The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-23
HEY There, KIDS!
CLEN'S COIN TO
Get SOME MONKS
Arrival Of Springtime Brings
Annual Awakening OF In
habitants of Park Zoo.
Get ready, kiddies!

Get ready, kl0Qles!
Ed. Hollarn, superintendent of Glen
Miller park, has letter from M. K.
Barnett in New York City saying that
a cargo of monkies from South Amer
lea is expected to dock In few days.
If these monkies aren't too high priced
four of them are coming straight out
to Glen Park Zoo.
When the monkies arrive their first
business will be to shoe out the
raccoons, who have been occupying the
monkey cage since all the funny
ones" burned 4 the greenhouse hre
the tenth of February, year ago. VI
course another abode will be rented
for the raccoon family, and Superin-
tendent Hollarn is undecided whether
to secure them an upper apartment or
bungalow for the summer. =
There's Rex and Rexall
But monkies aren't all. Rex, Rexall
and Nellie, whom you've been admir-
ing for a good many seasons, are set
ting up housekeeping again this year
in the bear pit following their winter
Information. Nellie, If you remember,
is about seven years old now. Mr..
Hollarn raised her from cub, ana
she's mighty fond Of the kiddies. Mel
when so small she could not walk. She
is no relation to brother and sister
Rex and Rexall, who were trapped IN
the Rocky Mountains They were
caught by a brother of Howard Tipp
of Greenville, O. Mr. Tipp kept them
at his drug store in Greenville for
some time as an advertisement, and
when they got too big to be strictly
society mixers and nothing more, he
gave them to the Glen Zoo. They are
all native black bears of the Rockies
Have you noticed that Wichita coy
ote who has no tail? There is
tragedy connected with that loss. In
the next cage to "Wichita"-for that's
| her name, too-there are five wild
coyotes. Wichita is not wild, and for
| getting that she had wild neighbors,"
she one day carelessly allowed her
handsome tail to droop into the resi-
/ dence next door, Since then she hasn't
| had any tail.
BaIdy Isn't Vicious.
| Old Baldface, the eagle, is screen
| ing again this year. All the children
| know that old Baldy isn't half as mean
as he tries to make everyone believe,
| and occasionally he proves it by drop
ping a gorgeous tail feather within
reach of his young visitors. 1t is al
together probable that this eagle has
as much life before him as slightly
I belated debutante, for he's only a
/ might past twenty-five, and eagles live
to be forty or fifty years old. Baldy
has been in the Glen zoo for fifteen
years, coming here when a mere child
of ten years.
Has anyone some names to suggest
for the Red Foxes captured about a
week ago, and which are going to
grace a house in the zoo this year!
They haven't been named yet, but Mr.
Hollarn says they are "just as cute
and tame as kittens" Besides that
he is keeping them up at his home In
the park, where he feeds all four ot
J them warm milk three times day
and where he will be delighted te
show them to any visitors who want
to see real baby red foxes" Twenty
> FIVE or thirty visitors called on the
young family in Mr.. Hollarn's home
} last Sunday. He keeps them dowr
} in the cellar by the furnace in order
that they may keep warm.
No Prairie Dogs Yet.
No prairie dogs have been secured
this year, but over in the cage ives
. of the main driveway there is a fam
J lily of white rabbits which have al
ready made a number of friends
For the kiddies all the playground
apparatus is again to be set up thi'
year. Several slides, baby and larg'
swings, teeter-totters and giant strides
will be in evidence over the play
ground section back of the pavilion
which has already opened up unde
J the management of Frank Williams
Ten thousand more plants hav'
been put out recently in the Glen, Su
perintendent Hollarn said today. Grea
!. beds of tulips and pansies are now II
q bloom at the corner Of Twenty -secon'
a and Main, the southwest corner of tn
v park ground.
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