DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. IO9 



WORK OF THE MACHINE SHOP. 



In the Machine Shop the following work was done : Five 

 snow plows repaired ; ten painted ; shafts made for sleighs; water 

 sprinklers repaired and painted ; twenty-five snow-pushers made 

 and painted ; eight cart wheels made and painted ; four carts 

 repaired and painted ; four two-horse road scrapers made and 

 painted; nine scraper poles; fourteen sets of whiffletrees ; one 

 spring truck ; twelve seats ; ten tanks ; ten footboards ; nine 

 sprinkler poles; four ice scrapers, with poles; ten stone boats; 

 sixteen water-cart wheels ; eight leaf crates ; three sets of shafts ; 

 eight water barrels ; forty long-tool handles : two gun carriages, 

 with wheels; one lumber truck; four push carts; ten sets of 

 mowing machines, shafts, poles and whiffletrees ; one hundred ax 

 and maul handles ; two hundred and fifty signs made and 

 painted; four trucks ; two wagons ; thirty six wheels; two hun- 

 dred rakes; four plows; one harrow ; one street sweeper ; one 

 steam roller; three Buckeye mowers; nineteen lawn mowers, and 

 fifty-three small mowers were kept in repair. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



The miscellaneous work done in Prospect Park was as follows : 

 seventeen large hydrants, sixty-five feet of gutter near the stable, 

 forty feet of gutter at the Farm House, water mains on West Drive 

 and Ocean Parkway, 3,000 settees, the lake tool house, thirty 

 music racks, twelve hydrants, the large cess-pool near Gate 3, the 

 fireplace at the Farm House, and the fences about the Park were 

 repaired. A number of curbstones were cut down for bicycles ; 

 1,200 feet of irrigation pipe were laid ; a sewer connection was 

 made at the Third street entrance, which required eighty-five 

 feet of vitrified pipe; 3,000 feet of picket fence and 5,000 

 feet of pipe fence were painted ; 406 square yards of brick 

 pavement laid at Bedford avenue and Eastern Parkway; a foun- 

 dation for the Lincoln Monument, 16 x 16 x 4^ feet was built ; 

 also a foundation for the Maryland Monument, 9 x 10x9!- feet ; 

 5,000 feet of pipe railing constructed ; 1,500 long tree stakes and 

 400 dahlia stakes made, together with 8,000 small stakes for sur- 

 veyors ; a new dock for miniature yachts was built ; 2,600 feet of 



