The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-23
A MENAGERIE DUE
FROM THE SULTAN
Many Lively Animals May
Be Sent to President.
ECHO OF BANDITS WORK
kidnapping of Perdica1is, the American,
Expected to Prompt Sultan to Some
Such Act of Anity.

How many lions. elephants and rhin-
oceros viii The Sultan of Morocco send to
President Roosevelt to conciIiate the
United States for the wrong done this
in the Kidnapping of Ion Per-
dicaris, the wealthy American citizen?
State Department officials are placing
wagers as to the size Of the menagerie
which Will be forthcoming Nobody in
official circ-es is rash enough to doubt
that the animal show VIII come. The
dispatch from J. w. Langerman. the
Sultan's confidential adviser. anlounc-
ing that he Is on his way from London
to Tangier TO assist in ransoming the
prisoners makes certain that the kidnap-
ing viii end with a gigantic flourish.
When Mr.. Langerman IS in Morocco
the Sultan never turns around without
sending a few Arabian stations or ele-
plants tusks to everybody he knows
who hasn't any use for such Oriental
luxuries.
His Plan for Negroes.
Mr.. Langerman never does anything
Dy halves. The Office of the United
States consul at Tangier was too tame
for him. He projected plan to ship al
the negroes from the United States TO
Central Africa. where they were TO de-
veiop rubber forests covering millions OF
acres.
The date Of the first shipment Of ne
groes was fixed. but ships and negroes
were lacking at the appointed time. The
South Carolina negroes invited TO return
TO their native country were told by
somebody that they would again be
made slaves in Africa.
But this failure did not discourage
Mr. Langerman. He returned 70
Morocco and became the conndentiall
adviser of the ruler with name which
would. If hyphenated. make the names
of New York society folks look Ike
plain Anglo-Saxon. Then Mr.. LANCER
man was made the Sultan's special
to the ST. Louis EXPOSE
ton. and he sent a f5w more pure
white Arabian horses to his friends in
Pittsburg.
Has a Competitor.
Among all the ENJOYS connected with
the St Louis show Mr.. Langerman has
had but one real com ,etitor-John Bar
rett While Langerman was httering
the Moroccan desert with Worlds Fair
posters. Barrett was exploiting the
great show through a megaphone In
ASidtlc Capitals. but the ldtltE Ntluu
have a Sultan with a stable full OF pure
white Arabian horses behind him, and
consequently LanGerman managed to
attract more attention.
Everybody who received a cable an
nouncing Langerman had shipped an
Arabian stallion TO him was worried
for fear the enthusiastic American had
failed 10 prepay the freight. The re-
suit was a widespread inquiry as 10 the
distancn from Tangier TO New York
and the probable freight charges on a
well-fed steed. The advertising was
doubtless most effective.
For few, days neither Mr.. LANCER
man nor Mr.. Barrett can be heard from
unless they have their megaphones
connected with wireless telegraphy.
Langerman has sailed for Morocco TO
treat with Raisuly, the untamed bandit
chief. who is his personal friend, ac-
cording to his dispatch 20 Acting Sec
rotary LOOMS. And John Barrett Is on
his way from London to this country,
but win sail shortly for Panama. 10 be
present at the building OF the canal.