ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 295 



I understand that there are certain nearby tracts that you hope to in- 

 clude at some time later, which would be on small detached sheets to 

 fit the large one, etc. This we would be glad to do for you as desired, 

 as those tracts would have considerable bearing on our finished plan. 

 In other words, we would want to furnish you with all the desirable plans 

 for your work, and of course any reasonable number of copies of the work- 

 ing plans can be printed for you. 



Of the foregoing figure, $2,300, the survey with its traveling expense 

 and addition of the small neighboring tracts, would cost us at least $700.00, 

 the preparation of the plans about as much more, and the expense and 

 charge for time of Mr. Manning would be about $200. The fee for our 

 advice and suggestion of plan would thus be about $700. As you are fa- 

 miliar with architectural work, you know that their fee for plans is from 

 5 per cent to 15 per cent of the cost of the work, and you will also find 

 that engineers ask 10 per cent of cost as their fee. Judging on this basis, 

 you will see that the cost of your work, laid out in accordance with these 

 plans, will be several times the $2,300 if figured on the commission basis. 

 It is our established custom to do no work on this basis, however, as we 

 wish to be paid according to our effort, and without the suspicion of in- 

 creased or decreased cost due to personal commission as payment. There- 

 fore this figure represents the entire cost to your board, up to the point 

 where you might wish for advice on the execution of the work, and of 

 course with the understanding that no architectural or building plans in 

 detail will be expected. Of course we might make suggestions as to form 

 or general lines as shown in the perspective. Supervision of work is not 

 included, as we have no knowledge of the amount of time needed for this. 



I have overlooked the feature of the final planting plan, which would 

 be done as the others, showing beds in detail, numbered according to a 

 planting list, and so located that a good gardener could carry out the 

 same with little trouble. 



If the commission for these plans should be given us, we would take 

 it up as soon as possible, and you would have enough detail for work for 

 the coming summer, and we would have them practically complete on the 

 date you have set, July 1st. As for selection of plants, Mr. Manning has 

 been working up planting plans for this region since 1894, and therefore 

 can be depended upon to make the hardy selection, perhaps with my added 

 experience planting, etc., in the west since 1899. 



As to the rendering of our plans, I would ask the favor of your looking 

 over those left last week, which are from the usual run of plans which I 

 could pick up without preparation. As Mr. Manning was on the board of 

 design for the Jamestown Exposition, his experience there, providing for 

 large bodies of people, would be valuable to you. He has also had in 

 charge preparation of campus plans for ten or a dozen universities and 

 schools. In northern Michigan he has been in charge for three years of 

 the building of the town of Gwinn, an employees' village of 6,000 ca- 

 pacity for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company of Negaunee and that sec- 

 tion. As for our local work, we would be glad to have you write to any 

 of the parties named in my letter to you of the 12th instant. 



