Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-13
PARK BOARD WANTS
HOFFERT AND FORRER
CONTINUED from First Page
to all the city councilmen. The reso
lutions follow:

to all the city councilmen. The reso-
lutions follow:
February Z, 1914.
"To the Council of the City of Har-
risburg:
'In view of the action of your hon
orable body taken January 6, 1914,
and by us accepted January IL, 1914,
continuing the Harrisburg Park Com
mission in an advisory relation; and
in view further of the pending reso-
luton in your files dismissing on
March l all the employees of the Har-
risburg Park Department as well as
other employees of the city, we deem ii
our advisory duty to present to you
the following memoranda and recon-
mendation:
81. Since it's organization in 1902
the Harrisburg Park Commission has
been in effect continuing body, with
no changes in its working force save
those made for efficiency.
So The work of the department, in
obtaining, developing and maintaining
the Harrisburg park system, has
grown rapidly in quantity and COM
plexity, and it has proceeded success
fully because there has been constant
ence gained by it's employees.
49, There is now awaiting action in
the department work of more impor-
tance and extent than at any time since
1905, in the use of the 1913 park loan for
selecting and purchasing Fairgrounds,
for completing the parkway, for ar
ranging the new Market street en-
trance to Reservoir Park, for develop
ing access to Wildwood Park and in
lrt, I,n fttIt tn he
people of the city, for improving
McCormick's Island Park, and for a
general advance in the facilities and
service provided in the parks.
"a. 1t is the opinion of this com
mission that the best efforts of the
Superintendent of Parks and Public
Property will be needed, with such
assistance as the commission can give
in the more important parts of this
work, including the acquiring of prop
erty and the necessary development
work. 1t is our belief that he can
save money for the city in effecting
purchases, and in reducing to a mini
mum the otherwise large expense
of having the landscape engineer, Mr.
Manning, make repeated visits.
''5. The existing superintending
force of the department has acquired
much knowledge and skill in the high
ly technical work of administering the
parks. and Fairgrounds. This valu-
able experience, obtained at the cost
of the city, ought to be fully at the
service of your Superintendent of
Parks and Public Property, who OBJ
viously cannot give his whole time
to the work of administration with
out seriously interfering with the
great work of completing the system
and of serving the city as actual di-
rector and Councilman.
"6. 1t Is for the above reasons. the
deliberate conclusion of this commits
sion, and in consequence of it's twelve
years of experience in creating and
developinfi the Harrisburg park sys-
tenn, that your honorable body is war
ranted in giving to the Superintendent
of Parks and Public Property the ad-
vantages of experienced and capable
help in the detail work of managing
the city's parks and Fairgrounds. AS
our first advisory act swe do not hesi-
tate to say that in our opinion 1t would
be a great misfortune for the city and
an injustice to the thousands of men,
women and children who used the
parks and Fairgrounds, to be deprived
of the efficient service of the park or
ganization built up since the inception
of the commission in 1902.
az. We therefore respectfully but
urgently recommend the retention in
the employment of the city at their
present salaries, V. Grant F'orrer. Su-
perintendent, and ]. Raymond Hoff-
ert, Assistant superintendent, to as
sist the Superintendent Of Parks and
Public Property, and in order to avoid
confusion in titles, We suggest that the
example of Wilkes-Barre be followed
In designating these officials, SUPER