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stonework of the walls themselves. The building was en- 
closed and its chimney completed in October. The setting 
of the boilers has just been completed, and little now remains 
to do to put the Power House into operation. 
Steam Subway from Power House to Museum. The 
excavation of the trench to contain the subway carrying 
the steam pipes and electric wires from the Power House to 
the Museum was begun November gth, and the greater part 
of the work has now been done, with the exception of the 
deep cutting, or possible tunnel, under the southern boulevard. 
Stable. The corners of the stable were located by stakes 
on February 26th, and its masonry foundation walls were 
completed on June 18th. The superstructure was at once 
begun and the building completed and occupied by us, after 
consultation with the Commissioner of Parks, on November 
14th, and under an appropriation made by the Board it has 
been equipped with four horses, suitable harness, two carts, 
a farm wagon, a truck, a spring wagon and a sled, and this 
equipment has enabled us to do very much more work than 
could previously be accomplished while we were under the 
necessity of hiring teams. 
Public Comfort Station. This structure has been com- 
pleted with the exception of its interior fittings. 
Tool House. Taking advantage of the ruins of one of 
the outhouses of the old Lorillard estate, located on the 
rounds, east of the Bronx, which had three walls standing, 
a fourth wall was built for it, a roof put on and the building 
floored, during the summer, providing a useful hut for the 
storage of tools and other property. 
The Range of Horticultural Houses. The contract for the 
erection of eight of the thirteen houses of this range was 
awarded by the Commissioner of Public Parks to Mr. John R. 
Sheehan, on March 31st. A construction shed was built by 
Mr. Sheehan at the site a few days afterward, but it was not 
possible to begin work on these structures at once. The contract 
was signed by the President of the Park Department late in No- 
vember, and on January 3d the Hon. August Moebus, Com- 
