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manufacturing in sheds and basements, and paying exorbitant 

 prices for ice, has gone by. 



Plans are now in preparation for a two story building 

 30 X 100 feet providing room on the first floor for an ice-storage 

 room thirty feet square, to be filled with natural ice when avail- 

 able, otherv^ise for manufactured ice; three brine-cooled chill- 

 rooms each 10 feet square for the use of the restaurants, ice 

 cream business and Maintenance Department; a machinery 

 room about 30 x 40 feet to contain an ice manufacturing machine 

 and a complete equipment for the manufacture and storage of 

 ice cream. The temporary ice-cream shed built two years ago 

 has already been completely outgrown. In addition to the rooms 

 just mentioned, there should be stock rooms for the ice cream de- 

 partment, another for the soda dispensers, and a storage room 

 for soda fountain supplies and bottled goods. 



On the second floor of this building, occupying a space about 

 30 X 50 feet, there must be better accommodations for our laun- 

 dry, by which it will be better enabled to take care both of our 

 present and our increasing needs. The remainder of the second 

 floor will be devoted to storage and a tank room for the ice- 

 factory. 



A building such as described and planned will not only ef- 

 fect great economies in the various branches of the Privileges, 

 but will enable us also to advance the standard of service. It is 

 sincerely hoped that the funds for this building and its equip- 

 ment will be forthcoming without unnecessary delay, and that 

 its construction can be made possible during the year 1910. 



Shelter Pavilion East of Bronx River. — A Shelter Pavilion, 

 to be located somewhere near the center of that portion of the 

 Park lying east of the Bronx River, is very much needed. This 

 vast area of more than 100 acres is now wholly unprovided with 

 storm shelters. A very large number of visitors frequent this 

 part of the Park, annually, among them many picnic parties, 

 by whom the accommodations afforded by a moderate-sized shel- 

 ter pavilion would be very greatly appreciated. We think they 

 are entitled to this consideration, and the Society desires that it 

 shall be provided in the near future. With such a paviHon pro- 

 vided, it would be easy to confine to it the lunch and picnic par- 

 ties, and consequently reduce to a minimum the scattering of 

 papers and refuse over our eastern grounds. The pavilion 

 should be supplied with service similar to that in the Shelter 

 Pavilion near the Fox Dens, in the enclosed portion of the Park. 



