SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 65 



SUMMARY OF LIVE ANIMALS ON HAND Ox\ JANUARY I, I902. 



Species. Specimens. 



Alaimiials 141 503 



Birds 193 680 



Reptiles 114 ^^2 



Total 448 1.955 



DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION. — H. R. Mitclwll, Chief Clerk. 



The additional room afforded this department by its new 

 quarters in the Service Building has been fully appreciated during 

 the past year. The centralization of several departments under 

 one roof, and the placing of all buildings in direct communication 

 by telephone with the Chief Clerk's office, has greatly aided the 

 thorough systematizing of the many details connected with the 

 purchase, receipt, and distribution of the great bulk of materials 

 and supplies required annually in the maintenance and develop- 

 ment of the Park. 



The Rocking Stone Restaurant. — Early in the past season the 

 patronage of the Restaurant increased to such an extent as to 

 warrant the engagement of a competent steward and head waiter 

 to take immediate charge of its operation. Mr. Leo Fradkin, an 

 experienced caterer, was employed for this position, and took 

 charge the latter part of June, thus relieving this department of 

 the details of the Restaurant service. A careful supervision, 

 however, was maintained, and full daily reports, with remittances, 

 made to the Chief Clerk's of^ce, where a complete set of books 

 are kept covering the operation of this privilege. Under this 

 arrangement good service was maintained. Special care was 

 given to the purchase of food supplies, and as far as possible 

 all supplies were of the best quality obtainable. 



Early in May the dining-room was found to be inadequate 

 to accommodate the increasing patronage on Sundays and holi- 

 days, and it became necessary to equip the South Pavilion as a 

 dining-room annex. In order to supply service to this annex, 

 doors were cut in the south end of the kitchen, and a passage- 

 way constructed leading thereto. The expense of additional 

 equipment for the enlarged dining-room, coupled with a long 

 period of bad weather in the latter part of the season, converted 

 the early gains to a net loss for the year. In one respect, how- 

 ever, we may count the year a successful one. since the first object 



