The Carlisle independent., 1910-08-18

rows of glowing green eyes and great teeth with the flash of red tongue writhing between. 4 zebra switched the reporter with his tail and he turned only to jump almost out of his skin as elephant touched him on the other shoulder with lis trunk. He was hardly over his scare when zipl a leopard cached out after his coat tail
 In one way this lower deck section good place to visit the joy and relief in being able to leave 1t furnished the biggest and most absorb ing sensations that this monotonous world has held for the reporter in the last few months at least.
 Bartels & Co.,. the largest dealers in wild beasts in this country.
 large wild animal dealer" said our inform ant imports considerably more than a hundred large wild animals each year. For instance our record for one year which happen to have at hand, shows that we imported in that period 20 elephants, 35 camels 20 tigers lions. 45 eopards, 20 pumas, IS partners and hundreds of birds and monkeys and small things Cubs-lion and tiger and bear cubs-are in special demand by wealthy families. They are reared and petted like kittens, but in the end they outgrow their playfuness and the families who bought them from only 100 willing to pay us to and take them away when they attain any sort of growth. We have received many orders for hippopotami, but the beasts are hard to capture and ninety-nne times out of hundred they do not live through the voyage. In fact, menageries throughout the try have to depend of late years upon the progeny of the hippopotami in Central Park, New York, for specimens
 Like all animal dealers, we maintain expert animal catchers in all parts of the world, and it is these who fill the ships which arrive here.
 The Hagenbecks have two collecting stations in Calcutta and the other in Alden, Arabia From this point the animal catchers go forth and spend months in the wilds returning to the stations with their from this country-at present have men in South America, on the hot sands of Africa, in the Himalayas. and elsewhere, filling our orders One of them was recently in Arabia 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 a hunting band, pro ceed to collect the desired number. A huge in- closure is built in one of the main elephant paths and at night when the big animals come to feed they driven into the inclosure or keddah by means of fires and shouts and the firing Of guns. Beaters on tame elephants then ride into the in- closure and rope the beasts, and in short time they become accustomed to being led about. Ele- plants are naturally mild, and were this not the case they never could be captured, because of their great hulking strength.
 "The natives also captured elephants in pits, a barbarously cruel method in which more than 90 per cent. killed by the fall. The animal catehers take tigers and lions in pits also They dig hole. cover it with mating and place on this mating dead goat. At night the lion or tiger steals from his lair, the goat and springs upon it. The mating, of course, gives way and down into the pit goes the roaring beast Then the catchers run up and throw nets into the pit and the struggling animal soon becomes hopelessly en- tangled. Moses are then lowered into the pit and the beast is dragged out to the cage Six out of every ten killed in thls process. Leopards and jaguars and the smaller animals are caught in