Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-14
MIR. CROWLEY GETS A BED
STEAD.
Providing for the Comfort of a Chin
paDzee-His Love for Music.

paDzee-His Love for Music.
From The Neto York Zrtbans.
| Mr.. Crowley, the chimpanzee in Gen.
trail Park, rested in a new bedstead last
night that has been provided for him in
his room in the Arsenal. He is now in
his third year, and is more than 3 feet
high. He has been in the habit of wrap
| ping himself up in blanket in one cor
ner Of his room at night, but since his re-
mOval to winter quarters from the mon.
key house his sleep has been much dis
turbed. He would frequently get up aud
walk about his room in a distracted state
| of mind, so that Jake" his constant at
| tendant, suggested that he wanted bed
| like other people, instead OF being obliged
to stretch himself on the hard floor.
The bedstead is OF oak, about feet in
| length and 3 feet wide, giving abundant
room for Crowley to stretch himself and
turn over. 1t was fastened as a precau-
ton to the floor with strong iron braces to
prevent Crowley from moving it about the
room. a strong canvas sack filed with
saWdust will serve as mattress for him
TO rest on. Crowley inspected the new
piece OF furniture with apparent satisfac-
ton when 1t had been placed in his room.
He crawled under It,, lay crOssWtse, test
ed its strength, and then perched himself
on the head5Oard and grinned his salts
faction at Superintendent COnklin and the
group who were watching him.
''Do you like itW asked Jake" his at
tendant.
"Yeugh," replied Crowley, in the
choicest chimpanzee and showing his
teeth again,
THAT means yes," explained "Jake."
when be says Dough- that means no.
Do you want TO go to bed, Crowley
Cough" grunted Crowley, shaking his
bead.
"Wil you eat an apple?H
"Yeugh! Yeughp' Crowley shouted,
the railing of his quarters, selling
the apple and eating it deliberately.
The chimpanzee's health is now good
and he weighs 50pOunds. Care is taken
to protect him from the cold, as his lungs
are still weak from an attack Of pueumo-
MIA that he experienced last winter.
Twice a day after Gazing he takes spoon
full of the emulsion of cOd-liver oil, of
which he has become fond. His looks do
not improve with age, owing to the size of
bis mouth and his fiat nose, but when his
hair is banged aud his coat brushed for
receiving visitors he has an air OF foreign
gentility. His strength is enormous for
mis- size, but he continues to be in good
humOr, shakes hands with visitors and
contents himself with trying 10 pull Oft
their rings. He passes his time trying to
play at tenpins. To music he IS susceptI-
ole and when his keeper plays on the
mouth organ Crowley listens with &C.
stacy. ''Sweet ViOlets' is his faYorite
and wnen it IS played be tries to dance a
breakdown in the most approved minstrel
fashion. lie understands the instrument
and when it is handed him places it TO his
mouth and blows on it to reproduce the
sounds. The full growth of the chimpan-
zee is not attained until the twelfth year.
Crowley is about half grown and Super
intendent COnklin thinks that the chances
of keeping him are now good, although he
would have died on several occasions il
he mad not been so carefully watched by
Jake" Crowley and his keeper are now
widely known and they have visitors daily
frn1n I'll rnnrte of tho nnnnfru