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Show ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Some of the happy people of this world who live near Central Park, New York, object to the menagerie located there. The odors arising from a menagerie are extremely disagreeable, but much can be done to prevent an excess of odors. Central Cen-tral Park is of more value to New York as a health invigorator than all the rest of her valuable land. One of the great attractions in the Park is the menagerie. It is a great source of pleasure to thousands thou-sands and thousands of people, and the educational value of a zoological garden cannot be overestimated. Such a garden must be systematically arranged, ar-ranged, and in it there must be the same attention to detail and arrangement that there is in an anatomical museum. It may not be desirable de-sirable to have a zoological garden in Central Park, but it is highly desirable to have one in New York. At the present time New York is discussing the question, ques-tion, and the probabilities are that the menagerie will be removed from the Park but that New York will have a genuine zoological garden worthy the name and worthy of comparison with the great zoological gardens of London and Paris. Philadelphia takes the lead in this country coun-try in the matter of zoological gardens. - |