The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-05-04
uTILE.MENcAN CAT
Pretty Animal Makes Now York
ers Hold Noses.
Mystic Zone Of Wrath.MakInu odor
Around Central Park Sets Monkey
House In Uproar-soms-
body Vents Spite.

New York.-1f one happened, to be
passing early the other day In front
Of the row of mansions on Fifth ave.
nue. that overlook Central park ar.
senal. and had a bad cold, ono would
have noticed buffers and footmen were
acting strangely.
A front door would open and a
stately figure in yellow plush emerge
to take bearings on the weather. The
stately figures would suddenly assume
. startled attitude. snif. clap his INST
on the offended nasal organ and leap
backward into the house. A footInsn
DE- two ventured down to the curb.
smiling all the time. then turned and
bolted within. Bedroom windows
facing the park went banging. down in
. volley.
singularly. and impressive as all
this was, IL one had ventured near
Or the arsenal there were yet stranger
sights. Policemen ~patrolling their
beats marched swiftly along, their
noses buried In handkerchiefs. Keep
or Snyder could be seen making his
rounds Of the animal houses with one
hand over his nose and the other
bearing a burning Joss stick. Nurse
maids who passed within the mystic
zone suddenly clasped their aprons
to their noses and pranced away.
All the while theer was Q ter
rife din in the lion house. Lions
roared and tigers spit and Kissed;
panthers snarled and 3leopards howl
cd. The prairie dogs we're digging
turtously In the frozen ground
with an evident desire to escape
from something that made them snarl
peevishly.
Passing into the lion house at
tention would be drawn instantly
to a cage in which q pretty spotted
cat was curled up purr1ng contented-
". Opposite the cage in which the
pretty feline rsclned in such demure
contentment. two Bengal tigers, and
one Nyanza leopard were engaged in
frenzied efforts to beat down their
bars. In the cages at either side
two families Of lions seemed utterly
bereft.
Every few minutes a keeper
would burst out Of a door, rush down
In front Of the little cats cage and
shake his fist frantioally; that is one
fist, the other being clapped across his
face.
What has the handsome little anil
NAL done?' one visitor with a horribly
bad cold asked Head Keeper "Btu"
Snyder, after Snyder had conducted
himself like a maniac.
"Dene!" roared Snyder. Don't
you get TT He's q Mexican tom .caa
oscelot. Come up back Of the bear
dens where the winds blowing, and
I'll tell you about It."
Having arrived back of the bea,
dens. Snyder said:
IF you didn't happen to have that
cold. which has caused the suspension
Of your. olfactory sense. you would
have back-somersaulted out Of that
lion house the minute you got your
Rose In the door. The Mexican o..
celot is to a skunk what q glue fac.
tory Is to a rosebud"
why don't you get rid Of .hima"
was asked.
Cant" replied Snyder. It'll We get
orders through regular channels.
Somebody down in Mexico who. hates
the United States, sent that thing ia
q woman In Yonkers. When 1t came
the customs people refused to pass Il
The woman notified Commissions
Slower that, we could have it. The
commissioner had me to 60 and
get It.
I'VE went with a ,dray and caSl
and found. the. thing In tho hold. All
the rats. had died. We got It intr
the cage all right, but hated ourselves
when we'd fnishedxthe 1oh But it DID
not begin to do its best work until
We got It in the lion house. WI
sprayed It. with gasoline. which only
made It worse. We burned feathers
but that proved no antidote.
IT I don't get 1t out Of Central
park tomorrow there's going Ia, be riot
Ing. We started to put It In tn
monkey house. but we no soone ga
It in the door than the:monkeys beeae