Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1912 — HIGH COST HITS GOTHAM ZOO [ARTICLE]

HIGH COST HITS GOTHAM ZOO

Eggs Are No Longer Fed to New York Monkeys—Little Milk Is Given Animals. New York. —The latest complaint over the high cost of living comes from the Central park menagerie, where it appears that the monkeys, lions and hippos are leading the slm-> pie life owing to the taking of expensive luxuries from their bill of fare. The monkeys have not seen an egg in two months. They used to get one apiece every day before breakfast, but it would be like offering them pearls now to feed them eggs, according to Overseer Kebnan. The only luxury they have Is milk, and that with plenty of water in it, for the supply is only five quarts a day, and there are 60 monkeys to drink it. “Ten years ago,” explained Mr. Heenan, “we could board a monkey for seven cents a day and a hippo or elephant for 60 cents. • Now it costs 12 cents for the monkeys, $1 for the hippos and $2.75 a day for the elephants. “The big item in the menagerie bill, however, is the meat The tigers and lions need from 12 to 18 pounds ot meat a day and the cost runs close to 10 cents a pound. A decade ago the soo was able to buy the necessary 250 pounds a day around 4% cents a Pound.” \ v