64 NEW “YORK, -ZOOLOGICAE, SOGIE FY. 
erected partly by the Park force, and partly by James Henderson 
under a smali contract for laying the brick. The walls, pilasters 
and gate-posts are capped with green tile to match the roof of the 
barn, and the whole effect is very satisfactory. The wall varies in 
height from seven to nine feet, and its total length is 800 feet. 
The erection of the new barn rendered it possible to remove a 
large assortment of unsightly temporary sheds, after which all 
the ground surrounding the barn was macadamized, and surfaced 
with tar. The completion of the barn and its enclosing wall have 
made a great change in what previously was an unsightly spot. 
Antelope Shed.—The temporary presence in the Antelope House 
of two elephants, two rhinoceroses, one hippopotamus, two tapirs, 
four zebras, and a wild ass, all belonging in other buildings, has 
had the effect of crowding out of that building a number of valu- 
able antelopes. To carry the latter through the winter, it became 
necessary to erect in the Service Yard, with all possible haste, a 
shed about seventy feet long, and finish it before cold weather. 
This structure was rushed into existence, and is now serving a 
very important purpose. From end to end it is filled with valu- 
able tropical animals which rightfully belong in the Antelope 
House, and which will return thither at the earliest possible 
moment. ye 
Western Boundary Fence.—€Early in the year a new boundary 
fence was erected along the western side of the Park, from 
Pelham Avenue to 182d Street, a distance of about 3,000 feet. As 
usual, this fence consisted of extra heavy steel wire attached 
to heavy steel T-posts set on the stone retaining wall, or in con- 
crete. 
Work on Baird Court—The completion of the northern wall — 
and steps to Baird Court rendered it possible to finish the surface 
work on the north end of the Court, above the Sea-Lion Pool and 
Fountain. The walks on all that area were paved with Telford 
macadam, and tarred on the surface. The grass plat was filled in 
with top soil and graded, and around the space which lies between 
the Lion and Primate Houses, about 650 feet of granite coping 
were set. The sloping garden received about 500 cubic yards of 
top soil. 
Beaver Pond Pipe-Line.—The plan for supplying a good 
stream of water from the Bronx River into the head of the 
3eaver Pond, undertaken in 1905, was completed in 1906 by the 
erection of a stone dam across the old raceway below the water- 
fall, and laying from it to the hydraulic ram about fifty feet of 
twelve-inch cast-iron pipe. When this was finished, the ram was 
