Report On the Maintenance of the Park Department of the City of New York in 1913 And 1914
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Not only have they to do witli the care of the parks themselves, the maintenance of the structures and Iniildings and equipment, the care of roadways, lawns, trees, shrubs, with the incidental repair shops, stables, greenhouses and nurseries. l)ut these activities embrace also the operation of pumping stations, bathhouses, comfort stations, menageries, playgrounds, athletic fields, children's school farms, etc., l)eside the care of certain parks and drive- ways and the care of trees in City str...eets. To set up a cost system for each of these activities, without being able to fix upon adequate units of measurement and com- parison for the work done would cost more than it would be worth. Any consideraI)le saving in this department would therefore seem to depend very largely upon the care witli wliich each of its activities is managed. In this connection, attention is called to the following e.xtract from the Park Department report for 1913. While the extract given refers to conditions in the Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond, the same condition probably exists in the other Boroughs : "A great many of the lal)orers and gardeners are very old men, enfeeliled by age or infirmity and consequently unable to do a full day's work of a hard or laborious nature.
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