Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-01

With hank and whoop md wild halloa.
No rest did BrOadway'S echoes know.
SCOTS Stag Hunt amended.
NEW YORK, August lit was some
thing like that down in Battery Park and
lower Broadway yesterday morning.
when the clerks from the shipping offices
and the park loungers enjoyed a real
deer hunt.
The deer. big brown one, headed down
the stringpiece of Pier 4 East river,
,eaped into the river. and was going like
turbine liner through Buttermilk chan
mel when she was overtaken by tug.
1t was nearly noon when a wagon drove
UP to the unloading platform on the
Greenwich side of the new United States
Express Company's building, in Rector
street. The driver unlocked the back
of the wagon and slid out on the plat
form a crate containing an American
deer. cinnamon in color and marked
with a white spot on its forehead.
Howard Fielding of the foreign branch
of the company and Henry McHorney
stepped forward and after verifying the
tag, pushed the crate onto the scales to
weigh 1t. The deer was bound from
the Bronx zoo to the zoo in Cincinnati.
Deer Breaks Bounds.
the deer felt the scales descending things
began to happen. The deer just leaned
back as far as he could in his narrow
confines. Then he lurched forward
with terrific force. With one bound he
cleared the platform. knocking McHOrney
over and scattering the curious who had
gathered around.
A wagon was standing beside the plat
form. but the animal cleared 1t in leap
and headed south, going at rate which
would fill with envy the heart of a motor
cyclist. Diverted from his course by a
passing truck. the deer turned through
side street into the canyon of lower
Broadway where it opens out at Bowling
Green Park.
The street was just filling with the
MONDAY crowd. Pretty stenographers
ward Battery Park. A fringe of young
men was resting in front of tall buildings.
chauffeurs were chug-chuggfnR and mo-
tormen bowling their cars along and the
policemen of the traffic squad were plac-
idly handling the traffic as usual.
Hunt Is On.
1t was into this peaceful scene that the
deer burst. going like the wind and COW
ering thirty feet at every bound. At
every bound also the hunting party gath
cred recruits The guard from the ex-
press company was in the van.
Close kept the trailers of the deer and
ahead the shouts Of the chase se4ved as
a warning to clear the way. The fringe
Of young men disappeared, the stenog-
raphers stood not on the order of their
going but fled.
That was the rule up to Whitehall
street. There. with long, stif-legged
jumps the frightened animal was turning
when Policeman Albert Rhine who prides
h co1f hot If ut 70
ran out into the street and tried to get
strange hold on the brown streak.
The animal gave sudden sidestep. the
policeman went down and before he could
The deer kept on down Whitehall
street. but nearing the turn to South
street put on his reverse. At his first
backward movement. the crowd hiked In
all directions. Street traffic by this time
was almost at standstill. MotOrmen and
cabbies near the scene drove close and
shouted warnings or made sarcastic re-
marks. to the pack.
Jumps Over Horse.
noise like the hum of a cannon ball as
the animal turned along the water front.
Behind him, but some distance back.
came the sound of pursuit. A truck block
ed the way, and for an instant the brown
he cleared the horse and, diverted again
from his course. headed for the end of the
stringpiece at pier 4.
Two longshoremen tried to bar the
progress of the animal Both declared.
after picking themselves up. that they
would never try anything of the kind
again. long leap and then a clean-cut
dive and the deer was heading away
from the excitement on shore and out to-
ward South Brooklyn.
Whats that?" asked the pilot of the
tugboat Walter ]. Tighe a few minutes
after the shore chase ended. He pointed
to brown head bobbing up and down
astern and heading course that would
bring the object close under the tugboat's
stern. The pilot ran down stream and
waited for the animal to come close.
When they made 1t out a deer the ex-
element on board was communicated to
the engine room, and the tug was in dan
ger Of losing steam while all hands hung
over the side and watched the deer. A
rope was thrown about the animals neck
and it was towed back to the pier. There
1t was hauled in safety onto the pier
Five minutes afterward Frank Krissler
of the United States Express Company.
having a tracer" made out by Manager
Frank English of the foreign department,
arrived on the scene. He had been sent
out to follow the trail Of the missing con-
signment of freight.
Arrived at the head of the pier, Kriss-
Ter found the deer lying on its side and
wound about with much rope. Eighteen
waterfront citizens. each able and husky.
were seated on the animal. Each wanted
20 cents salvage money, and it was only
when a policeman came that they desisted
from pressing their claims.
The deer was taken back to Rector
street little the worse for it's taste OF
freedom. In the afternoon it was sent on
It's way to Cincinnati, this time in a
stronger crate.