Evening star., 1936-03-28

allow for that in planning acoustical
treatment for animal houses.
He has to be interested in the Zoos
visitors-Senator Borah daily caller.
those four old soldiers, two Yankees,
two Rebels, who come each day except
for three weeks in the Summer when
two go vacationing in New England
and two in the Carolinas, the young
sters who ride out on their bicycles.
He was born in 1886 He's not very
tall, wears casual looking clothes but
a very nice, new gray hat, has a small
mustache. temperamental hair that
twists about a bit as it wants to, q
twinkle in the eyes, quiet voice tell
ing story after story, informal. friendly,
comfortable and stimulating He
doesn't seem learned-he just knows.
Yet he is member of the Vivarium
Society, the Entomology Society. Orni-
thology Society, ParasitologistS Society,
Ichthyologists Society. Herpetologists
Society and Mammalogists Society.
Who's Who swears to it. And he
likes moonlight picnics in the deserted
Zoo grounds.
The day we picked to follow him
about was a Spring-like one and we
didn't see an animal until almost noon.
A T THE moment his greatest pets
are things of steel and concrete
the new buildings going up at the
Zoo, a great new pachyderm house
240 feet by I04, now just bare, orange
red steel framework against the sky.
but by Christmas home for elephants.
rhinos, giraffes: a new house for small!
mammals, which will have a rodent
room decorated with an aluminun
silhouette of Mickey Mouse, if Or.
Mann has his way an addition to the
bird house, which will feature glass
cages for tropical birds and Arctic
ones at the proper temperatures IN
the same room, and a new workship
and technical buildings.
He has dreamed about these build
ings for SO many years that he goes
about patting the steel girders and
beaming at ironworkers and just ach
ing to hear riveting machines. He
walks past the gorgeously colored COL
der pheasants without glance, ak
ing about the cement fioorings that
vii. be poured tomorrow or the next
day.
So logically enough, architects, and
not animals, are the first things on the
books today. The early-morning in
spection is foregone. He goes directly
to his Office in an old house, built in
1904, once manor of the estate With
is now the Zoo. 1t has political m
doisements of "Old Hickory" scratched
on its windowpanes. DR.. Mann's lit
tie room is crowded with books reach
ing to the ceiling on one wall, animal
books and animal pictures on the
other wall, a pet paradise fish in its
private aquarium, a desk and q busy
telephone.
The two architects-a tall one and
a short one, but both with blueprints,
arrive. The discussion today Is prin-
cipally about the decorations for the
new buildings. The architects think
perhaps the Mickey Mouse is a little
frivolous. Dr. Mann thinks Mickey's
a classic, and Walt Disney has sent
him some sketches to use if he wants
them. But the real business Is con-
cerned with the great pachyderm
house. Here Dr.. Mann wants alum |
mum silhouettes Of the ancient pachg |
derms, the Tftanotheres, the Uinta- |
there's, the four-tusked elephant, tie
the ancestors of the present |
and rhinos, the unbelievably |
huge animals of the ages. The archi-
tects admit that they couldn't make
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