A Camel's Flight.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4

A Camel's Flight.

York, January lOtli.— One of the camels, which forms a part of the company I pie-?entinjx >s Mazulm " at the Academy or Mime, broKe away from it? keeper as it wa-. being taken from the stage to the «table to-night and started on y Mwnginy /ig-7ag eoui.se down Broadway. From One Hundred au'l Thiitieth to Kighth-stioct\ i from curb to curb, the humpbacked animal i had it all its? own way, to the great consternation of pedestrians and the equally great consternation of witnesses who were bafely housed. Several ladies fainted, and other.-., | 'inding a safe letreat in hallways, made the j air liideou? v, ith their shrieks. But among those who saw the careering animal were a couple of men who had had somo experience with untamed brutes and did not share the general tenor. They u'eie George Hicks, an athlete, who is quite well known in a professional way, and Richard Brown, a horse-trainer, who ha« been a rough life in Australia ami the Wc^t. They cavitioiu-ly followed the camel down die street, wa chine- for a favouiable moment toadvanco upon him. and they found tl\eir chance near Eighth street. A prh ate carriage, containing a lady and gentleman and little girl, was coming up Broadway. The driver ?aw the camel and tried to turn hi? team round. 1 lie camel saw the carriage and prepared for a charge. Then Hicks and Brown sprang quickly into action, both going to the animal & .side and grasping its nostrils, so as to shut ofl'it? breath. The animal struggled, but uselessly, for the men would not be shaken ofi. The beast was soon under control. A policeman first, and the breathless keeper later, reinforced the clever capturers of the camel and the keeper marched | the animal ott to the stable. The elephant and other four-looted actois in the play came along a few minutes after, fortunately not in season to add their ellorU lo the afrerpieoe in the street.