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pany, which were on the new line of the street, have been taken 

 down, and the excavation made from the circle at Sixteenth street, 

 along the new and widened line of the street as far as Eleventh 

 avenue, where the old grade of the street has been preserved. A 

 new line of water pipe has been laid in the street by the Water 

 Board, and the old line of pipe lowered to correspond with the new 

 grade. 



CONEY ISLAND ROAD. 



Considerable filling for the widening of the Coney Island road, on 

 the park side, has been done ; a part of the south-westerly circle 

 of the park has been finished, and the rest is partially subgraded. 



FRANKLIN AVENUE. 



The planting of trees unfinished at the close of last season was 

 completed in the spring, and the avenue dedicated to public use. 



WASHINGTON PARK. 



Early in the year, work was resumed on the enclosing wall of 

 this park, but it did not proceed satisfactorily, owing to unwilling- 

 ness on the part of the contractor to comply with the requirements 

 of the plans and specifications embodied in his contract with the 

 Commissioners, and operations were accordingly suspended. The 

 prices at which the work was taken by Mr. Swift, the contractor, 

 being too low to warrant the expectation of a thorough performance 

 of his contract, without excessive trouble and annoyance in superin- 

 tendence, the contract was annulled, and the work was subsequently 

 re-let to George E. Clark, of Brooklyn. Operations were resumed 

 in the month of July, and continued until the intervention of frost. 

 The wall along Cumberland street is nearly complete, with the ex- 

 ception of the entrance opposite Willoughby avenue, and a portion 

 of the coping between this entrance and De Kalb avenue. The wall 

 along Myrtle avenue is essentially complete between Portland 

 avenue and the entrance at the corner of Cumberland street. The 

 wall around the Gant is as near completion as is possible until the 

 granite piers and entrance shall be built. As fast as the construc- 

 tion of the wall was carried forward, a line of tile was laid behind 

 it, and a backing of rubble stone, about two feet thick, carried up 

 nearly to the top of the wall, the object being to drain the bank 

 thoroughly, and so protect the masonry from possible injury by 



