New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-27

tied up IN the new
venture. That was why the capital stock was
increased the trst Of the year. They hoped
Hustler would turn up soon and that his med
dlesome father IN law would not further inter-
tere with the corporations business plans. The
corporation could DO absolutely nothing with
out Mr.. Hustler. who was the brainiest man IN
ms line IN the world And So forth
10 required two more days % clear up the
story, with forgiveness wired from Pittsburgh
and the temperance Of the clippers In those
two days every detail Of the new soap enter
prise and the one hundred thousand-dollar
premium list had % be telegraphed All over the
country and printed as news The public de
manded the final chapter Of its romance. and IL
would not be cheated of the details
IL was generally believed at the time that the
Pittsburgh man. who after retiring from BUSH
ness, had retained with his fortune a keen sense
Of humOr permitted himself % be laughed az
for week that he might laugh until his death.
The Swimming Elephant
o. par with young Hustler's clipping ex-
plot Is the feat Of the elephant that swan
across New York Bay from Coney Island %
staten Island. This story was Just in time
tor the Monday morning papers.
The elephant weighed about four tons. and
n took as many horses 10 draw the huge hooded
furniture that numbered along the Shore
Road and was carried across the South Ferry
and the Staten Island Ferry and finally reached
south Beach AZ dawn sunday morning Long
before the big pachyderm was stridng up and
down the sand under the watChful ewes Of men
who tried % look as n they never saw an
elephant before. the police az COney Island ten
miles across the bay and the resident popula-
tion were al agOg with excitement
One Of the elephant herd had escaped from a
big amusement park There were the broken
leg chains. the fences torn down the sDIinters
Of a timsy ticket office ne had crushed like an
eggshell. the trampled ground The tracks led
20 the beach There they ceased Had the
elephant SWAIN out 10 sea- Ii wasn't long be-
i"Ie New FORK newspaper offices were buzzing
with tins question. Pictures of the elephant.
ms history interviews with his keeper and the
proprietor OF the park. were prepared in great
haste (it was sand az Coney Island) and furnished
20 the press sunday Is always a dull dav for
news anu TINS looked like a good start 10 the
city editors. But more was 10 come
Telephone bells tangled. staten Island firm
STs called up their tavorite newspapers in New
ork- IN elephant Was par,ding the sands "a
South Beach
Well. there the huge beast was' He was wet
1 Iil covered with sand and "a little seaweed
Every reporter on the story every photog-
raPher, had a good look az him cavortinq
eIuilsily ON the beach before "A force of keeprrs
appeared IN hot haste from the amusement
park having come round the broad bav bv the
t'',nc l"u,I inc furniture van took the night
"''oie- utmost az the same time fleet Of
motor boats. naPhthl launches. and a small tho
Wa seen Kicking and putting toward the pirr
Ihey nad been securing the sea for the swim
ming elephant
'lrVer ch' IL meant great week S cuisines,
Tor mo amusement park
The Man Eating Lion
On "i the best short stories ot an English
winter tells how "a run ON a country b,,L
was halted until the arrival II gold froI, ''''''N
'i'h hy the surrcptitIOus introduction of n -
Gus non which roamed apparently Al v,,u
around the building occasionally apprarin,, =,
window and roaring Previously Whenever b,s
aseP'I lfoddri him sand keepers presence be-
president son. and the sons sweetheart
Not over a dozen years ago an New Vt
city was excited for fOrtv-cieht hours -. 80
I1oihg' "i hon m stable two blocks fr,'a,
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