XXXVI REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



National Zoological Pakk, 1897. 



Appropriation by Congress "for continuing the construction of roads, 

 walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage, and for grading, 

 planting, and otherwise improving the grounds ; erecting and repairing 

 buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, transportation of animals, 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employes, and gen- 

 eral incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, sixty-seven thou- 

 sand dollars, one half of which sura shall be paid from the revenues of 

 the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the 

 United States, and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dol- 

 lars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park 

 from Woodley Lane and opening driveway into Zoological Park from 

 said entrance along the bank of Rock Creek, and five thousand dollars 

 shall be used toward the construction of a road from the Holt Mansion 

 entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to connect with the roads 

 now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek" (sundry civil 

 act, June 11, 1896) $67,000.00 



Disbursements, July 1, 1896, to June SO, 1897. 



Salaries or compensation : 



( 4months, at $208.33 $833.32 



1 superintendent, ^g^^^^j^g^^^ ^225 1,800.00 



1 property clerk, 12 months, at $125 1,500.00 



( 7 months, at $60 420. 00 



^ ''^®'^^M 5 months, at $75 375.00 



1 stenographer, 12 months, at $62.50 750. 00 



1 copyist, 12 months, r.t $50 600.00 



1 copyist, 7 days, at $50 11. 29 



1 typewriter, 20 days, at $1 20.00 



1 head keeper, 12 months, at $100 1, 200. 00 



1 keeper, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 keeper, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 keeper, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 keeper, 12 months, at $60 720.00 



1 keeper, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 keeper, 6 months, at $75 450. 00 



1 foreman, 8 months, at $75 600. 00 



1 assistant foreman, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 landscape gardener, 84 days, at $3 " 252. 00 



1 blacksmith, 12 months, at $75 900.00 



1 assistant blacksmith, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 carpenter, 12 months, at $75 900.00 



1 watchman, 12 months, at $60 720. 00 



1 watchman, 12 months, at $50 600. 00 



1 watchman, 12 months, at $50 600. 00 



1 watchman, 12 months, at $50 600. 00 



^ workman, 6 months,, at $60 360. 00 



I laborer, 6 months, at $50 300. 00 



1 workman, 5 months 18 days, at $50 279.03 



1 workman, 12 months, at $50 600. 00 



1 workman, 12 months, at $50 600. 00 



^ ^ , (5 months, at $35 175. 00 



1 laborer, ■, ^ .-, . ^.^ -.._„, 



' ( / months, at $45 315. 00 



1 laborer, 2 months 10 days, at $45 105.00 



