Friday, July 07, 2006

Unidentified elephant #1


Sent by Chuck Pankow from a 1907 Chicago Daily News article regarding a Shrine event.
Possibly Mabel Hall's "Charlie".
My first thought was that since Ringling Bros. Circus opened indoors in Chicaco each Spring, he might be from their herd but I doubt it.

Posted by Buckles at 7/07/2006 06:28:00 AM

12 comments:

GaryHill said...

That headpiece looks like the one on the Barnes Program of Tucko or Diamond whichever one it is on it?

07 July, 2006 07:31
Buckles said...

I noticed that too but in 1907 both "Diamond" and "Ned" were just little chittlins'.

07 July, 2006 07:41
Anonymous said...

Big boy, big ivory, wonder what the strap going behind front legs are?
Decoration or a flimsy pulling harness? I Have a couple photos of the 1901 herd in route on Ringling.I will look for this mammoth and also get you a copy. But we're still having computer glitches.

07 July, 2006 12:25
Anonymous said...

I think that is a harness. Another news aticle stated the Shriner iniatees were dragged by the elephant.
Unfortunately, there was no mention of the bull's name or what show.

07 July, 2006 13:39
Anonymous said...

The first Shrine sponsored circus was in Detroit in 1906, Milwuakee's Tripoli Shrine followed suit a few years later. So if it wasn't a Ringling elephant, it wasn't one from a Shrine sponsored circus.

07 July, 2006 18:58
Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - -

I have seeen a number of photos of Ringling herd from around this time and cannot recall a tusker with fine ones like this. True, they had some males but the tusks were short as I recall.

Maybe the photo was not of a Shrine Circus but some other type Shine event.

08 July, 2006 12:59
Anonymous said...

Would you have any more photos of'Sahib"
the big tusker from the
Circus Frankello,circa 1964,that you could post?

08 July, 2006 17:15
Anonymous said...

Some Ringling males from around that time.
Pilate(or Pilot)
Mighty
Coco(or KoKO)
Who may have been a muckna.

08 July, 2006 17:54
Anonymous said...

BTW Does that look like
Harry Mooney under the umbrella?

08 July, 2006 17:54
Buckles said...

To Anonymous:
I don't have any more pictures of "Sahib". In fact the one shown came from Mr. Hoffman a friend.

09 July, 2006 10:24
Anonymous said...

Could this be the bull "Fritz" from Barnum & Bailey?

12 July, 2006 10:58
Buckles said...

"Fritz" was killed the last year of the Barnum & Bailey European tour in France, June 11, 1902.

12 July, 2006 11:26

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