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and one from near the museum building south to and nearly 

 completely around the herbaceous grounds, all in accordance 

 with the general plan. In the same way the Telford founda- 

 tion has been laid up for the driveway extending north and 

 east of the herbaceous grounds and thence south through the 

 woods, skirting the western side of the Hemlock Grove, to 

 the southern edge of the garden reservation, for about half its 

 length (786 feet, 25 feet wide) ; stone for the continuation of 

 this road is being hauled this winter from the surplus stacked 

 in front of the museum building. It has been planned by 

 the Park Department to continue this road from our southern 

 boundary through the park land which separates the Garden 

 from the Zoological Park, overlooking the Bronx River in 

 places, to Pelham avenue, ending it on the avenue, opposite 

 one of the entrances of the Zoological Park. When this is all 

 carried out it will furnish a most useful and beautiful road 

 connecting the two institutions. The surfacing of the paths 

 and road built as above described will require a large quantity 

 of broken trap rock and of trap rock screenings, but the 

 principal expense of their construction has already been met 

 by the building of their foundations from surplus stone, much 

 of which was hauled to its place by the excavation contrac- 

 tors, who needed dumps at which to dispose of it. 



The delivery road from the main driveway to the rear of 

 the museum building, alluded to in my last annual report, 

 has also been finished in the same way, except for final sur- 

 facing with trap screenings, and has been in use since mid- 

 summer. The cinder-surface road to the propagating houses 

 on the east side of the grounds has been extended along the 

 western side of the nurseries, but is not yet finished. 



Local Telephone Service. 



During the building of the subways and steam-pipe con- 

 nections of the power house with the museum building and 

 public conservatories in 1899 and 1900, telephone wires 

 were laid, connecting these three buildings. During the past 

 summer advantage was taken of the excavation for the 

 water-pipes to the stable and propagating houses to lay 



