The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-27
"5ABY BOO" A FEATURE.
Ringing Brothers Have the Only Baby
Elephant Born and Reared in
Captivity.

The only baby elephant bred, born
and successfully reared in the trying
climate of North America is "Baby
Boo" the pride and pampered pea in
the immense herd of forty elephants
in Ringing Brothers World Greatest
Shows, which will exhibit in Walla
Walla Thursday, August 10. Baby
Boo" is dainty little mite of animal
creation and has exceptionally bright
and expressive eyes, which look with
amazement upon the many scientific
men and zoology students who have
her.. They regard her; as a phenome-
non, and unite In expressing the opin-
ion that she is the MOTT. interesting,
instructive and novel feature ever :ex-
hibitei in any menagerie or zo0logi
cal garden the world has ever known.
INSCRIPTIONS men have often impor-
ted so-called baby elephants at an
age of three or four years, and braz-
emily exhibited them as infant pachy-
derms born in the United States.
These bogus elephants were two.
three, and some even five times the
size OF Baby Boo,'' who Is only 80
inches high, weighs but 119 pounds,
and is scarcely larger than full
grown Newfoundland dog. She is SO
small that in order to stroke with her
trunk the face of Elephant Supe:in-
tendent Souders, who is her especial
friend, she is forced to mount a small
pedestal. This wonderful atom Of ele-
plant creation was born January 8,
1903, and four days after birth boldly
ventured from the maternal protec-
ton of "Alice," one of her ponderous
parents, and began an inspection OF
one of the animal houses at the win
ter quarters of the circus. alice
was securely chained to a stake and
could not follow her offspring. She
trumpeted long and loud and her cries
brought number of animal men, who
presently found Baby Boo" lying con-
rentedly by the side of Nellie" the
sacred COW from faraway India Thou
sands of children have visited "Baby
Boo" since Ringing Brothers remark
able circus has been entour and the
little one holds two receptions daily
on small stage erected in the center
of big menagerie tent. She loves to
romp with her guests and pOurs for all
the world like small child when they
leave her to view, with exclamatiOns
of delight and wondermept, the other
rare and costly animals in the collec-
ton. = ~ -
A pair of beautiful giraffes, the last
of. their kind; the only rhinoceros on
exhibition, the monstrer herd of 4C
elephants (more than half of all the
elephants in captivity two horned
horses, an Gland, so species of deer
and hosts of camels, lions, tigers, leop-
ards, hyenas, sacred cattle, and other
animals too numerous to mention have
place in this collection, which is the
most complete on the face of the
earth. And this mammoth menagerie
is but one of the many features In
Ringing Brothers famous show
formers, the premier artists. in their
various lines, give and arenic exhibit
ton that is second to none, while the
browning feature of this truly wonder
full amusement enterprise is the sub.
lime spectacle of Jerusalem and the
Crusades. This spectacle is produced
at a cost of thousands of dollars, and
in it 1900 characters of the tenth cen
fury are shown. In connection with
the spectacle is introduced a magnifi-
cent 68-stop, triple pipe organ, the
only instrument of the kind ever. car
riei by a circus. The Ringing Broth
ers' street parade, always new, novel
ana attractive, Is bigger, better and
more entertaining. than ever this sea
son. It is three miles in length, in