FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 81 



The experiment fully demonstrated the popular desire for sum- 

 mer concerts in the Zoological Park. In making up our applica- 

 tion to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for mainte- 

 nance for the year 1910, a modest sum was asked for to cover 

 band concerts. The item, however, was not allowed, and if con- 

 certs are to be given this season they will have to be at the ex- 

 pense of Privileges as last year. 



Just why it is that the city positively refuses to provide a 

 band for the Park that contains every Sunday in summer the 

 greatest number of visitors, we are unable to understand, but it 

 is a fact that in this respect the Zoological Park fails to share 

 in the music privileges that are supplied to other parks. 



Bureau of Information. — Owing to the lack of facilities for 

 properly exhibiting Guide Books, Souvenir Books, Postals and 

 other publications of the Society at the entrances and to the fact 

 that very few visitors will pause to examine or purchase publica- 

 tions when entering the Park, we very much need and desire a 

 Bureau of Information in some central location where visitors 

 can obtain any information desired regarding the Society and 

 the Park. 



In order to give the Hudson-Fulton Bulletin as wide distri- 

 bution as possible during the period of the Celebration, and to 

 supply the added accommodation to visitors, Mr. Mitchell tem- 

 porarily established such a bureau in the Lion House, where 

 publications could be examined at leisure. The sales made at 

 this bureau from September 25 to December 31, a little over 

 three months, were about eight hundred dollars, and quite suffi- 

 cient to demonstrate the need for such a feature, and its ability 

 to be self sustaining. As the Heads and Horns formerly stored 

 in the alcove in the Lion House are now being transferred to the 

 Administration Building, it is hoped this alcove can be made 

 available as a permanent location for such a bureau. 



Refrigeration Plant, Laundry and Ice Factory. — This pro- 

 ject has long been the greatest need and desire of the Privilege 

 Department, but because of the first demand for construction of 

 animal buildings and installations, it has never until this time 

 received serious consideration. 



The Privileges of the Park have now grown to such propor- 

 tions that it has become almost impossible to conduct them 

 properly and in a manner consistent with the high-class business 

 policy of the Society, without providing a suitable building with 

 adequate facilities for their various activities. The day for 



