DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 1 I 3 



REPORT OF THE LABOR AND PROPERTY CLERK. 



Office of the Department of Parks, 

 " Litchfield Mansion," Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 



January 1st, 1896. 

 Hon. Frank Squier, 



Commissioner of the Department of Parks : 

 Dear Sir: — I herewith respectfully submit the following in- 

 ventory of the stock and miscellaneous articles belonging to the 

 Department of Parks, distributed among the various parks, under 

 my care as Property Clerk. 



THE LIVE STOCK. 



The live stock of the Department consists of twelve truck 

 horses, five cart horses, twelve police horses, one horse for Com- 

 missioner's use, one horse for Superintendent's use, and five 

 horses used by the different foremen of the park, making a total 

 of thirty-six horses at the present time. At the time of making 

 my last report the Department owned thirty-three horses, which 

 number has been increased by the purchase of two teams and 

 four horses for the use of the police, and decreased by the sale 

 of three horses, and the death of two on account of old age. 

 The number of horses, as per last report, thirty-three ; increase 

 by purchase, eight ; total, forty-one ; decrease by sale and death, 

 five ; leaving a total of thirty-six. 



THE MENAGERIE. 



The other live stock of the Department, which makes up the 

 menagerie, consists of the following : Sixteen Egyptian geese, 

 eleven ducks, one swan, nine peafowl, three white turkeys, four 

 doves, two eagles, fourteen elk, five white deer, six brown deer, 

 one Brahma cow, one buffalo bull, forty-nine sheep, one shepherd 

 dog, eleven rabbits. 



THE ROLLING STOCK. 



The rolling stock consists of one excavator and pump, seven- 

 teen two-horse sprinklers, three one-horse sprinklers, one steam 



