New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-19
PRICES OF wILD BEASTS AND BIRDS
PROFITS on ELEpHANrs-sEA LIONS TOO SCARCE
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PROFITS on ELEPHANrs-sEA LIONS TOO SCARCE
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"Want to know The prices of the animals, do
you 7" asked the veteran trainer George Arstingsta
as he came OF the ring at Madison Square GARDEN
after performing his great act" ami pulled oil bic
drcss-coat "Wel don't know that can give you any
definite information. The show business Is good deal
like the retail JeweIry trade. You ask all You think you
can get and get the you can. Some animals are
almost beyond price That white elephant for instance
Vanderbilt couldn't buy him. he cost US all OF
100000. well-trained elephant will bring from
$50 OO6 To $4,000. Five OF these ogether--poiutns
to the herd quietly munchng their hay behind the ropes,
-" cost 100000 The average green elephant costs
a 600 or 81 900 In this country after his passage and
the duty at the Custom House has been paid. fyou
60 10 an agent in Ceylon he will charge you from 500 to
81 OOO while he pays the natives VINO capture them
apout nall that. In all probability. rhis cassncaton
holds I'm all cases: First the educated or perform
ing animal which Will always bring good price Then
comes the animal that will stay in cage without
tearing itself TO pieces and chewing up everything within
It's reach Then the specimen that has just landed
and which is liable do all these unpleasant things and
any thing else that Its ingenuity may suggest finay
and lowest all Is the ANIMAL In ~ native wids at The
place OF captiTe. The figures that an giving you ss
for either the trst or second claSs. we uaVe nI.
oness that $500 but average male hons range IN
price from 81 900 To $1,000.
good uger costs 1000. while Inferior specimens
can bought rs low as $500 The tiger Is .ie Euy
royal beast than the lion and does not sand captivity Is
we'll This aud the difficulty oil catcuug Lin Keep ptitcs
up The man who goes out to bag full grown tiger mas
large contract ON his hands. good trickb vile
hiring II 500 while the ordinary snow beasts rang
from SO to $500 white Polar bear that mas become
and can live without his Two or three tons of
lee a day Is worth $4,000 Brazilian ana African
drcaie subject The longest he was ever known 10 i've
IN cantiyity WAS years. aud IL IL rare that one as
half thar time. lt is ditcat to teach them TO put tet
heads down eat and drink. Nhen IN the villa stag
they INK from tho cup like leaves or the Iam Tree
single speclmen Is worth from $4,000 to $4,000 !
herd of fifteen was sold for SlOo.0Oo mere aS
more than sixty varieties OF the antelope Iamy IrVu
the elk aud horned horse or Gnu down, costing Irom
81 900 TO $4,000 each The camel costs from Sooos
~ 600 but we bought q lot from specuator wno
had made an unsuccessful attempt TO aecmae them Y
Texas way below those figures. In the desert cnno
ia worth about as much horse and lives 10 me sams
age The hippopotamus Is rather uncertain IN price
Zen wears ago would cost $4,000 Iheye cnepea
now however The rhnoccros Is quoted at from sSvVv
up $1,000 Monkeys are cheap ~ 20 each' 81,
large blue-rosed dogfaced specimen VIII se ~
81 600 Any Snowman would gladly give Sioovo W
live gorilla but lie H. not obainable AT even lnas
and we have 20 content ourselves with chimpazeecc
So 900 each. large ostrich VIII brng from Si,vov 1890
80 600 Hell sbort-ived. vicious olrd anu wV nas
himself TO death The aud cassowary cost Sos 80
81 900 each. The saddle tapr, so called peeaso o -
more n II ia fine specimen. Hyenas are caaios a
from 81 900 $1,000. and Alaska seals from Sl;V Nv
TO 81 900. while lions ara 80 rare thst ~
di fcut to put price on them Large n,kes 20 ,haS
GLASS which learned to feed In captivity. Ate, WIN"
they will live a long time. Ia worth at least S3Vv .,s
"iIow much caritalis there invested In wio ""'A
In this country y =, - ,rch a
00O some say. This Egyptian war - raising ms
prices too. since most OF the African anima. raj
through Egypt bnt there's no danger Oh any -
scarcity at present, guess