REPORT OF THE 
DIRECTOR OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS 
OTWITHSTANDING a record breaking attendance of 
. 2,035,859, the Director sincerely hopes that he never will 
have to pass through another year such as 1919. The grinding 
poverty of our working people was accentuated by a seale fal 
lower than the pay given elsewhere in city institutions fo1 
similar services. This affected every one on the force, from 
the lowest to the highest. The losses of valuable long-service 
men, and the difficulty of securing new ones “just as good” at 
our starvation rates of pay, precipitated a continuous struggle 
to keep our force fairly intact, and keep the Park up to the 
mark. 
Next came the loss by death of four long-time friends: Mr. 
Carnegie, Mrs. Sage, Mr. Clark and Mr. Bourne. 
To those calamities we have to add the loss of some im- 
portant large hoofed animals, the present impossibility of re- 
placing any of them, and the total loss of a collection of South 
American animals of great variety that had been specially 
gathered for us,—lost because of no shipping facilities from 
the only port available. 
Finally, the cut in our appropriation of $32,000 and its 
baneful results, followed us through the year like a nightmare. 
The bright spots on the year’s record were the record 
throngs of appreciative visitors, the return of Major Dr. Blair 
from overseas, the visits of the King and Queen of Belgium, 
the giving of a large lot of living specimens to the Zoological 
Garden most in need of them, and the saving (by Keeper D’Osta) 
of the big chimpanzee Fanny when she was just the same as 
dead of pneumonia. 
