The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1902, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL scarcely breathe while he was being dragged out of his comfortable bath and over a pile of chips and sawdust. The rest was comparatively easy. In a min- ute or two more he was securely bound up in long lengths of stout rope and transported down through the tunnel like a two-by-four strip of scantling. Following the dispossession of the alli- gator, the sea lions determined to strike the first blow for liberty themselves. As there was no enclosing fence around their own half of the divided cask, they flopped over the edge and led the pelicans a mer- ry chase down the long incline, through the tunnel and up over the other side ‘o the empty basin of the lake, across which a force of workmen were carrying the new hobby horses, slipping and sliding alogues and price lists and ordered a con- signment of wild animals, “good sho ers,” just as the parvenu rich of the pres- ent day buy their libraries by the yard. So it was that Rajah discovered when he arrived here, if he was not already too sullen to take notice of the fact, that he had not only crossed the continent and the ocean merely as a “consignment,” but ncminious- title, quite as if his hide had already been tanned into a long strap of leather for hand satchels. But as_a “consignment,” the alligator’s first dip into the, water in the inverted cask felt just as good as if he had been called by any other name. He flopped his huge tall about in complete satisfaction and buried all but the tip of his long snout that his price had been fixed and paid be- in the dark de; ;Wi rhi 2 = z epths of the muddy water. the while through the ooze of soft as fore he had cven been fracked amd As'aconsignment,” he had come and phaltum like bees in 4 oot of honey. trapped, simply to complete an architec- zs a ‘“consignment” he was satisfled to The sudden advent of the sea lions and tural scheme. Temain among the untamable populace of their pelican satellites created a sensa- HASRSES No wonder he has been sulking ever the new Chutes, but he was not allowed tional stampede among the carpenters ACROSS THE- since. When he arrived in San Franciseo to bask for long in the sunshine of his and builders. . An enthusiastic sea lion he was tumbled into a delivery wagon own contentment. The space he occu- looks as formidable as a wild bull and EMPTY and dumped off at the Chutes amongst pied was needed for nail kegs. He must when he moves in droves there is some- 211 sarts of bales and boxes of building. move, but move he would not. It mat- thing awe-inspiring in the spectacle. Laxe Baterial, without the slizhtest regard for tered not to him that a new concrete Everybody gave them a wide berth ex- \ MOVING THE- ALLIGATOR be delighted.” sly alluring sign ona gaudily paint- oncealed under the ulating debris at the expressive of the o that end there has ling within the the big pleasurc from the which are by a full block than the jaight street. And out of which has existed lik for two months pas g strings k place to pla ds upon yards of deadly ng drowsily in oil cans r to keep them from free: the cold, brisk wind, fror to another. Then t owed by the awkwart pelicans, came lumber way and were driven aside, o1 placed by the haughty llames or hievous bear. BEven on the Warme was never far from the © ded seriously, however, can ¥y e & more nerve-racking experien o have to saw heavy planks int lengths with a pair of roarin: g you through every m s day, or to fit locks and bolt cage th that ferecio practicing his most cu: ment of t] ning sneak upon you. Nor is it more re sssuring to bave to place & wire scree around the alligators’ tank with th nasty looking reptile blinking & watchf, eye at you On the other hand, it was no particul: the lions or the tiger to I too gently into the cramp narrow moving boxes, { be hauled sround on & bobsleigh over a manner of rubbish, with no more consid eration than a small boy would accor to & rat in & trap, in order thet a pain ight make & hideou: ngle brush of their n: which decelved no one, n even the animals themselves. Like most American engineering anc architectural projects, everyihing at the new Chutes was in process of construc tion at e same timre. All th mystic sidesho beguile the nimble nickel from an all too credulo fun-loving public grew and grew day after day as if by magic, but though th new grounds are larger than the o =7 t street sit verything thereon bulit on a more lavish scale. The menageric and cafe take up Lhc whole west side of the block, with an el vated promena rding all around ti south side of o connect with ti entrance railway and v over 4000, it had to be erecte by itself, wit from tF e tunnel the sea nd kept up a con bow room in the r away, in the same inclosure, five bears were locked up over the tool shed, while across the the main grounds the African with the leopard family, the . the old grizzly shivered and ough the long, dark hours in period for the jungle colony. full-grown, rull-blooded ht-hued his dignity. Then he wus drugwed about tank was read: g N R s . ly and wal on the other cepting, of course, th. Sh W w‘ou'"w“’f‘?.'f" HM'ah h&fl ggln}le‘w‘;wormmmi; ott ltlt.na?t could be trap in theb%dl of ca on a bobsleigh for days and days, before side of the grounds. e half-section of thgm sh, and to him ne:qym::e ;htzmo t:‘:: other dey brought Toe carpenters uack Ha s g6 on, b 2oy o Sanilfa i gnd fhon Bp ehipped halc Ty femd the Bty Meine mped e e O e olin s Simator e AL 8, viey Rareent ‘ot o work itk el Gee g POl e e ot the et e . T b B T aoora il N the aoving ur wn aliigasors ke s Ll e O X And e e e o A iasah was meking the long and even received ae ait hopored suess Wies o win him & chande for vengeanc o e B R T e R e MU AR TR T The Saughing hyena was tied up with a4 hazardous trip simply as a “consign- the new Chutes was planned by the archi- since then he has cherish s Cankiing an slllextor CHng Day Alrma e e ey S uED S0 INAKS ‘Hha. JeMri i poush u rope, like the st cur, and all around ment.’ To the express company he was tect & in number of e B R R o LB e T LT i BB B R S m_mh were ne-\; on_tiers' of boxes filled togk‘. lnol}hing mure,d and hae.l \‘v;.! signed and their dimensions given to Mr. est resemblance to a carpenter, e th:t’g)?n gu'él;: ;::fd'-h :gpleex? '%'v‘éiidaa‘{hfl& K';ffi o.n"J anugg\cri:tied“ml“nd 1Ian_| Ly By o wit frenzied.. shivering. _chattering, dumpe % nlg jmxkca.\'g uhoulw.tfu n like Hall, the animal er. He counted the Only a few days previous the alligator altegether unknown to him. Tt required constructed. It had j tob g eyt o O Bpas sttt 22 S o0 fon B, 0 ayBlog, Samsy B e St sl Vit B and Sl G Sits bt g Seliete waniveing el o e T 1 o S e i cra’ Tike " « ¥ i 0 spare. en i 3 1 . e market. It was truly a very strenuous thata proud prince of the jungle, a great, was that he procured one s cat- h;na. ot};'r:::%ouu: Tl er the n‘.ln‘: ,;‘15 ffi&n:fie&‘fw l:ogfi:ttum&i:kg: {'::l.(i m“%%utlge x::tnn ;iva.ndmthns: e . more oppor- tune. They were rounded up lke wild cattle on_the range and driven headlong into the bubbling water of the new tank, where a hearty meal of smelt made them all feel quite at home. Meanwhile in the menagerie a new dif- ficulty had arisen from an entirely new and unexpected source. A carpenter had been detailed to place an extra fine wire screen around the minfature aviary which a whole flock of cockatoos ar- rots were confined. He entered it boldly enough, as one entirely careless of dan- ger. With him he carried a strip of lath- ing to hold the edge of the sereem In place. To the assembled birds of loud voice and louder plumage the lathin seemed a most convenient perch, an when the careful carpenter raised it into place to see how well it would fit before nailing it over the screen there was a sudden deafening flapping and whirring of wings and the whoie flock settled on of lathing as one bird. The car- frightened into hys- ienness of the onslaugh r he had to acc ity all th of the ist him at ; would perch upon his and take turns in hammer while he nailled vall. At one time ting him that t and leave the work to the is themselves. In the midst xcitement, how- ever, the t m his moor- ings whi Iragged about from cage to cage and mixed things with a crate of monkeys in a far corner of the me- rie. This roused the whole jungle v to eager expectancy, and the lions, tig the jau ard, and pumas, of 'their anging frantic efforfs to get out and a this laughing beast to their limited menu. But Bill as soon rounded up n and lodged y in a narrow I ge at the end fr he could the building, neither see and the same As each new tiles arrived, or in piles er that could be found until their cages were made ready to receive them, when they were dis- in their new qua nt of silks in a bar- there was a continual pro- cession of wild ani -grees of abject servitude bac rth through the long tunnel. It was days and days before the family of bears e given a more comfortable bed than they had been able to make for themselves on the as- sorted implements in the tool shed. e lions, the leq the pumas and he i the most uncer uantity in jungle colon ere naturally dence in ir domestic - though they were not all - comfortably without mus ated moving boxes, fought long and against which stubbornly. Tken when all else was in readiness, e home of the emu and the llama in r of the new theater was rudeiy up and, with the bears from th toal shed, they wer: ded down throug the tunnel and across ain ground Here one of the llamas ch had be holding its head loftily erect in proud dain of the plodding bruin, suddenly [| SEALD AND THE PELICAND THE NEW SHVTES stumbled into the winding sluice box of the “mystic maze” water course of the “‘old mill race,” and Instantly a stampede of both men and animals was begun. Each dashed wildly about trying to es- cape_ the other, and it required the com- bined efforts of the whole corps of animal trainers and attendants to round up the frightened beasts again before they could escape to the street, and lodge them gafe- ly in the menagerie. And thus the populaf of the new Chutes was finally nm:;fhm