The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-08
SHIP FILLED WITH ANIMALS.
Pathetic Side Lights ON the Living
Cnrgo of Steamer Angola.
From The Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
New York, June Back 10 back in the
stern Of the steamer Angola, which has
just arrived in Brooklyn from Calcutta
are two big cages containing each Ben
gel tiger. The larger of The Two is said to
be The biggest ore ever brought 10 this
country, and he looks it, thin as he Is
from his long voyage Ills cage is dirty
and squalid and gives him barely room 10
turn around. he is surrounded constantly
by a group Of men, who puff tobacco
smoke and make cheap comments on him.
Close beside him maddening little hoist
ing engine Is buzzing and cianking as il
jerks the cargo Qua Of the hold and swings
il over to the pier. His coat Is bit dingy
and rough, his ribs show, and his Shout
dcrs stick up sharply. But in spite Of It
al he is every inch a king as he sits up,
watching his captors with blazing eyes
and his lip quivering, and drawing back
over his big teeth.
The whole deckioad of the Angola con-
sists Of cages of animals and animals with
out c. ges; they are part of the regular
cargo OF the ship.
Wandering helplessly about the deck like
an Old lady looking for the right car Is the
sacred Hindu COW, a perfect little model Of
a Jersey cow about as big as a fair-s.Zed
mastiff Chewing its cud amdships is the
4-horned goat which looks, as far as its
face Is concerned, ike middle-aged spins
ter, with curls in front of her ears, indus
triously chewing gum, making a business
of it. in fact.
The only other animals not confined TO
cages are the two young elephants, Hero
and Hennie. They are amidships, where,
as one of the sailors said, there's more
weather than there is aft" They had
to take the brunt of what bad weather
was encountered and suffered severely
when the big seas washed over them, and
they had to stand deep 10 the cold water
that flooded the deck.
Hero, indeed, had such a chill that his
life was thought to be in danger, and
pint of whisky was poured into him Both
of them show the effects of the voyage
and look more like poorly mounted skins
than real elephants. The backbones and
shoulderblades show very plainly, and
their trousers are extremely baggy.
But they are in good spirits. What do
they do?" asked a red-faced sailor,
scratching Hennies chin till she roared
playfully and tried TO put her trunk up
his sleeve. what don't they do? Thatd
be easier TO say. They just have 10 know
about everything that goes by 'em and If
y
want to know about they'll stop you, grab
your hat off or something. They're just
ike a couple of children, all the time ask
in questions an playn' tricks
Hero, meanwhile, had turned his back
and was investigating a bundle of straw
mating. He had rolled it over and tried
to stick his trunk into it and was just
shaking it like a rat when one of the
stevedores rushed up and took it away
from him. Then he resumed The process
of powdering his back with plumbago,
which was lying about 1t gave a kind
of stove polish effect to his skin, and he
probably recommended it to Hennie as
"matchless for the complexion for she
quickly began to follow his example.
Further forward are many cages of lit
tie monkeys, who squcak and gibber and
leap qercely at the front of the cages, then
suddenly forget about It and stop to
scratch themselves From a little box on
the upper deck something that looks like
a comb on the end of piece of hose reach
es out and grabs at everything that goes
by. II is the paw of one of the anteaters,
who seems also 10 be OF an investigating
turn Of mind.
Close beside them are three leopards and
some kind of a small lynx. All Of them ex-
press an active and incessant hatred for
oil who pass taEr cages They draw back
into the corner and look like great and
peculiarly malignant cats and growl with
a kind of gurgle that sounds like the deep
boiling of some mighty kettle. In contrast
to these are many little birds, parrots par
aquets and some varieties of Indian sing
ing birds unfamiliar 10 the unscientitic
observer. Grated like bicycles are half a
dozen deer and Indian moose, in cages 50
narrow they have 10 use ali the skill born
of their mountain training to turn around
in them Snakes there are in plenty, but
they are not exhibited to the people who
elude the swinging bales and barrels and
make their. way on board the Angola in
search of a free menagerie.