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ment of Parks. On account of the delay the Commissioner 
of Parks imposed a very large time-penalty on the contrac- 
tor. The work under this contract completed nearly all the 
paths and driveways planned about the public conservato- 
ries, and a large amount of the rough grading made necessary 
by the location of the building. 
The driveway extending from the herbaceous garden south- 
ward through the woods, and through Bronx Park along the 
west side of the river to Pelham Avenue, was completed and 
thrown open for driving early in the spring. It has proved 
to be a most useful road and the woodland scenery traversed 
is very attractive. 
During the year a path about 1,800 feet long and 15 feet 
in width was built from the approach to the Manhattan Ele- 
vated Railway station southeasterly parallel with and a few 
feet from the rough stone wall on the line of the property of 
St. John’s College to the southern entrance at the Southern 
Boulevard. This path follows the natural grade for most of 
its length, except at its southeastern end where considerable 
grading was necessary, including the removal of a portion of 
a ledge of rock about eight feet thick, and the building of a 
culvert to take care of the drainage. The construction of 
this path was made necessary by the enormous number of 
visitors reaching the Garden by means of the Elevated Rail- 
way. 
The grade of the driveway between the garden fountain 
and the drinking fountain at the south end of the approach 
to the museum building, was raised during the spring for a 
distance of about 300 feet in order to conform to the grades 
necessitated by the completion of these two fountains and 
the driveway portions of this approach, the new road being 
laid directly upon the old. 
Paths connecting the path approaches to the public con- 
servatories with the southern entrance at the Southern Boule- 
vard, and this entrance with the herbaceous garden path-sys- 
tem and with that leading to the museum building, in all 
amounting to about 2,000 feet, averaging 12 feet in width, 
