The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-18
ELEPHANT ALICE
PEEWSHLY ROOTS
UP SOME TREES
Also Demolishes Fence to Add
Eclat to Bronx Zoo
Moving Day.
.STAMPEDES ANTELOPES.
rs Handlers Put to Flight, but
Otherwise Coney Pachy-
derm Is "Amiable."
-STAMPEDES ANTELOPES.

or some other temperamental feminine
foible, moving day at the Bronx Zoo
to-day would have been perfect and
politely conducted function.
But Alices temperament broke loose
all over the place, and as she Is 900
pound, twelve-fooe African lady ele
plant, II may be gathered that the
affair wasn't handled with the eclaI
and Formally of a pink tea. As results
of the fractions females capers there
are great holes in the earth out Bronx
Parkway; three or four trees were
uprooted in the pride of their youth, a
section of the iron picket fence sur
rounding the antelope Enclosure lies
prone on It's side. and n half a dozen
assistant keepers are having the time
of their lives chasing four or five ante
lopez through the woods in the rain.
She Was Amiable at Coney.
This was by no means the first time
Alice had so distinguished herself, and
those out in the park who have made
her acquaintance only recently are be-
ginning to question the statement of
Dick Richards, her old-time guide, phil
osopher and friend, that she used to be
rs amiable as a pink-eyed rabbit, She
came from Coney Island, and it may be
that she missed the crowds, the music,
the hot dogs" and the moving picture
shows of that resort. but, whatever the
cause, she lost her sweet disposition on
Sept. Is, when Director Hornaday tried
to move her from the old elephant house
into the antelope house.
On that occasion she showed her
spleen by butting into the snake house,
breaking the glass cases and upsetting a
gross or so of assorted king cobras.
pythons, bushmasters, rattlers. spread
ing adders and other wcll-known
sduirmers all over the floor. Two
women were injured at this time, and
the whole place was mixed up. Alice
had TO stay night and day in the
snake house, but was finally moved after
she had been given a dose of choral
into the antelope house There she re-
manned until to-day.
Buck Jumps Scatter rs Men.
Not taking any chances, Director
Hornaday ordered the young elephant S
ankles hacked with heavy chains, Civ
Ing her opportunity to take only short
steps Then a hempen cable was tied
about her waist and a big ships anchor
attached.
Then. with Dick Richards murmuring
tender nothings into her ear, seventy
five men under the direction of Prof.
Hornaday and DR.. w. Reed Blair, began
to coax Alice through the door. She
WAS about fifty feet from the door of
the antelope house when she realized she
couldn't run on account of the chains.
so she began TO buck jump. Lickety-
split. the seventy-five men scattered like
ants. and it was only the presence of
mind of Richards, who jabbed the an
Choir around a big oak tree, that kept
Alice from going away from there
When she found she couldn't move
from her moornes she lifted up her
trunk and began to trumpet as never an
elephant trumpeted before outside of
Mr.. Kiplings stories The trees trem-
bled. birds fell out OF their nests and
animals all set up Il squalling and a
roaring.
Then Richards did a nervy thing He
deliberately climbed up on Allces back
and assured her, IN the most confidcn-
tial of tones, that everything was all
right This uuieted her for "A little
u.h;,o and Oh, 40. tra,,a-.7 - -
""'e "Hu sue ""S Ilu"Oe" 10 mon
another 100 feet toward her new home,
She PIucked Scme Trees.
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ness after TINS and Alice showed Hei
strength by uprootng trees and the an,
+s,opa forco T,,Ilo,,,;rc ,rfg .fa co.
down, and. sqaeailng like a magn.aee
pig, rolled over and over on tie slim
merry ground
go,
chiS hiehaIds '"uId 90 any iblhs VIII
her. lie sat on her neck and talked I,
ber like a Dut,.rl po,la r,-l .f,er sb,
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hau peeh thoroughly 'haSlsh.a' sA'
consented 10 amhle along 10 her new
house rrr. trim Of 11p, f.et fran, 90.
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plant mansion built Iy the city -
.xactIv thrae lo.rs
All the other elephants bad preceded
Alice, and, with the exception OF Guud,
.,,osbtr. a n,,no,, tho ,,,,s,.r ,.,
1hiusH"s '"'' a. NV -""'''' w"
made without eN'luhG incident