The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
PAINLESS BULL.KILLER HERE.
TO SHOW MEXICANS HIS SKILL
AND THEN ENTER POLITICS.
Mine Is n Noble Profession, Says Mazzan.
TIM. Who Pities Prizefghters and
Warriors and Chicago Steers-Ambas-
sadOr Mccormick Returns, Silent.

TIM, Who Pities Prizefighters and
Warriors and Chicago Steers-Ambas-
sadOr Mccormick Returns, Silent.
Aboard the Hamburg American liner
Deutschland, in yesterday from Hamburg,
Dover and Cherbourg was a tall brown
skinned man of middle ag, who had a few
comments to make on the deteriorating
Influences of civilization outside Of the
sunny countries of Latin America and
his Andalusian native heath
He is Senior Luis Mazzantini, matador,
the champion bull killer OF the world. He
and Sehora Mazzandm are going to st.
Louis, and later he will appear in the city
OF Mexico in the bullring with two other
less celebrated matadors, and show the
young Mexican idea how to despatch
Spanish and Mexican bulls that have spunk
enough to fight men.
Senior Mazzantin Is on his farewell tour.
II e said that he would surely cut of his
braid and retire after he had convinced
the Mexicans that he could kill bull with
out cruelty. Then he expects to enter
the political arena, which, he surmises,
may be In some respects worse than the
bullring, and become deputy in the Cortez
from district in Madrid.
Il am forty-eight," the matador said,
as he threw out his chest bit, and think
1t is about time to settle down to a quiet
life with my wife and family. Bull fighting
is really noble profession II is seldom
that the man is hurt and, understand
that in Chicago and other places in this
great America thousands of cattle are
slaughtered every day without having a
chance to defend themselves.
Boxing is more cruel than bull fighting.
/ hear that you have here a Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals. Why
do you not organize a Society for the Pre-
venuon Of Cruelty to Menu How cruel
Is this Japanese Russian war! How much
more barbarous is war than bull fightingl
1t seems TO me that society for the pro-
motion Of brotherly feeling among man
kind would be better than society to stop
bull fighting myself have killed more
than $500 bulls in a most humane way,
OF which, l must confess, laid me up. !
feel still young at forty-eight..'
DO you know, my American friend
the natador's language was translated by
birthday on Oct. le while riding through
the Pyrenees In Pullman car, and that
every passenger was treated to the finest
Amontillado that money and influence
could procure. like the Americans; but
their boxing is brutal Let them come and
men are seldom hurt"
The Sefor said that four Of the most ex-
pensive bulls that Spain had ever produced,
each valued at 500. were on their way to
Mexico aboard the Spanish steamship
Buenos Aires, now overdue at Havana from
this port. The best of the Mexican bulls
will appear in the same ring with the Span
iards.
Other passengers by the Deutschland
were Robert s. Mccormick, Ambassador
to Russia; w. G. MoAdoo, president of the
New York and Jersey Railway; A. Crone-
meyer Of the Hamburg American line
Col. T. A. Dodge, DR.. John Addison Fordyce,
Dr. Rutherford Harris, Robert Walthour.
the champion American bicyolist; Arthur
Vigna, musical director of the Conried
Opera Company; Robert NJ. Winthrop,
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, who was met
at Quarantine by her husband and taken
in tug to Long Island City, where she
boarded a train for Oakdale; the Count
Moltke, Col. n. o. Seixas and Capt. H. G.
King.
Ambassador Mccormick said that he had
stopped at Berlin on his way from Russia
to confer with the German authorities
about 900 Japanese refugees that he had
collected in Russia and sent to their homes.
He declined to talk about the war He
said he was going directly to Washington to
see President Roosevelt and later would
attend to some important private business