The sun., 1908-06-01
LIONSNJ.D. ARCHBOLD'S
ARRIVE AT BRONX ZOO-BABY
MOUFFLON Also ARRIVES.
while Shingllng the Big Turtle Charley
snyder Tells what becomes Of the
Money In the Elephants savings Bank
You'd Never Guess-lco Worm Culture.


You'd Never Guess Worm Culture.
Saw. do you know something? Well,
yor should have been up to the Bronx
Park ZOO yesterday afternoon, that's all
Naybe the Persian wild ass heard Keeper
Max Landberg say that as the spring pro-
crossed you could see less and less Of the
ass's dorsal stripe, whereas the zebra's
sripes became more clearly defined every
dav. The ass simply raised Cain yester-
day afternoon. for 1t is this jealousy about
the zebra's stripes that makes the Persian
wild ass wild.
And John d. Archbold OF the Standard
OIL Company rode into the zoo with two
lions in his automobile, which his son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Armar ID.
saunderson, presented to the park. And
Charley Snyder Of the snake house, sitting
as,ride the great shell Of William Fl. Taft,
the monstrous Galapagos turtle, and re-
shinelng the turtles roof where Marie
Dressler, Williams mate, had ripped of
some Of the armor plate during domestic
differences earlier in the day, frelated in
teresting things under way among the
snakes in his care. And a tiny mouffion. or
wild sheep Of Sardinia. was born ut O'Clock.
And-oh, lots of things
Keeper Barney McEnroe led Little john
nie-the father Of the moufflon-away to
some other spot. Through the crowd they
led the young father, and people pointed
at him and laughed, and Little Johnnie
looked sheepish. But to begin with Charley
Snyder Of the snake house:
Il don't like to work on Sunday" said
Charley Snyder as he climbed to the highest
point Of William II. Taft's roof and strad-
died the hard shell ridge armed with shin
gle nails, hammer and half a dozen
OF moro shingles that had been dipped
In creosote to make them waterproof. But
IL / don't shingle these bare spots ON the
turtles shell to-day he's liable to go into
the tank before 1 can get at the job to-
morrow. Then the water would leak in
on William and the turtle would naturally
drown
The turtle was walking about for exer-
oise as Charley talked, which made 1t neces-
sary for one to move every now and then
to hear Charley Snyder's voice above the
banging Of the hammer as he drove the
nails into the shingles.
I'm like that eight foot coach whip snake
in the snake house, Charley went on. sin
not wanting to work on Sunday. You
remember how Vice President. the longest
and thnnest of the coach whip snakes. used
to take the tail OF Isaiah, the other big
coach whip snake. in his mouth and then
how the two would string. out in a line in
copper bellied and banded water snakes
could hang themselves on the line they
formed to dry2 Do you remember?"
Yes answered the snake editor as he
picked up beautiful specimen of the dia-
inond backed rattlesnake and shook its
rattlea oORa hia TO that thew were
going.
And do you remember asking me, when
! was putting up the stepladder to get up
here on the turtles back, what We do with
has been taught to take from the visitors
and deposit in the little bank beside his feet
in the elephant house? Gracious me, there
goes my hammer!'
Yes. again answered the snake editor
as he climbed the step ladder with Charleys
hammer and with mighty push slid IL up
the slanting roof Of the turtle toward
Charley's outstretched hand.
-Wen.' continued Charley, we've been
pending that money from Gunda 3 bank for
cothespfns for the water snakes. Why?
because now two water snakes have to
hang from the line formed by the extended
coach whip snake where only one hung be-
fore One night z last :, month the boss, Mr..
lecture on snakes at the West Side Y. NJ. C.
A. and since that night we can't get Vice
President to string himself outwith Isaiah
for the water snakes to dry out on except on
family Of water snakes have only Isaiah,
or half the old length Of olothesline, to hang
from to dry. They used to be able to wrap
themselves once around the coach whip line
to dry, but now there isn't room, and 30 we
have to hang them to Isaiah with o!othespns
by the tips Of their tails. Once when was
milking whale in the BAY Of Fundy after
the tide had dropped thirty feet In twenty
four minutes, leaving the whale caught on
the barred roof Of chicken coop where l
gated by the whale. was lamenting
that"
There was wild honk down the roadway
and all the park fed towsrd red French
Of Director Hornaday's office. Fastened to
the quarter deck Of the automobile In a
wooden box with wooden Stats for bars
we're slung two child lions. Sergoit and
Saumbout, which had just come from Lake
Victoria Nyanza to The Bronx via the foot
Of West Fourteenth street and Tarrytown.
From the automobile stepped John ID.
Arohbold and his daughter. Mrs. Saunder-
son. who with her husband. Armar Saunder-
son Of County Cavan, Ireland. had captured
the lion cubs recently in Africa while hunt
ing big game. Director Hornaday and
Curator Ditmars greeted the visitors, while
one Of the keepers, Freddy Schlosser un-
strapped the invoice Of lion cubs swung
dtnWdTU tn0 auto EuQuer anu started toward
the lesser mammal house that is used as a
sort OF night and day nursery for young
varmints until they grow up.
Between eight and ten billion visitors
yesterday was big day at the zoo, re-
member) followed In the wake OF the lion
cubs and the automobile party and cura-
tors. knocking over benches in their excite
ment. When the new home of the cubs
was reached Keeper Max Landberg helped
Freddy Schlosser TO rip Off the stats that
covered the cubs' soap box and as.t tumbled
the cubs in two tawny gray wads of ftlzz.
Freddy Schlosser and Max gathered up
each the end Of a chain leading to the col
lars Of the cubs and the keepers skilfully
avoided all uppercuts and side swipes az
they pumped the cubs into a waiting cage
and unlocked their collars down the back
For long time after that the cubs, who
straightway had wandered out into the open
runway back OF their cage, held all the at
tention OF the ZOO visitors. Sergoit and
Saumbout get their names from two noun
tain ridges near the spot where Mrs Saunder-
son and her husband captured them. II
you want to show that you're onto things
when you go to the zoo always remember
that Sergoit doesn't pronounce the final It"
IN hls name and Saumb0ut anreerhaa hia