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May, 1911.
MOTOGRAPHY
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Zoology on the Picture Screen
By H. Kent Webster
Nero — King of Them All.
ON Chicago's great seal runs the legend "Urbs in horto," meaning garden city. Chicago is called the garden city because it has so many parks ; its park system is the largest in the world. Lincoln Park is one of the favorites. It lies out on the North Side, extending along the shores of Lake Michigan for a mile or so, and is, during the summer time, the resort of thousands of people.
Amon? the various statistics
Royal and Kitty, the Two Bengal Tigers.
A Few American Buffalo or Bison.
relating to Lincoln Park will be found the statement that there is consumed daily 1,500 pounds of meat, 500 pounds of corn, 750 pounds of hay, 2,000 meal worms, 2,000 pounds of carrots, 1,200 pounds of bread, several varieties of bird seed, etc. The inference naturally follows that Lincoln Park maintains a zoo. The Lincoln Park zoo is one of the largest in the country, incorporating hundreds of varieties of wild animals, birds and reptiles. Their keeper is Cyrus B. De Vry, who has tended Chicago's pets for over twenty years. Cy de Vry is one of the bestknown men in Chicago, and his zoo is the joy of all the children. The grownups enjoy it too, and there is no end of their admiration for the efficient manner in which the zoo is run.
The Essanay company had an inspiration not long ago to go to the Lincoln Park zoo and take some moving photographs of the animals. The result will