SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. 83 



Motor Road and Tree Trenches. — The imperative need of a 

 service road leading into the north end of the Park, providing 

 for the approach of heavy teams and carts to the Bird House 

 and the buildings on Baird Court, hastened the construction of 

 the northern third of the line to be used by automobiles carry- 

 ing visitors, and generally known as the Motor Road. On June 

 13th a contract was made with J. H. Devlin for the construction 

 of a Telford-Macadam road, 16 feet wide and 1,663 f^^t in 

 length, at a cost of $8,477.50. This also included the excava- 

 tion of a series of tree trenches in Baird Court for shade-trees, 

 and filling them with top soil. 



The new road leaves the old service road in a " Y " opposite 

 the southeast corner of the Moose Range, runs along the west- 

 ern side of Baird Court and the eastern side of the Ducks' Avi- 

 ary, and terminates in a roomy oval between the eastern end of 

 Cope Lake and what will shortly be the Carriage Entrance. 

 From this terminus Park automobiles will at no distant day run 

 through the Park to the rapid transit terminal station at West 

 Farms. It now remains to complete this line by the construc- 

 tion of its eastern third, from the Rocking Stone Restaurant to 

 the Buffalo entrance. 



In Baird Court 680 running feet of tree trenches were ex- 

 cavated to a depth of four feet and filled with good soil, and in 

 addition to this 500 cubic yards of soil was furnished for trenches 

 requiring no excavation. Mr. Devlin's contract as a whole was 

 finished in December, 1901. 



MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS, MADE UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE 

 OF ZOOLOGICAL PARK OFFICERS. 



Mentioned in the order of their importance, the items of work 

 done by day labor in the Park were as follows : 



Osborn's Walk, 20 feet wide and 656 feet long, graded and 

 macadamized (Telford plan) from the Bird House to the north 

 end of the Mule Deer range. This gives a fine^ spacious, direct 

 entrance to Baird Court and the interior of the Park. 



Service Road to Baird Court. — In order to make it possible for 

 building materials to reach the new buildings on Baird Court, 

 it was necessary to construct a substantial macadam service 

 road, leading from a temporary entrance on Pelham Avenue, 



