The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-13
BABY ELEPHANT MAKES ACALL
DRINKS A HIGHBALL IN EDNA
WALLACE HOPPERS FLAT.
Nip Was Nabbed on the way FOR Paradlng
without a Permit and Had 20 60 60 the
Police station Press Agent swears u
Was Planned TO Keep IL . secret.

Hip, the baby elephant, dropped in on
Edna Wallace Hopper yesterday in her
Thirty-third street apartment. George
Lynch, the Hippodrome press agent, had
planned to keep the party a dead secret.
Accompanied only by a few reporters l.
camera men, Hip was to walk unoeten-
tatiously down Fifth avenue just like a
private citizen. wearing a red silk lambre-
quin with large white lettering on the side.
All would have gone well without any fuss
il il hadn't been for a policeman.
Mounted Policeman Werner wanted to
know by what right the elephant was Walk
ing in Fifth avenue. He put the party
under arrest and started for the EastTwenty-
seventh street sub-station. Hip did not try to
break away but trailcd along behind the
policeman with downcast trunk after the
first few grunts Of objection.
The double door was thrown wide open.
Hip elbowed into the station without much
squeezing.
who is the prisoner asked the sergeant
as the elephant, the H~ippodrome people
and the reporters lined up before the rail.
The policeman looked obviously at Hip.
who held the press agents hand conIid-
ingly in his trunk.
We weren't doing anything, sergeant,
the press agent protested. We were, just
walking down the street to call on a lady.
Oh, mol That isn't an advertisement; the
silk blanket is to protect him from the
cold. Yes, indeed
W can jug the people all right, but we
haven't any cell that will tt the elephant,
unused the sergeant. We'll, we'll let you
of this time, only take that blanket on
him."
Hip was stopped from trying to pull on
the buttons on the chests of the policemen.
He and the keeper went out, hand in trunk,
and the rest Of the party followed.
There had been rumors Of p ano movers
and a sling to get Hip up to the top floor
Of % West Thirty-third street, but that
part Was a disappointment. As the ele-
Vator did not test over eighteen hundred,
the baby walked up stairs on his own pins.
Here he comes! We heard him. cried
high voices on the top landing, as the cor
tege finished the first fight. The other
dodgers were not forewarned and stayed
behind closed doors, s%uppoeing that il was
Just the piano..
Once in the apa rtment Hip was 80 smoth-
cred in caresses that he backed, b%lushing,
into a group Of thespians standing be hind
him and crushed them against a br~ic-a-brac
stand in pearl and lacquer. There was
a shower Of china, worries and whatnot,
and a crushed patent leather toe. The
screaming did not last long. There was
too much competition to feed the baby
with peanuts.
Sir Somebody-or-other, who had just
made himself a highball, had a happy
thought. He rendered it to Hip, h
emptied the glass with his trunk.
IT'S only half as strong as take EN-
explained Sir Somebody when he was
warned not to give Hin too much. Then
some mean lady said, ooh, hut he's only
an elephant, you know
The highball did seem to go to Hips
head a little. He bumped into n bronze
Bnddha, and spoiled some more crockery
TO the delight Of the guests. When he
wa led ont he went dow stairs steadily
enough, but amused himself plucking out
some OF the banisters, until the keeper
struck him a sharp blow on the wrist. Even
TO the last he was modest.
kiss me good-by,' pleaded each Of the
ladies', Rut he dropped his trunk shrink
ingly and looked at his toes, Sir Some
body came CALAMITY to the rescue, deClar-
ing: Il wish / had a trunk"