+ L' REPORT OF THE 



The Flower Garden shelter, Boat House and some of the 

 shelters in the smaller parks have required extensive repairs 

 as well as the rustic shelters and arbors, which have been 

 put in order, also the railings, bridges and other rustic 

 w< >rk. 



New bottoms have been put in all of the benches in the 

 hot houses and the entire structures painted and glazing 

 put in order. A new boiler and course of hot water 

 pipe have been added to the large house. The Lullwood 

 bridge has been entirely rebuilt and the Ford bridge re 

 floored. 



A shelter for the attendant at the Horse Bowl has been 

 "built, and frames and hot beds to accommodate one hun- 

 dred lights of sash have been constructed, as well as a cold 

 pit 50 feet long, which was bricked and glazed. New tim- 

 bers and floors have been put in the Carrousel, as well as 

 ceiling and roof. 



New timbers and floor have been put into the balcony at 

 the "Litchfield Mansion," with repairs to the large fluted 

 columns and minor repairs to many parts of the building. A 

 rustic arbor was built near the Farm House. Three port- 

 able stands were built for parades, and seats for 15,000 peo- 

 ple during the Sunday School anniversary. One thousand 

 new settees were made and five hundred old ones repaired. 



In addition to keeping all rolling stock in repair, there 

 have been built three new road sprinklers, two road rollers, 

 three road scrapers, two snow plows and two hundred iron 

 tree boxes. 



Over one thousand seven hundred feet of pipe fence was 

 built on 9th Avenue. Six water closets and urinals, with 

 new floors and timbers, were built at the barn, and six with 

 floor and timbers at Boat House. 



Also kept in repair those at Prospect and the outside 

 parks, one hundred and twenty all told. 



Five hundred feet of new four-inch water main, with four 

 connections for hydrants, were laid on Breeze Hill. Forty- 

 seven new catch basins and eighteen hundred feet of six- 



