St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-26
JUMBO'S SUCCESSORS.
Are Elephants Dying Out of the World
Or Not?
Big, Bad, Indifferent and Dead Ele-
plants.

Only few years have elapsed since the
London Spectator declared it quite likely
that if Jumbo attained the natural limit of
his life, $50 years, he might be the last of
his race on the globe. The production of
the 100000 pounds of ivory used in
England alone every year necessitates the
death OF 80, 900 elephants and from various
causes the annual death rate of this most
interesting of quadrupeds is estimated at not
less than 100, 900. Breeding in captivity
must then be depended on eventually to
propagate the species, and how far success
full this has been may be inferred from the
general rejoicing among show people
when at rare intervals baby elephant is
born.
In death Jumbo. by his tusks alone,
proves his immense value. Ivory at Liver
pool has brought as high as 81. 200 ton.
In 1879 it went down to as e600 ton, but
has since advanced nearly 100 per cent.
The dead mammOth's tusks entitle him to
the rank accorded him of pre-eminence in
size over any elephant ever brought to
America. There is a great beast which has
Tor nine years never left his prison pen at
MOSCOW which is twelve inches higher than
Jumbo was. There are timber toters''
among the draught elephants On the banks
| OF the Ganges thirteen feet high, and from
whose number greater Jumbo might read
| lily be procured. But there never will be
more docile, and consequently, aside from
his size, less interesting elephant on exhini-
| ton.
Bad elephants, elephants on their travels,
and dead elephants are the most interest,"
ing by all odds, except, of course the In
| telligent beasts that are paraded in Sunday
| school books and first readers for the de-
lectation of the young, and which have no
existence anywhere else.
The hsh-eating elephant is considered in
India the most vicious of his species. In
| the Himalayas each variety Of the semi
sacred beast has name.
THE oRAB-LovER
is called Hibaxat, and turns readily to
| man-eater. Another monster, which eats
| so much fish that his hide becomes scaly, is
| called Bek. But the famous mad elephant
! of Munda is conceded to be the worst ever
known. For years he has been in the stud
| OF the East India company. One night he
became possessed of demon, and the next
| morning broke loose and fled to the woods.
For weeks that whole province was terror
stricken. With cunning which could
never be anticipated the mad elephant sci
hundreds of hunters at defiance. and Creep
ing on unprotected villages smashed the
huts and trampled the women and children.
He had destroyed thirty-fve lives when
killed.
When Jumbo first came over here the
London Times commiserated his unhappy
lot, but said it was better after all than the
treatment the tribute elephants sent from
Burmah to Pekin get when they misbehave.
They are blinded and tumbled into a great
pit to starve.
When the emperor of Brazil cameto Phil
adelphia in 1876 anewly-arrived elephant at
the Zoo was named Dom, after him. When
Dom became insubordinate hundreds of
people went out to see first one foot chained
and then another, until each of the four
were fast to cable running over pulley
wheel, when. with single pull Dom's legs
| were stretched out. and he was reduced
| gradually to subsection. Dom had to be
punished this way when he was 10 years
| old.
Barnum's big Pilot had to be severely dis
| ciplined once for engaging in regular prize
| fight with fellow manned. Pilots morn
| ing cocktail of twenty-seven gallons Of
| water didn't
COOL HIS CoPPERs
on one occasion, so he deliberately kicked
out and BACKED companions eye The
rough and tumble fight which ensued was
exciting. But no elephant is ever so wicked
as when he is travelling. In 1880 John Rob-
| inson's Chief with the circus at Charlotte,
| N. c., instantly killed his keeper, John
| King, while the latter, in the presence of a
| large crowd, was endeavoring TO show the
| people how the beast climbed into his spe-
cial railway car. The comedy became a
| tragedy when Chief seized King by the
waist and dashed him to instant death
against the side of the car. The crowd of
| North Carolinians became so enraged..that,
until the absurdity of the thing dawned
upon them, there was actually serious
talk of trying to lynch Chief.
The first modern instance of deyiltry on
an elephants travels was the murder by the
Duke of Edinburghs Tom of his keeper en-
route from Plymouth to London. Tom had
| been brought from India in 1870 in 81. r.
HIS yacht Galatea and trumpeted frantic
protests when put on the cars. A few min
utes afterWard he reared and crushed Will
lam Patton, his keeper, against the parti-
| ton.
But the most ferocious elephant spree on
record is that of Barnum's Emperor in
| TROY, N. Y, when, in company with
| Jumbo, the attempt was made to drive him
through the streets to the train for GI0verS-
vile. Emperor did not want to travel. he
ran first through the streets to Erastu
Corning's iron foundry, and, rushing in,
burned his feet badly on the redhot blooms,
Filling the air with shrieks, he ran into
crowded street, trampled Michael Casey,
threw P. Maher down an embankment,
broke three of Michael Minahans ribs,
pulled Mrs. Moulton off the stoop whera
| she sat with her husband and proceeded to
run amuck until he had done 81 1000 worth
of damage at a low valuation. Mr.. Hutch
| ola lIy-, in cfo
and fortunately no loss of life resulted,
Emperor being finally rolled into car.
Bolivar, until Jumbo, the biggest elephant
| in America, was brought by Forepaugh from
| the East Indies and via New York to Phila-
| delphia. No sooner had Boliyar's special
! car
BEEN CLOSED ON HIM
in jersey City than he began to rage. He
! drove A j. Forepaugh out of the car at the
the tusks' point
Great Improvements have been made in
the special cars for elephants. In 1879 the
English experimental on the transportation
of these beasts for use in the Afghan war
and found that the cattle cars used on In
dian railways made excellent elephant cars
when the freight was placed in the center,
fenced in with six stout shafts and held
down by four anklets to the floor 1t Jumbo
had been any taller it is doubtful If his cal
could have been hauled through many rail-
way tunnels.
When His Sublime Grandeur, the court
and body elephant of the king, dies in Siam,
the rest of The court have very unpleasant
time for thirty days. The last body ele
phant went mad one night and tramped five
attendants to death. On the next morning
an effort was made to corral his sacred body
in ring of ''holy bamboo" He brook loose
again, and in frenzy fell over and died
All the court was severely punished.