Republican farmer., 1919-12-26
PICMY HIP"
 IS BORN AT
 NEW YORK ZOO
Antony and Cleopatr r a Proud Parents of Six
 Pound Youngster

New York, Dec. 24.---Dr. William T. Hornaday had busy morning yes terday at the New York Geological Park. Along about o'clock a gray uniformed attendant came running toward the administration building from the elephant house.
 ''The pigny 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 tn- structions to telephone Dr. Raymond DitInars at the snake house and Dr. w. Reed Blair. a veterinarian, to join him at the elephant house.
 Cleopatra, the lady pygmy hippo potamus, was lying on her side when Dr. Hcrnaday arrived, and Antony her mate, was clicking his saber-Hlze tusks ferociously.
 Dr. Ddtmars marshaled all the auto mobile trucks and wagons in the Zoo 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, CIeopaltra's child was born One hasty glance, and Dr. Hornaday estimated it's weight at about six pounds and then he had to chase Antony out of the cage.
  and so pr. Ditr1ars was left to han dIe Antony, who trotted up and down the space in the elephant house that on Sundays and holidays is crowded with visitors. pr. Ditmars had the front of the tapir's cage taken down and the tapir driven out. Then Antony was driven in and the bars put up again. Then the tapir had to be lured into empty elephant cage. He would squeeze between the widely separated bars and was persuaded to do this with a 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 fl from the cold, for the elephant house thermometer registered only 55 de- grees, and Dr. Hornaday, 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 of the world that a baby pygny hippo potamus had been wrapped in a blanket at birth
 Then they held a consultation and decided that the youngster, whose natural habitat would be some strea m in the interior of Liberia. should be kept moist, and as a temporary ex- pedient pr. Hornaday held it (ths creatures sex has not been de- ternined) in a pail of warm water.
 A temporary tank was rtgged up in short order. an affair eight feet long and six wide, with a platform at one end to make a shallow retreat for the baby. By the time the tank was fin ished Dr. Ditmars had formed a bucket, or, rather, a 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 chaperons.
 By Il o'clock the baby hip was per fectly at home in his ersatz- tropical bath, and Antony, over in the tapir's cage, was wearing his normal phiIo- pride.
 Antony and Cleopatra cost the New York Geological society S12, 900 in 1912; a fancy price, but until they were captured an incredulous world of nat uraIists had denied their very exist ence, usually, according to pr. 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 GDT. Hornaday doesn't like the word) has acquired a third adult pygmy hip" 8 bachelor, which was bought at the bargain price of 8, 900.
 Dr. Hornaday is an inveterate matchmaker, and he is hoping that the youngster will prove to be a girl.