The Carlisle independent., 1909-11-18

zly and a sloth and a Kadiak. You'll need a 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, giraffe, a buffalo, some elk, few deer, couple of pronghorn antelope, an aoudad, or Barbary sheep, Sing Sing waterbuck, and then in the monkey class"
 T couldn't very well keep those in the basement, could I?" the zoo want CT asked
 Hardly" came dryly from the ami nal man.
 And the price?"
 "Oh, about $50,000.
 Well, I don't guess I want any zoo,' the visitor said slowly But be- ing there, he just stayed 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 $33,000 worth of elk, and we've still got orders.
 "Everybodys buying elk and polar bears-in fact, we've had the best polar bear market this year we've ever had. Sold nine in 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 I took a flyer on a bunch of parrots that circus wanted to get rid of and came out very we'll on it.
 50, 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.
 Trade animals? Why, certainly. And often, we do more trading than selling. For instance, in the spring, when circuses are getting in menag- I can take up 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 rental of s1,000 a month"
 What is perhaps the most famous bear in the west today, 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 1,400 pounds. His capture was effected about 16 miles from Santa Paula, Cal, on Pine noun tain
 Some two years before the midwin- ter fair of 1891-2 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 14 loaves of bread will do for the three bears in II oIf jv1 are needed. This is despite the fact that he does not hibernate. Grass and weeds, too, are given him at his hungrier season.
 K Captivity has not softened his griz- zly 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 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, it seems, as lap-dog.
 Old Monarch was taken IS years ago as a result of the attempt to cap- ture another famous grizzly, known as "Old Club Foot" that had been at- tacking 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 a sled was chained down and then drawn out eight miles through the wilds into cage, within which he was shipped to a summer garden near Frisco.
 He was later shipped to Golden Gate park.