34 REPORT OF THE 



in Prospect Park. Many of these new walks are needed. The 

 people, when passing through the park, have not followed the 

 winding walk laid down by the architect, hut by many devious 

 routes have invariably taken the shortest cuts to those points 

 of interest as well as to those buildings which they wished to 

 reach. Notably, in passing from the Picnic Shelter to the 

 Dairy Cottage there is a constant stream of people crossing the 

 meadow at this point. Such travel soon wears away the green 

 and leaves it in many places so shabby and trampled out that 

 it is impossible to maintain it. It is therefore proposed to 

 construct a new walk across the meadow at this point. The 

 walk at some distance above, across the meadow, which was 

 originally intended to accomplish the same end, is scarcely ever 

 used, and might better be returned to lawn. 



Another walk is badly needed from the head of the upper 

 lake at the trout pool across to Nethermead. The amount 

 appropriated is insufficient to carry out this project. In the 

 construction of the new picnic grounds and music grove, a 

 number of new walks were partly made, which are quite 

 serviceable as they are. They represent, however, merely the 

 foundation of a good walk,- and can lie used as they are until 

 sufficient means shall be provided to complete them. They are 

 constructed as follows : An excavation is dug for the bed of the 

 walk of the proper width required, to a depth of twelve inches. 

 In this bed a layer of sand is spread on which cobblestones are 

 laid, as in a city street. On these stones are strewn black 

 boiler ashes, which are raked in and rolled down, making a 

 hard smooth walk. Many persons have expressed themselves 

 as preferring these walks to the asphalt pavement. They can 

 be used in this condition until an appropriation is made for 

 their completion, when they may he covered with granolithic 

 asphalt. Under a year or two's use they will settle down into 

 a permanent road-bed. The cobblestones and ashes used in 

 these beds for the walks -were found in the park in making the 

 the new picnic grounds and other new improvements ; 6,470 

 running feet of new walks, varying from 5 to 13 feet in width, 

 have been made. 



