DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 7 



WALKS LAID WITH CHEMICAL* TAR AND GRAVEL 

 COMPOSITION. 



The following walks have been laid this year with chem- 

 ical tar and gravel composition : Walk in Long Meadow, 

 from crosswalk to Dairy around Croquet Shelter, and con- 

 tinued, with new drains and basins, to Endale Arch, near the 

 Plaza entrance ; also the wide walk, through the centre 

 of the Meadow from Esdale Bridge, opposite Farm House, 

 to Endale Arch ; the whole of the walks around Concert 

 Grove, lower end of Flower Garden, and continued to 

 Breeze Hill and the new bridge, returning over Breeze Hill 

 and joining the asphalt pavement blocks at the Flower 

 Garden, near the Cleft Ridge Span; from the Concert Grove 

 along the lake around the Carriage Concourse to opposite 

 the Promenade, and branches to the lake shelters, return- 

 ing from the Promenade on the Franklin Avenue side of the 

 drive to Gate 3. 



A new walk was made and asphalted from the south end 

 ■of the new bridge, along the new drive, to walks along the 

 West Lake Drive,and a base laid to the new walk continuing 

 from Lookout Hill under the bridge connecting with old 

 walks leading to the Boat House. 



OCEAN PAEKWAT. 



Independent of the gravel for repairing the lower section 

 of the Parkway from the Department's gravel-pits, about 

 nine thousand cubic yards of gravel have been laid from the 

 Cemetery below the Tunnel to the crossroad below Howe's 

 Hotel, and for general repairs of the upper section. Also, 

 about 1,800 cubic yards of Hudson River gravel has been 

 laid from the Concourse at Gate 4 to below Church Lane, 

 to solidify the soft ground in that shady part of the drive. 

 New drains and cesspools have been made, which have 

 thoroughly drained off the accumulated water at Ave- 

 nue E. 



The culvert near Coney Island, 225 feet in length, has 



