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from an invasion of caterpillars, which were very injurious to all 

 forms of vegetation. 



Twelfth Ward Parle. — In this Park, which is still in an un- 

 finished coudition, work was begun on June 3d, and carried on 

 for three months and a half. Two one-horse carts and four 

 small scrapers were used in levelling oft and filling in. Alto- 

 gether sixteen thousand eight hundred and fifty cubic yards oi 

 earth were moved. 



Bidgeivood Park. — The preliminary surveys having been com- 

 pleted about the first of July, and the main driveway staked 

 out, work was begun on the sixth day of July and continued until 

 the first day of December, with a force of thirty men, three 

 teams and thirteen carts. Nine thousand and six cubic yards of 

 filling were moved, the longest haul being one thousand five 

 hundred feet. The width of road-bed graded varied from forty- 

 five to sixty feet ; the deepest cut was eight feet and the highest 

 fill nineteen feet. Four hundred and eighty cubic yards of stone 

 were gathered and piled up, and one thousand four hundred 

 cubic yards of top soil were saved. A tool-house and temporary 

 shelter, twenty by twenty-six feet, was built. 



Bushwick Park. — Iu this Park a sand hill, covering one-fourth 

 of its area, of about seven acres, and measuring thirty-seven 

 thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine cubic yards, was graded 

 down to conform with the plans prepared by the Landscape 

 Architect Advisory. This required the removal of twenty-five 

 thousand three hundred and seventy cubic yards. The work 

 began July 6th, and was completed December 1st. Six hundred 

 truck loads of top-soil and one hundred and twenty loads of 

 manure were obtained, in exchange for the same amount of fine 

 building sand. The work in this Park was done with four teams, 

 two carts and eleven men. The four teams were used in connec- 

 tion with four scrapers, each holding three-quarters of a cubic 

 yard. With these scrapers, eighteen thousand six hundred and . 



