REPORT 



C.C. MARTIN, ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE 



Park Commission, City of Brooklyx, 



Exgixeer's Office, January 1st, 1869. 



Messrs. Olmsted, Vaux & Co., 



Landscape Architects and Superintendents. 



G-EXTLEME5T : 



During the past year the paying of the interior portion of the Plaza 

 with Belgian blocks has been completed . The interior curbing has 

 all been set, and the corners properly placed. The foundations, steps, 

 and brick paving for the flagstaff areas have been completed. The 

 sewer, water, and gas pipe were laid before the paving was done. The 

 railroad track of the Flatbush Avenue line has been laid around the 

 side of the fountain with curves of two hundred feet radius as designed, 

 but it w as found impossible, with the ordinary construction of road, 

 to keep the cars upon the track without elevating the outer rails on 

 the curves, and this having been done, seriously interferes with the 

 symmetry and harmony of the general grade of the Plaza. This can 

 only be rectified when the increase of traffic becomes sufficient to war- 

 rant the Eailroad Company in making some improvement in the con- 

 struction of the cars to meet the serious difficulties that unavoidably 

 occur at this important point. At Manchester a central guide wheel 

 has been successfully used for several years, and this, or some similar 

 arrangement should, as soon as practicable, be experimented with on 

 the Plaza cars. 



