The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. 121 and once owned by a grandson of William Penn. This tract, contain-ing thirty-three acres, has been leased by the Park Commissioners tothe Zoological Society of Philadelphia, which has fitted it up in amanner best suited for the maintenance and exhibition of birds andanimals. The Society intends establishing here a Zoological Gardensecond to none in the world, and is rapidly carrying out its desig
The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. 121 and once owned by a grandson of William Penn. This tract, contain-ing thirty-three acres, has been leased by the Park Commissioners tothe Zoological Society of Philadelphia, which has fitted it up in amanner best suited for the maintenance and exhibition of birds andanimals. The Society intends establishing here a Zoological Gardensecond to none in the world, and is rapidly carrying out its has agents in every part of the globe, from whom it receives fre-quent shipments of rare and interesting specimens of natural history,and is fast filling its ground with specimens of every class of the animalkingdom. Every part of the garden is interesting, but we may mentionas the principal features the large and well-filled Carnivora and Monkey-Houses, the Bear Pits, the Aviary, and the Deer Park. All of these. THE BEAR-PITS—ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. are already well stocked, and are constantly receiving fresh Garden was first opened to the public in July, 1874, and hasalready become one of the most popular features of the Park. Theprice of admission is 25 cents for adults, and 10 cents for children. Visitors reach the Garden by the cars of the Girard Avenue line,which run near the entrance, and with which the various lines runningnorth and south connect by exchange tickets; price, nine cents. Thesteamers on the Schuylkill River also land passengers near the entranceto the Garden. 11
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