Cleaning the Elephants featured-pets "The crowd easily excelled any

"The crowd easily excelled any that had previously witnessed

I really just can't get over it

"To people who looked up from the river at the big arch of electric lights it seemed as if Noah's ark were emptying itself over on Long Island

he'd breathe in your mouth

The Times reported the next day that he was enthusiastically welcomed everywhere as he talked to the canal's employees

Cleaning the Elephants featured-pets "The crowd easily excelled anyThe elephant exhibit gets cleaned by vacuums and feather dusters at the American Museum of Natural History on Feb. 28, 1951. It's part of spring cleaning at the 25 acre museum, a process requiring 135 workers and a month of scrubbing elephants, dinosaurs, totem poles, teepees and 94,000 square feet of glass. The Times wrote on March 1, 1951, "The 135 man corps of the custodian's department of the American Museum of Natural History has come to a time