Charlevoix county herald., 1909-12-11

animal line? You can
get them if you've the
money-and you will not have to do
much more than use the telephone
and sign the check. For, let it be
known, that in Kansas City you
can buy anything in the animal line
from green-eyed mole to a prong
horn antelope, and if you've a lot of
animals that you're tired of you can
trade 'em off for new ones. For in
Kansas City are the Offices of one of
the worlds four clearing houses for
animals-the Horne Geological arena.
= Over one ordinary desk in the Office
at 31S Keith and Perry building an
imals to the value of thousands of
dollars pass every week-figuratively
speaking, of course. From that desk
they're sent all over the world, trad
ed, bought, sold and rented. It's the
desk of l. s. Horne, one of the own
ers of the arena.
AS to the animals, they're in all
parts of the world. Some of them are
Just commonly tame, others are tame
enough to jump through hoops, lay
dead, roll over and do 20 other per-
fectly good and guaranteed acts, while
still others are still biting natives
and playing hide and go seek with
hunters in their native jungles-or
plains, as the case may be.
The tame ones are at various parks,
circuses and animal shows and are
leased, rented or "hired out" for their
keep. You can get those any time.
The wild ones can be got, but, of
Dcourse, that takes little time. AS
for the prices, they're reasonable.
You can take a perfectly docile and
guaranteed-to-be-c broke
hippopotamus home for the reason
able sum of $4,000, no more than you
would pay for a limousine touring
car. So why buy motors while hip
popotami are SO cheap? Elephants
rent from 500 month on up. Com
mon, ordinary lions cost $3.50, while
the better grades are worth on up to
$1,000. Bengal tigers come higher,
with the market always standing pat
at $1,000 to $1,000, while a chin
panzee, if he's good, costs the moder-
ate sum of $3.50.
The Horne Geological arena has
been in existence in Kansas City for
years, but, as most of it's dealings are
made outside the city, not much is
known of it. And the size of the Off
ces are no indication of the business,
for every week enough business is
done to equal that of large mercan-
9ile establishment. Nothing costs
Hess than SIS and from there on up to
k1,500, and the greatest business usu-
ally is done in the high priced ami
mails.
wish I could get my hands on a
few more elk right away without hav.
ing them caught" |. S. Horne was
saying the other day when a visitor
entered, land say" he added to his
stenographer, tell Umpty-Umph &
Company that l won't trade that
bunch of elephants unless he throws
in a Sunda tiger, one polar bear and
a couple of leopards."
BY this time the visitor was making
his wants known. He had an idea
that he would like little zoo of his
own, so he had gone there to find GU,
about 1t.
"a zoo?" the animal dealer ques
tioned. "Of course you'll want a good
Zone"
"Oh, yes" the visitor answered
vaguely; Thought I'd ask you about
It. Now, what would you"
advise? Why, let's see, OF course
you'd want lion and some leopard:
and tigers. Pumas are nice and then
oh, yes, you must have jaguar."
"Oh, yes" again came from the
visitor. The animal man was busy.
Now as to bears. You'd want /,