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Sixth. —Improvement back of boat-house. The green, un- 

 healthy pond, formerly there, replaced by a lawn and flower 

 beds. 



Seventh. — Two substantial bridges. One, the Valley Grove 

 Bridge, over a bridle road, in a dee}) ravine, connecting the 

 Dairy Cottage with the Sullivan Heights Picnic Woods. 

 The other, "Music Grove Bridge," spanning Binnenwater 

 stream, on the Picnic Woods walk. 



Eighth. — New walks, six thousand four hundred and seventy 

 running feet. 



Ninth. — Cleansing all the small lakes, pools and water 

 courses, from the accumulated leaves and tilth that had lodged 

 in ;ind about them. Repairing of banks and cascades. 



Tenth. — Thinning and pruning out the undergrowth and 

 overgrowth of the trees and shrubbery of the park. 



Eleventh. — By contract, with special appropriation from the 

 county, the rilling in of the Concourse lands at Coney Island. 



Twelfth. — The erection at Coney Island of coast-line Dutch 

 t'acine mattresses, to protect the beach against the ravages of 

 the waves. 



This list shows what special work lias been done, outside of 

 general maintenance and repairs, and will be referred to here- 

 after in detail, giving statistics and necessary information. 



We feel satisfied that more special permanent work has been 

 accomplished during the past year than during the whole time 

 from the cessation of the construction of the park in 1S76 to 

 1886. 



This, too, when the net appropriation for 1887 (about $30,000 

 being deducted for deficiency and old accounts) was only about 

 the usual annual amount devoted to park expenses. 



The park and parkways are better maintained and furnished 

 with police than formerly. Main of the structures have Keen 

 repaired and painted, which had never been touched since 

 completion. The maintenance funds have not been trenched 

 upon for special work. Though the whole amount appropri- 

 ated to the Park Department is noi adequate for maintaining 

 it as it should be, tins seeming contradiction is readily under- 



