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of our citizen soldiery ever exhibited in Kings County. In 

 addition to the trees planted and roads worked, a substan- 

 tial shelter-house with suitable accommodations for the mil- 

 itary on parade days, has been erected on the ground ; the 

 main building being forty feet square, with wings extended 

 to the distance of sixty-four feet on each side. 



During the past year nothing of any importance has been 

 done towards the improvement of the City Park. It is in 

 fact, becoming every day more evident, as the superior 

 attractions of Washington Park are being developed, that 

 the City Park is not likely for some time to come to be used 

 to any extent as a pleasure ground. When the population 

 of that quarter of the City shall have crowded Washington 

 Park beyond its capacity, and shall require greater Park 

 facilities than are now afforded by its beautiful slopes and 

 hills, or when our City's debt shall have been brought 

 within such easy and reasonable proportions as shall cease 

 to be a serious burden, to our tax payers, the discussion of 

 the best method of fitting up the City Park as a plnee of 

 amusement may be resumed with advantage : but at pres- 

 ent the Commissioners deem it unwise and impolitic to 

 expend upon it that amount of money and of labor which 

 would be required to render it at all suitable for such a 

 purpose. 



It may be many years before the public accommodation 

 will justify such an expenditure : but in the mean time the 

 property may and should be put to some profitable use. 

 Its advantages as a market site were set forth in a fonder 

 report of these Commissioners, and need not here be repeat- 

 ed. Public opinion seems fully to have endorsed their 

 recommendation to use it for the purposes of a general 

 public market ; and they hoped that some action of the 



