7 
Average daily receipts from admissions . . . . . $86 54 
The largest amount of receipts at the gates on any 
one day was on Monday, July 4th 751 54 
lotal Receipts on the several days of the week, and their respective 
averages for 1892-93. 
Rank. 
Days. 
Total Receipts. 
Average. 
1 
Sunday .... 
$11,995 33 
$230 68 
2 
Saturday .... 
5,967 40 
114 76 
3 
Monday .... 
3,923 01 
75 44 
4 
Thursday . . . 
2.651 99 
51 00 
5 
Wednesday . . . 
2,574 11 
49 50 
6 
Tuesday .... 
2,269 60 
42 82 
7 
Friday 
2,206 32 
42 43 
$31,587 76 
Among the causes which have brought about the serious 
decrease in the income of the Society, the severity of the 
weather which prevailed during both the summer and win- 
ter of the past year have probably played the chief part, 
but there is yet reason for anxious questioning whether the 
Garden has not become in some measure a victim of a sort 
of popular apathy, to which its conditions tend to expose 
it. An institution of permanent nature, excluded by its 
object, as well as by its organization, from such sensational 
features as would serve to advertise it constantly before the 
public attention and yet dependent upon that public for its 
means of support, is peculiarly liable to be regarded at fre- 
quent periods with the sort of apathy which develops from 
long familiarity — having existed through a course of past 
years, its continued existence comes to be assumed as a fixed 
fact and the end is endangered by neglect rather than by 
real want of interest. 
In administering the affairs of the Society, the Board 
has been strictly confined to its legitimate purposes by the 
