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eastwardly across the grounds over the Long Bridge span- 
ning the valley of the Bronx River, was completed during 
the summer and, after considerable delay in securing the 
necessary lamps for lighting it at night, was thrown open to 
the public in the autumn. 
Work has been prosecuted at intervals on the driveway 
leading from the east end of the Long Bridge northward 
along the east side of the River valley to the Newell Avenue 
entrance at the northern end of the Garden and all but about 
600 feet of it is now paved. 
The extension of the path system has gone forward at many 
points. A complete connection has been established between 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad station 
northward to the Woodlawn Road approach; the path from 
the Woodlawn Road approach easterly to the plaza north of 
the lakes, and one from the herbaceous garden eastwardly to 
the border of the hemlock forest have also been completed. 
In addition to these, the broken stone foundations for over a 
mile of path on the fruticetum plain, and leading to the 
economic garden east of the museum building, and along the 
northern side of the valley of the lakes, with short connections 
elsewhere, have also been built, but the impossibility of secur- 
ing traprock screenings for surfacing in the latter part of the 
season made it impossible to complete them. The telford 
foundations for all these roads and paths have been obtained 
either from old stone walls or from the quarry operations 
behind the museum building, and the work of excavating 
stone can profitably be continued during the winter. 
As soon as the main driveway across the Long Bridge was 
opened for use, the temporary road crossing the old wooden 
«Blue Bridge” at the northern end of the hemlock forest 
was closed to vehicles. This temporary road was built by 
means of a Park Department contract in 1900 and 1901, in 
order to obtain a stone road from the western side of the 
grounds to the stable and propagating houses on the eastern 
side; it was built essentially on the line laid down for a path 
on the general plan, and will now revert to the original inten- 
