ISO Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency 



1904 $39,963.24 



1905 39,318.87 



1906 93,295.11 



1907 68,296.70 



1908 49,759.18 



1909 9,618.17 



1910 5,692.30 



Total $305,943.57 



It should be noted that this amount is exclusive of the cost 

 of the land. The purposes for which the expenditures were 

 made, as shown by the records, were as follows: 



Grading and filling $71,258.72 



Water supply 34,725.53 



Drainage 22,239.00 



Excavations 41,421.89 



Lagoons 31,021.41 



Black earth 11,984.67 



Lawns (seeding, sodding, etc.) 27,344.38 



Plantation 11,09293 



Walks 5,826.20 



Driveways 7,310.73 



Pavilions 6,685.81 



Buildings 246.60 



Bridge 1,117.21 



Landscape architect 3,904.30 



Engineering and administration 27,936.54 



Miscellaneous 1,827.65 



Total improvement $305,943.57 



Approximately $50,000 has also been expended at this park 

 for the construction of propagating houses. The Bureau makes 

 no criticism of this expenditure but the fact that the park is not 

 yet needed and will probably not be needed for some time indi- 

 cates that there is being wasted the 4% interest which the Park 

 Board is paying on the bonds from which the $305,943 was de- 

 rived. This interest now amounts to over $12,000 a year and 

 totals over $50,000 since 1904. Moreover the improved part of 

 the park now causes a current expense for maintenance, several 

 men being employed for that purpose. 



The nearest street railway route to the park leaves prospec- 

 tive visitors still one-half mile from the nearest part of the park. 

 The principal route is via the Sixty-third Street line. 

 Between Sixty-third street and the park none of the streets are 



