PICEE UP THE WRONG ALLIGATOR.

 

Funeral at Jeni-neon Park a Panic
Amati: the Attendants?.

Five weeka ago two alirratora caught in Can-
tral Florida were loaded at Jackaon Park and
turned over to Chief Collide 'of the Fisheries
Department. They were chriateued Colum-
bus and Gen. Davie, and given apace for a
time in the edge of the Lagoon. The man
who captured them left with Chief: Collins a
thrilling atory of the ~manner. in which they
were caught; boxed, and brought to Chicago.

Aa noon on these intereatmg atrangera ar-
rived, and had been delivered to Superintend-_
dent of Inatailation Hooper of the Fisheries
Building. it was decided to put them into the
lagoon at once. It done not aeem to have oc-
curred to any one that it waa a conaiderahle
change of temnerature from the heroine of
Florida to the icy watera of Lake Michigan;
an a apnea in the lagoon near the bridge in
front of the Fisheries Building was incloaed
with wire fencing, and there the tropical mon-
atera took their ?rst cold bath. After the
'gatora had ahivered in the lagoon for a day

or two, it waa determined to take them out
again and give them warmer quartora until"
the weather got warmer. -

In removing the alligators from the lagoon
the acenea that were enacted almost equaled
those at the 'original capture in Florida. The
aauriana ahowed ?ght. and everyone was
afraid to go near them. At laat they were
irritated an that they opened their moutha.

- Then their upper jawa were caueht in a lease

 

made of rope. that got between their teeth no
that it qould not he bitten in two. Thin done it
waa comparatively eaev to haul them into their
home again, but everybody engaged in the
job was glad when it was ?niahed. They were
then taken to the Horticultural Building and
laid before the hot-air ?ue-e to enjoy a ten:?
pcrature of about But thia atop wae
taaen, nice. too late. Columbua waa unin-
jured by hie arctic experience, but poor Gen.
Davie had taken a tavern cold, which settled
on its lungs. developed into pneumonia, and
carried it early laat Thur-Eda? night. The
news of ite deceaae was communicated at once
to Sanitary Engineer McHarg, who in ex-

o?icio funeral director for all the dead animela
on the ground; but it was not until yeaterday

afternoon he came around to conduct the ob-


'-Bot-the ne . o-near leadie to an-
other-l rear of Mr. eHarg?e

Earty-waa an Instructor who aimply knew that

was to ?nd an alligator in a box and haul
it off and who thoucht' it waa a aimple affair.
Accordingly he marched in at the head of
his gen g, atopped at the ?eet be: with an alli-
gator_ in It that he met with, ripped off the
ton?with an a1, and eeized the animal by the
tail in a buaineaa-lilre way, to heft it. as it
were. But he dropped. that tail with great
auddenneae. The trimaran had got the wr?ug
?gator by the tail. ~It waa Comm bus that
he had aroused, and the e?'ect was
something That tail waa ?our-
ished around for a minute or two, like the taii
of a terrierthe he:
would have broken every bone in the Inau'a
body. At the came time the great jawa opened
and chat aavaeely with a claah like a atcel
trap. and the snorting of the inaulted alligator

. could be heard down, at the Adminiatrat?ion
Building: The whole party ?ed in terror. and
the Iriahman could not he reduced to return.
The othera came back. nailed Colutnbua? be:

up again, and then, with maneF misgivings,
lifted the rude caaket of Gen. Davie intoa
wagon, and bore it away to its laat reatmg
nlace, the driver accepting ita valuable hide
for hie trouble.

CHARGED WITH SELLING JEWELRY.


Wart-ante for Yieuneae Exhibitors?
lnapectora In Charee.