Bankrupt Zoo

All the animals in Cincinnati's zoo had reason to be worried last week. On Dec. 15 they might be sold down the river. For Cincinnati's zoo is not self supporting. Since 1917 it existed through the benefactions of two Cincinnati women, Mrs. Mary M. Emery and Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, who died last February. They provided the property, paid the operating expenses when the zoo's income did not meet them. Mrs. Taft's daughters and other zoo-conscious Cincinnatians agreed to pay the deficit to the end of this year. But debts for improvements piled up, now amount to some $270,000. Last week the executors of Mrs. Emery's and Mrs. Taft's estates served notice on the Zoological Park Association that unless a plan for meeting expenses and paying the debt were devised by Dec. 15 they would feel "morally obligated" to sell the property, pay the debt out of the proceeds.

To the aid of the Zoo immediately went President T. Higbee Embry of Embry-Riddle Co. (aircraft), presented it with three giant iguanas, guaranteed to be worth the price of admission.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.