REPORT 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 



'Y 

 — YORK 



AN1CAL 



To the President of the Board of Commissioners of Prosfect 

 Park, Brooklyn : 



Sir : In our annual report of last year we described the organ- 

 ization which had been made under instructions from your Board 

 for carrying out the design of the park upon the ground. This 

 organization remains to the present time essentially unchanged. 



In June last, Mr. J. P. Davis having resigned the position, 

 Mr. C. C. Martin was appointed to the office of Engineer in 

 charge. 



DEVELOPMENT OF THE DESIGN. 



During the year it has been found practicable to carry forward 

 the design for the park without intermission, although at many 

 points the works, which it would have been most desirable to press 

 to completion, have been suspended in consequence of the uncer- 

 tainty in regard to boundary lines that still continue to embarrass 

 operations. 



So much of the land required for the park as lies to the south of 

 that upon which work was last year commenced, came into the actual 

 possession of the Commissioners during the month of June last, and 

 active operations were at once extended over a large part of the new 

 territory. 



A portion of the road system in this section of the ground has 

 been developed, the carriage concourse proposed in our original de- 

 sign to be constructed on Briar Hill has been sub-graded, and the 

 ground in the vicinity of this concourse has been partially shaped. 

 It was found practicable in execution to enlarge the area of this 

 feature of the design, and the dimensions have been somewhat in- 



