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The three driveway bridges built in previous years have 
required no repairs. The concrete and cement sidewalks of 
the Lake Bridge were built in September. The permanent 
sidewalks for the Long Bridge and for the Upper Bridge still 
remain to be constructed. 
During the year considerable study was given to plans for 
the bridge proposed by the Commissioner of Parks to replace 
the wooden foot bridge south of the waterfall near the Loril- 
lard Mansion, for which an appropriation had been voted by 
the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to the Park Depart- 
ment. The western end of this bridge will stand on land 
within the Garden reservation, its eastern end on land of the 
Park Department. The plans for this structure have not yet 
been brought to completion. It is very desirable that this 
bridge should be built, inasmuch as the present wooden bridge 
below the waterfall is much too narrow for the accommoda- 
tion of crowds of visitors and it is approached only by steep 
descents at either end. 
Grading 
Continued progress has been made during the year in 
excavating earth and rock at the rear of the museum building, 
all the excavated material having been used for filling at 
various parts of the grounds or for the telford foundation of 
driveways and paths, and the work is progressing during the 
winter. Much still remains to be done at this point in order 
to establish the grades called for in the general plan, but 
inasmuch as all the earth and rock are needed for filling or 
for road and path building, double work is continuously being 
accomplished. It is estimated that enough rock and earth to 
nearly or quite complete the road and path system remains. 
It will be possible in the spring to bring nearly an acre of the 
area behind the museum building to finished lawn. 
The filling and grading required at both ends of the Lake 
Bridge and at both ends of the Long Bridge was completed 
during the season. Considerable progress has been made in 
filling low places in the north meadows while building paths 
in that part of the grounds. 
