The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-20

/, THEY MADE THINoS LIVELY.
New . As..ssrss Wa r.r.sA Ls.ss IN .
vsom thu New York sun-
was acting as shipping clerk i'm the of
0co Of In Liverpool and Calcutta steam
shin line Mt Cape Town. and among the
helpers In the big warehouse were two or
three fellows who were called "Half-
Hot.." They were a mixture OF white and
black, but not mulattOes. The color was
more like that OF the Chinaman. and their
~vcrnacular was q queer mixture of Eng
hsh and Dutch. These fellows were as
servile m slaves To ones face, but as re-
vengeful as f1ends behind his hack. The
old clerk had been i'm fear of them and had
put up with their faults, but walked them
around pretty lively from the first day and
At the end of the first month had plenty
of cause tn discharge them. / had the
power To hire and discharge my own help,
having at times as many as twenty-five
men in the shcds, and 80 nothing was said
about these three going away They
made no protest to me, but q Boer who
was acting AS my assistant warned me
that ! had b~est)look out for myself for the
next few weeks, as he had overheard them
threatening vengeance.
Two days after the discharge of the men
an English ship, which had been around
10 The east coast and up the Bay OF Ben
museum Mt London, put into Cape Town
IN 0lStre88. Snc vas Leaking so DAILY
shat In had to go into dry dock, and she
had to he lightcred of almost everothing
she had before she could pass over the
Tn animals were stored i'm one end of our
big ware house, which was n building 100
feet lone by 100 feet wide; There was
sized ones from India. together with two
malelions, three tigers, four or five hy-
half: !: Go.en snakes, a couple Of pansSers,,
md a large number of monkeys. All but
the elephants were i'm cages, and these
building, and the elephants far enough
away 40 that they could not reach the
or each other. They seemed peace
other, and the beasts and serpents had
been SO shaken mp lat sea that they were
glad to secure rest and sleep.
Il was i'm summer, and the weather was
very hot. The warehouse was only one
story high, built of brick, and the many
Keep out OTHERS Stout iron bars ran up
and down, and outside OF them were
hsSvy a Tirs sSsesnS; .o; rsi" da "a ond n MP to
and keep the building ventilated. In the
centre of tho building was a cupola, fur
at he east end a little room had been par
sitioned of for my office. This room con-
tanned q sleeping bunk and "a hammock,
and l slept here and took my meals at II
hotel. There was no Waterman i'm
side the house, but one was. stationed
she night of which I an now going to
write there was u full moon, and the in
terror Of the big warehouse was almost as
hour and a half, when l was suddenly
awakened by a trumpet blast from the big
elephant; He was chained by one foot TO
u ring bolt i'm the floor, and stood broad
side To one of the indow and about 10
feet away. He trumpeted as IL highly
angered, and as dropped out of the ham
mock I heard him Juggling to- break the
chain. On that side of my Office was N
large window, and i had no need to open
Atsn .rssnSNovv g., ax, s-1,at .aras rpnsp.sv nt n
saw the big fellow Juggling and straining,
and he made the building shake with his
MY Feet half a "n minute when a" his S'e chain
snapped and he was free, and then 1t
struck me that the situation was an nm
My office was opposite one Of the big
doors OF the warehouse. but 30 feet away.
To reach it must cross the building. My
elephant, but he had scarcely broken
loose when pandemoninm reigned SUI
trumpet and to strain at their chains, and
big follow came straight To my end of the
left, and within 10 feet OF my door he be-
gan to work ON 80 sacks of corn corded up
n ~ s moth az asd i iians them 1"s a s@ . a al.d
wasn't through with the sacks when h
knew what / must prepare for. The watch
man outside had caught the alarm and he
came to the nearest WINDOW ana shouted
20 me. / dared not answer him. as the
elephant was now close by and 1 was
fearful that the sound of my voice would
cause him to attack my frail shelter.
Having tossed the last sack high in air,
the big fellow made q rush down the
warehouse for the smaller ones who were
trumpeting at each other and preparing
for n row.. He knocked one of them over
with his rush, and then pursued the other
had been pretty well cleaned by the last
ship, but we had considerable machinery,
barrels of flour, about n thousand Ameri-
can smoked hams, with perhaps fifty
boxes, large and small. containing gro
cerics, dry goods, boots and shoes, and
other stuff. When the small elephant
who was knocked down went over he
smashed the lions cage, and l plainly saw
both of them leap over him and spring
upon the cage holding the monkeys. Such
q RrowliAg and snarling and bowling and
, roaring no one ever heard before, and the
rumpus drew the attention. OF the ele-
plants directly to the
h~on~sv0 thair O~n diHerencps n r.