REPORT OF THE 

 DIRECTOR OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



TO THE KOARl) OF MANAGERS. 



THE balance sheet of the general status of the Zoological 

 Park for 1920 is a great improvement over that for 1919. 

 The debit for financial and labor worriments is far overshadowed 

 by the great accessions of new arrivals, the phenominally light 

 death roll and the healthy condition of the collections. The 

 labor shortages that have heavily handicapped the Department 

 of Repair and Construction now are less serious, and very soon 

 we will be able to secure the help that we need at the rates that 

 we are able to pay. 



In view of the heavy financial burdens that the city now is 

 bearing and the new burdens of the Zoological Society on account 

 of the maintenance of the Zoological Park, the old arrangement 

 by which the gate receipts and net profits of all the privilege 

 business go into the fund for the purchase of animals has become 

 a most valuable means of Park support. 



Notwithstanding the generous increase in our annual main- 

 tenance, the Society is obliged to play the part of a general 

 stabilizing institution in salaries, materials, etc., and its annual 

 contribution for sundries, not counting the purchase of animals, 

 seems to have settled down at about $18,000 per year. 



ATTENDANCE. 



The phenomenally high and steadily increasing attendance 

 of visitors at the Park leaves no room for argument regarding 

 the estimation in which that place is held by the public. The 

 total increase for 1920 was 214,318, making the record-breaking 

 annual total of 2,250,177. The proportion of school pupils and 

 other children is perfectly satisfactory. 



