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the grounds adjoining the brook much easier, and does not intei 

 fere in the least with the planting of aquatics. 



A contract for the construction of the park wall and fence o 

 the southwestern side of the Garden, extending from the Elevate 

 Railway station to the Southern Boulevard entrance along th 

 property line of Fordham University, was awarded by 

 missioners of Parks in October to Guidone and Gal: 

 plan to begin work during November. The structure 

 sist of a low rubble stone wall surmounted by an i 

 broken at intervals by granite columns. A fence 2 

 boundary line has long been greatly desired, inasmuch as the 

 path running parallel with this line from the Elevated Railway 

 station is used by thousands of people and the old stone wall 



which i 



$ 1 7,000, the 



t there 

 ;1 distance being a 



The 

 o thousand fee 



The 



was designed by Mr. John R. Brinley, landscape engineer of th< 

 Garden, in consultation with Mr. Samuel Parsons, landscape archi 

 tect of the Department of Parks, and the design was approvet 

 by the board of managers of the Garden and by the park com 



The total precipitation recorded at the Garden for October wai 

 4.44 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded of 74 01 

 the 4th, 73 on the 7th and 18th, and 6l u on the 23d; als< 

 minimum temperatures of 40 on the 2d, 34 on the 10th, 31' 

 on the 2 1 st, and 28 ° on the 27th. The first fall frosts occurrec 

 during the first week of the month. 



