The Yale expositor., 1909-11-19

coVered-and black bear and griZ
ely and sloth and a Kadiak. You'll
need hippopotamus and certainly
you'd want a rhinoceros. No first
class zoo is complete without an In
dian and an African elephant. Now
there's the South American tapirs, a
giraffe, a buffalo, some elk, a few
deer, a couple of pronghorn antelope,
an aoudad, or Barbary sheep, a Sing
Sing waterbuck, and then in the
monkey class"
Il couldn't very we'll keep those in
the basement, could II" the zoo want
er asked.
Hardly" came dryly from the ami
NAL man.
And the price,"
"Oh, about $4,000.
well, | don't guess / want any
ZOO" the visitor said slowly. But be-
ing there, he just stayed a little while
longer and found out some things
about the animal business.
Much to do?" Horne asked. "Why,
there's more than we can attend to
right now. You see, the parks and
ZOOS all over the United States are
buying right now, while the circuses
are selling. So it keeps us busy get
ting them in and shipping them out.
Just in the last month we've sold
nearly $50, 900 worth of elk, and we've
still got orders.
'Everybody's buying elk and polar
bears-in fact, we've had the best
polar bear market this year we've
ever had. Sold nine in a month
Rhinoceroses are moving rather slow
ly. while hyppos are steady. The
pheasant market is bearish. while the
elephant trade is rather inclined to
bull bit now and then. Just a few
weeks ago / took flyer on a bunch
of parrots that a circus wanted to get
rid of and came out very we'll on it.
so, you see, that's the way it goes
Right now it's elk and polar bears.
In another month likely, everything
may be going to tigers, while a month
later no one will want anything ex-
cept African lions and Indian ele-
plants.
y.
And often, we do more trading than
selling. For instance, in the spring,
when circuses are getting in menag-
erie stock that is good only for cages,
can take up a lot of untrainable
stock from the animal shows and
trade it into the circuses. Then
leases on animals run out every once
in a while and so it's traded in for
new stuff upon which leases can be
taken. Many of the animals in the
shows are owned by us and rented
out. For instance, right out in Den
yer there are three elephants belong
ing to us from which we get a rental
of $1,000 a month"
What is perhaps the most famous
bear in the west to-day, and the one
seen by more people probably than
an other, is the famous Hearst grizzly
of the Golden Gate park, at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Old Monarch, as he is known, is said |
to tip the scale at 1,40O pounds. His
from Santa Paula, Cal, on Pine noun
tain.
Some two years before the midwin- |
ter fair of 1912 the bear was taken,
but he does not seem to have suffered
by his captivity in the least If any
thing he has prospered.
During the winter his bearship eats
but little-twelve to Ia loaves of
bread will do for the three bears in
the cage, although in the summer 35
are needed. This is despite the fact
that he does not hibernate. Grass
and weeds, too, are given him at his
hungrier season.
Captivity has not softened his griz- |
ely heart, and he will, moreover, at.
tack his keeper, If given a chance. So |
the keeper takes good care that the
bear never gets him in a corner. In
fact he only enters the cage when he
absolutely must.
At the same time this full-bred old |
grizzly, whose age is estimated at
about 30 years, plays about with the
other bears in the water as gently, II |
seems, as a lap-dog.
Old Monarch was taken is years |
ago as result of the attempt to cap
ture another famous grizzly, known as |
"Old Club Foot" that had been at |
lacking the sheep about Pine noun
tain.
Instead of "Old Club Foot" Mon
arch" was caught in the old log trap,
and after being roped into sled was
chained down and then drawn out
eight miles through the wilds into a
cage, within which he was shipped to
a summer garden near Frisco.
He was later shipped to Golden |
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