DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 1 89 



REPORT OF THE LABOR AND PROPERTY CLERK. 



Office of the Department of Parks, 

 " Litchfield Mansion," Prospect Park, 



Brooklyn, January i, 1897. 



Hon. J. G. Dettmer, 



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. 



At the time of making the last annual report, the Department 

 owned thirty-six horses, which number has been increased by the 

 purchase of four horses for use of the police, two horses for the 

 Superintendent's use and one horse for general use, and decreased 

 by the sale of two horses and the death of two horses, making a 

 total of thirty nine at the present time owned by the Department. 



THE MENAGERIE. 



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

 menagerie, consists of the following : Fifty-nine sheep, twenty- 

 eight deer, one buffalo, one Brahma cow, three bears, one puma, 

 two raccoons, ten rabbits, one dog, one eagle, eight pea fowls, 

 eight doves, thirty-nine Chinese geese, fifteen Egyptian geese, 

 seven Muscovy ducks, four common ducks and three turkeys. 



THE ROLLING STOCK. 



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

 nine double sprinklers, three single sprinklers, two steam rollers 

 (one new), one spraying machine (new), four horse rollers, three 

 dirt trucks, two spring trucks, two leaf trucks, six carts, one green- 

 house wagon, with top, three business wagons, four buggies, one 

 buggy without top, two phaetons, one surrey, one exercising 

 cart, one buckboard, one sweeper, one patent road maker, two 



