TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 85 
ployees of the Privileges, to be based upon the net results for 
the season. The interest of all was thus enlisted, and we believe 
the co-operation resulting had a very satisfactory effect on the 
final figures. At any rate, we were able to give the bonuses, 
several hundred dollars in the aggregate, and the distribution 
was made just before the end of the year, in a lump sum to each 
employee. 
Rocking Stone Restaurant.—Difficult as the problem has been 
for several years of maintaining a given standard of service at 
the Rocking Stone Restaurant without incurring serious losses, 
it became almost impossible in the past year. The gross receipts 
were reduced but slightly, but advancing prices on all supplies 
involved a loss for the year. In an effort to conserve and add to 
the food supplies, a garden was established in a portion of the 
Elk Range. Results for the first season were not very satisfac- 
tory, but it is believed that hereafter substantial improvements 
can be made. 
Boating.—The boating season for 1917 was the first full sea- 
son for the new dock, and the result,—very largely due to this 
improvement,—was entirely satisfactory. The net profit was 
considerably more than double that of the previous season, which 
was, however, seriously interfered with by delay in constructing 
the new dock. 
In spite of the fact that expenditures in all kinds of recrea- 
tion were somewhat curtailed by the unusual conditions that pre- 
vailed, this particular branch of the privileges experienced the 
best season in its history. On the whole, the result was a most 
convincing argument on the necessity and desirability of main- 
taining a high standard of equipment and the greatest efficiency 
in operation. 
It was necessary to add two carloads of new steel boats to 
our equipment, in order to replace old ones that had to be dis- 
carded. Our experience had shown us some weak points in the 
construction and design of the boats adopted as our standard, 
and by placing our orders well in advance for spring delivery, 
so that the boats could be made up during the winter, we were 
able to have some special features included that will add very 
materially to their usefulness. Our first steel boats have now 
been in use ten years, and it will be necessary to add at least a 
carload of new boats each season to take the place of those 
discarded. 
