ROOSEVELT THEODORE Typed Letter Signed to Assemblyman Hamilt

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WANTING A NEW ZOO: 'I AM PRESIDENT OF . . . AN ASSOCIATION OF 'BIG-GAME' MEN" ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, to Assemblyman Hamilton Fish II, urging him to support a bill being considered by the [New York State Assembly] Committee of Cities concerning the establishment of a world-class zoo in New York City. 1 page, 4to, 'Civil Service Commission' stationery; moderate scattered dampstaining, horizontal folds. (TFC) Washington, 18 February 1895

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'I am president of the Boone and Crockett Club, an association of 'big-game' men, in New York. We are very anxious to have a bill passed to provide for a proper zoological garden out at Cortlandt Park . . . . It is opposed by the labouring men on the nominal plea that it would be so far out of town that the people from the lower parts of the city could not visit these animals. As a matter of fact, however, it is certain that we will soon have such a system of improved rapid transit that people can go out to Courtlandt Park or anywhere else for five cents; and the present menagerie is a mere noisome absurdity. . . . Our zoological gardens ought to be as fine as those of London or Paris or Rotterdam . . . .'
In 1898, the City of New York gave 250 acres in the Bronx to the New York Zoological Society for the purpose of building an animal preserve; The Bronx Zoo opened the following year.