

 rest stacked in the field in front of the museum building, 

 and about the lakes, in order to have it convenient for future 

 road and path building operations ; it is being gradually used 

 for these purposes and is of great value, although tempo- 

 rarily unsightly. 



Roads and Paths. 



The Park Department contract with John B. Devlin, 

 awarded in November, 1899, referred to in my last annual 

 report, for the building of driveways about the museum 

 building, was completed in the spring. The greater portion 

 of this work has stood very well, notwithstanding the heavy 



