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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Drrector-1n-CHier. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for 
the year 1912. 
Regulating and Grading 
This work has been done in various parts of the Garden. 
In the willows, on the eastern side of the main drive opposite 
Woodlawn Road approach, approximately 100 feet square 
was filled in to a depth of about two feet and was graded and 
sown with grass seed. On the western side of the Bronx 
River, from the Long Bridge north, a strip 500 feet long and 
25 feet wide was filled in about eighteen inches and graded 
ready for top dressing. On the east side of the river road 
opposite Power House No. 2 a strip 20 feet wide and 210 
feet long was graded and sown. The bank north of Power 
House No. 2, on the eastern side of the path, was graded 
15 feet wide for a distance of 350 feet, which was then sown 
with grass seed and one catch-basin constructed. 
On the eastern side of Bronx River, south of Boulder 
Bridge, a strip 75 X 200 feet was filled in eighteen inches 
deep and made ready for top dressing. About 240 yards 
of fill was used in this, which had been taken from a cut 
leading into the cellar of Conservatory Range No. 2. The 
bank on the eastern side of the road to Conservatory Range 
No. 2 from Long Bridge Road was graded, and an area of 
about 6,680 square feet was covered with sod. Both sides 
of the entrance to Power House No. 2 were graded and about 
2,610 square feet covered with sod. One catch-basin was 
then built. 
About 15,000 cubic yards of soil have been carted into the 
Garden by contractors doing work outside, who were looking 
for a convenient dumping place. This soil was used to fill 
in the northern side of Woodlawn Road Approach and was 
delivered and graded to our satisfaction, at the contractors’ 
expense. We removed 2,782 loads of stone, 2,152 loads of 
top soil and 419 loads of earth. This stone was used to 
build paths. On the east side of the new road and propa- 
