Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-29
RUNS WILD
Big Beast Causes Horror on
Old Manhattan Isle.
MERRY TIME FOR AWHILE
Goes Through the Busy Streets for
Nearly a Mile.
BREAKS THINGS IN FINE STYLE
Escapes From Hippodrome, After
Voyage, and Is Riled Because
Storm Stirs Bile.
MERRY TIME FOR AWHILE
BREAKS THINGS IN FINE STYLE
SpeciaI Dispatch to The Star.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, November 2S.-One of the
| three elephants which the White Star
| liner Georgia brought here Thanksgiving
day escaped from the Hippodrome this
morning, ran clear across town at least
| a mile to the amazement and terror of
| everybody who happened to be passing
| along the streets. made call in East
Saith street and wound up in a yard
on East %3d street after smashing several
fences breaking down some hall doors.
bending the iron bars guarding the win
dow of d reputable citizens dining room
and causing havoc generally.
There wasn't anything prearranged
about that little excursion of RoSa'S. All
that was necessary to become convinced
Of that was to look over the territory
she had traversed.
The fences Rosa smashed and the fences
her keepers smashed to get her out of the
labyrinth into which she had worked
herself were eleven in number. Begin
ming al 1916 East 34th street, there was a
trail of ruined fences extending through
1885, 334. BAD, 345 and 347 East sd street
and 577, $40. 5S1 and 5S3 1st avenue.
Gets Wedged in Hallway.
Rosa also got stuck in the hallway OF
dance to gain the rear yard. In getting
there she proved herself a fine line
bucker for she hurled away the rear hall
door, which was closed. and then Went
through everything else that barred her
way like water going through a sieve In
the meanwhile ID great crowd filled 34th
street listening to the sound of ripping
boards Rosa went down the Held.
Eight policemen lowered Oh the outskirts
of it.
The keepers finally tied Rosa to a pole
in the last yard OF the series, but she
broke the rope if it had been string,
and then amused herself by breaking
loose the succeeding times she was tied.
They finally had to take the other eie-
plants down from the hippodrome to en-
tice her back. Then she went calmly
enough.
To those who knew what Rosa had been
| through it was little wonder she went
| wild. Stormy weather, fog, a collision off
| Sandy Hook, Imprisonment in the hold of
| a steamship for fourteen days, a squeal-
| ing pig at the Hippodrome. trolley cars,
fire engines were some Of the causes.
Sea Voyage Rifles Beast.
| Rosa was a good, ladylike elephant
when they put her aboard ship in Eng
land In all her thirty-eight years OF
life she had never been anything else but
a creature of the most sedate habits
i and even in gay Paris, where she per-
| formed for a long time, she evlnced nc
| DISPOSITION to cut up any capers Hel
| original home was India. She transferred
from France and England we'll trained
| But she and her companions dld not take
kindly to confinement on the Georgia and
the rolling and tossing they were sub
| iected to. The stormy weather did not
| Improve their temperS and the fog added
| to their annoyances When on top OF all
that the Georgia ran into and sank the
| Panama liner Finance, Rosa was mad
/! enough to do something desperate.
| Withdraws From Rehearsal.
| The opportunity came this morning
when the elephants were sent to the Hip
podrome stage for rehearsal. Rosa baked
at the squealing of a trained pig and made
a break for the door. In making her way
out Of the playhouse she injured Arthur
Muller, the Hippodrome timekeeper. who
was crushed under the wreck of the
stage storm door and partition. which
Rosa knocked down.
Keepers and stage hands tried to stor
her-at least, they say they debut Rosa
brushed them aside, and when she got
through with the stage entrance there was
a big job for anybody who wanted to pick
up wagon load of kindling wood to say
nothing of twisted iron things, some loose
bricks and the like.