Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-12 | Page 1 | Zoo Animals Drink Again as City Pays

ZOO ANIMAlS DRINK AGAIN AS CITY PAYS Commissioners Into So Menagerie KEEPER PUT ON SPOT Salt Lake Officials Tangle With Society Animals at Hogle Gardens zoo had fresh city water to drink again Thur Thursday Thurs Thurs- day thanks to the good Samaritans of Salt Lakes Lake's city fathers Unwilling to see the n nearly arly ani mals thirst because of a delinquent delinquent delin quent water bill which led lcd the wa va- terl department to turn off the supply Wednesday day the city commission Thursday dug out of the munI cipal tre treasury ury to provIde adequate water for tor the menagerie But while the monkeys the lions Hons I the tigers and the zoos zoo's pachyderm Princess Alice quaffed to their hearts heart's content conten controversy flared anew between city officials and the Salt Lake Zoological society opera tors of the menagerIes with the following fol fol- lowIng developments 1 Mayor Louis Marcus demanded the resignation of Captain Ralph D. D McCollin zoo superintendent 2 2 Captain McCollin saId he wouldn't resign 3 Robert Murray Stewart president I dent of the zoological society said he hel would not ask for the captains captain's rca res Igna ignation tion Will Release Animals Mayor Marcus sought the zoo keepers keeper's keep keep- ers er's r resignation ignation after he h had d been informed in in- formed of Capt Captain in McC McCollins McCollin's threat to release all the than see seC them suffer suffer of water ater af a- ter the city shut off the supply Wed Wed- ne day because or of the unpaid bill billowed billowed owed by the zoological society The city commission backed up the mayor by unanimous unanimously pa passing a resolution res res- requesting the zoological society so ciet to force the zoo keepers keeper's nation Anyone who makes a 1 statement such as is attributed to Captain Mc Collin should hould not be employed by any public or semipublic group Ma Mayor or Marcus saidI said I J will not request Captain McCol McCol- Un Ito to resIgn Robert Murra Murray Stewart Continued on Pate Pare Three e ANIMALS IN ZOO DRINKING AGAIN Continued front Pace One president of the zoological society declared de de- der dared flatly as soon as he heard o othe of r the city commissions commission's The captain is isone one ot of the best ani mat mal men in the country and has beer been S working from early till late sever seven sevenda's I days das a week to make the zoo n a sue suc cess When he said he would turn tori I the animals loose he meant the range rang creatures like the deer It is foolish I to h he meant to turn the lions S loose Keeper Wont ont Resign Captain McCollin reiterated hi his hit stand Thursday and said aid he would no not t resign When I said I would turn the animals ani ani- mats mals loose I meant only those which could take care of oC themselves in the thi hills and w would uld not endanger the pub pub- lie hc he saId Waterworks CommissIoner George Georg C I D. D Keyser Keser who Wednesday ordered the zoo water supply shut off Thurs Thur day asked the city commission to se set I aside to cover the zoo water bill bil 1 of already owing as well as Iu ture bills The commissioners unanimously approved a resolution placing the thi funds under the control of the cit city auditor and providing that the water wate r must be used only to water animals animal S Sand and not for The The city vili not be forced Into I givIng water free to animals when it has to question the advisability of I similar gifts to humans Mayor Marcus Mar Mar- cus said Plan Printe System Zoo officials meanwhile were proceeding pro pro- with plans to own water system CaptaIn McCollin and Mr Stewart met Thursday with several sev sev- eral pump company representatives to discuss plans to utilize water from the old Wagner Brewing company spring one and a half miles east cast of Hogle Gardens A gallon 60 per minute flow from this spring already is piped to within feet of our pipes in the zoo Cap Cap- tam tain McCollin said Despite the captains captain's threat to release reo re- lease the animals animals' late Wednesday rather than s see them suffer from lack of water only the elk were released from their enclosure The They drank from the Emigration canyon eanon stream and returned meekly to their runway Princess Mice Alice zoo elephant was led to the creek Zoo attendants labored with buckets buck buck- ets ets carrying water from the creek to the lions and other animals