The Carlisle independent., 1910-08-18


 include such immense foreign animal firms as the Hasenbaeks. It Is 9 paying business, as indeed, are all businesses where the demand exceeds the supply. The demand for wild beasts is far greater than the supply, and as a consequence prices are good, and the dealers of wealth The extent eE ahis demand may be appreciated when one con siders that most of the great cities in the United States have geological parks or menageries, and ezaa1 the animals are constantly being purchased By them. Then there are private collectors and s-,rcuses and the like, that are ever ready to pay ae highest prices for desirable animals. The ani- nal dealer who could secure and bring to this country three four gorillas would make small fortune. But no dealer has ever succeeded in do Ing this. The gorillas die in few weeks in cap e1Vfty; they could not stand ocean trip for a day.
 4 rusty old German liner lumbers noisily into Quarantine, and then lies motionless on the tide Aa officer, with broad red, bewhiskered face. stands at the head or the companion ladder, and he smiles peculiar smile, as a husky screaming zzIulation rises from below. "The animals get Eing hungry" he explains: you know have several hundred of them the tween decks. Want to see them? All right" Iu another minute probably the most competent animal man in the world is at side. He is not trainer, or even tanner: he is more. He is sort of animal cook and his special business Is the personal manage nent of wild animal tours. He receives them Mons, tigers leopards, elephants, everything else at Hamburg where they have been brought fresh from their native wflds and not only super intends their shipment aboard vessel bound for New York but he sails with them to make sure Ghat they arrive safely and in good health. And ee sure that if the tiger gets of on his diet and needs nice fresh live rabbit to tone up his sys 7Een this man will be aware Of the fact almost Before the tiger is-and, ergo, nice big jumping Bunny is sacrificed in accordance with the pre- x-epts of wild beast mater1a medica. Then, too, one can never tell just when the big boa Is go- ing to rouse from his last gorge; when he does he wants toothsome young goat, and he wants F quick. It Is part of the animal mans duties s.o anticipate the boa's appetite with all possible expedition.
 He is a quiet unassuming man, with stoop shoulders and bushy whiskers, and he leads the vvs9 to the tween decks without word. Per- E.aps the uninitiated may believe that tour Through the animal section of a freight-carryfng zTsssel is an unimpressiye experience. We'll, let ehs11 try it and see! This be said at the out s4at-it is somewhat different from menagerie. Ea means something to come into close proximity -sso hundred and odd wild animals that have been -JthIessly snatched from their la1rS in Africa or Asia, or elsewhere. and capped into little barred boxes, not as large as dry goods cases; slammed a and out of dark holes in the vessels of several seas on the way to Hamburg; then finally placed sa the stygian tween decks of a German hooker.
 The swinging cross seas of the North Atlantic nave not improved their tempers, or their nerv- GUS systems, and the visitor at Quarantine is szrfckIy impressed with that fact. The howls and -zghines and the barks cease abruptly the stran- gers enter For they bring the smell of land, and eEae great beasts snif inquiringly, and hungrfy, &oo.
 The cages lined both sides of the gloomy space, with little passageway between the boxes. Per naps this passageway was three feet wide not more The cages were piled two and sometimes shree deep In the bottom cage. for instance xro,1ld be a tiger; in the next above smaller an vaaI. say, a leopard lynx and above that a rsarrot or a bunch of neerkats. Think of it. raree-foot passageway, with ferocous animals stretching along for 100 feet all sides Talh about nightmares. The reporters hair stifened out like so many pieces of wire, and he wished vaast ferventIy that he had not come. It was more i agreeable he felt, to see these animals in a me v1sgerie where the cages are ample and the bars m inch thick
 Better keep in the middle of the aisle says one of the animal men; these fellows sometimes reach out for you.
 Words such as these, of course, hardly tended to reassure-
 IT. really was too dark to much Ont caught a view of the cages stretching away fl gloomy perspective until lost in the darkness, o