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From the foregoing statement it will be seen that the largest force em- 

 ployed, collectively, at any time during the season, was between eighteen 

 and nineteen hundred men, although, owing to changes continually oc- 

 curring, employment, for a period of from half a day to three days, was 

 given to at least three thousand different individuals during the year. 



The scheme of organization remains substantially the same as last 

 year, consisting in the division of the labor force into gangs of conve- 

 nient size, each with a competent Foreman and Assistant ; the whole 

 being under the direct charge and supervision of a General Foreman, 

 Avho is responsible for the efficiency of the force. He suggests all details, 

 and transfers, and recommends promotions, removals, &c. 



The Foremen ai'e responsible for the exact execution of the orders 

 they receive from the General Foreman, and are required to make their 

 men work industriously and effectively during all the time for which they 

 give them credit in their time-books. When, therefore, from any cause, 

 they cannot secure profitable labor, with good order, from any man, 

 cart, or team, they must immediately withdraw him or it from the work, 

 and so of the whole gang, or any part of it. 



To enable them to carry out these requirements, foremen are given 

 the power of suspending any one, or any number, or all, of their men, 

 teams and carts, at any moment, and are required to report every day 

 in writing, (a convenient printed form being provided for the purpose), 

 the amount of labor performed by all their men, together with the 

 names of any for whose work they are responsible, who fail to do the 

 service required of them. 



This places the laborer in direct responsibility to the foreman under 

 whose eye his work must be performed ; and it is the foreman's fault, 

 if he cannot control his men, and secure an efficient and industrious 

 gang. 



Abuse of authority, on the foreman's part, is held in wholesome 

 check by the fact, known to all the employees, (by a printed notice con- 

 spicuously posted on each tool cart on the Park), that redress for wrongs 

 may be had by application at the Superintendent's Office on the Park. 

 Calls for this purpose are made almost daily, when the work is in 

 progress. 



In addition to the ordinary labor force, a large number of mechanics 

 have been employed this year, consisting of stone-cutters, stone and 

 brick masons, blacksmiths and carpenters. 



These were classified in gangs, and placed under the charge of a gen- 

 eral foreman, having special qualifications for their supervision and the 

 management of mechanical works. 





