66 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
ATTENDANCE 
The attendance of visitors was a source of profound satis- 
faction. Although we receive far less maintenance money than 
our rich sister institutions, our attendance balance sheet for 
the year goes so far beyond theirs that not one of them makes 
even a good second to the Zoological Park. In popular apprecia- 
tion we lead all the institutions of Greater New York, except 
Coney Island in its best seasons. 
The monthly record for the year is as follows: 
1919 1918 
PATNA, ek teks eee ace eee 69,298 38,528 
WeDrUATY, “oreo eee ee ook 84,221 56,620 
Mia rhs is 2 Soe pee ey mene 118,798 135,482 
POU eae eat Ceca oh eae 192,839 161,344 
IM ayy chet cali eee sec Nee Re eae ee: 255,597 232,337 
UNG ace eras cae rk eos Oe 297,299 246,307 
ALG hi aa iaee Sesame MMAR DD rr aera 220,004 269,273 
AVIS US task eee ae ee eine 263,135 174,949 
DenLeMbe mite cm Seen ee 226,015 191,134 
OCLODER I LON aioe erie tes Hast 42 108,970 
INOVEMIDETA.c.-cere tates oto e ee 131,650 85,099 
Decembera:. eee 43,275 70,394 
2,035,859 1,770,437 
MAINTENANCE 
The year 1919 was a lean year. Our total appropriation of 
$190,000 represented a cut of $17,000 from the funds of the 
previous year, and a cut of $32,000 from the budget that we 
submitted to the Board of Estimate as representing our minimum 
needs. 
In asking for $222,000 for 1919 we assumed that inasmuch 
as the People of New York, private and official, had elected to 
create the Zoological Park, they meant what they said when they 
promised in advance to “maintain it adequately.” 
But the open season in the fall of 1918 saw a great slaughter 
of appropriations. By a curious irony of treatment, we were cut 
