THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 59 
nature. The keepers state that on the days when the Park is 
visited by a large number of visitors many of those who visit 
the Elephant House remain altogether too long, and can not be 
induced to go elsewhere. Naturally, the result is serious conges- 
tion in the space available to visitors. It is hoped that after 
about two million persons have seen the Elephant House and its 
animals, the congestion there will not be quite so serious as it 
now is on Saturdays and Sundays. 
REMOVAL OF ANIMALS TO THE ELEPHANT HOUSE. 
The removal of a large collection of very valuable elephants, 
rhinoceroses and hippopotami over a distance of half a mile is 
necessarily an undertaking attended with some difficulty. The 
transfer from the Antelope House of the grand series of animals 
now filling the Elephant House was accomplished with only one 
item of serious difficulty. For fully a week the hippopotamus 
played an interesting game with his keepers, while they en- 
deavored to entrap him in his crate by strategy alone. Finally 
that effort had to be abandoned as unavailing. A chute of a 
peculiar design was constructed, and when the time came to put 
it into operation, ‘Pete,’ the hippopotamus, was safely forced 
into his crate in twelve minutes. 
The only real difficulty in the whole transfer of large animals 
was occasioned by “Luna,” or “Alice,” the unruly female Indian 
elephant that once took possession of the Reptile House. True 
to her newly acquired reputation for obstinacy, and unparalleled 
contrariness of mind, she strenuously objected to being led away 
from the Antelope House, and insisted upon breaking back to 
that structure. Fortunately, however, our newly acquired knowl- 
edge of her disposition enabled us to forestall all her efforts to 
have her own way. When she made her final stand at the 
Pheasants’ Aviary, refusing to take even one more step forward, 
thirty Park laborers were called to haul on a long rope that pre- 
viously had been attached to the front feet of “Luna,” in antici- 
pation of that event. By means of this rope, and amid general 
hilarity over the conquering of a mean elephant in that harm- 
less fashion, ‘““Luna” was dragged, yard by yard, all the remain- 
ing distance to the door of her stall in the Elephant House, and 
she then consented to walk up the runway and into her place. 
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST RUBBISH ON WALKS. 
One of the most important features of the year’s work was 
our systematic campaign to break up the habit of the lawless and 
