APPENDIX 6 

 REPOET ON THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the opera- 

 tions of the National Zoological Park for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1936 : 



The regular appropriation made by Congress for the maintenance 

 of the Park was $215,000. Tlie total expenditures for the year from 

 this appropriation were about $214,200. 



IMPROVEMENTS 



The fiscal year 1936 marked the beginning of more substantial im- 

 provements than had ever before been made in any one year or a 

 considerable period of years in the Zoo. Under a grant from the 

 Public Works Administration of $680,000, supplemented later by 

 $191,575, contracts were let and work begun on five projects. These 

 include machine and carpenter shops and a garage; the installation 

 of three 250-horsepower down draft boilers, which will serve to heat 

 all of the exhibition buildings with the exception of the bird house, 

 which was considered as being too remote from the others to warrant 

 a conduit being built to it ; a brick exhibition building approximately 

 185 by 115 feet for small mammals and gi-eat apes; a stone exhibition 

 building 227 by 90 feet to house large animals, such as elephant, 

 rhinoceros, and hippopotamus ; and a new wing to the bird house. 



The machine shop and central heating plant will be completed in 

 time to supply heat to the buildings in the fall. The other buildings 

 should be finished by January 1, 1937. 



The completion of these projects will give the Zoo four large, 

 modern buildings containing numbers of new features for the ex- 

 hibition of animals and is the greatest improvement in the history 

 of the Zoo. 



With the use of labor assigned to us through the District Works 

 Progi'ess Administration and some material from the same source, 

 together with materials purchased from our regular appropriation, 

 5,083 linear feet of concrete road and walk curbing were constructed 

 and 4,112 square yards of roads and walks were given bitulithic sur- 

 facings. Also 14,038 square yards of road were tarred, graveled, and 

 rolled. The worst of the holes in the road between the mechanical 

 shops and the crossroads at the Harvard Street entrance were re- 

 paired preparatory to a tar-gravel treatment when the construction 



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