ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. (5 
A new thirty-foot electric launch has been purchased, and will 
be put in commission on Bronx Lake at the opening of the next 
boating season, to make regular trips between the Boat House and 
Bronxdale landing. Ten cents will be charged for a trip of 
more than a mile, and stop-over checks will be given at the upper 
landing. To this will be added the ordinary business of boat- 
letting, which always has been profitable. New and up-to-date 
boats will be purchased and added to the present equipment as 
rapidly as circumstances seem to demand them. We confidently 
expect this business, as a whole, will prove to be one of our most 
popular and profitable privileges. 
Rocking Stone Restaurant.—On the whole, the past year has 
been a very successful period for the Restaurant, and while the 
net profits did not quite equal those of last season, an increase 
would have been shown, but for the unfavorable weather in the 
month of October, when the attendance fell off more than 50,000, 
as compared with that of the previous year. 
An important improvement developed was the establishment 
of our own laundry, which, in addition to giving us better work 
than we were able to secure outside, saves us the constant annoy- 
ance of the slow and uncertain deliveries which we had experi- 
enced from independent laundries. 
Soda Water.—The manufacture of our own ice cream, as inau- 
gurated in 1905, was continued with increased success. Not- 
withstanding the enormously high prices we were obliged to 
pay for ice during the entire season, the profit from soda-water 
alone was $4,032.76 as against $2,946.07 in 1905. The net profits 
of the soda-water stands for the year, including the sales of can- 
dies and cigars, reached a total of $5,414.08. 
Souvenir Postal Cards.—Vhe sale of souvenir postal cards was 
continued under the plan adopted in 1905, and but for an un- 
avoidable delay in the delivery of stock ordered in the early part 
of the vear, the sales would have doubled those of last year. This 
privilege netted $1,295.55 for the Animal Fund in 1906 as com- 
pared with $760.77 in 1905. Many new subjects were added to 
all series of cards. Our souvenir postal collection appears to be 
the largest and most complete in the animal line to be found any- 
where, and new subjects are constantly being added. The increase 
in the sales of souvenir postal cards was so marked as to be 
worthy of special mention. In September they sometimes reached 
a total of more than $50 per day. 
Guide Book.—The completion of several important buildings 
and installations, and the large additions to the animal collections 
