JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. IV. March, 1903. No. 39. 
THE BRONX PARK STATION OF THE MANHATTAN 
RAILWAY 
Early in 1902 the Manhattan Railway Company arranged to 
extend its elevated railroad from Fordham northward to the south- 
western corner of the Garden, having purchased from St. John’s 
College a strip of land bordering the right-of-way of the New 
York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. 
The Manhattan Railway Company requested of the Board of 
Managers of the Garden the privilege of an entrance to the Garden 
at this point, and after a careful study of the subject the follow- 
ing agreement was entered into on April 29, 1902: 
THIS AGREEMENT, made the 29th day of April, 1902, between 
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State of New York, hecinater called ae Company, party of the 
second part, WITNESSET 
That the Garden, in Pe nedeaton of One Dollar and other 
valuable considerations, the receipt of which is hereby acknowl- 
edged, covenants and agrees with the Company, as follows: 
First: The Garden will upon request of the Company forthwith 
construct a platform designed to afford access to the grounds of the 
Garden in Bronx Park from the terminal station of the Company 
adjoining the grounds of the Garden at Bronx Park, said platform 
to extend from said station along the southerly portion of the 
easterly end of said platform with a path leading to other paths 
to all parts of the Garden, for use when the Garden is opened to 
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