Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair in United States


Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair
Elephants and their handlers from Hagenbeck
Elephants and their handlers from Hagenbeck's Circus gathered outside of the fenced animal area in the Pike section of the 1904 World's Fair.

Local name Hagenbecks Zoological Arena Company
Typecircus

Owner 1904-1905: Carl Hagenbeck Jr.
Carl Hagenbeck
Founded1904
Closed down1905
Place St. Louis
Country United States

Directors

Key People

Veterinarians

Elephant department

Head keepers
of elephants
1903-1904: Wilhelm Philadelphia
(elephant trainer)
1904-1905: Reuben Castang
(elephant trainer)
1904-1905: Cheerful Gardner
(elephant trainer)

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Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair, in St. Louis, United States , was founded in 1904. Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair closed down in 1905.


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Records about Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
The St. Louis World\'s Fair in 1904 was also known as The Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It was the second World\'s Fair held in St. Louis; the first was the St. Louis Exposition in 1884. The Fair celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase (delayed one year). It opened April 30, 1904, and closed December 1 the same year.
J Goodall, Buckles blog, 02 September, 2008

William "Buckles" Woodcock

1904-03: Carl Hagenbeck and his son Lorenz Hagenbeck brought wild animals to the Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair by the steamship s/s Bethania. Reuben Castang was Hagenbeck\'s animal supervisor for the unit and could step in to work any act. The elephant trainer (Wilhelm Philadelphia) had to leave and Castang took over the elephants, including the big elephant slide. In Reuben Castang\' s book "Wild anmial man" he mentions taking over the elephant act that was trained by Hagenbecks chief elephant trainer, Wilhelm Philadelphia.

From the book Animals Are My Life, by Lorenz Hagenbeck:
When in March 1904 we stood on board the s.s. Bethania and he was bidding me goodbye, 'Lad,' he said to me, 'I want you to take care we don't lose a single elephant.' He was indeed not a little worried, for he was putting the largest Group of exotic animals which we had ever handled directly into my hands. Twenty elephants had been sold to Thompson and Dundee and there were also two bachelor elephants which were going to the largest menagerie in the world, that of Luna Park on Coney Island. There were also eight others for the circus of the Ringling Brothers (who were of German extraction, then in close connection with Barnum and Bailey, who later bought them out), in the transport here were still eight other elephants, including a cow and baby Jumbo. These belonged to our own proposed show at St. Louis.

That made thirty-six elephants in all, not to speak of the other wild animals, trained and untrained, all in box-wagons, cages, tanks and baskets, covering the decks of the ship.

Animals Are My Life, by Lorenz Hagenbeck


1904: The show carried 8 elephants: Josky, Moms, Monte, Nancy, Pinto, Topsy, Trilby, +1 more, possibly Baby?. (Baby elephant was born on way to St. Louis onboard ship from Calcutta. Source)

Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair in United States United+States
The big elephant slide "shooting the chutes", 1904.

Hagenbeck\'s Zoological and Trained Animal Circus (Opened by May 20) 10¢ Adult admission (arena 50¢/25¢, monkey, elephant, reptile, hybrid, bear shows or rides 10¢, 'track' riding 10¢, $1.00 for other shows).

1905: The show became nucleus to the Carl Hagenbecks Wild Animal Circus.

References for records about Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2024). Hagenbeck Animal Show at St. Louis Worlds Fair, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1485. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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