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umbrella shelter, twenty-two feet in diameter, on Breeze Hill ; a 

 rustic bridge over bridle road at Farm-house, sixty-three by 

 eleven feet ; a bridge over the trout poud, thirty-six by nineteen 

 feet ; a bridge over the brook near the music stand, forty-four by 

 eleven ieet; a settee twelve feet long, near the Farm-house, and, 

 in addition, repaired two large arbors, three seats and three 

 tables. Two of these bridges were supported by new retaining 

 walls, one twenty-two by two feet, four feet deep, and the other 

 thirty-eight by two feet, and three feet deep. The wheelwright 

 work included one sprinkling cart, three large and three small 

 road scrapers, seven snow plows, two horse carts, two ice scrap- 

 ers, twelve sets of double whiffle-trees, twelve single sets, ten 

 neck yokes, twenty-four wagon poles, twenty-four mowing-ma- 

 chine shafts, twenty-four scoop handles, for cleaning out catch 

 basins ; one new hand cart, eleven wheels, four sets of large and 

 eight sets of small leaf crates, three two-horse stone boats, one 

 scow, twenty by ten feet, and the repairing of seventeen sprink- 

 ling-carts, four buggies, five horse carts, four trucks, one exca- 

 vator tank, one sleigh, forty-eight wheelbarrows, nineteen hand 

 ice-scrapers, fourteen hand carts, thirty-one wheels, and the 

 keeping of tools in order. The blacksmith work consisted of 

 finishing up the productions of the wheelwright, and keeping the 

 iron work of the rolling stock in order. The new blacksmith 

 work consisted of three horse-scrapers, four new snow-plow 

 irons, two thousand three hundred and ninety-five feet of four-foot 

 high fence, one thousand six hundred and two feet of ornamental 

 fence, nine hundred iron tree-boxes, one thousand horse-shoes, 

 and the repairing of eleven iron gates and of the fences about 

 the deer paddock, bear cage, buffalo pen and the outside parks. 

 Beside this, the horses were kept shod. The painters painted 

 the Superintendent's house inside and outside, the doors of the 

 parade ground shelter, the stable, the timekeeper's office, the 

 tool house, the roof and sashes of the greenhouse, the lamp- 

 house, the inside and outside of the picnic ground shelter, the 

 roof and skylights of the Litchfield Mansion, the roof of 



