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Even if it should not be thought expedient to undertake such : n improve- 

 ment immediately, the ground might be secured and the city map modified 

 with reference to its construction in the future. It would practically extend 

 the Park to the rear of Williamsburgh, and, at a comparatively low price, 

 would add much more to its real utility than any equal area of land that 

 could now be secured on its immediate border. 



I I' to this time, those who have built expensive houses in the districts 

 which lie much to the eastward of the present centre of population of the 

 city, have evidently been led to do so because the opportunity lias here been 

 offered to lay out villa residences on a liberal scale, which is not elsewhere 

 practicable within the city limits or on New York island, within equal dis- 

 tance of Wall street. 



It is, doubtless, for the interest of the city of Brooklyn that such men 

 should not be driven beyond its limits, and that others of similar tastes 

 should be attracted to build within them, an object which would be greatly 

 aided by the opening of spacious and agreeable suburban thoroughfares, 

 especially if these were so designed as to practically secure the advantages 

 of proximity to the Park to all who should live near them. 



The various duties of superintendence of work on the Park are, for the 

 sake of convenience, divided into two classes, each supervised by an assistant 

 engineer, and both comprehended in the more general responsibility of the 

 engineer in charge. 



The first includes the duties of the topographical survey, the elaboration 

 of the designs in working drawings and details of measurement in exact cor- 

 respondence with the data furnished by the topographical survey; the 

 transference of the designs in this form to the ground in such ways as may 

 be required to enable the workmen to understand each his respective part in 

 the constructive labor ; and such a supervision of the working force as is 

 necessary to secure the intended result in all particulars, together with the 

 measurements, calculations and records, upon which our knowledge is 

 assured of the degree of economy, with which the work is proceeding. 



The second includes the adjustment of the force to the various duties 

 required to be performed by recruiting, by transfers, and by discharges ; the 

 discipline of the force by cautions, reproofs, suspensions and discharges ; the 

 detail of time-keeping and the precautions used to prevent fraud and disorder. 



Mr. John Bogart, civil engineer, is in immediate charge of so much of the 

 organization as relates to the first of these departments ; Mr. J. Y. Culyer, 

 civil engineer, of so much as relates to the other. 



Mr. J. P. Davis, civil engineer, has a general executive charge over all, 

 and is also looked to for the solution of problems arising on the work, which 



