Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-06


ness.
Yesterday afternoon UNION AND
AMERICAN man met, at Lincks Hotel, MIR.
Robert Hunting and wife, (the latter APP
pearing on the bills as Mile Clarice), whose
wonderful feAts on ssthe flying trApeze" at
Buckley's HippOdrOme excited such an in
terest during the performances given here
tie first of the week Mr.. Hunting is of
less than medium height, but Of compact
build, and wonderful strength and agility,
his wife being quite as tall as he is, and Of
slight, giIiish build, and as modest and re-
fined looking az any lady ia Nashville.
She appears 10 be about twenty-three years
Of age, and has been married six years.
"How is the HiDpOdrOme hOurishing?"
inquired the reporter.
''NOt very well, I'm afraid" said MIR.
Hunting, ''ye've left it,
Allows tbats7
swell, you see they've got a concert
travelling with the show, and DeHayen
wanted my wife TO take part in it-sit on
the stage during the first part, you know.
After the afternoon performance at Athens,
Ala, yesterday, We had quite little row
about it. l told DeHaven-that's the
manager, and he's one-third owner OF the
HippOdrome-that wasn't willing for my
wife to do anything Of the SOFT, and he
said: well, if she can't go in the concert,
we'll have to get somebody that WILL and,
said /, all right pay me the money due
us and we'll quit and that afternoon they
| paid US of, four hundred dollars and some
thing, aud last night We got aboard the
| train and here We are. Look here; If
YOU'RE going to put anything in the paper
about this. | wish you'd chuck in q good
| word for old Harry Buckley. Hes treated
| rs as if we were his children, and when he
bid us goodbye last night, the old man
cried like a child. He's a trump, old
Harry is, and its EOs his fault thai were
not with the show to-day. You see" and
here Mr.. Hunting grew confidential, "Mr.
/ Buckley don't have anything to say about
| the management now. He and his brother
and banker by the name Of Barnes, Or
csnized the HippOdrOme last May, at Del
haven, Wis, and afterwards sold two=thlrdS
of it to George DeHayen and Andrew
| Haight. Barnes and one OF the Buckleys
left 1t at Louisville, and Harry travels with
| it Just to look after the third Interest
| Barnes and himself and brother have IN It.
"Haight was connected with the Great
| Southern Circus. which collapsed at Mem
phis, recently, L beiieye,p suggested the re-
porter.
Exactly" responded Hunting, 't2nd
| the Great Eastern, which busted IN ONO
| somewhere, this summer too This is thetlrst
show L ever LETT in this way. ! Travelled
| with Forepaugh's establishment four sea-
sons, and never had any trouble. I've been
with this show since the 18th Of June last,
having Joined it at Clinton, Iowa. When
DeHaven proposed this cOncert business,
told him was no ham fatter, and"
| "Ham-fatter9''
ayes. ham-fatter. That's the name we
| give a man IN our profession who IS poor
performer. I've been in the business since
l was ten years old, and Pm little over
twenty-five now"
"Your wife must have remarkably
strong jaw to be able to hold you suspend
| ed in the air, as she does in your perform
ances, by a strap held between her teeth.
| ssShe can do bettern that. l weigh 4
| hundred and tventy-six and a half, and she
has held me, and another man weighing
| one hundred and thiTty-fve pounds, max
| inc altogether two hundred and sixty-One
and half pounds"
Cor nearly the weight of three barrels OF
/ four said our representative, whose met
aphors aud sensiDilitieS are always drawn
| from practical life, as he HASN'T any more
poetry or sentiment about him than a mud
| clam.
"Just so" responded Mr.. Hunting, sand
/ she's the quickest woman in the business
"And where are you going now?'
"We leave fo- New York on the A. NJ.
| train tomorrow. 1 expect to begin On en-
| gagement at Barnum's Hippodrome about
/ the middle of next month. The fact IS we
| want to save ND little money and get out
i Of this business. It's getting to be low
| down way of earning a living, es-
i pecially in the circus line. vi
| late wears ejrcuses are regular
| swindles, and men point lac cut and say,
sHe's the man that done the trapeze, and
he's as bic a thief as any of Them Some
| times it makes my blood boil when think
| of the rowdies l have to associate with.
/ Once in a while company is made up OF
| ladies and gs,tlemen, but that amt the
/ case very often. You ought to have heard
the rumpuS they raised at Athens last
/ night. All around the canvai they yelled
| Humbugr 'Humbugp 'Where's that fe-
male gymnast? and all such things as that.
| Sas t4ese a. a spectator, and heard the
whole thing"
After some further conversation OF a
general nature, the reporter took MS
leave.