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A relocation, where it can be carried on without interference 

 with any walks that ought to be reserved entirely for visitors, 

 should have careful consideration before another season. 



Motor Chairs and Baby Carriages: — During the year we 

 undertook to furnish a new service to visitors, the rental of 

 motor chairs and baby carriages. This baby carriage service has 

 long ])een needed by parents with small children. A nominal 

 charge of twenty-five cents for three hours is made and, if the 

 combined service is self-sustaining, we shall consider the effort 

 worth while. The wheel and motor chair service is a real benefit 

 to invalids and elderly persons unable to walk the long distances 

 necessary to see the Park. A central station is located near the 

 Lion House, with sub-stations at the three principal entrances, 

 where chairs can be obtained or left. 



DEPAETMEXT OF FORESTRY AND CONSTRUCTIOX. 



Hermann W. Mkrkel, Chief Constructor and Forester; E. H. Costain, Asst. 

 Forester; Michael O'Keefe, Head Gardener. 



From the point of general appearance and improvement in 

 upkeep the past year can well be said to have been satisfactory, 

 in spite of the cut in maintenance by the Board of Estimate and 

 Apportionment. 



To quite an extent this condition was due to the fact that a 

 great deal of labor was obtained without cost to the Park by ar- 

 rangements made with the Association for the Improvement of 

 the Condition of the Poor, and also with the American Red Cross 

 and the Charity Organization Society. 



From these sources we obtained a total of 5,450 days labor 

 by men lacking other employment and needing assistance. In 

 return for subsistence wages they performed certain very ac- 

 ceptable duties in the Zoological Park. The greatest number of 

 useful men was sent by the Association for the Improvement 

 of the Condition of the Poor, amounting to 2,601 days labor, 

 distributed among 133 men. The American Red Cross furnished 

 2,117 days labor among 76 men, and the Charity Organization 

 Society gave 782 days labor to 31 men. 



These men were employed under the general supervision of 

 Mr. O'Keefe of the Park stafi", and their work embraced such 

 items as shovelling snow, felling and cutting up dead trees, cut- 



