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this approach here formed a part of the fence. The character 
of the fence is well shown by the accompanying reproduction 
of a photograph (Plate 56) taken early in Nov ember, before the 
planting of shrubs in the strip of land between the path and the 
fence; it is an elegant, simple and substantial barrier, and will 
require a painting at intervals of about three years and oc- 
casional pointing of the masonry for its ordinary maintenance. 
At the request of the president of Fordham University a gate 
six feet wide was provided for the use of students near the 
Elevated mae station. 
The f g of the western boundary of the Garden along the 
right of way ve the New York Central and Hudson River Rail- 
way Company, from the terminal Bronx Park station of the 
Elevated Railway northward, a distance of about 3,900 feet, to 
the none boundary near Williamsbridge, has long been under 
sioner of Parks of the Borough of the Bronx. The problem 
has been complicated by the telegraph and telephone poles and 
wires of the railroad company and the Western Union Telegraph 
Company standing along this line, some of the poles having been 
located on land of the Garden and others on Jand of the railroad 
company. It became apparent during the inquiry that the poles 
standing on Garden land had been set there without authority 
some years before the Garden was established, and also that the 
right of way of the railroad was too narrow to allow of their 
removal, at all events without completely modifying the railroad 
structure and roadbed for a long distance. From the standpoint 
of the Garden these poles and wires are distinctly detrimental, 
not only from an aesthetic consideration, but because the wires 
while the necessity for a barrier fence has been becoming more 
urgent, on the Garden side by the increase of depredations and 
the making of trails across lawns, and on the railroad side by 
reason of the electrification construction, and the consequent 
danger to trespassers from live wires. 
A solution of the problem satisfactory to all concerned has 
