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HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION 



AMERICAN BISON BULL IN THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The people of New York looked at the quality 

 of the work, and saw that it was good. In fact, 

 the public was surprised, both by the magnitude 

 of tlie plan, and the permanence of all improve- 

 ments. Then the City of New York cheerfulh' 

 joined the Society in the remainder of the work. 

 The Society of course was given absolute control 

 of the Park, it furnished all plans, and virtually 

 superintended all improvement work. The 

 Park Department has stood in a position to safe- 

 guard all the interests of the taxpaj'ers, and has 

 awarded and superintended all large contracts 

 for construction. Throughout eleven years of 

 rushing improvement business, involving nearly 

 a hundred contracts, great and small, the busi- 

 ness of financing and building the Zoological 

 Park has gone steadily on, without a single 

 halt or an unpleasant episode between the rep- 

 resentatives of the City and the Society. In 

 their turn. Mayors Strong, Van Wyck, Low and 

 McClellan, and Comptrollers Fitch, Coler, 

 Grout and Metz have cordially cooperated in 

 the work. The Park Department of the Bronx 

 has been most helpful, and we recall with par- 

 ticular pleasure the cooperation of the three 



long-term Commissioners, Moebus, Eustis and 

 Berry, and their Chief Engineer and Chief 

 Clerk, Martin Schenck and Gunther K. Acker- 

 mann. 



While it is impossible to mention here even 

 one-tenth of the generous people who for ten 

 years or more have loyally supported the Zoo- 

 logical Society in all its undertakings, there are 

 a few whom we must name, regardless of sjaace 

 limitations. 



The members of the Executive Committee, the 

 majority of whom have given the Society liberal 

 sums of money, have already been mentioned. 



We have received substantial aid from An- 

 drew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, William C. 

 Whitney, Jacob H. Schiff, Oswald Ottendorfer, 

 Miss Helen Miller Gould, C. P. Huntington, 

 William E. Dodge, George J. Gould, J. Pier- 

 pont Morgan, Col. Oliver H. Payne, Mrs. Fred- 

 eric Ferris Thompson, Robert Goelet, George F. 

 Baker, Edward J. Berwind, Frederick G. Bourne, 

 Charles F. Dieterich, Emerson McMillin, F. 

 Augustus Schermerhorn, John D. Rockefeller, 

 William D. Sloane, Mrs. John B. Trevor, Mrs. 

 Antoinette Eno Wood, William K. Vanderbilt. 



