EEPOET 



or THE 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS & SUPERINTENDENTS. 



To the President of the Board of Commissioners of Prospect 

 Pari; Brooklyn: 



Sir— 

 On the 29th of May last we were appointed by your Board Landscape 

 Architects and Superintendents of the Park, and were requested to consider 

 various portions of its design in detail with reference to an early commence- 

 ment of the work of construction. 



On the 16th of June we were instructed to organize, as soon as possible, 

 with the sanction of the Executive Committee, a practical system of opera- 

 tions under which the work might be proceeded with at suitable points 

 during the remainder of the season. 



The necessary preliminaries having been settled, a small body of laborers 

 was set at work on the 1st of July, since which time the force has been 

 engaged in developing such leading features of the plan as it was prac- 

 ticable from time to time to take up. 



Our preliminary study contemplated the addition to the Park domain, of 

 the tract between Third and Fifteenth streets and Ninth and Tenth avenues ; 

 but as this section was not included in the enlargement provided for by 

 legislative enactment last winter, the satisfactory development of the plan 

 on the ground has been somewhat interfered with. All the lines in the 

 neighborhood of the Litchfield property have had to be stopped short, or so 

 arranged that they would apply to the scheme of roads as originally 

 designed, in case that ground should be acquired within a reasonable time, 



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