Jones Bros. Shows 1915 #6

Scan000010274, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. "Cheerful Gardner was in charge of the elephants but is not in this picture, possibly he was ahead on his horse. Three outstanding elephants "Myrtle", "Bonnie" and "Babe". At the auction, after the show had folded in 1917, all three were purchased by Charlie Sparks where they remained as long as the Sparks Show existed and in 1932, like so many other elephants, absorbed into the Ringling herd. I remember "Babe", she died years later in Hugo, Oklahoma at the Fairgrounds while Little Bob Stevens was wintering there in 1951. Kelly Miller had the hide tanned which he had made into sofa's, foot stands, etc. he even gave my dad a pair of moccasins which he promptly gave away. "Babe's" head was mounted behind the "Silver Dollar Bar" in Kelly's newly constructed estate "Dun Rovin'" however all was lost when later gutted by a fire." Buckles