New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-28
.JTUBO DOUBLE IN DEATH.
HIS STUFFED SKIN CAFES AT HIS BONES


ARE TWO DEAD ELEPHANTS BETTER THAN LIVE
ONE ?-READY FOR THE CIRCUS RING AGAIN.
Jumbo is not dead HIS memory lives in the hearts
nc thousands of little who have TED MN uhtolu
quantities of gingerbread, and he has furthermore
material and dual existence III the LABORATORY oi ro
,.ssor Henry A. Ward, the Rochester taxidermist.
There his hinge bulk now stands, an egy OF departed
greatness and squnts sardonically at bis well scraped
which has been skilfuly put together and set
nm in another corner of the 1t Is the restoration
of Jumbo the renaissance of eephantine magnihcence
If dead Indian is better than live one certainly
tvo dead Jumbos ought to be as good as one i've
limbo aud the greatest show on earth s'lil mas to
biggest thing in eleE hants. When that pl-omeheu
Canada railroad train turned the living JUMBO lpto
several tons of hashed elephant, the fertile Dra Oh HIS
owner conceived the idea OF preserving tn7 grea'
uachyterm for future generations OF clfcus-goh cn
dreD and Professor Ward, who is familiar Win the
family secrets and the internal apparatus OF everything
that walks flies sw inns craws, TOOK the CONTRACT
of immoralizng the childrens Jet. The JoD was ois
one and the cost much exceeded the seventy n,'
dlIors y that extrayagsnt expenditure in stoohn
Miker-that excited the Irish widow horror WIG"
tho e,rbomed body of her husband was brought homo
with the hill Jumbo had TO be " restored but not IN
on, ordinary manner His admirers were much too
humorous to simply put him on pedestal and expect
than, all 70 come and admire him. lie must be taken
70 them and the always knotty problem OF transpora-
ton came in The work is finished now ana all Is pre-
pared tor his pOst-mOrtem trumphal progress.
special car special wagon and special Jumbo all III
in together to form an exaggerated copy OF te TN
god on Wheels
The first thing WIS to build huge frame oil WOOD
and iron that should conform to the great beasts
well-known shape This boarded up with two
I,,r abpon mn q a
f,ur nile, of kegs. Thea the hide halt an inch thick
and weighing l,53S pounds was drawn over TINS
frame The hide was taken Of his huge carcass III
three pIece and stceped in a solution OF arsenic alum
an, corrosive sublimate two months before went
unon the wooden statue OF Jumbo. Then his tu>k5
were stuck into the sockets prepared Tor them, ttio
brown glass eyes put in their places, coqnetsh
twist was given to his trunk, aud Jumbo was himself
acain The whole structure weighing about three tons
stands on a strong platform and Is 50 boted together
that the atigues of travel are not expected 10 mlure
AT ALL As the eigy stands on its pedestal in Professor
Wards laboratory i Is fourteen feet long, twelve ieet
high eshteen feet about the grh four iee' ana ten
;pcbc. across the ears and five feet and three inches
,r,upd tbo foot In plac the skin i one and hall
iucnes thick aud looks and feels like the bark oi an
Old maple tree 1t is sewed up 20 nearly that tne
seams cannot be discovered ana II Is heg 10 ~ bcc
/ ~, tle wooden frame by more than $4,000 nails.
There are sparse coarse hairs all over anl tLose on
| trunk sharp and sim a. hccules luste
number of longer hairs growing at the p OF MS tai
bnt the cnerpr-ug young vaudals OF Canada pluched
them ont while he Was Ing Id slate al o. l"ona'
/ and ,old item TO relic hunters AT - each 80,
! I'm TRANSFORMATION pedestal and all Will be uteu
ton q ,yarou which l., twenty-five feet long anu can
| Lc raised and lowered al Will. This II he drawn
/ about the ring &C Madison square & arden win inc
children on the back OF the wooden monster JuNl as IA
| the DAYS when be enjoyed flesh ahd Doou "lu
gingerbread existence. Wagon and AL VIII Dc ""'''u
mon special car the bocy of which J. only incheS
above the ground. And yet II this tats OF elephants
had been but little bit taller II "oII1 nave oeGu IN
possible To get him through the rdltodo tuuN''9 ~"
/ any arrangement whatever. Some time TINS week 'he
sije Of the laboratory will be taken out ana JUMBO
reapls will be dragged forth into the hight OF pup
Ii-ity Then he will be put on BIZ $500 pound char Dt
the chariot will be- haGled uoon the special r ana me
/ whole affair will trndc merrily on 10 briuGep'I.,
/ there Ia io,n the show aud start on the summers
travel Next in importance to the sLDsthhtid' GEo'I
. of .. J. Atrcanus.n stands his skeleton. ms Woull
stock a boue-boiug establishment lot yea, ~
weighs 500 nds and Is SAID oy froessOr w ru 10
be the largest skeleton OF modrrp Ter t f mamma ~
in the world II towers up IN the arr frame Norh oI
bugc beacAed bones and ribs. held together by non
aud copper rods bolts and rivets be great
i, there from tip - tail To cerNcu HtiteDrd' WIN
leather washers in place OF the usual grsIt ueI"eeh
th4 ioiut. The dorsa vertebrate which SICK up III
thr air like the spiucs the backs OF some dls9Ste-
allie yor,tlc. of little fish have a curious depression
in the lumbar region. Ii looks as Il the carrying "
loads of happy children IN Jumbo's green ana Sala"
DAYS had made him hollow backed Ike oot mar Is
broken to the saddle at too early an age. JUMBO vas
not by means the venerable monster 'I" ~ g.
peoue supposed him 10 be. lie was not twenty-five
old when he forgot Ia get out Oh tn' "dA VI nav
railroad train and had many years more To GET us
5rowth lie increased inches in height while IN
! America His tusk-. which were worn on snort oy
peri ctual rubbing against The walls OF his Ehsil,H
urisou cell grew foot and II he had been spared To
he show business he would eventually have hau as
rc,pcctabe a pair of tuska n any reaNohaole pre-
bo.c,dIan could desire he great, shapeless Nknll Is
cracked and scanned but th, i all natural Inc II G
turc, produced by the manner" If his untmely taNhS
off nave all been hidden The skeleton Is To be taken
onort in travelling aud number OF be Nes nave b''h
prepared To receive the c'ml onent parts me pieces
are labelled: Jumbo Africans right front leg exc;
70 prevent mixing those bones up on the road ana
consequent attempts impoy on nature IN the sIc1l-
lecture of elephants. jumbo was an Intelligent 'r'Nt
but there i 20 reason why he should not nav, OeeH
perfect solomon among elephants a lie carried around
with him six aud one hall quarts or over cHul' 'oO'
of brains, Ills bulging brow always gave tim a9
osnrrt of contcmpatlye benevolent intelligence and
now IT is known that is looks did not belle nm as lar
, "a mental equipment concerned. nj least.
What tbc art people would call a private we"
of This immortal pachyderm given to number Oh
ncw,papcr men Mt Rochester on last FRIDAY In ofuer
n NJ The party might have fellow feeling Tor the He
parted elcnhant they were fed on ivory Ie.N lla9 9
fr"m fine inner part of hi, tusks THUS do the great
live over again in their friends!