The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-23
|ERY BIGGEST T0OYHACHE.
ry,, THE ELEPHANT, NOW HAS
4 GOLD FILLING.
h, inc chorus Girls Fault-Dentist Armed
vuh a Pile Driyrr-I'aticnt Held
VIM Cablcs-FOrtune Hurled In tho
fo,u,-Candy Diet Now Prohibited.

| WIN (aDlcs- FVTtuh' "" :" 49,
Inl,, Candy Diet Now prohibited
Lama tho trick elephant at the Hippo
nmo, had tooth filed yesterday. She
ks added to her store OF knowledge some
krv emphatic opinions OF dentists and
Ielr ways.
ana Mad been suffering ever since the
Irse Of the winter season, but no one was
ko,oh skilled in elephants to understand
k,t nj ed her. She is sweet young
lrr Of eighteen years. Even her worst
kor,v couldn't call her small and her TOOTH
Tso ccrinspondcd with her size. She
Itus,I food for days and went. arotna
lokirg Ter head and throwing her trunk
tort NTH the men thought that their
L,aly mid hammered comrade was gong
lad.
IA sew DAYS ago, the seat Of the trouble
o discovered by Pete Barlow, the ele-
Kant man. He noticed that Lena kept
loLinr III one cheek, much as one OF her
Imam friends might have found painful
oasrre in sticking his tongue into the
WITTY Of an aching tooth. Examination
lowed that Lena had a cavity. 1t was one
the teeth of her upper jaw; it was mere
Ieo about an inch and half in diameter.
E,,er The trouble had been located 1t wasn't
~ easiest thing in the world to find man
k,o was willing to undertake the cure.
kiness dentistry for elephants isn't much
byertised. Finally the show people fixed
\ Martin j. Potter, the veterinary who
l. ,be camcl's leg in Central Park two
lars ago. The doctor brought with him
mound of chloroform, as much chlorai,
hi n lot of tools that looked as though he
Lii taken a paving contract.
Meanwhile Lena, on the big stage at
L. Hippodrome, was being led around
endless circles TO get her mind OF
kr troubles" as the keeper put it. The
L. beast wore a most pathetic expression
4 the large expanse of leather that con-
kutes her countenanoe, and from time
| time IA big tear would roll down the
kinkled cheek and fall like an immense
kindrop on the stage.
Word had gone around that Lena was to
! operated on and would have to take
kloroform. and several Of the chorus girls
| the company hurried in to protect their
b. Rita Dean. one of the riders, became
kryanxioils about her friend when the doc
II contided to her that elephants seldom
Eoyer from choroform. Rita wept a
HE bit herself, but the tears did not in the
kst resemble in size those shed 10y Lena.
bw sincere they may have been is another
bry. DR.. Potter admitted frankly that
lloroforin Is very dangerous for the larger
limas and that some five thousand dol
r. worth of elephant was very likely to lose
llue as a result Of the trial.
|" It's all the fault of them girls, anyway,
Iowed the keeper, they keep feeding
Indy to Lena all the time and that's what's
lined her teeth. Pity they wouldn't eat
themselves chorus girls is easier to get,
whole lot, than trick elephants.
When the preparations for the operation
I'd been finished Bob Tyler, Lena's trainer,
taxed her to lie down, and while he kept
pr quiet by talking elephant nonsense to
kr men came with ropes and made her
let fast to rings in the floor. Lena APP
hrently suspected that something was
tong, for in spite Of the keepers efforts
le united several knots with her trunk,
hiking all the while u queer moaning noise
Say down in her throat.
but she behaved better than most people
in a like position until the doctor pried
Pen her jaws and began to wash out the
witty in the tooth. An unlucky scrape
! the nerve and Lena yelled "ouch!' in
bphantese and started to get up. She
I'd been tied with two inch rope, but that
kint seem to bother her. She got up and
pre- seemed to be a disposition on the part
1.-THE spectators 10 give her plenty OF room.
belly He remarked that it was a warm
LENA charged around the stage once or
tice with her trunk raised and scary
hd Of steam whistle sound coming out OF
end Of it, and then she quoted down
ID began to listen to the nice things that
10 Tyler was saying to her. Bob was In,
ly one who didn't have important business
the wings when Lena got up, and he
p quite angry when any one suggested
ht his charge behaved badly. Elephants
pa toothache had a right to tear up
y ropes and things, he thought.
Tyler persuaded Lena to lie down again,
ID this time the doctor decided to try
poroform. He made large funnel Of
newspaper and in the bottom placed a
pnge saturated with the anesthetic.
pink and she breathed in the chloroform
th huge, gusty sghs. After the chloro-
Pm in the funnel had been replenished
feral times Lena became quiet and the
ctor finished cleaning the cavity and
hping, it to hold the filling. Then he
mmed in the gold and began to hammer
home with an instrument that resembled
kinildluIe plleuTlVer.
about the second knock Lena woke up
began to say things. She didn't stop
fh the talking, but began work on the
pes which had been run through blocks
Is time and We're held by the stage hands.
ma whipped her trunk out of the rope
Pr held 1t and reached for one Of the leg
Pes. len fair sized men we're straining
the rope, but when Lena took hold they
Travelled in her direction, do what they
fght, and soon they were all scrambling
the wings again. But in all the uproar
trumpeting and swearing the doctor
tck to his job and steadily hammered
nohshed the last rope and struggled to
II feet
Inc elephant at once began to tumble in her
pun with her trunk and the doctor took
vantage of her preoccupation to seek
exposed position.
ms all finished except the furnishing
said but l think I'll come back to-
PROV for that. l. IN afraid that il my hair
ms on end any longer to-day III never
ld9ie TO comb it smooth again."
now about the filling coming out?"
pant dentist showed that he belonged to
I Union and knew the proper answer.
II ne filing comes out I'll eat the ele-
lant, he said.
was WHISPERED about the Hippodrome-
Tor publication Of course-that the
ing was of pure gold leaf-about two and
iaii ounces Of it-and the cost was in pro-
Srlloh to the size of the toothaohe.
Tna was much relieved by the operation
rubbed her trunk gratefully against
keePer'9 arm, az though she believed
N responsible Tor the whole thing. The
,r.s girls seemed relieved too. and their
IfltS We're not at all affected nv n large