L REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Salaries or compensation: 



1 carpenter, 50* days, at §3 $lnl. 50 



1 carpenter, 37 days, at $3 111. 00 



1 carpenter, 17 days, at $3. 51. 00 



1 carpenter, J day, at $3 1. 50 



1 carpenter, * day, at $3 1 . 50 



1 carpenter, * day, at $3 1. 50 



1 carpenter, | day, at $3 1 . 50 



1 painter, 5 days, at $3 15.00 



1 awning maker, 9 days, at $1.50 13. 50 



1 skilled laborer, 23 days, at ?60 45. 28 



1 seamstress, 7 days, and 1 cleaner, 8 days, at !rl . . . 15. 00 



Total salaries or compensation 9-108. 23 



General expenses: 



Apparatus 8682. 52 



Buildings 286. 00 



Building material 76. 92 



Castings 19. 65 



Freight and hauling 28. 65 



Lumber 97. 87 



Rental 190.00 



Supplies 183. 88 



Traveling expenses 497. 08 



2,062.57 



Ti.tal dislmrsements 82, 470. 80 



Balance July 1. 1900 1, 529. 20 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1900. 



KECEIPTS. 



Appropriatiou liy Congress fur the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1900, "fur continuing the construction of roads, walks, 

 bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for 

 grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; 

 erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, sub- 

 sistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, includ- 

 ing salaries or compensation of all necessary employes, 

 the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and gen- 

 eral incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, sev- 

 enty-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be 

 paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the 

 other half from the Treasury of the United States; and of 

 the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall 

 be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological 

 Park from Woodley Lane and opening driveway into Zoo- 

 logical Park from said entrance along the bank of Rock 

 Creek, and five thousand dollars shall be expended in wid- 

 ening the Adams Mill Road entrance to the Zoological 

 Park from the corner of Eighteenth street and Columbia 

 road, by acquiring by purchase or condemnation of land 

 sufficient to widen the same to a width of one hundred 

 feet, and such road, so widened, shall form a parkway under 

 the control of the Zoological Park" (sundry civil act, 

 March 3, 1899) " s75, 000. 00 



