The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-01
DEER CHASE AMID
THE SKYSCRAPERS
Animal Breaks from Crate on
Express Wagon and Flees
Through Noon Day
Crowds.
THEN LEAPS INTO HARB0R
Half Dozen Tugboats Take Up the
Chase Where Mounted Police
Leave Of-Finally Re-
captured.

New York, July 31.-The escape Of
a deer-a doe--from a truck OF The
United States = Express company, la
Rector street, Manhattan, at noon to-
day, caused more excitement than
lower New York has seen for many
day. A football game was as moth
Ing compared with the fight Of the
big doe through the crowded streets
Of Manhattan, for half dozen men
were knocked over and those that II
could not knock over were hurdled by
the fleeing deer, which took any num-
Der of leaps of six feet and over be-
fore 1t landed In the river.
Consigned from the deer preserves
In the Adirondacks belonging to the
Seward Webb estate TO one Of the
country places on the Atlantic High
lands coast, the deer broke from It's
crate In Rector street and was fleeing
through Greenwich street, which is
generally congested with trucks be-
meath the elevated structure, before
the driver of the express wagon was
aware OF the escape,
At least five hundred men and boys,
all off for the noon hour, Joined the
pursuit OF the doe toward Battery
park AT Battery place the deer up
set two peanut stands and n banana
peddler's OUTFIT. Mounted Policemen
Edward Ahearn Joined the chase Of
the deer through Battery place and
| State street AT first the doe was In
! clined to dash right into Battery PARK
but the fact that the park was filed
with MONDAY oilers, who shooel 'he
deer away turned It's course to the
/ new Custom house
/ The sight Of FIVE foot deer going al
| full speed through the streets, with 6
large crowd In pursuit and a mounted
I policeman close upon the heels OF thu
4 fleeing animal brought hundreds o
1 faces to the windows Of the new Gus
! tom house and the Offices Of the steam
ship companies along state and White
hall streets. At the corner of these TIVE
streets Albert Rhine, off for the nool
hour, stood smoking his pipe, when III
and the pipe went sailing through
space and landed on the green Of tn
park. A vision in brown, with a pair o
graceful heels showing astern, was al
that told Rhine what had happened
Through to the ferries for Brooklyn
the deer went at a breakneek clip. TIL
fact that the ferry gates were all clos
ed made 1t make detour eastward
where the gate to the ferry for Thirty
ninth street, Brooklyn, was open
Through the gate went the deer, turne'
to the east instead of continuing
through the boat and leaped over TIL
4 mountains of ties and iron Orders tina
were lying in the shed adjoining tn
ferry slip, From this space the dee
leaped fence and got to the entranc
of Pier 4, East river 1t negotiated tn
500 feet of pier stretch in less than tw
minutes and leaped far out into TIL
Buttermilk Channel,
Half a dozen tugboats at once chase
the swimming deer toward Governor
Island, In the direction of which 1t Va
heading Someone on the tugboat Wal
ter j Tighe, first In the pursuing fleet
threw a lasso over the deer and tn
struggling animal was holstsd to tn
tugboat deck. 1t kicked itself free an
once more Jumped into the water
Again 1t was hoisted out and, after
half hours hard work, the doe wa
finally brought back to the pier and
wagon Of the express company was sen
after 1t.
The doe stood at least five feet hig
and was a beautiful specimen of tn
brown deer variety.