The Arvada enterprise., 1910-08-19

rows OF glowing green eyes and great teeth with
the flash of red tongue writhing between A zebra
switched the reporter with his tall and he turned
only to jump almost of mis- skin as an elephant
touched him on the other shoulder with his trunk.
He was hardly over his scare when zip! 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
10 leave 1t furnished the biggest and most absorb
Ing sensations that this rnonotonous world has
held for the reporter in the last few months at
least.
Bartels & Co.. are the largest dealers in wild
beasts In this country. a..
A large wild animal dealer" said our inform
ant imports considerably more than hundred
large wild animals each year. For instance, our
record tor one year which | happen to have at
hand, SHOWS that we imported in that period 20
eephants, 36 camels 20 tigers lions, As leopards,
~ pumas, 1S panthers and hundreds of birds and
monkeys and small things Cubs-lion and tiger
and bear cubs--are in special demand by wealthy
ianlliles They are reared and petted like kittens,
put In the end they outgrow their playfulness and
the families who bought them from are only
100 willing to pay US to come and take them away
"Hen 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 hundred they do not live through the
try have to depend of late years upon the progeny
OF the hiRpopotami 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 men who fill the ships which arrive here
me Hagenbecks have two collecting stations
one 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 we 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 hunting band, pro
ceed to colleet the desired number A huge in
closure is built in one of the main eepnant maths
and at night when the big animals come to feed
they are driven into the Enclosure 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 a short time
they become accustomed to being led about Fle
plants are naturally mild, and were this not the
case they never could be captured because of
their great, hulking strength
me natives also captured elephants In pits
barbarously cruel method In which more than
90 per cent. are killed by the fall The animal
catchers 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 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 run up and throw nets into the nit and
the struggling animal soon becomes bonelessIy an.
tangled Nooses are then lowered into the p,t and
the beast is dragged out to the cage six out of
every ten are killed In this process Leopards and
jaguars and the smaller animals are caught IN