24 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



settlement with the treasurer. Do you think for a minute that the 

 treasurer would accept a count of these tickets as found by these en- 

 gineers, and after the tickets have laid around this office for six months 

 with no more care or protection than so much waste paper? I might say 

 also that the engineer who checked these tickets over exercised no care 

 whatever. The tickets were spread over the table in the outer room for 

 three or four days and who knows but he or some other party got away 

 with some of them. 



For example: If you were to go into any bank in this city and cash 

 a draft or check and the cashier counted out the money, and you counted 

 it over in his presence and accepted it as correct, put the money in your 

 pocket, and in the next week or so in counting it over you discovered that 

 you were short $10, do you think for a minute if you v/ere to go back 

 to the bank that the cashier would correct this supposed error? The ef- 

 ficiency engineers were appraised of all of these facts, but they insisted 

 on checking back the unsold tickets, for what reason I do not know, unless 

 it was for the lack of other things to criticise or to give employment for 

 three or four days to one or two of these $15 per day men. 



"The expenditure included hereunder for fair grounds department repre- 

 sents the labor employed thereon, and the classification thereof is as per 

 the records as derived from the actual pay rolls. The supervision and 

 employment of all labor represented thereby comes within the duties of 

 the superintendent of grounds, whose O. K. as to rate of pay and the 

 amount of wages earned by the individual employes is accepted by the 

 board, but we are informed that reports as to all labor requirements and 

 conditions are submitted by the superintendent thereto. The pay rolls 

 with accompanying vouchers have been produced to us, and we find that 

 the 0. K. of the superintendent has not been made on the individual time 

 tickets of the employes in certain cases. The amounts stated to have been 

 earned by the employes as per the pay rolls are in agreement with the 

 amounts paid therefor, but, other than the supervision exercised by the su- 

 perintendent, no effort is made to ascertain if the department derives all the 

 benefits which should accrue in this connection," 



The pay roll in the grounds department is handled as follows: The 

 superintendent of grounds employs the laborers on the grounds, fixes 

 their salary at an amount agreed upon by the executive committee. He 

 furnishes the secretary with semi-monthly individual time slips for each 

 man employed. This time slip shows the number of days and hours em- 

 ployed and where employed; also rate of wages paid. These slips are 

 O, K.'d by the superintendent and brought to this office and the pay roll 

 is made up from them, showing the distribution and cost of the service 

 for improvements made at the grounds. Pay roll checks are then issued 

 and turned over to the superintendent or timekeeper and in turn handed 

 out to the employes. 



The superintendent of grounds is employed for the explicit purpose of su- 

 pervising the work on the grounds and to see that employes put in full 

 time. We have had no reason to believe but what he has faithfully per- 

 formed the duties entrusted to him. 



I wish to say that the executive committee keeps in close touch with 

 all work done at the grounds, and it has been customary for the secretary 



