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Show PRINCESS ALICE WELCOMES SPRING KIND AND THE SMALL CHILDREN LOVE HER AND SHE ATTRACTS THEM TO LIBERTY PARK. ;HE IS SO spring cleaning time and that does for Princess Alice, elephantine queen of the zoo at jberty Park, as well as for housewives of Salt S ake. For long before the proverbial robins begin o sing, an occasional sunny warm day meander nto the calendar, and a few brave violets and rocuses poke their heads through the earth, rincess Alice begins to grow restless in her big iam winter home in Liberty Park. She stomps and trumpets and gets finicky about her food company of a circus! For one reason or another the circus owners did not want to keep Alice on the payroll, and Alice seemed agreeable in making Salt Lake her permanent home. Through a movement sponsored by the Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake boys and girls clubbed together, and with pennies, nickels, dimes and an occasional quarter, raised $2,000 of the required sum of $3,000. Tragedy in the lack of the other thousand was averted through the generosity of P. J. Moran, now city commissioner, who donated the necessary amount. ing and the heart of Princess Alice just about broke. For weeks she was disconsolate and refused all food until Dutch was worried about her life. The love the children had for Alice, however, pulled her through, but if elephants have memories of things like death, Alice has a sad and bitter memory behind those expressionless black eyes. COL. LINDBERGH, THE HERO OF THE WORLD, IN AERIAL NAVIGATION Not since the dawn of history has an idol of the people been so univer-- i I her keeper, E. M. Dutch certainty that spring is just d Shider knows for about here. J And although Alice gets a weekly hose bath, T spring cleaning is far more thorough. She IJtsa scrub down with a brush and a first class secure with a file and polishing rag, and out goes into her big fenced-i- n yard which is her iriog, summer and fall home. 4 Prom then on, watch the kids from morning night youll find them hanging on the fence, eager little eyes glued on Alice, their little JJfces calling all sorts of endearments and ad-J- ? the ponderous First Lady of the Zoo, whl rarely deigns to as much as blink a sleepy IJ PorReturn. Alice belongs kids, and dont JF moment ever think that they dont know ind keep it in mind. Theres a Personal Perty sign written all over their grimy little one Jit fir.;was alongi relics i i to the back in 1917 that n i i 1! Princess J n . Here She Is, Friend of the Children. Princess Alice then belonged to the kids of Salt Lake, but the question arose, Who will After investigation it was take care of her? found that no one in Salt Lake had had experience in just that line, and taking care of elephants is a big job in more ways than one. It is difficult and demands a good deal of technical knowledge and training with animals. So nothing would do but Dutch Shider, keeper of Alice while she was in ' the circus, should remain in Salt Lake with her. To this day, Dutch reigns as imperial and illustrious potentate of the Salt Lake zoo! A few years later it looked like the kids had made a good investment in Princess Alice. A dividend in the form of a baby elephant arrived and was promptly named Prince Utah. It was said to be the first baby elephant born in captivity in America. But a captive life apparently did not agree with the little Prince, for after six months or so he languished and died. Great was the mourn- - sally proclaimed and honored as has Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. He has been named the Ambassador of Peace. His successful aerial flights to principal cities of the world, crossing the Atlantic to Paris, flying to Mexico and South America and to Cuba, and his successful return to his home, all reads like a fairy story. Lindbergh is a mechanical genius, 'a proficient aerial navigator, in fact, a real general. He is not only worshiped by his countrymen, but as well by the entire world. No man in the world has been so universally known or honored, and he is well named the Lone Eagle of the Air. The story of his extensive flights is shown on the screen at the Pantages Theatre, where thousands of people are going to see him. The boys and girls, the coming manhood and womanhood of the country, look upon him as the model of perfection, and no doubt this influence means much to the country. cool-heade- d; |