Thursday, August 28, 2008

Interpreting History by looking at the Big Picture/Complete History

Anonymous said...

Why the placement in a system box car? Perhaps they feared the regular bull car was too confining or unsafe for the baby? Where did the birth actually take place? Maybe this was the "birthing chamber," too?

Buckles said...

I can't make out the inscription, something about California.
To me this would indicate "Baby Hutch" the first of four calves from "Alice" and "Snyder" born 5/25/12 at Salinas.
This does look like a system box car which seems logical under the circumstances. Unfortunately the calf only lived 42 days since the mother would have nothing to do with it.
"Hutch" died 6/6/12 at Pendleton, Oregon.

Anonymous said...

Maybe?:

BABY ELEPHANT
BORN IN MONTEREY
CAL OF SELLS-FLOTO
SHOW 9/20 HOURS OLD

Buckles said...

Maybe!


Anonymous,
This may be a real stretch considering there were 300 year old elephants back around then, but I wonder how many babys "born" were actually "captured" and "Mama Betty and Baby Bop" was a fairly successful marketing tool? I think "maybe" is a pretty safe place to be on a lot of "old" history.
Wade Burck

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Anonymous said...

The stock cars on a circus train are always right behind the engine. I heard that the baby, whoever which one it was was overcome by smoke from the steam locomotive. Make3s sense, so the next baby was probably with her mother on a different car further down the line

Wade G. Burck said...

Johnny,
It isn't even a fact that the baby was born there, instead of being caught. The only thing we are sure of at this point is that it is dead, unless it is one of the 300 year old ones, that have been advertised. So how it died isn't a big deal.
Wade