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repairs to boilers and radiators in Litchfield Mansion and the 

 greenhouses; repairs to eight hundred aDd thirty-four feet of tin 

 gutters and leaders at the stable, well-house, picnic shelter, 

 Superintendent's house and Brooklyn Institute Building, in Bed- 

 ford Park. The followiug carpenter work was done : A new 

 tool room constructed on the south side of the stable, twenty by 

 sixteen feet ; a new shed for storing flower-pots and greenhouse 

 materials, twenty-five by ten feet ; a new shed for rolling stock, 

 seventy-five by twenty-three feet ; one thousand one hundred 

 feet of new hot-beds and frames ; new woodwork in the water 

 closets at the picnic shelter aud machine shop ; a horse paddock, 

 one hundred and forty by eighty feet ; new lamp-house at lake 

 for the skating season ; the floor, doors, frames and sashes of the 

 picnic shelter and the farm-house were renewed or repaired ; a 

 new floor laid in the front room of the flower garden shelter 

 and the doors and locks repaired ; the Superintendent's house on 

 Prospect Hill was thoroughly renovated ; the roofs of the Litch- 

 field Mansion, well-house, flower garden shelter and farm-house 

 were repaired ; the panels of the lake house were taken down in 

 the Spring and replaced in December ; the fence along Franklin 

 aud Coney Island avenues was repaired and four hundred feet of 

 new fence put up; five hundred settees were built; the lockers 

 under the Carrousel, picnic and croquet shelters were repaired, 

 and seventy-five keys fitted ; the interior and exterior of the 

 greenhouses, barn, stable, lake-house, lower shelter, croquet 

 shelter, music stand aud deer paddock fence were repaired ; one 

 thousand one hundred tree stakes, ten feet long, were made ; 

 five thousand surveyors' stakes were cut out ; one hundred 

 shutters, three by six and a half feet, and two hundred sashes 

 were repaired ; stands were erected for the Sunday-school anni- 

 versary, the unveiling of the Beethoven bust, for the service at the 

 Martyrs' Tomb, aud for concerts in the various parks. Consid- 

 erable incidental work was done in connection with the masons, 

 plumbers, wheelwrights and blacksmiths. The rustic carpen- 

 ters built a house for watchmen at the Seventh Street Gate, an 



