Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-07
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ARIZONAJ0U UnNAL-MlNER
:, 1897
LON TAMERs.
Sorns whe Never Use the Whip In Train
 ing Lessons.

Bona rvho Never Use the Whip In Train
 ing Lessons.
 French lion tanners, even if they do not exceed in skill those of other nations, have. at any rate, had moro written and said about them, A few years ago NJ. Pezon retired from business, having made fortune by his great power over animals, and gained the distinction of being pos kibly the greatest lion tanner in the world, with the exception perhaps of N. Bidsl, at whose menagerie in Paris some time ago there was a wonderful meeting of giants, dwarfs and monstrosities generally. for the purpose of discussing the interests of their respective callings. so far as those interests were connected with she hiring of ground in Paris and its vicinity.
 II. Pezon was one of the tanners vbO ignored the use of heavy
 lip. Consolidation, and not coer- rion, was apparently bis motto and, acting on that principle. he st. tained prodigious suocess- Henri Martin, too, another French per former, was quite in the front rank, and he, unfike some others in the profession, began really young. He was but @ small boy when he first embarked on circus life, and began with horses, gradually making his way to the more dangerous animals. Re is said to have been one of the few who did not object to tackle ti- eers, leopards and panthers-three animals which the majority of wild beast performers have wholesome and not an unnatural dislike Go.
 Some of NJ. Martins methods ap- peay to have been curious. Having cn one occasion to interview a hye- DC Martin wrapped his legs and arms with cords, protected his head w5th handkerchiefs and other things, asd. walking into the cage, went to khe hyena and offered 1t his arm. The hyena bit it of course, but Mar tin looked on stolidly. as though nothing had happened. Next day be guhstituted Q leg. and SO the train ing went on, til either the hyena got tired of biting or was so disgust. cd at seeing DO results that he gave If up
 II. Albert of Havre, too, was an other famous man in his calling, and distinguished himself on one occaGton, wben he found a quarrel going on among the bears, by walk. ing straight in among them and sep. aratirg the hghtersI but Mir. George EanE@ once did about as plucky a thing e ever was known. The lions and c 6oness were having & terrific dght in their cage. and the battle ragged so furiously that neither Crockett nor the keeper cared about venturing in. Ms. Sanger, however, was equal to the occasion, and, go, Ing in among the oombatants, sue- ceeded in restoring peace at last But if Crockett, who was a very able trainer, showed a slight loss oi nerve on that occasion, be made uI for it on another, when a groom tampered with the tastenings of the Hons cage at Astley's, in the hops that the occupants would kill one oi more of the horses, in order that be might be revenged on the manage ment for some fine inflicted. A nigh; watchman, hearing a noise in the auditorium. soon discovered the cause, and message was sent tC Crockett at his lodgings hard by. The tanner arrived, and, going into tho auditorium with a small switch, s1 Joeeded in very short time in TO caging his pupils.-London Field.