The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-08
THE sIMI4y,s REVENaE.
Mr.. Hardy Tells OF HIs Chum's Experience
with - Giant Anthropold.

with u Giant Antbropoid.
From the Washington IOst.
~ see that Barnum has lost his big pct gorilla
Chico" said George Hardy. an old travelling
man for IA New York paper house. " 1t reminds
me-" he continued " of n very gruesoIue adNcn-
ture ! had with one of the beasts over In Liver
pool number OF years ago, and II the same fell
low were living now he would more than replace
Chico. for he was half bigger and as strong
well, IL would be hard to calculate his strength,
but give him knottcd rope and a brace for his
feet and he could output any three men in the
warehouse whore met him. But he is not ltv-
ing now. He died very suddenly.
many OF the big East Indiamen used to come in.
ness and a Junior clerk for one of tn" big paper
warehouses there. One OF the firm was greas
on one OF the home voya ages the Captain brouRhi
back big gorilla that he had picked up Mt some
as Mr.. Boulder did not have any. room fos
'Gooro-that was what they called him hii
warehouse where he was chained in the engine
room. principally because twas hot down there.
him. rs SO oI that there were very few people Who
could handle him, but after lie had been in tho
house for nearly year ne seemed % &c. nse1 10
erty OF nearly the whole establishment and
some Of us younger fellows struck up quite
with him at noon and treating him pretty
much as one of us, for he smoked and drank.
tongue when he got mad. He would get mad
chance TO get even. And he would not stop Mt
disliEed. from upsetting bucket Of engine
grease on his head TO turning steam Jet on
him, which last he did to the engineer once and
"Bit we put up with these little eccentricities
s GF teS wens right
nan. my particular chum In the store, put big
Where Sh%P q aooTo %as the habit Of Sitting snd
glued him down. He nearly iy tore the
some days. and we thought the affair had blown
over. But we did not know Gooro's capacity for
There was a big paper cutting machine in the
warehouse. such as you can find in almost any
had a six-feot knife like q suiiiotns, that trav:
elled up and down in grooves with big fly wheel
tn @ 4ns so h
pile Of paper two feet thick like slicing cheese.
and used to make use Of him often, saving our:
selves a good deal Of work by putting him up on
wheel while one Of us arranged, the piles Of
paper on the table below. He used TO enjoy it,
Sandwich islander and raising or lowering the
"One evening we had lot of big six-foot
manila paper 20 cut just about as big as the
Ned and stayed after the rest Of the force went
home to finish 1t up. We let Gooro work the
nearly finished the job when we ran out OF to-
bacco, and Ned told me to run up and look in
down in the basement and it was rather long
trip up to the front office, and when | got M
away, so that must have been gone nearly a
H"When came back paused at the basement
Ned stretched out across the table Of the cutting
mschnS pinned down by the the knife; and me big
ming over IN pinch him or pull his hair or turn
the wheel and tighten down the knife trihe.
Ned told me sfterward hoy 1t happened. He
had been changing the set OF the gauge on the
on the side where he was standings had thrown
himself across, without thinking, under the
site side. That was apparently just what Gooro
had been looking for and he spun the wheel
across the hack. The ape could have cut him
In two just as easy as not and he donbtie,s
he seemed TO want some fun out ~ the perform
ance first, and sat down on tho end OF the table
and every now and then taking another turn On
was almost chance for Ned to to wrgge OUT hps
the first move Ned made the hairy devil wouli
pin him down to the table again; As say, !
could not have been gone from the room more
than quarter OF an hour. but Ned declared u
seemed like two days, and when came back
the job, and was screwing down the knife
= saw what was up as soon as ! got In tho
door. and knew that II went 10 making any
row the gorilla was likely 10 finish Ned Oft
hand and then take turn at me, and knew
l was no match single-handsd for him in
rough and tumble fight. did not have a gun,
and there was not even penknife around he
place, far ] knew, but as | was looking
around my foot hit against big iron scale
weight that was Propping open the door
picked f's Il up A sSd threw i L as hard as
knew how, and il got the ape, rs luck would
have it, right in the back Of the neck, lie drop
ped on the table as though he had been shot,
and ! let Ned up in hurry, Hut there was no
need TO hurry, Tor the gorilla never kicked.
When we looked at him we found that the blow
had broken his neck
" Mr.. Boulder never said word about ths
killing, and think he WAS rather glad 10 get
rid OF the beast. But don't want amy more
nights with gorillas"