SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 15: 
Lunches, baskets, satche!s, and parcels of every description, must be 
left outside. If small, they may be cared for by the Gate-keeper, who: 
will make no charge for her services. 
Visitors are particularly requested not to handle specimens, nor to 
pick flowers, fruit, or leaves, or in any way mutilate or deface any plants: 
or other property in or about the grounds. 
Intoxicated or disorderly persons will be refused admittance. 
Smoking is not allowed. 
Any infringement of these regulations, or any discourtesy on the part: 
of employees of the garden, should be at once reported to the Director. 
In addition to removing the fee formerly charged at 
the gate for the care of parcels, a competent person has 
been engaged to indicate hitching places for carriages. 
not in the care of drivers, and to exercise a general super- 
vision about the gate, without charging visitors for such 
assistance. This step has entirely removed a cause of 
frequent complaint when fees were permitted. All em- 
ployees of the Garden are forbidden to ask fees for any 
service rendered visitors, and are instructed to refuse gra- 
tuities if these are offered. In October, while many 
strangers are in the city, attracted by the St. Louis Fair, 
many more people visit the Garden than at other times. 
It has for years proved impracticable at this season to pre- 
vent men and boys from congregating about the gate and 
offering their services to visitors who wish their carriages 
watched while they are in the Garden. Such persons can 
not well be prevented from receiving or even asking com- 
pensation for their services; but the police have co-operated 
with me in protecting visitors from annoyance by them. 
So far as can be ascertained without the employment of 
automatic registers at the gate, the number of visitors to 
the Garden during 1890 has been about equal to that in 
past years. On the two Sundays when the grounds were 
open to the public, they were thronged by an unusually 
large number of people. In June, particularly, they were 
crowded during the entire afternoon, a moderate estimate 
placing the number of visitors at 20,000. In September, 
owing to frequent and heavy showers, the number was. 
