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park road and walk lines leading from the Willink Gate was found 

 to be necessary in this connection, and the design, as it now stands, 

 is shown on the accompanying revised plan. 



At the commencement of the working season a change occurred 

 in the organization of the staff of superintendence. Mr. John 

 Bogart, who was the responsible engineer to the Board at the close 

 of the year 1870, having resigned his position, his duties devolved 

 on Mr. J. Y. Culyer,who was subsequently appointed by your Board 

 its chief engineer. 



In organizing the work of construction under your instructions, 

 in 1866, it was thought desirable to secure, if possible, some advan- 

 tage from the special knowledge which had been acquired in the 

 engineering department of the Central Park during the initial stages 

 of development of that work before the war. Of the assistant en- 

 gineers who had been engaged in that department, Mr. Bogart was 

 selected as a fitting representative of the required experience, and, 

 at our suggestion, he gave up a professional position he was then 

 holding under the United States Government, and took charge under 

 Mr. Davis, then your chief engineer, of the Brooklyn Park surveys, 

 and of the transference to the ground of the design, as finally ap- 

 proved. 



This important service he continued to render, in connection 

 with other duties, till the close of his official relations with the park 

 last spring, and we desire at this time to express our sense of the 

 special value of the aid we have received from him in the elabora- 

 tion of the design during the five years that he has been connected 

 with the work under the control of your Commission. 



His coadjutor and successor, the present chief engineer, was 

 likewise engaged from the outset on the Central Park, and also, at 

 our suggestion, in 1866, resigned a position held in connection with 

 its administration, to take the more responsible one to which he was 

 appointed when the Brooklyn Park work was first organized. Except 

 during a period of service under the "War Department, Mr. Culyer 

 has thus, for the last fifteen years, been occupied on public work of 

 this special class ; and his duties under your Commission having re- 

 quired him to be in constant communication with your Executive 

 Committee, the value throughout of his ability and experience is 

 well known to the Board. 



Of the various results that have been reached in the steady 

 progress of the work during the past year, the completion of the 

 circuit drive supplies the additional attraction to the park of most 

 evident value to the jDublic, and it may therefore be desirable to 



