The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-07
SCOTT AND JUMBO.
CIRCUS MAYS STORI OF THE
STORIES
Little Man and Big Elephant While
 Travelling.


 "Elephants are very peculiar animals No one can possibly tell who they will take a notion to, or who they will turn against, and there is no telling in ad- vance what they will do toward any one. They are more than women past finding out"
 The speaker was w. H. Gardner, general agent of the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros shows, who was in the city a few hours yesterday. MT. Gard ner has been around the world re- peatedly. Continuing he said:
 "The general supposition obtains that elephants may be handled only by the severst methods. In some respects that is true. But there are some ele- plants that will not stand any sort of punishment. They know their strength and will use it if provoked. One or the most noted illustrations of this fact was Jumbo. MT. Bailey purchased Jumbo from the geological gardens of ; London. He brought with him Mat thew Scott, who had charge of him from the time he first came from Siara to London.
 Now, Scott was one of the gentlest little men ever seen. He has been working in MT, Bailey's menagerie since Jumbos death, taking care of small animals and, by the way, he is in Flu rope with MT. Bailey now doing the same thing. Jumbo was the only ele- phant he ever handled.
 .When Jumbo arrived we all went down to the dock There had been enormous difficulties in getting him aboard the ship at London, and like diff faculties were expected here in unload ing him. MT Bailey sent Scott in to see Jumbo. The little man went in and began to talk to the biggest brute in the world since prehistoric times. 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 or the ship, and walked up to him con- fidently and said:
 <" Hello, Jumbo Nice old Jumbo Won't you come with me, Jumbo? Come on, Jumbo! Come along!
 tAnd as he 1oosened the chains upon Jumbo's 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 Jumbo's 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 knew it.
 "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 honor in the menagere Suddenly Scott felt himself seized and dragged backwards, and in the next instant he saw before him the enormous trunk of Jumbo. Looking beyond the protecting trunk he saw the maddened Pilot standing before him, shrieking his an- ger at being prevented by Jumbo from wreaking his dislike upon Scott. But old Jumbo stood just there, holding Scott between his trunk and his fore legs and Mir Pilot knew it would be bad work for him to come any closer. : "Another time at Ottumwa, la, Pilot led the other elephants into a stampede. At first it seemed as if Jumbo would join them, but when old Scott said, Here, Jumbo what are you J1o 1n} it,rr tf leaNe old Scott, are you? Stay here, Jumbo and I am blessed if the big fel- low didn't quiet down in an instant. A few moments later the other elephants got beyond control of their keepers and boIted off through an alley at the side of the show grounds. Old Scott took Jumbo and hurrying out to the end of the alley, where the elephants were shrieking a sort of a pow-wow, as if they were deciding what they would do. Scott sent Jumbo into the alley ahead of him, saying, Send them home, Jumbo Make them go back, Jumbo And 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 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 lady elephant despite the name, and Jumbo was her steadfast beau, while old Scott was a sort of guardian to both. From the Washington Even ing Star.