The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-19
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All during the week while herr Conried's
songbirda have besn boarding the big
liners for home. herr Bostock's stars Mr..
Tammany. Mr.. Baltimore, Mr.. Wallace and
others have been tripping daintily down
the ~gangplank 20 take up the amusement
game at Dreanlland's Wild animal show.
last night Wallace. Princess Alice, Muck
Rake Of al. we're all prinked up early for
the dress rehearsal 10 which Herr Bo=tock
had invited the denizens Of darkest Coney
and the newspaper mon. A few Of Bps-
tock's stars hadn't recovered from their
stormy voyage, and permitted under
studies 20 t.Ike their places.
Tammany was able to sit up and a
nourishment. and long before the show be
gan he could be heard trying his voice airly.
Billy Buttons, the chimpanzee, was clipper
as ever. Ragamuffin. the sloth bear, rolled
and rolled, which IL to laugh. Joe Drum,
the press agent, also said he felt fine.
The centre OF attraction was the new
baby elephant, who corresponds to the
child OF the opera house" in Herr Bos-
tock's aggregation. The yoringSter Il so
recent that his name is Muci Rake. and hs
Is no small he can't resent it. Even Bill
4 nOulBbDl, btiil n HitpF aSSiN W bN' ''-'
self long enough 10 appear interested when
he saw Muck Rake, and before the per-
Torrance began Joe Drum had to call at
tsntion to the fact that the Luna press
agent was trying to put the baby e lephant
under his coat. Bill denied holly that he
was trying to steal Muck Rake. and as he
put the elephant back on the floor asked
Joe il he couldn't take n Joke.
why, he's cute enough to take around
town shopping Said one Of the girls who
has a thinking part in the Creation of the
World Whereupon Joe Drum looked
thoughtful and then engaged the girl in
earnest conversation till the show began.
"Bostcck demonstrates again tonight. =
said Drum just before Hendrickson orened
the performance with his fifteen Bengal
and Malayan tigers. that he is king Of the
&c and gigantic jaguarondi Of the jagged
jungles. Tonight he" But to get
down TO facts.
Hendrickson sent his snarling troupe
through their pyramids and other stunts,
and as a finale brought out the splendid
Tammany, which even <the press agent
had not overrated. Tammany is beauti-
fully marked and savag enough to cause
the keenest ecstasy among the ,onlookers
who 60 to animal shows in the hope that
something will happen and they will get
! their moneys worth.
Hendrickson and his tigers are the head
liners Of the show, and In the opinion Of
last nights audience they are even more
blissfuily nerve raoking than Bonayita's
famous lions whose place they take, They
were followed by Jeonescu, an Italian
trainer, with a, mixed group of polar,
Siberian and Himalayan slotR bears and
Russian wolves.
The crowd got the most amusement out
Of toe ant les OF Paul Spessardy's string
Of baby bears. Ten Of the woolly little
| fellows play school and Ragamufin is
the bad boy. ringleader that gives the
teacher food for thought.
Lions, Great Danes, leopards and jaguars
did their turns during the evening, and the
performance concluded with an attack
on a fort by a group Of polar bears. During
the evening the hybrid gorilla ~ohimpanzee,
which Ia almost as tall as a man, had n big
crowd in front Of his cage. The press agent
has dubbed the animal 'Goriphanzee
and let II go at that.