7 
Average daily receipts from admissions $84 15 
The largest amount of receipts at the gates on any 
one day was on Tuesday, July 4th 899 95 
Total Receipts on the several days of the week, and their respective 
averages for 1893-94,. 
Rank. 
Days. 
Total Receipts. 
Average. 
1 
. . . $11,445 40 
$220 11 
2 
Saturday . . . . 
. . . 5,585 25 
107 41 
3 
Tuesday 
. . 3,367 45 
64 76 
4 
. . . 2,971 20 
57 14 
5 
. . . 2,924 43 
56 24 
6 
Wednesday . . . 
. . . 2,284 33 
43 10 
7 
Friday 
. . . 2,136 61 
41 09 
$30,714 76 
Although the income of the Society from admissions has 
suffered from the depression and poverty prevalent during 
the eight months following midsummer, the previous year 
was one of such marked depression in the affairs of the So- 
ciety that a comparison of the receipts alone does not fully 
indicate the serious condition which it has been necessary 
for your Board to meet. 
The available resources having been for the most part 
exhausted in providing for the large deficit shown in the 
previous report, the present year was entered upQn with the 
knowledge that it was the most critical period in the his- 
tory of the Society. An effort was made early in the 
summer to raise a fund by private subscription to meet the 
deficit which was almost certain to result from the year's 
operations. This met with little success ; before an amount 
sufficient to secure its object had been raised, the develop- 
ment of the financial troubles of the year put an end to all 
subscriptions and thereby to all hope of saving the Garden 
by private means. At this hopeless juncture the Commis- 
sioners of Fairmount Park, impressed with the importance 
