its completion, in that high degree of order an<l of aeatness, 

 which are indispensably necessary (<> the accomplishment 

 of its best purposes. The laying out of this portion of the 

 Paik, divided as it is by a large public reservoir, and isolated 

 from the rest of the Park by a broad thoroughfare, presents 

 a serious difficulty in harmonizing these discordant features, 

 with the general Park design, adverted to in a former report. 

 But the Commissioners are now able to state that extensive 

 plans of public improvement, bearing directly upon this 

 section of the Park, and having for their object a system of 

 more ample and convenient approaches thereto, are in pro- 

 gress, and will probably lead to an early and satisfactory 

 solution of this problem. 



No specific duty, in regard to making provision for suit- 

 able approaches to the Park, was included in the direct 

 responsibilities of the Commission; but as it was quite 

 evident, from the outset, that a necessity for some adequate 

 discussion of the public requirements in this respect, would 

 sooner or later arise, and as it seemed equally clear that no 

 other representative body would take the initiative, in 

 making the requisite suggestions, it was deemed best that 

 the subject should receive the attention of the Board. In 

 the arrangements made for professional aid, it was accord- 

 ingly understood that test surveys having reference to 

 this question of approaches, should be prepared, from 

 time to time, in accordance with such suggestions as might 

 be given by the Commissioners. In the appended report 

 of our landscape Architects will be found the latest re- 

 sults of this examination. So far as the project, which is 

 therein outlined, has been submitted to the parties more 

 immediately interested, in the south-eastern approach, it has 

 been received with general approval ; but the Commission- 

 ers do not propose to take any decided action in the matter 

 until the public judgment upon its merits shall have been 



