Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Lancaster, Missouri #5


The water supply.
If for some reason the supply diminished, they had a water wagon that a team of mules would take to a nearby railroad engine house.

Posted by Buckles at 1/08/2013 06:40:00 AM

5 comments:

Bob Cline said...

That's one of the huge 20 foot cottage cages from the John Robinson 10 Big Shows on the right hand side.

While Hall did some trading with the Robinsons in acquiring the cage and two elephants, TOM and QUEEN that is detailed in a letter dated Feb. 19, 1909, to the best of our knowledge, this cage never moved again once he got it.

Bob

08 January, 2013 06:57
Ole Whitey said...

Buckles: Can we re-visit the question that came up awhile back about the term "Hall's Cellar."

The barn shown here had one level which you entered from the street and another level you entered from the back, which was downhill.

The concrete floor of that lower level may still be there; it was thirty years ago the last time I went thru Lancaster. Some old rusty elephant rings were still embedded in the floor.

08 January, 2013 18:18
Chic Silber said...


Was this tank filled with water from

a well beneath it or from a distance

with a windmill to power it

08 January, 2013 22:30
Buckles said...

No idea how the water system worked.
One winter during a hard freeze an old Forepaugh elephant named "Columbia" died and they drug the carcass outside beside the door and covered her over with manure.
Then when the ground thawed they uncovered her and gave her a proper burial but not before my Dad sawed off her tusks, one of which lies here on my computer table.

08 January, 2013 22:52
Unknown said...

Ole Whitey,

Jonathan Shafer, president of the Hall Museum in Lancaster, showed me around the grounds where Hall had the barns. The concrete you are referring to is long gone. I am not sure if it was broken up or buries. The museum was able to move 2 slabs where elephants were tethered (not sure that if that is the right terminology). The slabs are now behind the museum. - Lauren Kramer

10 January, 2013 14:59

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