Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-18

gether just in time to see them disap-
pearing through "a lumber yard.
My knowledge of the town let me
know that there was a side street by
which, if l beat 1t quickly, l could mead
them off. / cut through this and, sure
enough. l got there just in time to see
the herd OF five coming down the street
lickety-Sp!it..
The crowd.-yes, and the policemen,
too-were beating it in all directions.
1t vas no time for elephant hooks II
you are going to stop an elephant herd
got to have mighty good reason to
know that they are acquainted with
that voice, and know just what it
means.
Il jumped out into the middle of the
street. The five elephants We're COM
ing full steam ahead. 1 yelled 'Ho,
hey. ho.'
The five elephants stopped.
II breathed d relieved breath, and
the circus management didn't have 3
cents to pay"
Harry Mooney told another story.
I'll never forget Somerville. n. j.,
season of 1905.
We had Ii same old herd-The
Greatest Show's-24 elephants, just
what We've got now.
1t was just before the performance
began, and the crowd was circulating
through the menagerie, feeding the
elephants peanuts, n going INTO he
main tent.
saw that a storm was coming mp.
The sky became black; loud peals of
thunder and vivid flashes of lightning.
That sore of thing alw excites the
elephants. Sixteen of them had all
into the main tent in the grand entree.
Somebody yelled, TAX them out!
Take them out:'
We'll. we did take them out. and as
soon as those Is were outside they
missed the other eight, which were
still inside the tent. They began to
trumpet. Those inside answered
them. and before you could snap your
finger or wink your eye, the whole
foierd of "a were together outside the
tent, chains and pegs Notwithstanding.
"The "a began to rush around the
circus lot. People were still coming
to the circus. and they hiked in all
sprinting done. / had Is elephant men,
and we got busy with the bale sticks,
iron pipe, mi any other good long
reach club that we could lay hands to.
If an elephant Won listen to your
voice. your only other chance is to
Well, sir, we swatted 'em n we
yelled, but those elephants kept on
doing the grand Circuit of the lot. You
know we couldn't tell at what moment
they might switch off the track and
rush through the main tent. which was
filled with the regular afternoon aud
fence, unconscious Of the danger with
out.
I'll never forget one of my men
letting out a cry, Look at that wom-
an looked, and there was a wom-
an with a baby carriage doing her best
to run, but not knowing in which di-
rection to go. The elephants in one
of their circles brushed her so close
that. with all our anxiety to get them
rounded up, it made us hold our
breath.
We'll, we had four standbys in that
herd. They were old timers that had
been with the show many years and
l mention their names with gratitude
Babe, Gyp, Lena M Albert. We got
them quieted, and, as soon as we could
| get close to them. punched them up
| and let them stand for a while until
they got quoted. The little and less
experienced ones Joined them. You
know, those eight little ones. the babies
of h herd, were the worst Of the lot.
AS soon as we got them punched to-
gether we quietly chained a baby on
each side of one of our s%tandbys. AS
soon as we had that one we managed
to drive the herd back to the menag-
erie tent n securely hobbled and
: fastened the entire bunch.
1.-The manager decided to send all