The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
THE YEARS WORK ON PARKS
ANNUAL REPORT OF SUpERIN-
 PENDENT AMRHYN,
Submitted at the Annual Meeting of the Park Commtssion-Improv Made in Various Parks.

the year 1901, submitted to the park
 commission Friday night is as follows;
 New Haven, Conn, Jan. 10, 1902,
 To the Honorable Board of Park Com
 missioners:
 Gentlemen-I have the honor to sub
 init report of the work accomplished
 on the different parks under your di- rection during the year 1901.
 The chief work upon the parks has
 been confined to maintenance, although
 some attempt has been made to im-
 prove them as far as avilable funds
 would permit, these being only small
 amounts spread from the immediate
 wants of the park service. No exten sive improvements, such as should stand to the credit of our city, can be
 made without larger appropriations. materially to the beauty and usefulness of our parks, have been talked about and considered in previous reports
 EAST ROCK PARK.
 The maintenance of this park, which is the greatest item of expense, con sisted in the usual cleaning and repair
 ing of roads, paths and lawns, the care of trees and shrubs, the repairing of buildings, machinery and water supply system, etc. The driveways received much attention In the first place all decayed parts of the wooden fences were removed and replaced with new material and then the drives were part ly covered with a crushed stone top dressing For this purpose city stone crusher has been set up in the old quarry on the English drive, the neces- ga ItU Sto la1 Ia livered upon the drives most in need of repairs, This improvement will prove a valuable one for the coming season when the repairs can be com pleted in a more satisfactory way Some of the lawns have received d good supply of fertilizer, while others were helped with seeding or grass seed. A | number of willows copper beeches, liquidambers, a species of camperdown elm, were iudiciously planted upon the above mentioned lawns. All shade trees on the summit have been relieved of dead and broken branches, while a number of blasted ones were entirely removed. This same treatment has been applied in sections along the lrives. All buildings have been put in sair repair and the steam pump and water supply system thoroughly over hauled. Several Improvements are to De mentioned. At the Whitney gate en- rance new shelter has been built and he road bed, both in line and grade, vas changed This alteration necess- ated considerable amount of filling, which was the surplus material ob- aimed by grading in nearby places. 'ba It,,fo ue and the College drive has been talk n care of by the construction of four atch basins and conveyed to Mill river. l 'urther improvements have been made II along this drive by grading the teep embankments in several places z nd seeding them with grass seed. Considerable forest clearing became T ecessary after the heavy ice storm of | lis winter The liberty pole on Indian I -ead was destroyed and new one V 'ected at the edge of the rock, directly oove the Orange street building. n
 WEST ROCK PARK. t Paths and roads were kept in good W 'ndition and number of dead and t 'oken down trees removed. Certain p aces on the newly acquired property p ong West river were graded and seed 1: number of unnecessary trees re- owed wire fence put upon the prop D ty facing Stone street. For the bene-
 of the driveway additional culverts i've been placed at intervals between ose already existing. These insure to great extent the safety against fu- re washouts. Many acres of forest nd have been cleared of dead trees II d undesirable undergrowth This eration will give the much admired ountain Laurel chance to display it's orious blossom much better during B other season. For an experiment I es We seeded a quantity of sumac and ,, rberry bush seed is at the base of the i'' ck among the loose stone: the idea Ci ing that should certain percentage tn this seed make a successful growth in would soften the appearanc of the r, Id of stone.
 LOCKWOOD PARK .... o' lawns, trees and shrubs have receiv- dc sufficient attention to give the place pc more park-like appearance. Baths tn roads were kept in repair. The rus SO bridge at Chapel street was repair tn, and strengthened with additional A tees. The nursery had all the neces- ca y care and the collection of trees pe shrubs, etc. was increased by the he 1ition of new varieties of plants The asl odland on the easterly bank of West we ar has received clearing of dead the unnecessary trees; some pruning da1 5 also done at the south end in said the odland., The planting of TOW of lin rWay naples along the park drive orc spring makes the thoroughfarec com ing te III tiat dlfectlon. An improve haC Tt of value and for appearance was tha grading and filling of the section of ass feWood avenue, between the Boule- ble d and the park drive, the surface CT 1g then seeded down and treated as the lWn limited amount of shrub fns and the tree planting executed in apr spring further augmented and add and o the attractiVeness of this particu- ed, locality. A miniature lily pond laid ma at the south end and near the river ask k, is in the nature of an experiment. it II lg the line of artificial waterways. eva sinking of an so foot we'll near the thar 1ley street entrance in the parl5 mer oerty. created what is popularlv awf ed the "Chillingworth fountain" the
 BEAVER PONDS PARK. noy
 BEAVER PONDS PARK won ,e filling deposited at the hottor, of sple old pond shows decided gain since TOT year, The present process of filling ton ieen Henry County, Goffe streets