REPORT 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 



To tfu President of flic Board of Commissioners of 

 Prospect Park, Brooklyn: 



Sik: — In our Annual Report of last year, we described the organiza- 

 tion which had been made under instructions from your Board for carry- 

 ing out the design of the Park upon the ground. Tliis organization 

 remains to the present time essentially unchanged. 



In June last, Mr. J.P. Davis having resigned the position, Mr. C. C. 

 Martin was appointed to the office of Engineer in Charge. 



DEVELOPMENT OF THE DESIGN". 



During the year it lias been found practicable to carry forward the 

 design for the Park without intermission, although at many points the 

 works, which it would have been most desirable to press to completion, 

 have been suspended in consequence of the uncertainties in regard to 

 boundary lines that still continue to embarrass operations. 



So much of the hind required for the Park as lies to the south of that 

 upon which work was last year commenced, came into the actual poses- 

 sion of the Commissioners during the month of June last, and active 

 operations were at once extended over a large part of the new territory. 



.V portion of the road system in this section of the ground has been 

 developed, the carriage concourse proposed in our original design to be 

 constructed on Briar Hill has been subgraded and the ground in the 

 vicinity of this concourse has been partially shaped. It was found 

 practicable in execution to enlarge the area of this feature of 1 he design, 

 and the dimensions have been somewhat increased, it being evident that 

 the position was one that would offer special attractions to visitors in 

 carriages. 



On the east side of the Park, north of the deer-paddock, the design as 

 it stood last year has been so far modified in execution as to admit of the 

 introduction of a series of arrangements adapted especially to meet the 

 wants of children. The plan as approved, and now well advanced in 

 execution, contemplates suitable accommodations for running sports and 



