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Water Supply. 
In April under the direction of the Commissioner of Parks, 
the 36-inch water main running through the grounds was 
tapped for a six-inch, at the point south of the Museum indi- 
cated on the general plan, and the pipe laid to the east end 
of the Niaseur:. thus providing a water supply for that build- 
ing, both for construction and operation. 
In June, to facilitate the erection of the Power House, I ob- 
tained permission from the New York Central and Hudson 
River Railroad to lay a temporary one-inch pipe under the 
railroad bed from a pipe in the office of Church E. Gates, 
dealer in lumber, tothe Power House site, and performed the 
work at the expense of the Garden. 
The granting in the spring by the Park Department of the 
Lorillard Mansion to the Police Department for a station 
house, and its occupation by over 65 officers, rendered a 
wholesome water-supply for that building imperatively neces- 
sary, and in June Sergeant O’Brien, Architect of the Police 
Department, and Captain Fitzpatrick, in charge of the Sta- 
tion, made application to me, after a joint study by us of the 
available sources of supply, for permission to lay a pipe from 
a point on the thirty-six-inch main just north of the Southern 
Boulevard along the existing trails, past the northern end of 
the Herbaceous Grounds, to the Bronx River opposite the 
Mansion. With the approval of the President, and the Com- 
missioner of Parks, I granted the desired permission. A 
three-inch pipe was laid from the thirty-six-inch main to the 
north end of the Herbaceous Grounds, where a two-inch 
branch was taken off to supply irrigation for those grounds 
when necessary in mid-summer, a very convenient and use- 
ful aid to our operations there, and a two-inch pipe continued 
to beyond the river outside the Garden reservation, where 
branches were laid to the Police Station, its stable and to 
one of the nurseries established by the Commissioner of 
Parks. The trench was located and excavated under my 
personal supervision and that of Mr. Henshaw; only one 
small and useless tree was taken down in the course of the 
work. 
