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work early in the spring, and it was completed in December ; 

 payment has been made by the Manhattan Company for the 

 entire cost of construction ; the approach was put in use im- 

 mediately upon its completion. 



Permission was given the Manhattan Company to use a 

 temporary entrance to the Garden, over a temporary wooden 

 incline, erected on the grounds of St. John's College, during 

 the period of construction of the approach ; this temporary 

 entrance has now been closed and the temporary wooden 

 structure removed. 



Drainage and Sewerage. 



The sewer-connection in the Southern Boulevard from the 

 approach over the New York Central and Hudson River 

 Railroad to the main sewer in Webster Avenue, to serve as 

 an outlet for all the drainage and sewerage of the south- 

 western part of the Garden, was completed early in the 

 spring. Pressure of other work prevented the connection 

 from being made on the Garden side of the railroad, and 

 this work has recently been taken up ; it will probably take 

 about two months to finish it. We shall then have all the 

 heavy work of the drainage and sewerage completed, and it 

 is a great satisfaction to realize that no apprehension need be 

 felt concerning this part of the work of construction. 



The work of under-draining the north meadows at the 

 northern end of the Park, outflowing into the Bronx River, 

 was commenced in the autumn, and essentially completed for 

 the portion of the meadows lying west of the river ; the area 

 east of the river will be drained the first thing next spring. 



It has been found necessary to construct some four ad- 

 ditional surface-basins, with discharge-pipes leading into the 

 main drainage-pipes, in the region about the public con- 

 servatories, two along the driveway between the museum 

 building and the herbaceous ground and one near the drive- 

 way in front of the museum building. 



I have already alluded to the necessity for increasing the 

 capacity of the drainage-system at the south end of the her- 

 baceous ground, and after consultation with the chief engi- 



