The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-20

ably have rolled a good deal if the
blessing of calm weather had not ac-
companied her during the greater part
of the voyage. The upper decks pre-
Sented an interesting scene as our
tender neared the Massachusetts; most
of the trainers, keepers, riders and so
forth were maSSed on the Starboard
side Of the vessel about $50 in all, and
they cheered us and we cheered them;
the band on the bigger vessel struck
up Hail, Columbia" and thy waved
little American flags and exchanged
greetings with their friends on the ten
der who shouted facetious inquiries to
them. And at length we got aboard.
The steamer has been termed a "Noah's
Ark" and that is a good enough de-
scription Of her for advertisement pur-
poses. Probably no vessel has ever
carried SO many animals Of so many
different varieties before. She has on
board thirty cages of wild animals,
nineteen elephants, 240 working horses,
1876 ring horses twenty-six ponies, eleV-
en- camels and half a dozen zebras.
The collection Of elephants in the
show is numerically strong, and in
gross tonnage remarkable. Besides
the nineteen on board the Massachu-
sets eleven more have booked their
passages by another boat The larg-
est of them on the steamer which ar
rived yesterday were slowed In sta
bles situated in the fore and aft main
matches. They have stood the voyage
remarkably well, in fact that was the
only thing possible, for there was not
sufficient room for them to lie down,
as is the habit of elephants when they
want a nap. Only once has 1t been
necessary to give any of them a. pick
me-up in the shape of a two-gallon
peg of rum; for the most part they
y rod in n
ishing the 100 tons of hay which the
vessel carried. Old Fritz is the doyen
CT the elephantine staff. His fighting
weight is 1850 pounds, some ESQ
pounds more than the famous Jumbo
turned the scale at Fritz, however,
is six inches shorter, though this
doesn't seem to depress him as much
as might be expected. He is most
gentle beast, according to his keeper,
and a child might play with him. Now
Mandarin, on the contrary, has a
shocking temper, so that he had to be
chained up. He has killed his man
In his time, the precise time being dur
ing the last visit Of the show to Eng
land in, 18S9-90. He attempted to get
out of his box night or two ago, and
they had to use a donkey-engine. or
some such contrivance to keep him
back. Baby Ruth is an interesting in
FAINT Of two years, the youngest ele-
plant in the show, and has storage
capacity of about half ton OF hay
a day.
Close to the tigers cage, in which four
nhosnhorescent eyes were all that could be
seen of the crown prince of beasts, was Jo-
hanna She requires little introduction, for
she has not before made her bow to the BTU
ish public Whether she is a gorilla or not
is moot point but she is certainly eau
Gated" which after all is the principal point
She is a precious animal, and lives principally
in a glass case. Standing four feet nine IN
her stocking feet, she has been educated up
to the point of drinking quart OF oid fralty
port per diem. With this, dozen eggs OF
so, and an occasional cup OF coffee and
cigarette, into all of which vices her trainer
in other respects quite blameless man mas
indicted her she has cultivated the higher
life sufficiently to SIT at table and eat with
knife, fork and spoon, though, If her diet De
what her trainer says 1t Is, the latter artiCles
would seem to be superluous Sunset Willie
SO called because of the peculiar tint OF his
nose is another gorilla, from Papua, Where'
according to the natural history books
goril,as are decidedly scarce.
The tint Of his nose Is supposed 10 De que og
put down, inferior port before he came INTO
the possession of his present prcprietors. me
return journey, after one mad lnterVleWeu
Johanna as far one can interview lazy
in q glass case was even more embarrassing
then the previous one. First one had 70
run the gauntlet of the performing horses
which. though comfortably stalled enough,
touch each others noses across the gangway.
It may charitably be supposed that they were
rather out of practice, and were anxious 10
mare had taken your hat off, and an Ameri-
can thoroughbred rihed your handkerchief IN
an impossible attempt to find carrots, 1t was
rather relief to find yourself in the stable
of @ the zebras, in spite of the fact that they
all bite" as the keeper casually Informed
you. "a,
was not locked until the early hours OF this
morning Today the animals will be taken on
shore but owing to- County unci rsgu a1ens
thew will not be able to pass through the
streets to their temporary home at Olympia
until after O'Clock in the evening.