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Service Building, and the east wall will form a portion of the 
Service Yard enclosure. On the first floor, in addition to the 
cook room, will be located rooms for soda dispensers, ice plant 
and ice cream machinery, syrup making and chill rooms. There 
will be a cellar under each end; that under the cook room pro- 
viding separately a vegetable cellar and one for coal storage 
and a heating plant. At the other end the cellar will provide 
space for storage and an engine room. About a third of the 
second floor will be occupied by the laundry, and the remainder 
by a mixing room, pop-corn, salt and general storage. It is con- 
fidently expected that the advantages furnished by this plant will 
greatly increase the efficiency and quality of our service in all 
branches. 
Rocking-Stone Restaurant.—A fund of five thousand dollars 
for extensions and alteration to the Rocking-Stone Restaurant be- 
came available late in the year 1911. Our original request for the 
much-needed improvement called for double this amount, every 
cent of which was required to do the work necessary to provide 
for the additional service which ought to be provided at this time. 
However, it is proposed to go as far as possible with the fund 
allowed. Plans are now practically ready which will double the 
size of the present inside dining-room, as well as the open-air 
dining-room in the front pavilion, and add measurably to kitchen 
and pantry facilities. 
Soda Water.—Our facilities for serving soda water at the 
various stands in the Park were not by any means sufficient to 
take care of the demands made on them on Sundays or dur- 
ing any really heavy attendance. The addition of table service 
at all the stands last season, while furnishing greater convenience 
to patrons on week days, proved to be somewhat of a hindrance 
on Sundays and holidays because of our inability to arrange for 
separate service for waiters elsewhere than at the same counter 
where the public were being served. In order to temporarily 
relieve this condition, and get through the season without more 
radical changes, several small movable stands were built for use 
on Sundays only. These were placed for temporary use at 
crowded points on Baird Court, and orangeade and large quanti- 
ties of lemonade were dispensed from them. As high as 200 
gallons were sold in a single day, to that extent relieving the 
rush at the regular stands. 
Souvenir Books and Postal Cards.—During the previous 
year the price of the thirty-two-page colored souvenir book had 
