44 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



MAINTENANCE. 



Park. — The sum of $190,000 was provided by the Society 

 for the maintenance of the Park during 1918. This represented 

 a reduction of $17,586 over the amount supplied the year before 

 in spite of the great increase in supplies and in labor. The 

 resulting situation was a very serious one, perhaps the worst 

 encountered since the organization of the Society. In order to 

 save the institution, the Managers raised a large fund to m.ake 

 up the deficit in the maintenance of the Park and of the 

 Aquarium. 



Aquarium. — The case at the Aquarium was similar. The 

 sum of $45,000 was appropriated for maintenance against that 

 of $48,632.50 of the year before. The force was reduced and 

 the work increased. Though great economy was practiced, the 

 Society actually was obliged to contribute during 1919 for the 

 maintenance of these two institutions the sum of $17,572.07, al- 

 though in both cases the contract with the city provided for 

 adequate maintenance. 



The subscriptions to cover the deficit of the 1919 mainte- 

 nance were as follows : 



Archer M. Huntington $2,000.00 



George F. Baker 1,000.00 



Andrew Carnegie 1,000.00 



Edward S. Harkness 1,000.00 



A. Barton Hepburn 1,000.00 



Mortimer L. Schiflf 1,000.00 



Percy A. Rockefeller 1,000.00 



E.C.Converse 1,000.00 



Cleveland H. Dodge 1,000.00 



Emerson McMilHn 1,000.00 



Wm. Pierson Hamilton 1,000.00 



George J. Gould 1,000.00 



Ogden Mills 1,000.00 



Percy R. Pyne 1,000.00 



Henry M. Tilford 500.00 



Dr. L. R. Morris 500.00 



Edwin Thorne 500.00 



Lispenard Stewart 500.00 



George C. Clark 250.00 



William Woodward 200.00 



$17,450.00 



