New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-25
NEW WALL STREET BEAR.
He's a Cub-Name, Tom La7cson-
Colonel Greene Captured Him.

Johnny Bear six weeks old captured in the
Sierra Madre Mountains by the hunting party
! taken TO Mexico by Colonel William c Greene
came to town yesterday and took a whirl
| through Wall Street He ate the soap in Colonel
Greene's private office. in the Blair Building, No
a Broad-st. gulped down bottle OF milk took
| a bite on the hand of Billy the office boy, and
| on account of the queer things he did he was
named Tom Lawson After two hours in the
heart of the financial district he went to the
Ansonia in cab IT. the company of a colored
man in uniform
He's nothin' but kid bear, an the cunnin'e
little cuss that was said Billy. the office
, boy. He gave me a chew, but it didn't hurt
| much. and he thought 1t the level to eat
the soap AS soon he struck the office he
/ begins to look around and say 'E-e-e-you-e-e-
you, whining like pup. He wuz hungry. OATS
what. He waltzes over t de basin and begins t
swallow de soap. an 1 makes grab for him
Well he drops de soap and takes fall outer
me. Gee. didn't I yell!
Then he sdueaed some more and winked at
me, as much as ter say: Fer heavens sake, git
me somethin' to eat I skinned out and got
him a glass of milk an when he smelt 1t he
cried like baby, he that hungry. I've been
hungry myself an that's how I know. When
he gets his nose in de glass he don't know how
t suck. and then he gives me the derndest look
you ever seen.
But he wuz so hungry he jes' had t git used
TO 1t, an he soon got outside the milk all right
Then he rolled the glass the floor and spilled
| half Of il, and when he tried to suck the milk
out of the carpet he looked if he de
wrong side O. de market, see? Then got him
a pint o milk. and he felt bully after that. But
say he had queer look his face when he
was up in the colonels office the fourteenth
floor mxin it up with all the folks.
''Dere's a big grizzly bearskin rug on the
floor, wild his mouth open s wide boss collar.
Wen little Johnny seen that bearskin he went
over an sat down on it, an made believe II wuz
his paw, but, gosh! when he seen the size O. the
grizzly's mouth he skun for the other room. You
oughter seen his tail Say, l guess tn day
when tails wuz give out down in Mexico he went
shy de market On de level he amt got no
tail at all"
Little Johnny Bear caught In cave in a
dark canyon-the arroyo Alinos, they call it, in
. Northern Chihuahua. His mother shot by
one of Colonel Greene's party before it was dis
covered that there was a baby bear in the cave.
Johnny was promptly adopted and rode 10 camp
sitting on his dead mother, whose carcass was
thrown across n mule Anything and everything
seems TO suit Johnny Bear or Tom Lawson,
he is called now. He makes friends with
every one and likes nothing better than romp.
This he is having with the children at the An
sonia. Tom is about the size of a full grown
raccoon and Of a rich dark brown snuff color.
The hunting party was in the Serras for
q
had plenty of shooting. We got three bears, !
between forty and fifty deer. a large number of
wild turkeys, and of I2aak Waltons
caught several hundred rainbow trout in the
mountain streams. Judge Fall, of FL Paso. killed
the biggest wild turkey sobbler ever He
stood feet Z inches high. and with wings out
stretched he measured feet 81 inches. l shot
one a little heavier. but he didn't have much
spread. Our dogs chased a big silver tip bear
so closely that the bear turned on them and
trimmed them all UP in terrific fight TEe
dogs were so badly used up that could not
get them to DO any work for day two" -
The party included George w. Falrchild, OF
/ the Guardian Trust Company: L. II. Hole, of
w n. Coler & CO.. Senator Latmer Of South
Carolina, Congressman Blackburn, of North
Carolina Congressman Stevens, Of Texas Con-
| gresham Huston, of Tennessee; Ex-Governor
Woodbury., of Vermont; Ex-Governor Harris of
North Carolina; Colonel Myron NJ Parker, of
Washington; Judge Fall, of E. Paso and sew
eral prominent miners and capitalists from
Texas and Arizona.
Several Of US" said Colonel Greene rode
over the route of the new railroad being built
BY the Greene interests from Terrazas south to
the new mining district Of the Greene Cold
Silver Company distance of about one hun
dred and forty miles. ]. H. Flick. the contractor,
has large forces OF men and draught animals at
work on the road. about twenty miles Of which
is now under grade. All the development work
projected by the Greene Gold-Sver Company is
vel! in hand and is being carried forward &C
cor,7iug 10 the programme"