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permitted; the large number of 360 different persons have 
contributed either money or material, exclusive of annual 
membership dues. The city has enabled work on roads, 
paths, bridges, and grading to be continued uninterruptedly, 
by an additional appropriation of $75,000, which became 
available for expenditure in the late summer, but it has not 
increased the allowance for general maintenance of grounds, 
buildings and collections, which stands at $70,000 for 1905, 
the same as for 1904, and is too little for the proper upkeep 
of the Garden in its present state of development. 
Construction of Roads and Paths 
Work on the main park driveway west and north of the 
museum building has been prosecuted at intervals and is now 
so far advanced that this road may be completed and opened 
for use early in the spring, there only remaining its final sur- 
facing and rolling to be done; this will complete all the 
Telford McAdam roadway planned west of the Bronx River, 
except the connections with the two bridges under construc- 
tion across the railway at the Mosholu Parkway and Wood- 
lawn Road, the earth filling and retaining walls for which 
have not yet been made, though part of the filling needed 
at the Mosholu Parkway approach has been put in place and 
the dumping there is being continued during the winter. 
On the east side of the Bronx River a considerable part of 
the grading required for the driveways was done in 1903, 
and most of the filling needed for the easterly approach to 
the long bridge across the valley of the Bronx has been 
made during the last few months; this work is going on dur- 
ing the winter. The driveway approach to the public con- 
servatories, which had been considerably cut up by the 
hauling of heavy building material for the cut stone steps of 
the conservatory terraces and for the large tanks for water 
plants in the court of the conservatories, was resurfaced 
during the autumn. The service road to the power house 
was also completed. 
Path building has gone forward on a large scale. The 
