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THE SMALL PARKS. 



The care and attention which characterized the treatment of 

 Prospect Park was also given to the smaller city parks. 



At Washington Park a number of trees and shrubs were 

 planted, the walks relaid, considerable fencing done to preserve 

 the lawns, the shelter painted and repaired, and the lower portion 

 of the music stand renovated. Concerts were given in this park 

 during the summer months by the Fourteenth and Forty-seventh 

 Regiment Bands, alternating, under the leadership of their re- 

 spective leaders, Messrs. Louis Conterno and Louis Borjes. Ar- 

 rangements have been made to protect the Tomb of the Martyrs, 

 located in this park, by the construction of a beautiful wrought 

 iron fence. It is expected before another year elapses that the 

 Park Department, in conjunction with the Daughters of the Rev- 

 olution, will be able to place a suitable monument over this rest- 

 ing place of the martyrs of the British prison ships. 



At Winthrop Park many trees and flowering shrubs were 

 planted, the lawns extended and beautified and new paths 

 arranged. During the summer, concerts were given here, as in 

 Washington Park, by the Fourteenth and Forty-seventh Regi- 

 ment Bands. It is proposed during the coming year to provide 

 this park with an ornamental fence. 



At Bedford Park extensive work was done in planting and 

 arranging the floral decorations. A finishing touch was given to 

 the wrought iron fence erected last year by the construction of 

 beautiful wrought iron gates, with granite posts at each of the 

 Kingston avenue corners. 



I hrough the co-operation of the Mayor I was enabled to ob- 

 tain $400 from the Revenue Fund, which was used in making 

 much needed repairs to the building in this park, now occupied 

 by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. These re- 

 pairs were ordered by the Board of Health and the Building De- 

 partment. 



Extensive work has been done upon the Park in the Twelfth 



Ward, to which I have given the name of " Red Hook Park," to 



erve the original name of that section of the city. The plot 



of ground owned by the Cutting estate, at the corner of Verona 



