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feet in width, and it opens against the traffic road of the Garden, 
leading directly to a path to the public conservatories, which 
intersects other paths leading to all parts of the Garden. The 
viaduct connecting this approach with the terminal Bronx Park 
Station is 200 feet in length, built on brick piers and has an orna- 
mental iron work cornice and parapet on each side; the walk, 
both of the approach and viaduct, is of concrete. 
The accompanying illustration is from a photograph recently 
made of this work, and shows also the station, which is one of 
Fic. 1, Manhattan Railway Approach and Station. 
the most commodious, and certainly the most ornamental of any 
yet built by the Manhattan Railway Company. 
The total cost of the approach and viaduct was $15,426.72, 
which amount was paid over to the Garden by the railway com- 
pany, in accordance with the terms of the agreement. 
The work was sufficiently completed to enable a plantation of 
shrubs to be built along side of it during the autumn, and this, 
