SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT oF 
been reduced from fifty to twenty-five cents, greatly increasing 
sales. The gain over the previous year amounted to about forty 
per cent. It had been planned to issue new limited editions of 
a fifty-cent and one-dollar booklet; but this plan had to be 
given up because of the large amount it was necessary to invest 
in the new edition of the guide books. We hope to be able to 
get them out during 1912, as there is a persistent demand for a 
higher class souvenir book. During 1911, all arrangements were 
made, and work begun, on the largest issue of souvenir postal 
cards we have yet attempted. The series consists of 20,000 each 
of seventy-two subjects, in four colors, or nearly a million and a 
half in all. At the close of the year the old stock of postals was 
almost exhausted, and preparations are under way for receiving 
and putting up the new cards, which will be sold in three sets 
of twenty-four cards at twenty-five cents each. 
Guide Book.—The tenth edition of the guide book was ex- 
hausted about the middle of July. Although the preparation of 
a new edition had been under way for some time, unavoidable 
delays made its delivery impossible until late in the month of 
August, so that we were entirely without copies for four or five 
weeks. The new edition, known as the Spectacled-Bear Edition, 
was carefully and completely revised, and about twenty pages of 
new matter, with many new illustrations, were added. Sales 
from the new issue during the last month of the year were fully 
up to previous records. The total for the year would have passed 
all previous records, dut for the lack of books during part of 
July and August. 
Boat-House Restaurant.—The Boat-House Restaurant con- 
tinued to gain in patronage during the year. The table d’hote 
dinner, the service of which on Sunday and holiday evenings was 
begun last season, was continued throughout the year, and was 
the means of bringing the Boat House to the attention of a large 
number of new patrons. 
Quite a number of club dinners were served with such 
satisfaction as to add materially to the restaurant’s popularity. 
Boating.—The rebuilding of the dam on Bronx River at 
182nd Street, forming Bronx Lake, which was finished late in 
1910, greatly facilitated the handling of the boating business dur- 
ing the past season. This work made it possible to maintain a good 
level for the lake throughout the dry season of mid-summer, and 
carry on the boating business without the annoyances and 
