Mrs. W. H. Vialle.........0.0.0.... 419 West IIg Street. 
Miss Lillie Wales................... 1978 Crotona Avenue. 
*Miss Rachel Weinberg.............. 142 West 112 Street. 
Mrs. Butler Williamson............. 944 Park Avenue. 
Mrs. Josephine V. Winslow.......... Scarsdale, N. Y. 
*Miss Lillie Zagat................... 973 Summit Avenue. 
Miss R. E. Zimmermann............ 1340 Pacific Street. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Henry G. Parsons, 
Supervisor of Gardening Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, Director-1n-CuieEr. 
Sir: T have the honor to submit the following report as 
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds for the year 1917. 
Regulating and Grading 
Much of this work was accomplished at the rose garden, 
convention garden, and the school garden. We excavated 
1,500 cubic yards of earth from the cellar and trenches for 
the new houses at conservatory range 2, placing 300 yards 
of this at the northern boundary line near the Newell 
Avenue entrance connecting with the Bronx River Park- 
way, 300 yards in the magnolia collection in order to raise 
the low land, and goo yards to grade the southern end of 
the new houses. About 300 yards of top-soil were trans- 
ferred from the paths in the magnolia collection to com- 
plete the rose garden. 
About 7,650 cubic yards of earth have been carted into 
the grounds by contractors who were excavating cellars in 
the vicinity of the Garden and who were looking for a place 
to dispose of the soil. This soil was deposited to our satis- 
faction at the contractors’ expense. For filling in the new 
road at the northern end of the large lake near the rose 
garden, about 3,500 yards of this soil were used, 4,000 yards 
were placed north of the Woodlawn Avenue bridge along 
the railroad embankment, and about 1S0 yards in the large 
