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inch drain pipe were put in the different parks. Forty 

 basin heads were raised or lowered to suit the new grades 

 of walks. Many of the stone steps around the Farm 

 House and Flower Garden were reset, and the curb around 

 the Irving bust was changed and improved. A new drink- 

 ing fountain was put in on the walk opposite the Well, 

 and the water main at Coney Island was loAvered to connect 

 with the new sewer. 



The music stands at Prospect and Washington Parks 

 were both painted. The additions at the Barn and fence 

 around barnyard and the new fence on 9th Avenue were all 

 painted. The -various cast iron fountains and the iron 

 fences around Cit\ T , Tompkins, Underbill and Cumberland 

 Parks, also the gates at Washington Park and small fence 

 at main entrance to Prospect Park, and the Well House, 

 inside and out, were painted during the season, also one 

 thousand five hundred settees, three hundred tree boxes, 

 nineteen sprinklers, two wagons, two rollers, three scrapers 

 and two snow plows, the iron fence and vases at Flower 

 Garden. 



WIXTHROP PARK. 



The grading has been finished and the entire lawn surface 

 sown down and put in good condition. The drainage system 

 has been completed and connected with the city sewer, and 

 thirty-eight new catch basins built at required points, con- 

 nected by 1,600 feet of six-inch cement pipe. The ground 

 has been prepared for replacing missing street trees and 

 doing additional planting in the spring. 



BUSFIWICK PARK. 



The ground here being in a state entirely unfit for park 

 purposes, all the soil had to be carted in. Good progress 

 has been made in grading and laying out the walks accord- 

 ing to the accepted plan: and covering with soil as it can be 

 obtained. About 1,200 feet of the walks have been graded 



