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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1930. [[/centered]]  E 5
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[[large font, banner headline]] BWANA PEMBI--THE IVORY MASTER [[/large font, banner headline]]
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Ernest D. Moore Tells Strange Tales of African Outlaws, Elephants, the Slave Traffic and Zanzibar  [[/sub-headline]]

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Chester Man Knew King Rogers,
American Feared By All Natives [[/sub-headline]]
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During Stay on Dark Continent Purchased Ivory Enough To Cover the Keys of Most of the Pianos Sold in That Period in America - Entertained Roosevelt at Mombasa Club During Late President's African Hunt
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For four years he almost forgot that he was an American. He was Bwana Pembi -- "the ivory master," a buyer of ivory in Africa, trading with crafty native merchants, dealing with savages, outlaws and natives of the Dark continent.
  In Chester, Connecticut, his home, and to all who know him, he is Ernest D. Moore.  It was for Pratt, Reed & Co., Deep River piano key manufacturers, that he went to Africa and returned to his native land after buying more ivory than anyone of that time.  From that savage continent he brought many interesting tales of his experiences there.  He told of some so that they could be printed here, but in full they can be found in a book of his soon to be published, "Ivory from Zanzibar."
  Mr. Moore went to Africa in 1907 as a representative of Arnold, Cheney & Co., of New York, ivory agents for the two largest piano key manufacturers in the country, Pratt, Read [[sic]] & Co., of Deep River and Comstock, Cheney & Co., of Ivoryton.  During his four year visit there he purchased more ivory than any other trader of that time--enough, in fact, to cover the keys of most of the pianos that were sold in that period in America.
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[[column header]] Family of Ivory Traders. [[/column header]] 
   "This ivory trading wasn't an unfamiliar subject to me," Mr. Moore said the other day.  "For several generations back my family have been in the ivory trading business and the stories of adventures in Africa were almost a daily diet for me in my youth.  Of course, I wanted to take up the work where my people left off, and any hopes I had harbored of an interesting trip were not unwarranted.  I would not exchange those years in Africa for anything in the world."
   "I was initiated into the purchasing of ivory in Aden, Arabia, where I stayed for more than a year.  It may have been that I was new to the business and unable to appreciate the interesting features of the work, but as I look back on my days in Aden I recall few incidents of an exciting or romantic nature.  The intense heat contributed much to the discomforture of those first months."
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[[Poor quality, black & white, front page, newspaper photograph of 5 men in a godown (African warehouse) filled with elephant ivory. Two of the men are holding two tusks upright that are taller than the two men - image]]

[[photo caption]] [[italics]]  The godown in Ivory House.  Tusks are locked in this room for a week before they are purchased, to give the buyer time to examine them.  Mr. Moore, in the center, and one of his assistants are displaying  two especially large tusks. [[/italics]] [[/photo caption]]

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[[Poor quality, black & white, front page, newspaper photograph of Ernest D. Moore sitting in a wooden chair - image]]

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Ernest D. Moore of Chester, who spent four years in Africa buyi [[ng?]] ivory for Connecticut piano key manufacturers.  He recently completed [[the?]] book, "Ivory from Zanzibar." [[/italics]] [[/photo caption]]

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