Show EN IN THE PARK R 53 YEARS NOW AND NO NEEDS A REST Old Phil Holmes Best fiend of Animals in the Zoo Fears None OFTEN DODGES DEATH on ii the Job by a Suit SuR to Retirement on ona ona ona a Pension 1 i WW l. l the greatest g friend the theIs i Is ls In the Central Park Parl zoo ever eer 1 Us 5 ll ready ah to lo leave leavo his old friends s I vc ye out the rest iest of or his life In rest rest- Ip J p after three fifty years IS of or work lark but th tile they wont won't let him It the animals who ho are opposed tot to t aIng although they ther will be sad rh Ii 11 at his going l hut bUt ut It IH li a curious i yer r v who rho ho wants to be he Instructed on d caning of or the thc law Jaw Phil IhIl was to tood tou u tired od several eral months ago under linder V w la law giving him and other ems cm- cm s of or the city a pension I ier en i- i s of the park who had hadI I forked as long as he were given Ien crease of ot salar salary but bitt no provision pro lade ade for to toPhil Phil for lor the reason he hebe hebe I a be retired on oui a pension penion lon Then Thon I ayer living In Brooklyn n brought d his pension and the suit ings angS fire tire t of things can happen in fifty fifty- years cars and when the tile old man went Prk nbc rIt Sn In Conan Park as a water r t 5 there was war no zoo He was WaR the in the tho menagerie and his lane are re was as that of ot two lions All MI jew ew about animals was what ho earne earned In the care cure of or the cattle and the goats oats on hi hin hiR fathers father's 1 Warm farni her here In th the cit city Now Xo perno pun per i rio no mien man I in ii the whole world knows j about animals and their care Clr 1 rt d to Work lIn n a Do Boy I old bid wits was I went I cam camA into the tho I repeated the old keeper toda today f ia 1 bo boy I ot voted 1 first in 1561 and iy vote voto for tor Lincoln It was wn after Ve 0 started the menagerie The rh contribution to th the tho zoo we got of or lions antI and wo ivo called them In and ann Jennie after the Ir President is lie wife The next nest wo got ot was ns 5 resent sent of ot a pair o of African buffa- buffa i and tand nd we still have their descend descend- I ind nd I think they ar aro to the onT only two I stence tence Those were presented ll ta tie tieT T r Sherman who captured on Gen Con Wade Wl Hampton's Hamptons farm In Inar Inan ar an times A After ler the war warn n Wade c ton and auth his wife 1 paid a visit to tow w o 0 and looked over 01 the tho lions I lined In d them on Oil occasion all and sal said that he lie would take tithe back if It th they w wore were ro in any other but Central park I en en the monkeys began bogan to conic como j else followed follot until now vo va a n. real tcHI one of ot the pst t In the world I know them all alley f ey icy ey all know leno me I r never neer saw the II 1 that I J was waR afraid 0 of and even on 11 8 s lato late daj In- Int I t can handle an any of or fIve e hail had tl fights ht with them them yes CS I wor at th thorn m. m but hut tho the only timo time I ot 01 Teall realla- badly hurt hurl was as In m my r Tip the elephant 4 Int nt Know Knorr Tip Ih IN Angry and I wore v always good friend friends was wag ugly ugh that tha t fla day and 2nd It wa was I rn n hi fault that I didn't know It I with animals tells you ou S. S thC th y ha i hav-i A twist on Animals Q O e men They have their good OO nd lid t their 1 lr lad bad ones But Tip Ilp was Ick c Ic for tor m mo that day and got ot me m chest chet with his hh tusks and broke lbs IbM rho Tho doctors told mo me to be ber r 5 ant and n nevor r get ct a cold on m my Fut Iut how are you going to stop things ings I have a n cold on my I 01 ow 0 handled bulls and buffaloes and nil Mill I TI fin find that the bet wn way to them ithem f H Is with v kindness Of ot some ROm of or them will trench trench- just like men That's what hap hap- Tip Outside of ot that hut f en nr n- n l 1 r the toughest KO mo o I had was with ii about hout two months month ago aKo o when wa wai hurt I believe bolle that mid have ha boen been killed that tha t time 5 lime me We C were loading cl the gnu one ne apartment of ot th the cage engo to r and each h had d hold of ot a 1 horn born 1 made lade a n. lunge with hl hlll his hoi horn n u ht him in th- th leg I held on nn s d k about tin cn cage n until t t. IW h his hitz fN fet t. t and gained another t Lh gnu wL M tas 41 Iced d that t day but for tOI me rue would have t J. J e killed Bill all right But he would have to have got me too I r can cnn handle them all to today a just a awell as aswell well as over oven On only I when I get get a turn It takes longer to it get over Oel The flue shaking up I got grot from CrOm the gnu lasted several day days a II In the old days das a n. thing thing- like liko that wouldn't affect mo me more than a it couple of or minutes Ive I've seen them all come com and go o ond and nd have stayed up ui all night with a sick animal I never will get et over aver m my fondness A for them anti and when whon I do get ct through if ir the they ever el let me I will s always come conic around aroun to look book them over The bc best t frIendships friendships friend frIend- ships I ever had bind were tere thoDe with tho tito animals here In the tho-Hoo tho Zoo cw Now York World |