400 



feet wide around the -whole circuit of the park, with a shaded 

 walk thirty feet wide on the side adjacent to the park, and ex- 

 tending in length to a distance of five miles. 



An appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars was au- 

 thorized last spring by the Legislature, for the improvement of 

 Tompkins Park, in a style corresponding with the other city 

 parks. A plan for its improvement has been prepared and 

 adopted, and is now in the course of execution. The design, 

 with a special report of our landscape architects relating there- 

 to, will be found appended to this report. It embraces a foun- 

 tain, besides other distinctive features of a novel character. A 

 large amount of filling was required to bring the surface of this 

 park up to the required grade, but the work is rapidly progress- 

 ing, and the Commissioners hope soon to present Tompkins 

 Park to the residents of that rapidly growing section of our 

 city in at least as good a condition as any of the other parks 

 under their charge. 



With respect to the several street openings and improve- 

 ments necessarily connected with the improvement of the park, 

 and which have from time to time been placed under the direc- 

 tion of the Commissioners, they have further to report that 

 immediately after the confirmation of the assessment for open- 

 ing Sackett street was complete, the grading of that rugged and 

 most forbidding of all our streets was put under contract, and 

 the work is now nearly finished. As soon as the deep filling 

 which was required for this street shall have sufficiently settled 

 to admit of the construction of the central roadway, with the 

 parallel traffic roads and other improvements contemplated by 

 the Commissioners, their design in reference thereto will be 

 fully carried out, and they expect in a short time to be able to 

 throw open to the public this great Eastern Parkway, in a style 

 corresponding with the importance to the city of so grand a 

 leading thoroughfare. 



The Southern Parkway, leading from the southwestern angle 

 of the park to the Fair Grounds, and ultimately to the ocean, 

 is still in the hands of the Commissioners of Estimate and 

 Assessment, but it is expected that their report will soon be 

 ready for publication, and when this is confirmed, the Commis- 

 sioners intend to open the drive without delay, and to continue 

 its further improvement as rapidly as the public exigency shall 

 require. 



