Reservation 186, Ohio avenue, Thirteenth and C streets NW.-The ground was smoothed over, uneven places removed, and a post-andchain fence, consisting of 60 posts and 468 feet of chain, erected and painted.

Reservation 187, Louisiana avenue, Sixth and C streets NW.--The iron post-and-chain fence inclosing this reservation, consisting of 45 posts and 366 feet of chain, was painted. Bare places on lawns and spaces around trees on sidewalks were sodded.

Reservation 191, New Jersey avenue and Third street, between N and O streets NW.-An iron post-and-chain fence, consisting of 43 posts and 341 feet of chain, was erected around this reservation. The fence was painted.

Reservation 192, New Jersey avenue and Third street, between Mand N streets NW.-The District government laid a new cement pavement on the sidewalk on the east side of this reservation, lowering the grade 9 inches. The parking on that side was lowered to the grade of the new pavement and sodded. The post-and-chain fence, 61 posts and 481 feet of chain, was painted.

Reservations 193, 194, 195, and 196, New Jersey avenue, between E and K streets NW.-The post-and-chain fences inclosing these reservations, a total of 192 posts and 1,345 feet of chain, were painted.

Reservation 270A, Florida avenue, Nineteenth and T'streets NW.Water was introduced into this small reservation by laying 20 feet of pipe and placing a hose valve thereon.

Reservation 277 B, North Capitol street and Lincoln road, between Q street and Quincy place NE-This reservation was regraded, a flower bed made, the borders of the ground and the spaces around the trees on the sidewalk sodded. The post-and-chain fence, consisting of 19 posts and 155 feet of chain, was painted and galvanized-iron water pipe laid.

Reservation 277 C, North Capitol street and Lincoln road, between Quincy place and R street NE.-The post-and-chain fence inclosing this reservation, consisting of 26 posts and 206 feet of chain, was painted and water pipe for irrigating purposes laid.

Reservation 308, Center parking on Quincy street, between Connec ticut avenue and Twenty-ninth street NW.-This parking is about 725 feet long and 25 feet wide. Water was introduced in September, 77 feet of pipe having been laid for the purpose.

Reservation 309, Grant street, Seventeenth street and old Sixteenth street NW-This reservation was regraded, a border of sod laid, grass seed sown, a cement coping, 522 feet in length, laid around it, the spaces around the trees on the sidewalk sodded and water pipe laid.

Reservation 311, Harewood and Maple avenues (T street) and Third street NW.-Water was introduced by laying 70 feet of pipe and placing one hose valve thereon.

SOUTHWEST DIVISION.

Henry Park.-Repairs were made to the main gravel road, park settees restaked and fastened down. Worn places in lawns loosened and grass seed sown, 9 dead trees cut down and removed, and 602 linear feet of old board walk taken up and relaid, new material being used to replace that which was worn out and unserviceable.

Monument grounds.-Extensive repairs were made to the gravel roads, 650 cubic yards of gravel having been used for the purpose. Eleven hundred square yards of cinder walks were resurfaced with new cinders. The board walk in the southeastern part of the grounds was moved from the sides to the center of gravel walk and the ground uncovered was sodded. One hundred and forty feet of new board walk were laid. Three brick catch basins were built, 249 linear feet of terra-cotta drainpipe laid, and 224 feet of old terra-cotta pipe that had become choked was abandoned and new pipe laid in its place. Manure was spread on portions of the lawns. An abandoned basin south of the south fish pond was filled up, graded, covered with soil, and seeded. The surface improved covered an area of about 5,023 square yards, and 2,325 cubic yards of clay and 433 cubic yards of soil were used in the improvement.

Seaton Park. The exterior of the watchman's lodge was painted. Worn places on lawns were resodded, loose settees restaked and fastened, and 300 linear feet of stake and wire fencing erected to prevent trespassing. Thirteen dead trees were removed. The gravel roads and walks in the east section of the park and a part of the walks in the west section were repaired, 262 cubic yards of gravel having been used for the purpose. One of the sections of the New Jersey avenue and B street trunk sewer is being constructed through this park by the District Commissioners, and the work in connection therewith will keep the part of the park through which the trench has been cut in an unsettled condition until the sewer is completed and the ground restored.

Smithsonian grounds.-Worn places in the asphalt roads and walks were repaired, 357 square yards of roads and 680 square yards of walks having been resurfaced. Two hundred and seventy-two square yards of worn gravel walks were repaired with fresh gravel. A bridle path 4,795 feet long and 18 feet wide was staked out, and 10 wooden bridges built over gutters on line of same. Two tons of bone meal were spread on the lawns. Ten dead trees were removed. The exterior of the lodge was repainted. The gravel was removed from a short walk in the south grounds which is to be abandoned and the excavation filled with soil. The gravel excavated was used in repairing other walks. Catch basins were repaired and 71 linear feet of stone gutters and 322 linear feet of brick gutters were taken up and relaid.

Reservation 111, Virginia avenue and B street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets SW-Bare places on the lawns were sown with grass seed.

Reservation 201, Maryland avenue, Third and B streets SW.-Considerable damage was done by its temporary occupancy by a contractor who was engaged in constructing a public sewer adjoining the reservation. This damage was repaired by this Office by resodding bare places on lawns and replacing the broken shrubbery and plants with new stock. The entire cost of the work was $80.86, and that amount was paid by the contractor and deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the proper appropriation. After the completion of the work of restoration 686 linear feet of stake-and-wire fencing were erected and painted, to prevent trespassing.

Reservation 215, Delaware avenue, Third and N streets SW. This reservation has been set aside as a children's playground. The ground

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was cleaned up, iron posts for a post-and-chain fence set up on the Third street and N street sides of the reservation, and water introduced by laying 65 feet of pipe. A hydrant was also erected and 90 feet of 4-inch cast-iron drainpipe laid to carry off waste water.

Reservation 294, Water, Sixth and N streets S W.-One hundred and twenty-one feet of pipe were laid for introducing water.

EAST DIVISION.

Folger Park.-Bare places on the lawns were sown with grass seed and worn borders resodded. In August, 1904, the post-and-chain fence, consisting of 146 iron posts and 1,168 feet of chain, was painted. In April, 1905, this fence was taken down, the brick gutters taken up and hauled to storage, and in May a cement coping 1,145 feet long was constructed around the park, with 12 cement corner posts at the entrance to walks. A cement pavement, covering a total area of 104 square yards, was laid at each of the six entrances to connect the park asphalt walks with the street sidewalks. The low ground back of the new coping was raised, regraded with 370 cartloads of soil, part of it sodded and the remainder sown with grass seed and rolled. Bare places on the lawns were sown with grass seed and worn borders were resodded. The spaces around the trees on the sidewalks were sodded. Worn places in the gravel, walks and on the graveled margins of the asphalt walks were repaired.

Garfield Park.-The roofs of the lodge house and of the tool and store house were painted. The following materials were removed from along the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad improvements and from the west section of the park between New Jersey and Virginia avenues and South Capitol and É streets and used in work on other reservations: Two hundred and twenty-eight cubic yards of gravel, 119 cartloads of cobblestones from gutters, 527 cartloads of soil, and 155 cartloads of sod from lawns.

This west section, which contains about 6.6 acres, was designated by Congress in sundry civil act approved April 28, 1904, as a site for a building for a power house for the office building of the House of Representatives, the Capitol building, and the Congressional Library building, and was transferred to the Superintendent of the Capitol building, for the purpose indicated by the Chief of Engineers, on June 26, 1905.

The triangle between New Jersey avenue, First, and E streets SE. was supplied with water, 88 feet of pipe having been laid for the purpose. A small lodge house was removed from the park and taken to Stanton Park.

Lincoln Park.-Eleven old gas lamps along the boundary line of the park, which had been out of service for some years, were taken down and removed to the storage grounds at the nursery. A cement coping 2,339 feet in length was constructed around the park and 2 cement corner posts constructed at each of the 13 walk entrances. This required the grade of the lawn surface inside of the coping to be raised. On the north, east, and the greater portion of the south side the fill was 12 feet wide and about 6 inches deep, and this was seeded down and a border of sod 1 foot wide laid just inside the coping. On the west side a strip 4 feet wide was graded and sodded. In this work 700 cartloads of clay were used in filling, and the area sodded was 460

square yards. The sod and soil used was removed from the ground before regrading, and the clay filling was hauled in without expense to the United States by persons making excavations for buildings in the vicinity. The exterior of the lodge was painted, 70 cartloads of screened gravel used in repairing gravel walks, and repairs made to worn places in asphalt walks, the area resurfaced amounting to 110 square yards. The spaces around the trees on the sidewalks were sodded.

Marion Park.-Twenty-five cartloads of gravel were used in repairing worn places in gravel walks. Bare places on the lawns were seeded and worn borders sodded. In June work was commenced for constructing a cement fountain basin in the center of the park, and by the close of the month was practically completed.

Stanton Park.-A small lodge house, removed from Garfield Park, was placed near the southwest corner of the park. The woodwork of this lodge was repaired, interior and exterior painted, and broken glass replaced with new glass. Worn places in the gravel walks were repaired. Fourteen cartloads of screened gravel were used in the work. Bare places on lawns were seeded and worn borders sodded. The ground around the trees on sidewalks was also sodded.

Reservations 38 to 51, Pennsylvania avenue, from Fourth to Twelfth streets SE. The post-and-chain and post-and-bar fences inclosing these 14 reservations, a total of 831 posts, 2,032 feet of chain, and 4,335 feet of bars, were painted. At reservations 38 to 49 the grounds around the trees on the sidewalks were sodded. At reservations 45 to 51 the lawns were fertilized with bone meal. At reservations 39, 48, and 49 the water service was extended, a total of 334 feet of pipe having been laid and a hose valve placed in each of the three reservations.

Reservations 39, 41, 43, 44, and 48, Pennsylvania avenue, between Fourth and Ninth streets SE.; reservations 82 to 87, Massachusetts avenue, from Second to Tenth streets NE.; reservations 203 to 205, Maryland avenue, First to Third streets NE.; and reservations 230 to 234, North Carolina avenue, from Sixth to Tenth streets SE.—Bare places on the lawns were seeded and worn borders were resodded (except in reservations 87, 203, 204, and 230), the lawn surfaces fertilized with bone meal, and the spaces around the trees on sidewalks sodded.

Reservation 83, Massachusetts avenue, Third and B streets NEFifty-five feet of water pipe were laid and 1 hose valve placed thereon for introducing water into the reservation.

Reservation 86, Massachusetts avenue and A street, between Eighth and Ninth streets NE.-The iron post-and-chain fence inclosing this reservation, consisting of 39 posts and 312 feet of chain, was painted. Reservation 125, Virginia avenue and K street, between Ninth and Tenth streets SE.-On July 15, 1904, the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in pursuance of a provision in the District of Columbia appropriation act approved April 27, 1904, relinquished this reservation to the Commissioners of the District for use as a site for a fireengine house. In November, 1904, the iron post-and-chain fence inclosing the reservation and the granite marking stones at the corners were removed by employees of this Office and stored for use on other portions of the public grounds.

Reservation 126, Virginia and Georgia avenues and L street, between Ninth and Eleventh streets SE.-Portions of the playgrounds were

coated with clay. In August park seats were placed in the grounds, but they were removed the following month as it was found they were monopolized far into the night by noisy people who disturbed the residents of the neighborhood. On March 22, 1905, the Secretary of War granted a revocable license to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to temporarily store the earth back fill from their new tunnel on Virginia avenue, in connection with the work in progress for the elimination of grade crossings. The license provided that the railroad company should pay the United States a rental for the use of the reservation. On May 10 the license was revoked, at the request of the company (before the ground had been occupied by them), for the reason that changes made in their plans made the use of the grounds

unnecessary.

Reservation 203, Maryland avenue, First and A streets NE.-The cement coping on the south (A street) side of the reservation was in bad condition and was removed by the District government in November, as it was in the way of a new cement pavement laid by them on the sidewalk on that side. The gravel walk through the reservation was reduced to a width of 5 feet, the borders sodded, and the walk resurfaced with screened gravel.

Reservation 205, Maryland avenue, Third and B streets NE.-The old water pipe was abandoned, owing to a leak, and 40 feet of new water pipe laid.

Reservations 206 to 213, Maryland avenue, from Sixth to Fourteenth streets NE.-The lawns were fertilized with bone meal.

Reservation 211, Maryland avenue, Thirteenth and F streets NE. The granite curb on the south (F street) side was moved back about 12 inches and a cement pavement laid by the District government on the sidewalk on that side. A border of sod was laid around the edges of the reservation.

Reservation 251, Georgia avenue, Ninth and Mstreets SE.-The fence posts and the surface of the ground were raised to conform to the grade of the sidewalk which had been relaid by the District government. After the grading was completed, which required 243 cartloads of soil, the margins of the reservation were sodded. The water box and standpipe were also raised to the new grade. The post-andchain fence, consisting of 51 posts and 408 feet of chain, was painted.

Reservation 255, Georgia avenue, Fifteenth and G streets SE.-The lawn surface was fertilized with bone meal.

Reservation 259, Kentucky avenue and Thirteenth, between A and B streets SE-The post-and-chain fence, consisting of 39 posts and 297 feet of chain, was painted.

Reservation 260, Kentucky avenue and Thirteenth street, between B and C streets SE. The post-and-chain fence, 22 posts and 157 feet of chain, was painted.

Reservation 262, Kentucky avenue, Fourteenth and D streets SEThis unimproved reservation was brought to proper grade, the margins sodded, grass seed sown, a flower bed made, 46 feet of water pipe laid for introducing water, a post-and-chain fence, consisting of 21 iron posts and 180 feet of chain, erected, and a brick pavement 43 feet long and 5 feet wide laid across the base.

Reservation 263, Kentucky avenue, Fourteenth and E streets SE.— This unimproved reservation was graded, the borders and terrace sodded, grass seed sown, a flower bed made, 46 feet of water pipe laid