REPORT OF THE 
DIRECTOR OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
HE balance sheet of the general status of the Zoological 
Park for 1920 is a great improvement over that for 1919. 
The debit for financial and labor worriments is far overshadowed 
by the great accessions of new arrivals, the phenominally light 
death roll and the healthy condition of the collections. The 
labor shortages that have heavily handicapped the Department 
of Repair and Construction now are less serious, and very soon 
we will be able to secure the help that we need at the rates that 
we are able to pay. 
In view of the heavy financial burdens that the city now is 
bearing and the new burdens of the Zoological Society on account 
of the maintenance of the Zoological Park, the old arrangement 
by which the gate receipts and net profits of all the privilege 
business go into the fund for the purchase of animals has become 
a most valuable means of Park support. 
Notwithstanding the generous increase in our annual main- 
tenance, the Society is obliged to play the part of a general 
stabilizing institution in salaries, materials, etc., and its annual 
contribution for sundries, not counting the purchase of animals, 
seems to have settled down at about $18,000 per year. 
ATTENDANCE. 
The phenomenally high and steadily increasing attendance 
of visitors at the Park leaves no room for argument regarding 
the estimation in which that place is held by the public. The 
total increase for 1920 was 214,318, making the record-breaking 
annual total of 2,250,177. The proportion of school pupils and 
other children is perfectly satisfactory. 
