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The woodland has been patrolled on Sundays and holidays 
by the regular guards, and by two men daily up to 8 P. M. 
during the summer months. 
An explosion of a box 4 x 4 feet in diameter, placed in the 
woods about 700 feet east of the museum building, in which 
dynamite was stored for the use of the quarry, took place on 
the 18th day of December at 8.20 A. M. The concussion 
broke 248 lights of glass at the museum building, 83 small 
and 31 double thick and plate-glass, lights of different sizes 
at the conservatories, 14 lights in dwellings on Webster Ave- 
nue and surroundings, and 59 lights at the buildings of St. 
John’s College. Fortunately no injury of life is to be re- 
ported. 
Respectfully submitted, 
F. A. ScHILuine, 
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. 
