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built below it as a reservoir and water-head for the water supply 
of the Beaver Pond, which runs through an underground conduit. 
The retaining wall of the Burrowing Rodents’ Quarters was 
pointed up with Portland cement mortar, and the drainage sys- 
tem was improved. 
The soda pavilion which formerly stood at the south end of the 
Bear-dens was removed previous to the construction of the new 
dens. 
An additional water line of two-inch pipe was laid from the 
main in 182d Street to supply the Bear-dens and Mountain 
Sheep Ranges, involving in all about 800 feet of pipe. 
The site of the Elephant House and the entire line of the main 
sewer from the Lion House to West Farms, which was left in 
a very unsightly condition by the sewer work, was carefully 
graded, top-soiled, and seeded down. 
About 4,000 feet of the newly adopted guard wire of T-iron 
posts and Frost steel wire were erected in various portions of 
the Park where most necessary, and a stock of posts and wire 
accumulated for further work in this direction. 
The borders of the newly built service road were given the 
usual treatment of grading, top-soiling, and seeding, as were also 
the several panels near the Rocking Stone Restaurant and Beaver 
Valley Walk, amounting in all to about 42,000 square feet. 
CONTRACTS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE PARK DEPARTMENT. 
The Antelope House.—On June 26, 1902, a contract was made 
by the Park Department with Thomas Dwyer, who erected the 
new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the sum of 
$54,900, for the erection of a large and finely appointed building 
for tropical hoofed animals, such as giraffes, African antelopes 
of every description, zebras and wild horses, and wild cattle of 
the equatorial zone. 
The Antelope House is an elliptical building, 142 feet long by 
78 feet wide, and is being constructed of buff brick, gray lime- 
stone, and terra-cotta, in the same general style as the other large 
buildings of the Park. Around its interior walls it will provide 
a series of 24 stalls for animals, 4 of which are very large 
(19x 24 feet) and the remainder are of various smaller sizes. 
From the exterior of the building will radiate a series of open- 
air yards, adequately shaded by trees, and properly macadamized. 
Work on this building began on August Ist, and there is no 
good reason why it should not be completed by May 1, 1903. 
A sum of money has been held in reserve in the Ground Im- 
