Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — ALLIGATOR IS HIS ODD PET [ARTICLE]

ALLIGATOR IS HIS ODD PET

Bouthern Planter Has Trained Saurian for Watchdog-—Does Not Molest Children. New Orleans.—That an alligator can be domesticated and trained has been demonstrated by Edgar Savoie, foreman in charge of a sugar plant at Lockport, La. What Mr. Savoie has done in the way of educating the saurian proves that there is no limit to the development in animal and insect training, since educated fleas are polished and a amait Frenchman has polished the intelligence of a spider to such an extent that it c&n count. ' Mr. Savoie has not endeavored to teaoh the alligator along special lines. He has no vaudeville ambitions for the ’gator. He uses him in the same domestic position occupied by a watchdog. He has the liberty of the back yard, where a special water pool haa been constructed for him, and his natural inatlncts may be indulged to the fullest. The alligator is now about six feet In length. Mr. Savoie got him when he was an infant, and haa reared him in the hack yard. When he goes into