The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-22

had been and were the source of con-
slant trouble to her.
Regularly at first the keepers tried
to work at them, but regularly Marty
resented it in a manner that showed
them Enthusiastically that she would go
to the length of dealing death to the
man who insisted on working around
her. So gradually the keepers, who
were not paid to act as victims or ele-
phantine idiosyncracies, abandoned all
attempt to attend to her feet.
This state of affairs lasted for several
years, until the horny growths on the
hind feet of the huge beast had become
so great that operative interference
was peremptory. The experts who were
called in were helpless for long while.
Every effort to look at the elephants
feet was frustrated by savage attacks.
At last DR.. Ernest Schaeff, director OF
the Hanover Geological Gardens, hit on
the idea of building a great pen of live
oak in Marly's Enclosure. When the
pen was finished Marty was coaxed in
by means of ten pounds of candy,
which lured her the more readily be-
cause she had been subjected to star
walton for several hours previously.
The pen was so narrow that, once the
elephant was in it, she could not turn
around, and it was planned to chain
her on all sides and then perform the
necessary pairing of her feet. A huge
anchor chain used by a great steam
ship had been borrowed, and this was
fastened around Martyrs middle and
bolted to the sides of the pen. Heavy
and mighty as it was, Marty burst 1t
with her first effort the moment one
of the surgeons touched her feet, anu
she would have stamped him into
nothingness had his colleagues not pull
ed him out just in time
A second attempt was more success
full The anchor chain which had hell
the 30O0-ton ship in many storm was
doubled and looped around Marty and
each foot was chained separately. Even
then it was necessary to act very gin
gerly, for Marty was not by any means
too secure and her transports of rage
were frightening enough to disturb the
nerves of the calmest operator that
ever demonstrated in an operating the
alter.
This initiated against any thorough
ness in the work (Which was done in
1886, and as a result Marty began to
show grave symptoms cary this year.
The cutting and filing had rather
helped the growth of the horny masses
of the toes and soles, and the result
was that they pressed on the soft parts
of the foot with force enough to cause
the formation of serious assesses that
threatened to become suppurating alb
scesses and involve all the bones of the
feet and finally the legs. When the
case became thus desperate it was de-
cided to erect another pen. But Mar
ly would not enter it. 1t was baited
with the most irresistible tidbits. The
poor elephant was subjected to starva-
ton and thirst All sorts of ingenious
stratagems were used. A dozen times
the brute was within foot of the
trap. But that missing foot was never
covered by the sagacious beast.
For a long time DR.. Schaeff had con-
sidered the method of performing the
necessary operation. knowing how
clever and cunning Marty was, he had
entertained doubts from the beginning
as to the efficiency of the pen, because
he felt sure that Marty had not for
gotten her previous experience. He
knew that force could not be used.
Claiming the legs had been proved use
less over and over again. The animal,
which possesses extraordinary strength
even for an elephant, exerted its power
both actively and passively whenever
an attempt was made. So DR.. Schaeff
decided that nothing would be really
successful except narcosis.
AS he says in his official report: This
d L
could find no one who had any expert
ence in giving an elephant anaesthetics.
Hagenbeck said positively that 1t was
impossible" Knowing that pachyderms
have uncommon powers of resistance
for poisons of all kinds, DR.. Schaeff
realized keenly that an attempt to rem
der Marty unconscious might cost her
life: but, on the other hand, ne knew
that the malady would be certain to
kill the brute within few months, and
he decided to take the chances.
! Having obtained permission from the
board of mana gers of the Geological
! Gardens, DIR. Schaeff sent for Prof.
Prick, the chief of the clinic for large
domestic animals. After a long con-
sultation, during which all sorts of
methods were discussed and discarded
II was decided to administer morphine
/ AS Marty was a great lover of rum
and water with sugar five quart bot
! ties of the strongest ships rum
are mixed with enough water to fill a
bucket and sweetened with saccharin
Then forty grains of morphine-enough
| TO send $50 men to sleep-were dis
solved in it.. This was administered to
the willing Marty with a huge syringe
! to make sure that the knowing animal