The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-08-17

rows OF glowing green eyes and great teeth with
the fash OF red tongue writhing between. A zebra
switched the reporter with his tail and he turned
only to jump almost out OF his skin elephant
touched him on the other shoulder with his trunk
He was hardly over his scare when, zip! a leopard
ached out after his coat tail
In way this lower deck section was a
good place to visit: the Joy and relief In being able
10 leave 1t furnished the biggest and most absorb
ing sensations that this monotonous world has
held for the reporter in the last few months ut
least
Bartels & Co.. the largest dealers In wild
beasts In this country
"A large wild animal dealer" said our inform
ant imports considerably more than a hundred
large wild animals each year. For instance
record for one year which I happen to have at
hand. shows that we imported In that period 20
elephants. IS camels 20 tigers, lons 45 leopards.
20 pumas. is panthers and hundreds OF birds and
monkeys and small things. Cubs-lion and tiger
and bear cubs-are in special demand by wealthy
familes They are reared and petted like kittens.
but in the end they outgrow their playfulness and
the families who bought them from only
TOO willing to pay us to come 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-nine times
out OF a hundred they do not live through the
voyage. In fact. menageries throughout the coun-
try have to depend of late years upon the progeny
for specimens
Like all animal dealers we maintain expert
animal catchers I'm all parts OF the world and It Is
these men who fill the ships which arrive here
The Hagenbecks have 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 catch. We ourselves send catchers direct
from this country-at present have men in
South America, on the hot sands of Africa in the
Himaayas. and elsewhere. filling orders. One
OF them recently in Arabia a camel hunt.
two now in the East Indies trapping tigers,
and SO they spread about in places where wild
beasts abide.
Sometimes receive an order for large
number of eleI( ants. We telegraph this order to
catchers IN the elephant country, who. after
organizing the natives into hunting band pro-
coed to collect the desired number. huge in
closure is built in one of the main elephant paths.
they are driven into the Enclosure koddah 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. Ee-
plants naturally mild. and were this not the
they never could be captured. because Of
their great hulking strength.
The natives also captured elephants in pits.
barbarously cruel method in which more than
so per cent. killed by the fall. The animal
catchers take tigers and lions in pits also. Ts.ey
dig hole. cover it with mating and place on this
mating dead goat. At night the lion or tiger
steals from his lair sees the goat and springs
upon 1t. The mating of course. gives way and
down into the pit goes the roaring beast Then the
catchers up and throw nets into the pit and
the struggling animal soon becomes hopelessly en-
tangled. Moses then lowered into the pit and
the beast is dragged ont to the cage. Six out of
every ten killed in this process Leopards and
jaguars and the smaller animals are caught In