The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-29
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y PARK IS GROWING
Ben Hollinger Adds To Collection
From Batch Of Animals
On Niagara


Knpiolani Park through the efforts of
Honolulu = enthusiastic GoIlector.in.
chief, Ben Hoilinget, supervisor and
ZOO champion. Hollinger visited the
steamer Niagara yesterday and went
over Ellis Joseph's fine collection of
American fauna, one of the best per.
haps that has ever left the continent,
and from the collection he selected
many fine specimens which are now
members Of the growing ffsoso,''
Hollinger's purchases haye for, their
chief feature, one american black bear,
hardly more than a cub, which is so
close, to being human that he bids fair
to take the, edge of DAISY So ele-
phhntipe popularity, -. ~.
la Other purchases yesterday were two
drill monkeys, three capuchin monkeys,
two sapajou monkeys, and one spider
monkey, the first and last being Hbab-
iesp, with number, Of inches TO add
to themselves. before they, are old
enough to vote In monkeydom. 1t is
a fine collection. Joseph threw in
pnir, of fine Canadian geese and prom
ises to bring back from Australia fe-
male kangaroo, to replace the one that
killed herself leaping against the bars
OF her cage. o.. - ,IT.F
The first thought Of Joseph yesterday
on landing from the Niagara. was the
collection of $500 he stated was still
due him on the purchase price of
| fDnisyn, the African elephant, bnt he
was pacifed by tho payment as per
agreement, and more than ever molli
| fed by the purchase Of additional speei-
mems. Then he, made Hollinaer an Of
fer to-, buy Daisy back. He IL still
Il kicking HIMSELF he says for selling
her for three thousand dollars for he
\ was, offered four thousand byi Seattle
! the dry he reached Vancouver, and the
Bronx Zoo, New York, also put In a bid.
Hollinaer refused to sell and the baby
elephant still remains TO the enioymen MT
Of Juvenile HONOLULU. : 49,,
On the, boat deck Of the Niagara yes.
lterday was q fine collection of birds and
beasts, Joseph having suffered the loss,
| unfortunately; OF two fne, elk and
buffalo on the trip over. He still has
fourteen left, however, great noble
looking animals, closely confined and
looking forward with their big eyes to
larger spaces and greater freedom. The
prizes of his collection, however, were
his bears, of which he has grizzlies
blact and cinnamon, polar and Kodiak
bears, the last m 1tiOned species being
the largest carniJorous animal known
| to man and only comparatively recent
ly discovered. The specimen on board
the Niagara, although only cub. is
still much larger than the full grown
grizzly in the next cage.
Another striking feature of the JOS
eph collection is the great number of
owls he has, sitting in row on row
amidships, blinking and clicking their
bills at their visitors.
Among the cats he has two mountain
lions, lynx and a wild cat and among
the smaller animals, cages of beavers,
raceoons and badgers, foxes and wolves.
A deck house is filed with monkeys,
parrots and smaller fauna, not except.
ing an ant eater. Buzzards, Canadian
geese, wood deck, fancy fowl and two
species OF the Mongolian wild horse
Uwo fighting specimens, by the way)