The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-30
A Visit to the Zoo
q &etgA 90 $50
Cora Della Williams.


1t is fenced in with a great high
fence.
1t has a big sign above the gate with
the word, Zoo
Below the word Zoo 1t reads:
Admission 25 cents. Children IS
cents
1t also has a gatekeeper and
ticketseller, and the gates are strongly
guarded that no one may pass inside
before paying the % cents admission.
1 paid the rs cents and passed
through those strongly-guarded gates,
and then I stopped to take my bear
ings.
Close to the entrance I saw a small
frame building, about four feet high
from the ground with steps leading to
the main floor. I ascended the steps,
but found no one in charge or even in
sight, and I decided to look through the
building on my own guidance. This
building proved to be about fifteen or
twenty feet square, and was more or
about one-fourth of the main floor, was
devoted to about a dozen of various
kinds of nickel-in-the-slot machines.
They read: Your fortune told, 8
| cents; .'Get acquainted with your flu
/ ture husband, 5 cents ETC., etc.
About one-half more of this floor was
devoted to tables and chairs; just what
| was their purpose / do not know,
| They NAV be intended for faro games
or perhaps light refreshments. I was
not able to judge accurately on this
point The other one-fourth space or
this floor had a few chairs, with pair
| of bare. steep. winding stairs leading
up to a floor about eight feet above
and termed a roof garden.
| This roof garden was fioored with tin
and had become rusty with much rain.
and the mud was more or less thick on
it. and it was furnished with just two
| lone wooden chairs. From this roof
garden there was much smaller one
above, reached by stepping about two
| feet to the first step and then scaling
| cleats on an incline until you reached
the floor. This roof garden could not
| accommodate more than two persons at
one time, and it's furnishing Is tall
| poIe fastened to the floor, with some
thing large on the upper end. which
was securely wrapped in gunny sack
| ing.
After finishing my visit to the rool
| garden. I began to look for the ami
mails There being no guide or signs
with directions, 1 decided to follow the
high fence around, that I might not
miss anything. Leaving the roof gar
den house. I started toward the fence
1 that encloses the south side OF the
grounds, and in crossing this space L
recognized back yard to badly-kepe
premises Here old tin cans and JUNK
OF every kind was strewn and piled an
heaps, but I kept on looking for the
animals, and at last was rewarded
by some small wire cages that con-
tanned some monkeys. There were FOUR
cages. of two monkeys each; one Gags
with, squirrel, one with a white RAD
ih;+ and another with a half wildcat.
Then I reached some long. mario"
stalls fenced in with wire netting and
l thicklv covered with grass. You couio
l not see what these stalls held wltnout
going inside, but the cackle OF chick
ems. turkeys and ducks told OF the IN
lhabitants. Then I found PLATFORM
for roller skating, where several small
boys were enjoying themselves, and Q
grass house occupied by a native fam
lily.
| There was a pair OF emu Gan Aus
tralian bird). similar to the crane; one
owl, pair of crows, several parrots
and another lone monkey.
Then there were several yards Oh
Belgian hares, and pigeons and
pigeons, great broods and yards OF
pigeons of all ages from the old to the
squad.
| BY this time 1 had covered the
grounds. but, determined not to mies
anything, 1 decided to go over them
again. and this time I found Japa-
pese house, then a bowling alley anu
a target for wooden ball shooting.
some swans swimming in an eight-fee'
diameter artificial lake, and some SWEEP
potatoes growing in one corner or the
| grounds l still was not satlsneo-
there must be animals somewhere there
land / would not leave until I founo
i them, and I started on another tour OF
the grounds.
This time I found a pen with three
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