The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-03-21
ANIMAL KING AT THE
JAMESTOWN Exc


Norfolk Vas March 20.-visitors Of
the Jamestown Exposition will have
opportunity to- e the greatest gath
ering of trained wild animals ever ga
thered in the United States. Bos-
took the Animal King is now on his
way from Europe where he has been
arranging for the transportation of the
animals at his London Arena and mis-
Paris Hippodrome to this country and
here they will be joined by those now
in winter quarters in Richmond, Va.
These latter are those which during
the summer months r shown at Co
ney Island.
Bostock's first appearance in this
country was at the Worlds Fair in
chicago when his sparring kangaroo
attracted wide attention. The trained
lion, Wallace, a savage beast, despite
his training, was next before the pub
lit and very nearly killed Bostock in
Paris Hippodrome.
Bostock is not only a wild animal
trainer but he is as we'll the trainer
of a large number of the animal train
ers whose names are familiar. His
history is an interesting one. His mo-
the's father was the original Womb
well, famous in England as far back
as 1905 He originated the Womb
well shows. His son Charles was
knighted by the queen. One of the
daughters married a Bostock, and the
other a Mr.. Edwards. The old show
was in time divided and one became
the Bostock Wombell show; the 9TH
er, the Edmu1ds Royal Windsor Cas-
tie Menagerie.
Frank C.. Bostock the present head
of the business, which has shows in
nearly all of the capitals of Europe
h0oop Aic oat,a1 ~,,H1;4 49,
the beasts at the time when a Moor,
then the leading trainer of his faith
er's show, had lost his head and beat
the animals. He was discharged and
yOu1g BOStock, who had been brought
up with wild animals for pets. asked
his father to let him fill in. He tried
and his way with the animals-always
a kind one-made him master. Since
hen his knowledge OF animals has
become not only of the practical kind
required for their handling and feed
ing and training and breeding, but it
has become a valued scientific kind.
much sought by scientists.
While his ~multifarious executive
duties keep him so closely engaged
that he has little time for actual work
among the animals, he now 1everthe-
less keeps in touch with them and is
active in supervising the instruction
of new trainers, in their perilous
school of actual experience in the Gag
ed rena.
While Consul the trained Chimpan-
zee, which wore clothes and ate at ia
BILE with humans and was extensively
entertained among humans in Paris.
is now dead, his face will be seen
by Exposition visitors. Consul re-
mains in a stuffed state and is at pre-
sent in the custody of the u. S. Gus
tom officers pending a question of du-
ty.
Meantime he has a ~ceS in a
goripanzee a hybrid produced by eros
sing a gorilla and a chimpa1zee, a re-
suit never before obtained. Many 9th
er animals of hybrid origin will be
shown. The variety of animals, their
great number, the numerous crops of
trainers and the countless tricks would
take a great deal of space to enumer
ate. but it may be said that every
thing from the giant elephant to the
crawling serpent, the ~ferocious lion
to the gentle lamb that lies in the
same cage; the powerful bear and
the cunning monkey will be seen in
his highest state of education, which
unfortunately does not insure immuni-
ty to the most skilled trainer from
the treachery of the deniZen of the
jungle.
Bostock has contracted for a model
arena and amphitheater and animal
quarters at Pine Beach ear the en-
trance to the Exposition grounds and
the structure though for temporary
use will cost 500. 1000. It will be in
readiness when the exposition opens.
April &c, on the shores of Hampton
Roads, near Norfolk.