Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-01
LONDON SOCIETY MAY ABANDON
"BRIDcE"
EAST AFRICA IS FAST BECOMING
POPULAR
Wild AnimIs Are Plentiful and New
Railroad Opens Up Country Of
Great Possibilities to
Huntsmen

BrltiSh East AlriCd iS' III lat, tho pi6
game hunters paradise. Since the build
ing Of the Uganda railway tourists can
reach the only large tract Of country in
the world where wild animals have been
carefully preserved, and are about as
plentiful as rabbits in Essex.
Al The tourist can travel by comfortaple
steamships through the Mediterranean,
the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, and
land at Mombasa, where he finds mod
ern railway with dining and sleeping cars
and all the other accompaniments OF
civilizations This takes him to Nairobi,
where he is in the heart of the lion and
elephant country. Leopards are as
plentiful as tabby cats, and lions are
three penny
British East Africa is on the edge OF
boom as a pleasure resort, and Mr. David
Garrick Longworth, the proprietor and
editor Of the Globe Trotter, a paper pub
lished at Nairobi. has come to London
to start the boom. Mr.. Longworth has
mad experience in booming countries as
pleasure resorts, for he was editor of the
Sphinx at Carlo for ten years, and con-
Quoted a publicity campaign for Egypt
(which helped to make 1t known all over
fhe world as the ideal place to spend
winter. Lord Cromer has written to Mr.
Longworth CO plimenting him on his
work for the development of Egypt, and
the khedive has decorated him.
Jungle oociety News
The Globe Trotter, which is Mr.. Long
worth's latest venture in journalism, Is
unlike anything else in the way of
newspaper that has ever been published.
Its society columns are occupied with the
doings of lions, elephants, rhinoceroses,
and other inhabitants of the jungle, and
what little space is left after describing
their doings is devoted to stories about
parties and individuals ION safari."
Safari, by the way, promises to become
recognized addition to the English
language before long. 1t is quite untrans-
latable, but any one who has ever been on
a hunting expedition in British East AT
rica knows all the joys that the word
calls up. 1t is derived from the Arabic
"msafara," which means a caravan, but
as used in British East Africa it means
a big game-hunting expedition with all
the comforts of modern civilization.
The Globe Trotter is full of advertise
ments by enterprising gentlemen who wish
to provide outfits for safari parties, to
serve as guides for them, or to sell them
mules or donkeys or zebras for the tame
zebra is almost as familiar a beast of
burden in the safari country as the horse
or ass.
big game is our staple industry" said
Mr.. Longworth You can shoot 1t from
the windows of the Pullman cars on the
rrsa ma a ,1--@z5 5rr<sy.sFor from the steps of
your hotel, which, by the way, is equipped
with eledtric light lifts and everything
else that you would expect in the center
of civilization. Occasionally 1t is true,
the attentions of the lions and leopards
are little annoying; but after all that
only adds a spice of excitement to life in
Nairobi.
Sport Plentiful
eve don't try to hush up such little
matters out there. In fact. our town
authorities make the most of it when a
lion makes little raid in the main street
and carries off cooie They want to
advertise the fact and to let all the world
know that there is still corner of the
earth where all kinds of big game can be
had for the shooting.
Come they say to the hunter Pay
us ESQ for a game license, and we will
allow you to kill or capture the follow
ing animals:
Two elephants, two rhinoceroses, two
hippopotamusee. two zebras, two game
bucks. one Gland. one sable hippotrages,
one roam hippotrages two kudus, two
tapis two hartbeestes, one bongo, two
aard-yarka two cheetahs, two aard-wolfs,
two marabouts, two egrets, ten ante
lopes of certain species, ten chevratains.
q we have all these in stock they
saw. "Where can you find better col
lection outside Regents park, and all
ours are running wild and in inexhausti-
BILE numbers
.sRritish East Africa Is known to many
nersons already as a hunters paradise,
and many mighty hunters have been
attracted to it. Lord Delamere lives at
Nairobi. Lord Cranworth has bought
homestead there and Lord Hindllp mas
decided to make the town his future
home. Lord Cardross hes also bought an
estate there. The Duke of Connaught
has shot big game in the neighborhood
Of Uairobi and Lieut. Gen. Gaden-Poweil
thinks there is no place like 1t for sport.
Lions in the Path
Mr. Longworth is looking forward to
the time when the news of the lions and
hippos will be crowded out by the news
of new arrivals to hunt them. At present
the editor of the Globe Trotter finds his
news little monotonous sometimes, al
though it must have been rather exciting
to those engaged in making it. Here are
few extracts from news item con-
cerning the adventures of a babu station
master at a station called Simba on the
Uganda railway. Simba, by the way,
means .'place of lions" The station
master sent the following telegram to
headquarters
Urgent. To Traffic Manager:
LAS a. m.
Lion is on platform. Please instruct
guard and driver to proceed care
fully and without signal in yard.
Guard to advise passengers not to
get out here. and be careful when
coming in office
While the unhappy babu was barri-
caded in his office big game hunter
arrived. as sort of relief expedition.
He saw a lioness roaming about the
metals. looking for trouble. and shifting
for the train to arrive, and he shot her
at Atty yards range. Shortly afterward
two lions strolled across the permanent
way; one met the same fate. the other
was wounded and attacked the hunter.
Meanwhile the station master was still
worried by lions Here Is his next tele-
gram, dated the same day. $3.50 a. m.:
One African injured at o'clock.
again by lion, and hence sent to Ma
kinduj hospital by trolley, Traffic
manager please send cartridges by
: four down train certain.
Extra Urgent
The next telegram is more alarming
1T is marked Extra Urgent"
Pointsman is surrounded byi two