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ZOO OF POSSIBLE U.S. PRESIDENT.

MENAGERIC MAY TO GO

WHITE HOUSE.

If Governor Al Smith goes to Washington as president, room will have to be found at the White House for four monkeys, six dogs, five pheasants, three parrots, a maciw, one deer and one big elk which comprise his private zoo.

The menagerie that Governor Smith maintains in the back yard of the executive mansion also has contained several bears, a baby tiger and various other animals, but they were given to New York 2008 when they becamo too dangerous.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1928.

EXHIBITS IN LONDON

GALLERY.

STREET ARTIST HELPED BY PAINTERS.

Fortune has smiled on the young Gloucestershire miner George William Blasill, since the days ho chalked pictures on the: Strand- pavement outside Bush House

In less than five years he has held four exhibitions of paintings, i drawings and woodcuts in the West-end, and one of his collee- tione has been shown in every large town in the United King dom. W

His most important exhibition opened at the Cinridge Gallery, in Brook-street, and an unusual fea-

"I wouldn't think of giving up ture is that all the pictures are my animals," Governor Smith said.hung in frames of his own design, "Why Bettle, the doc, follows me They are ultra-modern as the treat- around like a child, sticking her ment of must of his subjects. nose into my pocket for a lump of sugar. No, air; they go wherever I go."

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Mr. Bisai Bald that his aim had been to visualise in line and colour the great forces relating human energies and emotions. Governor Smith's favourite pot is The result is weird to the orthodox Jell, a towny Great Dane dog, eye, but, nevertheless, impressive weighing nearly 100 pounda.and satisfying. When he rears on his hind feet he can lay his paws on the governor's shoulders. Jeff has the freedom of the house and of all Albany, for that matter. He goes and comes when and whore ho plenses.

I was waiting, alone, in the re- ception room, when Jeff padded in oying me inquisitively. I eyed him, too, because it may be dangerous to be a stranger to a dog that weighs 100 pounds and is all bone and muscle. But Jeff proved thoroughly democratic and affectionate. He not only Inld his massive head on my knee, but a few minutes later he was try ing to climb into my lap.

With Palette Knife.

Ench of his 16 stuilles in olls of action in a coal mine is vivid. ·

"All these" he said, "I had to do in a small room over a garage`in some mews off Harley-street. I needed the gloom and depression of the stuffy, closed-in room to feel. my pictures. before starting them. All the paintings are done with a palette knife. I have prac- tically abandoned the brush."

Mr. BisBill was showing his

pictures outside Bush House when they were seen by Miss Berry, of the Arts League of Service.

She promoplly arranged an ex- hibition for him, and introduced him to a circle of artist friends who have taken a warm personal interest in helping him to publie recognition,

Jeff bears the marks of a serious accident. Recently, he chanced to have his tail in the crack of n door when the governor closed the door. A doctor fixed him up with reams of bandages and adhesive tape. Just now, Jeff's bandaged tail is just about the same size and shape

of "Babe" Ruth's favourite home-and there continued his studies run bat...

free from the harassing care of poverty.

Governor Smith told the story of Reuben and Julia, two of his.. former bears that are now serving lifo terms at Central Park zoo merely because they grew too big to remain at the executive mansion any longer.

"Reuben broke his chain one day, climbed a telephone pole and de- scended into the yard of the Catholic orphanage just behind my said. house." Governor Smith "The children

his thought visit

simply wonderful; he

and them played with

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One little girl gave him a piece of candy and Reuben-knowing a good thing when he saw it-followed her upstairs.

£4.305 on behalf of Mr. Tom Perry, an upholsterer and blind maker.

The romantic story of the pic- ture, "Diana and Endymion," by "The sisters were terrified when Tintoretto, the Venetian, was re- they saw the bear come walking in.lated by Mrs. Mary Perry, wife of It look three men to get him out Its Inte owner of there, and he mighty nearly lick- ed all of 'eni. He hadn't tried to harm the children at all, but we decided we had better get rid of him."

Julia likewise grew too big for safety. She escaped from her cage one day, climbed a tree and crawled out on a limb. The limb broke and she fell to the ground on her back.

"I heard the noise and saw what had happened and yelled to Harry Whitehead, who has charge of the animals, that the bear was out," Governor Smith continued. "Then hard as started out 48

About ten years ago (sho said) a man from the Isle of Wight, a stranger to us, approached, me with the picture. I could see it was a beautiful painting, but what im pressed me most was, the remark able frame. I gave him £20 for it, but, of course, I had no idea it was worth so much money.

For 18 months it hung in the landing of our flat here. I was rather afraid that the children would damage it in their play, and so it was sent along to my hus band's workshop, where It lay for the next five years.

One day a dealer In a small way I could Juri to catch Jeff, of business offered us £40 for it. for there's no telling what I thought that if it was worth that might happen if a 100-pound dog to a man of small means it must and a 200-pound bear should come have some valus beyond anything together. Whitehead heard me we had expected. When a proces-

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beur was chasing me, as he came offers until about £120 was reach- running to my aid as fast as he cd, we began to think it very

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We sent it to Messrs. Robinson, could. When he caught up, he found I was merely running after Jeff, so he went back to attend to Fisher, and Harding, with instruc tions to include it in their auction. the bear.

"He found her tight where sheThe interest shown by dealers en- fell. The fall had knocked her unoouraged us to believe it would more. You conscious and Julia hadn't moved bring us in £200 or

can judge our surprise when cager an inch."

bidding took the amount to 4,100 guineas, at which figure it was brought by Mr. Frank Sabin.

Governor Smith described casually in the monkey house, which is in the rear of the steam-heated garage that contains the governor's five autos.

The picture la of "a fair woman kneeling by the side of a sleeping figure."

"At that time, there were three small monkeys and one big Aus denly seized with. the grand idea tralian monkey who hail a habit of presenting Tammany's greatest of monopolizing everything that son with a real live tiger. Some- was thrown in the cage," Governor where, a tiger cub wan" found and Smith narrated. The little fellows they brought it to Albany in a taxi- stood for this awhile. Then one nightcab, arriving about, dawn. Henry they held a caucus, adopted a plat-padded gloves protected their hands, form of Up and at 'em!' and the but torn trouser legs and sleeves next morning the big monkey was told the story of what had happen- missing part of his tail and ons of ed in the taxicab on that wild ride.

have his ears. Wo had to

There are also Governor Smith's harmony, so we got rid of him acon parrots, which the governor has thereafter."...

taught to say. "Hello, Al!" He spends much time before, their cagou,

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There are other stories galore. about Governor Smith's private

"I've always loved animals, and baek-yard 200. A bear cub got his foot caught in the wire one night always had 'em," Governor Smith and two coons in the adjoining eald. "When I was a boy down cage ate off his paw. The bear on New York's East Side I used died. The coons thrived on this to get 'monkeys and parrots from diet, but the following week they the sailors that came in on the ate some green apples and succumbships Down on Oliver street I used to have a goat, And I guess. ed to colic..

There also is the atory, of Ber, that in all my life I've never been the tiger Two New Yorkere, in without a dog-I've got six of 'em. a happy mood one night, were sad-now, including Jeff."

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