The evening world., 1908-11-28

/ The house and sat 'ransnxed with ter.
ron, Then, ns their blanchcd faces were
turned toward the yard, they saw a
huge elephants head at the window,
aud they listened for a fraction OF a
second to a below from long trunk
that was thrust into their very midst
The Grunner family left their seats In
one precipitate rush and reached the
barber shop in front Just as two Gus
toners were sprnging from their chairs,
their faces only half shaved
Boss barber and family. journeymen
BARRIERS ana customers passed out into
the street through the closed windows.
Meantime Nellie had the back yard
TO herself and proceeded to trim down
the fences and bulge In interfering
walls, to the CONSERVATION OF hundreds
that looked on from windows and roofs
She went through two fences TO the
south as u clown walks through n paper
noup, then she swung her head against
back fences, demolIshlng them. Every
now and then she would charge upon a
rear wall and batter in the brick and
smash the windows with her head. And
whenever the breath came TO her she
would shrek a little more with rage
and fear.
Capt Cray, of the East Thirty-nfth
street station, had arrived with his re.
serves. Mounted policemen and bicycle
policemen had assembled from every
nearby post, and presently there were
added reserves from tho East Twenty
second street station, and the East Elf
tyhrst street station, not to mention
eight men from the Grand Central tSa :
ton and the force Of firenen that usu-
ally respond TO n second alarm OF ere
Other Elephants Arrive.
They had ropes and ladders ana fire.
hooks and grapnels, but none had a
.lYN .sV.sy Ill
thought IL wisest to wait for the arrival
OF Prof. Ross who was reported on the
way from the Hippodrone with the
three other elephants of the troupe of
four. lie arrived at round trot, accom-
panied by another concourse Of inter-
ested thousands.
Nellie gave her personally conducted
exhibition for siNty-four minutes in the
quadrangle bounded by -four rows of
tenements that face on Thirty-fourth
street, First avenue, Thirty-third street
and Second avenue. Had II not been for
the fact that there is narrow vacant
lot adjoining the northeast corner #
fhirty-third street and Fourth avenue
the freeing of this large jungle lady
would have been an engineering feat of
some difficulty.
Tore Down Many Fences.
Even as it was. $1,000 worth of fences
had TO be demolished n order to get
to her First tine fences stretching
back of Nos 345, 3i7 and 30 East Thirty
third street We're hammered down, then
the First avenue fences back of Nos.
az. 5,s, ISL. 5sS and SO. and turning the
corner on the Thirty-fourth street side,
II was necessary to demOlish the fences
Of Nos. 34l. $40. 80. 55S aud 33i. at least
those of them that Nellie had not al
ready smashed to flinders.
Long Before lsuSsi ana his three other
elephants reached the tCmpestuouSly In
clined pachyderm size heard the grunts
2f her fellow performers, and returned
When they arrived through the lane If
shattered fences she ran to them
caressed their necks and wept for glad
ness.
the Hippodrome. Ross undertook to
rehearse them again. hut after sea voy-
ages. steamship collisions and this
mornings experience their nerves We're
still on the ragged edge and they made
another bolt out into the street. They
We're readily secured again. however
and sent to their stalls with an extra
allowance of nay.
Jimmy Cartin. the Mayor Of First
avenue" Undertook a deed of hero!sm
after Nellie had taken possession of the
back yards of his constituents. Going
TO friends stable he secured a bunch
of hay. Cheered by his friends he
boldly through the hallway into
the back yard. Slowly and with due
regard for avenues of egress he tin
toed toward the elephant, who was en-
gagged in roofing up clothes poles.
Nice girl" said Cartin. Come. get
pretty hay"
Fine" replied Nellie in elephant Ian
guage, with terrific snort, turning and
rushing upon Cartin.
THE Mayor of First Avenue" started
back for the street through the nehrest
window emerged through another win
dow into Thirty-fourth street. and when
last seen was out on the end OF a pier
hailing passing rowboat.
The Trainers Failure.
Another incident of Neiie's early
morning stroll that had its thrills was
the attempt OF Wendell Dietrich. an
elephant trainer out of work, 10 iasso
her LETT hind foot and stop, her as she
threaded her way through the traffic OF
Forty-secuud street, He borrowed a
coil OF rope from a truck, and made a
neat throw that gripped the elephants
ankle, But she did not stop or even
hesitate. and when Dietrich had gone
half a block, mostly on his face, he let
go.
There were volunteer elephant tanners
by the hundreds, some armed with
crow bars some with axes, scores with
ropes and coils of wire