To the President of the Commissioners of the Central Park;
Sir,

I beg leave to recommend myself for the Office of Superintendent of the Central Park.

For the past sixteen years my chief interest and occupation has been with those subjects, familiarity with which is most needed in this office. Economy in the application of agricultural labor has especially engaged my attention, and my observations on this subject have been extensively published and discussed in this country and reprinted in Europe. For ten years I have practically engaged in the direction and superintendence of agricultural laborers and gardeners in the vicinity of New York.

I have visited and examined as a student most of the large parks of Europe—British, French, Italian and German; and while thus engaged have given special attention to police details and the employment of labor in them.

Evidence of this is afforded by my published works, to which I have the honor to add the accompanying testimony.