The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-29
HOW ROOSEVELT
GAME IS SHIPPED
Specimens Shot by Ex-Prcsident Will
Be Displayed at Smithsonian
Institute.
BY WARRINGTON DAWSON.

NAIROBI. British East Africa. May
20.-The arrival here OF the Roosevelt
specimens under the care Of Prof. Ed
mund Heller today established the first
.official link between Col Roosevelt
and the capital OF British East Africa.
Ii WAS expected that ;he special
freight car in which they were packet
would come up attached 10 the Ordin-
airy train from Mnmbasa, que at 1870,
and large part of the population had
planned to 20 down TO the station aud
do honor tos the victims, since the
chief himself has not yet put in an
appearance.
But with characteristics modesty.
Heller had his car attached TO a
freight train leaving kaDlli plains at
the unearthiy hour OF 3 a. m, and 50
he arrived in Nairobi AT O'Clock,
when the inhabitants were sleeping
peacefully.
This Is an easy-soing couatry, and
Il wfs three full hours before Heller
could find anyone at the station 90
have the car brought up where it could
he opened and unloaded .'erhaps the
station employees had taken a sniff ct
the doors when he was not looking,
and SO were lodging further work IN
connection with the collection.
The smell of brine, garlic and gamey
flesh when the seal finally was broken
. and the car opened would have been
enough TO frlghten of pretty much
anybody
No Time for Repining
But Heller was SO eager TO get the
work we'll forward before the sun got
any hotter. that the men called up To
help had no time for repin.lg. The
doors OF the car were opened and 4
sack containing the complete skin Of
one Of the CRATES was lifted ont
II happens rarely that giraffe skin
. can be taken off without beng cut into
sections, for it is heavy and adhereS
closely TO the flesh. Prof Heller ac-
complshed a veritablc feat in getting
off intact two giraffe skins.
Col Roosevelt killed his two and
Kermit his one on the same day. and,
owing TO the heat Fastening decom-
position, the old hunter on the Safari
said that not even one skin could ne
= saved. But. by working with the
rapidity and skill which have made his
reputation as a taxidermist Heller
saved both Of the colonels CRATES,
though all OF Kermit's was lost excep.
the head and feet.
A delicate cnse containing the bones
OF some OF the small antelope required,
Great care Most Of these were not
wholly preserved. only the heads and
certain bones being taken. but at least
one of each species was kept In en-
tirety. One OF the accompanying pic
lures shows the leg bones Of a giraffe
being lifted out. Heller stands on the
extreme left.
MAKE Heap Good Soup"
AS Swahli native shouldered the
heavy bone, he smached his lips and
said i'm his dialect TO the darby help
ing him: This make heap good SOUP
for Bwana Tumbo!"
Swahilis adore picking giraffe bones.
and 1t never would occur TO them that
, Bwana Jumbo (Col. ROOSEVELT and
Bwana Mtoto (KermiD nave not the
same tastes.
The heap on the ground in the next
lower picture Is the skin Of the huge
bull rhinoceros which charged Coz
Roosevelt and was hit at IL PAGES n
took six men TO lift II 10 car waiting
nearby.
The specimens later were transfer.
red TO store houses. where they Will
be packed for shipment 10 the Smith
sonian institution. At the time of
skinning. Heller scraped all the hides
and bones carefully and rrboed on SAL
rs n preservative. but each piece must
he visited carefully 20 make sure that
decay has not set in.
The specimens preserved whole In.
clude seven lions. one fhinoceros. two
giraffe a zebra. and some 20 types ot
hartheest. wildebeest 'hompsonian
Rrantii and other smaller game.
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