Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-24
A Tiger Fighter Who Earns Two Dol
lars and a Half Week.

One of the features of the great black
Venus is den of royal Bengal tigers in
to which the dusky Queen is going to
throw her truant English lover. She
sends the keeper into the cage to stir the
animals to rage, and while he is engaged
in this work distant volcano erupts, and
in the blaze of its light the curtain falls.
l was standing Immediately by the cage
of tigers when the trainer entered it.
The tigers were the largest ever displayed
in New Y ork-enormous, supple, glisten-
ing. AS the man entered the cage,
quickly he closed the door behind him,
without taking his eyes from the animals.
They retreated with snarls and growls to
the further end of the cage He advanc-
ed rapidly on them, striking them sharp
w, firing his pistol in their faces and
driving them before him. The largest
one-a superb animal-moved slowly,
was cornered; and as the keeper dashed
him he only crouched the closer to the
wall, flattening himself against the bars,
and glaring at the man with eyes half
shut, as if he were about to spring on his
my bones. If the man had quivered in
lid falter-l believe the tiger wonld have
been on him in an instant. "Cz-z-a-sh!'
down came the whip over the tigers face.
| A hoarse growl of rage and pain was the
answer, and the face of the animal was
like that Of a demon. "Crash! crash!''
came the whip pitilessly, the man stand
ing with lips closed and face set, his left
arm guarding his breast and the right
raising the lash over the tigers head.
Suddenly the tiger raised its huge paw as
| if about to strike back, its teeth flashed
behind its red lips, when, with look of
disdain, it slid easily from the bars and
swept past the keeper to the other end
of the cage.
"That tiger will kill the man yet'' said
one of the stage men, ''and he know it i,
too" iet
"He knows it," asked, curiously.
"Yes," replied the attendant; 81 bunk
with the trainer, and he tells me often
that that big tiger hates him, and
will mount him some time. He has al
ready gashed him up several times"
"Why does he keep fooling with him,
them" l
"Oh! it's his business; they always get
killed sometime or other. It's the rarest
thing in the world to see an old trainer
They all get chawed up some time or
other"
Just then the trainer passed, and with
troubled face said to his friend:
"He was pretty ugly tonight, wasn't
he? I'm going to punish him when get
him down stairs"
turned to Faxon and said:
"What pay does that man get for his
work."
SWELL" said Dr. Gray, ''if you were to
pay million dollars minute you could
not get me to earn cent at it."
"What does the tiger man get?" asked
Faxon, turning to the attendant.
1.-TWO dollars and a half week and his
board. - RI sa;si
tsWhat's his namer'
Not man on the stage could tell He
was simply common workman with the
rest, They called him the ''tiger man"
There was a commentary: Risking his
life nightly in the most terrible conflict
for two dollars and fifty cents week and
the privilege of sleeping in bunk and
eating bread and meat, and winning so
little fame or reputation that none of his
fellow workmen ever knew his name, or
cared to know.