The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-01
MONKEY HUNT ON The BRIDGE
APE FROM CEYLON GOES INTO
RIVER OFF MIDDLE span.

Ape From Natal Takes to the Rigging and
q saiIorman shins Up and Gets Him
and Policeman Heating Gets His
Name Into the Paper Against Hia VIII.
The point OF this story 10 that unless you
want to get your name In the paper, II you
aver have TO take two monkeys across tho
Brooklyn Bridge you must keep EN- In q
crate and not put 'em In q gunnysack. DR..
o. T. Archer, the veterinarian OF Bostock's
show, tried the g~unnyhag method q little
after 5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The
monkeys got out OF the sack when DR.. Archer
reached an appropriate place. One. q fine
moss monkey from Ceylon, promptly Jumped
into the East River, and the last soon OF
him he was going up the river or the tide.
The other, a longtail from Natal. cavorted
around the bridge under The promenade
for an hour, when n jack tar from the cruiser
West Virginia caught him and started for
Coney Island with him.
Archer went to Boston to get the mon
keys, with special orders to be cRsful Of
them, he says. They came In q crate, but
he put them in a bag. He got a. far a.
Q Coney Island car at the New York en-
trance to the Bridge and hoped aboard.
The monkeys set up o screeching.
sWotchergotthereF' growled the motor
man.
'only a pair Of monkeys, said the truth
full doctor.
SSkidoo," said the motormnn, and the
conductor said the same. So did the in
spector, and DR.. Archer saw ahead Of him
not only a walk across the bridge but tho
possibility Of a longer one to Coney Island.
1t was dreadfully hot. He got as far as the
first bench beyond the New York tower and
sat down to mediate on the cruel ways Of
B. r. T. men.
Il might "a told EN- he said, that I
had half a bushel of potatoes, but potatoes
don't squeal.'
While DR.. Archer was sitting there the
monkeys got into a debate In the bag. The
doctor says he knows only a few words Of
monkey talk, but he is quite sure the Natal
monkey told the Ceylon monkey he was no
gentleman and that the Ceylon monkey
said he would not associate with such a
rude thing. Thereupon he chewed a hole
In the bag and popped out.
Hi, there!' said DR.. Archer. as the Cey-
lon monkey dashed across to the roadway
on the south side. The Ceylon monkey
SoNO IL AooA poShp SiiiiliCb ALL hlAdo
some motions with his h~ands-anyhow, the
doctor swore at him for it and the Ceylon
monkey ave a jump into the swirling
tide, just like a bridge jumper suicide or
museum freak. and went circling over and
over and shot into the water. Archer
watched him come up and then ran to
Patrolman Patrick Heating, who saws he
has been twenty years on the bridge and
newer han had hia mama In tho pavananaro
Heating declined to give his name to the
reporters, saying:
IF / can't get my name printed In any
other way, III be blamed If / want 1t mixed
with a measly monkey
Welis Archer ran to Heating and shouted:
II, just lost a monkey; he jumped over
the bridge"
"Gwan. said Heating, as any respectable
member Of the force would say under SINH
lar circumstances.
Just then the Natal monkey hoped out
Of the bag. !.
by gum, yer right. said .Keating,'
Come back here, We sphalpeen!'
The Natal monkey initiated the delegate
from Ceylon and made some disrespectful
'Iu fan ye for that said Keatins. ST
l ever get ye."
Down among the braces and cables under
the promenade climbed Jocko-that's as
DR.. Archer bewailed his fate, knowing that
the press agent would see 10 it that the
news. reached the newspaper offices on
schedule time. Jocko pranced and chat
tered along. Scores Of promenaders
stopped, and soon the report spread that
a man had jumped off the bridge. Then
It was a snake that had got away and
finally 1t was a lion. That caused some
folks to hurry al ,ng. "Plime me-" said
DR.. Archer, sthe next time Mr.. bostook
wants me to carry monkeys across the
bridge he'll get somebody else: What do
you think that bobby said? He told me
to 60 about me business and to 'Gwan.'
! can't get that monkey, and I'll nave to
hurry to Coney to show EN- that I'm not
tight. Here, Jocko, Jocko!'
But Jocko capered and capered and
Chartered and prAnced along the cables.
Occasionally he tool an excursion toward
the third rail but lodged 1t every time.
The trolley cara slowed up and. 80 did the
bridge cars. B. r. T. employees were
huslting around trying. to find things to
throw. Then the jack tar came along
and climbed down. ave got a monkey on
the ship" he said, "and l guess ] can catch
him. Back and forth Jack and the monkey
went along those cables from the middle
Of the bridge to the New York tower and
finally Jack cornered Jocko up against
the tower and nabbed him. =.
Keating hadn't the heart to fan the mon
key. Jack rolled of toward Coney Isla nd
With a tight grip on the hole In the bag and
the trains again began to run at full speed.