The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-01
SOME FOREIGN ANIMALS.
CameIs just Arrived Think They Must
Prepare for the Desert.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Bells of trolley cars and trains, the rattle
of wagon wheels, the cries of many Gagged
animals and the proddings of keepers all
have failed to awaken six camels which
fell asleep Friday a short time after
they had beer landed from the steamship
Assyria.
Last evening the somnolent six had been
asleep for more than twenty-four hours,
but they were still in deep dozes with grins
upon their camel countenances that indi-
Gated pleasant dreams.
Their heavy and lengthy sleep it appears,
is the result of a misunderstanding. The
six were taken to a riding academy at
Twenty-fourth and Chestnut streets with a
number of other animals that came in on
the Assyria, and put in quarantine by DR..
Schaufer, a government medical officer at
this port. The camels. however, according
TO John Shipman. the keeper who brought
the animal cargo from Hamburg, thinks
that the riding academy is an oasis and
are preparing for "a long trip across a
desert
On Friday. Shipman said yesterday, the
camels concealed in their food and water
organs enough TO last them for several
days. At that time. he declares. he wondered
at the way in which the contingent dis
posed of their prOvender, but now he sees
that they are simply ignorant of the geo.
Bfdpnlcdl cOn01JlOnS IN the United states.
and imagine that they are going to have a
journey across a great sand plain.
Shfpman, who knows all about animal
talk, tried to make the camels understand
that they are going to Cincinnati, and that
they're all wrong about the desert. He
couldn't make them understand, however.
Every time he said Cincinnati" the camels
snOred
In badly shattered English Shipman, who
is a German. declared that the camels may
sleep until they are released from quaran-
tine, or nearly a month from now.
A cOlOred man who is employed in the
stable where the animals are quarantined
became worried over their long sleep. He
didn't know as much about them as did
Shipman, and as he couldn't understand the
keepers explanation he imagined that the
camels had died. He summoned DIR. Schau-
fer and the physician quieted his fears.
The StaDleman, however, couldn't make out
how the camels could keep on sleeping with
the trains in the b. & o. station rumbling
about, the trOlleys changing their bells,
wagons Earring the buildings and the other
animals tearing the atmosphere with their
cries.
I'm the one who should do the sleep
ing, said Shipman, whose words were
translated by T. Lee Williams, agent for
Carl Hagenbeck, to whom the animals be-
long after putting in eighteen days with
those animals on shipboard-and there were
more than one hundred of them-I am en-
titled TO the rest. After they get TO Gin
cinnati I'm going to a hotel and take a
room where l can't even hear the bark OF
dog or the meow or Kitten. IL you ever
spent half a month in the hold of a ship
with a jungleful of roaring, raving ami
mails you'd do the same"
For ten years Shipman has been bringing
wild animals across the Atlantic. He looks
after his charges alone during the voyage
When he reaches port NE hires men to helI
him unload them.
You no swear? Nein? CAM rechtt" anC
a man is employed. If he does admit q
tendency to profanity he goes off the dock
for Shipman will not have men helping hin
who are likely TO start cursing when ar
animal makes trouble. AS the result he
lands his animals quickly. On Friday
more than 100 were landed from the Assy-
ria in less than two hours