Evening star., 1911-01-08
NO FRIEND OF HER VALET
HER MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Surprise for Desk Clerk and EN-
ployes and Guests Of Arlington.
The Stars First Story.
| The night clerk at the Arlington had his
back turned to Prof. Richard l.. Garner
when that gentleman registered at 4
O'Clock yesterday AFTERNOON He turned
around in surprise when he heard a fret
| full voice saying:
Susie, l am ashamed Of you. If you
do that again never will speak to YOU"
Judge Of the clerks surprise when he
| looked and saw a perfectly sane-looking
man talking to a chimpanzee! Judge of
his still further surprise when Susie
which is the name Of the chimpanzee-
shed a few real French Kongo tears.
Many Surprises Handed Around.
Consider. also, of the shock to the hotel
guest who. issuing from his room into
the corridors late yesterday afternoon,
saw the door of the room opposite open
silently. while from the opening emerged.
walking upright. the living image OF
Sherlocko the Monk. Contemplate further
Of the feelings OF Alphonse, the waiter.
who, receiving an order for a glass OF
milk and carrying it up on a silver tray
to room ia. saw chimpanzee drink II.
Susie is all the chimpanzee which Prof.
Garner is carrying with hims on his
travels. He explained yesterday that the
reason he selected Susie was because
Susie was the only available chimpanzee
within three hundred miles of the African
region in which he was travelling about
Ia year ago.
Il selected her from a bunch OF one"
he said.
Gamers Friend, the Cannibal Chief.
Prof. Garner, whose name will be linked
forever with the fame he achieved in his
researches into animal mentality and
speech. tried to get more chimpanzees
last year from a bosom friend of his, a
cannibal chief.
Not that 1 practice cannibalism," he
said yesterday, but this cannibal gentle
man was friend of mine l offered to
pay him sum of money for a good
chimpanzee He and fifteen Of his men
started out after them.
They are hard to get. The natives
had no guns They could not kill the
mothers and secure the babies by that
means. So they failed.
Il took Susie, who was offered to me
at the last minute
Prof. Garner told the reporter. who call
ed on him at the Arlington, yesterday,
that The Evening Star was responsible
'fOr all his trouble
What? Your trip to Africa? Or your
return?'
MY original trip. The first article
ever published about my theories in re-
gard to the speech of monkeys was pub
lished in The Star, twenty years ago. I'll
tell you abou. it.
II was to make some experiments at
the Smithsonian Institution with two lit
tie monkeys and a graphophone. l bor-
rOwed talking machine from Edward
D. Easton. then in the talking machine
business in this city, and he sent it over
to the institution by colored man
named Joe Clore.
How the Story Got Out.
Il had met a man named Brown. who
was stopping at my hotel AS he was
| anxious to get into the place, and only
| had Sunday to do 1t in, l fixed it so he
| could go along with me. 1 swore him to
secrecy. and swore every one over at the
Smithsonian with crossed swords and
bloody symbols not to breathe a word Of
the experiment.
Prof. Otis Mason Dr. Frank Baker
and several others were there. Brown.
1t turned out afterward was newspaper
man. but he kept his secret.
when / got back to my home in
Roanoke. Roland Cromeln. formerly Of
Washington. surprised me one day with
copy Of The Star with two columns Of
days work at the institution. / won-
dered who had let the cat out Of the bag
and wrote to every one.
II finally found out that the only man
who was not sworn to secrecy was the
colored man, Joseph Clore. He had told
writer about the experiment one day
when Mr.. Bache dropped in to call on
Easton.
An1 @1n%
letters from newspapers and magazines.
| Finally I cut loose from everything made
| my first trip to Africa and devoted my
| life to the study of animal mentality
He explained. too, that his cllimpanzees
| and monkeys have never been trained
| animals. both educated ones He talked
| to Susie, told her to do things and she
did them. She picked out colors and
year old. One should not expect much
geometry from year-old girl.
Susie's Linguistic Mannerisms.
When Susie talks she sticks her lin out
| from underneath and makes low sounds.
| When the sounds are prolonged, Prof.
| Garner says. they are merely the same
word perhaps uttered over and over
again. to emphsize the idea she wishes to
express.
| She does not carry on a brilliant con-
| versation and has no knowledge OF poll
tics. But she does know the electric
| light buttons in hotel rooms and tries her
best to make them work.
Also. she has an aversion, at present. 70
| her colored valet a youth named Luther
She won't let Luther dress her.
| To hear this man, who has spent twenty
| years with the single purpose in mind Of
demonstrating his theories of animal
mentality, speak of some of the anthro-
poids he has owned one forgets for the
| time that the man is speaking of ami
| mals-of apes that furnish amusement for
| Sunday crowds at ZOOS. One thinks for
| the time that the professors pets" are
actual human beings.
He has learned their minds. He knows
| what their chatter means.
He has never trained one by beating
| it. He says that that training of animals
| is brutal.
| He has endeavored to scientifically call
| into play the mentality which they own.