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there, has mostly been used in the construction of the long 
bridge by the contractor, Mr. Leahy, who has excavated 
and carted it; some has gone into the Telford foundations of 
the driveways. A small amount still remains to be excavated, 
and as soon as this is accomplished in the spring, it is pro- 
posed to do the final work in grading at this point, and to top- 
soil and sow the area still denuded. 
Portions of the grounds south of the museum building 
along the paths leading from it to the herbaceous garden and 
the public conservatories were topsoiled and sown or sodded. 
An area at the extreme southwestern corner of the Garden, 
at the elevated railway station, was regulated, graded and 
sown, as were also the immediate surroundings of the public 
comfort stations and the power house. 
The path-building work east of the valley of the herbaceous 
garden, and east of the museum building, already referred to, 
necessitated considerable grading and sodding. 
Much of the topsoil and sod required to form the finished 
surfaces in these grading operations has come from the strip- 
ping of land within the lines of roads and paths, either moved 
directly into place, or taken from stacks where previously 
accumulated, but several hundred loads were obtained, for 
the digging and hauling, from contractors who were grading 
grounds during the spring and summer for streets and build- 
ing sites along the Mosholu Parkway west of the Garden. 
No sod nor topsoil has as yet been purchased. 
Much grading has been done along the driveways and 
paths under construction north and northeast of the museum 
building, including a heavy earth filling at the north end of 
the upper lake, where work is still going on, the material 
being brought from the rear of the museum building. 
At the Woodlawn Avenue Bridge, preparation for the fill- 
ing needed in building its approaches has been made, by 
taking out the topsoil and distributing it to areas between the 
main driveway and paths where needed. 
In 1896, at the time the temporary construction railroad 
for the Jerome Park Reservoir was build through the grounds, 
