grown, purchased, planted in the parks, and distributed during the

year:

List of stock propagated, purchased, planted, and distributed.

Storehouse and shops building, Propagating Gardens.-The tools, supplies, and other Government property in the storehouse were cared for. The gutters on the building were repaired.

A sale of old, unserviceable, and condemned materials and tools was had in March, 1907, and the gross proceeds thereof, amounting to

$1,028.55, deposited in the Treasury of the United States. Of this amount, $183 was for property belonging to the Washington Monument.

At the shops building 200 feet of old 6-inch galvanized iron gutter was removed and replaced with new gutter.

SETTEES, TOOLS, MANURE, REPAIR OF POST-AND-CHAIN FENCES, AND REMOVING SNOW AND ICE.

During the year 551 park settees were painted, others were repaired, and all loose settees in the parks were refastened to the ground by stakes.

Repairs were made to lawn mowers, wheelbarrows, and miscellaneous tools, edge tools sharpened and kept in good order, and new tools purchased from time to time as required.

There were purchased 724 cubic yards of stable manure, and this, with manure received from Government stables, was piled in the compost grounds at Nineteenth and B streets NW. About 1,454 loads of this manure, when well rotted, were hauled out to the various parks in December, 1906, and spread over the lawns. In the spring this manure was raked in and the refuse removed.

The iron post-and-chain fences inclosing nine of the triangular reservations were taken down and replaced with copings of cement concrete. The iron post-and-chain fence around a small triangle on Rhode Island avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets was also taken down as no longer necessary, as the ground is inclosed with a stone curbing laid by the District government. Posts in the fences that were out of line were straightened and new iron caps were placed on 125 iron fence posts to replace those that were broken or missing. These new caps were painted.

The snow and ice were removed as soon as possible after storms from the walks around and through the various parks and park places. Where through freezing the snow could not readily be removed, sand was sprinkled and the slush and dirt removed as soon as a thaw set in. There were in all seven falls of snow during the period from January 16 to March 10. The annual allotment of $1,200, made for removing snow and ice, was practically exhausted by January 5, and thereafter it was necessary to use funds from other items of appropriation, which, while applicable to the work, were yet needed for other purposes. On February 6 a letter was written to the Chief of Engineers recommending that Congress be asked to make an appropriation of $2,000 for the purpose of reimbursing the items above mentioned for the amounts taken from them and also for removing snow and ice during the remainder of the season. Additional funds were, however, not granted. The total amount expended during the season was $2,224.37, which was $1,024.37 in excess of the regular allotment.

PAINTING LODGES, IRON FENCES, AND VASES.

The exteriors of two park lodge houses, the interiors of three, some iron posts and bars in Judiciary Park, the iron post and bar fences inclosing 11 reservations, the iron post and chain fence inclosing Stanton Park, some iron posts and chain in the Smithsonian grounds, and the iron posts and chain fences inclosing 30 reservations, a total

of 2,206 posts, 5,451 feet of bars, and 11,314 feet of chain were painted.

WATER PIPES, DRAIN PIPES, AND FOUNTAINS.

Repairs were made to water pipes and valves where necessary and new valves put on. In the autumn the water was shut off from the various parks, the hose valves removed and taken to the shops at the nursery and repaired during the winter. In the spring the valves were replaced on the pipes and the water turned on. During the year the following additional water pipe was laid in the parks as mentioned elsewhere in this report: Four thousand nine hundred and seventy-four feet of 6-inch cast-iron pipe, 100 feet of 4-inch castiron pipe, 2,343 feet of 3-inch cast-iron pipe, 5,945 feet of 2-inch galvanized-iron pipe, 7,466 feet of 14-inch galvanized-iron pipe, and 218 feet of 1-inch lead pipe, being a total of 21,046 feet.

Stoppages were removed from drain pipes in the public grounds and repairs made to broken pipes as required. The following quantities of additional drain pipe were laid during the year: Four hundred feet of 10-inch terra-cotta pipe, 622 feet of 8-inch terra-cotta pipe, 2,210 feet of 6-inch terra-cotta pipe, 64 feet of cast-iron drain pipe, and 337 feet of miscellaneous terra-cotta pipe, being a total of 3,647 feet. Sixty-six additional brick catch basins were constructed. The large fountains and their jets were cleaned weekly, except during the winter. Repairs were made to their basins, supply and overflow pipes and valves, and new overflows and valves put on where needed. Six of the iron fountains were painted. The water was shut off for the winter as usual, the jets taken off and kept in the storehouse until spring, when they were replaced and the water turned on.

Necessary attention was paid to the drinking fountains, stoppages removed from their waste pipes, their supply pipes and valves repaired, and new ones put in where needed. New tinned dippers were put on where needed and two of the fountains were painted. The water was turned off for the winter months.

LIGHTING THE PUBLIC GROUNDS.

The following parks are lighted with are electric lights:

The lamps on the Seventeenth street driveway in Monument Park Annex were erected during the year. The conduits for the cables were laid in August and September, but the cables were not run and the poles for the lamps erected until November, owing to a delay in getting the poles from the foundry. The lamps were tested on November 26 and their lighting under the contract commenced on November 27. Owing to a change that had to be made in the location of the south end of the driveway, and which could not be effected until the

summer of 1907, only 17 of the 27 lamps provided by Congress for the driveway could be erected during the fiscal year. The remaining 10 poles and lamps will be erected as soon as the changes in the driveway now under way are completed.

The number of gaslights in the public grounds not connected with meters lighted during the year was 226. All these lamps are equipped with mantle burners of high candlepower. The company which had the contract for the year did not complete their equipment until August 31. The old contractors held over and lighted the parks from July 1 until August 31 at the rate prescribed by Congress for the service.

Two gas lamp-posts without lanterns or burners standing on the line of Reservation 28, at Pennsylvania avenue, Twenty-first, and I streets NW., were taken down and removed to the property yard at the nursery. These lamps have not been in service for a long period, having been replaced by lamps erected on the sidewalk curb by the District government.

Two lamp-posts and lamp on the sidewalk at the southeast entrance to the White House grounds were discontinued and taken down, and were replaced by an electric light erected by the District government.

REPAIR OF ASPHALT PAVEMENTS.

The following tabulated statement shows the area of asphalt roadway and foot-walk pavements constructed and repaired during the

In addition to the foregoing, 1,746 square yards of concrete walks were laid in Judiciary Park at the northeast, north, and northwest sides of the Pension Office building, a cement walk about 3,000 feet long and covering an area of 2,139 square yards was laid around the borders of the great ellipse in the President's Park, and 265 square yards of cement walks were laid in other portions of the public grounds.

STATUES.

There are now 25 statues in the public grounds under the charge of this Office and 10 in contemplation.

Lists of all but four of these statues were printed in the Annual Reports of this Office for 1903 and 1904. The four not included in those lists are, first, a statue to the memory of Commodore John Barry, for which the sum of $50,000 was appropriated by act ap

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proved June 8, 1906 (Public, No. 206); second, a statue to the memory of John Paul Jones, for which $50,000 was appropriated by act approved June 8, 1906 (Public, No. 208); third, a statue of Longfellow, to be provided by the Longfellow Memorial Commission, Congress having appropriated the sum of $4,000 for a pedestal for it by public resolution approved June 8, 1906 (Public, No. 25); and fourth, a suitable memorial to the memory of Christopher Columbus, for which $100,000 was appropriated by act approved March 4, 1907 (Public, No. 267).

Attention has been paid to the various statues during the year and the pedestals and bronze figures have been maintained in a cleanly condition so far as possible. One statue, that of Gen. George B. McClellan, was erected and completed during the year.

MEMORIAL TO GEN. ULYSSES S. GRANT.

An additional appropriation of $40,000 was made by sundry civil act approved June 30, 1906, to continue work on the memorial, making $90,000 which has been appropriated of the $240,000 fixed by Congress as the price for the memorial.

On December 29, 1906, the contractors, who are also the sculptor and architect, were paid for the full-size models of the bronze lions for the memorial, which had been approved by the Commmision in October.

By resolution passed at its meeting held December 5, the Memorial Commission provided that a committee be appointed to determine the exact location in the Botanic Garden where the memorial is to be placed, the elevation to be given it, and the treatment to be accorded the site. This committee consisted of five members-the executive and disbursing officer of the Commission, the sculptor, the architect of the memorial, a prominent architect, and a prominent landscape architect. This committee held two meetings, one on January 10 and one on February 3, and submitted its reports to the Commission early in May.

STATUE OF GENERAL M'CLELLAN.

In August the plants and shrubs were removed from the site selected for the statue (United States reservation 303, at Connecticut and California avenues and Columbia road) in order to clear the ground for the contractor who was to erect the pedestal. The concrete foundation for the pedestal was commenced on September 18 and completed on September 29. The bronze equestrian group arrived in Baltimore from France on October 1 and in Washington in November. The bronze embellishments for the pedestal were also delivered in Washington in November. The granite steps to form the base of the pedestal commenced to arrive on December 13, work began setting them on December 23, and by January 11 all of the steps on hand had been set. This included part of the fourth course. The delivery of the granite for the pedestal commenced March 20, and setting was begun the following day. It was completed April 6. The bronze equestrian group was erected on the pedestal April 11. The work of placing the other bronze work in position was completed April 19, and the bronze lettering was commenced April 18 and