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Service Building, and the east wall will form a portion of the 

 Service Yard enclosure. On the first floor, in addition to the 

 cook room, will be located rooms for soda dispensers, ice plant 

 and ice cream machinery, syrup making and chill rooms. There 

 will be a cellar under each end ; that under the cook room pro- 

 viding separately a vegetable cellar and one for coal storage 

 and a heating plant. At the other end the cellar will provide 

 space for storage and an engine room. About a third of the 

 second floor will be occupied by the laundry, and the remainder 

 by a mixing room, pop-corn, salt and general storage. It is con- 

 fidently expected that the advantages furnished by this plant will 

 greatly increase the efficiency and quality of our service in all 

 branches. 



Rocking-Stone Restaurant. — A fund of five thousand dollars 

 for extensions and alteration to the Rocking-Stone Restaurant be- 

 came available late in the year 1911. Our original request for the 

 much-needed improvement called for double this amount, every 

 cent of which was required to do the work necessary to provide 

 for the additional service which ought to be provided at this time. 

 However, it is proposed to go as far as possible with the fund 

 allowed. Plans are now practically ready which will double the 

 size of the present inside dining-room, as well as the open-air 

 dining-room in the front pavilion, and add measurably to kitchen 

 and pantry facilities. 



Soda Water. — Our facilities for serving soda water at the 

 various stands in the Park were not by any means sufficient to 

 take care of the demands made on them on Sundays or dur- 

 ing any really heavy attendance. The addition of table service 

 at all the stands last season, while furnishing greater convenience 

 to patrons on week days, proved to be somewhat of a hindrance 

 on Sundays and holidays because of our inability to arrange for 

 separate service for waiters elsewhere than at the same counter 

 where the public were being served. In order to temporarily 

 relieve this condition, and get through the season without more 

 radical changes, several small movable stands were built for use 

 on Sundays only. These were placed for temporary use at 

 crowded points on Baird Court, and orangeade and large quanti- 

 ties of lemonade were dispensed from them. As high as 200 

 gallons were sold in a single day, to that extent relieving the 

 rush at the regular stands. 



Souvenir Books and Postal Ca)-ds. — During the previous 

 year the price of the thirty-two-page colored souvenir book had 



