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the Park Department, as contemplated by the Garden 
Charter, but the maintenance of paths has been effected 
by Garden labor. 
All bridges carrying roads and paths are in good order 
and have required no special attention during the year. 
Guard-rails were set along paths in various parts of the 
grounds, as already mentioned, and guard-rails previously 
set have been painted. 
Water Supply 
Water pipes, wherever laid throughout the reservation, 
have required little attention, no leaks having become 
apparent. Evidence of rusting and clogging in one of the 
small pipes running south from the economic garden will 
require its renewal for a length of three or four hundred 
feet. There is still need for an additional water supply 
system through parts of the flower gardens and on the 
terrace at conservatory range I. 
Buildings 
With the exception of a hay barrack, located at the 
nurseries, no new buildings have been constructed. Work 
on the older buildings has been essentially in the nature of 
ordinary repairs, but,-as the structures become older, an 
increasing expenditure for repairs is evidently necessary 
in order to ensure satisfactory maintenance. At the 
museum building, the balustrade on the west side of the 
approach was torn down and rebuilt, its foundation having 
been weakened by settlement; a great deal of repair work 
was necessary on the roof of this edifice, where a number 
of leaks developed and some of the ceilings in rooms on 
the upper floor were consequently damaged; this work 
was in continuation of the repair of defects in the roof which 
have giver trouble for several years. At power house 2, 
the brickwork of a boiler was taken down and rebuilt and 
the boiler reset. Replacement of steam pipes in the 
greenhouses and in the trench from power house 1 to 
