Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — Elephants' Picnic. [ARTICLE]

Elephants' Picnic.

An act not down on the program was given without charge the other day in the old seaport town of Marblehead, Mass., when four elephants of a small circus, named with fine allied patriotism General Foch, Gefleral Pershing, General Haig, and Princess Pat, jumped a stone wall, escaped the circus, and took to the woods. The personnel of the circus, acrobats, riders, clowns and canvasmen, followed, and so did many of the townspeople and half a dozen policemen, but the elephants made for the woods first and there they spent the day with a large and appreciative audience watching on the outskirts. Peanuts and bananas, usually a temptation to elephants, failed to entice them from their New England jungle; but as twilight fell, and habit suggested feeding time, the big beasts came peacefully out of the woods and allowed the trainer and his assistants to lead them back to the circus grounds. And all Marblehead went home to belated suppers.