112 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
The Park is very greatly in need of a new entrance at the 
Pelham Avenue-Southern Boulevard corner, known as the Ford- 
ham entrance. The present old and cheap pavilion is most un- 
representative of the Park, the City and the Society. As an 
irreducible minimum the sum required is $25,000. 
The area between the Boston Road and the Bronx Lake is 
in a terrible condition. The feet of the multitude are wearing 
the banks away to an extent that is most serious, and something 
must be done about it, forthwith. It is our intention to rob 
other funds ( if it be possible) in order to make a beginning this 
year, between the Boat House and the Buffalo Entrance. A 
stone wall is needed all along the eastern side of the Boston 
Road to stop the destruction of the bank above. 
The southern end of the area east of the Bronx River needs 
about $3,000 worth of development work, for the general good; 
but the money is not in sight. 
The enormous cost of food for animals is causing us great 
anxiety. Although studies and efforts in all directions are being 
made to economize in food quantities and kinds, even the best 
economy will not reduce potatoes from $12.00 per barrel to $6.00. 
We are reducing the quantity of our animal rations, and experi- 
menting to find the cheapest food that will be acceptible. We 
also intend to plant every acre of our land available for cultiva- 
tion with potatoes, corn and other vegetables that will produce 
the most on the smallest space. 
Just how we are going to feed our carnivorous animals with- 
out enormously increased expenditures, going far beyond our 
available funds, we can not imagine. 
Respectfully submitted, 
WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, 
Director. 
