76 ANNUAL EEPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 
were painted, at a total cost of $1,586. The materials, amounting 
to $475, were furnished by the park. The contracts for labor to- 
taled $1,111. 
The creek-side drive from Klingle Ford to the crossroads and 
the main road from the concrete bridge to the concourse were broken 
up and rebuilt, the creek-side drive from crossroads to the stone 
bridge was resurfaced, and roads in other parts of the park were re- 
paired and resurfaced where necessary. The cost of materials for 
road work was $1,295, and the labor, including regular park em- 
ployees and temporary men, amounted to $1,475.50. 
Other minor improvements and repairs completed during the year 
include a new fence around the nursery and gardens, concrete steps 
to replace old stone steps leading from wolf dens up to bear yard 
steps, cement stairway from Cathedral Avenue leading down into 
park under the Calvert Street Bridge, repair of walks leading in 
from Adams Mill gate, repair of bridle paths, drainage for zebra 
house and yards, paving in zebra yards, a new policeman's box at 
Klingle gate. The old wooden ties of the fence of the large elephant 
yard were replaced by an iron fence to match the permanent sections 
already constructed. A number of large wire receptacles for rub- 
bish and 100 new park benches were provided. 
IMPORTANT NEEDS. 
Alteration of the westei^ houndary. — By an act approved June 23, 
1913, Congress appropriated $107,200 for the purchase of certain lots 
and parcels of land between the western boundary of the National 
Zoological Park and Connecticut Avenue, from Cathedral Avenue 
to Klingle Eoad, this land, together with the included highways, to 
become a part of the park. The appropriation was not a continuing 
one and lapsed at the end of the following fiscal year, before pro- 
ceedings for the purchase of the land were completed. Items for the 
reappropriation of this sum and for the additional amount necessary 
to meet the figures fixed by the court in proceedings of condemnation 
were submitted to Congress in the following years, but were not 
favorably considered. Following a suggestion made by the chair- 
man of the Appropriations Committee at the hearing on the bill for 
1919, the item for the purchase of this land was revised in the esti- 
mate for 1920 to include only a portion of the property originally 
appropriated for in 1913. The land asked for in the estimates sub- 
mitted for 1920 and, failing approval, again included in estimates 
for 1921, includes 250 feet each side of Jewett Street, fronting on 
Connecticut Avenue, and all of the land inside the unnamed road 
between Connecticut Avenue and the park, excepting one lot. This, 
with all of Jewett Street, and the included portion of the unnamed 
