Sunday, February 17, 2013

From Henry Schroer


Video of Gunther


Hi Buckles, this is a video of Gunthers act two years before we came over. I was
still working for my uncle Franz Althoff in that time.
Cheers
Henry

Posted by Buckles at 2/17/2013 05:58:00 AM

4 comments:

Buckles said...

1969 Red show elephants

1. Wells
2. Puppe
3. Siam
4. Nellie
5. Tichi
6. Mary
7. Thaila
8. Assam
9. Banana
10. Sara
11. Baby
12. Kongo
13. Cita
14. Rani
15. May
16. Suzie
17. Jennie

The first 12 were the Circus Williams elephants and the last five were the remains of the Chipperfield herd purchased in 1963 by RBBB for their European Unit and had been stored all this time at the Circus Althoff quarters.

17 February, 2013 07:00
Larry Louree said...

That was a lot of elephants in one ring! How did the size of that ring compare to the size of the "American" circus ring?

What was the "reward" Gunther gave the two teeter board elephants? I see they got french bread at the end, but there was a smaller treat.

17 February, 2013 17:16
Don said...

You can see why Mr. Feld was so impressed!

Don Covington

17 February, 2013 19:14
Henry said...

The Chipperfield elephants where working during the season with a trainer called Charlie Weiser, he worked for Trolle Rodin and when we left he was working in Poland somewhere. We arrived in Bremerhaven by rail in the port, the tracks where about 500 meter away from the Ship, Container Ship "Atlantic Saga", a Swedish container line. Charlie arrived with the Chipperfield Elephants, no hay in the cars and who knows when the last time the saw water. He just walked over to Gunther and said : Hi, here are the rest of your Animals you taken with you" and then he baggerd of. There wasn't any water around so first thing we did was carried some over from the ship and also hay. The started to fight over the water and then when we put the hay in the real fight broke out. We had not even any names so that gave us a lot of confidence. Ones we had our animals on the boat we took the other ones out of the cars and walked with them for about 30 minutes and lucky for us the lined up by them self in the right order.
Then we find out that we had a guy on horses that had worked with these elephants in Poland in a previous year so at least we learnt a little bit about them like names etc. Because they liked to fight for there food we split them up in the lineup and since the where not hungry anymore it all went well.

18 February, 2013 03:35

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