The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-08-26

rows Of glowing green eyes and great teeth with
the fash Of red tongue writhing between. zebra
switched the reporter with his tail and he turned.
only to jump almost out OF his skin an elephant
touched him on the other shoulder with his trunk
Tie was hardly over his scare when. rip leopard
ached out after his coat tail
In one way this lower deck section was
good place to visit. the Joy and relief In being able
to leave II furnished the biggest and most absorb.
ing sensations that this monotonous world has
hold for tho reporter In the last few months at
least
Bartels a Co. are the largest dealers In Wild
beasts In this country.
"A large Wild animal dealer" said our inform
ant imports considerably more than hundred
large Wild animals each year For instance, our
record for one year which happen to have Mt
hand. shows that imported In that period 20
elephants, 90 camels 20 tigers lions. A. lcopards
20 pumas. rs panthcrs and hundreds Of birds and
monkeys and small things Cubs-llon and tiger
and bear cubs-Rre In special demand by wealthy
families They reared and pcttpd like kittens
but In the end they Outgrow their playfulness and
the families who bought them from us are only
too willing to pay US to come and take them away
when they attain any sort u growth We have
received many orders for hippopotami, but the
beasts hard to capture and ninety nine times
out Of n hundred they do not live through the
voyage In fact monagcros throughout the coun'
Try have To depend of late years upon the progeny
Of the hlppopotami In Central Park, New York,
for specimens
Like all animal dealers. We maintain expert
animal catchers In all parts OF the world. and II Is
these men who nh the ships which arrive here.
The UngonboCks have two collecting stations,
one In Calcutta aud the other In Alden, Arabia From
this point the animal catchcrs go forth and spend
months In the wilds returning to the stations with
their catch We ourselves send catchers direct
from this country-Rt present We have men In
South America on the hot sands Of Africa. In the
llmAlayAs. sud elsewhere, filling our orders. one
Of them was recently In Arania on a camel hunt
two are now In the East indies trapping tigers
and so they are spread about In places where Wild
beasts abide.
Sometimes We receive an order for large
number Of elephants We telegraph this order to
our catChers In the elephant country, who, after
organizing the natives into hunting band, pro
coed to collect tho desired number huge In
closure Is built In one of the main elephant paths.
and at night when the big animals come TO feed
they are driven into tho Enclosure or keddah by
means oi fires and shouts and the firing Of guns
ncatcrs ON tame elephants then ride into the In.
closure and rope the beasts and In a short line
they become accustomed to being led about File,
plants are naturally mild, and We're this not the
case they never could be- captured, because ~
their great hudng strength
THE natives also captured elephants In pits,
q barbarously cruel method In which more than
90 per cont are killed by the fall, The animal
catchors take tigers and lions In pits also. They
dig hole cover it With mating and place ON this
mating q dead goat Az night the lion or tiger
steals from his lair. sees the goat aud springs
upon f. The mating, Of course, gives way and
down into the pit goes the roaring beast Then the
catohcrs run mp and throw nets into the pit and
the struggling animal soon becomes hopeossly en-
tangled Nooses are then lowered into the pfc aud
the beast Is dragged ont to the cage, Six out OF
every ten are killed In this process Leopards and
Iaguars and tho smaller animals are caught in