Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — Ape Given a Banquet. [ARTICLE]

Ape Given a Banquet.

At Richmond, Va., a huge pet ape, rejoicing in the name of Grim, was recently the chief guest at a banquet given in his honor. Grim won this distinction by dashing into a burning building and rescuing his master’s children from a fiery doom. The faithful creature was publicly presented with a silver medal commemorating the event, and had every luxury bestowed upon him at the festive function, at which, it is said, “he behaved almost as decorously as a human being.”