The San Francisco call., 1910-04-25
TINY MISS FLIRTS
With BABY BEARS
But Mrs. Urus Major Objects
and Makes Dash for 'Lit=
tie GOIdy Locks"
Quick Witted Chauffeur Ar
rives and Proves Hero to
the Rescue

ulate her adventurous namesake of the
fairy tale, had thrilling experience at
the bear pit in Golden Gate park yes
terday forenoon. and was only saved
from possible serious injury by the time
" arrival of +. Y. de Martini, a chauf-
feur who was passing along the south
drive in his automobile
The little girl, whose ringlets matched
in hue and profusion those of the
sunny haired child in the story books,
went out 10 Golden Gate park yester-
day morning with her brother, who is
a tennis player. While the brother was
playing on the park courts the little
girl started on a tour of exploration.
She knew that there were bears In the
park and she wanted to find them. She
is only years of age and of an ad-
Venturous temperament The bear pit
was easily located, and there Little
Colby Locks found Urus Major and all
his family, including two lively and
chubby Urus Minor.
Those were the folks that Little
C1oldy Locks was looking for She won
dered if Mr.. Bear had cold porridge and
Mrs Bear hot porridge and the little
bears porridge that was just right, and
also if the little bears would growl If
she would eat their porridge all up. The
little cubs were very lively, and Little
Colby Locks thought they would be
me plavfellops So she scrambled over
the low iron fence that surrounds the
higher bars of the bear pit and went up
70 the railing TO seek a better acquaint-
ance with the busy little, cubs
BEAR RUSHES FOR CHILD
old Mother Bear saw that Little
Colby Locks was making overtures 10
the little bears through the bars OF
the pit, and she let out savage
growl and rushed for the bars where
the child was standing, innocently
teasing the cubs.
De Martini was passing in his car
and heard the growl of the mother
bear. Seeing the predicament of the
child he stopped his car and rushed
10 her rescue. lifting her over the
bars Just in time TO save her from
savage slap from the mother bear.
The quick witted chauffeur took the
child in his car and carried her 10
the tennis court, where she said her
brother was playing.
When De Martini asked the child her
name she promptly replied, Little
Goldy Locks" and could give no other.
The hot weather of Friday and Sat
urday persuaded a large number of
people to go TO the park and beach
Yesterday under the false promise that
the DAY would be warm. On the con-
trary. il was a cold, windy day, but
the people stayed in the more sheltered
portions of the beach and in the
park until twilight drove them in.
Two accidents were reported TO the
park emergency hospital
Robert J. Butler, a 16 year old boy,
living at 3697 Twenty-hrst street, was
watching q baseball game in the park
too closely during the afternoon He
stood right behind the home plate and
was struck in the head by bat hurled
aside by a batter. who had made a hit.
The lad was taken to the emergency
hospital and treated for an injury TO
the head which may prove to be a
fracture of the skull. The occurance
was entirely accidental The police
did not have the name Of the batter
W. T. Barlow of 749 Howard street,
Jumped from car at Seventh avenue
and II street yesterday afternoon. The
car was running at the time and Bar
low fell. He was badly bruised and
was treated at the park emergency
hospital
ALLEGED PICI&POCKETS JAILED
George Mclaughlin and James Miller,
two young men, were arrested at Wal
Ter and Stanyan streets yesterday after
noon on the accusation of William Phif-
fer. who accused them of having picked
his pocket on an Eighteenth and Waller
Streetcar. The arrest was made by De-
tectives Esola and Behan.
The story on the park museum in the
Sunday supplement of The Call yester-
day morning had an Immediate effect
on the welfare Of the library. The
first visitor Curator Barron had yester-
day morning was Earl Steinau, a pupil
in the Mission high school, living at
1887 Valencia street Earl had read in
The Call of the active interest Barron
was taking in improving the museum
and came to offer a model Philippine
house The gift will be accepted. 1t
IS Curator Barren's plan to set apart
room in the museum to be filled with
rare objects of particular interest to
children
The Curator has dedicated a room on
the main floor of the building as a CAL
ifornia historical room. The Daugh-
ters of California Pioneers, who are to
hold a celebration in the park May z,
viii cooperate with the curator in fill
ing the room with valuable mementoes
of California history.
Many interesting objects were re-
ceived by the park museum yesterday.
Among the gifts were United States
treasury warrant for S154, the pay of
a congressman in 1887 for 69 days SER
vice in the house of representatives,
gift of Colonel J. B. Stubbs; native
Philippine clothes, gift of Mrs. H New
man: collection of rare Cyprus glass
ware, wine bottles, oil cruets and other
articles Of rarity, gift of Miss Floride
Green; medals presented to Sam Rain
ey chief of the San Francisco vol
Unteer FIRE department gift of Mrs
Rainey, the widow; pair of Alaskan
Indian moccasins, gift of Park Com
missioner William Gutzkow
There were 6,629 visitors at the park
museum yesterday.
The day at the ocean beach was
quiet The Japanese businessmen's as
sociation held picnic near the ocean
beach yesterday. There was band on
the grounds and 500 Japanese men and
women enjoyed Nipponese and Ameri-
can recreation.