Arizona republican., 1910-09-24
4 RENEWED INTEREST
 IN GEOLOGICAL MATTERS
Fine Opportunity for Investigation
 Next Monday.
From Glenmore Davis, Barnum <
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From Glenmore Davis, Barnum S Bailey Press Department) Through the recent artillery and li- terary efforts of Colonel Roosevelt q new and wonderously nluminatinc spot light has been trained on the | many queer, curious, uncanny and cantankerous beasts which inhabit the out of the-way places of the earth I White haired old men, simpering school girls and pulling infants have pulled down dusty tonnes and read vol | umes of geological literature in the ef- fort to make up lost time in getting
 wise on the habits and habitats of such things as the Blood Sweating Behe- moth of Holy Writ, seven of which tsank under the mighty Rooseveltian broadsides; the wobly-eyed wart hog, which snuffles the air and roots for wild turnips in the farthermost jun gles of British East Africa; the disin- genuous dick-dick which delves in the dark. dank, dreary bogs of distant Bo- rango; the inconoclastic Ibex which in habits the isolated islands of Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza: the elongated, elastic Bland which leaps IIOifi lIlOuHu lO IflOunI III StdTcD or the luscious leaves of the lofty lombobba plant and the Rhinoceros, last of the Paleozoic beasts who roars and grunts as he rambles his solitary way OCT the rolling plains of far-away Masai-land near the head waters of the White Nile.
 A year ago nine out of any ten men knew nothing of the whiskered wild beest." Now he is as well known as Laura Jean Libby or Halley's comet. Yesteryear did the thrifty housewife as she sat up waiting for friends or hus- band to come home. while away the slow-moving hours by reading about the haunts of the hackle- headed hyena?
 Not on your life!
 Things have changed. A monument al awakening has come among the peo- pie. Geological gardens have busted the moving picture shows from their proud place at the head of the amuse- ment column. The ponderous, palm cared, pea-eyed pachyderm, yclept the elephant, has taken on a new and popu- lar charm. Wild animals have come into their, own for the first time since the famous Admiral Noah set sail on his justly celebrated and deservedly successful voyage. And Colonel Roosevelt did it. To him are due the grateful thanks of an enlightened peo- pie. He is the man who turned on the calcium. He is was who showed us the light
 Since the densely and deviously popu- lated ark touched ground on Aarrarat no such travelling collection of wild animals has ever disembarked in one place as will roll. squirm, wobble, hop and walk off the four big Barnum & Bailey trains early in the morning of Monday, when the Greatest Show on Earth arrives in Phoenix. In the last four months seven shipments of beasts have arrived from Africa, Asia and South America and been added to the multitudinous geological army which already clogged the great Barnum & Bailey menagerie tent The corners and countries of the known and un- known worlds have been rifled and ransacked for new and outlandish spe- cimens of the rare inhabitants of the animal kingdom, and now this collec- tion is the most varied, the most CO., lossal and interesting exhibition of wild beasts ever gotten together for the purposes of itinerant enlighten- ment.
 Four herds of Asiatic and African elephants will be found at one end of the big tent. Among them is Hebe, the largest pachyderm in captivity and for a quarter of. a century famous as the mother of Columbia, the first Of her race ever born in America. Close by are the graceful giraffes, which re-