El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-31
ATHER OF
BABY IN THE
Thousands of People AppIauded In
DAY, But Knew Not of His New Honor
or Of His PrOfIfgacy.

Thousands Of People Applauded IL
day, But Knew Not of His New Honor
or of His PrOfIigaey.
Few is any Of the thousands at the Sells
Floto-BuffaIo Bill circus Monday realized
that they applauded the antics Of the father
Of the biggest new baby in America, but
they did-for Schneider, the biggest ele-
plant Of the herd. became father on sun
day He has not yet seen his baby SON Ior
mother and child are back at their winter
quarters back in Denver.
The news Of the birth and Of the dis
graceful conduct of the father, who beSpOFtS
himself with abandon and uncOncern. while
his wife is at home suffering, is told in
the Denver Post; while father was eating
all the peanuts the children and grOwnups
could buy and chuck into his big mouth or
long trunk, mother and the baby were at
crowds locked up in a mammoth stable
where the circus spends the winter. The
ssFor q and half months Princess Alice
worried over yesterdays event-wOrried I'M
til she became mere ZOO pound shadow
of her former robust self Where once the
elephantine lady ambled gaily to the hay
scales and pulled the beam to the equivalent
of four tons, she had cast aside fully 300
pounds in the nervousness of approaching
motherhood. Most Of this, it must be admit
ted departed since last Sunday when the
Sells-FlotO. circus went on its summer tour.
taking with it the father Of Tambon. old
Schneider, who weighs something like 500
AIice's Anguish Becomes Acute.
cestor Of little Tambon (the baby has been
christened for Tammen and Bonfils. owners
of the circus) for Albuquerque and Ell PasO
the anguish Of Princess Alice became acute.
She trumpeted her grief and knew small
quiet until her offspring appeared yesterday
to assuage her woe. She knew she was de-
serted in her darkest hour and that she
was left to the little mercy Of men.
NO word. mas been received from TINS
pr0fligate husband. He showed in the New
Mexico city yesterday, paraded there with
his fellows, won the applause and the hur-
forgot the trouble at home, he forgot his
wife's trials and went about his show
business unconcerned.
ION a former occasion he acted in the
same reprehensible fashion, for this is the
second time that Princess Alice has gone
den the Schneider heart with an heir April
5. 1872. Baby Hutch was born to her to live
AIce's heart bereft
yesterday at 16;45 a. m when Tambon
rolled his baby eyes around and took his
first peep at his corral world. he weighed
16O pounds and few odd ounces Several
hours later reinforced by fattening Denver
ozone and nothing else, he had increased
this to slightly more than 10, which anyone
will admit is going some for a baby
Princess Alice Is Regular Mother.
princess Alice, the mother. was vastly
taken with that mOrsel Of elephant. She
pulled and hauled at her chains to get TO
it; she butted her huge head against the
upright post to which she is held fast; she
trumpted her love and her desire. For that
. is the mother way and has been since time
began 1t was her baby. wasn't it {? Certain
lyl Then why shouldn't she have it?
But keepers are a suspicious lot, and
those in attendance on this great scientific
event which is being watched by students
and learned men all over this country and
in Europe, too, were Obdurate. Princess
Alice must not have the child of her bosom
not for some six u or possibly Is hours
for captive animals are tricky and elephants
are smart and 1ull OF guile. Princess Alice
might not mean all she was saying; the tugs
at the leash might come from Interior
motive; in fact, sad to relate. the royal
of her child-tO come down to the bald
thing of it, she might even try to kill the
baby. Gagged animals and those held by
chains have killed their young before this.
have done it many time and will do it
again, because, as scientists reason, they do
not want their babies held prisoner as they
have been"