REPORT 



SPECIAL COMMITTEE. 



In accordance with the law and city ordinances, it is 

 required of the Department of Parks that a full report of its 

 affairs and transactions shall be forwarded annually to the 

 Honorable, the Mayor and Common Council, and through them 

 submitted to the people. In conformity therewith, a special 

 Committee of Three was duly appointed by the Board of Com- 

 missioners, consisting- of one from each of the three standing 

 committees, whose duty it should be to prepare such a report 

 for the year 1S87, including such suggestions and recommen- 

 dations for the future as should be laid before the taxpayers of 

 the city of Brooklyn for their inspection and approval. 



In introducing this report to the attention of the public, the 

 Committee beg leave to state that there are in the Department 

 of Parks many things deemed important, of which its members 

 would like to speak at length to the public, were it not that 

 they feel themselves necessarily precluded from some of them 

 from want of time and space. 



They have therefore selected what has seemed to them, in 

 their judgment, after careful consideration, the most important 

 topics to be presented. With these they have dealt somewhat 

 in detail, touching occasionally upon historical points 

 connected with them, of which there are many of peculiar 

 interest in the Park. The recent improvements in the photo- 

 gravure process of printing, by which it can be cheaply done, 

 have placed it within their power to illustrate the whole 

 edition at a reasonable cost. 



