The evening world., 1902-11-08
Rather Than Take 1t Through
City Streets, Barnum &
Bailey May Order the Beast
Killed.
GREAT MENAGERIE HERE,
Occupies Entire Vessel, and the
Cargo Is a Huge Geological
Show of Wild Animals Of All
Sorts, Including Horned Horse.

Mandarin. the largest elephant OF the
herd Of eighteen brought over in the
Atlantic Transport liner Minneapolis.
whish was chartered by Barnum *
Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth" to
transport their great circus cargo to
this country after a five years tour OF
Europe, and which arrived at Pier No. 40
North River this morning, may have to
be killed this afternoon. Mandarin.
who had been very unruly all the way
over, started on a rampage this after
noon and developed such n f~erocity that
George Conklin. who has charge Of the
elephants. could do nothing with MIN.
As all the elephants will have to be
led UP to lthe pier at Thirty-third street
and the North River, where they will
be put OH cars, Mr.. Bailey, when In
formed OF Mandarin's obstreperousness.
said that rather than run the risk OF
any accident the animal had better be
killed.
The entire ship had been chartered by
the show people. and not so much as a
stowaway cat intruded upon their pri-
vacy.
The voyage from London, begun thir-
teen days ago. was marked by halcyon
days n calm and unrufied seas. and
not even a horse suffered from seaslck-
ness on the voyage. The cargo consist
ed OF 10 elephants, 2 glraffes. ~ tigers.
S lions, G hyenas. 4 Ieopards, 4 bears. 4
ranthers. 81 monkeys. 1 horned horse.
l gnu. } deer. 1 taplr. l aoudnd, / water
box, l pylghau. / black wart hog, /
orax, 4 antelope, 16 dogs. 1 moufion. Z
camels. 6 ~dromedarles. 4 g~ainses, 1 yok.
4 zebras. / water buffalo and 162 horses.
The only casualty was the death of a
blue tail monkey. who died as n result
OF trying to swallow bareback whole.
The rarest and most priced specimen
Of the entire aggregation, however, did
not belong to the quadruped class. He
Is the great and only human telescope.
Willie Doss. Willie, more Familiarity
known as Stretch" has supplanted
"Jo-Jo. the dog-fnced boy" the What
is-lt" and other celebrated freks.
His normal height is 6 feet ] inch.
James A. Bailey. the great Snowman,
was standing at the head OF the pier,
and when he spied the human telescope
he shouted out, "Ah, there. Willie; vel
come home" The freak turned in the
direction Of the salute and stretched"
His neck seeked to rise out OF his coll
lar after the manner OF a jack-in-the-
box, his shoulders followed and his
trunk seemed to rise away from his
| hips, until he gained a height that
seemed to cut off the view OF the look
out on the foremost yards.
""Tis time TO tell the town that the
tallest. towering. topmost toiler OF To-
ledo telescopes twice as tall as the true
and trusty Titon OF troubled Troy in
the time OF Titus. the tyrant." SO spoke
Tony Hamilton. the press agent.
"Other wonders are the legless and
armless cyclists" he said. Gus Selby,
who can stand more volts OF electricity
than is necessary to electrocute all New
York's criminals; the wild man OF Bor-
neo, Joan. the headless wonder. and q
lot more"
The animals will be loaded Upon
freight ears and transported to the Mott
Haven yards OF the New York Central
Railroad. whence they will go to the
shows winter quarters at Bridgebort.
The elephants. Camels. horses and four
trained Zebras will be led up to Thirty
third street and the North River, where
they will be loaded on cars and shipped
to the same destination.