The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-09
MENAGERIE FOR
Skinner PARADE
Real Elephant and a bumped
Camel Will March on
the Streets.

While hunting in the jungles be
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis during
his recent exploring expedition, Jim
McCandless encountered some big game.
He was on the point of telegraphing to
Roosevelt to come over by special
train and join him in the hunt, but on
second thought came to the conclusion
that the hunt as far as he was con
cerned, would be utterly spoiled by such
action. He would never be in the lime
light, but would be totally ecipsed by
the President, and Jim might not even
be camera-shot by the horde of news
paper photographers. So Jim hunted
all by his lonely and bagged an ele-
plant and camel, which he had ship
ped to Honolulu.
For several weeks the animals. and
some others which Jim has said moth
ing about so far, have been browsing
| on one of brother Link kuleanas on
the other side of the island, and on
Saturday they will be led over the pail
to appear in the Shriner parade. 1t is
said that Link has taken advantage of
the presence of the animals on his 600O-
acre homestead to experiment with the
elephant as an algaroba bean machine,
and it is reported that the experiment
is successful The elephant IS tusks are
arranged so that they open and shut
like scissors and chop the beans fine
The elephant is piling up the chopped
feed daily, and thereby is materially re- /
ducing Link election expenses.
As to the camel, its seven reservoirs
will be carefully drained of water and
Zem-Zem, the nectar of Shrinedom, will |
be substituted so that thirsty Shriners
on the line of march may quench that
thirst which precedes a barefoot stunt
over burning sands. These two animals,
alone, will be worth seeing, and as few
elephants or camels have ever been
seen in Honolulu, no one should miss
this free opportunity to see these wild
denizens of the nnexplored forests.
After the parade Jim will consider
their disposition. AS they are not fish,
he can not give them to the aquarium.
The Elks would refuse to accept them,
as the two beasts would seriously dis
turb their Elk browsing grounds, and
as the Republican campaign committee
already has an elephant on its hands,
it doesn't want to add to its collections
and troubles. 1t is possible it may be
given to the Museum to be placed in
The same cage with the ferocious petri-
fed dodo bird.
If you see any well-dressed man on
he street during the coming week who
looks pale and preoccupied and jumps
1t any noise, you may be sure he is a
candidate for Shrinedom. IF you see
'ows of them out on the sands at Wal
XXI beach, barefooted, exposing their a
'oles to the rays of the burning sun,
'r walking over the baked surface, you
nay be sure they are preparing for '
worse things to come, when the official !
comes Off
These victims, twenty-nine in mum =
Der, win be paraded before a plying ;,
public shortly after the noon hour next :
after which they will be ;.
lriven into the torture chamber The :
survivors will have an opportunity that :,
evening to recover their spirits or ac-
emulate more, at banquet, when :,
hey will all tell how it happened.