THE ORGANIZATION FOR WORK 17 



chase of properties already embodied in the scheme of the 

 landscape architect. 



4. An Engineering Department consisting of a chief 

 engineer, assistant engineers, instrumentmen, chainmen, 

 rodmen, inspectors and a chief gardener and his assistants. 

 The police department as long as the engineering depart- 

 ment is in existence is a part of it. When the work of land 

 purchase and heavy construction is completed, it passes 

 over to the Superintendent's Department (see 6). The 

 work of the engineering department can be divided 

 thus: 



a. Property surveys of lands to be acquired with the 

 accompanying searches in the office of the recorder of deeds, 

 and the preparation of property descriptions to be incor- 

 porated in deeds of conveyance prepared by the counsel 

 or his assistants. 



b. Topographical surveys prepared for the use of the 

 landscape architect in the preparation of his plans. 



c. Designs of sewer, drainage, water-supply and lighting 

 systems, together with the design of all the essential engi- 

 neering features of walls and bridges. 



d. The preparation, letting and supervision of all 

 contracts for construction work. This includes the direc- 

 tion in detail of all construction operations. 



e. Planting and gardening operations. 



/. The maintenance of the work until it can be turned 

 over to a Superintendent's Department, which need not be 

 organized until the work is well under way or even com- 

 pleted. 



g. The policing of all acquired areas. The police force 

 consists of a chief and mounted and unmounted patrolmen 

 with sometimes a few plain-clothes men. 



5. An Architect, who prepares detail designs of various 



