Monday, July 24, 2006

William Newman #3


"A rough kitchen chair, which when the circus opens,will have been transformed into a gorgeous throne, is secured without straps on Tip's tusks. Newman mounts it and the huge elephant walks around the ring bearing his trainer up aloft. Tip seems to take deep interest in the trick".

Posted by Buckles at 7/24/2006 07:12:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This looks like they could make a cannon act from this position as well.

25 July, 2006 15:06
Anonymous said...

Thats Barnum's Tip,
not to be confused with
Adam Forepaugh's Tip,which was donated
to the Central Park Zoo
A week after Bolivar was donated
to the Philadelphia zoo.
Both Tips were executed.

27 July, 2006 16:15
Anonymous said...

Barnum&Bailey'S,"Tip"
Was executed March.16.1897
at the Bridgeport,CT wq.
He was choked by rope by 50 men,it took 90 seconds.
That Tip was 22 years old,weighed 3.5 tons
and had been with the Barnum show since 1877.

Adam Forepaugh's "Tip"
came to America,around 1882,(reportly he was belonged to the King of Italy before Carl Hagenbeck purchased him around 1875
which had been the second largest next to Bolivar,was donated to the Central Park zoo January.1.1889.
Reportly he killed 3 keeprs there and it was decided to kill him.
A high powered rifle was considered inhumane so they poisoned him with cyanide pottasium,but they didnt get the dose right and it took poor Tip 8 hours to die in pain.
He finally died May.11.1894.
His carcass was mounted at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
However in 1956 it was sent to the museum in Somers,New York.
BTW Anyone visit there and see Tip?

29 July, 2006 15:33
Anonymous said...

The previous account in the earlier posting,came from the Brooklyn Eagle.
A much more interesting and detailed account concerning
the execution ofBarnum's "Tip II"
was reported in the
Indiana(PN)Weekly Messenger
1897-04-07.
(available on-line over at newspaperarchive.com).
It states Tip II weighed 8,500 pounds
and that it actually took 14 minutes for Tip to die by choking(which was considered the most humane way to kill an elephant back then)
Tips trunk flew up and out and stiff the whole time,his head being chained to his tusks.
Tip was short for Tippoo Sahib.

29 July, 2006 16:37
Anonymous said...

In 1895 ,
concerning male rivalries with the Barnum &Bailey show,
Tip's nemesis was Fritz.
Don's was Nick's.
Showmen stilled remebered the big knock down drag out fight
between,"Dick" and "Dunk"
at the old Madison Square Garden
back in 1889.

29 July, 2006 17:07

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