Arizona republican., 1899-06-30
STRAWBERRY BEAR
Jack Fitzpatrick Now Flavoring q Bear
 With Vanilla, Also.

As soon as Maine man finds out ! that he can produce something which l city people want and are willing to pay for, he becomes so devoted to his specially that he overdoes the busi-
 ness. For two years the Sun has made casual mention Of Jack Gilpatrick' s efforts to add checkerberry and straw berry havOring to bear meat by Iced ing the live bears on an exclusive diet of berries. Tn 1897 he sold a cheek erberTy bear for s65. which elated him so that he resolved to form checker berry trust to control the worlds mar
 kets Last year, checkerbe1ry favor
 ing not being tc demand he modified
 his plan, selling one pure strawberry
 bear for $40 and another that was
 about half-and-half, for S25. This
 year he has made a specially of plain
 strawberry bears, and is now raising
 them under contract for delivery ia
 Boston On or before July I
 As few strawberries ger ripe il
 Maine before June 20, Gilpatrick has
 freJted of late because the season was
 cold and backward, giving him only
 a short time to put on the finishing
 touches One day when, he was stand
 ing outside his log cabin feeding his
 bears on strawberry jam and wonder
 ing f he could afford such luxuries, George Coleman, who drives a soft
 drink cart from Bangor to supply the country soda fountains, hauled up in
 his yard and asked for dinner. Gil patrick doesn't run hotel, but when he looked at the long. fiat cart and saw the iridescent array Of tin-capped bottles he resolved to lay himself cut and provide a dinner that would compel Coleman to call again. He was nearly an hour in cooking and dishing up the courses. While oCle- man was eating and praising the food Gilpatrick slipped out the back way and calling his pet bears to the rear end of the cart gave them all the strawberry f1avOring they could drnik- On his way back the next day Cole man stopped again for dinner and complained about the boys of Amherst and Aurora, who, he said, had been his soft drinks.
 If they'd taken ginger ale or birch beer" said he, T wouldn't have felt so bad, but they had to go and guzzle down my best strawberry extract, which is worth 90 cents a bottle''
 While Coleman was telIng Of his losses the thrse bears came from the woods l0lling out their tongues and frantic efforts to get at the cart. As soon as the two men went into the camp the bears helped them selvestO to whatever they liked on the cart, uncapping the bottles with their teeth and drinking a dozen bottles of strawberry and vanila favoring They 1 opened several bottles of beer and ginger ale, but did not seem to relish i either
 The cart made one or two trips two | days later when the bears levied on i it for toll both ways. Coleman con tinued to complain about the bad boys, | to bring a detective from | Bangor. Cilpatrick was so sorry over COleman's losses that he furnished i two dinners without charge, whereup- | on Coleman, not to be Outdone in gen | erOsity, presented to the hunter six | bottles CT fiaVOrilg extracts, all of | which went to the bears as soon as the | cart was out of sight.
 Gilp2trick has quit walking on the | side of the hill to see how the gresn strawberries are getting along What | ever time he has to spare from his | bears is devoted 10 writing postal cards | to his patrons One card which he | has lately mailed reads as follows:
 Dear Sirs: One bar is ripe enuf to | pick and smells jest like strawberry short cake. bsing seasoned clean thrO. |
 P. S.-DO you want enlything Of a yer1iIla b'ar2 I hev one that has got | more vernila inter him than a soda | 'ountain. YCu can hey him this week for 45 dolls The price is going up i -.Ie erlong. Ans. JACK.