Monday, October 04, 2010

Cole Bros. #2


SAVE0487, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Eddie Allen and "Safari".

2 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

As you know Safari came from the Detroit Zoo. Had he ever been trained to do anything prior to joining Cole or was he just an exhibit?

He was in fact the only African elephant with an American circus when he came over there.

Buckles said...

Hugo Schmitt told me that he delivered "Safari" to the Detroit Zoo from Hagenbeck's when she was much smaller.
While there he made a special trip to Chicago to see the Ringling Show.
The only person he could find in the menagerie that spoke German was Camel Dutch Narfski who showed him around.