Evening journal., 1908-05-16
BUSTER HAD THE
TIME Of Ills LIFE
Cinnamon Bear From the Zoo
Went on a Rampage About
Washington Heights
DRANK MILK ON PORCHES

His love for liberty evidently whetted
by the taste Of jelly with which he
had ben lured back into his cage after
escaping last night. Buster" the Gin
namon bear in Brandywine Park Zoo,
broke out Of his den again at o'clck
this morning and amused himself by
drinking milk from bottles on porches
around Washington Heights, tearing
porch chairs apart, and doing other
funny stunts. Buster" had the time
of his life last night and this morning.
and his cage will have to be strength
ened to prevent him going on further
lpilgrimages out into the world of free
dom.
When Buster" was discovered a.
large by Samuel II. Baynard and a no.
liceman at $50 o'clock he was prowling
along porches around Nineteenth and
Jefferson streets, enjoying himself by
emptying milk bottles that had been
left on the various porches in that
neighborhod. He also was engaged
IN upsetting and demolishing the flow
ers, howerpots and jardineers on the
porches OF the houses on Nineteenth
street east Of Jefferson, the neighbcrs
yelling at him from their second-story
windows Being driven from there
Buster was induced to partake Of some
Jelly from a tumbler and Fred Moore
tried to coax him towards the Zoo.
While Buster took kindly to the Jelly
he had been fed too much Of II the
night before and had secured his
breakfast. He was coaxed as far as
the wagon shed Of the Washington
Heights Church and for a time stood
at bay there but was routed out and
went to the corner where he tried to
get in a boys express wagon, but the
boy refused to pull Buster around and
ran away.
Buster then called at Mr. Baynard's
residence and went around the porch
admiring the plants.
Buster next tried 20 climb a tele-
Graph pole along the boulevard end
possibly fifty leans, many Of them
! farmers wagons coming to the mar
ket. stopped to watch Busters actions.
After Buster let go Of the pole a poy
brought a stout iope, lasso was made
and gotten over the bears head and
then the fun commenced in earnest.
With Buster at one end of the lasso
and Fred Moore at the other. Buster
! could run as fast as Fred and chased
him over into the park on the west
side Of the Boulevard where Buster
succeeded in getting free of the rope
by rolling over and over on the grass.
Buster then started to go to Church.
but finding there was 10 service beina
held. he called at Benjamin +. Shaw's
residence. Mr. Shaw was in Washington
and the family not inviting him in by The
front door Mr.. Bear went down the cell
lar to see what was there
After breaking many bottles and samp-
ling the contents a rope was again got
ten over his head and. finding nothing
more to amuse him in the cellar. he came
out to drive away the crowd. When Fred
Moore took hold of the other end of the
rope Buster got jealous and started TO
drive Fred away from it. Fred held on and
ran towards the Zoo as fast as he could
so with Buster trying Just as hard TO
catch up with him. down the steep hill
they ran but at the bottom Fred who was
going too fast to stop. ran one side oe a
stout bush and Buster took a short cut
the other side. with the result that when
the rope became taut Fred and Buster
came to a sudden stop against each other
and the crowd that was following got
tangled up with the bush. rope. Fred and
Buster He was finally dislodged and
forced into his cage where he Immediately
plunged into the pool and took a. bath.
then started to knocking his mate around.
Keepers at once began to fix the cage so
Buster could not get out and take another
run around, much to the Disappointment
Of the small boys of the neighborhood.
Escaped Last Nght.
Busters" first escape was last nfvh+
and for an hour he enjoyed a stroll that
finally brought him up on the porch
Of the home of Harvey Booker, Eight
eenth and the Boulevard.
When Buster was sighted on the
porch there was some excitement.
When Ritzman and Martin, park
guards, who had discovered the cum
ming fellows escape and struck his
trail, they found him surrounded bv
chairs that anxious persons had used
TO enclose him. At their advent, some
enc suggested that Buster might
be bribable to jam. So a glass was
obtained from s. II. Baynard, Jr. one
whim OF the delicacy made Buster"
succumb and with Park Guard Ritz
man holding the glass at arms length
Buster followed him back to the Zoo
and was placed in the cage. Recol-
lections of the jam were too much,
however, as his subsequent escape
provad