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Show LOOK. FOR BABY "HIPPO" "Miss Murphy' Pride of the New York Zoo, Is Soon to Gladden the Hearts of Her Keepers for the Seventh : Time Means Much Financially. 5j N the region over the ft '(J): long, narrow building3 J: -fjf the Central Park me-0pV me-0pV nagerie 'a mighty stork hrlffi&'w hovering, picking a "i'vo soft spot on which to !' '-'H tt "deP?it nis harden, a - ffQA" - ponderous, homely, m-V?y5V m-V?y5V " teresting, amiable ,baby a young hippopotamus, hippopota-mus, says the New York Press. As yet you cannot discern the busy bringer of babies even on a clear day, hat Menagerie Director Smith says that by the time the naked branches of the Park's gray trees and bushes appear In full garb of early summer green a forty-pound, pink little pig will appear, in the limelight of the pretty setting and become the star attraction of the city's zoo. Director Smith ought to know. He got his Information from three and a half-ton Caliph, whose mouth is too big to hold a secret, and who got the news direct from his faithful two and a half-ton spouse, Miss Murphy. But while the prospective domestic Joys of the Caliph-Murphy baby fam- mus takes its young one into deep waiter to nurse it. Long spells there were when the baby disappeared un-; der the surface in the tank. Only, wlfen too late it was realized that allj this time the homely old mother was! performing her maternal duties. All; feared the baby could not thrive with- out proper nursing. Therefore mother and baby were separated, and the lit- tie one w'as ptU'on a bottle. It HrelT ten" days after that. Now her homely J little ladyship stands, properly stuffed.1 In a nook In the Museum of Natural History. ' With the first attempt at raising a nippo recorded as a dire failure, It was. feared the experiments would result In defeat. Fatima, the female hippo which afterward became famous In natural history as the first hippo to be born ana raised in captivity, was the second arrival. The stork dropped Fatima unexpectedly one night. It was the only time when Caliph managed man-aged to keep a secret, and the first intimation in-timation the keepers had of such an event was when they saw the plump youngster rising gravely out of water and looking surprised out of his little brown eyes. Fatima's little brother, who was next in line, was crushed to death accidentally ac-cidentally even before he could be named, but he was the last of the baby hippos lost to the Zoo. Lotos, youngest child of Caliph and his wife, is now in the menagerie, a bulky, awkward, intelligent young beast that likes to be petted by her keeper and shows surprising knowl-r edge for a brute so stupid-looking. Lotos Lo-tos is 2 years old and weighs a ton. From her parents she has learned the trick of standing at the bars of her cage awaiting with open mouth the coming of an ' ,ag that is good. When wide open it wrould readly be possible to put a water bucket into the maw. Ordinarily a hippopotamus Is not a vicious animal, but there are times when they become dangerous. Miss Murphy at present is not in an over-amiable over-amiable mood, and her temper is communicated com-municated to her husband, who is in the cage with her. When aroused the method of attack is wholly with the head and the wonderul jaws. The an- - ' J iftmtbmW SAYS "BABIES ACE T cfpjrms FEATHER A TON. JiFi lly are interesting, there remains another an-other phase, infinitely more important , to persons who study wild animals and those concerned in the successful building up of the zoo. Every animal in the Central Park menagerie has been presented to the city directly or indirectly by Caliph and Miss Murphy. Never before or since in the history of zoology have "hippos" been known to breed in captivity. Next to a giraffe land a two-horned rhinoceros, hippo-tami hippo-tami are the most expensive luxuries In which a menagerie can invest. A full-grown hippopotamus is valued at $7,000, and a baby at least at half that amount. Six times have the ponderous ponder-ous hearts of the big couple been gladdened glad-dened by the antics of a pink one. The first two youngsters died. To raise a young hippo was too much of a problem prob-lem even for experienced animal men. It was necessary to experiment so as to learn how to handle the "tots" properly. But once the problem was solved it was easy to trade young hip-, pos with Hagenbeck and other animal ani-mal men. To prepare for the advent of a young hippo was one of the things that puzzled puz-zled the animal men when Miss Murphy Mur-phy first decided to show she was opposed op-posed to race suicide. Not in animal literature was to be found information which might throw light on how to proceed. In a wild state the pink youngsters enter the world while under un-der water, where, likewise, they nurse until weaned, at the end of about a year. In the Central Park zoo the hippos are kept in a huge tank, five feet deep. There the first baby was born. It was a lusty youngster, with a pink head and a pink belly and sides and a slate-colored slate-colored streak running down the back. Like most wild animals born In captivity, captiv-ity, it was tame from the day of its appearance. It came readily out of the tank when called, to have a closer view of the great thing, Man. A hideously homely little brute it was, fourteen inches high, with a body like a young pig's, a mouth as big as all outdoors and tiny ears which constantly con-stantly were wriggling. The baby was homely enough to become the pet of imal is provided with two separate sets of teeth. Those used for the mastication mas-tication of food are down near the throat. The other set consists of five tusks in each of the upper and lower jaws, and these are the beast's weapons weap-ons of offense. .- . -U.ljbSECirrtTika!Ifcr everyone, ihat saw it. Only Miss Mur-t Mur-t phy thought the newcomer pretty. In her own 'awkward fashion she caressed ca-ressed the young one, nosing it and even standing over it to make sure that no harm should befall. The huge beast, ordinarily peace'ul, became e.ven vicious in her solicitude for her baby, and only Keeper "Eilly" Snyder could go near her. Then came the fatal mistake. The experts did not know that a hippopota- |