Monday, September 17, 2007

Baby Hutch 1912 (From Joey Ratliff)


SF Baby Hutch1912, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.


As we all know the Sells-Floto herd was the most
successful breeding herd in the early part of the
century with five births between 1912-1919. Though
none of the five lived very long, it was quite a feat
for Fred Alispaw to get this done with road elephants.
It would be almost fifty years before Morgan Berry's
herd at Portland zoo (1962) would be as prolific.

Baby Hutch (Snyder+Alice) April 25-June 6,1912

Tambon (Snyder+Alice) March 28-April 24, 1914

Little Miracle (Snyder+Alice) April 15-Sept. 9, 1916

Stillborn male (Snyder+Mama Mary) June 20, 1917

Prince Utah (Snyder+Alice) April 29, 1918-March 15,
1919

Joey Ratliff

Posted by Buckles at 9/17/2007 06:10:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - -

For some reason, a number of those who have written about the Sells Floto elephant breeding successes ignored, did not know about, or chose to forget the seven elephant calves that had been bred and born in USA prior to those with Sells Floto. They were - -

1. “Joe” - - Born May 31, 1875 on Howe’s Great London at St. Joseph, MO. The sire and dam were among the same group of elephants that produced the celebrated 1880 calf of Cooper and Bailey. Seemingly, Joe did not survive more than a few days. Show owner Henry Barnum named him “Joe” after the city of his birth.

2. “Columbia” - - Born March 10, 1880 at Cooper & Bailey WQ, Philadelphia, PA. Dam was Hebe, sire Mandarin. This calf lived to adulthood, longer than any of the others mentioned here. She grew to be a mean elephant and was executed on November 8, 1907.

3. Bridgeport - - Born February 2, 1882 at Barnum & London’s Bridgeport, CT WQ. Dam was Queen and sire Chief. Died on April 11, 1886.

4. “Nick” (later “Ned”) - - Born Nov. 14, 1900 at Ringling WQ, Baraboo. Died there on February 16, 1901. Sire was Baldy and dam Alice ( a different Alice from the one elephant mother with Sells Floto).

5. Unnamed calf - -Born October 26, 1902 at Ringling WQ, Baraboo. Killed by dam Alice shortly after birth. Sire was likely Baldy.

6. “Reliance”- - a twin calf born June 24, 1903 at Frank C. Bostock’s compound, Sea Beach Palace, Coney Island, NY. Dam was Big Liz; sire was identified as Jumbo II, likely one and the same as the fine Asian tusker pictured on p. 70 of Bostock’s 1903 book. Reliance lived only a short time after the birth.

7. “Shamrock III” - -the other twin born with Reliance. It was thought likely to survive but probably did not. A report of this twin birthing may be found in the usually reliable NY Times for June 25, 1903. As to “usually reliable, ” I mean for non political/social matters like this.

The temptation to have one’s early 20th elephant birth called the “first” was so strong that other such events are ignored or rationalized. In their 1941 book, “Fun By the Ton” Edward Allen and Bev. Kelley bought into Alispaw’s claim that his (S-F’s ) were the first calves bred and born in USA. They even suggested that the ones of 1880 (Cooper & Biley) and 1882 (Barnum) were likely born to females pregnant when brought to the USA. That’s preposterous.

In 1993 I wrote “Baraboo’s Baby Elephants” which was published in Bandwagon in Nov-Dec of that year. It focused on the two Baraboo births but goes into great detail about all these “first one” claims. At the time I was unaware of Joe in St. Joseph. So, the learning process is always on-going.

17 September, 2007 14:29

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