The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-03
BEAR CUBS FRoLIo IN a FUR SHOP.
They Chewed Up Several Hundred
Dollars Worth of Seelskins.

They Chewed Up Several Hundred
Dollars Worth of Sealskins.
from the Chicago Herald.
Two cinnamon bear cubs got QUE OF their
cage in one Of the show windows Of Han
sens Empire Fur Company. Nos. ISL and
1873 Wabash avenue, last night and In q
short time destroyed several hundred dol
lars worth OF furs. When found by a
Pinkerton Waterman they were trying TO
tear a 5000 sealskin coat to pieces. The
floor was Uttered with bits of beaver, miuk
and leopard, which the two frolicsome cubs
had torn up.
Ten days ago the owner of the establish.
ment thought it would be a good advertis-
ing card to put Q couple of bear cubs in the
window to attract the attention Of passers-
by. A strong iron cage was made feet
high and feet wide. There was no top to
the cage. To make the bears feel as COM
Portable as possible a pole feet high was
placed in the center Of the cage, 40 that they
could climb up and imagine themselves in
the heart of dense forest. One Of the
clerks gave the cubs the names of Gyp and
Trix. They behaved themselves admirably
in their new home up to last evening. When
the store WAS closed at O'Clock the boy
whose charge it was to look after the bears
threw them soup bone and then locked the
cage securely.
1t is not known what time the cubs were
seized with wild desire for freedom, but
from the amount of damage done the
owner OF the store calculates that they got
out Of their Gage about 6:02 o'clock. Escape
was made by--climbing over the top. AT
O'Clock, when q Pinkerton watohmen
passed along, he saw the cubs playing foot
ball with S9T seal muff. Firing of this,
they attacked a mink boa and chsWed 1t 30
pieces In a moment. As the Waterman had
IL Airaa 60 Rkr.NN
the wholesale slaughter in fur. The porter
of the establishments lived three miles away,
and while the watchmsn was deciding
whether he would send for him the cubs
ripped seal Jacket up the back and then
rubbed their noses against the glass win
dows as if IN defiance Of the man outside
The watchuan decided that the best
thing to do void be 80 send for the porter
before the bears had destroyed every article
in the store. By this time they had begun
on beaver capes and from outside it APP
peared as if they were partial to this kind
of fur. One of the cubs tried to take $50
cape away from the other, ana as result
there was not enough left of the shoulder
covering to patch collar, A messenger
boy was on his way to the porter's house as
fast as cable car could carry him, and the
cubs realizing that their sport would soon
be stopped, pitched into a long seal coat
with more than usual zeal.
At 9 o'clock, when the porter arrived at
the store, be was breathless and pale. The
messenger boy had told hing about the cubs
getting out Of the cage. When the porter
opened the door the bears were putting
some finishing touches on an $50 otter set.
The young brutes we're quickly thrust into
their cage aud the porter spent the next
hour In gathering Up the strips Of fur that
had been strewn from enc end of the
store to the other.
If any dime museum man wants to buy
two healthy cinnamon bear cubs at his own
price be can do so by addressing Hansen's
Empire Fur Company.