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feet of 3-inch galvanized iron pipe was laid from the waterfall 

 to the Beaver Pond under one edge of the new walk. This 

 should greatly improve the condition of the Beaver Pond, and 

 the constant overflow of water will render the dry brook a pleas- 

 ing feature in the tract of thick forest, which for convenience 

 has been named " The Jungle." 



Additional Electric Conduit. — In order to carry wires for elec- 

 tric-lighting and telephones from Baird Court to the Aquatic 

 Birds' House, it was necessary to construct about 600 feet of 

 conduit, with two manholes. This completes the system of con- 

 duits connecting all the large central buildings of the Park, but 

 does not equip the Antelope House and Small-Deer House. 



Neiv Seivers. — To provide for the use of the two new toilet 

 houses erected in the southeastern portion of the Zoological 

 Park, our force constructed about 1,000 feet of 6-inch sewer, 

 and laid an equal length of 2-inch water pipe. Another line of 

 sewer, about 600 feet in length, was laid from the new Feed Barn 

 to the main line in Beaver Valley. 



Concrete ll^ork. — In the Sea Lion Pool, in the centre of Baird 

 Court, an elaborate shelter structure, made to imitate the forma- 

 tion of granite rock, was finished in September. In addition 

 to this, two islands of rock and concrete were built in the pool. 

 At the two toilet buildings referred to above, concrete retaining 

 walls were built to protect the structure from the wash of storm 

 water down the steep hill which rises toward the east. The 

 service yard at the Rocking-Stone Restaurant was paved with 

 concrete, and a concrete floor was laid in the " Menagerie," or 

 winter store-house for outdoor animals that require heat in win- 

 ter. A concrete gutter was laid around the Raccoon's Tree 

 and in front of the new Bear Dens. New floors of concrete 

 were laid in the Elk Barn, Red Deer Barn, and Moose Barn. 



Nezi' Fences. — The past year has witnessed an extensive re- 

 modelling of boundaries on the south and west, not only along 

 the streets, but in the ruminant ranges also. Primarily this 

 work was rendered necessary by the " grading and regulating " 

 of i82d Street, our southern boundary, and the Southern Boule- 

 vard, along the west. In some places the grades of these streets 

 were raised from four to eight feet, and through this work our 

 old boundary fences, already badly rusted, were practically de- 

 stroyed. The building of the two new walks leading to the new 

 Boston Road Entrance involved a complete remodelling of the 

 Bufifalo Range ; and the inward extension of the western border 

 plantation involved the rebuilding of those fences also. It 



