96 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
The two improvements mentioned above have caused the 
abandonment of the old street long known as West Farms Road, 
which originally traversed the southeastern corner of the Park, 
and passed out eastward into the region known as Van Nest. 
It is now possible to thoroughly improve and utilize, as never 
before, the southeastern region referred to. To this end a com- 
plete re-study of the necessities of the eastern side of the Bronx 
River is being made, with a view to the elimination of all un- 
sightly features, and bringing thoroughly into harmony with the 
other portions of the Park a region which is now in a state akin 
to disorder. The abandonment of the old road is destined to 
prove of great benefit to the development of the area referred 
to. 
In connection with the improvement of the original grounds 
of the Zoological Park, the development of the recently added 
area will undoubtedly be taken in hand by the Park Department, 
and within a comparatively short time the whole eastern area 
will assume conditions very different from those which now 
prevail. 
As a beginning, the low, wet, open grounds in the extreme 
southeastern corner of the Park, are being filled to a depth of 
two feet—practically without expense to the city—and when 
completely filled and levelled, this area will probably be estab- 
lished as a baseball ground. The old West Farms Road will, as 
far as possible, be obliterated. A commodious shelter pavilion 
will be constructed about 400 feet north of the dam; the riverside 
walk will receive a new surface, and a concrete bridge will be 
built in the upper end of the east-side grounds, across the brook 
that enters the Bronx River through the nursery. While these 
improvements are being carried on, it is reasonably certain that 
the Park Department will construct a spacious driveway through- 
out the entire length of the newly acquired addition to Bronx 
Park, beginning at West Farms and terminating at Pelham 
Avenue. In Bronxdale, all the unsightly buildings recently ac- 
quired by the city have been removed, and within a reasonable 
time, the whole appearance of that section will be transformed 
by filling, grading and planting. 
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS PROPOSED FOR 1912 
Buildings and Yards for Hospital and Quarantine.—Up to 
the present time we have been carrying on the Zoological Park 
without any permanent plant in which to quarantine newly- 
arrived animals that may be suspected of carrying diseases, or 
