The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-28

livery stable. in Eighth street. where
already the lionesses and leopards saved
had been taken in the transfer boxes.
BoNAvITA SHOOTS ANIMALS IN ARENA.
So long did Bonavita stay in the burn
ing arena that ne saw a part OF the roof
at the ocean side of the structure. the
side furthcst from whore he stood at
the time, fall upon the cages ot the mon
keys and hybrids half lion. half jaguar-
probably were dead. With "A wet hand
kerchief over his mouth to keep out the
smoke the lion trainer went first along
the cages OH the northwest side OF the
circle as far as he could. firing steadily
| wherever he could make out pair of
cleaning eyes through the smoke. load
| ing the five chambers again emptyiny the
, revolver once more and 80 on until he
could stand the heat no longer
That was one time" he said later yes
terday. when cursed my luck in having
only left hand to shoot with. Baltimore
! long ago chewed my right arm on
wished he hadn't, because with two hands
and a revolver in "a Oh hand this morning
! ! could have az lenst made death easier
for more Of the poor devils.
The stalwart lion man got out into
Surf avenue not long before the west
vita had tried TO drive the big Nubian
Black Prince into the runway some time
earlier and was succeeding in getting the
lion toward the stage when. amid tine
. smoke and general excitement. he lost
| sight Of the black named lion.
LION LOOSE on SURF AVENUE.
Out onto Surf avenue suddenly bounded
Black Prince. the dark name now darker
because Of the scorchng OF the fire. BY
this time the fire lines had been formed
out on the asphalt trying to drag the
| few belongings they had got their hants
i on away from the heat,
All Dreamland now was roaring with
| flame The fire Of the burning tower WAS
licking skyward perhaps hundred feet
upper half Of the pile without any pre-
liminary swaying or tottering telescop,ed
itself-fhe topmos, half seeming to slip
slowly down into the wider base.
The tower crumbled just about the time
Black Prince came out OF the smoke and
onto the asphalt of Surf avenue. Fire
men gave him the right Of way. An old
civil war veteran. Billy Hyde. who had in
stalled a guess your weight" machine In
Surf avenue close to the Dreamland en-
when Black Prince bore down upon the
old man. Billy Hyde jumped to one side.
Black Prince probably didn't know Billy
was there not that any one or anything
except fire was near him. The lion
bounded across the asphalt and into the
wide entrance of the scenic ride called the
Rocky Roads 10 Dublin. Four or five
policemen had seen the lion come out of
the burning arena and gave chase into the
Rocky Road. unlimbering their revolvers
AZ they ran.
THE LION CHASE.
Black Prince clambered up stairway
Just inside the entrance to the scenic ride.
A rattle of revolver shots accompanied
the lions climb. Black Prince ran on and
came to a platform which opens on Surf
avenue and the policemen followed
They went cloes TO the lion and dropped
him with fussilade and then the policemen
dragged the dead lion TO the street edge Of
the platform and tumbled the body onto
the sidewalk
LEOPARD LOOSE TOO.
A leopard AZ the same time got out of
the arena on the east side and ran toward
Sheridan's walk Once on the walk the
leopard took the worst course 1t could se-
lecf out toward the ocean and 80 into the
path OF the wind. which was blowing the
smoke and fame oceanwardl
Policeman Jim Dooling saw something &
come from the building which he at first
thought was a dog. but its movements
and the sudden realization Of the kind
of show housed in the building from
which the animal had bounded caused
the smoke after the scampering form.
Fire and smoke had all but obliterated
the leopards markings but il didn't
take the policeman long to realize that
he was after a leopard He fired two or
three shots and the leopard fell dead.
In their cages in the meantime seven
lions. two leopards. a small bea-, three
pumas. four hybrids. the elephant. a
sea lion and antelope. Virginia deer
birds, kangaroos and dozens of monkeys
and other small animals had been burnt
TO death. Perhaps an hour later BAN
boola. the wild man" found Ferrari in
. Surf avenue and told how he had grabbed
up the lion cub Marguerite early in the
fire and had carried it to Surf avenue.
LION CUB KIDNAPPED
Two souses," Bamboola. who lives in
Weetchester county. explained. "came
} me in the jaw and took your lion cut
; away from me, ! haven't seen il since.
; Harry Smith Of the Ferrari show founC
; Marguerite at = O'Clock in the morning
: Smith went into Bristols restaurant In
, Surf avenue for breakfast and found tht
; cub there fenced in with chairs. The
! "two souses." the waters said. had come
to the restaurant carrying the cub anc
had left it there when departing.
The optimism of Coney folks was
voiced by~Col. Ferrari when at daylight
. he said to THE Sun reporter in reply tc
r an inquiry az to his plans:
: "Oh. I've got few animals left A.
soon as that stuff over there cools Of
enough I'm going to clean up patcf
, of it, and open a small animal show in G
tent We've got whole season aheae
of MS.
, ALL THE FIRE CHIEFS COME.
The fire brought 10 the island not onl,
Chief Kenlon but Deputy Chief Lally al
; we'll, and shortly after Lally's arriva
Deputy Commissioners johnson ane
o 'Keeife got to the fire. just after sun
up there WAS moment when at poin'
/, opposite Eighth street it became neces
sary TO move n spouting hose to another
part of the fire There we're not enough
|, firemen around al the moment, W. N"rcup0r
! Commissioner O'Keeffe ran out from th'
, curb and helped fireman drag The nozzl'