The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-12-12
/ ELEPHANT And A CAMEL
: ., ANT SYSTEM IN POS
~ .e,oN OF A MENAdERIE.
Eat and Drink a Heap
~ I'D the Railroad Would
ooer Il a Favor to>det
Rid of Them

,,,ont system agency at Charles
.The I lr &c" elephant on its hands me
b na' .a aL four tons: eats bale OF
p i oer day day and drinks four big tubs
Y srster at drinking - oo,,a,
u ~a,' agency also has a large camei
The "S The ship OF the des-
It's IS handsome beast, and like e, the
! IS Sat- - is expensive for the railroad
|'Pp "snecially care for the water
I'D Cd who is kept busy supplying it
ID . ~ weeks ago the Plant system
u ~ idea of going into the snow ou' :
y a. ~ It wac not the intention OF the
Ds s,'.,1 company to possess a menag-
|,s The officials Of the company ln tnsi nIog
re- had enough experience in training
r. l peeping elephants and camelS'
nu Nod rather run railroad trains,
Fhey nau bonn to oct rid of both the
Isobant and the camel IN q d 1em un o .
eeP4 trnth is the road would deem u ! q
Ihe r tavor if they could transfer the
Frea. Naming l"tG the animals to some
al co moad saw either the Atlantic
stleI me me or the Southern, but these
laiy s saw they are not collecting spec,
fOaa' 9 "a ANIMALS for geological gardens
|Hle9 iso u, especially when they are
c.I1" "n in cars too large to be hand
| e. r,o elephant and camel are in the 1t,
Inc o S,o which was built especially
aD w. ~" r +. Bostick, the owner OF
N anl m for transporting them
l ~ aI, the country. The car is a
l Iuo one much larger than the regu-
AIRY, roo os nsed by the railroads, and Is
AT T Jarge to 90 through the tunnels
~ ". IT, his side of Baltimore, and Tor
Ill., w. r ra the Atlantic Coast Line
nt G+ the southern have both refused
j ~ bs ,n the car. The Plant System
now trying to secure a smaller car;
., 5V inst IS soon as this car is received
t5 na elephant and the camel vii! be
srar.farred and together Will continue
s5 ri Journey to Baltimore. The eie-
|nSant has been cooped up in the box
En- 1 for several weeks and is getting
i 1, i' Of lbs close quarters. The beast
5ecoming restless, and wants to get
|Ont and take some exercise. several
law. 400 it became i'll tempered and
came yery near doing bodily harm tC
Cnp Of the railroad employees. A truck
hand went into the car with a tub OF
water and the beast refused to drink,
whereupou the railroad man tried tc
coay him. Selling the elephants
!. trunk he placed it in the tub of water
Such familiarity as this was not appre-
Ciayed, and the elephant lifted his pro-
DOscis and struck the man a blow
(which knocked him out Of the car door
to the ground.
Both the elephant and the camel are
the property of Mr.. L. II. Bostick, a
bowman, who has been travelling
s through the south attending the street
cnnirals, The Plant System contract
I'd with Mr., Bostick to haul the ele'
& plant car from Albany, Ga to Balti.
hore but when the car reached
Charleston the Atlantic Coast Linz re
uSed to receive it for the reason that
he car was too large to 90 through
he tunnel just this side of Baltimore
The Southern road was tried, but il
+ so refused to handle the car. The
Far is accompanied by a keeper for the
d nimals, and is on a siding in the
freight yard of the Plant System
yharleston IS. c. Post.