The Superintendent's Work, 



Office of 

 the General Superintendent, 

 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 



December 31, 1894. 



Hon. Frank Squier, 



Commissioner of the Department of Parks. 



Sir : — Upon taking the office of General Superintendent under 

 your appointment of February 20th of last year, I found it 

 necessary to reorganize the laboring department, and to establish 

 rules and regulations which would produce larger results than 

 had been accomplished in the past. 



I am pleased to be able to report that in consequence of these 

 changes, a surprisingly large amount of work has been accom- 

 plished, and I herewith submit the following summary of work 

 done : 



prospect park. 



During the year a large amount of labor has been spent upon 

 this Park, and it has been thoroughly renovated. The brook 

 line and smaller lakes, located betweeu the Three Arch Bridge 

 and the Eustic Bridge, were cleaned to prevent stagnancy. In 

 all, nine hundred loads of refuse were removed from the water 

 to the East Side Lands. Owing to the storms of the previous 

 year, there existed in the Park many broken and dead branches 

 on the trees. To remove these required three months of labor. 

 Thirteen hundred loads of brush and sixty-five trees were cut 



