Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-25

DOM PAUL OF PRINCES BAY.
q Pet Monkey Who Was Very Quar-.
reIsome, But Now peaceable.

George Valentine, a hotel keeper of
Princes Bay, Staten Island. has a
husky, black, ringtailed spder-mon-
KEY for a pet. His name is Dom Paul
and he halls from South Africa. Dom
Paul first belonged, with another mon
key, to a mems club but he interrupt
ed the members so often in their dis
cuss.ons and raised such q hullaballoo
generally that he was given away on
the ground of his quarrelsomeness.
This quality in his disposition seemed
To fade away almost as soon as he en-
tered the Staten islanders household.
Now he is known throughout the
neighborhood as Il perfectly peacable
citizen. and when commuters en- route
TO or from the station meet Dom Paul
hanging by his tail from tree in the
woods they greet him pleasantly and
receive cheerful chatter in return.
Dom Paul is not by any means kept
prisoner At first he was chained up
FOR observation. but soon he was
freed. He assumed II meek demeanor
and copied as Well as he could every
thing he saw the family do. He soon
learned to eat any sort of food the
others had which Is not at all the way
the Bronx Park simians are brought
mp. They get condensed milk and
bread only. Dom Paul likes anything
from chops to plum pudding. And he
will eat from the hand of any man or
from any little child. When a woman
comes into view Paul scoots for the
cellar, the roof or the open road. He
never has explained his anti-feminine
east OF mind but rather than face u
suffragette he would jump through Il
third-story window.
fhis ringtailed monkey of Richmond
Borough never was coddled. To see
him skittering round the garden in the
sharp weather of early spring or late
autumn you would suppose IA northern
latitude was his native element. When
snow came, Dom Paul was dee-lighted
to meet it. lie hustled forth and
jumped i'm it. He rubbed himself with
handfuls of ii. He played in it until
he was tired. and then made for the
kitchen stove and shook himself dry
like dog. His owner had gotten him
through one winter without serious
cold or illness, but he began to think
n second season Of cold might hurt
him. He accordingly wrote to Mr.
Ditmars of the Geological Gardens in
The Bronx and asked if he might let
Dom Paul stay among the eity's mon
keys for the winter.
Mr.. Ditmars preferred not to take
Dom Paul, since it might lead to q
general request that monkeys of all
sizes, kinds, colors, ages and cOndi-
tons of servitude be taken into the
primate house until spring. Further
more, Mr.. Ditmars said that seven Ia
ten monkeys die each week in the Sc
Verest winter weather in the city
parks, the drafts from constantly
opening doors and the cold damp OF
the New York winter being more than
they can stand If there was one
monkey, he thought. who through
some good fortune was free to pur-
size life, liberty and happiness as DOM
Paul did, he had better stay right
where he was. Dom Pauls master
now thinks the same way, ana the
ringtailed son of South Africa is still
ranging the virgin forests of Staten
Island, faring forth in the morning
ana returning at night leading
member of the open-air cult, and the
happiest monkey north of the thirtieth
parallel.-New York Press.