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to construct a supplementary service at the head of the trout 

 pool upon the slope of Quaker Hill. From this point a run- 

 ning stream throughout the whole line and oyer the falls could 

 be maintained during all seasons of the year. 



In addition to the items of work particularly enumerated 

 in the foregoing pages, a considerable amount of labor has been 

 necessarily expended upon special work growing out of the 

 park, such as the provisions for music, the annual Sunday 

 School parade, the ceremonies connected with the Lincoln 

 monument services, and the Martyrs' tomb at Fort Greene, 

 Decoration Day, together with the large number of picnics, 

 lawn tennis and other field games. 



A force of laborers has also been employed almost continu- 

 ously upon needed repairs of buildings, field structures, such 

 as summer houses, bridges, fences, seats, &c. The detail is 

 almost infinite and the expenditure attending this work has 

 been considerable during the year. Such work attracts no 

 special attention, but is found to be necessary, as contributing 

 directly to the ephemeral use of the park during the season of 

 its greatest occupation by the public. In connection with other 

 needed work it helps to rapidly dissipate our limited means 

 through the most exacting season, and involves the exercise of 

 great economy during the Winter and early Spring months of 

 the year. 



The moneys appropriated for park purposes, with the excep- 

 tion of some minor special appropriations, is, if strictly inter- 

 preted, intended for the maintenance of those works in detail, 

 such as structures, roads, walks, turf, plantations, drainage and 

 water supply, that have been brought by a course of construc- 

 tion to an accepted condition of completion. Unfortunately, 

 during the last fifteen years the continued use of the park has 

 resulted in the natural and decided deterioration of many of 

 its important constructed features, for the necessary recon- 

 struction of which no special provisions have ever been made. 

 The most pressing exigencies have been met from time to time, 

 in a superficial way, by expenditures from the ordinary appro- 

 priations for maintenance. 



