The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-30
People in Busiest Part Of
Jersey City Get
Under Cover.
TIES UP TROLLEY CARS
Huge Pachyderm About the Only
Moving Object Out of Doors
While 1t Lasted-.Jumb0
Had Designs on Office
Building, Too.
Especial to the pvsnlnr star.l

JERSEY CITY, Oct. 30.--Jumbo. q
monstrous elephant, this morning tied
up trolley lines twenty minutes, and
before she submitted to being loaded
on freight car, terrorized lower Mont
gomery street, sent cigar dealer doing
hurdles over his cases. and also sent
typewriter girls and matrons doing the
hop, skip and jump into office build-
ings.
The elephant was led from a float
of the Long Island Railroad Company.
and was pushed along the Pennsylvania
Iafailroad yards until he reached the
pier of the Adams Express Company.
off Exchange place There Mr. Eie-S
phant baked on being loaded on fiat
car
John Murphy, the elephants keeper,
left him for a moment. John OHara
and John Foster, two assistant clerks in
the express office, were handling way
bills, when O'IIara felt soft little
touch around the regions of his ear.
o'Hara turned about and looked
straight into two beady eyes that
peeked out from 1900 pounds OF eIe-
phant.
O'Hare is not a sprinter. He didn't
try to run He just made two jumps.
One took him over his desk and the
other through the Office window and
landed him. sash and all. on the pier
He beat out Foster in the race for the
widow by three seconds.
| What the elephant did for the nqf
| fes- moments is a mystery, but ABOUT
s o'clock this morning he suddenly APP
peared in Exchange place. He didn't
need any visiting cards to announce
| his coming. Out into the street he
wandered and sat down on the trolley
tracks. and right there every trolley
car running out from the Pennsylvania
ferry suddenly stopped running after
vainly trying to knock over 1900
pounds.
Ten minutes passed and the cars
piled up, and then the police were
called out. Six bluecoats responded,
and they got about the elephant and
banged away with their clubs. The.
! elephant In seeming disdain picked a
fender off the nearest car After
while the policemen got through bang
irg away at the animal and retired
wind-b broken and muscle-sore.
! Then freight handlers from the
Adams dock were called out. They
took their cotton hooks and jabbed the
elephant with vim and enthusiasm.
The elephant sat one freight handler
on the pavement, ten feet away, and
then the freight handlers retired.
Just about this time, when things
looked bad for the trolley company,
| the elephant got off the track. Tho
sidewalk was thronged with men and
women. and the beast numbered for
the sidewalk. Feminine hosiery of
startling and curious design at once
became the leading issue, and young
ladies and middle-aged ladies and
ladies who will never be young again
went down Exchange place or
scrambled into buildings, and as tlley
went they searched their souls for
sounds to tell how scared they were.
From there the elephant went to
the cigar store kept by Jacobwitz
Brothers, at Montgomery street,
underneath the Fuller building. 1t got
half way in the door when Elias
| Jacobwitz saw what was coming, and
didn't wait to hold out welcoming
hand. Elias went over the cigar coun-
ter and locked himself in the telephone
booth i'm the rear of the store. The
elephant destroyed box of cigars ana
ambled out into the street
The freight handlers became busy
again. With almost eight hundred peo-
pie crowded into Montgomery street.
the elephant began charging back and
forth, driving the crowd again for
shelter. Lawyers leaned from windows
| in the Fuller building and gave Mr..
Elephant ink wells and ink and legal
| advice.
While the uproar was at it's height
John Murray, the trainer, appeared.
John gave the elephant the grand hall
ing sign of the Order of Captured and
Uncontaminated Elephants, and Mr..
Elephant went off with him. At II
O'Clock this morning the beast left oyer
the Pennsylvania Railroad for Atlanta.