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hardly have ventured to include so large an extent of lake surface in our 

 design without the encouragement of your President, who had given 

 special personal study to this source of supply, and who had from the 

 outset perfect confidence in its availability. It is therefore a matter of 

 congratulation that the plans prepared by Mr. Martin, as Engineer-in- 

 Charge, and approved after thorough consideration by your Board, 

 have this year been successfully carried out, the present indications be- 

 ing that a considerably larger supply of water will be obtained than it 

 was thought necessary to provide. The general result is that a pro- 

 vision of excellent cold spring water, sufficient not only to keep the 

 extensive ornamental waters in a condition favorable to health, but to 

 furnish a large number of drinking fountains, has been secured in a 

 manner which makes the Park to a great degree independent of all 

 other sources of supply. A public walk is required to pass the point 

 where, for engineering reasons, the Well occurs, and as many visitors 

 will be desirous of examining it, we have preferred to treat its mouth 

 in such a way that, while perfectly protected, no one can pass without 

 obtaining a somewhat forcible impression of the extent and character 

 of the work. For this purpose the walk, as it approaches the Well from 

 either side, is enlarged so as to include a circular deck, in the middle 

 of which is a railed opening twenty feet in diameter overhanging the 

 outer part of the cavity. 



The Boiler House attached to the Well is in a conspicuous position 

 on the lake shore, and Ave have designed its exterior with special refer- 

 ence to this prominence of situation. In its interior plan a stairway for 

 communication with the pump platform at the bottom of the Well has 

 been provided, so that under proper regulations visitors may have the 

 opportunity of examining the works with ease and safety. 



Mr. Martin we are informed, is about to give up the appointment of 

 Engineer-in-charge which he has for some time held under your Com- 

 mission, having been invited to till a position in the City of Brooklyn 

 of larger professional responsibility, and Ave desire to put on record our 

 sense of the value of his services to the Park, not only in the solution of 

 such special problems of construction as the one referred to above, but 

 also in the daily supervision of the various operations that have been 

 necessary to the practical development of the Park design during the 

 last two years. 



There has been a more extensive transplanting of trees of a size 

 making the use of special transporting apparatus desirable, upon your 



