Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1921, Page 63

' MAGAZINE SECTION | ricTioN | @Thg%unflm ghlf FEATURES | UNDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1921 Searching the Jungles for Rare Wild Animals for Menageries s own fam Part 4—8 Pages WASHINGTON from Mahommed Ariff. T was in con- ' whom—h By Charles Mayer. R TN S : SRR 2 % T Sy 1dea of ba.| od 1o e o ahoot. 1 pilicd ous o 4 Y FY'HE First of Series of Thrilling Articles, Each Complete in Itself. by an Animal jomimc et aho it ot fveier and ingi icns i may o T was the lure of the circus—the) show as head property man and trans-| Ty Fie 7 & a ical Society. me, the other natives seized him tug that every boy feels when a|POrtAlon Masior TL AT SR Collector Who Has Visited All Countries on the Globe in His Hunt for Live puhe district In which the hadji 1ixed ;‘w,éu:;:‘;;;*} 3;;,’;-,:_;;.;’, ,_\';,vl_;,*,}_‘;jg,;':; show comes to town—that start-| oe“ sl Lnowledze 1 had gained in the e > ad a € . ade up of Dutch, Malays and C . ed me on my career as a collector | few preceding years. 1 had charge of A . { ]_1 d = h F L f h s h B Wh o s lement lay of wild animals. I use the word col-| all the circus property and I was boss ttractions for the Zoo and Circus—The First Lure of the Circus—The Boy O e R O e ota forast oTitre Teotor calies ihan hunier i becsiise :;]r a large crew of men. The job kept e iy E @ mass af creepers and vines. in my business, a dead animal is no |up of the ghest characters 1 h for fifty or sixty feet, burst into foli- my permission to live in the Mals animal at il In faci, the mere hunts| DU SEE M SR Genture With Mahommed Ariff—Jungle Craft and Graft—Catching a Python. | 5 il Bl i piarter” & vesained ot ihe” vadsls Alm | house more popunar with the natives for the man's death and that I had acted on his suggestion. to save tae lives of the natives. As the man had siashed about eight people before 1 shot. the resident ended his investi- - i be tough in those davs. They ng of the animals was simply the be- | hard to handle, but th were 1 | |tered. On the ground. the vines. It tall grasses and rattan made a | than cver before. & nning of my work, and the task of Workers and I got along all A native came running to the hadji's "that only parangs, the natives| s | with them | capturing them uninjured was far b to make room fc Sometimes at rehearsal in the morn-pthe rain beating down on it. The quainted with Capt. Angus, who com- N Chey were always jus te bit o make roo L @ s > € . The aqua apt. . PR e 5 e A id | house one day with the more thrilling than standing at a dis- |, TIeY Were alwavs just o 1ille bl who” wanted to buy tick ing Fryer would come along and say | canvas men had given up-—-the tent]manded the boat. knives, cutiing foot by foot. could [ hoUst one da¥ wilh the aows anca andi pailiog miitiEEer ARG e eI ot et the crowd had passed into the tent saylord: “Let's got up on the top|was too heavy to hoist. That was the When T reached Singapore I began | Denetrate. The heat of the 0Dt "o, ) Joast fifty feet lons and as - And | up against on the tou Charley and his pal would tike up want (o tell vou something|end of my only adventure as a circus|at once to learn the Malay languase, | Spaces in the tropics is blistering, but {45 00 S0 000 Tiedl, O 00 Sy then, when animals were safely in|cireus used to aitract the ¢ and sort out the money “Then they would climb|owner. whi spoken with some variations | that of the jungle is damp and 17140 "o cxagmerating, 1 put it do the net or stockade, came the job of for THiles froun SoAPRaner el trom ehe 2 ! top seats and exchange con- | The big shows carried an extra tent | of dialect throughout the archipelago. | fiing: moisture accumulates a0d (0% 5oyt twenty feet long: but 1 gath- | taking them back through the Jungle| See the &how. When they. came up, |, L Was “Aam L1 fidene houting @t cach other So|to meet emergencics. but we couldn’t| I called on Maihommed Ariff every | light breezes that blow overhead have | (o g 2" cri\w "o natives and we built | 10 the port where they could be soid. | Fiizgerald, wao was one of the part. | but I loud that you could hear them all|have one. of course. The rain had|day and learned as much as possible| no chance of moviug the afr hel crate from the limbs of trees and ! bl s ook Fk erald, who:wdsione gf the Zimo jerty man. Ifover the lot. beaten us to a finish. Even if we|about the ways and means by which | Which is fille the d the | bamboo, bindin together wit R L near the > the "he Fryer show opened in Kansas | could have raised our fent we should | he carried on his business. Eventu- ;'l"(;fm;;!fi'::‘}{:::'m::m‘v-ha}!syl i, the [Dambo, S I ne s ther Cwith 5 and when e rem't satis- | City and then worked right out to the | have had no audience, and we weren't | ally I proposed to him that he let me | BI0P7 BE FEORE S8 B B Tqranen. | tive's tale, the snake had just swal- »d with money to|act as his agent in interviewing the and saw the boats steam away With| them, but they pulicd out guns . g out to - ca aboa asn’ said: Sos corali| fied with their sea ame to me. | coast. After a month in San Fran-[well enough suppl e o UynefueTibe iRk hal 3 e CaEes Do A L iion | of them =ald: “These are our tickets. |1 cold them the privilege of taking | cisco’ we jumped 'to Hawaii. ~Welfollow Bailey's idea of giving a per-|captains of some of ihe boats that | ing business to go into the jungle. |lowed ‘& g, and wo, knowinz that sure of the success of my cxpedition| Fitzgerald let them in and paseed the | portor seats. The sum_acquired in|showed a month at Honolulu and the | formance it there were only two per- | called at the port. He agreed to my| Notwitstanding the climetc, e | e T e D e, ibe yanked from the jungle might die be- | took seats. and when the show stari- | (s way was known as (ore king rarely missed a performance.|sons there to see Our “Greatest | plan because there were many cap- | sight of such country made me anx-| 0% 2 P00 SO0 RS G FIELE A 1 st b ¢ B witnt iins, | money™ it whe supposed 1o be|We had 4 royal box fitted up for him, | Show in the World™ was sunk in an | tains who would no longer do busi- | ious to begin work. and T lost no time | 5" pe’ nest ‘morning. > cap ness with him—he had cheated them | in reporting to the Dutch resident.| ning. fore they reached their destinatio ed they let loose with the | was nearly seventeen when Sells | shooting through the tents and letting Brothers' Circus came to Binghamton, | o few bullets fly into the ring. Some- N. Y., where I was living with my | times a bullet would strike n parenis. That day I joined some other | perf@rmer, raising a puff of dus boys in playing hookey from school.|scaring him half to death. The “bad a es by carry ting with their legs Lirned over to the company. One day |and he had as good a time as any of | Illinois mud-puddl: ! A python siwave Witis his fo08 by et he partners objected to this{the youngsters From Honolulu we| Since leaving Singapore 1 had been|once too often—and he saw in me a'The Dutch are strict in their coloniall iy >4 bund it and crushing it 1 O T T g ided (that e | went to Auckland. New Zealand, | thinking constantly of becoming «|means of resuming trade. We had no!government and, for the most part,| g0, p¥ {Taing 1t SO0, [INRINE LD 1d take the “eross-over money”lwhere we found a twenty-day quar- slobbering so that it will pass his f and have me collect tickets|antine on all animals. We managed | throat. During the digestive proces at the main entrance. The other|to get along by giving performances he generally becomes torpid and, and we earned our pa men” were cree ! ;. ing water for the anim: It wasn't | dangling down between the seats, | bartner in the show would not Agreciin the Theater Royal—just the acts without pinti up’ much: fight, sube e fist oFeciz baEilt first | Somee of the erew took seuts near|to this scheme. “If Mave s the | that required no animals. ~After that mits to capiurc hat | had ever wor | them. just as if they were part of the | CTOSS-over money,” he ve Bt we went (o Australia and showed at Before we went out for the snake, i tais ad | waa ton e e T Hegen properts men | NAL of it, at least} but, if you take it.|all the large towns; then we shipped T told each mar what he was to do, &' ihe bl atiow. O hed under the tent. When the | we don't get any {to Java. Next we visited the Malay explaininz carefully how 1 intended day I was in the menage- signal was given. they grabbed the That settled the matter, and. con-|peninsula, where later I was to spend to get the snake into the crate. When Fic. Tistening to the varns of the| dangling legs and puiled. Then the|sidering times and ways. I've always;many years in collecting animal 1 was sure that they understood, we Keepers and doing as much of their|circus men in the seats jumped up. | thought that it was a good tribute to During these long vovages 1 started into the jungie, led by the work as they would allow. That and, without letting the audience| my hones It ow crude business|much of the time with Gaylord, lis native who mad. the discovery. T was night. when the cire left town I know what was happening. the every w t for himself.|ing to his stories of experiences with surprised to find the largest snake T stowed away in a wagon snatched the guns. Down went the| To break even a man had to b janimals. I had many questions to had ever scen. It looked at least The next morning, in Elmira, 1 “bad men” between the seats. It as hard as the next one, and to ¢ | ask and Gaylord, whose fund of infor- thirty feet lonz and about cighteen showed up at the menagerie brizht happened so quickly and o quietly | out ahead he had to be a bit h - | mation was inexhaustible, always an- inches in diameter. For x moment we and ecarly. The men laughed when | that the audience didn't realize what | I liked the zame, but I alway swered them and told me more be-| SOOT AN Ere CEREDILE they saw me. [ had expected them | had become of them. The canvas men | the fecling that it wasn't the t sides. 5 ) to be surprised and 1 was afraid that | “toe-staked” them: that is, they hit|wanted most. I was interested A few days after we arrived Inl A iR Animals, but. as head vrop- | Singapore he said: “Do vou want to . but I found | them over the heads with the toe-!ly in they might senG me awa: TTHE python was siecping peacetul- 1 v. digesting the pig. 1called to the men and put them to work at staking the crate to_the ground and securing it S0 that the snake could not lash it around. The crate was about cight fect long. six feet wide and two and one-half feet deep: just large enough to hold him and just small enough so that, once inside, he would not be able to get lever: and it. Again T explained what each man was to do. Then I passed a rope through { the crate, tyinz one end to a tree and | preparing a run ped around the snake's head when we were ready to draw him forward. Two more ropes were laid out. run- ning from hix tail. These we wrap- ped around trees on each side of the tay, and T stationed men at the ends, showing them how they were to play out the rope as the snake was drawn toward the crate, keeping it taut enough to prevent him from lashing. The python slept soundly through all these preparations. When we were ready, 1 gathered the men about me and cautioned them against becoming excited. 1 warned all those who had not been given work to do to stand back out of the way and not to ap- proach unless we needed them. With bamboo poles we prodded the snake at the head and tail, standing j by With the nooses, ready to slip them on when he stirred sufficiently. Be- fore he realized what was happening, we had the head noose over him. Tha instant he felt the rope tighten, he was awake! The natives holding the tail ropes hecame excited and succeeded in get- rome with me while I buy some ani- mals?* Naturally, T jumped at the ichance. We went to the house of Ma- {hommed Ariff, the Malay dealer who held a monopoly on the animal trade. He was squatted in the center of his courtyard, surrounded by cages con- taining the animals brought in from the jungle by his native agents. He was a_wicked old devil and a man | had only to glance at him to be con- vinced ‘of the fact. His forebears,; Gaylord told me as we were going to his house. were pirates, and he was the chief of a clique of samgings (the | ative gangster composed of na- tives who would commit any crime he ordered. Tt was by using such meth- | ods that he held his monopoly of the animal business; the natives were i of him, and no Kuropean or had dared to interfere with his trade. His head was shaven and his lips and chin were stained crimson | from chew betel-nut. He had lit- tle bullet eyes, set in a fat face. My impression of Mahommed Arift was that he would be @ bad man to have as an enemy, but it naturally didn't enter my head that he was to become a sworn enemy of mine a few yea later. He greeted us cordially, for | Iie had done business many times with ! Gaylord, and we sat down with him to talk animals. His religion was “to do_all Europeans,” but he could not help being honest with us. If any| man knew the value of animals, it was Gaylord, and old Mahommed Aiff was well aware of the fact. That day we bought a tiger, several monkeys {and a pair of leopards. H Several times during our stay in Singapore. 1 went to see Mahommed Ariff. He spoke a little English and he was usually willing to talk with IF ANY MAN KNEW THE VALUE OF ANIMALS, IT WAS GAYLORD, AND MAHOMMED ARIFK, WHOSE|me. hopink, perhaps, that we would v . 5 - S WELL AWARE OF i FAC i buy more animals. From him I learn- RELIGION 1T “TO DO ALL EUROPEANS.” WAS WELL AWARE THE FACT, By morsanimale oMb i et ing as it was done on the Malay out later that it was quite an ordi- | stakes that are driven into the ground | erty man, I had little time to be near | Archipelago, but T had no idea, at rary thing for boys to run away from | to keep the seat-stringers from slid-| them. that time, of entering the business. home and join the circus. And the ing. A toe-stake is of just the pro; My desire to learn all there was to| The show moved to Penang: thenc n didn't mind. because the boys size and weight to use in a fight, and know about animals was the main|to Bangkok. Hongkong and Shanghai ere always glad to do their work | it is the circus man's idea of a good | reason why I cultivated the acquafn-|then to Japan. It was in Tokio for them. I worked hard and. in re-| weapon. The crew buried the four | tance and friendship of Gaylord. He|that Gaylord had one of his bright £ noose to be slip- turn, the men saw that I had some. men while the show was on. I was an expert animal man—probably | ideas. He organized, in conjunction tiig osl bun ot e ta Pabe. The thing to ecat. That night I stowed thought that there surely would be ! the best informed in_ the business—|with the cireus, a Japanese village. o =g e A . away again in the wagon. trouble beforp we could get out of rand had been P Barnum's confi-|and, when we worked back over our python suddeniy leaped forward, and, o though he did not loosen the rope, Singapore and Australia, In Buffalo | was told to see the weapon. The ¢rew buried the fouren|dential agent for years. He had tra; boss—the head property man—and I town, but the men weren't even|eled the world over, time and again forty Japanese with us. whipped it out of the hands of the - went, trembling for fear he was go- | missed. It was Gaylord who negotiated with | Twelve of them were performers and patm e siheminllie ing to send me back home. 1 The Fryer outfit had a Pennsylva-|the Siamese officials for one of thelthe remainder were artisans. We had men and knocked several o m he told me that I might have t nia Dutchman called Charley. He was | famous white elephants of .. Bar- ! miniature Japanese houses, in which flat; then he caught one man, wha had not been able to get out of tha men 1 have ever [ num had his heart sct on having one| the artisans worked at their trades, when the stake|of them for his show and he sent|Such s fun-making, = wood-carving sleep—if 1 could find one. There were wagon. drawn by sight horses, was|Gaylord out with instructions to go|and embroidering. Also we carried a no sleeping accommodations for the | stuck in the mire, he lifted the rear[the limit. The stumbling-block in[big stock of cheap Japanese goods canvas and property crew we rolled end of the wagon on b back while|the transaction was that the Siamese | which were sold as the products of up in the most comfortable places we | the horses pulled it out. 1 think that [ believe the Spirits of the ancestors of | our traveling factory. The Japanese SPa1d find, and we were always So!if Charley had got a good swing at a| the royal family are transferred to|village was a great success and | Hp NATIVE SCREAMED AND THE SNAKE CONSTRICTED SUDDENLY, BREAKING NEARLY dead tired that we didn’t care much man and used his full strength, he|the white elephants. The 1415 live | brought a lot of money into the show. % Tt AN BOOE pull on the tail rope, but the confus where we slept. ;-nuldd have kn’:..n him with gne h}nw. in the royal palace and are cared for * X ¥ % 2 s = sion was so great that they did not e et ne day, in Christ Church, New Zea- | with all the ceremony given to any | o st me Trcot For P nskeR ek s of the reigning family. ~of [ N September, 1886, we struck Bue-|, ., . i\ animals. The more I con-|written agreement and no under-|they have good reason to he strict.| hich is the most tender part of him, of property boy, which would give me | one of the stronges $25 a month. my menls and a place to teen. One nigh way, and wrapped the lower part of his body around him while five or six feet of his tail still lashed about with the rope. 1 yelled to the others ta SRY BONE iand, ile Fitzgerald was taking|membe INCE those carly days in the cir- tickets, a larrikin—a tough—came | course, Barnum's plan was just as|l nos Alres, where the show had to ) ; h o . 3 S acrt) : ; L : . whe Sidered the idea, the more it appealed | standing as to my commission, but 1/One white man who does not under- DNt Sen 1 ST e teen around the ‘world along and ealds MMiEkete I sbIE Infiunthinkabl Cto them as I¢ i lad|pucc (the: Carlos. Brothers—tho “big | to e, 1 was becoming tired oLiclr. | wan contant to stastimoric on (hat/iStand’ thel natizesiand who! hits ‘o ROPIBE o Uik my nioms Je e many times, and I've seen all sorts 2o N S calla . i S e, e nihis sidel| o thit— cus life, cspecially since my work did [ basis becauss it meant experience. | consideration for them may start b i o down ind called for Charley, who was | show. There was @ hot txchange of |South —American outfit—and bad|(us Lle SSEICENT SR DY Witk the| 1t was customary for the members| trouble that will end in an Uprising. | betes and pulcd A ather. During the long tour we|animals. On my return to New York|of the crew of a boat to buy animals, | The trouble generally comes from al!j,. forward, the snake had loosened 1/ working at the ticket wagon. Char-|c of men, living and working in blegrams arnum in New sorts of conditions, but I've never ley ook the larrikin in his arms just| York and Gaylord m. Final- | had overcome many obstacles, but|y found Gaylord and told him aboutsplitting the risk between them. and |lack of regard for the native's feel- > found a harder life than that of prop- | 8 €48ily as if he had been a baby|ly Barnum offered the government|that combination was too much. Fry-|my plans. He encouraged me and in.|sell them when they reached Euro-|ing for his women. Though the Ma.{ihe head rope sufficiently to turn ou T Al o Hare e adeE troduced me to many men I was glad | pean or American ports. Soon after|lays live a fairly loose life, they re-| e &0 S8 U5 J0us ’ X =0 A% DeTNAD: 14 to know. such as Donald Burns, who[I had reached the agreement with|sent having a white man fake their [*Tq} D i’ avas icatEnt SR Dk a Malay prisoner. Sometimes I won-[ 4 7 was 4 dealer and had a store in|Mahommed Ariff, a German boat came | women and they generally vent their | THE, man wio Was catnt 1a te der how I stood it and why I liked i 7 Roosevelt street. into port and I went out to interview | displeasure in murder. That, of | §nakes (pils seredme ant (00 o it. But I did stand it and, what is gis ) A 4 e p \ ) IE RN At Donald Burns' place I talked my | the captain. 1 found that he had had | course, means a government investi-| Prat Of the fiil 8 A0 SO5 Fer el more, I loved it so much that 1 per- (IR £ 4 e % 7 ¢ N t venture over with many showmen.|previous dealings with the Malay, and | gation, with ill-feeling rising on both | 004t R HHIE LIE CF i Erers suaded the boss to keep me on when (4 3 # P 7 A / § pi X N \‘ They were all interested and wished [ that he had sworn never to buy an- [sides. To the Dutch resident I ex- (% SuCdeniv, SHERIRE P b 4 7 & R < L, to encourage me, but they werc|other animal from him. Finally, he|plained my purpose in wishing to live | 428602t 00 "0 5 inciintly. Blood we went into winter quarters. The moment we arrived at a town | S 7 e L % 4 p R 4 | frankly doubtful of my success be-|agreed to make some purchases, but|in the Malay quarter with the hadji. : z the head canvasman rode fo the lot | g 2 3 A e ARSI T 4| e ney knew ‘of 'ola Mahommed | he took care to draw Up @ paper in|and he gave me permission, warning | POUted from his mouth and care end 95 Dich we wore ta show ane iaalil 4 3 4 ) . : n g Ariff's monopoly. Burns offered to|which he said that he was buying on[me that it would be revoked at the | D¢ WAas thFOWH JURPIY #bo ; t ? help me dispose of the animals, but|my representation. least sign of trouble. e e st e it out: that is, he measured it and decided on the location of the ten I was not elated at that prospect, for| T reported the deal to Mahommed| ~Thereupon. with the hadji leading. | o0 %,0t Fortunately, the tail rope Burns did not attend very strictly to [ Ariff, but when I went the next morn- | T took my belongings to his house and | fOR® (W 0N J00 o 4 e caught The men with him drove small stakes g ) 3 .73 : 9 A | o 1 11k ing to deli b imals, 1 found led d b to indicate where the tent pegs wer K. ¥ ' o -, W usiness. t was a well-known story | ing to deliver the animals, ount settle own to ecome acquainted | 77 ' o to be placed. In the meantime the | d A g B p i s %) e Sircus world that he had neg. | that he had sent them to the boat|with the people. They regarded me | it Just as the snake tried to lurch for- property gang unloaded the show. - : %0 3 - RGSER lected the opportunity of handling the, during the night and had collected ! curiously but, when the hadji intro-|vard = R e dais ihd A Then we drove the four-foot stakes 3 2 ) K first hippopotamus brought to this|the money for them. He refused to]duced me by saying, “E-tu-twan ban- ’?P“dfl-rh SIOWAY, 'd“ 'l"f, el o for the dressing tent into whatever ' country. A sea captain had offered|give me my commission because, he|yar bye. Dare be-tole (This man is|wand the crate ance g tho same Gt kind of ground the lot happened to . i e X RER | %o sell It to him for $3,000, but Burns | said, the captain was an old customer | very good. He is true),” they accept. | holding his taii Mrill e hic T have. A man can work up a good| (} . R ey wh e refused to take it—he simply wasn't|of his. The boat was about to sail|ed me without question. The word of [ Stretched out B¥ procding it (o0 appetite by swinging a 14-pound ham y st 5 5 A7 g 5 j8 | interested. A few days later it was|and there was no time to get the cap-|a man who has made a pilgrimage to "‘sh st rla. “eu‘ ol;:;d' {mmo u x? mer for an hour or so before break- i % / . 2 < 2 < sold to Barnum for $10.000. *[tain ashore and settle the dispute. [Mecca is not to be doubted and my |2nd to release the y ofthe nativy, o5 = Strangely enough. it was Burns'|However, I had the written statement, | dispute with Mahommed Ariff was * ok x X fast, but before we started we had E A 1. igned by hil that th i 18 had d 1d also many other things to do. The - e A S S easy-going way of managing his af-|sign . m, A e animals had | told and retold until it became a won- " 3 dressing tent had to be spread and s Vv = / 3 \ B B mes e My onporunity of | been bought from me, and 1 sur-|derfully exaggerated legend with me| | BE head noose had been slipped going to Singapore. I had been in prised Mahommed Ariff by suing him.|as the hefo. They disliked Ariff be- farther down than I wanted, and hoisted; then the pro es were : ; : sorted and placed in their position for ) RN £k i = % 5 New York, making my plans and sav-| He was a surprised Malay when I|cause he was forever swindling them | was giving his head too much play. the performers to get ready for the | : ing my money, but I didn't feel that produced the paper in court. and he|when they captured animals. Assuring this wach That ha Conld a parade. Meanwhile the canvas gang - | 2: o 1 had enough to start out on the ven- | paid the commission and costs. The ATy 5 o no was getting the “big top” up. Then, ! . N, o vt - ! > ture. One day I was in Burns' store| result of the suit was that I gained a 4 more harm, T took three of them with when the parade started. we went to | - 4 i AN When he was away, and a sailor came | number of friends and established a|TT is not difficult to win, the friend- | me and we grabbed the snake's neck. the *big top” and arranged the prop- i in. hiding two monkeys under, his coat. reputation. = being all deals with | ShiP Of the nitives. if you know|He tossed s abont; mnd we Had e . there, made the rings. adjusted | 22273 q ¢ . i 3 e had smuggled them into the coun-| For the i als wi e e onen and wites for the| Ny A g 3 : E 2 5 e R e et 1o Rell them. The | Mahommed Ariff were Ooff, of course.|HOW to treat them. If they like you, |eral minutes of exciting work before aerial acts and laid out all the para-| I E 3 2 \ ' monkeys were black with coal dust,[and so I had to look elsewhere for|they become doglike in their devo-|We got the head into the open end of phernalia for the ground acts. While | E . e 2 - %] | but one of them, I noticed, had pink | business. I induced a Malay hadji.|tion; they will do anything you tell|the crate. When the rope was se- : eyes. That fact interested me and 1| who had made a pilgrimage to Mecca, | o0 0 "5 potieve whatever you|cured. we fastened another rope about we were doing these things the can- | ] bargained for them, buying the pair|to take me to his home at Palem- vas men were stringing the seats.; BIRGS 3 . S Ly 4 1 4 ) Then we had breakfast. | YA Ly oy “ J X for 515, When the sailor left, I found | bang, in the Island of Sumatra. He|say as though it were gospel. I stud-|the middle of him. When the parade returned, there| [ g . ) = | [ | 2 coke of soap and gave them a baih. | was o buyer of animals from the peo- |fed them closely. learning their lan- The enake lashed furiously, knock- were cages to be placed in the me-| K@F § 3 = v The monkey with'the pink eves tufn-| ple of his district and, as he gnug ing several of the nai Sta- nagerie tent and the parade proper-( § > N x 9 A P, { P4 | o out to bepure white. Those were|of his selling through Mahommed [SUage and customs and carefully mf;“n el tives down. Sta. f5im . 4 y 7 the days when Jim Corbett was a|Ariff, he hesitated at taking me with|avoiding anything that might bring & a crew of men at the tail rope ties to be prepared for shipping. By the time that work was fimshed the | great favorite, and he had recent Byt 1 pointed out the advisa-|me into disfavor. Day after day, I|to slacken it as we moved forward, crowds had arrived for the show and DAL MANIA AMONG THE MALAYS. I PULLED ! become known as “Pompadour Jim.”|bility of having a European agent— {1 took the others to the crat tond by to handle the tackle of Lo e monker nad & portéct pom- | all white men were considered Huro- | WENt With them into the jungle pick- {7 '0ok This ihers 1 SHo orale had set the various acts. At ht, after the padour on his head. Soon one of the|peans. The vision of securing more|ing up bits of jungle-craft. Gradu- e middle rope. show had started, we began taking | hewspapers printed a story connect-|business without being robbed con-|ally I learned to see the things that|AS we dragged the python forward, ] ing Corbett and the monkey. A few|stantly by Mahommed Ariff drought!ney saw in the walls of green ‘houglhe;coiled in the crate; then, when he down the smaller tents and stowing|and carried him out into the street |$230,000 for the privilege of borrow- | ecr, Gaylord and Fitzgerald decided to : i the propertics just as fast as they|There he dropped him and said: ~1f | ink one of the clephants for just ome | disband, and most of the properties|days later. [ sold the monkey for §1.500. | him around to my proposition, and we |, “;13 to interpret the sounds—the|Was half in, we secured the middle came from the “big top™ Then, when | T have to do this again Tl hit you. vear. He agreed to support a retinue | and animals were 80ld to the Carlos|and I then had enough money to start| went together to the Dutch general e o rer he oAt e thay| e IarE eI dTan comeybacic nriests and atienaants and, o pay | Brotners. R R e D o BEIL o bies leh bamade iyl [allstrangportaion ¢ oThe BOv-| Ry hard work and careful saving, 1 x % % % S icn cfirthncs frot the Dok o] chspering of macnkevs sn the Crien]o o iy ich SRR 10, Thave W et ' ernment we e onside had managed to accumulate over Zave me a passport and a personal |Of other animals—and T spent hours rejoicing when we closed the end of the crate and prepared to haul it k to Palembang. We had captured = prize specimen. Cross of Liverpool, to No, we didn't care much where we| ~HARLEY'S work at the ticket wa- ' proposition, rd gave up!gg oo slept—just any spot where we drop- gon was to keep the crowd moy-(!n disgust and cabled t the deal Yolwas off. But Barnum was not dis- ed was good enough. 4 In front of the ticket windoWw | vouramed. When ¢ $8.000; %0 1 was happy tohiead north- [T 2 in April. 1857, that T left New Jetter to the Dutch resident at Palem-| with them, squatting in their houses, . rne o New orl 3% b % Thel dji start- vy wi £ e ol 1o Naw Vork by York on the steamer Glenderrie. | PanS: Then the old hadji and I busy with the rudiments of the Malay language. My greatest intercst was in the lord returned to| ma¥ 2 _ : > X mals, especially the ¢lephants. In my there was al vs stretched down this country he found that the old 2",,""?“‘1‘_"’_‘"_ A "“"‘. timesatters |1 outfitted; In Tondon. while ‘we ilay PR § i whom I sold him, told me that he el et el W S b s L LG e it clepnant | ward we were in St Louis, where we | gver there, taking cargo aboard, and. Once during the eighteen months 1| measured ~thirty-two " fect. 1 have and far between—T talked with thej % ° o SAW 1 from th al pulace of Siam. Bas g © alte . Ma v B E el | = = i spent with the hadji, I was haled be-{never seen his equal in length and Ak RHans a ani puti % of > which consisted of 1 because 1 was none too sure what] "HIS was really my start in the 5 : 2 2 ; lust. When a man put down his el £ tothing more than i fore the resident for an investigation, | 8/Fth- But. huge as he was, he coiled : x up comfortably in hi but the natives stuck by me valiantly { promptly. fell business of animal collecting. At small quarters, sleep and went on di- singapore 1 had seen cnough to know | Put by e alanilyd promptiy el *Wland T was exonerated. The trouble | gestin i thay the sworlcHl ‘w“""d to do was|giurted one evening when 1 was sit- (Coprright, 1920-1921, by Asi not simply to sell the animals at a|ting on tho hadji's veranda. There port, but to capture them in the jun- | cAme & scream from one of the houscs. - I nd a native emerged, howling an gle. My main object In going to Su-| (inging a knife, slashing at every matra was to live with the natives|one within reach—men, women and keepers and learned from them w things about the care of anim When we went info winter quarte at Columbus, Ohio, the head anin num b 15 {money for a ticket the fellow in (i TR Pwsh o, rin | oPatn v clephant, with 5| wagon passed him out a ticket forthe result that he he whiter cle. i phant than the Siamese ever dreame r let e S0 P ceper. | the cheupest seat and charged hlm[‘ z P 8 W p cov-] . For one week we had luck and took - | showed that he knew exactly what|ed by aticndants that the audience {:;"-M,’;“;“_",’,““d'*:;"{y:;‘ ;l;“;r;{":ai; rifle that fired explosive bullets. The Jaeit e vantia in that o the | couid not deteet the fr‘a'\‘l:ll,L;‘r:'c Een-|ahd “reventing mildew. It was so bullets contained a detonator and heavy that the canvas man could | enough dynamite to stop any animal some scats. We had no|material I should need, T confined my | hut we hired performers and s started out on the road. outfit o pclothes) and guns,On Ihe advice of several animal men, 1 lungle Stratagems and Spoils.”” Charles Mayer's exper- iences as an animal collector | ‘HE next season I went with the Adam Forepaugh show: then Leral cffect was zood ticket seller shoved his change out|brought in a lot of moncy. ; with the Frank Robbins show. 1| Y scarcely handle it. in his tracks. My revolvers were a|and learn their methods and language, | children. He was running amok, a| |and medicine man among the | s0 that one or two coins slid off the * ok % At Springficld T went out to_the 1 i o Jearned the circus business from the | % “ARL 0RO S8 RO CO0S OE BE e it fobringfield T went out to the 1ot| Cott .45 and & Smith & Wesson .38.so that, belng at the source of the|yictim of the strage hom\idal mania| | Malays, a daring excursion into | ground up and 1 was rapldly promot-firicd 1o stop and hunt in the suwdust | (jATVORD was quite deaf when Tlsiood there, looking at the ‘wet The passage took seven weeks and|supply of animals. T could capture and | {hen o man runs amok. he suddeniy e ant i SO g A Ao 1883, 1 joined L. W. Fryer's for his mones, Charles vusned him him, and o was Fryer. vas spread out on the ground with' during that tiue 1 became well ac- sell with practicully no interference bLezins v =il - : P 3 i A . 4 i A < - - B