(3) 
A polluted brook which flowed into the Garden through 
a culvert on the railroad near the west end of the Upper 
Bridge and which had long been a nuisance was turned into 
a city sewer by permission of the City Department of 
Public Works, and this work removes the last menace of 
this character. 
Roads and Paths 
The new arboretum road which was essentially ready 
for final surfacing at the time of my last annual report 
remains unfinished, owing to unavoidable delay in obtaining 
the necessary trap rock screenings, but this material will 
be furnished early in the spring through a Park Department 
contract awarded late in the autumn. The service road 
from the stable to the propagating houses was completed 
and put into use. Work at the new southeastern entrance 
was continued both by the Park Department and by the 
Garden. 
Work in path construction was carried out on a large 
scale mainly through the arboretum in the part of the 
Garden east of the Bronx River, where some 1,200 running 
feet were finally surfaced and opened to the public, and 
the Telford foundation of about 6,000 feet more was laid; 
many of these new paths would have been surfaced and 
completed but for the delay in obtaining trap rock screen- 
ings; they may all be essentially completed in the spring. 
The foundation for a path along the east side of the Bronx 
River northward from the Long Bridge, a stretch of some 
600 feet, was completed; this work required the building 
of a river wall, averaging 5 feet in height, for about S00 feet, 
for which boulders and stones exposed in grading operations 
and found in old stone walls were utilized, having been 
saved for several years for this purpose, after the building 
of the Boulder Bridge had used up a great number of them. 
These two features and the boulder parapet wall along the 
river road have used up nearly all the loose large stone on 
the grounds, a great many having also been broken up and 
