924 PARKS 



5. Kansas City, Missouri. R;t? of 9. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



I Superintendent. Pay i General manager. 



I Assistant superintendent. I Assistant manager. 



8 Attendants. i Business manager and secretary. 



6. Dallas, Texas. II Animal keepers. 



i Head zoo keeper, per month . . . $150.00 Gardener. 



i Assistant, per month 100.00 Pony track man. 



3 Assistants, per day 3.20 Driver. 



7. San Diego, California. Carpenter. 



i Director. Electrician, part time. 



Clerk. 2 Night watchmen. 



Cashier. 14 Laborers. 



Storekeeper. 5 to 6 men to look after parking of auto- 

 Foreman, mobiles in summer. 

 Carpenter. no Employees in club and refreshment 



i Laborer. service. 



i Truckman. 10. Seattle, Washington. 



6 Animal keepers. i Superintendent. 



8. New Orleans, Louisiana (Audubon Park). 4 Keepers. 



i Superintendent $1,200.00 2 Assistants. 



i Bird curator 1,500.00 n. Denver, Colorado. 



i Aquarist 1,500.00 I Superintendent. 



i Attendant, per month 75 .00 3 Keepers. 



i Keeper, per month (with house) . 90.00 



FINANCING ZOOLOGICAL PARKS 



Three different methods have been and are now being used to finance 

 the construction and operation and maintenance of zoos in the United 

 States. They are as follows: 



i. Wholly by Public Funds. 



These funds may come from annual appropriations or by a special 

 millage tax. The majority of the zoos are financed by annual appropria- 

 tions, such appropriations usually being part of the budgets of park depart- 

 ments. The National Zoological Park in Washington is financed through 

 congressional appropriations, administered by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 It is true, of course, that zoos financed entirely by public appropriations 

 frequently receive gifts of animals. There are a few examples where zoos 

 have a special millage tax for construction, operation and maintenance. 

 In St. Louis this tax is two cents on every one hundred dollars valuation 

 on all taxable property. The income under this plan amounted the first 

 year to approximately $170,000 and has increased to approximately $245,000 

 annually. The special tax for the new zoo in Detroit is one-tenth of one 

 mill on each dollar of valuation. Under this tax the budget allowance for 

 1925-1926 was $270,532.77. The requested budget allowance for 1926- 

 1927 was $296,766.40. In 1923 the State Legislature of Illinois enacted a 

 law providing for the establishment of zoos in country preserve districts 

 having a population of two hundred thousand or more. This law provides: 

 "For the purpose of constructing and maintaining and caring for any such 



