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counsel when occasion requires. The assistant attorney and 

 the stenographer are both practicing law, their names appear- 

 ing on the door of the downtown office of C. B. Pavlicek, the 

 park attorney. The Park Board recently paid the assistant at- 

 torney $475 for his law library. 



Rumors that West Park employees were being used from 

 time to time to help maintain a clubhouse occupied by a political 

 club, of which the West Park attorney is president, were proved 

 by the Bureau to be well founded. On April 27, 1911, a load of 

 sod was delivered at the clubhouse, 1910 Kedzie Avenue, in a 

 two-horse wagon marked "West Parks." For the next four 

 days several men, who appeared to be Park employees, were en- 

 gaged in sodding the lawn and in trimming and planting trees. 

 Two of these men were positively identified by the Bureau in- 

 vestigators on May 1, when the park employees received their 

 pay checks. Moreover, a city policeman on duty in that vicinity 

 informed a Bureau investigator that West Park employees had 

 done the work. The Bureau investigators observed the park 

 attorney directing the work of the park employees on the club- 

 house grounds. 



The amount of legal business of the West Park Board is 

 not greater than that of the South or Lincoln Park Boards, each 

 of which employ only one attorney. The Bureau suggests that 

 the salaries of the assistant attorney and of the stenographer are 

 unnecessary expenditures. 



The office of assistant secretary of the Lincoln Park sys- 

 tem, now vacant, might remain so under the suggested re- 

 organization, as it would not be needed. Departmental organiza- 

 tion also would enable the general superintendent of the South 

 Parks to dispense with an assistant and the $4,200 salary might 

 be saved. 



The superintendent's office would include a stenographer 

 and a file clerk. The janitors and others employed in the opera- 

 tion of the administration building would report directly to the 

 superintendent. In restaurants they would report to the restau- 

 rant managers and in fieldhouses to the fieldhouse directors. 

 The building managers need not be continued on the pay-roll. 



