Show ELEPHANTS ELEPHANT'S QUEER RIDE Travels From Chicago to Denv Denver r as a Newspaper Package I Thumb My claiming distinction dis Us- Us as the very er smallest elephant alive also aspires to fame Came as s the greatest great great- est cat st of all elephant travelers He re recently recently re- re made a record run of or miles mlles Jn in n less than twenty-four twenty hours traveling travel- travel in ing as a newspaper package on board the fast Cast mall mail train from Chicago to Denver To begin with o M Thumb Hop Thumb I Is about ears old old w weighs less than too IJO pounds pounds' a and d is about tout out thirty six Inches high h. He lIe was was was' brought to this country countr from India about six months ago but bill his own owner r r. r being In financial f l tress was forced to sell him D Da Do DoWitt Witt C. C Webber manager for tor the Otto Floto dog and pony pon show learned the elephant was for Cor sale and sent on to BloomIngton Ind md to bu buy him The Tho little elephant was sent front from ro Bloomington fo to Chicago but missed the connecting train out out of o the Windy City so it s seemed emed Impossible ble to bring him himon himon himon on to the show at atthe desired time In Inthis Inthis Inthis this extremity Editor Kohlsaat a a. friend of r the theo ii ero r ot the show was appealed to by hy telegraph He consulted George F. F Lee g general ii ral agent o of the Rock flock Island route with a view Ie to sending sending send send- ing Ins out the elephant on the fast newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper mall train to Denver Boxed In a n. wooden crate o Hop Thumb My started from Crom Chicago to Denver at 6 tj o'clock Saturday afternoon and at p. p m m. th the next da day he was In Denver There awaiting his arrival was Special Agent Walter Valter B. B Townsend and Passenger Ag Agent nt Hal Ha Ray of the road who at once took the elephant In charge and sent him on to Colorado Springs wh where re his were to receive him T Th The show anticipating much trouble with the brute after so long and quick a ride had prepared all kinds of chains and shackles hac to bind him down before they would take him from rom 1 he the crate But when he was unloaded a general laugh went up all around The crate was knocked apart and Hop o Thumb Hop I as meek and gentle as an any kitten was led to the show with a sender ender cord about his hisa a neck eck |