Judge — April 25, 1931 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Petting in New York I" seems that animal hotel guests are ' elty in this man's town, Mr. Duncan takes Rin-Tin-Tin’ to the Roosevelt when he’s in town, engages a special room for him and furnishes it with his own rugs and dog-house. Last time he had him there Mr. Dun- can put Rin-Tin-Tin thru his paces for the youngsters in the play-room. After the show was over Rin-Tin-Tin made a dash for a little bear on wheels which he had been eyeing wistfully for half an hour, and the little bear had to go to the upholsterer’s and Rin Tin-Tin into a corner to think about his sins. The Roosevelt has a sort of a pen- chant for animals. They have two snails, Solomon and Timothy, in the recently mother cat yold-fish pool, and they've had a child. They have and five kittens, also and they are very cordial to pets of guests. I understand, how- ever, the Astor, the Barbizon-P1 the Manger and the Martha Washing- ton are adamant against pets—you couldn't even smuggle in a Mexican hairless in your muff. The Commodore has housed marmosets, macaws, rac- coons, parrots and other tropical birds brought in by plore rs. The Biltmore yed the distincti in a kennel on the roof. But ¢ been suspicious of dogs since SE BEING gE GF OUR LoudesT ss HONEY (TS SO he ca eeAHERSS HOM THAT AND CATCH (T WITH A BUTTERFLY ATH ss some years ago, parked his dog in the storeroom with instruc- tions to care for it until his return. When he returned he revealed the fact that it had been a coyote all the time. And they had trusted him so! Last year a man came into downtown hotel with bs +, but it beeame unpopuls it bit a lady who talked bal it and tried to shake | bars. I suppose the b what would like to do same circumstances, if it pugh. Another time boa constrictor got lost there steam-pipes. Up on the top floor of the Vanderbilt’ they've hada bear cub and a young lion liv- ing in the thousand-dollar dog- house that Caruso built for his dog when he was there. 1 was swell until one lion, very p four feet lo thro the lobb a lady bees perhaps had some bad liquor the night before, and you cer- tainly can't blame the lion, but after that they turned him out regardless. A gen- tleman, I am told, lived there for some time with a basket of tropical snakes, but tho he claimed they were “harm- less,” he ne y popular with the There were » tears when he left, especially among the maids. Down in the New Yorker Hotel a police dog had a room of his own with a view, and a fighter (Campolo, they think) had a ft of among the er became v management, » who departed ut paying his bill, left two hundred gold-fish behind him in his room. Colonel Roscoe Turner kept his lign cub there for some time. Speaking of lions again, the Lions’ Club brings a WW new one to the MeAlpin every year. r they had a full-fledged at t banquet at the Commo- and everything was panicked in the middle of a speech when someon: accidentally, no its tail. Lions about things like that, that it’s a mistake anywher A native of Arizona rooms at the MeAlpi lished the aid he would like to bring in a few friends. He did. A train of miniature, glass-encased cir cus wagons full of snakes, horned toads, scorpions, and one y nd the fact doesn't get you took three nd when estab EMER YOU Go on A PREAPPIE DET, 528 DRINK NUXATED RON, MR Fuapction Potten mounted! t, and an ant-eater. When he gave the luncheon order he asked for one pint of red ants, and the story that so perfect is the McAlpin serv that he got them within five minutes, but then—. In the new Waldorf they have a large automobile clevator that can be used for elephants if they ever want to hold another half circus up on the roof as they did in the old Wal dorf. Then there was the famous dinner on hor: k held at the old Sherry’s, with tables built around the horses’ necks. Hay on the doubt, and waiters z on Shetland ponies ting plenty of tips. Also last year a wealthy old lady kept ducks in one of the bathrooms of her suite at the Croydon. They pad- dled about the bathtub, quackim, ..p pily, all unbeknownst to the manage ment. Her doctor, it seems, had pre- cribed fresh duck eggs daily, and even after he changed the old lady's floor, no oming in and out and for once get- comicbooks.com