The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-12
SCOTT AND JUMBO.
A Circus Mans Stories of the Little
 Man and the Big Elephant.

| A Circus Mans Stories of the Little
 Man and the Big Elephant. Elephants are very peculiar ani-l n1als. No one can possibly tell who I they will take notion to, or who they
 will turn against, and there is no tell-'
 ing in advance what they will do to- ward any one. They are more than w0- 1 men past finding out" | The speaker was W. H. Gardner. | general agent of the Adam Forepaugh
 and Sells Brothers shows, who was i1i
 the city a few hours yesterday. MT, Gardner has been around the world rel I nsatedly. Continuing he sa4d.
 The general suppostion obtains that elephants may be handled only by the l severest methods. In some respects | that is true. But there are some ele- 1 plants that will not stand any sort of punishment. They know their strength and will use 1t if provoked. One of the 1 most noted illustrations of this fact was
 Jumbo. MT. Bailey purchased Jumbo from the Geological Gardens of London.
 He brought with him Matthew Scott.
 who had charge of him from the time
 he first came from Siam to London. | Now, Scott was one of the gentleSt
 little men ever seen. He has been
 working in MT. Baileys menagerie since
 Jumbo's death, taking care of small an 1 imals, and, by the way, he is in Europe
 with MT. Bailey now doing the same l. Lt 1. ~I~ ~- l ever handled 1 When Jumbo arrived we all went | down to the dock. There had been | enodmous difficulties in getting him ] aboard the ship at London, and like diff | faculties were expected here in unload- ing him. Mir. Bailey sent Scott in to see Jumbo. The little man went ins
 and began to talk to the biggest ibruta ! in the world since prehistoric time6. His soft, gentle voice could scarcely be
 heard. With his hands empty Scott went up to Jumbo in his room, which
 had been built upon the upper deck of the ship, and walked up to him confi- dently and said:
 Hello, Jumbo Nice old Jumbo.a Won't you come with me, Jumbo? Come on, Jumbo! Come along!' And he he loosened the chains upon Jumbos ankles the big fellow stepped
 out of the house and submitted quietly to the process of being hoisted off the
 ship by means of an enormous crane,
 Scott remained with Jumbo all the time. He paid no attention to any of
 the other elephants. Among them was
 very big and very bad elephant called
 Pilot. who long since paid the death penalty for his wickedness. It was
 plain to see that Pilot was horribly
 Jealous of Jumbo. Before Jumbos ar-
 rival Pilot had been the star monster
 of the herd, and he seemed to know
 that he had been superseded as well as
 we knewit
 One evening at Lansing, Mich Pilot
 got loose from his chains, and, without making any noise he worked his way around in front of Jumbo's place of x honor in the menagerie. Suddenly
 Scott felt himseized and dragged back wards, and in the next instant he saw before him the enormous trunk of Jum- bo. Looking beyond the projecting trunk he saw the maddened Pilot standing before him, shrieking him an-S ger at beingg prevented by Jumbo from wreaking his dislike upong Scott. But old Jumbo stood Just there, holding Scott between his trunk and his fore legs, and MT. Pilot knew it would be bad work for him to come any closer.
 Pilots shriek's were heard all around the show, and in moment his keepers came running in from the cook tent, where they were eating their sup- per, and for while they had lively of hoo t1i s,1l, and gett ing him securely chained.
 Another time, at Ottumwa, Iowa. Pi- lot led the other elephants into staIn- pede At first it seemed as if Jumbo would join them but when old Scott said Here. Jumbo, what are you going to do? You are not going to leave old Scott are you? Stay here, Jumbo and am blessed if the big fellow didn't quiet down in an instant. A few mo- ments later the other elephants got be- yond control of their keepers and bolt ed off through an alley at the side of the showgrounds. Old Scott took Jum- bo, and hurrying out to the end of the alley, where the elephants were shriek- ing a sort of pow-wow, as if they were deciding what they would do, Scott sent Jumbo into the alley ahead or him, saying, Send them home, JuFn- bo. Make them 20 back, Iunnhc' Ar~ back they went.
 Jumbo never got blow or prod all the time he was with the show from the time he landed until his untimely death by accident up in Canada. It will be remembered that it was his at tempt to rescue his little mate, Tom Thumb, from injury by a train, which caused him to be squeezed between the bank of d cut and the train, and killed. Tom Thumb was the smallest elephant in the herd and Jumbo would have nothing to do with any of the rest. Tom was a lady elephant despite thes name, and Jumbo was her steadfast beau, while old Scott was 8 sort of guardian to both. Washington Even4Y ing Star I '-----s Y