A MARVELLOUS MONKEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 98, 22 November 1916, Page 3

A MARVELLOUS MONKEY.

ITS FALL ON A LINOTYPE. PROBLEM FOR TRADES UNIONS. Linotype operators employed in printing establishments will have to face a competition that will work fourteen hours a day, know no union rules, and live on cocoa nuts, seaweed and chocolate candy. 1 Authority for this statement is the Honolulu correspondent of the Typographical Journal, the official magazine of the International Typographical Union of North America. In the August number ol that magazine is published an article and a picture of a chimpanzee type operator at work on the StarB idle ton of Honolulu.

“Biz Fox, one of the tew chimpanzee linotype operators in the world, is an expert operator of the Mergentlvaler, having set 101,000 ems solid brevier in eight hours and forty-five minutes, mostly reprint from typewritten copy,” the article says. Biz has been at work nineteen months, and shows signs of becoming swift in time.

“Biz was born in Ashanta, Africa, nineteen years ago. He possesses great strength and changes the magazine of a No. 1 linotype unassisted. Another feat of his was carrying eightcases of job type balanced on his head. He also carried a Gordon jobber three blocks aid a half. He climbs up the front of the distributor, placing one foot on the sort tray, and locking the shifter with his hand. He then ascends over the magazine, and starts the distributing mechanism in record time. ~ ..• ,i*i I

“Biz is a bicycle ri§£i’> leaving,,won] a race round the Tshuulq. of Ohau (ninety odd miles) in seven and. a half hours, finishing on flat tyres; s v He has ‘had several run-ins with (I |raffi,c policemen, who testified that he made as, high as twenty miles an hour, which is some speed on Honolulu’s streets. “There is a company being formed to raise chimpanzees, on the Island of Kahoolowe. The object of the company is to supply chimpanzee operators to the mainland. One of the drawbacks to he overcome is that the chimpanzees-"lmve taken to flic drink habit. However, it is proposed to cross the chimpanzee with the whitefaced monkeys of China and make them temperance advocates.”