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and painted row boats ; made seven large tool boxes, and nine 

 coal boxes, using 87,300 feet of lumber ; repaired thirty sprinklers ; 

 made twenty-three poles ; four Boulevard scrapers ; one carpenter 

 wagon ; one run-around wagon ; one horse-rake for shore ; seventy- 

 five sledge handles ; four sets buggy wheels ; two buggy bodies ; 

 four sets buggy shafts. 



Six dirt carts were repaired ; 100 pruning saws filed ; eighty- 

 five pruning cutters repaired ; six dirt truck bodies repaired. 



There were kept in repair, thirty-two sets of whiffletrees : 

 one hundred and seventy-five rakes ; thirty-six hand snow clean- 

 ers ; two snow scrapers ; eighty-five axe handles ; one green 

 house cart ; six disinfecting carts ; twenty-five sets of wheels ; 

 twelve sets of leaf cribs ; thirty-five wheel-barrows ; two ice 

 planers; six ladders ; ten sets of mowing machine shafts; two 

 sets truck stakes ; two sets of spring truck wheels ; twenty-five 

 sets of wheels ; all snow ploughs ; one buck-board ; one two- 

 wheeled gig. 



There were painted, twenty sprinkling trucks ; thirty carts 

 and trucks ; five hundred benches ; outside green houses ; shelter 

 at Coney Island ; closets at Gravel Pit ; benches on cycle path ; 

 sashes of hot beds ; fences, at Zindel Park, Tompkins Park, City 

 Park; fountains at Prospect Park, main entrance; Franklin ave- 

 nue fence on cycle path ; two hundred signs ; six light wagons ; 

 two business wagons ; general jobbing for all Parks, such as paint- 

 ing roofs of buildings, and seventeen hand carts. 



The material used in the paint shop consisted of eight hun- 

 dred pounds of white lead ; two barrels of turpentine ; two bar- 

 rels of linseed oil ; five gallons of rubbing varnish ; five gallons 

 of finishing varnish, and two barrels of prepared green paint. 



The Shelter at Coney Island was converted into a restaurant, 

 and the following materials were furnished and used : fifty feet 

 of 4-inch extra heavy cast iron pipe ; forty feet of 2-inch extra 

 heavy cast-iron pipe ; thirty feet of 2-inch lead waste-pipe ; one 

 hundred and fifty feet of f-inch galvanized iron pipe ; one hun- 

 dred feet of i-inch gas pipe ; ten pounds of galvanized fittings ; 

 twelve cast-iron fittings; one marble wash-stand and bowl ; four 

 2-inch lead traps; twenty-five pounds of solder; four sheets of 

 zinc ; four stop-cocks, and eight faucets. 



