Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-15
END OF TARTAR THE TERRIBLE
Man Eater Dies of Broken Heart When
He Sees How Scared His Trainer Is.

wild animal acts is desperate
business said the Coney Island
barker. reflectively. IT never knew
trainer that came to good end.
If they wasn't bit by a tiger they'd
get the jimjams from drinking RED
liuuor or got swatted over the head
in some circus miX-up. Tragedies,
you'd call them, and that's what they
are. But the saddest of ali was the
case of Duval, the Death Defer, ana
Tartar the Terrible.
The first was a man and the second
was a lion. When l met George DuVal
he was holding down a show on the
island with a bunch of bears. They
were rotten bears. Why, would you
believe it? one of those animals got
loose and was almost chawed to death
by a fox terrier before we could res
cue it. Those bears was so tame they
wouldn't "a bit a squash pie, let alone
a full-siZed man. George used 10 De
so melancholy after the performance
that he wouldn't say word I'LL the
seventh drink. Then he'd throw out
his chest and say: I'm Wlld amman
trainer, | am, and I'll show 'em yet
The dav will come some time when
nobody will laugh at Duval the Death
Defer Long the tenth drink he'd
sob and curse the bears something
awful.
Il went away for two weeks that
summer. and when | came PACK
George met me with a face all full
of grins. I've got news for you, ne
saws. I've bought lion from a bust
ed circus and they've just delivered
him. Come over and have look.
"As we walked over to the tent
could hear the new beast roaring LOUD
and fierce, like a Socialist orator rap
ping the trusts. When the animal
gives a specially vicious howl George
pats me on the back. Amt tnat
great he says. Something like the
real thing Then he swells himself
up and says, slowly, His name is
Tartar the Terrible
LAS we walked along he kept MUIR
muring to himself, 'Duval the Death
Defer and Tartar the Terrible.
when | get a look at the animal
| find he's right up to his roar He's
a big yellow fellow with a huge tuft
of a name, a bit thin and little
NANCY, but pretty substantial looking
Just the same. He roars extra LOUD
for our benefit and George griuS all
over.
Just the same Duval is pretty
leery of Tartar and he don't even
start to train him for a month. Fin
ally he gets i'm the cage to begin the
educating and teaches him new stunts
Tartar amt what you'd call bril-
liant student. but after five or SIX
weeks he can jump through hoop
and sit on top of a barrel. All the
time he rOarS and frequently makes
passes at George with one paw till
Duval burns him with hot iron.
After about three months we put
uD big posters of Tartar and start him
in the show. He makes hit at the
jump. Some days he does his tricks
and some days he don't, but he keeps
up his vocal efforts. continuously
frightening the women and children
and attracting the multitudes.
Time goes on and he don't seem
to gain weight right. He leaves his
meat alone and finally we switch to
bran mash. which proves nGuriShing.
With the change in diet Tartar begins
to grow sleeker and fatter. but ms
hoWlS remain up TO par in herceness.
George don't never get used to
him. He's really plumb scared. Most
every night as soon as he begun To
feel his liquor he'd say, Some day III
have to kill Tatar or Tartar will Kill
me-. and then he'd weep in his beer.
He had another spell he used to
spring just before we put him to bed,
Tartar fears me when | look him in
the eye he'd say. but just let me
turn my back and he would rend me
limb for limb It's Il struggle all the
time between two great brainS-the
brain of the beast and the brain of
man I'd pat him on the back and
calm him by telling him his brain
was sure as good as Tartar'S and that
there wouldn't be no scrap.
Things went on that way for about
two years and George begins to have
dreams and see OmenS. L ureamt OF