Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-11
The Elephantine Immigrant.

u1nbo's Safe Arrival at the Battery and
His Difficult neutrality-suspicious. of the
Voyase-His Dlssipated Habits and
Fondness for xVhisl1ey.
from the New York Heraldl
Jumbo has arrived. He did not have All
opportunity to Jumboverboard during the
voyage, and he reached New York in safety
after tempestuous passage for
fourteen days The Assyrlan Monarch, the
staunch steamer to which this distinguished
cargo had been intrusted, anchored at Quar-
antine shortly before midnight on Saturday,
but it was not until half past twelve o'clock
yesterday noon that the steamer was moored |
at her dock at Jersey City. steam derrick |
was to have been in readiness to transfer the |
to lighter, so that he could be
brought at once to this city and lodged safe |
ly in his temporary home in Madison Square
Garden Through some misunderstanding,
however, the derrick was not in readiness.
1t lay in the slip, but was deserted and use
less, because captain, engineer and fremen
were not on board, and the fires were out
and no steam on. After a delay of several
hours some of the. hands were found, and
another interval elapsed before the clumsy
craft, which combined the functions of q
forty ton steam derrick and lighter as we'll
could be brought alongside the steamer and
prepared to receive the elephant At five
o'clock, in the presence of crowd of about
a thousand persons among whom the small
boy was ubiqultously and noisi1y numerous,
the covers were removed from forward hatch
No. 2 and the top of the great wooden box
containing the monster was revealed. Enor-
nous chain cables were then carefully passed
under the cage, the gigantic arm of the der
rick swung into position, and at half past
five, with many precautions to see that the
ropes and cables were property adjusted SO
that the box and it's living freight would
and oil
in readiness for the difficult and somewhat
hazardous work of lifting Jumbo from the
hold of the steamer and dropping him gen
tly upon the deck of the lighter.
HIS TRUNKS FIRST APPEARANCE.
It was just twenty five minutes to six
o'clock when the order, ''Hoist away - was
given, and with gathering of chains, strain
ing of ropes, creaking of pulleys and putting
of the engine, the box rose very slowly into
the air. A slight rocking motion attended
it's upward movement the cause of which
wooden beams, clasped about with many
bands of iron and dotted with bolts and rings,
was closed on every side but one. This front
rs open except for five heavy lateral bars of
timber, and as the cage rose above the comb
ings of the hatch huge, dark swaying mass
was visible through these openings. 1t was
the head and trunk of Jumbo, and q cheer
burst from the fast increasing crowd which
lined the pier, clambered over adjacent yes
sells and blackened the roofs of sheds and
warehouses. The great brute rolled uneaslly
and restlessly from side to side in his narrow
quarters and pushed his trunk between the
bars with quick and nervous motions, caus-
ing his cage to rock very perceptibly in spite
of guy ropes and cables. Matthew Scott, who
mas been Jumbo's keeper since the elephant
was imported from Africa seventeen years
or Nh 4l,o1 oIS IF i6o i,7SE ont
side the bars as it rose into the air. He
talked to the animal as if it were a human
being, quoting and soothing him. Jumbo
| seemed to understand, for as the cage rose
higher in the air he swayed less violently and
gradually quoted down, SO that by the time
| he was lowered upon the deck of the lighter
he had ceased to manifest signs of uneasiness
or fright. -
At six o'clock the cage was safely slowed
upon the lighters deck, and with three rous-
ing cheers and tiger for Jumbo, three more
for the Assyrian Monarch and three more for
Captain John Harrison, her hardy command
or, the assembled multitude saw the lighter,
| in tow of tugboat, move out into the
North river in the direction of pier No. at
the Battery, Up to this time Jumbo had ut
tered no sound but when, for moment,
Scott, the keeper, descended from the front
of the cage and moved off to speak to Mr.:
Hutchinson, one of the managers of the
show, the animal uttered hoarse below and
butted his head against the bars as though he
wanted to follow him. AS soon as the keeper
returned to his side he was quiet again. and
from that time on either Scott or William
Newman the American keeper who went to
England to fetch the elephant to this coun-
try, had to remain in his sight. If they
showed any indication of leaving him he
manifested his displeasure by believing.
When the lighter reached the Battery pier at
seven o'clock the whole of the First ward
seemed to have turned out to welcome Jum-
DO. Nearly two hours were spent in landing
the cage and adjusting to it the low and
broad wheel truck which was to be
| the means of conveying Jumbo through the
streets to Madison Square Garden. A team
of sixteen horses was in waiting, and these,
after much delay, were finally harnessed to
the cage and it was started on its way to the
Garden, where it arrived without accident
shortly after twelve o'clock.
Jumbo is a monster Mr.. Barnum, Mr..
Bailey, Mr.. Hutchinson and Mr.. Arstingstall,
the elephant trainer, agree in pronouncing
| him the largest elephant ever imported. He
| stands over eleven feet six inches in height,
weighs six and a half tons and measures
fifteen feet across the head from the extreme
| tip of each of his enormous ears. He is
twelve feet long, and his trunk is seven feet
/ in length. Mr.. Barnum and his partners
Il
| landed in New York, Mr. Hutchinson states,
| will be nearly $4,000 There have been
many unforeseen expenses ingetting him here.
| In the first place the opposition in London
/ to the sale to Mr.. Barnum was SO strong
| that several lawsuits had to be contested,
| entailing cost of $2,O for legal expenses
| alone. Then the experiments in making a
| cage in which to transport him were costly,
| and the expense of bringing him across the
| Atlantic was very heavy. Passage was en-
gagged for him twice, and two steamers were
| fitted up for him and provisioned before the
| Assyrian Monarch, but on both occasions
! Jumbo positively refused to enter his cage at
| the last moment, although he was docile
| enough at all other times. In addition to the
| freight charge of 81, 900 the steamship COM
pany exacted pay for fifty tons of freight dis
placed aud for 200 emigrants, at $50 per
| head, because the emigration authorities
would not permit passengers to be carried in
the same part of the ship with Jumbo.
| JUMBo's wH1sKEY.
! The cage in which Jumbo was confined
! during the voyage is 6 feet inches wide and
| 10 feet high, inside measurement. 1t is made
| of seven inch timbers of yellow pine, with
| double lining of three inch oak planks.
| Heavy bands of three-quarter inch angle
| iron, with five inch fanges, pass around the
| cage in all directions and the receptacle is
1 as SCFOuS DIS SEOuC ClIQD6ES auu iron CHI UQhKS
| it, 1t weighs six tons-within half a ton as
much as Jumbo It rested on the flooring of
the main deck of the steamer, under one of
| the framed matches, and extended through
the shelter deck to the hatchway of the spar
deck The ship had rough passage, expe-
riencing a series of severe gales, but Jumbo
bore the journey we'll. He was frightened
and restless at first, and was seesick on the
second day, but he soon recovered his appe-
1 wi ia
reached here. His daily allowance of food
| was about as follows Two hundred pounds
| of hay, two bushels of oats, one bushel of
| biscuit, ten or fifteen large Ioaves of
| bread, two or three quarts of onions, five
| buckets of water, and apples, oranges, figs,
nuts, cakes, candies and dainties of that sort
| in unlimited quantities. The Baroness Bur-
dett- Coutts and other distinguished person.
| ages in London who visited the steamer to
| say goodby to Jumbo just before the Assyrian
| Monarch sailed, left boxes of candy and
buns of which Jumbo is very fond for his