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tendent), 1 Head Keeper and 23 Keepers, 3 Money-takers, | 
Store-keeper, 1 Prosecutor’s Assistant, 1 Head Gardener, 13 
Garden Laborers, 19 Helpers in the Menagerie, 9 Artisans, 7 
Painters, 9 Laborers, 2 Butchers, 1 Cook, 2 Firemen, 2 Night 
Watchmen, 1 Time-Keeper and 2 Messengers, making a total of 
about 100 persons. ‘The salaries paid (other than those to the 
Superintendents) are low, as is the case in all Huropean gardens ; 
but faithful employees are retired on pensions when they grow old 
in the service. A Keeper of skill and experience, in charge of a 
RESIDENCE OF SUPERINTENDENT CLARENCE BARTLETT. 
large and valuable collection, informed me that he receives thirty 
shillings per week, ($7.20.) While this seems like a small sum, 
the agreeable nature of his duties, the certainty of increased pay 
with longer service, and of a pension when he becomes too old to 
work, renders its acceptance desirable. Inno institution is con- 
tinuity of acceptable service more desirable or more necessary 
to success than in a zoological garden. ‘The testimony of the 
officers in charge of the institutions at London, Antwerp, Amster- 
dam and Berlin exactly coincided on these points: :(1) Select 
keepers most carefully, (2) retain the good ones permanently, 
(8) increase their pay steadily, and (4) pension them off comfort- 
