The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-19
JAKE COOK DEAD OF HEAT.
TO THE GRAVEYARD FOR TIE
LAST TIME FOR HIS VACATION.

Fam Gus Central Park Monkey Trainer VINO
TutOred Mr.. Crowley, and In Whose
Arms Kitty Crowley Died--Lost Hts
Life ~ . Hot Day Volunteer Helper.
Jake Cook Is dead and there Is mourning
among the monkeys In the Central Park
menagerie. He was the best friend they
ever had and they knew 1t. He had
theory that he understood their chattering
language, but now that he Is gone there Is
none to interpret their grief.
The famous monkey trainer and keeper
did not have to concern himself much about
the welfare Of his pets yesterday. They
delight In the hot weather But there wore
men working about the hippopotamus tank
who were overcome by the heat, and Cook.
always willing to help in any department
whatever. volunteered to take tho place OF
one Of them. At o'clock he was himself
Frustrated. They took him to the Presby-
terrain Hospital and he died In tho loo bath.
His wife, who had been summoned nom
their home, at 2O3 East Sixty-fourth street,
arrived at the hospital few minutes after
he expired.
About thirty years ago young man about
% years old came to the managers Of the
Central Park menagerie and got job az
common laborer. He was put to work
cleaning out the monkey house It was .
job for which competition wasn't active.
but Cook did tho work willingly. He liked
it. And whom he wasn't busy he hung
around the monkey house Just for the fun
Of the thing
position of monkey trainer and keeper.
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cation to qualify him. He didn't know the
hadn't even heard Of the missing link. But
it was apparent to the authorities that here
was man certain to watch over his charges
faithfully and care for them well. They
appointed him.
Cook more than justified their judgment.
1t was not long before they recognized in
him man who knew as much Of the ways
of the Bandar Log as any one they had ever
had. Practically he lived among them He
came to tell as II by instinct when certain
kind Of food, disagreed with them. when one
of them was i'll or when one was becoming
dangerous. All the best known ways Of
preserving their health, ministering to their
comforts and curing their ailments he
! learned by experience.
Wide fame as a monkey trainer came to
Cook dozen years later. In 1885 the
American Minister to Portugal purchased
from some Lascar sailors returned from the
East Indies three-year-old chimpanzee
and presented 1t to the Park Department OF
this city. Placed under Cooks direction
this animal became the most famous edu-
Gated chimpanzee of the day.
Cook named his new pet Mr.. Crowley,
He found him wonderfully tractable ami.
NAL and made him more like human kind
than any other beast had ever been. In his
shone. He would sit down at the table
with Cook, arrange his napkin, carve the
viands with his knife, use his fork properly
drink from glass, and at the end OF the
meal clink glasses with Jake in toast:
Mr. Crowley had large wardrobe and
dressed himself with as great ease as any
man. In addition Cook taught him to per-
form any number of gymnastio stunts.
Four years after Mr.. Crowley's arrival
Kitty Crowley, appeared on the scene.
She was a three ,year-1fd shimpa na
burg, Germany. Within the three months
before her arrival Cook had lost his first
wife and two children. The attention and
affection he had bestowed on them he now
gave unreservedly to Mr.. Crowley and
spend the entire night sleeping by it's cage
with an alarm clock to arouse him hourly.
All the delicacies obtainable he would give
the patient with its medicine Oranges,
broth, eggs, port wine, milk punches,
champa gne-nothing was too good. II
these lu4uries from his own pocket. He
was bound that his invalids should have as
good treatment as any sick man In the
world. They got it.
Kitty used 70 cry when Cook left her
She was exacting and demanded much Of his
no
Kitty" as was his custom, and she grabbed
his hand and bit it to the bone. The attack
was inspired by jealousy and Cook knew It:
He did not use whip on her-he never did
with any Of the monkeyS-but simply turned
why did you do that, Kitty"
In speaking Of the incident Cook used to
say that Kitty knew he was speaking in
kindly tone and that she ran to him and
able signs Of repentance.
Mr.. Crowley, despite the utmost care,
died in 1890. Kitty was never the same
afterward, and In the next year she was
taken with her last illness. Cook was
sleeping outside the tn cage: She he called ALE 70
her arms outstretched to him through
the bars. He went into the cage, took her
in his arms and held her until she died.
William Snyder. principal keeper Of the
menagerie, said YESTERDAY that Mr. Crowley
was Consul, the chimpanzee which made
a sensation in Paris and which was insured
for Sos, 900.
Cook never had any others that he thought
as much OF as Mr.. Crowley and Kitty One
Of his favorites was Eva, a Java macauue.
which he taught to pick pockets and do a
number Of other tricks. Four years agoEv va
rebeled. grabbed her keeper by the hair
and before he could subdue her tore Of
nearly all the hair from the top OF his head.
There was a bald spot there to the time Of
his death.
j. F. Mulroney, secretary to the Park
Board, recounted an instance yesterday
which he said was typical Of Cooks care.
| Four years ago. on an extremely cold night,
many Of the clerks slept in the Arsenal.
| About midnight the heat was turned of.
| The next morning the engineer explained
that Cook had come to him and told him he
would give him the worst licking OF his life
| il he didn't turn all the heat into the monkey
| quarters.
sTo hell with the Clerks said Cook.
I'm not going to let my monkeys take
| cold.'
:, Cook did not believe in the Garner theory
Of monkey language. He had one Of his
own.
while there is no truth in the Garner
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