New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1928, Page 19

Astounding Secrets of Our World Trade in How Men \wd Beas’rs Gamblewith Lives and Millions for Savage Creatures You Can Buy at ly Brought from Indis the Londen Zoe. Such Animals are Priced at $2,600. At Top of Page, Dolores Del Rie with Her Pot lufin.. brought $5,000 apiece. Now that :!:limu}l trlincnm ve :mvcn: at the pygmy hippo is hardy an breeds in captivity the price has 4id coflection of 3,000 Elephants sre plentiful and relatively birds and animals at the ehnp—th-.chul expense being that of New York Zoological ‘transportation. At Left, Rone down to $2,000 apiece. Rare sebras Park was worth a million P. T. Barnum paid $10,000 for Jumbo, Pelican, hring $3,500 a pair, but ordinary ones or twa, but Dr. W. Reid perhaps the record price for an Wi can be had for $1,500 a pair. Blair, of that institution, ordinary grown elephant. Jumbo Coste The chy t wild snimal in the world estimates the value at probaBly brought that price be- Very today is $300,000. The animals &t cause of his unususl size. The the celebrated London beast had been o grest Zoo are valued st $176- favorite with both adults 000, but animals are much and children whe visited the cheaper in England than London Zoo, and there was in America, because Great a great outery when that Britain has the jungles of institution seld him to the her own colonies to draw American showman. upon. But Jumbo's price was Yet why does the wild anl- put in the shade when Barnum sent to mal tryder pass out a healthy lurmn.l\ an nt $76,000 for s sacred young lion for $250, while white allphnl.r He thought the beast he charges $12,000 for a pair would be a at draw- of giraffes and demands ing card with his eireus. from $5,000 to $8,000 for an Indian rhinoceros? That is one of the secrets of the strange trade that will be di- vulged right here. young lion is compara- tively easy to capture, and once bagged he does not sulk o 99 orwput uppl!m;h of & battle ; against his eaptors. ‘erhap s Hare Yo S0 s Prthan, 3 Chptesen eI S Ctian nd s Top) o Lien, it it because be i intelligent <7 ore You See a Python, a Chimpanz . 1 The Giraffes Are Worth $12,000 While the Liee May Bring Oniy 3260 in the Animai 5 ugh to see the futllity of o y. mm‘cdlnhb'::u{:;. A few Lit years said that bisons were e likely t‘nflueom extinct. Thereupen the United States and Canadian governments arranged to protect and breed the ani- mals. Now bisons are so plentiful that Uncle Sam has some to give away, so that the only cost the 200 owner has to mest is that of transportation. Fashionable ladies sometimes like te totq around pet monkeys or marmosets. They pay about $100 apiece for them at ot stores, but if they went nto the animal market could get them much cheaper. ~— L reprisals, Market. This Article Tells Why. 'T‘\::n!t :o the vnllow‘ing.v ugly THE civilized world pays an astound- Oriental tribesmen, and catching only a Indian rhinoceros, which is % 4 5 " vicious, stupid and always fE prelin ey fi{:n”afl, aet ::-73 '?.3::: ::: :"::;trh t:g‘:)l:)ls.p?.:: thy dangerous. It s econsid- diplomacy for the privilege of gaz- 4 3 & 5 ered one of the most ditfi- Ing through iron bars in zoos at the rarest . The business of catching wild animats is mot only fraught with deadly dangers, cult of wild animals to and most ferocious wild animals on the gecording to Sanders and other authori. ChPture alive because of ts earth. ties, but the money values of the trade z:i."iobnullkmg“fihfl"mfl:. A sacred white baby elephant imported seem topsy-turvy to an outsider. Not vare. Most of the animals to America recently cost something like the rarest ameng the animals is always o protected by Indian $100,000. He had to be smuggled from the most nsive. And pepularity potentates. Permits are B8IG 80Y. his native country, India, and scores of counts for nothing in the price fixing. necessary to hunt and cap- Grown Gerilla Shet in the African Batives and even & few rajabs had to be Cute little monkeys that attract 1arge g them, and the cost of After a Hazardeus Chase. A Live Ome bribed and cajoled to get him out. One crowds at the 200 come aatonishingly g permits, combined with _ Weuld Be Werth $6,000. of his keepers was knifed to death by & cheap. And a youns lion can be pur- o cost of maintaining & nllfl:nl fanatic who worshiped the white chased for about $250, or the price of a small army of native hunters and the ex- but for once Barnum was wrong. The elophant as & god. And when the ele- good radio set. The lion may be the king cessive cost of transporting several thou- owners ef rival circuses whitewashed o phant reached this country it turned ont of beasts in the h?k. but in & cage ong pounds of rhinoceros after the hunt, few erdinary elephants and advertise to be & pale, pinkish, dirty gray and nct he's not so much. On the other hand, makes the value of the beasts run up to them as the real things. white at all. raffes cost $12,000 g pair, In- opg $8,000 figure. The Burden expedition to the Malu) The natives of India say that every dian rhinoceres may mf‘ aroun ,000. B it heart is set on having Feninsuls breught back twe glant lisards grt caught alive means two dead\men. A fine specimen of a tiger costs $2,500: S PH e o b'“ o 'Africas are specimens which had been mistaker ink of that the next time you stand a baby elephant costs more than s full. ® Pet """"’"1.{“ can el sng by travelers for dinosaurs stil living ir in a safe place and look into the savage, gmwn bull elephant, and some types of One cheaper. 5 ;‘ 07)': ess rare, ai that strange land. The twe lizarde wer. inscrutable eyes of one of the splendid, big enakes are sold by the yard. Speci. they cost around $5,000. ; sold te the New York Zeological Park fo: striped creatures. mens of the American bison ean be had Giraffes are high-priced simply because $1,000 l: i he amazing facts on the wild animal free. The Government gives them away. they are sensitive and ongasinly. They tention uring the fow weeks that they trade have recently been revealed by In the New York Zoelogical Park there are fairly easy to catch. but the problem lived. Carl Sanders, the agent of a German isga rare whale-headed stork, perhaps the of their transportation and maintenance The first successful mr to brin; ¥ company duling in strange and fantastic only one of its kind in captivity, yet its is an exceedingly dificult one. In the back wild horses from Mongolia was mad: beasts, who brought some of his treasures value is not estimated at more than first place, it is always better to have two by Karl Hagenbeck, an_ 0. to America. Sanders went through a $1,200, a comparatively low re. This —one is llhl‘ to sicken and die from owner, who wad employed by the Duk: heart-bresking struggle to capture wild same park is now negotiating for a forest loneli; When a pair of the wild, tim- of 5 agenbeck’s men -rm horses in Mongol, He and his men ho very rare animal in captivity— caught the first task $25,000, but they returned with onl+ trailed the swift, elusive creatures across uns will probably close the dea! at s little trader is to condition few boress. the Mongolian deserts for months, fight- more than $1,000. t. Often they refuse Ones the y hi; tamus was con. ing 'lfic?.d battles with bloodthirsty Most people would say that the splen- food for days. sldered o m. baby beasts In fact, o which nuchu"h‘hormmmltMr a :: l‘x;zoor marmoset, can be had for Certain types of baboons, how- ever, such as the mandrill, sell for as high as $900 apiece, and a good chimpanzee or orang rates up to $1,000. A gorilla brings $6,000, but he's a bad buy be- cause he always dies after a fow years in captivity. Wild animals are general- ly caught by traps set up at their drinking places. Ba- perhaps the easiest ure, but they are clever at sffecting an escape afterward. Karl Hagenbeck tells of trapping five ba. boons only to have an arm; of 2,000 swoop dows on his hunters. The hunters were forced to retreat, then the baboon army adroitly re- leased their brethren that had been boucd and gagged! Comriont, 10N, Isrsstionsl Fostue Sarvin, Sun, Greed Setiets Bigdts Buserved,