8 REPORT OF THE 



The outside of Headquarters, formerly known as Litchfield 

 Mansion, was repainted and a new roof put on a portion of it . 



Fifteen hundred Albany boards were used in repairs to 

 fences, bridges, shelters, green house, carts, wagons, stable 

 and wagon sheds. 



New silt basins were built and sewers repaired. 



The barn was repaired and repainted. 



One new truck and two dumping carts were built. Sprink- 

 lers, trucks, mowing machines, ice planers, snow plows, etc., 

 were repaired at the carpenter shop. 



Four gangs, consisting of twenty-five men, were employed for 

 the last two months in raking leaves together and carting them 

 off the drives. 



A new flojor was put in the stable and four new stalls were 

 fitted up for extra police horses. 



Exclusive of the police, the force employed on the Park at 

 the end of the year ; including foremen, horse-shoers, wheel- 

 wrights, blacksmiths, painters, carpenters, gardeners, team- 

 sters and laborers, was 125. 



Four hundred was the highest number of men employed at 

 one time ; this was during the months of April and May. 



The monthly average of men employed during the year 

 was 207. 



Three hundred and ninety-one picnics were held in the park, 

 in which the participants numbered from 10 to 500. There 

 were 8,000 persons attending picnics on the ground at one 

 time. 



Four hundred lawn tennis courts or clubs used the park 

 grounds, and games of croquet without number were played. 



The Commission, early in the year, decided to sell that por- 

 tion of the east side lands lying north of the Eastern Parkway, 

 and on May 9th, 1888, 373 lots were sold at auction for 

 $388,755 ; on this there was received $36,522.25 for percentage 

 paid at time of purchase. This amount was deposited in the 

 Brooklyn Trust Company. 



