NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 101 



visitors are allowed on the grass. The maintenance of a play- 

 ground here would involve only a moderate outlay for the equip- 

 ment, and perhaps that could be supplied from the City's funds 

 for parks and playgrounds. No additional expense need be in- 

 curred for maintenance, as the equipment and grounds could 

 be looked after, and order preserved, by the employees in charge 

 of the Pavilion. 



DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING. 

 George M. Beerbower, Civil Engineer. 



During the first half of the year our engineer was hindered 

 from the performance of other duties by the necessity of con- 

 stant, skilled and dependable supervision over the construction 

 of the Shelter Pavilion, which is only just now completed, on 

 the east side of Bronx River. He designed and supervised the 

 folding steel shutters for the protection against vandals of the 

 workspace or refreshment-serving space in this building, where- 

 in existing conditions required them to be of new and special 

 design. 



The greater part of the engineer's duties is made up of 

 small matters in such great variety that a detailed list would 

 not be suitable for this report. Much of the work under ground 

 and under floors, such as water supply and drainage, which has 

 been in use for many years, is beginning to require repairs 

 and alterations, and much of the time of the engineer is taken 

 in locating the pipes and fittings of which he has kept a record. 



Among the more important new works are, the prelimi- 

 nary drawings for the Animal Hospital which were developed 

 from sketches and data furnished by the Veterinarian and the 

 Director and Pathologist. Owing to the great variety of wild 

 animal patients for which this building is required to provide, 

 it is necessarily quite a complicated institution, and calls for 

 skill and experience of several kinds, engineering as well as 

 medical. 



In the floor plan of this building, the available space had to 

 be considered, and its site was repeatedly shifted on the ground 

 to secure the necessary access to all sides and to avoid en- 

 dangering the lives of valuable trees in the vicinity. The floor 

 levels were adjusted to reconcile the various conditions found 

 in the undulations about the site, and the existing buildings in 

 the vicinity. 



