Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1916 — Animal Keeper in Central Park Gives a Party [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Animal Keeper in Central Park Gives a Party

MEW YORK.—When Cabot Ward, park commissioner, looked over the bills W submitted by Keeper “Bill” Snyder, for food for the animals in the Central park menagerie he lost his usual coolness and spluttered something * about investigations. The cause for

the excitement was an item in the bill which called for $19.50 for 13 quarts of a well-known brand of whisky. “Bill” was called into the office to explain why there was no item for vichy on the bill, and who were the participants of the “party.” The head keeper told the commissioner that since the “party” several of the keepera had shown signs of dissatisfaction and jealousy because of the meager amount of the beverage which had

been their share, and that only through accident It appears that during the extreme cold wave which hit the city Hattie and Jewel, the two elephants, and Smiles, the rhino, suffered with chills. In order to relieve the three star boarders Keeper Snyder decided to have the “party." When Hattie filled her trunk with the first quart of the fiery liquid and poured a little into her mouth the strange taste annoyed her, and in the ■puttering which followed several of the assistant keepers were drenched in their favorite brand. It only served to whet their appetite. , By the time the second and third ouarta had been placed before her she had cultivated a taste for the whisky and the keepers were disappointed. Jewel and Smiles acted as if they had been raised on the Demon Rum- Four quarts were given to each animal and the siege of cold was successfully withstood. a