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built below it as a reservoir and water-head for the water supply 

 of tile 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 i82d Street to supply the Bear-dens and Mountain 

 Sheep Ranges, involving in all about 800 feet of pipe. 



The site of the Elep/iant 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 w^ork 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 girafifes, African antelopes 

 of every description, zebras and wild horses, and w'ild cattle of 

 the equatorial zone. 



The Antelope House is an elliptical building, 142 feet long by 

 78 feet wide, and is being constructed of bufif 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 

 (19x24 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 i, 1903. 



A sum of monev has been held in reserve in the Ground Im- 



