JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK DURING 

 THE WINTER. 



The unusually warm weather of December and January and 

 isignificant snowfalls have permitted grading operations to go 

 >rward continuously, scarcely a day having been lost, the work 

 aving been so laid out in advance that both earth and rock 

 ould be excavated to advantage and dumped for filling where 

 ;quired ; the surplus rock is being assembled on the lines of 

 sadways already graded, thus being brought into place for the 

 tying up of Telford foundations for roads as soon as frost is 

 ut of the ground in the spring. 



On account of these advantageous conditions a large amount 

 f the filling necessary between the masonry retaining walls at 

 le Mosholu Parkway has been put in place, drawn from the 

 rading operations required at the rear of the museum building 

 r establishing the final surfaces at that point ; the removal of 

 lis knoll, which is now being giaded, will greatly improve the 

 ipect of the museum building and its surroundings from the 

 est and north and the haul to the Mosholu Parkway approach 

 'erages only about 500 feet. 



There is a large amount of surplus stone suitable for Telford 

 undations of roads in these excavations and this is being hauled 



the unfinished driveway crossing the Long Bridge across the 

 Hey of the Bronx River. It now seems altogether probable 

 at both the Mosholu Parkway approach and the driveway 

 ferred to can be completed and thrown open for use some time 

 the spring. 



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