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he entered into this campaign, and the splendid 

 success of his labors. It would be impossible 

 to say too much in praise of his continuous ef- 

 forts to preserve order in the Park, and to ren- 

 der every portion of our grounds tiioroughly safe 

 for women and children. 



The results were immediate and very gratify- 

 ing. Within a month the amount of waste 

 paper, fruit skins and lunch boxes thrown upon 

 the walks and lawns, and under benches, dimin- 

 ished about seventy-five per cent. Within two 

 months the decrease amounted to about ninety- 

 five per cent, of the original total ; and all this 

 without the mahing of even one arrest! It was 

 found necessary, however, to prohibit absolute- 

 ly all persons from sitting or lying upon the 

 grass, for the reason that it was found quite im- 

 possible to prevent such persons from leaving 

 rubbish behind them. Owing to the presence of 

 300 park benches within our grounds, it is not 

 at all necessary for anyone to lounge upon the 

 grass. 



Last year, on every Monday morning the Park 

 was a disgraceful sight, and it required the labor 

 of ten men until about two o'clock in the after- 

 noon to gather up the rubbish. Now, by ten 

 o'clock on Monday mornings, four men make the 

 Park thoroughly clean and presentable. What 

 is still more important, the Park is clean during 

 nearly the whole of Sunday, instead of becom- 

 ing by noon of that day a distressing scene of 

 disorder under foot. 



An important lesson has been learned. It has 

 been clearlj' observed by many persons, that the 

 disorderly period attracted disorderly crowds! 

 When the reform was fully established, the dis- 

 orderly element seemed to withdraw, and go 

 elsewhere, and there followed a great influx of 

 visitors of a better class, who believe in law and 

 order, and prefer to go only where they can 

 enjoy cleanliness! 



Our warfare has received from the best ele- 

 ment in New York, constant encouragement. 

 We have on file many letters connnending our 

 efforts, and wishing us success. Beyond ques- 

 tion, the people of this city pay for, and are en- 

 titled to, clean streets and clean parks! Those 

 who disgrace New York by strewing rubbish 

 broadcast, in spite of warnings, should be stern- 

 ly dealt with. Our streets still are garnished, 

 in the gutters, with waste paper ; and the bad 

 habit that leads to it should be taken in hand 

 by the Police Department, and broken up. The 

 first step should be the posting of about 5,000 

 warnings, printed on linen, as an educational 

 effort. The laws on the subject are ample. 

 The unhindered throwing of rubbish in streets 

 and in parks promotes a spirit of lawlessness 



and disorder that easily leads to more serious 

 offenses. In view of all that this city is spend- 

 ing and doing for the comfort and pleasure of 

 the people, the lawless ten per cent, should be 

 forced to obey the laws of decency and good 

 order. W. T. H. 



TWO SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



In the last issue of the Bulletin, subscrip- 

 tions amounting to .$3,510 for the special animal 

 fund were acknowledged. It now affords us 

 much pleasure to report the receipt of a sub- 

 scription of $500 from Mr. Nelson Robinson, 

 which brings the total up to $K010, and quite 

 fulfils the expectations under which a fund of 

 $1.,000 was asked for. 



We also gratefully acknowledge a special sub- 

 scription of $'■250 from Mrs. Frank K. Sturgis, 

 to be devoted to tlie experiments of Mr. C. Will- 

 iam Beebe, Curator of Birds, in the practical de- 

 termination of the influences affecting the colors 

 of birds. It will be remembered that Mr. 

 Beebe's paper on "Geographic Variations in 

 Birds with Especial Reference to the Effects of 

 Humidity" was published by the Society as Vol. 

 I, Number 1, of "Zoologica," and among orni- 

 thologists generall}' it created a profound sen- 

 sation. 



MISNAMING OF THE ZOOLOGICAL 

 PARK. 



Thanks to the persistent efforts of a few men 

 in this city, the New York Zoological Park is 

 now called by the newspapers of the United 

 States generally "Bronx Zoo," "Bronz Zoo," 

 "Bronx Park Zoo," and other combinations equal- 

 ly offensive. We cannot felicitate our friends 

 on having made the corrupted name of an an- 

 cient Dutchman greater than that of the city that 

 has given the people of this wliole nation a first 

 rank zoological park. It is extremely desirable 

 that the Zoological Park should be called by its 

 right name, and we invite all of the many friends 

 and admirers of the Park to cooperate with us 

 in suppressing the extremely inappropriate and 

 ill-sounding names cited above. Our citizens 

 should all be proud that the name "Zoo" is inap- 

 propriate, if only because the Park is planned 

 on a scale which so far exceeds tliat of any other 

 civic collection in the world. 



The attendance at the Aquarium has already 

 passed the two million mark. This year will 

 far exceed any previous year in this respect. 

 Labor Day brought over 21,000 visitors. 



