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gardeners and laborers in a fe v days, using chestnut timber 

 throughout, the planks being hewn; the bridge is about 

 42 feet long and 12 feet wide. It will serve for several 

 years and during its existence will be a reminder of the 

 many chestnut trees formerly existing here, but now 

 destroyed by the virulent chestnut blight for which no 

 remedy has been found. Paths are being built to this 

 bridge on both sides of the river. 



Water Supply 



The six-inch distributing main was extended during the 

 year from a point near the Botanical Garden railroad sta- 

 tion, New York Central Railroad, to the plaza north of the 

 Lake Bridge, and from the plaza near the stable southwardly 

 to a point opposite that building; hosetaps at intervals 

 of about 200 feet were placed on it along both lines; two 

 thousand feet of this pipe was obtained by contract during 

 the season and about three hundred feet of this amount re- 

 mains to be laid. This will be used in the spring, together 

 with four thousand feet additional under contract for deliv- 

 ery, in continuing the distributing main northward from 

 a point where it now ends in the fruticetum along the west- 

 ern side of the main driveway, crossing the Upper Bridge 

 to the Newell Avenue entrance and southwardly along the 

 river road to the Long Bridge where it will connect with the 

 main already laid; it will also be possible to extend this 

 main along the driveway now under construction south- 

 ward from the stable, thus nearly completing the system, 

 as planned. 



Buildings 



All the older buildings are in good repair. A consider- 

 able portion of the interior of conservatory range no. 1 was 

 painted during the year, and its roof examined for defective 

 glass ; opportunity for doing this interior painting was 

 afforded by moving the ferns and cycads to conservatory 

 range no. 2, and successively emptying houses of conser- 

 vatory range no. 1, it being impossible to properly paint the 



