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One furnace was relined with fire-brick at power house 2 
and all necessary repairs were made to the steam system. 
The carpenter built a circular ladder for the roof of the 
display house and repaired sash and doors at conservatory 
range 2. The painter replaced 130 lights of broken glass. 
The heating system was repaired wherever necessary. 
The water pipe and drainage of the propagating houses 
were repaired by the plumber and one heating boiler was 
replaced. Concrete benches were built by the masons in 
houses I, 2, 3, and 4 and two concrete tanks for propagating 
water lilies were constructed in house 4. The sash bars, 
sash, and doors were repaired by the carpenter. All 
needed repairs to the water pipe and the drainage were 
attended to by the plumber and the painter replaced 80 
lights of broken glass. 
Numerous repairs were made in the mansion and the 
stable by the carpenter and the plumber. 
Grounds 
The carpenter completed the cherry garden shelter and 
built eight rustic benches. He also repaired twenty signs 
and the rustic fence along the river and near the Woodlawn 
Road entrance. The plumber erected 750 feet of railing 
around the rock garden, using as material old steam pipe 
which had been removed from conservatory range I; this 
received two coats of paint and makes an excellent fence. 
The boundary fence along Bronx Boulevard and one half 
of the boundary fence along the Fordham University 
grounds were painted. 
For the new fence along Southern Boulevard we built 
a foundation 515 feet long, 22 inches wide and 30 inches 
deep. On top of this foundation a stone wall was built 
500 feet long and 1 foot high, with 450 feet of coring. We 
erected twenty piers 20 inches square and 8 feet high, 
with caps, and two entrance piers 26 inches square and 
to feet high. This is now ready for 450 feet of iron fencing. 
