The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-24
PICMY HIP"
 IS BORN AT
 NEW YORK ZOO
Antony and C1eopatra a Proud Parents of Six
 Pound Youngster

New York, Dec. 24.---Dr. William T. Hornaday had a busy morning yes
 terday at the New York Geological Park. Along about o'clock a gray l uniformed attendant came running | toward the administration building
 from the elephant house.
 | The pigmy hip" he gasped with
 his first spare breath, and Dr. Horna- day waited to hear no more. As he dashed out of the door he shouted in- structions to telephone Dr. Raymond i Ditmars at the snake house and Dr. l w Reed Blair, a, veterinarian, to join
 him at the. elephant house.
 1 Cleopatra, the lady pygmy hippo potamus, was lying on her side when i 1or. Hornaday arrived. and Antony. her mate, was clicking his sajber- like tusks ferociousIy.
 l Dr. Ditmars Inarsha1ed all the auto 1 mobile trucks and wagons in the Zoo i logical Park and all the available trash cans and ordered the drivers to fill the cans with hot water from the heating plants in the other buildings. Before any of the hot water had ar rived, however, Cleopatra's child was born. One nasty glance, and Dr. Hornaday estimated it's weight at about six pounds and then he had to chase Antony out of the cage.
 pr. Blair was busy with Cleopatra, and so Dr. Ditmars was left to han dle Antony who trotted up and down the space in the elephant house that i on Sundays and holidays is crowded with visitors. Dr. Ditmars had the front of the tapir's cage taken down and the taptr driven gut. Then Antony was driven in and the bars
 put up again. Then the tapir had to be Iured into an empty elephant
 cage. He would squeeze between the widely separated bars and was persuaded to do this with q handful of carrots, and, once inside, the wire
 netting was put up to keep him
 there.
 Cleopatra's child had been wrap
 ped in a warm blanket to protect if
 from the cold, for the elephant house
 thermometer registered only 55 de-
 grees and Dr. Hornad day, who was
 holding the infant hip in his arms.
 was offering to bet Dr. Blair, who
 has just returned from veterinary
 service in the army overseas, that it
 was the first time in the history ot
 the world that q baby pygmy hippo
 pOtamuS had been wrapped in q
 blanket at birth
 Then they held a consultation and
 decided that the youngster, whose natural habitat would be some stream
 in the interior of Liberia, should be kept moist, and as a temporary ex- pedient Dr. Hornaday held it (the creatures sex has not been de- termined) in a pail Of warm water.
 A temporary tank was rtgged up in short order, an affair eight feet long and six wide, with q platform at one end to make a shallow retreat for the baby. By the time the tank was fin lshed Dr. Ditmars had formed a bucket, or. rather trash-can, brig ade. and hot water was being poured and splashed into the tank by an as- sortment Of park employees that in cluded street sweepers and chimpan- zee chaperona.
 By Il o'clock the baby hip was per fectly at home in his ersatz-tropicaI bath, and Antony, over in the tapir's cage, was wearing his normal phiIo- sophical expression without 9 trace of pride.
 Antony and Cleopatra cost the New York Geological society SIP, 600 in 1912: a fancy price, but until they were captured an incredulous world of nat uraists had denied their very exist ence, usually, according to Dr. Dit mars, in the classical language of the farmer, who, seeing his first giraffe, said, There ain't no such animal Since then the zoo GDr Hornaday doesn't like the word) has acquired a third adult pygrny hip" a bachelor of 5000.
 Dr. Hornaday is an inveterate l matchmaker, and he is hoping that the 1 youngster will prove to be a girl.
 Stops The Tickle