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INCOME AND EXPENDITURES. 
For fiscal year ending March 1st, 1898. 
INCOME. 
Members' fees and dues 1600 00 
Admission receipts 23,908 76 
Rents at Garden ... 500 00 
Interest, discount, &c 886 72 
Sundry receipts 947 13 
Sale of guide books 70 50 
Special relief fund 60G GO 
Sales of animals . . . • 840 00 
Received from the city of Philadelphia through 
the Commissioners of Fairmount Park .... 10,000 00 
$38,359 11 
EXPENDITURES. 
(Exclusive of Permanent Improvements, &c.) 
Salaries and wages $18,081 22 
Office expenses 236 95 
General expenses 16,066 88 
Purchase of animals 3,806 30 
$38,191 35 
Balance to credit of profit and loss 167 76 
$38,359 11 
CAPITAL. 
Receipts and expenditures for the year ending March 1st, 1898. 
RECEIPTS. 
Received from the city of Philadelphia through the Com- 
missioners of Fairmount Park ■ $6,500 00 
EXPENDITURES. 
New monkey house (on account of) . $2,675 00 
Cages ■. . 489 00 
Elk and camel inclosures 825 20 
Elk and camel shelters 378 00 
Extension of buffalo pen 208 08 
Vulcanite walks 2,069 70 
$6,644 98 
Balance (being excess of expenditures over re- 
ceipts of capital and provided from profit and 
loss 144 98 
$6,500 00 
Examined and found correct. 
Samuel G. Dixon, 
Francis W. Lewis, 
Commiltee on Audit. 
HENRY T. COATES, 
Treasurer. 
