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physical examination by the captain and the service committee. 

 Men were appointed on a sixty-day probation. Discharges were 

 for cause only and after trial before a trial board, comprising 

 the service committee, general superintendent, and captain of 

 police. 



Since July 1, 1911, a superintendent of employment has 

 been appointed by each park board and employees are now hired 

 and discharged in conformity with the provisions of the new 

 Civil Service laws. 



INCREASING COST OF PARK POLICE 



The increasing cost of park police service from year to year 

 is shown by the following table of salary costs, based on the pay- 

 rolls of the last five years : 



Total Per Cent 

 Amount of South. West. Lincoln. 



Increase. 



1906 $249,977 $132,382 $ 78,804 $38,791 



1907 259,856 4 131,360 86,507 41,989 



1908 277,666 7 139,660 93,771 44,235 



1909 287,678 4 144,588 100,154 42,936 



1910 321,225 12 162,717 107,721 50,787 



The police salary cost of the South, West and Lincoln Park 

 systems for the year 1910 shows an increase over 1906 of 23, 

 37, and 31 per cent., respectively. The aggregate increase is 28.5 

 per cent. During the same period the park acreage increased 

 only 7, 2, and 7 per cent., respectively. The South Park Board 

 policed 33 miles of boulevards in 1910, however, as against 17^ 

 miles in 1906, and the West Park Board policed 25 miles as against 

 20 in 1906. The boulevard mileage policed by the Lincoln Park 

 Board remained practically the same. Although small increases 

 in salary rates were made during the period, the larger salary 

 cost is mostly due to increases in the number of patrolmen. An 

 examination of the police assignments shows that the additional 

 patrolmen employed have been used not only to patrol parks and 

 boulevards since added, but also to increase the forces in the 

 parks and boulevards patrolled in 1906. With the exception of 

 sergeants in the West and Lincoln Parks, the salary rates paid 

 police differ in each of the three systems. 



