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of the Society in consultation with members of the Women’s 
Auxiliary of the Garden. 
Cooperation with the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences 
At the time the mansion came under our control with 
the additional land early in the spring, space in some of the 
rooms was occupied by the museum collections of the Bronx 
Society of Arts and Sciences, under a permit from the Park 
Department. Through action taken by you at the meeting 
of April 15, this occupancy was continued. This Society 
was, at that time, completing arrangements with the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art for a loan collection of 
paintings by American artists. The Society contributed 
money for the renovation and decoration of a room on the 
second floor to contain these paintings, the decoration 
being planned by officers of the Art Museum, and the 
paintings were subsequently installed. Members of this 
Society have also been given the board room privileges in 
the mansion. 
Cooperation with the New York Association for Improving the 
Condition of the Poor 
Early in the year, a proposition was received from the 
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 
offering to provide money for the payment of day laborers 
to be sent by this association, the money to be disbursed 
by administrative officers of the Garden, and the proposi- 
tion was accepted, men out of employment being sent to 
us each week for two or three days. The plan was com- 
menced on March 1 and continued until November 22, a 
maximum of 51 different men being sent the first week and 
the number diminishing to 2 during the thirty-ninth week. 
The total number of different men given work through this 
arrangement was 196, who made 2,722} days’ time, an 
average of 13.88 days for each man, and we disbursed, at 
the rate of $2.00 a day payment, $5,445. They were 
employed in many kinds of work, including cutting of trees, 
