The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-01-24
FROM AFRICA FOR CIRCUS Use
WILD ANNALS FROM JORDiNS
MARRIOTT FtRN.
Nlnneto tonka Brings some Lively Leoparu'
and n Lot of Dcni,ens of the Pia'n
and jungle Also Three African Sad+
One Warned About Our Policemen.

, N'Sl'TNdN, anu lIoUi NV '''' w.
came M" ruis" of one in mortal agony
The Young man with spectacles ana a
camera vino had started down the ladder
Withdrew one trembling leg hastily as
the sound was repeated
| An, go on Don't be afraid" said a
voic" at the young mans shoulder, Il
don't think Ell bite yer"
The reasslrcd leg dropped down an
other rung and its owner found himself
standing before "A Young baboon tied to
long rope who surveyed HIM sorrow
fully for moment, and then. as though
utterly discouraged. lay down and rolled
himself NJ into "A p"C" of carpet so that
only fuzzy paw told Of his presence.
All around ia" babopn were boxes from
which came snorts and snlrI+ and shrleks
and stanpnGs, for the sailing ls' of the
Nlnnntpnka included African boys. ~
zchras, > bush battles. hycua, porcu-
pines hartobrr.t. | che"ta. Isabella
ga2elle ? iacllals. civet eats bush
pigs. I Glands and an English physician
Dr Ernest " Toulmn. who has the right
! 10 rut " Il G. = and !. r e after hi"
ham"
The wild things upon which the good
eyes nrNi summer are part or a consign-
m.ni ordered Icy Ringing Brothers for
Parnun A Bailey circus from a mighty
hunter who has a farm in Fast Africa
lctwren Nairohi and Mombasa and whose
name is John t'frod Jordan Perhaps
farm" is not do,Crptiy. of Nr Jnrdan's
place, which j. about as larL" as Delaware.
hui AZ any rate he beVau 20 hunt this
,,u, !i.,tllar hattl Nyhan h..
heard from the circus foih
In a little Villa~o near .lorddn's ranch
house there waS great grief, according
tn the tale told yesterday 10y those who
know the animals history because OF
the loss of five good men from the village
who had walked ~ ,arlous times into
the wood az eve entido aud had not come
back The hat yes ran to Jordan for
help and he secuted about IA BIT and
found the marks of certain leopard.
which walked heavily as if from much
eating.
Jordan set his trap for that leopard.
a big box-like structure with a bleating
goat inside. and the next moonit night
he Wen, ont and found a spotted beautiful
cat ihnGinE himself against tn" side of
the box. He had his men run cage up
against the trap door and they prodded
IN. animal lnto lifelong captivity. The
next night the female came looking for
her mat" and they got her TOO.
Tn" 2ebras were easier 10 get; they
simply drove them into corrals and kept
them there. and none Of the other animals
can equal the leopard = record for ferocity
la December came to killindini. the
nearest port "a Jordan's place the Union
Cast" steamship Goth and Jordan put
his animals aboard her and headed for
London But on the way he was taken
sick and the surgeon aboard the Goth.
Ernest " Toulrnin. Member Of the Royrl
College of Surgeons. lcentiate Of the
Royai College of PHYSICIANS, Professional
Rig Gam. Hunter. Surgeon to the Fast
African Big Gam. Association tall this
i written upon the card he gave report
ers Yesterday volunteered to take the
animals on and lett Jordan sick in London
They hrought the cages over on barges
from ia" Goth to the Ninnotonka. which
sailed OF January IA. Head winds both
cred the ship some and made the cooped
up animals unhappy and they required
constant watching. On the night OF
Tuesday last one OF the African boys
rolling across the cattle deck with a
lantern on his arm heard "A peculiar rip
ping noise that came from the cage Of
the mancatinC leopard He found that
the beast had claw ed away the wood
under the double row Of iron bars that
front his cage and had loosened the bars
considerably. Dr 1oulmin sprinted for
the ships carpenter and that hardy soul
put in new and stronger boards while
William Bowers and Mohammed- inter
est.d the spotted thing with the ends Of
prods.
Then on Saturday last tire keepers found
that tn. two silent porcupines had not
been idle, that that they had ind,istriously
eaten through several pine thicknesses
on the side of their cage. This was fixed
up and thars was no more excitement
until Sunday. The Passengers. men md
women. had come down for a last look at
the eaniuals. some Of which they had named
and the women all agreed that the Glands
had the loveliest eyes and that the bush
pigs were too sweet when there was a
terrible commotlon in the neghborhood
Of the stewards quarters the cause of
which may he best described by the
steward himself.
The first thing I knew said he. Il
heard frghtful hollerin' and there was
William Bowers, the doctors black boy
,a-gou' down one bunker ole. an. bless
me. if ont OF the other wasn't comm that
ther. monkey. the little bounder. And
what does - do but flop down the glory
ole which time | saw that | was needed
and | run full tilt. upon my word. into
my quarters and there a-stIndn' on his
famin' ed in cruet of my best sugar
was the baboon. the bounder An | tell
you lorst no time a a-catchin i'm
This episode may account for yestsr-
days tragic outcry from the "bounder-
|
with his chattering: all except the bush
pigs. whom neither hurricane nor an
Eleventh avenue car can arouse once
they have Numbered deep into the straw
in the bottom of their cage, The docto
dug them out yesterday to show Alfred
Ringing, who came down to the boat in
the afternoon TO see il his animals were
we'll taken care Of. and they were very
much peeved at the digging When they
had been held up in what sunlight ther.
was down there they dived for cover a.
small boys climb under the bedclothe,
in the morning.
Neither of the leopards seemed aSbi
happy N having come to our city Wher
Nezee pulled up the board flap that hangs
IN front of their cage and the doctor,
party Crouchcd down to look in there
were Two sudden and unholy snarls anc
some nine feet siy inches of male cat flunl
itself AT the bars. while the mate backed
shri"kng and blinking into the depths Of
the cage Whercupon all the sixteen
Zehias flung cut their sharp little hoof,
wlthsnose like Ma in action and tn.
reporters chung TO the doctors coattails
while he said
There's no danger: put down your
head and look al the beauty"
hva &c h.. -