Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — Monkey Ruled Steamboat. [ARTICLE]

Monkey Ruled Steamboat.

This is the story of a monkey (Cercopithecidae, habitat Albany, N. Y.) that wanted to captain a ship—and did, for a little while, the New York World states. When the good ship Berkshire of the Hudson river night line, left Albany recently this particular anthropodean quadrumanous mammal passengers called him worse names than that —got loose from his keeper and started the merriest little party the Berkshire has seen in all her voyaging days. The first thing he did w r as to seize four umbrellas from passengers and do a wild dance on the deck. Then he —or she, as the case may be —went down to the engine room and threw coal at the engineer and firemen, who retreated. He was chased to the top deck, whence he jumped into the river. A disciple of Professor Garner might have translated the monkey’s last cry as “Death before surrender!” Passengers on the Berkshire told the story. H. F. Moss, general traffic manager of the line, said an animal dealer was bringing three or four monkeys to this city and one of them escaped.