Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs . ndiana Ave., E. and F. Sts. and serves thegreat manufacturing district of Kensington. Zoological Garden. Oldest institution of its kind in in Fairmount Park, on the west side of the Schuylkill,fronting on Girard Ave. and embracing acres. It is reachedby all street car lines connecting with the Girard Ave. line. The Zoo occupies Solitude, the country seat of JohnPenn, a grandson of William Penn. The old house in whichPenn lived still stands on the grounds. The grounds are beauti-fully laid out, planted with trees,
Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs . ndiana Ave., E. and F. Sts. and serves thegreat manufacturing district of Kensington. Zoological Garden. Oldest institution of its kind in in Fairmount Park, on the west side of the Schuylkill,fronting on Girard Ave. and embracing acres. It is reachedby all street car lines connecting with the Girard Ave. line. The Zoo occupies Solitude, the country seat of JohnPenn, a grandson of William Penn. The old house in whichPenn lived still stands on the grounds. The grounds are beauti-fully laid out, planted with trees, and well kept. The gardenis open every day in the week, including Sunday. Admission 10 cents on Saturdayand Sunday; onother days 25 comfortable andwell-kept quartersthere is housed anextensive and typi-cal assemblage ofanimals from allparts of the some respects,this collection is thebest of its kind inAmerica. Our na-tive fauna is repre-^ ,,!iJT ^°.%r . sented by a large S. 13th and Locust Streets , ^ , ; , ^ Page 91 herd ot the almost. 80 RAND McNALLY PHILADELPHIA GUIDE .^ii!^^^ W •«»».i^ itfH III extinct Americanbison; a herd of elkand other Americandeer; grizzly andother bears, housedin well-built pits; andmanyrepresentativesof our lesser mam-mals, birds, and rep-tiles. The foreignmammals include aremarkably large col-lection of the greaterbeasts of prey,elephants, American and Malayan taj^irs, many African andAsiatic antelopes, an adult gibbon, an interesting series ofmonkeys and lemurs, several species of kangaroo and othermarsupials, and a fine lot of sea Hons, which sport about inlarge open-air tanks. The aviary is well filled with foreignand domicstic birds; and the collection of reptiles is perhapsthe best in the world. In addition there is usually shown somespecial object of zoological interest. The laboratory of thegarden is the first of its kind in the world devoted exclusivelyto the study of wild animal pathology. On the whole, thezoo is one
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