REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1901. 
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 8, 1902. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
We herewith submit for your consideration the financial 
results for the year ending December 31st, 1901. 
Our financial condition is much more satisfactory than 
it was a year ago, as our receipts from rentals have ex- 
ceeded those of the previous year $6,864.05, and as the 
vacancies at this time amount to only $40.00 per month 
compared with $1,080.00 at the same time last year, and 
no changes in occupancy are anticipated during the year, a 
further increase of $8,000.00 is expected. 
During the past summer the first sales of Flora avenue 
property were made, being three lots at an average price a 
$86.00 per front foot, and beautiful residences have been 
erected on them and are now occupied. We have also sold 
150 front feet on the north-east corner of Tower Grove 
and Shaw avenues to be occupied by a church, and it is 
hoped this is but the beginning of large sales of the resi- 
dence property which the Board were authorized to sell by 
the decree of the Supreme Court. 
We have invested a portion of the money received from 
the sale of the property above mentioned, in the purchase 
of a store building on Main street, at a cost of $6,000.00, 
which is leased at a figure which yields a satisfactory 
return on the investment. 
Authority was given by the Board to petition the Board 
of Public Improvements for the full improvement of Shaw 
avenue from Vandeventer to Tower Grove avenue, a 
distance of 3,000 feet, and when that improvement is made 
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