ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



lent Hobhouse bilL The List paragra))!) shows 

 that tile "defeat" is not nearly so serious as 

 the first paragraph implies. W. T. H. 



"LoNDONj April 25. — The Government has 

 been defeated on the Plumage bill, designed on 

 lines similar to the measure enacted in the 

 L^nited States last year, and certain amendments 

 have now been introduced which make it value- 

 less for the purpose originally intended. 



"To a certain extent the sulTragettes must be 

 held responsible. !Mr. Glyn Jones moved an 

 amendment that the expression 'person' should 

 not include any woman over 21 years of age. 

 He said it would be going too far to dictate to 

 .m adult woman as to what she should wear in 

 hats. 



"The Government, he said, must give women 

 either feathers or votes. The bill, as it stood, 

 would present to suffragettes the easiest road 

 into jail which could possibly be devised. If 

 it became a law many thousands of women 

 would ado])t as the emblem of their great or- 

 ganization a cheap foreign feather, and would 

 probably be seen walking with it in their hats 

 round the Houses of Parliament to show their 

 contempt of Parliament. 



"^Ir. Glyn Jones finally altered his amend 

 ment so that the expression 'person' should not 

 include any woman unless engaged in the im- 

 porting, buying or selling of plumage. This 

 amendment was carried, and women will still 

 be able to wear feathers without the ])rospect 

 of being fined or imprisoned. 



"The provisions of the bill to which the per- 

 sons engaged in the feather trade so strongly 

 object remain." 



CARNEGIE PENSION FUND. 



A SHORT time ago Mr. Madison Grant, 

 Chairman of the Executive Committee of 

 the New York Zoological Society, placed 

 before Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the need of the 

 Society for a Pension Fund for the employees 

 of the Zoological Park and the Aquarium. The 

 small salaries paid in those two institutions, 

 which are under the sole control and manage- 

 ment of the Zoological Society, render a pen- 

 sion fund imperatively necessary, and there is 

 no expectation that such a fund could ever be 

 supplied by the City. There are one hundred 

 and thirty-nine persons employed at the Zoo- 

 logical Park, and thirtv-two at the Aquarium. 

 As a final reply to the application made to 

 Mr. Carnegie, for a Pension Fund, the follow- 



ing letter was received and laid before the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee : 



Andrew Carnegie, 

 :i East nist. 



Xew York, Alarcli IT, 19U. 



-My dear Mr. Grant: 



After due consideration I hav decided tluit the 

 Zoological Society's admirable staff deserv the de- 

 sired institution, viz., a Pension Fund, and in accord- 

 ance with your note of March 1:;?, I will provide the 

 .$100,000 which you find necessary when you notify 

 me that the organization is ready to receiv and 

 administer this fund. 



Let me say that I hav never lieen more .sur])riscd 

 in my life than at the exiiibition given us at your 

 recent dinner, which proves that life is everywiicre, 

 even down tn the gnats, which had to he magnified 

 an hundred fold in order to let us see that the fam- 

 ily existed among these midges as completely as in 

 the monster elephant. 



Having seen several of the celel)rated Zoological 

 Gardens of the old world, our institution in Xew 

 York seems a giant among pygmies. Several of my 

 foreign friends who hav visited it witli nie hav 

 reached the same conclusion. 



Yours very truly, 

 (Signed) Anhukw Cakxegik. 



Madison Grant, Esq., 



Chairman, Executive Connnittee, 

 Xew York Zoological .Society, 

 Eleven Wall Street, 

 Xew York City. 



The employees of the Park and the Aquarium 

 will contribute annually 2 per cent, of their 

 salaries, and any sum that may be lacking in 

 financing the plan now about to be carried into 

 effect, will be made up by the Zoological So- 

 ciety. 



The Pension Fund was formally accepted at 

 a meeting of the Executive Committee held 

 March 23, 1911., as follows: 



.March T.i. 191 l. 

 .\ndrew Carnegie, Esq., 



1093 Fifth\\ve., City. 

 Dear Mr. Carnegie: 



I have the honor to notify you that at a meeting 

 of the Executive Committee of the N'ew York Zoo- 

 logical Society held this day, a quorum being pres- 

 ent, your very generous proposition of donating to 

 the Society the sum of $100,000 for the purpose of 

 forming a Pension Fund for the benefit of the em- 

 ployees, to be known as the Carnegie Pension Fund, 

 was accepted with the most sincere gratitude and 

 thanks. 



It is the intention of Ihe Executive Committee to 

 l)roceed to organize a Pension Board, which shall 

 iiave charge of all thi- details connected with the 

 Pension Funds, its administration and distribution. 

 The principles which will obtain in this respect, are 

 along the lines already presented to you. 



I have the honor to remain. 



Yours very truly, 



-AI WUSON- GuiXT. 



Clininiiini. 



