Arizona republican., 1904-09-25
4sAeY RooD A FEATURE.
RinaIing Brothers Have the Only Baby Elephant Born and Reared in
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 The only baby elephant bred, born and successfully reared in the trying climate of North America is Baby Boo.' the pride and pampered pet in the immense herd of forty elephants in Ringing Brothers worlds greatest shows, which will exhibit in Phoenix, Friday, Oct. '. Baby Boo" is a dainty little mite of animal creation and has exceptionally bright and expressive eyes. which look wi.h amazement upon the many scientific men and zoology students who have travelled thousands of miles to inspect her. They regard her as a phenomenon, and unite in ex- pressing the opinion that she is the most interesting, instructive and novel feature ever exhibited. ill any mena- gerie or geological garden the world has ever known. Interruptions men have often imported so-called baby ele- plants at an age of three or four years, and brazenly exhibited them as infant pachydeTms born in the United States. These bogus infants were two, three and some even five times the size of Baby Boo," Who is only 30 inches high weighs but 119 pounds, and is scarcely larger than a full grown Newfound- land dog. She is so small that in order | to stroke with her trunk the face of Elephant Superintendent Souders, who is her especial friend, she is forced to mount small pedestal. This wonder ful atom of elephant creation was born at Baraboo. Wis, and four days after birth boldly ventured from the mater lnal protection of Alice one of her ponderous parents, and began an in spection of one of the~animal houses at the winter quarters of the circus. Alice" was securely chained to a stake and could not follow her off- spring. She trumpeted long and loud and her cries presently found Baby Boo" lying contentedly by the side of
 Nellie. sacred COW from faraway In dia- Thousands of children have visit ed Baby Boo" since Ringing Brothers remarkable circus has been entour and the little one holds two receptions daily in the center of the big mena gerie tent. She loves to romp with her guests and bouts for all the world like a small child when they leave her to view, with eUclamations of delight and wonder ment., the other rare and costly ani- mals in the collection.
 A pair of beautiful giraffes, the last
 Of their kind; the only rhinoceros. or
 exhibition, the monster herd of fort,
 elephants (more than half of the ele.
 plants in the country), two horned horses, an eland, 50 species of deer and hosts of camels, lions. tigers. leo
 pards, hyenas sacred cattle, and other animals too numerous to mention have a place in this collection, which is the
 most complete in America. And thf, mammoth menagerie is but one of tho many features in Ringing Brothers famous circus. Three hundred anC seventy-ive performers, the premfe artists in their various lines. give ar l arenic exhibition that is second to none While the crowning feature of this tru
 Iy wonderful amusement enterprise i
 the sublime spectacle of Jerusalen . aud the Crusades. This spectacle il
 produced at a cost of thousands O
 dollars, and in it 1900 characters O
 the tenth century are shown. In con nection with the spectacle is introduc ] ed magnificent 6S-stop. triple pin organ, the only instrument of the kin, ever carried by a circus. The Ringlfn:
 Brothers street parade, aEw-ys new novel and attractive, is bigger. bette
 and more entertaining than ever thi
 season It is three miles in length
 in thirty sections, and each section i
 an entire parade. etabrd
 an entire parade in itself.