12 REPORT OF THE 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The small parks or squares of the city were cared for and 

 kept in order and the fences of some of them were repainted 

 with two coats of paint. 



EASTERN PARKWAY. 



On the eastern parkway the daily use of one team was re- 

 quired all the season for the purpose of sprinkling the road- 

 way and hauling gravel from the pit to fill up the low places 

 in the road. When this team was not employed in the one 

 service it was engaged in the other. 



Two or more men were constantly employed in picking 

 stones off the drive and in keeping the basins and gutters clear 

 of mud and silt. 



A shoot was constructed at the head of the parkway for the 

 purpose of carrying off the surplus water during the continu- 

 ance of heavy rain storms. 



A bulkhead was put up at the head of the drive to prevent 

 careless drivers from driving over the embankment. 



OCEAN PARKWAY. 



Four silt basins were built and four hundred feet of twelve 

 inch drainage pipe were laid near the entrance at gate four 

 and the roadway below that entrance was drained and graded. 



Eight miles of turf on malls from the lower entrance of the 

 park to the island were mowed and trimmed. 



The employment of from six to ten teams were continuously 

 required for scraping and sprinkling the parkway and in 

 hauling gravel from the pits for filling in and grading the 

 roadway. 



Six thousand cubic feet of gravel were hauled and placed on 

 the five miles of roadway during the season. 



The services of two foremen and twenty men were required 

 for part of the season to clean cesspools, basins and gutters. 



The Western Shelter was repaired and painted and a 

 temporary closet put in for the use of women. 



