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Boundary Fences 
In the autumn a contract was awarded by the Commis- 
sioner of Parks to Guidone and Galardi for the construction 
of a boundary wall and fence along the property line of 
Fordham University, extending from the Elevated Railway 
Station on the west to the Southern Boulevard entrance on 
the east, a distance of about 2,000 feet, the contract price 
being $17,000. Surveys for the location of this fence were 
carefully made by the Park Department and construction work 
may be commenced in the spring. The design of this wall 
and fence was duly approved by the Board of Managers, 
after slight modification by the Commissioner of Parks for 
the Borough of the Bronx. It is desirable that other portions 
of the boundary of the garden be permanently fenced, the 
line along the right-of-way of the New York Central and 
Hudson River Railroad Company being the next most im- 
portant to be secured. It will probably be unnecessary to 
fence the eastern and northern boundaries for several years. 
Telephone Service. 
The museum building, the first range of public conserva- 
tories, and the power house at the Bedford Park Avenue 
entrance, are connected by telephone cables through the sub- 
ways containing the steam-pipes, the cables having been 
put in during the construction of these subways. The mu- 
seum building is connected with the stable and with the 
propagating houses by an underground cable laid along the 
paths crossing the river at the Boulder Bridge. Previous to 
the construction of this bridge the wire passed under the 
river, but upon the completion of the Boulder Bridge it has 
been carried over that structure. The construction of the 
new public conservatories and power house required an elab- 
oration of the telephone service and this was supplied during 
the summer by laying an 8-wire lead-covered cable under- 
ground from the museum building, crossing the Lake Bridge 
and the Long Bridge, to a point at the plaza near the Bleecker 
Street entrance; from this point a 4-wire lead-covered cable 
