REPORT 



OF 



LANDSCAPE. ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 



To the Brooklyn Park Commissioners. 



Gentlemen: — We lay before you our customary annual report 

 upon matters of design, construction and superintendence. 



DESIGX. 



No material modifications have been made in the primary study 

 of the plan of the park during the past year, but in the elaboration 

 of that part covering the district between Franklin avenue and the 

 water adjoining, the original lines have been somewhat changed, the 

 drive and ride widened, and a return branch of the drive has been 

 introduced on the west shore, the object of the whole variation being 

 to give a more decided promenade character to this long southerly 

 stretch of shore road, and to bring it into more close connection with 

 the principal carriage concourse at the east end of ths lake. 



The removal of a large deposit of sand, needed in road construc- 

 tion, which was found just below the original surface near the middle 

 of the park, south of the old line of Third Street has made it prac- 

 ticable to broaden the dale effects originally designed to be secured 

 in the vicinity, and to carry the east dale walk in a more direct 

 course than was originally proposed — both results being very de- 

 sirable. 



As the city can not expect to secure due returns for its expendi- 

 tures without employing every economical means of extending the 

 influence of the park by increasing its general accessibility, we feel 

 compelled again to call attention to the importance of an early 

 review of certain parts of the present street plan, and to the adop- 

 tion of at least a few elementary lines by which the inconvenience 

 arising from jts complexity may be avoided in its necessary future 

 extensions. 



