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the future. Further details of all this work will be found in 
the report of the Superintendent of Grounds, hereto ap pended. 
Water Supply 
No extension of the water-pipe system has been made 
during the year, but it is intended to extend the main 6-inch 
line along the driveways north and east of the museum build- 
ing as indicated on the general plan, during next season. 
Buildings 
Detailed accounts of the operations on buildings will be 
found in the report of the Assistant Director hereto appended. 
Construction work during the year included the completion 
of the range of propagating houses, by the building of an 
additional greenhouse, and completing the original plan, 
which was, however, modified by including a large and 
commodious cellar under the new structure. This work was 
finished and the building putinto operation during the summer. 
Two completely equipped public comfort stations were 
built at the approach to the elevated railway station, under 
the contract awarded toward the end of 1903 to Springsted and 
Adamson; these were completed and opened to the public on 
july ¢:. 
At the power house, an overhead structure for delivering 
ashes into a concrete ashpit just west of that building was 
completed late in the year; this avoids the heavy work of 
wheeling the ashes up the runways. 
In order to supply additional stalls for horses, a modifica- 
tion was made of the interior structure of the stable, during 
the autumn, which has proven to be a great convenience. 
A contract for furnishing and setting the bronze fountain 
in front of the museum building, from the studies and 
moulds of Mr. Carl E. Tefft, the sculptor, was awarded to 
the Roman Bronze Co. of Greenpoint, N. Y., by the Com- 
missioners of Parks, December 29, 1904. It is expected that 
this work may be completed in about four months. 
