. Police guide and directory of St. Louis. A pocket directory to all places of public resorts and street railroad guide to all points of interest .. . e found in conformity with thelowest rates now ruling in the market. ^*GIVli2 XJS A CALL. 78 Police Guide and Dirkctory of St. Louis. The Zoological Gardens within the grounds inckidethe rarest types of wild and domestic animals. The earth,the air and the sea contribute their most curious creaturesto the collection, which is not surpassed anywhere this sideof Europe. Each class has a building set apart for itself,the carnivora or flesh-devouring
. Police guide and directory of St. Louis. A pocket directory to all places of public resorts and street railroad guide to all points of interest .. . e found in conformity with thelowest rates now ruling in the market. ^*GIVli2 XJS A CALL. 78 Police Guide and Dirkctory of St. Louis. The Zoological Gardens within the grounds inckidethe rarest types of wild and domestic animals. The earth,the air and the sea contribute their most curious creaturesto the collection, which is not surpassed anywhere this sideof Europe. Each class has a building set apart for itself,the carnivora or flesh-devouring beasts having their ownquarters ; the monkeys, theirs ; the bears, theirs ; the birdsa place of their own, and so on. These buildings arefinished in the highest style of modern architecture, and areof brick and stone. They are equal to the buildings to beseen in the Royal Zoological Garden of England. The Grounds and Gardens are open all the year admission fee is twenty-five cents. The Cass avenue,Locust street, red cars on Pine street, the Franklin avenue,and Jefferson avenue cars all carry passengers to the maingate for five Turkish Pagoda, Shaws Garden. Shaws Botanical Garden is yet private property, butthe public are allowed access to it every day in the yearexcept Sunday. It is owned by Mr. Henry Shaw, themillionaire, who has spent thirty years and thousands ofdollars in bringing it to its present degree of beauty andperfection. The Garden, also known as the MissouriBotanical Garden, has an area of fifty-four acres, and issituated on Tower Grove, between Shaw and Magnoliaavenues. Its hot-houses and conservatories contain therarest flowers that the earth produces. The flora of theworld is represented within its walls, all so charminglyarranged that the visitor walks as if in a fairy bower, and p
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