The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-27
ELEPHANT LOOSE
IN CITY'S STREETS
Breaks Down High Pressure
System and Puts West
Side in Fire Peril.
CAMPS IN BLIND SCHOOL
Rescued After Hours Of Work.
but Still Refuses to Enter
Freight Car.

Lucy. an elephant who was the star
passenger on the Atlantic Transport
liner Minnehaha. which arrived from
London yesterday afternoon, made her
entry into New York by breaking down
The high pressure water system of the
West Side Of the city. terrorizng 1000
people III the streets, calling out the
police reserves and committing bur
elarious entry in the grounds of the New
York Institution for the Education OF the
Blind at Thirty foulth street and Ninth
avenue.
Lucy had been sent from London to
Oe shipped TO a menagerie in Michigan.
berthed, her keeper. Luxe Connolly.
started 10 lead her by rope % the
New York central railroad yards al
Thirty-fourth street and Tenth avenue.
They never go, there AZ they went up
the avenue they drew an appreciatiY-
audience OF the younger generation. who
passed loud remarks about Lucy until
the sensitive pachyderm became In
suited. At Thirty-second street she
baked ard stood her ground trumpet
ing vociferously. Luke. knowing her
coy idiosyncrascs called an innocent
bystander, BY name Joseph Shea. who
h"ld Lucy while he went into a nearly
bakery and emerged with fourteen loavcs
" bread
A. tn. rate Of half a loaf for each
yard gained, Lucy was brought to the
freight wards. Sh" TOOK glimpse or the
ear anu us ganRp'ank ana shook her
head. No New York central Tor hers.
she announced. and started OFT FOR the
Pennsylvania station iii preference.
There is a song that says. "a hundred
men once tried 10 pull mule from OF
track The same number grabbed
: l.ucys leading rope and tried to pull her
10 the track. Lucy gently pulled them
down Tenth avenue to Twenty-nnth
street, and there the 100 let go unani-
nously. Lucy retreated TO Ninth ave-
( nue. executed left turn and backed
! up 10 Thirty-second street.
0r~ak. Fire Uydrsnt,
About IL d" ciocN the wafer gauge
III the hiSh pressure STATION AZ Hahse-
Noor' street oesa" 10 urop. IN. saNs
where about Thlr,y-fou,th street on the
west size. ana "reeKins ere" sen, 10
'""' 'o''"'H "'s'o' eieu ''''' .'ues az "e'
peresFhatlohs hah otokei on one OF the
: 'Hgh pr 'ssu'e warrants a' h'Ftie'n street
and Tenth avenue Tie entire system
from the Battery TO Ih'ty-,ourth street
. OF the West side was out OF commission.
The break was fixed. but the pressure
/ refused to rise Another break had oc-
/ CURED somewhere, II ~ thought, as a
] result Of the strain put on the entire
( system by the damage done by the
tiephah'' Nhl'I SihoNs Joe Mar."'
detailed squads OF men to patrol the
entire length of the new subway system
below Thirty-four'h street In the hope
, Of locating the break and eventually
! It was found and nxed' II was AS be-
fore the signal was sent out that the
break had been repaired Meanwhile.
had serious nre happened the depart
! nehl ""u.u ""' -" Sc ''''
capped. Ihe ola stea n'ers we're oruereu
/ 10 respond I" every nre wh''e tne oreak
i was peiis iou'u' IN o'p'I 10 l,'Ie">e '"e
pressure on '.' auN',la,s s!n.c,'.
q M'ah"hhe Lucy VIZ" v, ''A"," aN.
/ nne, had re'u'"eu ao'u. "
N'n'n avenue, ne. Wv. ~u ~.
o".u nr' a. '"' N' Wv
! hor'"""'''
N,.,.. the Mind school.
I The New rork INSTITUTION TOT 'he
, Education or the bi'hn IN III Nlnth
aVenue between ih'r.! ,'hiro anu 1hir-