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Show SXARVAT-I6N0E-Z00:S-ANIMALS CHARGED BY FORMER EMPLOYE I I ! I III v t. A.V 1 H S.' S Wm J 1 . i I 'V' ".'in t! -t ( I L v- ys i I'lM "Vic-- ASSERTEDLY THIRST-MADDENED COYOTES . u ' They scratch and chew oa ice in dry water pan. - 1 r . . - TIBER TY PARK SWAN " - : Dead two weeks beside a pond. t ' Removal of Director Shider Demanded in Note to Mayor Filth and Hunger Stalk Cages and Pens in Hogle Gardens, Accuser Says Cnarges animals at Hogle Gardens zoo are starving in filthy cages and recommendation! that E. M. (Dutch) Shider be "fired" as zoo director, were made before city commissioners Tuesday by Joe Arcarig. discharged zoo employe. The accusations, contained In a letter to Mayor E. B. Erwin and city commissioners, were referred to Commissioner P. H. Goggin of the parks department, as officials of the Salt Lake City Humana society, began an Investigation of the allegations. alle-gations. In the letter, which Mr. Arcaris read to commissioners, hs charged that: "All carnlveroua animals are suffering suf-fering Intensely from hunger. Many of them are plainly sick. Cages are in a filthy condition . . . Elk. deer, buffalo, sebu, a llama and a goat are forced to eat snow for wster . . . At least 10 animals, 60 ducks, one peacock, three sparrowhawks and four geese have died of neglect since E. M. (Dutch) Shider, assumed as-sumed directorship. "In my opinion," the letter continued, con-tinued, "and for the sake of the animals, Mr. Shider should be relieved re-lieved of his duUes as soo director and a man put In his placs who is competent There la only one other alternative, elimination of the soo entirely. If neither alternaUve Is taken, the too will eliminate Itself as more animals die." Commissioner Goggin termed the accusations "just words of a discharged, dis-charged, disgruntled employe who waa always quarreling with Mr. Shider. That's why he was fired." "I'm happy to say," Mr. Goggin told commissioners, "the soo looked better Sunday than I've aver seen It" Mr. Arcaris said he "argued" with Mr. Shider because of the tatter's alleged neglect of animals. Mayor Erwin auggested that the (Continued on Pair EtKBt) (Column Four) I ZOO CHARGES 1 AREJIURLED (CoatloiMd frost Pass Oh) letter be referred to th oommltte at th whole "so I can send a vatarir nary up there to investigate." The letter was rsfsrrsdTTo thpark department, however, on motion of Commissioner Georg -D. Keyser, after Mr. Coggin declared that Dr. J. E. Parker, a veterinarian, "goes up there once each month and his last report said th animals were in good condition." Although humane society officials, after a survey of the soo Tuesday, , did not agree that all animals were la "good condition," and said they found evidence herbivorous animals war forced to eat now for water, they withheld any recommendations oa th situation "until a meeting of th board of directors, possibly next week." Mrs. John W. Hyslop, society president, pres-ident, and Dr. Jean C Flint, veterinarian veteri-narian and society member, visited th soo. Cage Inspected Mrs. Hyslop and Dr. Flint admitted ad-mitted they found many cages filthy, some snimsls apparently undernourished un-dernourished and that coyotes, maddened mad-dened by thirst, were chewing on ice In their water pan la an attempt at-tempt to drink. Mr. Arcaris, who told commissioners commis-sioners "any questions you wish to ask, ask me now, because I'm leaving leav-ing the city shortly to Join a circus as an animal trainer," said snow In the bottoms of watering trough Indicated In-dicated no water had been placed In them for weeks. I Hs also claimed that the soo personnel per-sonnel is "woefully inadequate ... it is a physical Impossibility for two men... to maintain the soo as it should be, especially in winter time, when water must be hauled by hand to animals." During the humane society's investigation in-vestigation officials visited animals snd fowl at Liberty park, where they reported finding a dead swan lying beside a pond. An employe, they said, told them ths swan had been dead two weeks and had not been removed from where it died. Charge Made Mr. Arcaris also charged that bear pit floors are thick with ice, snow and filth, and lack water, that monkey oag screens are "coated with filth ... the talis of the ring-tailed ring-tailed monkies ars lacerated from being chewed on by Manguby monkies mon-kies in a neighboring cage ... one monkey's tail Is infected , another an-other has a abscessed Jaw. "Three lions havs had to be destroyed de-stroyed because of sickness resulting result-ing from undernourishment and lack of exercise . . , bones, garbage and manurs ar piled high around th elephant house. The stench In the house Itself Is repugnant. "Glaring examples of mismanagement mismanage-ment at the soo are apparent everywhere every-where ... practically every animal in ths soo is suffering from some ailment or other." Mr. Arcaris claimed that one spar-rowhawk, spar-rowhawk, maddened by hunger, killed and ate another sparrow-hawk sparrow-hawk and that owls ats pheasants. |
