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AN AMERICAN ''Zoo"-RUNNISG IT INTO TIE
GEoTSD-THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR.
NEW NopE Oct IL 1879

AN AMERICAN ''zoo"-RUNNING IT INTO TIE
GEOTND-THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR.
NEW York, Oct Is, 1879.
| To the Editor Of the Free Press AMI Times
We are shortly to boast a new attraction
in the way Of Geological Gardens which are
to eclipse the famous popular resorts where
the lords of creation make themselves ac-
| quainted with wild and curious birds. beasts.
reptiles and fishes, in London, Paris or Der
lin. The Universal Conservatory and Zoo
logical Garden Company" have bought sc
acres OF ground between 1a5th and 10th
streets, st. Nicholas avenue and the Harlem
river, within view of High Bridge and the
Croton Aqueduct. Engineers and artists
have been engaged to lay out the grounds,
and small army of workmen will shortly
be carrying out their instructions. Besides
beautiful gardens and the Enclosures for the
animals, there will be i lake and island, an
arcade for stores of all kinds, restaurants,
billiard halls, bowling alleys, Swiss cottages
and other attractions innumerable. In fact,
it seems determined to draw all the people to
the north end of Manhattan Island next
year, and away from Coney Island The
results probably will I've that both will be
largely patronzed.
The OLeary walking match did not make
the sensation that the one before it did. The
bulletin boards of the daily papers, round
which great crowds gathered at the last
match, have been deserted, except by small
tlrNrn Of, ThA Nfais1 Of
hppodroming. with all that the term implies
raised by the short track last time, Rowells
alleged illness by poisoning and other SINH
lar incidents (some of themOst famous of the
men having broken down very early in the
struggle), have had much to do with the
growing distaste among respectable people
for such performances. In homely phrase,
the thing has been run into the ground, and
the inquiry is made whether this squirting on
a fellow creature to eXertionS that would kill
horse is much less brutal than a good old
fashioned prize fight, where the combatantS'
countenances would be mashed to a Jelly,
but the agony was very much shorter.
Two dreadful cases of dental malprac
ticc have just resulted fatally. In the
one case, the captain of canal
boat had his tooth extracted so unskilfully,
and the bleeding so carelessly stopped, that
it broke out afresh and could not he checked.
The poor fellow bled to death. In the other
case, a well-known citizen Of Brooklyn, by
the name Of Gardiner, who had been treated
for tOothache by dentist in Boston, and an
other in New York, the treatment consisting
it is believed, in the umskilful insertion of a
plug or pointed pencil of arsenic, suffered,
according to the statements of the physicians
who attended him, the most awful death
that ever came to n man. spare you the
unpleasant details. Something so appalling
has naturally excited wide interest, and a
warm controversy is now going on in the
papers. There is no doubt many so-called
dentists are shamefully ignorant of anything
beyond the mere mechanics of the profess
sion. OF course, it is not fair to jump to
the conclusion that all dentists are quacks.
Another case of an employee turned thief
has come to light. The man was the actual,
though not nominal, manager of large UNI
brela manufacturing house. He quietly
walked of with $4,000, which he had APP
propriated during term of years. He had
been specializing, another common weakness
of such gentry.
The crushed worm has turned at last
viciouisly on the police, and Capt. Williams
is at this moment again under trial with the
likelihood of getting a little the worst of the
present encounter. He is charged with as
saulting and using gross language to a re-
porter. Another officer of the less exalted
grade of patrOlman has been found in dam
ages to the sum of $4,000 for false arrest
In this case, too, it was newspaper man he
unwarily fell across. An editor with lady.
whom he was escOrting from the opera, were
humming snatchcs of the music. The po-
liceman ordered them to stop, and outrage
ously insulted the lady. The gentleman
demonstrated and was arrested and locked
up all night, and discharged the next morn
ing. Policeman Radnus will now he locked
up unless he forks over
The fashion writers tells us we are again
to be afflicted with the miseries to eyes and
shins of hoopskirts. Ladies dresses have
really been very becoming the last two |
years, and why dressmakers will insist on |
inventing forms of ugliness to be worn for |
fashions sake by everyone is lone of them |
things no fellow can understand" The |
latest craze of the young and lovely is to |
meander through the streets with broad belts |
of coarse canvas or webbing with Bride |
leather straps and iron buckles, for all the
world like the surcingle of Il saddle!
The American Institute Fair which form !
ally opened short time arn is now in |
full swing, and really looks better than |
ever before. 1t is one of the oldest of our |
institutions, and the father of the eminently |
successful fairs held so widely all over the |
for since our manufacturers have |
invaded Mexico and the Brazilians are going |
TO hold Il permanent fair at Rio de Janeiro |
under the immediate patronage of the En-
Deror, we may fairly admit our neighbors
south of our frontier to a share of the credit
Tor enterprise all America should enjoy.
Yours ID,