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carry out the original plan before considering these proposed 
additions, but I may bring some suggestions to your attention 
during the year. 
The regulating and grading of the Southern Boulevard 
between the south gate and Pelham Avenue, done by the 
Department of Highways during the year, has necessitated a 
change of grade of a few inches where this street meets the 
Garden driveway. A temporary filling has been made at the 
south gate in order to partially meet the new grade, but the 
permanent roadway at this point cannot well be readjusted 
until the Southern Boulevard is paved. 
Bridges 
The long five-arched rubble-stone bridge carrying the 
driveway across the valley of the Bronx River north of the 
hemlock grove, on which work was begun in 1904, under 
a Park Department contract, was completed in the summer 
in a most satisfactory manner by Mr. M. J. Leahy, the con- 
tractor. We at once began the work of filling earth in be- 
tween and over the arches, and of making the necessary earth 
fillings at the two ends of this bridge, and completed this work 
in December, leaving the driveway subgraded and ready to 
receive its telford foundation during the winter and spring. 
The curbstones separating the driveway from the sidewalks 
at this bridge have been hauled in place and may be set in 
the spring after the earth filling has settled down. Ashes 
from the power house are being hauled this winter to form 
the foundations of the two sidewalks. 
The one-arched cut granite bridge carrying the driveway 
across the valley of the lakes northeast of the museum build- 
ing was completed during the year under a Park Department 
contract with Joseph Gallo. The work is satisfactory except 
for a leak under the north abutment which prevents at present 
raising the upper lake to its established level. The con- 
tractor claimed that it was not in his contract to remedy this 
defect, but an inquiry by the Hon. Henry C. Schrader, Com- 
missioner of Parks, of the Corporation Counsel, brought out 
an opinion that the contractor may be obliged to stop the leak. 
