The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-11
Herman LOeffel Promises
Mayor He Will Obtain
Birds for the Park.
CHAS MOEDER MAY GET
LIVE DEER FROM TEXAS
One Man Offers Eagle To Park
Many Zoo Animals
Available.

The Fairgrounds Park will be the
home Of two swans as soon as the
weather becomes warm enough for
them to be kept outdoors regularly.
Herman Loeffel, building contractor,
last night annuonced that he expects
to furnish the swans. The promise
was made to Mayor Kage and the
proper arrangements to care for the
graceful birds will be made this spring.
Mr.. Loefelspronise was made whcn
heIearned that the Fairgrounds Park
had been taken over by the City yes
terday afternoon, and simultaneously,
the Mayor discussed plans for the fu-
ture of the park.
Interest in the Zoo as one Of the
principal features Of the park has be-
come active in recent weeks and the
Mayor has received many offers of
animals. Many business men in the
Cape have made offers to furnish ami
mails for the Zoo and many farmers
living throughout the county have read
of the Zoo plans in The Tribune and
have spoken to the Mayor, offering ma
tive wild animals that they have trap
ped.
81 think that one thing to make the
Fairgrounds a real park would be to
have q couple cf s-"ans at home on
the bosom of the little lakes there"
Herman Loeffel said. "They can keep
themselves and it would be very lit
tie work to look after them. The
only thing to be guarded against in
my opinion, would be to see that none
of our amateur or enterprising hunts
men go out there and shoot them"
1t is quite probable, the Mayor de-
clared, that the City will be able to
obtain a couple of deer from Texas.
Charles Moeder, who returned from
Big Wells and other Texas points last
week, recently told the Mayor that his
son, who is located in Texas, may be
able to furnish the City with deer
for the park.
There is law against shipping
them out of the state, Mr.. Moeder
said, but his son declared that he be-
lieves if the dee" are to be used
for park purposes, the shipment would
be allowed by the state authorities.
Mr.. Moeder told the Mayor that the
deer in certain parts of Texas are
slaughtered and left to lie on the
ground without the venison even being
taken care Of.
A farmer living near the Cape sew
eral days ago called upon the Mayor
to offer to sell to the City bald eagle,
which had been trapped in the hills in
the northwestern part of the county.
Several offers of possums and coons
have been made as well as foxes and
other animals that live in this section
of Missouri.
The Mayor last night declared that
the plans for widening the street
along West Broadway from the Boule-
ward to the City Limits, skirting the
southern boundary line of the park,
will be carried to a conclusion at an
early date. A new fence will be
erected in place of the high board
fence that now is in place and the
work of improving the interior of the
park will be done by landscape gard
ener.
''The City will have to employ a
man who is expert in the knowledge
of landscape making" the Mayor said,
"and it will be economy to get good
man who will know what to do with
the natural advantages We have in our
park. Now that We have the Fair
grounds park in our possession, the
City shall endeavor to make it a place
that people from all parts of South
east Missouri will come to view"