The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-13
BAD FIGHT WITH
 WHITNEY'S BEAR
Zoo Officers Have Hard Time
 Getting Him Into Park gl1# Gage L-
HAD TO USE GIL HLOROFORM
Use Searchlight to Beat Him
 Back - Silver Kings First Day There

Director Hornaday. and Curator Dit mars of the great Bronx Zoo, had one of the fights of their lives when they transferred the great polar bear, Si1- yer King, which Harry Whitney and Paul Rainey brought with them from their Arctic hunting trip from the inn provised cage which they had brought him south in to the great iron cage which is now to be his home in the Zoo All night long lying drugged with ch1oroform the animal snored and snorted so as to keep most of the animals of the Zoo from their regular rest.
 When Prof. Herman Merkel finally bundled him into the shifting cage of the polar bear den on Saturday night after 10 hours of fighting and worry, Silver King was only half recovered form with which Director Honraday and Curator pitnaars conquered him, but he shook off the drug before they could get the iron gate of the cage rehinged.
 That was little before midnight, and the director, Prof. Merkel and the light to make the King a safe exhibit for the Sunday crowds In 1oosing him from the primitive wooden cage, Paul J. Rainey and Harry Whitney had built in E11esn1ere Land, MT. Hornaday's men had shot two-inch blanks through the bars of the shift ing cage on each side of the door but they knew that the King would tear a way out with. his teeth through the solidest planking. The iron door had to go back
 tempt for the tame white bears in the main den, came back for another bat tie with his captors. Before they could swing the heavy iron gate into position he was tearing and ripping at the blanks. Charley Schneider. the head keeper, was manipulating the searchlight.
 The zone of light showed Silver King reared up nine feet against the plank bars and biting and gnashing like mad thing.
 Charley ran the light carriage closer, dehected the lens and shot the full radiance squarely into the Kings lit tie bloodshot eyes. He couldn't stand it.. He roared and backed to the fur blindly, and covered his head with his massive forearnS much as a. human being would have done. Three min utes later the Eiron cage was in it's place and Silver Kings last chance was gone.
 When Aleck Ferguson appeared to see if the King was still erupting ac- lively or only raw material for a fur rug Ghey were a bit disturbed over the ch1oroforn dose) he found the white bear stupid or asleep apparently, scraper between the bars to tidy up the cage and turned. his head to whis- tie a friendly morning greeting to a little gray squirrel. He reeIed as the scraper. was torn from his hands, and he whirled to see the King smashing the oak and iron tool as a terrier man gles a rat. A1eck got another scraper and the King took it away from him. He tried to feed fish to the snowy devil. but the pole was jerked away by the purple jaws.
 ~An right. old fellow" said Aleck. t'We'lI just see about this.''
 The keeper was back in 10 minutes. with a bottle and a handful of cottor He soaked the fluffy bunch, caught it on the end of pole and janmed it suddenly at the Kings nose. The bear missed like a python. rose up, fell trembling. in the back of the cage. A breath destroying dose of ammonia had taken all of the fight out of him.
 But he wouldn't eat. Aleck pro- viGed butter fish by the peck and chunks of fresh beef. but the King Httle,. glancing around suspiciously with his small inhamed eyes half open and raising a paw like a cat disturbed. The only time in the whole day when he seemed to be pacified was when Aleck sprayed his bulk with cold wa ter, turning the hose on him from nose to tail, letting the water run steadily his head and neck straight into the stream and opened his mouth to the rush of water. Every half hour A1eck wet him down, much to the delight of the crowds who went to the Zoo to see the polar bear that had made such a fight.
 Whitney and Rainey paid a visit to the Zoo thenselves to see Silver King in his new home.