Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-18
THE sImIAN's REVENGE.
Mr. Hardy Tells Of liis Chumr Expert.
encs With Giant Anthropoid.
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(washington Post.)
81 eos that Barnum has lost his big pet
gorilla, Chico" said George Hardy. an old
travelling man for New York paper
house. ut reminds me-" he continued.
'of very Eruesome adventure had with
one OF the beasts over In Liverpool a
number OF years ago. and II the same
fellow were living now he would more
than replace Chico, for he was a half
bigger. and az Stronghold. II would bo
hard to calculate his strength, but give
him knotted rope and brace for his
feet. and he could outpuli any three men
In the warehouse where I met him. But
he Is not living now. He died very sud-
denly.
ut was down on the old East Dock,
where many of the big East Indiamen
used to come In. l was n young fellow
then. Just starting In business and a
Junior clerk for one OF the big paper ware
houses there. One Of the firm WAS great
friends with the captain OF a big India.
liner. and on one OF the home voyages
the captain brought back big gorilla
that he picked up at some port on the
way. Ho gave him to our boss. and as
Mr.. Boulder did not have any room for
'Gooro'-that was what they called him
In his own house, they left him down at
the paper warehouse, where he was chain
ed I'm the engine-room. principally be-
cause It was hot down thare
He had nasty temper when they first
got him, so that there were very few peo-
pie who could handle him. but after he
had been in the house for nearly year.
he seemed to get used to his surround
ings, so that he was given the liberty
OF nearly the whole establishment. and
some of us younger fellows struck up
quite an intimacy with him, sharing our
luncheon with him at noon. and treating
him pretty much as one of US. for he
smoked and drank, and did everything
but swear In English. He could swear
fuently enough in his own tongue when
he got mad. He would get mad occa-
sionally when any of the boys teased him,
and would wait a month, If necessary, 10
find a chance to get even. And he would
not stop at anything in the way Of a
mean turn TO n man he disliked from up
setting "a bucket of engineer on his
head TO turning a steam jet on MIN,
which last he did 10 the engineer once,
and nearly parboiled him.
but we put up with these little eccen-
triclties for the sake of having such
strange pet about, and everything went
all right until Ned Hannah, my particular
chum in the store, put big lump of shoe
Gooro was in the habit OF sitting, and
glued him down. He nearly tore the place
up, and we had 10 fairly cut him loose
with a hammer and cold-chisel. Ned
kept shy OF him for some days, and we
thought the affair had blown over. But
we did not know Gooro's capacity for
harboring a grudge.
There was big paper-cutting ma
chine in the warehouse. such as you find
In almost any big paper store. only Il
larger one than usual. 1t had a slx-foot
knife, like a guillotine, that travelled up
and down in grooves with big fly
wheel attachment and multiplying gear
that gave force 10 It's stroke, so that It
would cut through pile of paper two
feet thick like slicing cheese.
I'VE had taught Gooro to run this ma
chine. and used to make use of him
often. saving ourselves a good deal Of
work by putting him upon the iron table
AM letting him twist the cutting wheel
while one of us arranged the piles OF
paper on the table below. He used 10
enjoy It, and got so he would twist the
wheel like a steam engine. gurgling and
chattering like a Sandwich Islander. and
raising or lowering the knife as We told
him.
lone evening we had lot OF big. six
foot MANILA paper to cut. just about as
big as the machine would take, and, rs
it was q long job, Ned and | stayed after
the rest Of the force went home TO finish
II up. We let Gooro work the wheel
and got along beautifully. We had nearly
finished the job. when We ran out OF
tobacco and Ned told me to run up and
look in his desk, where ] would find some.
We were down In the basement. and it
was a rather long trip up TO the front
faNt Il
some odd work on my desk to put away,
so that ! must have been gone nearly
a quarter Of an hour.
"When l came back ! paused at the
basement door, and You can imagine my
surprise TO see Ned stretched out across
the table of the cuttng-machine, pinned
down by the knife. and the big ape dane
ing around him and occasionally running
over to pinch him or pull his hair or turn
the wheel and tighten down the knife
triffe. II was an awful scene
Ned told me afterward how 1t hap
pened. He had been changing the set OF
the gauge on the cutting table. and, after
loosening up the screws on the side where
he was standing, had thrown hlmselr
across without thinking, under the blade
Of the knife TO loosen those on the oppo-
site side. That was appa cently Just what
the wheel around and caught Ned with
the knife right across the back. The ape
could have cut him in two just az easy
as not. and he doubtless would have done
IL before he got through. but he seemed
10 want some fun out of the performance
first and sat down on the end or the
table jabbering and chuchling and pull
ing Ned's hair and every now ana theh
taking another turn on the wheel.
Then he would loosen up the knife
til there was almost chance Tor Ncd
to wriggle out but the first move Nei
msde the hairy devil would pin him DOWN
TO the table again. AS / say, couiu
not have been gone from the room more
than quarter OF an hour, but Ned De-
clared Il seemed Ike two days, and whon
l came back Gooro had Just about made
up his mind 10 finish the job, and was
screwing down the knife.
II saw what was up rs soon as got
to the door, and | knew that II went
to making any row the gorilla was hheiy
10 finish Ned off hand, ard then take
turn at me, and | knew / was no match
single-handed for him IN rough-and-
tumble fight. ] did not have gun, ana
there was not even a penkniie arouhd
the place so far as | knew, but as was
looking around my foot hit against Il DIG
iron-scale weight that was pfopp!hs up"
tho door. II weighed about five pounds
hut picked ii up. and threw ii as hard
as 7 knew how, and il got the ape. as
luck would have it; right in the PACK
of the neck. He dropped on the table as
though he had been shot, and | let Neu
ND in a hurry. But there was no need 10
hurry, for the gorilla never kicked. When
we looked at him we found that the bio"
| had broken his neck
"AIr. Boulder never said word aoou'
| the killing. and think he was rathct
glad to get rid Of the beast. But l aoh
want any more fights with gorliias.
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