The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
GIRAFFE BALKS
 AT CALCULATING WINTERQUARTERS
Eight Strong Men Have to Carry Baby With Long
 Neck and Legs.

Horses, large and small, elephants, camels, zebu-cows, gold. red and vel low chariots, railroad cars, 1ocomo- tives-and mud. All these in one seemingly confused mass with mud
 predominant was the scene of the
 departure of the Barnum & Bailey ''Greatest Show on Earth just before
 o'clock today as the first SecI1on of 5s loaded railroad cars left the winter quarters here for the trans continental tour of the season.
 From a complex beginning today when every alley and passa ge-Way or the great yards and buildings seem ed with the noise of animals ana the creaking of pul1eys as the loaded vans were drawn up the runways upon the newly yel1owed flat cars, under the direction of various heads of depart rnents, order came from apparent chaos and at 3 o'clock John McLach- lan master of transportation who was aided by regular crews of the New Haven road, gave the signal for the first train to leave for New York It was followed an hour later by the second section.
 While trouble had been feared in the loading of the elephants, the an nual procession always~being headed by Hattie who sometimes balks at going into the cars, the new system of having sthem enter the cars earlier in the week when the familiar scenes of moving are absent worked like q charm. Elephant Trainer Harry Mooney was congratulated on all sides today for his ruse.
 But trouble came in an unexpected source when Baby Louise, the young giraffe, baked at the cages. The baking of the giraffe which is nearly 15 feet in height and has striking radius of some 10 feet with it's legs sis no negligible rnatter-especially as it's life is valued at many thousands of dollars and the familiar method of roping as with horses and cows, can not be followed. For two hours the crews Iaboreds with Kindness and ca joIery but Baby Louise was not put in the car. The combined efforts of eight fearless men were finally re- the animal which was conveyed to the cage bodily in their arms.
 Most of the animals seemed glad to be released from the winter quarters. The hippopotami particularly voiced the joy in most raucus sounds It was necessary to leave two elephants be- hind, Lena an animal of immense bulk, whose age is not known but which has been longest with the show and is oldest, always remains until about a week after the others have gone. While she refuses absolutely to go with her mates, after a weeks lone Iiness at the quarters she is greatly pleased to accompany the horses and is then sent. Pilot, an elephant that stands more than IS feet from the floor isStoo large to be quartered with the other elephants in Madison Square Garden and remains until the tent is taken out.
 All the nenagerie, 16O head of bag gage stock, the performing horses, and general show paraphernalia, ex- cepting tents, seats and parade equip ment left today. The No. 1 billing car will leave for Philadelphia next week and the other billing cars follow a week apart. 7
 Those of the executive Seaff who left today are J. D. Newnnah, Charles R. Hutchinson, Carl Hatheway, Charlie John McLachlan,. John SneHen, Tom Lynch, John Patterson, Harry and Richard Shannon.
 Rehearsals of the ring performers were held until the last minute today. w. B. Wells, the worlds foremost trafner is in charge He an- nounced that he had a new dog and pony act that would start1e the coun- try. Orders for rehearsa1s at the Garden tomorrow carried all the per- formers with the show today.
 Even the big tent@is finished with the exception of being parafinned. It still carriedS the record of being the largest tentfin existence, and will car ry eight center-poles done for the first time in the history of show dom last year. The show opens at Madison Square Garden April 6.