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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
H. S. RICHARDS, Chicago, President 
AND CONTRIBUTIONS 
J. J. LEVlSON, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sec.-Treas. 
ASSOCIATION EMPLOYMENT BUREAU 
“After sixteen years of continuous serv- 
ice I have resigned my position as super- 
intendent of parks in the Park Department 
of Kansas City, Mo., to devote my whole 
time to consulting landscape work. I have 
opened offices at 715-717 Republic Bank 
Building, Kansas City. 
“I wish to keep in touch with all of 
the boys of the association, however, and 
retain my membership, and will always be 
glad to see any of you who may be pass- 
ing through this way. 
“My experience covers the past sixteen 
years of close application to landscape 
work under the constant supervision and 
direction of Mr. George E. Kessler, not 
only in the laying out and building of the 
Kansas City park system, but in touch 
with much of his practice in other direc- 
tions, designing and improving private 
grounds and other landscape work. 
“I will give my personal attention and 
best efforts to all landscape work entrusted 
to me for designing home grounds, country 
estates and municipal park and boulevard 
systems, including good road pavements.” 
W. H. Dunn. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Until the year 1899, New York City had 
no real zoological exhibit. The Menagerie 
in Central Park was well enough as such, 
but compared with the zoological gardens 
of Europe, and those of Philadelphia and 
Washington, it did not reflect any particu- 
lar glory on the city. 
For that reason, a number of gentle- 
men, under the leadership of Mr. Madi- 
son Grant and Prof. Henry F. Osborn, in 
1895, formed an association called the New 
York Zoological Society, with its foremost 
object of establishing in the city of New 
York a zoological park, and, incidentally, 
for the protection of American game, and 
the promotion of zoology. 
After obtaining a charter from the state, 
this society entered, in 1897, into an agree- 
ment with the city, which has worked out 
very well. 
By this agreement the city granted the 
southern portion of Bronx Park to the 
Zoological Society, under the condition that 
said society within three years of such 
grant should establish a zoological park, 
John L. Mearns, 415 Earlham Terrace, 
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., is looking 
for a position in some park system. His 
experience was obtained under landscape 
architects in New York, Boston and Phil- 
adelphia, where he was employed in de- 
signing, drafting, surveying and superin- 
tending three planting jobs. He also had 
experience in nursery work, aboriculture 
and forestry and as assistant to a park 
superintendent. 
* * * 
W. H. Robinson, of the Peerless Land- 
scape Co., 205 Cherry street, Chattanooga, 
Tenn., desires a good, practical landscape 
man. He says : “I have a good opening 
for the right kind of a man who is willing 
to work for a future. The climate here 
is such that we can work all winter, which 
is quite an advantage over Northern cities. 
A man that is willing to work can put in 
full time the year around. Would prefer a 
young single man. I am employed by the 
Easterly Nursery Co., of Cleveland, Tenn., 
and my work requires a man who is ca- 
pable of beautifying homes and setting my 
shrubbery, etc.” All communications should 
be addressed to Mr. Robinson. 
furnishing the original equipment of build- 
ings and animals, and expending the sum 
of $25,000 of its funds for this purpose. 
This expenditure was a guarantee of good 
faith, or in other words the city was not 
asked to enter into a partnership with a 
young and untried society without having 
the junior partner put up some of the cap- i 
ital. 
It took some time and work for the so- j 
ciety to collect this money from its mem- 
bers, to be made a present to the people of 
the city, but the money was donated by pub- 
lic spirited men and women and spent long ' 
before the stipulated time. 
The place selected for the Zoological 
Park could hardly have been more suitable J 
had it been made to order. Here were 
hills, rocks and broad meadows ; swamps j 
that could be made into ponds and lakes, 
a beautiful stream with two falls, and, | 
above all, a glorious forest of fine oaks, ! 
gums, maples, etc., and many large single 
trees, carefully preserved by the Lydig 
family, who for eighty years had owned ! 
these lands. 
In the meantime, Dr. W. T. Hornaday, 
the Director of the Park, had, in behalf 
of the Zoological Society, studied all of 
the larger zoos in Europe, and with the 
advice of several other men, had com- 
pleted a plan of the Zoological Park. 
A zoological park and a zoological gar- 
den differ just as a garden and park dif- 
fer, and since all of the old zoos are gar- 
dens, this plan was different from all 
others. Where the small gardens have 
yards, the park has large ranges, some- 
times several acres in extent, with steel 1 
wire fences that are almost invisible. Every- 
thing else in the Zoological Park is on a j 
correspondingly large scale, for one of the 
maxims of the Society is that no animal , 
shall be kept in confinement that is un- 
comfortable, and that all efforts should 
be made to give them all the room they 
required for proper exercise and comfort. 
However, the plan was ready, so that in 
1898 the actual work was started. 
How we did work, and under what ad- 
PERCHING BIRD HOUSE AND WALRUS POOL, NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
NEW YORK IDEA OF A ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
Address before the Denver Convention of the American Association of Park 
Superintendents by Herman W. Merkel, Forester, New York Zoological Park. 
