The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-20
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she Is the Elephant Win q MathematieaI
Brain-Zenobla, Untamed Daughter OF
the Desert, Has Distinguished Her
self-sOmethinE About Columbia.

Gelf-SOmething About Columbia.
The Barnum & Bailey Cirops Is In town.
also Tody Hamilton press agent Perhaps
/, would be more nearly correct to reverSs
The order Of statements. BIT anyway
the canvasmen have taken up the floor Of
Madison Square Garden and are filing IL
with fresh dirt for tho marvellous exhibit
ton Of equestrian skill and daring. The
wires and ropes for the thrilling Turns on
the flying tppeze, 'the most daring and
desperate aerial duel with death ever ven
tured 10y mortal man, arc going rapidly
into place. A dozen mechanics are tinker
ing with the steel structure for De Auto-
folide, the thrilling dip Of death, an abso-
utely unparalleled deed Of daring. Just
rs illustrated and costing nearly 1900 a
minute the sensat ton Of all sensations,
which may be APPLY termed a fearful frolio
with fate.
Tventy-eight elephants, loaded with
chains and with adjectives Just as fearful
as the samples quoted were swayins and
erring PEANUTS OF their attendants in the
- s downstairs yesterday. The girafes,
the trained zebras, the cames, who are just
now nhappy about their winter coats,
we're resting after the excitement Of moving
from winter quarters. The caTnivorous
fnlma's we're having a day OF Of a different
Lind. and 1t was plain from their remarks
t.,' they didn't like Il. For they aren't
,.d on Sunday at all, because in their wild
-ratc they miss meal now and then, and
d isn't good for them 10 eat too regularly.
N,-t Of the human part Of the circus
isut here yet. The fifty freaks, mani
fns ations Of the merriment Of nature In
Ter morbid moods" and the 'grotesque
group ~ forty madcap merrymakers and
risky fools whose waggsh ways have
made nillons hold their sides with
laughter still linger in Bridgeport, for
tie show doesn't upen until Thursday.
hut threading the mazes Of the menagerie
s'roda Tody Hamilton, discovering and
revealing new wonders at every step. He
- modest. is Tody, and does not feature
himself on the posters. or he would have
been described long ago as "the worlds
most eminent and mastsrful manifesto
ton OF merry mendacity.'
-Yes, the elephants are In all right,
said he "Twenty-eight OF 'em. Most
marvellous herd known to man. That along
side Of 'em il the famous dwarfed Kerry
COW, a notable example Of the failure Of
Mother Nature TO perform her functions.
Maybe YOU think the elephants weren't
glad TO get back to Madison Square Garden.
They trumpeted like anything, and just
wiRgled their trunks, they we're 80 glad.
sOf course this Ia hard TO believe, but I'll
III il ANYHOW. Those elephants all have
their regular places in the Garden and
know 'em and remember EN-. last night
Sepia. that little Burmese from the re-
haw va n IN
demonstration OF elephantine intelligence.
After the elephants were tied up Sepia
got loose. She went down TO the end OF
the line and ate hale OF hay, and then abe
made up her mind to go back and have a
little sleep. You'll notice she Is No. n
In the line. Bill Sears, her keeper, saw
her lust as she was trying TO find her place.
She was going down the line, pokmg at
every elephant with her trunk. Bill didn't
know what it meant at first. All OF sud
den he compre bended.
seventeen all right and there she hesitated.
OF oourse you can't expect an elephant
to have quite the arithmetic intelligence
Of man: She had / and ? mixed, and
AZ or 81. But she got Il at last. She hiked
right down the line, counting to herseh
With her tr1ink-iS-io-20-2i-- 30 on,
and at u she stopped and stepped right
into her place and held out her foot to be
chained"
sWonderful!' said THE Sun reporter.
1T IL, said Tody Hamilton. Everything
about the Bamum 4 Bailey Circus u wond-
crful. Take those girahee; The only ones
imported since the South African war.
CAPTURED in Central Africa after a stuPen-
dous struggle with the desert dervishes.
Three OF the only Ave giraffes in captivity
Why" observed The Sun reporter,
absentmindedly, 'there are three In the
Bronx Park Zoo With.
Those are the others. Notice that lioness
roaring there beside La Paloma, the peer
less pedestrian puma? That Is Zenobia,
the untamed daughter Of the desert. Zeno-
hia had quite an adventure last night. Her
drivers a green man. Although Barnum
4 Baiey's marvellous system usually elimi-
mates errors, the boss driver gave him the
wrong address. and he drove TO the Waldorf
Astoria by mistake. The door OF the car
rage driveway was open and he drove
right in. The clerk saw that something was
Here, What do you wantr said the
clerk.
is this where you put the lions'' said
Get outr said the clerk, and set the
porten on him for regular Hotel Astor
time.
sThe driver was game all right and be
kept his head. He Just Unattached the
little window and Zenobia put up her face
and roared that rOsr which has been COM
pared to the ceaseless surge OF monumental
oataracts. II made terrific disturbance
In the Waldorf
A peach Of a storyl' murmured the
reporter Of a Plainheld newspaper who
was In Tody Hamilton's train. I'm go
right up to the Waldorf-Astora and get
particulars
Il hope said Mr. Hamilton, that you
can take nv word for II without further
corroboration." Plainheld was crushed,
Tody Hamilton was back to the elephant
section again. One Of them, big tuskeT,
wore a complicated arrangement OF chains.
Bad elephantl' asked the representative
81 Plalnfeld.
Goodness, moi said Tody Hamilton.
Gentle as a kitten. Tiskers are always
tnissed that way 10 keep EN- from hurting
themselves. The ebullihons Of athletic
slephantine power are sometimes stu
Jendous--'
An assistant press agent approached
.Did you hear about Columbiai' he
tsid.
Mr.. Hamilton made a quick gesture for
silence. The assistant press agent didn't
seem 10 see Il and kept right on.
he broke loose this morning when they
were getting him aboard at Bridgeport
and Just raised hell. They were thirty
minutes getting him aboard. Smashed two
can IN his fearful rage and had 10 be brought
10 New York In the state In which you now