NEWS BULLETIN OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



activity. The developments of this year will 

 almost equal those of i8oy. The total number 

 of workmen now engaged in the Park on con- 

 struction work is i6q, but the awarding of new 

 contracts will soon double these figures. The 

 Society has in contemplation the immediate 

 erection of several installations for collections, 

 all of which will be reported upon in the future. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 

 RESTAURANT. 



The Rocking-Stone Restaurant has been 

 completed, turned over to the Zoological So- 

 ciety, occupied, and formally opened to the 

 public on May 30th. It is managed by the 

 Society, and it is the intention of the Execu- 

 tive Committee that it shall be conducted in, a 

 manner acceptable to the public. 



The building is beautifully situated on the 

 eastern edge of Rocking-Stone Hill, and its 

 main feature is a dining-room which looks off 

 into the top of the forest through so many 

 large windows that it really seems like a bal- 

 cony on the edge of the bluff. In this room 

 good meals will be served a la carte, at moder- 

 ate prices. Downstairs are two toilet-rooms 

 and a lunch-room. North of the main build- 

 ing a spacious pavilion shelters a large lunch- 

 counter, from which all kinds of ordinary 

 luncheon food will be served. A similar pa- 

 vilion on the south side will accommodate a 

 series of open-air tables, served from the 

 kitchen. 



In the grove in front of the Reptile House 

 is situated a Soda-Water Pavilion, where all 

 the various forms of soda-water will be served, 

 and an earnest effort will be made to have them 

 satisfactory. 



With the Society the first consideration is to 

 please the public ; and to attain that end, all 

 efforts will first be directed. When the time 

 comes that the business yields a profit, it will 

 be devoted to the purchase of animals. 



THE SERVICE BUILDING. 



The business of the Zoological Park has con- 

 stantly demanded storage and office facilities 

 which could not be provided until now. The 

 completion on July 1st of the Service Build- 

 ing, a handsome two-story wooden structure 

 located in the edge of the forest behind the 

 Reptile House, will be a great relief and a ben- 

 efit to the whole working force. This build- 

 ing, which is almost at the geographical centre 

 of the Park, contains the store-rooms, cook- 

 room, food-service room, ice-house, cold-stor- 

 age, root-cellar, and the offices of the Director, 



Chief Clerk, Chief Forester, Engineer, Pho- 

 tographer, and Captain of the Watch. It will 

 be the administrative headquarters of the Park, 

 and a bee-hive of activity. The Chief Clerk's 

 office will be connected by telephone with every 

 entrance and large building in the Park, in- 

 cluding the nursery. All supplies will be de- 

 livered, checked, and receipted for at the store- 

 house, and issued therefrom. 



The present offices in the Elk House will be 

 vacated about July 20th, and turned over to 

 the elk herd, which has long needed them. 



POLAR BEAR. 



OSBORN'S WALK. 



An important improvement in the north- 

 western section of the Zoological Park has just 

 been completed. It is the broad walk leading 

 directly from the Northwest Entrance to the 

 Bird House, and now known as Osborn's 

 Walk. The existence of this handsome thor- 

 oughfare is due to the Chairman of the Execu- 

 tive Committee. Without his knowledge or 

 consent, but " by the advice and consent of the 

 governed," it has been named in his honor, and 

 Osborn"s Walk it is, and will, we hope, ever 

 remain. 



It has been the most serious effort in walk- 

 making that has yet been undertaken in the 

 Park, and its lines and grades have demanded 

 very careful study. The pathway is twenty 

 feet wide, with a five-foot grass-border on each 

 side. On leaving the Entrance Walk it passes 

 the Axis Deer Range on the left, the ranges of 

 the Mule Deer and White-Tailed Deer on the 

 right, connects with the Ducks* Aviary and 



