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work of the police department. 



Office of the Captain of Police, 

 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 

 December 31, 1894. 

 Hon. Frank Squier, 



Commissioner of the Department of Paries. 



Sir : I have the honor herewith to submit to you my Aunual 

 Eeport, in relation to the Police Department of the Department 

 of Parks, for the year 1894 : 



The force consists of one hundred members — one captain, 

 eight sergeants and ninety-one patrolmen — distributed in the 

 following manner : Prospect Park, 7 sergeants, 68 patrolmen; 

 Washington Park, 1 sergeant, 6 patrolmen ; Tompkins Park, 3 

 patrolmen ; Carroll Park, 3 patrolmen ; City Park, 2 patrolmen ; 

 Winthrop Park, 2 patrolmen ; Bedford Park, 2 patrolmen ; 

 Ocean Parkway, 4 patrolmen, and Coney Island Concourse, 1 

 patrolman. There were 17 patrolmen appointed during the 

 year, and 6 were lost, one by death, one by resignation, and 

 four dismissed for cause, making the net gain for the year 11 

 patrolmen. 



The total number of accidents in the Park were 312: 137 to 

 carriages and sleighs, 12 to bicycles, 20 to saddle horses, 60 

 collisions between light wagons, 26 between bicycles and light 

 wagons, 2 between light wagons and trees, and 4 between 

 bicycles, 4 people injured by bicycles, 1 leg broken through 

 roller skating, 1 killed by being struck by trolley pole on C. I. 

 E. R., 1 killed by falling from trolley pole on Ninth avenue, 1 

 injured in alighting from steam yacht, 1 injured by falling of 

 electric light pole in Tompkins Park, 1 dislocated shoulder 

 caused by playing football, 1 knocked down by runaway horse, 

 21 injured by falls, 10 fell in lake in Prospect Park and were 



