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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, Dirrecror-1n-CuIeF. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for 
the year 1913. 
Regulating and Grading 
Much of this work has been done in different parts of the 
Garden. Both sides of the 200th Street entrance have been 
graded and sodded and a guard rail 3 rails high has been 
erected from the piers to the railroad bridge. 
Considerable grading and planting has been done on the 
north side of Lake no. 3. On the north side of Woodlawn 
Road Bridge, a retaining wall was built and the bank filled 
in and graded. 
About 5,000 cubic yards of earth have been carted into 
the Garden by contractors in the neighborhood, who were 
looking for a convenient place to dispose of it. This earth 
was used to fill in the low land north of Woodlawn Road 
Bridge and was placed there at the expense of the contractors. 
A distance of 100 X 200 feet and about 18 inches deep has 
been graded on the east side of the Bronx River south of 
the Chestnut Bridge. 
Both sides of the road leading to Bleecker Street entrance 
were regraded and planted. After the completion of the 
boundary fence along the Bronx Boulevard, a sodded grass 
gutter 500 feet long was constructed along the highest 
part of the wall to protect the foundations from heavy rains. 
We removed 419 loads of stone, 773 loads of top soil, and 
260 loads of earth. This stone was used to build paths, but 
principally on the path leading to conservatory range no. I 
from the museum building. 
Drainage 
We have built one catch-basin at the Bleecker Street 
entrance, connecting with the line of drainage running north, 
and another 325 feet long on the east boundary line south of 
the Propagating Houses. 
