Is the male in the middle of the ring, above "Charlie Ed?"
From Buckles Blog--Sells Floto Stampede 1926
The Sells-Floto Circus had an incredible number of elephant stampedes throughout the history of the show. There is a description of this incident in Cranbrook, British Columbia, detailed in the Bandwagon Magazine.
In a nut shell, a number of elephants ran off the lot and by the time the show left town, two of them "Charlie Ed" and "Myrtle" remained out in the Canadian Rockies.
Boss elephant man James Dooley remained with the show but left several of his assistants behind to continue the chase with the aid of Indian guides.
Is that "Tommy" above doing the cross mount on the left? Note the martingale around his shoulders. Is that a younger male on the right, who looks like he has only one tusk? Did "Snyder" have both tusks?
From Buckles Blog--Bill Emery #4
TOMMY
1922-28 Sells-Floto Circus
1929-34 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1935 Al G. Barnes Circus
(After the death of his keeper, he was returned to Peru and shot by Police Chief Edward Hobbs 8/22/35.)
I wonder who's cage string that is in the back ground? Was "Ted Nelson" any relation to the great horse trainer, Paul Nelson?
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What was the girth belt for?
21 August, 2009 07:02
It's a martingale.
You can connect a short chain from the ring on his tusks to a spot on the girth belt between his legs which prevents him from raising his head to attack people or other elephants.
21 August, 2009 08:58