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tion; some work will be required in improving its curves and 
in narrowing it from its present width of 16 feet, to 10 or 12 
feet, and owing to its heavy and continuous use as a road, it 
needs resurfacing. 
Considerable portions of the driveways first built by the 
Park Department, and especiaily those lying east and south 
of the museum building, require resurfacing, and the atten- 
tion of the Commissioner of Parks has been called to their 
condition. 
Bridges 
The masonry of the long five-arched bridge across the 
valley of the Bronx River, completed in the summer of 1905, 
has required no repairs and is an excellent piece of work. 
The curbstones to separate the driveway from the sidewalks 
on this bridge were set in place in the spring before the tel- 
ford foundation of the road was built, and after the earth 
filling had been allowed to settle down all winter; and ashes 
from the power house are being used this winter to make the 
foundations for these sidewalks. 
At the lake bridge, northeast of the museum building, the 
leak in the dam referred to in my last annual report has been 
stopped, in part by work done by the contractor and in part 
by the earth embankment built by us to form the shore of the 
upper lake at the western side of this bridge. 
No work has been necessary at the driveway bridge cross- 
ing the Bronx River at the northern end of the garden. 
A contract for the construction of a rubble stone foot-bridge 
to replace the old wooden ‘* Blue Bridge” at the northern 
end of the hemlock forest, was awarded by the Commissioners 
of Parks on October 18 to D. D. Leahy for $11,000. The 
contractor has assembled considerable building material and 
machinery at this point and done some preliminary work; 
active operations here will be commenced in the spring; the 
structure should be completed by midsummer. 
Grading 
Excavation of rock and earth at the rear of the museum 
building, which has been going forward at intervals for 
