The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-07-04
Opening OF The Geological Garden ut
Paramount Park.

The Geological Garden, at Paramount
Park, was opened to the public July, the
list. The grounds comprised in the garden
cover an erea of sixteen acres, and are To-
Gated in the West Park, Immediately south
of the approach to Girard avenue bridge.
The principal entrance to the garden is in
close proximity to the bridge.
The buildings which have been erected
in the garden are as follows: near the main
entrance is a frame building, intended to
be used as refreshment saloon; opposite
this building and to the left of the princi-
pal walk monkey house; just beyond this
the prairie dog village, and further on to
the right of a small rivulet, the aviary
Beyond the aviary, in the neighborhood of
Thirty seventh street, are four enclosures
for foxs, racoons and wolves. At the
southern end of these enclosures is large
barn, and at the northern end a stall has
been erected for the elephant. At the
southern extremity of the barn is situated
another aviary, which is divided into COM
partments for eagles, owls and hawks.
The space on the other bank of the rivulet
is occupied by enclosures, in which are
confined pair of handsome elks, four
Virginia red deer, cotton-tail deer, a
Rocky Mountain deer, black tailed deer,
a Peruvian llama. South of these enclo-
sures are the buffalo stalls, in which are
now two buffaloes.
Further on and at the head of slight
elevation are the bear pits, while west of
these and near the river road is the Penn
Mansion, which was built by Mr.. John
Granville Penn, who imported all the
bricks, wood work, etc, necessary for the
building from England. 1t has been re-
stored to its original condition, and the
front room contains eight aquaria. 1t is
designed ultimately to convert the mansion
into Museum of Natural History. At
present the rooms not used by the Zoologi-
cal Society are occupied by the Superin-
tendent of the garden. Arranged along
the various paths which traverse the gar
den are cages and enclosures in which ami
mails are confined. Among the animals
thus confined are prairie wolf, two
lynxes, two leopards, two ocelots, agouts,
currassows, two of which were presented
by President Grant, squirrels, doves, Cali
fornia quail and fine collection of pigeons
presented by Mr.. Caspar Hett.
The monkey house is handsomely orna-
mented building, and cost $1,000. 1t con-
tains about fifty monkeys of various spe-
cies, among which are small baboon and
a spider monkey. The rivulet which flows
through the garden, widens near the river
road into a pond, which is used for swans;
at the upper or western end of the stream
is an enclosed place for storks, cranes, &c.
The aviary is handsome building built
of brick of different colors, and cost $4,000.
The additional aviary, situated at the south
ern extremity of the lawn, is 40 feet high,
90 feet long and 10 feet deep, and is built
in the form of bee hive.
The bear pits are of stone, so feet long,
20 feet deep, and from - to - feet high.
the western end being terraced to a level
with the wall. There are three pits, each
of which is provided with a pole in the
center for the bears to climb upon, and
tanks filled with water. Each pit has
grated door of iron, through which the
visitors may see the bears. The northern
pit is now occupied by black bear, two
brown bears, and cinnamon bear, the
middle pit by female grizzly bear, and
the southern pit by black bear from
Brigham 9oung's collection, and a black
bear from Western Pennsylvania.
The Garden contains 200 quadrupeds, e.
birds and Is reptiles Among the animals
which have recently arrived at the Garden,
or are now on their way to it, are the fol-
lowing: 2 South Australian wombats, 2
dingos wild dogs, l Tasmanian devil, 2
yellow footed rock wallabys, l Phillip Is
land wallaby, 2 New South Wales wallabys.
4 Yorke's Peninsula kangaroos, 2 red kan
garoos, 5 native cats, ) kangaroo rats
opossum, l flying squirrel, native COM
panions, black swans, magpie geese, 2
Cape Barron geese, 2 wedgetailed eagles,
4 magpies 2 mountain ducks, 2 bald coots,
4 sulphur crested cockatoos, II rose cocka-
toos, IL pink or lead-beater cockatoos, 25
parrakeet cockatoos, GO Victorian rogellas,
Is Northern rogellas, Moreton Bay rogel-
las 10 Port Lincoln parrakeets, ~ ring
mock parrakeets,, 10 Blue Mountain para
keets, II grass parrakeets, 4 elegant par
rakeets, 100 shell parrakeets, II scarlet
tories, king tories or parrots, Victorian
leeks, 6 South Australian leeks, "a zebra
tinches. % diamond sparrows 10 Mauri-
thus cardinals, laughing jackasses, ?
minahs, rails, 3 crested pigeons, > bronze
wing pigeons, 2 moreporks, ! small king
fisher, shrike, 9 kangaroos, 2 common
wallabys, . paradise ducks, Z guinea pigs,
five born in garden, peccary, 3 black
tailed deer, l blue and yellow macaw, 1
fox sqrrel, 2 red squirrels, marmoset
monkeys, white rats, 2 magpies, l hedge
hog, l grizzly bear, 2 cinnamon bears, 3
brown bears, 2 black bears, 1 cross fox,
silver foxes, l prairie wolf, 1 American
wild cat, 2 American Eks, white tailed
deer, bald eagle, 1 golden eagle, red
and blue macaw.
A TERRIBLE THIRTY MINUTES HIS
ToRY.-Mr. Kyle was at a near neighbors'