The Newtown bee., 1893-12-15
Our New York Letter.
AT TATTERSALL'S.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BEE.I

Many of your readers, more especially the younger portion, may like to hear something of the wonderful exhibition of Hagenbeck's trained lions and other wild animals, now at Tattersall's, 55th street and 7th avenue.
 For the benefit of the "stay at homes" 1 will try to give some of the dollar en- trance for which each of our party had to pay for a seat back under the gallery, and which after due consideration we consider are much better than the front seats, we had good view. First, you may imagine an ordinary circus ring in the center, encircled by an iron fence going to the roof, vet the irons fine enough not to obstruct the view. Then the seats and galleries extended around the ring. A fine band played all the time. The first thing on the pro- gram was Miss Marcella Berg with her trained animals. The elephant, Topsy, is not big elephant, but not as the Sun reporter says 'only three feet high and brought in in a trunk" two beautiful Shetland ponies and two great boar hounds.
 MISS BERG
 is fine haired, fine looking young wom- an dressed in a green velvet frock coat with pink silk cuffs, pink silk drapery extending from the throat to below the edge of the coat in front, white silk tights and black vanished military boots coming high as the knees. She carried cane and long whip which she cracked like a pistol. The elephant, horses and dogs marched forward and back to music, formed a pyramid, of which the elephant was the apex, many other tricks, and finally waltzed to mu- sic all around the ring, the dogs around one another, the two ponies the same, and the elephant alone, all in perfect l time.
 And now I will tell you here, that all the dogs, of which there seemed a good many, were very
 FINE, INTELLIGENT AND HANDSOME, much larger than the largest St Bernard ever saw. They were mostly beauti- fully spotted, one a brindle.
 The second act was rather frightful, for one reason. These animals had been brought from Chicago and had been kept in their cages till some of them were rather unruly, as you will see fur ther on. sJ
 J. Penje came on with the lioness Hell ena, the pony Kalmuck, with Hector, called the largest boar hound in the world. The lioness ran round and round the outside of the ring, finally being per- suaded to jump on to 9 pyramidal block as high as the horse, who cantered round the ring stopping at short dis. l tance from her, where she jumped on to his back and rode around twice, jumping off on to a still higher platform, where she lay growing and striking at the trainer with her paws, every time he came near. It took long time to per l suade her to jump to the horse again, and do some other little tricks. Finally l she
 I BECAME VERY SULKY
 and very ugly, and tried to get through the fence just opposite the entrance. Neither the dog, horse or man could do any thing with her. She ran back and forth within space of 10 feet, till she was exhausted. then lay down. When they opened the gates, some one went outside the fence and prodded her with an iron rod and she bounded out to her den.
 Mr Beketon, the wonderful Russian clown, trainer and sgymnast, next ap- peared and three wild boars, hideous looking creatures, their bodies being