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...York Zoological Park shelters within its comfortable old Bronx plant the finest collections of animals in the world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars. Not the least of many good things to be said about him is that he has written eight books about his work and has seldom foisted on his public an uninteresting word. Dr. Ditmars' friend, William Bridges, is the zoo's gift to Manhattan newspapers. Mr. Bridges is the zoo's Curator of Publications, and it is a dull day when...
...Ditmars and Mr. Bridges respectively. Most zoo animals nowadays are caught by and bought from professional collectors who make a business of knowing just what each zoo needs and how much it can pay. Stocking a zoo is largely a matter of purchasing good show specimens. Occasionally, however, the Bronx zoo will commission a man to go on a trip to get an especially rare animal. Frank Buck was sent for an Indian rhino, Robert L. Garner was sent for a gorilla...
...week, a 57-year-old WPA house painter used a grasshopper in a bottle to lure a 4-year-old child to a shack in a marsh where he attacked her, strangled her, and then left her dead under a 50-lb. lump of brick and mortar. In The Bronx it was discovered that nine little girls aged 9 to 12 had been voluntarily submitting to indecencies at the hands of a 56-year-old plumber and a garage proprietor, 64. In Brooklyn, a 37-year-old ex-convict, only seven months out of Sing Sing where he had been...
...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
Last week Dr. Blair and Congo arrived in Manhattan, sped up to The Bronx where Congo was put into a quarantined cage until 15 days prove he has no hoof & mouth disease. He kicked up his heels, seemed in fine fettle, enjoyed a nice mess of elm leaves. One of only four okapis in captivity.* Congo discovered his next-door neighbor was Doreen, the bongo, a rare West-African antelope that, until his arrival, was the zoo's most valuable specimen. Commented Dr. Blair, "Oh. her nose doesn't seem much out of joint...