The evening world., 1908-11-28
Nellie, Scared by Educated Pig,
Runs Away From the
Hippodrome Stage.
10000 JOIN IN CHASE.
Animal DasheS Through Tene.
ment' Taking Hallway
With Her.

Nellie. big performing elephant. one
OF the troupe of four that was landed
from the Georgia, the liner thai sank
the Finance THANKSGIVING Day. became
panic-stricien on the stage of the Hip.
podrome this morning. bottled out of the
stage entrance and started on the most
exciting career ever pursued by any
Nfour-footed creature in this city.
RossL the Mllanese trainer had taken
Nellie and her three teammates out on
THE stage at 6 o'clock in the morning ia
rehearse them. They are musical
elephants, but the sqeal of an educated
pig grated on her delicate sense. and
she passed out of the Hippodrome. tax
Ing four doors on the Forty-third street
side with her.
Arthur Muller, a timekeeper, got in
the way and was lucky to escape with
q broken wrist and serious bruises.
With uplifted trunk, from which there
issued continuous thunder and shrek
OF fear and rage. Nellie raced eastward
on Forty-thrd street, swung around the
corner of Firth avenue. numbered down
the avenue to f'orty-second street.
o. Without halt Nellie pounded through
the traffic Of Forty-second street all the
y way TO First avenue, every foot of the
n way accompanied by demonstrations OF
panic on the part of pedestrians and
the drivers of ve..--Ies
An Army of Hunters.
Mounted Policemen, taxicabs, big
na,.c liz
and brewery wagons formed a mon
strous procession of pursuit as the
great pachyderm wallowcd through tie
thick traffic on the thoroughfare.
All this added to the panic Of poor
Nellie and as she swung southwark
into First avenue she uttered squeals
as shrill as the sirens of the fire en-
gines, hung her head and plouChed
along biindly. Every half block a We
hicle of some sort got in the way of
the stampeded elephant and was
Z brushed aside like cardboard box,
spilling their drivers and leaving their
horses sitting back on their launches
IN petrIfied establishment.
An Audience of 10000.
BY that time there must have been ten
thousand persons in the clamorous
wake OF Nellie, but nobody in front who
could jump or skip or hop out of the
way. Roofs of tenements began TO
sprout black clouds of yelling. eager
people. The animal was forty shows
and five circuses in herself and seemed
to know ii.
Down First avenue she numbered for
half a mile. and would never have
stopped had not a crashing mass of fire
apparatus turned the corner of Thirty
third street and headed toward her, the
: hremen standing up, waving their arms.
whanging their gongs and shrieking
their whistles like lot of maniacs.
This approach gave Nellie pause for
a moment. Then she waved sharply
round the corner of Thirty fourth street
and proceeded westward along that
lane of traffic.
e Midway in the block team attached
to a milk wagon saw Nellie coming and
heard the awesome music Of her trum-
pet, whereupon they proceeded to wind
themselves around a lamp-post, neghinG
In terror. The attitude OF these horses
made the scared animal pause again, so
she turned and dashed hcadforemost
g into the nearest house.
This happened 10 be the double tene-
d. ment. Nos, 336-33S East Tnirty-fourth
street, There Is a comparatively narrow
hallway between these numbers. one
n side OF which Is occupied by the saloon
of 7. j. Bowling, the other by the bur
Der shop OF Henry GrunHer.
No one who looked Oh imagined for a
moment that the elephant would nego.
tiate that hallway but then they didn't
know what several tons OF elephant car
DO with good start. One butt of Mel.
lies head and the door fell with q
crash.
a Elephant at Their Window.
y Henry drummer. the barber, his wife
and daughter were seated at breakfast
Z in a room looking out on The backyards
and just abaft OF the barber shop. They
did not know what was going through