The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1922, Page 16

1 on Pree ah beubscitesseetene seer rns eats In mete BT es I as OP ee ne WP 0 BF ene PO oes ee OF fheunse ry qctressemmineer store Pon Won Pe Was petscmeitacne cas rtart kecteeseSEUNes pines oeane Dees Prvase Rema AED ¢ By Fay Stevenson. Gopyright. York ¢ World) bilshing Company. « ATS! When do we eat?” That is the roar which comes from the lion's den. That ig the grunt which comes from ‘That is the wail from the hippopot- mus as he comés out of his tank and waddles out in the yard. That is the squeak which issues from the monkey cages as wiry little creatures swing from their perches and peer out for their keeper to bring their much desired dinner. In fact, just at 2 every day at the Bronx Park Zoo there is a cry for food heard from all parts of the Zoo, and whether it is a grunt, a howl or @ whine, it is the question all the animais, birds and reptiles want an- swered. And just at this hour the great feast begins. The one meal that is carefully prepared by the chef is werved, ¢ The Waldorf may boast of its Oscar, but the Zoo boasts of Rudgiph H. Bell, the chef who concoets Jalil the special dishes for over three thousand animals and caters to every individual one of their whims. And Mr. Bell declares that the animals are just as hard to please and have just as many fits and tantrums over their food as the most fastidious old bachelor or particular spinster. Old Prince, the fourteen-year-old lion, is very apt to take a dislike to his twelve pounds of beef; Buster, the 300-year-old tortoise, has to be tempted by watermelon, and frequent- ly the monkeys balk at their cooked rice unless it has raisins well dis- tributed in its glossy, white surface But Mr, Bell has been the chef at the Zoo for over twenty-three years and John J. Toomey has been the head keeper for the same length of time, so when an espéclally tempting dish is desired by any of the animals, these two men put their heads to- gether and talk over tempting but healthful menus. ‘The kitchen at the Zoo in fitted up gust like a kitchen in a modern apart- Ment with a butch; shop added! There is the snow white sink, a Kaa cange and there are the rows and rows of shiny kettles and stew pans with a large double boiler for rice. But instead of the usual deal table with its clean, white ollcloth one finds three big tables just like the ones in €ah butcher shop, and an assortment rf knives, choppers and saws Two huge refrigerators, one for vegetables and fruits, the other for yneat, are iuxt across from the Ikitchen, while outside the door a number of small pushearts are lined up ready to tuke the food directly to the cages of the animals. Bach keeper is supposed to come after the food for Wis particular char and if ¢ xounces that “Peter Murphy hippopotamus. har a tremensous petite, the chef gives him an extra supply of keeper ri trick monkey, is out of ehet adds an extra to her rice or fixcs a tempti for her. “The reptiles are cause that is thelr prey,” said Mr. Well yabbits, mice, sulned ens, sothey require lit from ti isain kitob Muny of t) beds 0.8 fed in the mgyeioe wt tue humor spoonful of raisins banana fed at night, be natural time to We give them 1 chick tention “Prince” is interrupted from his 12 pounds of beef by the flash of the camera. Catering’ to animals, especially the large ones, are fed at 2 in the afternoon or a, lit- tle after. Since these animals are fed but once a day, this means a big event to them. We try to vary thelr menus as much as their habits will permit, but during this time of year you never can tell."" However, when I visited the differ- “ent cages just at the moment food was dispensed, I noted that, hot weather or not, most of these crea- tures devoured their food with vim and heartiness—so Mr. Bell must be & pretty good cook. Dinner was served with little cere- mony in the lion house, and when a twelve-pound plece of beef was thrust through the bars to Prince, the digni- fied and stately lion, he immediately pounced upon it and started from his cage out into his run, But Jt was right here that Prince turned a gleaming eye upon the crowd of children and their escorts, The door to his run was closed! The Evening World's photographer desired to take a pic- ture of Prince dining in his cage and had requested that his pro- gramme be altered. But Prince did not see it that way. He wanted to dine alone; be- sides, he spied the camera and knew this meant trouble. Then a sudden flash, a loud explosion and bang! BEnows face waa registered. But pMger, hatred and fear came into the picture, while a grow] and then a hiss issued from this huge old fellow. In the next cage “Helen,” the two-year-old flapper lioness, panted and walked from one side of her cage to the other, The keeper threw her a ten-pound plece of beef, but she was too frightened to eat. She looked from Prince’t to ‘Mene- known as the ‘prettiest lon," and refused to eat even after those stalwart old boys settled down to dine But the monkeys welcomed the camera and were even so interested that they forgot to eat at times. Their diet for that day consisted of bananas and carrots and it was noticed that many of these little creatures seemed to enjoy the visit of their keeper quite as much as their food. “Bridget,” whose face rather fits Sea lions are delighted when. they have butter- fish for dinner THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 192 ; ei Bronx Zoo Is a Job Which Over the Food When They her name, was put through a num- ber of tricks before her dinner was served. She will pray, pose as an Platypus,” the missing link GCC WNt lock mad: But between bird and animal, lays 1. cs eomtne hed eggs but suckles its young, the most attentl feeds “Helen,” the two-year-old “flapper” of the Zoo, prefers 10 pounds of beef te ice cream pic, Rudolph H. Bell on the Jump, for They Roar When the Service Is, Slow, Growl : Some of Them Eat So Much That Their : Portions Must Be Measured by the Ton “Buster,” the 300-year-old tortoise, enjoying his din- ~ ner of watermelon, 3000 Different Appetite Feeding the ‘‘Permanent Guests’’ at the Keeps Chef Get It, and Pounds of beef or three pounds of fish, And although-there is a rule against feeding the animals, the keeper smiled as he admitted the upon malted milk and the choicest bears occasionally shared an ice baby foods and carries his sweater cream cone or a lolly-pop witb the about with him. vn, Kiddies, There ts “Dempsey” and a “Babe — Buster, the 300-year-old tortoise, 1s Ruth" among the baboons, but it Was pretty alow about coming to meals. Jake who suddenly took a dislike to Tt takes him quite a few minutes to the cameraman and shook his lon® crawl from the further end of his arm out the cage in warning that he run to the keeper, even when he sees simply wasn't going to have his pic- he is to have watermelon for dinner ture taken. When the flash exploded Rut he is not so slow when It comes Jake picked up all the carrots upon to eating, and by the way he de Which he was about to dine and voured a huge melon it rather looked pelted the photographer well, hitting as if he might win in @ watermelon him in the neck and shoulders with contest, @ sure aim. The crowds have turned their at- ‘At three sharp the sea lions dined tention from Buater, however, to the upon butter fish. Many of them Platypus, the new pet at the Zoo, to uch of an effort to Which has just been purchased for foane bods ps water and came $1,400 and is considered the missing . ink between bird and animal, This ashore to eat froen, tae maeers a atrange little ‘animal is about thr ~€ Three-thirty 1s the sc of a muskrat and has the pr for the bears to eat, and because they racuity of Inying eggs and suckliny hear all the commotion going OM 1M young. It has a fat bill, no teeth and other houses and cages they are ready webbed fect and lives in rivers but with their pawg outstretched or gleeps in burrows In the banka, It standing errect humbly begging for dincs upon angle worms, grubs and their bread, Bach bear dines upon small shri twenty largo sized loaves of broad. Just at present the Zoo boasis of Twice a week they receive gfive no tigers, Most of the old fellows died Well, last r Dr, Blaly said thi 4 the food for the animals amounted $41,708.91, so you may divide that s! FOTO GRAMS. rrorTe “Peter Murphy” eats a cab- bage as easily as we do a cherry, not believing it worth while to make “two bites of a cabbage.” age, and since the war non en received “Peter Murphy,” the hippopotam. spends most of his time in the tan! but at the dinner hour he waddle! out to his run and opens his mout just as wide as it will go. All th keeper has to do is to throw in cabbage, which he eats as easily a we might a cherry, not believing 1€ worth while to make “two bites of cabbage.” After Peter has eate: about six large heads of cabbage hi dines upon e en loaves of bread, eight or nine bunches of carrots an zen bananas the Indian elephant, twelve years old and rather to moods, She eats from inclined fifteen t twenty loaves of bread, all sorts of green vegetables and two bales of haj a day. “Cartoon,” the African ele, phant, is the friend of ali the chil dren who visit the park gives them rides upc amuses them by perforr of telephoning, ringing walking upon his hind legs. But how much food do these 3,26 creatures consume dally? There ar 623 mammals, 2.174 birds and 466 reptiles and amphibians. What 4 it cost to feed them each day? It was Dr. W. Reid Blatr who am. He not onl his back bu g his tricie bell and swered th questions, Although Dr. Blair does not handle the food hel puts his veto or O, K. upon the amount of food his charges may eat in order to keep them upon the well list And here is the amount of foog consumed dally under prescribed or-\ai dors 175 loaves of bread. 1. 250 pounds of beef. 15 heads of cabbage 36 bunches of carrots 2 barrels of potatoes 450 bananas, 150 apple: 4 dozen oranges 18 pounds boiled rice 25 quarts of milk 500 pounds of hay Watermelons, tables extra seasonal vege malted milk, zwieback and bir seed will have to come a xtra but the above list gives one an ida of the “eats’’ at the And the cost 866%, and find out Meanwhile the animals sh Their chief concern is what Chet Be has for them and how long it will & until 2 o'clock, dinner pi cession starts, uld worry when the