PARK POLICING 



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2. No person shall give or offer or attempt to give 

 to any animal under the care of the Zoological Society 

 of Philadelphia within the park limits any tobacco or 

 other noxious article or anything prohibited to be given 

 to animals by printed notices conspicuously posted 

 within the Zoological Garden. 



Personal Regulations 



1. No person shall enter or leave the parks except 

 by the entrances provided for the purpose. 



2. No person shall stand or lie down on a bench or 

 seat in the parks. 



3. No person shall enter a retiring house set apart 

 for the use of the opposite sex. 



4. No person shall climb any tree or break, cut down, 

 trample upon or remove or in any manner injure or 

 deface any statue, ornament, tree, plant, shrub, fern, 

 flower, flower bed, turf or any of the buildings, fences, 

 bridges or other constructions within the parks; nor 

 shall any person write on any building, structure, fence, 

 rock or stone within the parks, or pick or carry away 

 any fern or flower, except violets, buttercups, daisies 

 or dandelions. 



5. No person shall remove, disturb, interfere with 

 or take any of the blossoms or fruit growing upon any 

 tree, shrub or bush in the parks. 



6. No person shall in any wise injure or foul any 

 fountain or spring within the parks. 



7. No person shall carry firearms or shoot birds in 

 the parks, or within fifty yards thereof, or throw 

 stones or other missiles therein. 



8. No person shall annoy, strike, injure, maim or 

 kill any animal, either running at large or confined in 

 a close, in the parks. 



9. No person shall disturb the fish or water fowl in 

 the streams, pools or ponds, or birds, nests or eggs in 

 any part of the parks. 



10. No person shall go in to bathe within the parks, 

 except at such places as may be designated by the 

 commissioners. 



11. When ice on the river or lakes becomes unsafe, 

 the park guards will warn all persons thereon to leave 

 by sounding their whistles, or otherwise, and all persons 

 shall promptly leave the ice. 



12. No person shall sell or expose for sale any tickets 

 of any kind in the parks. 



13. No person shall solicit alms or subscriptions in 

 the parks. 



14. No person shall solicit permission to photograph 

 visitors or take the photograph of any person or persons 

 without their consent. 



15. No gathering or meeting of any kind, assembled 

 through advertisement, shall be permitted in the parks 

 without the previous permission of the commission; nor 

 shall any gathering or meeting for political purposes be 

 permitted in any circumstances. 



16. No person shall have any musical, theatrical or 



other entertainment therein without the license of the 

 commission. 



17. No person shall sell or expose any article for 

 sale within the parks without the previous license of 

 the commission. 



1 8. No person shall take the ice from any stream or 

 lake within any park without the previous license of 

 the commission. 



19. No carrousel, swing or like amusement device 

 shall be operated in the parks on Sunday. 



20. No threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent 

 language or any conduct that may annoy others shall 

 be allowed in the parks. 



21. No gaming or any obscene or indecent act shall 

 be allowed in the parks. 



22. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold within the 

 parks. 



23. No person shall discharge any fireworks in the 

 parks without the previous license of the commission. 



24. No person shall throw any dead animal or offen- 

 sive matter or substance of any kind into the River 

 Schuylkill or other waters within the boundaries of any 

 park. 



25. No person shall scatter, drop or leave in any 

 portion of the parks, except in the receptacles provided 

 for the purpose, any piece of paper, rag, garbage, dead 

 flower or other rubbish. 



26. No person shall injure, deface or destroy any 

 notices, rules or regulations for the government of the 

 parks posted or in any other manner permanently fixed 

 within the limits of the same. 



27. No placard, advertisement, public notice or per- 

 sonal card, except park notices, rules and regulations, 

 shall be distributed, posted or affixed in any manner 

 in the parks. 



28. No military or other parade or procession or 

 funeral shall take place in or pass through the limits 

 of the parks without the license of the commission. 



29. No street railway car shall come within the 

 limits of the parks without the license of the commis- 

 sion. 



30. No person, without the authority of the com- 

 missioners, shall light or permit a fire to burn in any 

 of the parks, and any one who discovers a fire in any 

 park shall at once notify the nearest guard. 



Arrests 



The park guards shall without warrant forthwith 

 arrest any offender, whom they may detect in the vio- 

 lation of any of the preceding rules and regulations, 

 and take the person so arrested forthwith before a 

 magistrate having competent jurisdiction, and they 

 shall have at all times the right to enter the premises 

 of the boathouses or other buildings in the parks for 

 the purpose of arresting violators of park rules and 

 may use all necessary means to attain that end. 



