The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-03
GETS GOOD KANGAROO
AND MUMMY FOR $3.4O
Electric Chair Playbs, and wi Also Go Down Under Hammer
With Babv's Body Pre- served in Alcohol.

The owl was sold for $2.s0 TO a
man named kraemer. who SAID ne
thought OF changing Plato's name
to Pete and letting him catch mice Tor
a living.
Stuffed kangaroo, 40 cents.
Four live alligators and two turtles
brought only 81 But for outright
bargains II was hard to beat the stun
ed Kangaroo which was knocked down
to a Mr.. jacob for forty cents. The
same man bought an ambulance which
was found on a battlefield of the Civil
War for sixty cents. Possibly ne
needed 1t to take the kangaroo home
in.
Cases of stamps. coins. old theatri-
cal programmes. assortments OF weap-
ons used in ancient warfare. photo
graphs of freaks, portraits of historic
personages and prints Of all sorts
brought almost nothing.
The bidders were about equally df-
vided between collectors who are wise
and skeptics who took a chance. Some
Confederate bonds and an old pistol,
said to have belonged nj one time to
jefferson Davis brought only fifty
cents.
A case containing some Chinese and
Japanese writings" which looked more
like Third avenue laundry tickets than
anything else, and some withered flow
ers. labeled From the Pope's Gar
den. Rome" were sold for half dol
lar
George Morton. once a famous actor,
and now living in retirement at New
Brighton, s. l.. was an interested spec
tntor John Mack, an old time player.
lid on numerous faded programmes
of early New York productions. Cap
tain Chittenden, an Actic explorer,
made a careful examination of relies
and advised several friends when and
what to bid,
James L. Carhart an actor of the
old school, picked up some valuHb BILE
playbills for almost nothing. ami
Charles II. Drifting, a restauranteur,
who has a large collection of pro-
grams and photographs Of theatrical
celebrities, also found some good bar
gains.
The human baby. preserved in all
cohol. was sold. along with numerous
jars containing other curious speci-
mems of nature, for Sc.
When the buyers were asked what
they intended to do with their prize
packages of freak stuff. most of them
looked susptciously at the questioner
and hurried away.
Houdinf an Aviator.
HOudlm SAID ne uld not want the
Auburn electric chair for his front
porch.
Il made my debut here years ago,
no explained, at next to nothing a
week. l want this chair for sweet
sentiments sake. 1t came while / did
my first week at Huber's."
The effort to learn from Houdtni
wherein sentiment might be found In
SO grisly relic as this WAS upavail-
ing, but he did say that he is an
aviator now.
II took the awaiting prize in Aus
tralia," said he, and | will fly here
before / go to England"
j. w. Barry. n retired policeman,
and Malcolm Anderson. an employee
of the museum. bought in for $3.50 a
cycle velodrome, which they plan to
set up at Cason Point and make a
fortune out Of Some one bid dol
lar for "a quantity of bones. labeled
as belonging 10 some prehistoric mon
ster, and the crowd said. Good boy,
professor, when he got them. Gus
Hills dumbbell would not sell at all
though "A case of baseball celebrities
of twenty years ago brought rs cents.