Wayne Jackson #6

This picture had "Chipperfield" written on it. Maybe Richard could help us out. In the 1940's my father took Dolly Jacobs three elephants "Modoc","Empress" and "Judy", to Hawaii for the E.K. Fernandez engagement. He told me that they measured each elephant for a crate but he never thought to have a door placed on each end. Once on dry land two of them backed out OK but the third, having been hoisted upward a great distance, would not under any circumstances make that one step backwards even tho it was less than a foot. Someone suggested lifting one end of the crate with a crane and let her slide out but she somehow managed to hang on like a cat. The final outcome was, they had to drag her out and in so doing injured one of her hind legs from which took her several weeks to recover. So when it came my turn, twenty five years later, to send the three Kellner punks to that same date, they were flown over. I remembered to place a door in each end of the crate so they could unload head first but the crates I had made were much too large. I had to stay behind to take care of "Anna May" and "Ellie". Barbara, Ben and Shannon (five months old) flew passenger and my helper Mike Gorman had to make "the flight of death" with the elephants. A story for another day.