The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1922, Page 18

Playing"N By Elias McQuaid Copyright, 1922 (New York Kvening World) by Preny Publishing « OYS and girls of They were, sympathetic The four. unive Rrooklyn will be given teenth, apparently blaming us for the "8 an opportunity this Weather, turned sour and frequently ite summer to show their ingenuity in selecting a for a baby hippopotamus of the pyemy spe- name Master Hippo. cles, arrived from Hamburg this week on the steamship Mount Carroll to summer at Coney Island in the care of Mother Hippo, and under the aus Pices of the Hagenbecks “It may be,” Agent Benson of the Hagenbecks told the writer, “that we also will ask young Brooklyn to select Capt. J @ naine for the baby's ma Johansen, who brought them over gens for us, calls the mother T submit is no name a a de cent and respectable mother, We'll Jeave it to Brooklyn junior, and are " .’ which for confident of happy results.” Capt. Johansen allowed that he had “other things to think of on the over," in Hold 1 of the Mount Car roll, than picking out pretty names for little pigs. “For, strictly gaid the bronzed Captain, “the pygmy hippopotamus really is more pig than hippo. This mother hippo, as you see, fs no bigger than a full grown pig and yet has attained her fullest growth. The giant hippogotamus, as we all know, likes the water, while the pygmy cares little more for water than the most ardent anti-Prohibi- tionist in Glasgow."" way between ourselves,’ Johansen, who travels all the wild spaces of the earth buying animals for zoos and circuses and such like, was surrounded there in Hold No, 1 of the Carroll with ‘‘sampies"’ enough to equip a dozen road shows. The animal-man was proudest of his thirteen juveni “FIFI A . your rushed at the natives with such fury _ that 1 was compelled to chain him to vale the deck That young Then it happened elephant battered ¢ own brains out on the deck! He j, crashed his head against the deck ( once, twice, a third time--and re mained there, dead.” ‘s Johansen didn’t miss him long, for jy he had hundreds of boarders left. t These included; : Thirteen elephants. Two Bengal tigers. Three black panthers. One leopard One hundred snakes. Two-sacred temple snakes. Two hundred monkeys. One hundred and fifty birds. Two white-necked crows. Eight police dogs. One pygmy hippopotamus. One baby of the aforesaid. rted lot of laughing se. When the natives quit me at Ham burg, not caring to run up against American immigration laws," Jurgens Johansen continued, “I signed UyMathias and Emil "it's the last time I'll ever have a holar with me! e “This Emil, 1 learned too late, is a "PET PINSCHER} SMALLEST BREED CF’ DOG JN THE WORL all of @ size, all roped together Just ‘as you see them every year In the basement at the Garden, and none of them much taller than a St. Bernard. “For the first time tn my long ex- perience with these wonderful ani- mals,” Jurgens Johansen said, “I have seen an elephant commit suicide! Crazy with the heat! “| left Calcutta a few weeks since with fourteen little elephants. We stopped at Rangoon for rice and as we left the Bay of Bengal and rounded into the Indian Ocean the weather be- came desperately hot. All the ani- mais suffered. The tigers and other Deasts shed their hair. They were quite nude. We covered the iron deck over their Rea@s with heaps of straw and the ffve Indians [ brought from Calcutta with me—I left them at Hamburg bathed the baby elephants twice every “all but one of the fourteen seemed to appreciate our good intentions. > vine somewhere al In 8 ring sb 1 came t not rse ‘ ty man, a bit down in his luck, uny r educated folk are to- \ iermany and.elsewhere came aboard the Carroll upon his interesting dutios as hambre, cook, waitress and to the lovelorn, it appears that cone into a roomful of books ind read up on Wild Ant were going to tackle ¢ book oF other he read, cor the leopard, for example ‘ peclal liking for dogs.” 11 Ss n the way Emil appears nferred As luck had Jown here one afternoun Emil was asking one of no pe dogs to bea ¢ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1922. "to 13 Bab 200 Monkeys'‘and 100 Snakes Were Least of Capt. Johansen’s Worries in the Floating Zoo He Brought From Calcutta to New York. yy fy Hh, Wb4 Cy Mh Vf AGU i 14 if WW vy v SOME SY THE A, ful plece of limberger when it comes to picking Male Help."* “That pair of white police dogs, by the way,” suggested Agent Benson of the Hagenbeck outfit, “are not to be exhibited. They were bought by ns for Albert Keller of the Ritz-Carl ton Hotel, and are the first albinos to be brought to America.” "You can see for yourself that woe haven't any too much room down hers in the hold,” said Johansen, continu ing his story, “and f want to say that these police dogs did more to keep u happy than the monkeys or the laugh- ing jackasses or anybody else The big thing was to get these thirteen httle elephants te America and get them here In good condition one of the little cusses is more RARE SPECIMENS O GERMAN Nokia Hf DOGS, THE ONLY LH ALBINOS IN U.S. ———————————— IN THE STEAMER. CARROLL 200 MONKEYS than two years old, and, naturally, vnough, pulling up stakes in India and shipping half way around the world rather upset them. I won't say they had nostalgia, but they were darned melancholic. I tried everything 1 knew of on ‘em and one day happened to think the dogs might cheer ‘em up, “Dashed if they didn't, too. Just as if they knew exactly what was wanted these elght dogs performed ver and over again for the entertain- ment of the baby elephants. The dog comedian, Koo Koo—your kids wit! see him this summer at Coney—al- most made ‘em laugh." “Have any real trouble with any of the pets?’ Jurgens Johansen was asked, t / 4 re —\ Ve 7) “Not what you cal! trouble,’ was the reply, “but the gentleman Bengal ger is about the best speciiren 1 have seen of 100 per cent. anti-Ger- man. Come over and see the tiger.” Mr. and Mrs, Tiger reposed in Wooden cages side by side. Tre lady permitted Johansen to pat hr~ head and so Ntch her neck quite as» kitten might, But her Old Man! “Burramagwaw!"' roared Mr. Tiger, in a mean voice and in capital let- ters 12 feet high, “Burramagwaw!"’ “They're going to Coney,’ said Johansen “But,'' interposed Emil the Intel- lectual—positively his Last Appear- ance with any Wild Animals Jurgens Johansen goes toting around the world—''Brooklyn need have no fear Ls [notrine ONE OF THE 13 BABY- ELEPHANTS FROM | \ | THE HOLD \ them. ‘The man-eating tiger ally an Old Timer whose vi st and whose teeth are worn tive; it takes up its abode in borhood of some village, population of which it finds an prey than wild animals. I've ¥ thinking, on the way over, that haps modern American dent night" “YOU!" commanded Capt. “water them monkeys!" J. This ts Capt. Johansen's first to New York in twelve years. “And funny how I took up animaling,"’ he said “I used to be a seafaring man, once upon a time made New Y¥¢ my home port for three years. I to be a captain and on my first voy in that capacity, in the year 18 was engaged by the Hagenbecks Hamburg to go to Thibet for thei “I've been at it since have rounded up more than 800 phants. Never had any trouble speak of, made a lot of money, w! the World War has reduced in v to about $1.50 and a plug of tobaq and wouldn't quit for anything. sixty-three."’ “You'd pass for forty,” Jared the reporter. “Forty, eh?” said Capt. Johan ‘Make me forty again, my lad, ‘ou can have all I have ever ea in the goods of this world if you put me out on Broadway without] cent In my pocket or a place to slee ever truthf 4 Capt. Higgins of the Carroll, brought Jurgens, Mathias, Emil animals from Hamburg, couldn't remember a twelve days. ‘Brought passengers,” said the Captain I tell you they enjoyed having a p vate menagerie to visit every Cargo Officer Bert Ketchersid came so much attached to one of thirteen baby elephants that wanted me to take it on as the shij mascot. That, of course, was out the question, but I'm blest if wouldn't be glad to keep Johan: and his show as @ permanent f ture,"’ “It couldn't be done,’? sald et] Wild Animal man, “I've got a dat “A date?” “T might, im fact, go back with ‘ut certainly I cannot stay in Ni York longer than a few weeks, to go after elephants again, brought this time were bought paid for at Caloutta, but this tim am going to GPT some, “I'm to meet my natives tn the 6 of the moon in November at the tion of the Ganges and the Wal azanza. If I don't get there on tin they‘ll walt until the moon ts again; stay right there and wait me. We understand each other.” The writer is well aware he not spelled the name of the secom river correctly. He asked Johans about that and the Animal Man sal “Let it go the way you have It, my bus! as in others, there what are known as trade secrets, O} does well not to reveal his plans fully to those who are or whe mist become his competitors.” Which plainty means that {f ai one around here thinks he can bei Jurgens Johansen to the right spe on the Ganges in the full of the N vember moon, he's got another thi coming. the 88,