| Show I LIVELY VOYAGE OF ANIMALS Stormy Ocean Trip of Menagerie Menagerie Menagerie Menag Menag- erie Made Wild Beasts Peevish POLAR BEAR UNDISTURBED Wolf oJ Iu Leaped Into lute the time Son Sea Lion Ilon Killed Ilk HI Mate Elephant Slew Puma The biggest and hungriest collection of ot wild creatures that ever crossed the Atlantic arrived at Hoboken aboard the Phoenix line steamship St. St Andrew Andrew An An- drew In after a stormy passage of ot tlC fit teen days from Antwerp There was no other cargo carSo in the liner worth 1 mentioning except animals including four twenty men and ten women who took ook as much care as they could of the he folk foJ All the tho space tween decks from Crom stem to stern was waR fIlled Hied with Jungle Inhabitants or their trained rained descendants guaranteed to doall donn do I I nn all any stunt suggested b by the tIme press as gent agent nt In Iii the ships ship's company compan were eighty lions forty five bears including a dozen splendid Polar specimens which were quartered on the main dock deck aft aCt two laughing h hyenas enaR and ten ordinary hyenas without a spirit of humor five chimpanzees a dozen mongooses mong that delight In biting serpents in two or three or more pieces a drove of or camels camels ca camels ca- ca mels and dromedaries twenty-five twenty pumas pumas pu pu- pu- pu mas a big herd of elephants performing perform perform- ing InS horses and a white sacred bull covered with sacred tattoo marks declared to be of oC genuine occult East Indian origin fifteen Great Dane dogs doss the biggest lion that ever over suffered Itself to be written up b by a press agent Caesar the largest tiger In or out of captivity Wallace the untamed lion that has eaten several several sev sev- eral per persons on but Is now on an oatmeal oatmeal oatmeal oat oat- meal diet because of dental deficIencies deficiencies deficiencies cies kangaroos aroos deer pheasants pigeons pig pig- eons and Innumerable other Inhabitants Inhabitants inhabitants Inhabit Inhabit- ants of the forests accurately described described de do- scribed In the handbills Three lion cubs were ere born on the trip but died They The could not stand the motion of ot the sea May Is usually a n quiescent month on the western oce in and amid the skipper of ot the St Andrew expected to get set here lucre from Antwerp In about twelve days ays Matt Johnson of Bostocks Bostock's show who had general charge charse of the animals took the word of ot the skipper and provided provided pro pro- vided food Including six old horses for Cor twelve days for the menagerie The Time Thelast last of the meat for Cor the gave save out on Friday and the St. St Andrew could not stop to catch fish even on the fish day Therefore the beasts had hall to go so hungry The two laughing hyenas never laughed so weirdly before and anti the royal Bengal tiger Caesar made the steel deck rattle with his roar The first thing that Mr Johnson did when he s set t foot oh the solid s s sOil ll of Hoboken Hoboken Hoboken Ho Ho- boken was to seek seel butcher shops hops Meat was as brought down to t the ship ear earl early last e evening id a l quivered tie inder r. r Dan Slattery Slattery of he p would call a gr I n fro r. Th Thomas mM Tallon n. n a n lion t tr a trainer alner cf who has eleven beasts on his staff telling the experience of or the St. St Andrew said he hoped that the next time he shipped with lions and tigers it would be under under un un- un- un der her the tutelage of some other saint Andrew was ms too merr merry for him For three days das there were ere nothing but l' l head ead s seas a and gales The forward hatch was open to give the aggregation air and wave crests and came camo aboard in clouds The forward hold looked like Jlko the thc rapids of f Niagara rhe The worst night of the trip May 3 found all aH the animals wishing there was no sea on the tho map Even the trainers were In distress especially the women who might stroke the manes of or lions but not the mane of or the sea Two Russian wolves wol became Involved In an argument and one of them got the better of the other Their scrap set the whole whole- space between decks howling yelping groaning and snarl- snarl Ing The common sailor allor man accustomed accustomed tomed to the time plain growl o of the thc combers comb comb- ers got an attack of ot nerves when the beasts began to Join In the storm chorus The vanquished wolf wot squeezed out between the bars of or his cage and amid ran rami for the companion ladder leading from the after atter hatchway to the main deck A dozen keepers went vent after him Meanwhile the ship was rolling roiling so that It was hard for the landlubber to stand The wolf a monster dark brown fellow galloped pur pum sued by the keepers keeper He lie was chased twice around the main deck Several keepers headed him off oft and after stopping and looking at them a moment moment mo mo- ment meat he leaped up on the rail raU and jumped into the boiling sea No lifeboats lifeboats life life- fe- fe boats were lowered The wolf had hardly vanished when a greater racket than ever stirred the bowels of ot the liner Two lions Victor and Madame in the tIe same cage cas had lad I got into a fight light Cages were slipping with ever every ron roll of or the tho St. St Andrew K Keepers epel's with steel tipped prods tried to force the lions Hons apart Keeper who had a prod found a 1 cage containing two lions Hons coming his wa way and tried to dodge All the animals were excited One of ot the tho lions in the Im Impending Impending Im- Im pending cage got sot its head far enough out to bite In p passing Jassing about three Inches in inches inches In- In ches out of or left leg Kennos made for the open deck leek About the time another trainer was same grabbed grab grab- bed bell b by a lion whose cage slid across the hold The trainer lost his coat and shirt and his left hand was badly lacerated By this timis time Victor had torn open the throat of oC Madame and was making preparations to eat her Re ne of ot trainers arrived prodded Victor awa away from the lioness and got out her carcass which was thrown overboard In the general uproar a vicious puma got loose and tackled a little elephant one of or the most Intelligent In the time herd The elephant looped Its trunk about the puma and after atter al almost almost almost al- al most strangling it hammered it against the tho deck and then trampled it to death The sacred white tattooed bull buH thought this was a pretty good time to tota ta tackle kl an ordinary secular horse Ina In Jn ina a stall opposite The horse gave the sacred 11 bull a few swift kicks which temporarily checked his onslaught But Dut the bull persisted and was about to finish h the tue horse when the keepers Int Interfered and took tool the bull buH back to his stall tethering him securely Ever Every trainer aboard spent only a afew few tew hours In sleep on the half halt dozen st stormy rm nights of ot the trip The only really sweet creatures creature In tho the bunch were the Polar bears on deck They got ot a washing down n with the thO ships ship's hose hOHe every night and morning and an were in good humor even cn when the temperature S' S got goti t. t UP to lo the thu summer notch yesterday f On Only one of or the white hears bears had shown symptoms symptom 9 f His shipmate was wasa with which he had been caged many mans months month Wh When rhen n the time sea Ma got Kot o on lt Its hind legs th the hyena rot got ot on hl his ld tried fled to me lick hick the amiable hl bear ar The ht hear bear stood tood It n out a n minute and then gave tw time the hyena several swats swat that mad the fur 11 fly The Tho hyena decided that It would call the match off ott into a corner It was on un very vry friendly ly terms with time tho bear hear yesterday yesterday- cw ew York Sun |
