66 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



ATTENDANCE 



The attendance of visitors was a source of profound satis- 

 faction. Although we receive far less maintenance money than 

 our rich sister institutions, our attendance balance sheet for 

 the year goes so far beyond theirs that not one of them makes 

 even a good second to the Zoological Park. In popular apprecia- 

 tion we lead all the institutions of Greater New York, except 

 Coney Island in its best seasons. 



The monthly record for the year is as follows : 



January . . 

 February 

 March . . . 

 April .... 



May 



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July 



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 September 

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 November 

 December 



MAINTENANCE 



The year 1919 was a lean year. Our total appropriation of 

 $190,000 represented a cut of $17,000 from the funds of the 

 previous year, and a cut of $32,000 from the budget that we 

 submitted to the Board of Estimate as representing our minimum 

 needs. 



In asking for $222,000 for 1919 we assumed that inasmuch 

 as the People of New York, private and official, had elected to 

 create the Zoological Park, they meant what they said when they 

 promised in advance to "maintain it adequately." 



But the open season in the fall of 1918 saw a great slaughter 

 of appropriations. By a curious irony of treatment, we were cut 



