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filled by contract work, was taken up in April and 2,334 
cubic yards of fill were hauled from building lots outside of 
the Garden grounds to complete the grade. The road was 
paved and surfaced and, after 4 lamp posts were put up, it 
was opened December 8; it measures 400 feet in length by 30 
in width. A fence 5 feet in height has been constructed of 
heavy locust and cedar wood for protection on the north side 
of this approach. This opened in all 3,305 feet of new road 
in the year 1906. 
Work was resumed on the unfinished road east of and 
parallel with the river, on December 3, and paving has been 
completed for a distance of 400 feet. 
Building of Paths 
At the opening of spring additional paths were laid out in 
the fruticetum and north meadows. For a distance of 600 feet, 
beginning at a point near the road crossing north of the lakes 
to the stone steps of the Woodlawn Avenue bridge approach, 
partly built in 1905, these paths have been surfaced and com- 
pleted. In addition to these, 1,100 feet west of the main drive- 
way, 700 feet east and parallel with the driveway leading 
north and east to the long bridge, 1,200 feet around the north 
shore of the lakes, and 525 feet south of the lakes, and west 
and east and parallel with the main road, have been graded 
and paved with soft rock and broken stone; not including the 
700 feet paved in 1905. 
The extension of a path measuring 750 feet leading from 
the long bridge in a northerly direction and then curving in 
a semicircle and connecting opposite the foot of the Wood- 
lawn Avenue bridge approach has been graded and curb- 
stones laid. This will be paved or filled in with soft stone 
during the winter months. 
The path 700 feet in length east of the main road opposite 
the museum building, leading in an easterly direction to the 
arbor, which was in progress of construction in 1905, has 
been totally paved and covered with soft rock. Connecting 
with this, a new line has been laid out leading in a southerly 
