The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-21
NEW KIND MONEY BARON
IS 0UTcROWTH OF WAR
Two Reach Chicago After
Months Spent in Tan
gled Jungleland.
WILD BEAST LORDS
Make Winnings in Animal
Trade in Which War
Gives Monopoly.

Two new princelings of the money
world are here. They came into Chi
cago after journeys to Borneo, SUI
matra, the Malay archipelago and 9TH |
err torrid jungle lands. They made !
their winnings in the animal trade
when the roulette wheel of war threw !
the entire business of traffic>ing IN
wild beasts into their hands, and for |
tune again turned the pretty trick OF
creating a new money baron as neatly |
as by strike of pay dirt in the klon- !,
dixie.
The two unassuming sons Of good |
luck are Charles Hugo of Toledo, O., |
and William Nicola of Monmouth, III. |
They arrived from the Pacific coast |
this month lacquered and Drowned by
Jungle suns.
They were showmen before the war
and circumstances threw them into the
animal trade. They have as tight a |!
corner on the animal trade now as |
Letter ever hoped to have on the wheat /
pit. The entire supply of animals for
the geological gardens and circus trade |
of the country has been in their hands
for the last two years.
Capture 10000 Specimens.
They can point to their spoils in
cages in every ZOO in the country. In
the last IS months they have brought
over more than 10000 animals and
birds AS to the profits--Messrs Hugo
and Nicola developed the suavity OF
the Oriental When asked about these.
Here's how it came about:
With the arrest of the last p Ger
man traders and trappers in Australia
the animal market fell off. 1t was
monopoly of Hagenbeck's and Rhue $,
the two great companies of Hamburg
Germany. for years. The war halted
their entire business and left an open
thoroughfare. There could be no
change in their status, for all the big
game lands We're in British territory.
Hugo and Nicola had been in the
Orient many times with their shows.
Each knew a little Of the Hindu and
Malay tongues; also each had keen
Yankee sense Of business.
The two American showmen eXperl-
nented with a first shipment OF IL
tigers, elephants, $50 monkeys, 4
orang- outangs and 10 big pythons.
They were sold at fair prices. 1t looked
like good business and they went back,
Plunge Into Businesses.
This time they plunged deeper into
the jungles. Hugo went into the Ma
lay country for more tigers and thence
on to Borneo and Burma for monkeys
and panthers and other game. Nicola
gagged the shortage of goldfish in the
country and invaded Japan, bringing
back with him ponderous tank of 70
600 goldfish and other queer things
with fins dear to the hearts of the fan
ciers. Hugo came back with 2ooo
monkeys. 5000 canaries and innumer-
able other birds and beasts. TWO
leopards and a black panther, part OF
the booty of the expedition, are now
In Lincoln park. a Malay tapir is in
the Milwaukee zoo and q two headed
snake the prize of the roundup. picked
up in the federated Malay states, be-
longs to the Hines Carnival company.
The Philadelphia 700 has family OF
y. monkeys from this enterprise, others
I are in the Washington 200. The 5000
! goldfish were snatched up in whole
I sale lot by the Rothschild store in this
city and are now in its aquarium.
The third expedition penetrated far
into Africa and was made in the last
four months. The game is getting more
exciting as it goes on, according to Mr..
have made trading there exceedingly
difficult, and even hazardous at times,
The British have forbidden the natives
to carry firearms for any purpose, so
the trader must so along with the trap
per.
To catch one of his tigers Mr.. Hugo
had to wait eight hours in the
branches of q tree. Tigers are disCoN-
cred to be in a certain vicinity by the
wall of monkeys. They are lured into
traps by the bait of q freshly killed
goat. Monkeys are captured with nets,
like fish.
The two traders speak modcstIy OF
their good fortune. Hugo explained
naively that in their dealing with the
natives they had observed all the eth
les of American business. They asked
them how much the Germans had taid
them, and gave them their price. That
the transactions proved the Germans
made tremendous profits mado 1t no
less legitimate. it was held
The most recent proof of the Nicola
and Hugo adventurings is found at
1402 East 47th street where Ernest Al
bers an animal trainer with the Yam
kee Robinson shows, is subduing the
fury of our tigers, prodding and Cajol-
ing them into doing antics on GYM