Show Strangest m on Pla i t. t I Miss Ella Burt Hurt Drives S Seven ven Llamas Attached to to a aPony a aPony Pony Cart arid and Says They Are Just Too Sweet The oddest outfit ever seen In In San Francisco Francisco is dr driven ven iy by by Miss l Ella Bust Burt Seven South American American llamas s harnessed tandem to a gig with a vivacious young woman handling the he ribbons i is 10 a spectacle so extraordinary that nobody but a 1 blind man could refrain In from froth turning to stare curiously at it until it trots out of sight rancy Fanc the of roundIng rounding S a city corner with seven of these curious beasts In a 1 a string It reminds one of that old fashioned sport of school schooldays schooldays schooldays days called cc crack ck the whip with whip wilh with a gig t to tb cracK instead of ofa a a. breathless youngster at the tail taU of the line ine line f I i Miss Burt Hurt astonishes the boulevard in this Unique unique- manner just for Cor fun un and a new sensation And it cannot be disputed that llama teams are something something something some some- thing new under the sun here and everywhere It is a change from shooting the chutes chutes' on ott a bicycle which is Miss 1 Putts Burls professional specialty That she says is hard work while driving llamas by the bunch Is mere play The fhe animals were brought here on the Hamburg-American Hamburg steamer steamer NI- NI cai carla calla ia which goes from London to all the principal ports along the South American Amer Arner- merIcan mer- mer ican lean coast Llamas are so very valuable oh account of their wool th that t the Peruvian Permian Government has prohibited their exportation But Capt Brunst of the v was as so anxious to obtain sonie some fine specimens that he prevailed upon the Governor of ot the province in which they t v gre grew grev to allow their departure Llamas on their native heath are not useful as wool producers only They are gr great at burden carriers and for many many years have been invaluable in tia tranSporting tranS porting ore oreS from the silver ilver mines of the Andes The seven woolly wanderers from Peru possess the extremely thick cO coats ts that go into the manufacture of ot the finest blankets textiles and woolly r fabrics made Their color colo varies from white to black Ip In disposition they are stubborn stubborn stubborn stub stub- born and tricky but but th their lr virtues as s burden car rs and wool producers more than balance these faults f S r Some naturalists claim that the llamas' llamas remotest ancestors were the wild guanacos now fo found nd only in domestication Jut But neither nenner their doubtful doubtful gie gi-ee nor their present exile affect the equanimity ty of these inese llamas They chew their cud in quiet content at the Chute and ana trot at Miss B Burls Burl's rt's command I |