The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-06
THOSE BULLS KILLED
ANIMALS THAT ENTERTAINED
 ARE MADE INTO STEAKS
Bull Fight Feature of the Festival is Said to Have Made Money. ; MT. Johnson Win Go to Fort
 Worth to Fight Bulls.

Few persons in Montgomery who, while they slipped their coffee and minced their Juicy steak at breakfast yesterday morn- ing, knew that there was a probability that the tasty sirloin CT porterhouse of which they had partaken had been carved rem the Joins of the gaily-hedecked bulls that in days not long gone by pranced about ring at the corner of Dexter Avenue and Hull Street, and made rushes at the Mexican gentlemen who had been trained to encounter their anger.
 The fact is twenty bulls used in the bull ring have been slaughtered. From being actt rs they were led to the pen and like the scurviest COW in Alabama were killed. butch ,red and laid out in refriEerators, Being slaughtered they
 It is claimed that these. bulls were l taken to Buffalo. N. r., from Mexico
 From the Pan-American Exposition they
 were brought to Montgomery. The show in Montgomery being over and the sea- | son closed, there was nothing to do with the bulls but drive them off to a butch CT. They were fat and in good condition.
 bulls in Texas and Mexico as profess
 sional bull fighters required. and the freight rate on bulls Is high.
 Soon after the shades of night had
 passed thronSh the sreets %as Re
 proud Mexican bulls being driven to | their doom. Base man had bartered
 away their lives. They must be driven
 the negroes that Mexican bulls will not
 be driven when the sunlight is stream
 ing across Heavens sky. Slowly fTthe | smaller bulls followed the bel1wether
 Newtown, where the slaughter pens of | Montgomery lie. Butchers with keen
 knives came on the scene. They wotted
 not of Mexican bulls or bulls who did | IL .,-N.. .t~ kIzxr
 had visions of fine sirloins, porterhouses
 and other choice bits that swell the
 hearts of French chefs. The bulls were
 slain. Their end came Monday evening.
 interested in the bull fight. has gone to her home in New Orleans. W. w. Chamberlain who managed the show, is
 still in the city. Half a dozen swarthy
 hotel and think of their far-away Mex | ican homo. They will leave the city the latter part of the week. Berto H. Johnson of Montgomery, who | brought the bull fighters to Montgomery
 and financed the entertainment. could not be seen down town yesterday, but
 he was reached by telephone at his res
 idence, 603 South Perry Street He con | firmed the story of the sale of the bulls and their slaughter Monday evening, say
 ing that new bulls could be secured In Mexico and Texas and that 1t was not
 deemed necessary to ship the animals to |
 Did you know I am going away in | the morning?" asked MT. Johnson. "No, where are you going%'
 '"To Fort Worth. Texas " What for"'
 ITO buy bulls"
 Buy bulls?'
 "Yes. buy bulls. o, What are you going tn do With them Y! Fight 'em."
 DO you mean you are going to en- gage in the business? l "Yes"
 How long will you be away" "Tll be back to Montgomery in a
 "Wasn't the bull fight financial fail-
 ure?"
 "Ntpe."
 How did you come out?' Made several hundred. ~ DO you mean you cleared " That's what ! mean. Did any one lose anythingF NO; ali of us are to the good, but | we didn't pull out as well as we expect ed. We gave the public show 1t had
 never seen before, however, and we are | satisfied" ,. | MT. Johnson said that he had made some investigation into the matter. He l found that it was a clean sport that at- | tracted attention and he expected to give 1t a trial. He had made business | Arrangements with Mrs. Travis and MT. | Chanberlin and he believed his venture
 would be successful. He said he would | of course continue to make Montgomery | his home and would move into ms hanu- l some new home early in December. l The bulls are dead The Kings or the
 ring live and the Mexican senors down
 at the hotel pull on their cigarros and no doubt think "Vive la Koi.