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been in daily use during the summer for supplying water to the 

 circuit line and falls. 



A. 3-inch galvanized water pipe has been laid for the supply of 

 the Dairy, and adjacent building and neighborhood. 



Provision has been made for drinking* fountains in this vicinity, 

 as well as in the picnic woods and near the main entrance. During 

 the larger part of the year the supply for watering roads, irrigation, 

 and drinking purposes lias been obtained from the well and reservoir 

 on the park. 



PLANTINGS. 



All the spaces to be occupied bj plantation on the South Lake 



shore having been finished, they were partially planted before the 



close of the season. On the West Lake, borders the uncompleted 



planting is so far advanced that it can he readily finished in the 



■ing. 



The larger part of the Peninsula has 1 ■! and planted, 



and the work of finishing the plantings of the Deer Paddock is well 

 advanced. 



The ground near the Dairy, which was unfinished at the date of 

 the last report, is now entirely completed. The ground immediately 

 adjacent to the pools has been finished, as has also the hill between 

 tliis point and the Central drive. On the 



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LONG j.IEADOW 



the finished ground has been extended to the old line of Eleventh 

 et. On this part of the meadow the original surface was very 



low, and was intersected by a series of embankments made in con- 

 nection with the city stre m, which had been partially 

 developed. 



A considerable amount of material was necessary to fill up this 

 low ground to the height rcciuisitc for thorough drainage ; the earth 

 needed for this purpose was excavated at points where its removal 

 would not interfere with the desirable landscape features of the ad- 

 jacent surfaces, and in the disposal of this material so as to obliterate 

 the formal lines above referred to. 



The work was done with special regard to economical adjust- 

 ment. The filling between the. City Line and Sixteenth street has 

 been made. The old buildings of the Conev Island Railroad Com- 



