The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-09
WHITNEY TO STOCK
AN AMERICAN JUNGLE
New York HeraId.O

William e. Whjtney's enterprise to
encourage the growth OF big game is
progressing to colossal proportions. His
great animal farm in the AdirondackS
now comprises more than 10000 acres
1t is a vast tract of forest 1t contains
( lakes. rivers and mOuntalns-mahiH
it the ideal home for big Same-the an
imals usually found in the primeyal
s0litudes of the wilderness.
Besides owning d township of land,
embracing a large part of the Saranac
lake region, Mr.. Whitney has nearly
10 Gee acres in western Massachusetts,
and still other thousands in North Car
DINA, TO say nothing of property on
Long island. These auxiliary tracts
may be used as nurseries and training
schools for the various kinds of big
game to be encouraged, from noun
tain sheep to polar bears, elk and ele-
plants. The tropical animals, of course,
will be confined to the southern game
ranch.
The natives of the great North woods,
who have so long lamented the disap-
pearance of their former game, viii De
pleased when the beasts of Mr. CleVe-
lands faVorite cabinet minister begin
to roar around the lakes OF the whCer-
ness.
His tract of nearly $4,000 acres means
about fifty miles of Ujiji jungle in the
North woods. Here expert game Aevp-
ers can populate the forests with big
game.
1t will mean a bit of the dark con-
tinent' within a nights journey OF New
York City. You take a sleeping car
for the AdiTOndacl1s, 20 be aWanen- d
next morning bv the music Of Mr.
Whitney's big game. Tiger hunters,
students from museums and universe
ties. Sunday school teachers and scien-
titic men generally may thus obtain
new and vivid ideas of the wonders or
the aniI,.al kingdom, for Mr.. Whitney
collection viii be no weakened speci-
mems from menaSeries, reduced to de-
generacy by the peanut and embalmed
beef diet Of the metropolis
The possibilities Of these big game
preserves are great. EverybOdy-ex-
plorers. professors of natural history,
brave young ROOsevelts-mu be inter
ested in having the enterprise a sue
cess-a typical Africa of wild beasts
and wilder adventures The ordinary
menagarie animals viii be easy to 90
mesticate. 1t is estimated that within
q year or two Mr.. Whitney's park
ought TO be alive with big game. By
careful training and judicious physio-
/ logical manipulation an improved
breed of tigers, hyenas, leOpards, ele-
phants (both white and India rubber
cOlored). rhinOcerOus, man ape, gOril-
Z las, balloons, with all the big game ser
! penis. sacred COWS, alligators and GRO
coolies for lakes and rivers. ought to
be thicker than fieas in this Adirondack
! preserve
And what scenes may be witnessed
when once the big game enterprise is
| in full working order imagine it,
| At daybreak, Just in the beautiful pur-
pie gray of the morning, the fun begins.
AS the farmer calls his pigs and cows,
| or the housewife her turkeys and
/ chickens. so the keepers win summon
( the beasts of the forest, of lakes and
/ streams. The keepers viii hoarsely.
! but kindly shout through a meEaphoue
( for the big game to come to breakfast.
. .
How the forest viii trembie, Ele-
plants. snakes. hyenas. tigers and
African lions. followed by mountain
| sheep and sea serpents Che' air full of
smaller frvl. viii come leaping and
/ bowling with glad cries, rough. but af-
fectionate all the animals snungry, for
meat
/ 1t viii be no circus menagerie affair
with a keeper dangling a boarding
house steak from a red hot poker, but
whole trains of Chicago beef, with
lambs for the invalids, viii be unload
ed free to all big game. The tanner
animals. such as elephants and Der
| forming lions, viii be curried off and
anointed with oil and sent back to the
/ Jungle to hustle for stray tidbits until
I the next meal.
Nothing since the day when Noah
I led the animals out of the ark and
I Dore pictured Adam and Eve playing
/ with yellow named lions in the Garden
/ Of Eden could rival the scene.
TO have his collection complete. Mr..
! Whitney's head gamekeeper should inn
port some Of the more recently discov-
cred animals that kept Stanley awake