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brick structure, which is to provide permanent quarters for the 

 mechanical force of the Park. It will include adequate work- 

 shops for the carpenters, wire-workers, blacksmith, plumbers 

 and painters. The building may fairly be regarded as a model 

 of its kind, both in utility and low cost. 



Public Service Building. — Situated near the Workshop 

 Building, a new and substantial brick structure is arising which 

 will be knoMm as the Public Service Building, because it will 

 accommodate a collection of industries in which visitors to the 

 Park are specially interested. The building is being erected 

 by J. F. Walsh & Brother, at a cost of $29,230. It will furnish 

 proper housing for a plant for the manufacture of artificial ice, 

 another for the manufacture of ice cream, a laundry, cold stor- 

 age rooms for the meat and fish supplies of the Zoological Park, 

 and storage room for the really great amount of stock that is 

 regularly carried by the Privilege Department. This building 

 will render the operation of the Privilege Department both 

 more economical and more satisfactory, and the danger of fire 

 is reduced to an irreducible minimum. 



Addition to Rcstaurayit. — At a cost of $3,900, Joseph Bala- 

 ban erected an addition to the main dining-room of the Restau- 

 rant, and also to the southern pavilion, doubling the capacity 

 of each. These two improvements will undoubtedly prove to be 

 sources of great satisfaction to the patrons of the Rocking- 

 Stone Restaurant, where, during the past year, the overcrowd- 

 ing of the dining-rooms on Sundays and holidays had become 

 a source of great discomfort. 



Respectfully submitted, 



William T. Hornaday, 



Director. 



