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HOUSES. 



There are several houses on the East Side Lands ; a portion 

 of these are occupied by employes and others on rental ; the 

 rents for the same -are received and accounted for. 



STATISTICS OF PAEK-KEEPEE FOECE FOE 1880. 



1 Captain. 



2 Sergeants. 

 37 Keepers. 



3 Station attendants. 



The principal part of this 'force has been engaged upon Pros- 

 pect Park ; the remainder has been distributed upon the 

 smaller parks, Parade Ground, the Parkways and at Coney 

 Island, as the exigencies of the service demanded. The Force, 

 to which no additions have been made during the year, is being 

 gradually depleted by discharges for cause, and death. During 

 the past year two men were discharged, and one died. 



AEEESTS, CASUALTIES, ETC. 



There have been 165 arrests of all kinds, the greater propor- 

 tion of these have been for disorderly conduct of a minor char- 

 acter ; others were for fast driving and violation of ordinances 

 generally. There were twenty-one arrests at Coney Island of 

 disorderly hackmen, for violation of ordinances, soliciting 

 passengers and obstructing the thouroughfares. 



There were sixty accidents, due to runaway horses, none of 

 which, however, were fatal ; there were seven accidents result- 

 ing from horseback-riding, and two from unmanageable bic} r cles. 

 There were no serious accidents during the skating season, nor 

 upon the Lake in Summer. 



Three dead bodies were found upon the parks, one of a child 

 at Port Greene, and the others of male adults at Prospect Park, 

 the latter are supposed to have committed suicide. 



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