New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-10

moeulated that one might think # had been trained
TO chant the mass. rather than lecture animals.
las get settled hope to hold re-
EgioUs meetings every Sunday morning" said Chap
lain Sneak the other day. he handed loaf OF
bread TO Luna, the queen elephant Il want TO get
acquainted with the men before begin preach
ing But it's no use talking to men whose feelings
are strange 10 you It's the same with animals.
lion VIII obey the voice that It knows but Il will
dash 10 bits the stranger who would dare intrude
into its cage.
"A Barnum & Bailey circus man can lead as clean
and straight and well regulated life tho clerk
in a store a bank 81 he only wants TO- II he
falls sick he IS cared FOR. and he gets the best Of
care, too. II he dies he has Christian burial and
his grave is kept green. and once year it IS COW
cred with flowers.
Take the case OF Big Mcdonald. for instance.
Big Mac died IN Paris. He weighed $40 pounds when
he fell 81, and his sickness only increased his
weight. The frst ambulance which came to take
him 20 the hospital broke its springs-in turning
the arst corner. They finally had to truck.
And IN the hospital they couldn't find bed big
enough For a time they had 10 pile lot OF mat
tresses the iioOr and let him lie there. And
every morning. when there was no performance,
some OF always went up TO him and cheer
him up But we couldn't help his body any. There
20 hCsrse IN Paris big enough for Mac. but
the boys paid 10 have SORT Of catafalque built
wheels. and the funeral procession that followed
him to the grave contained five hundred mourners.
In Paris they hire mourners. now and then. Let
ne tell you. every one Of those I'VE hundred men
in that procession mourned because they loved Big
Mac.
There burial lots In cemeteries In Vienna,
Paris, Berlin, London and Liverpool. well in
the chief cities Of the United States where the
graves Of Barnum * Baileys who have
died in the last forty years are kept green. And
after a mans buried we take a photograph Of the
grave, al covered with flowers. and send copies to
the mans relatives, TO let them know airs well
far this world goes"
Luna was beseeching for more bread by rubbing
the cha plain the back with her scuirming trunk
''Oh. you tease like the little girl that you
the gulet OF The sreat beast, with the accuracy Of
q baseball pitcher
Now. II We care so much for our dead" con
tiLLGu the chaplain, you understand how
zcalUuslN look out for those that are alive
Through the suggestion Of Mr.. Bailey the men and
women IN his employ some years ago organized a
mutual benent association. which soon had 80
many members that Il resenbIed a small life insur
anCc company. The dues fixed at So a year
and a member wSs entitled TO thirteen weeks hos
pitt care ia a year, should he need it, As q
ploye IS FAR less tLau what had first reckoned
On, ana treasury IS getting fatter fatter
Then tie INES AL into The treasury also. Mr.
bailey has a. lheGLle Of fines for various offences
and emplUye that they right
There is a ilne Tor drunkenness. for instance and
fines Tor taking leave OF absence without permits
F gio-. for insult the women and for women
it. but fsIcw smiles given The wrong way likely
"a dollars worth Of damage. But Mr.. Bailey
dat keep The .Ees. He Coesn 4 make anything
cut % .. The money all goes into the strong box
% the hospital fund
Two monkeys interrupted TIE clergyman with
their shriu chatter. ana in another instant two Of