Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1911 — BEASTS ON SPECIAL TRAIN [ARTICLE]

BEASTS ON SPECIAL TRAIN

Will Travel From Hamburg to New Rome Zoo—QirafTe to Exercise on Long Journey. Rome. —More than two thousand wild animals, bought from Hagenbeck of Hamburg and destined for the new zoological garden here, will be conveyed in special trains from Hamburg soon. The Journey will occupy eight or ten days and cages adapted to traveling have been built for many of the beasts. If the giraffe In the collection was permitted to stand with his bead through a hole In the car roof he would be decapitated the moment his train entered the fifst tunnel. 80 he will be caged lying down and restrained la that position. But the train will halt occasionally to allow the giraffe to take exercise. The work of feeding and caring for the animals on the Journey is worrying Ilagenbeck, who contracts to deliver them In fine condition. He said hero he does* not tare td undertake such a task again. r .