TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 67 
down to $150,000 with a resounding crash in salaries of eighteen 
per cent. loss; and then, in response to a frantic appeal in behalf 
of our impoverished men, we were given back $15,000, solely for 
the purpose of increasing the salaries of our force by that amount 
over and above what those salaries were before they were 
reduced! 
It being utterly impossible to carry on during 1919 with 
only $190,000, the Society addressed itself to the task of making 
up a shortage $32,000, thus: 
By passing the hat through the Board of 
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By leaving positions vacant, and by dropping 
every employee who could possibly be 
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Bysstripping the Animal Funds ys. ...6. .o.. 4,000 
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This unhappy program was carried out. There was nothing 
else to be done. We kept up to the mark all those portions of the 
Park that are most in the public eye, and by the rest of it we 
merely did the best we could. 
In 1919 the end of the war enabled the city government to 
adjust institutional finances on a better basis. We asked for 
$242,000, we received $237,000, and the Society is making up the 
difference. 
Our employees whose salaries are under $1,200 per year 
receive for 1920 the universal horizontal increase of twenty per 
cent., and those getting from $1,200 to $1,900 receive fifteen 
per cent. more, and all those (all except the Director) above 
$1,900 receive ten per cent. more. But even this left our officers 
and Chief Clerk so poorly paid that from its own funds the So- 
ciety must provide for an additional ten per cent. increase, to 
give them two-thirds of the salaries paid to curators in the simi- 
lar institutions. 
As usual, the repairs made to the Park buildings, walks and 
other improvements were paid for wholly out of moneys that be- 
longed by right to the Animal Fund, and the same course must 
be pursued in 1920. 
