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charge has been exacted therefor. These streets were received 

 from the city, and the latter is now collecting an annual rental 

 from sub-sidewalk vaults on several other streets. The use of 

 these vaults can be of benefit only to the persons owning the abut- 

 ting property, and in this respect it seems proper to make a charge 

 for the privilege. 



The yacht club houses on the water front of Grant Park are 

 there by sufferance of the United States Government. The only 

 charge made by the South Park Board for concessions is that 

 of $15 to $25 a month for each lake boat landing passengers in 

 Grant Park, and $10 a month for the similar privilege at Calumet 

 Park. 



WEST CHICAGO PARK COMMISSIONERS 



The West Park Board has granted special concessions, but 

 only to a limited extent. No fee is charged for issuing street 

 opening or other permits. All of the boats and some of the 

 refectories are operated by the Board, and free lockers are avail- 

 able in the golf shelter. The privilege of selling refreshments in 

 Humboldt Park, however, has been granted as a concession. Com- 

 paring the service rendered by the concessionaire in that park 

 with the opportunity offered, the service is inadequate ; and com- 

 paring the amount received from the concessionaire for the privi- 

 leges enjoyed with the value thereof, the amount received is also 

 inadequate. This concession is further discussed in this report 

 under "Refectories and Lunch Rooms," page 93. 



The privilege of keeping a piano in the Assembly Hall in 

 Garfield Park and also in the hall in Douglas Park and of 

 charging $3 an evening for the use thereof was enjoyed free 

 prior to January, 1911, by a man named Beardsley. It was not 

 even necessary for him to collect the rental. One of the employees 

 in the Garfield Park Hall informed a Bureau representative that 

 she often collected the $3 fee for Beardsley. The arrangement 

 of Beardsley's to keep pianos in these halls was similar to that 

 of Kinsella's in the Humboldt Park Assembly Hall, hereinafter 

 described. In December, 1910, a Bureau representative made 

 several inquiries about these pianos, and the next month they 

 were ordered out by the park authorities and pianos were installed 



