| Ben Wallace never had more than 5 or 6 elephants with his Great Wallace Show but with the addition of the Carl Hagenbeck elephants in 1907, the herd rose to 16 but was soon streamlined down to around a dozen. |
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Percy Phillips #1
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Wallace never had the big "herd" mentality, but his half-dozen or so elephants really earned the nickname "bulls." It was not unusual for half of them to be really tough males, some with nice ivory. Wallace often had several others that he leased out to smaller outfits, where they paid for their keep and then some. Four of the six on his 1892 show were males, two were females, with two females on other shows. Wallace took the trouble to weigh his bulls and sometimes published the data. They were as tough as Wallace was on gullible customers. Why a showman who put on a very high quality circus and parade had to stoop to the lowest forms of grift is a real mystery.
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