, 1879-07-24
ADJUSTMENTS.

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ADJUSTMENTS.
AN oLD-T1N1E CIRCUS AND MEN,
AGEKIE.
Erfetnl CorrtspontfFuse Of The Tribune.
DAHviILs, ILL.,. Jnly 19.-Thc old man Is
happy. lie has been enjoying an old-IashIoned
circus md menn0crls all t1ay. These lattcr-1ny
cIrcnses that travcl by railroad asc not tile kind
10 bring back to onc'e recollection hts boyfood's
days, There Is too mich show, pou,p, a.nl fat,-
1aronatc,--too much casy elegance nnd sauey III
.lcncndcncc. But the show to-day was ono of
them o1ll.timc fellows that cnmo In on the dirt
rua,1 about o'clock In the morning, and which
had for al escort hundred hoodlums, who had
tn,d ont all night 70 10 thc first to greet tho
pons1crous elephant md tho Shetland ponies as
thcy came In town. Whon was n boz, some forty
years ngo, I used to walk five aud ten nillos
out On the road to meet a,ll tlc}p escort the
show into town, 40 without breakfast and din
1,cr and carry wafer for the animals two and
three hours, to ho rewnrded With tho prfceleas
privilege Of lcttiuR some burly canvassnnn hold
IN the tentEap while lcrnwlcd inside, md thus
dolgci1 tho vtgtlunt doorkccpcr.
This WAS the biggest tuy that Danrlllc has
known Ia twenty rcars. Van A,nb,lrgA's show
the same old Van AmhurCh that Wo knew In
our boyhood days, n!thougll dead and zone, ret
ns familiar ns cyer-beuan to arrive before day.
light this morning, and br the time tho sun wss
well over the Wabash tree-tops the country pco-
pie bcgnn to pour Into town. I counted thIs-
toen souls In one two'horse wagon, anu by 0
O'Clock, when the grand parado started out,
there were 10000 people on Main mud
VcTmii1ion ktraets,-2,000 rosy.chctsel country
girls dressed In white, With rcd. blue, md pink
ribbons tied around tlHfr wAstB. and 1000 1lb-
brrlv. itnpu,lent, quarrclsou,o country boys who
always take cIrcts-duy as MI orcasEon for show
l,,g low mean mud dtsagrecab1u they can 1anke
themselves. The otiH rtlolls tnls were made uo
Of men anil women who wanted to SEQ Il circus
5ust once more, but who we're ashamed to con-
frss the weakness, am! yet majority Of tlsfD
stood around In thc hot sun for hours gazing iu
, otsen-tnouthai wonder At The sldn.show banners
which depicted the beautiful Citcasstau slave
(norn III raducah, kY.}, The wonderful A1stra.
iian children {h!rcd from some !unnttc asTluml,
tho living skeleton Qately walter In q Con.
rressional boardlng-hnusc) and the educated
hog tunc OF "lid Itutch'sn pets).
The parade and the circus, however, wero
SUCCESS There Was Il perfect Jam tlay R,ul night,
md, although the weather WIS uncosnfnrtahly
warm, the "salcnt was nnye tic arc1agc. AD
idea struck NC after tho grand entrec had been
given, mud proceeded tn carry it out. Occupy
it,g prominent position In tllc nlcnlGerfetnnt,
/ lad noticed rathtr MISUNDERSTANDING fnkir,
and, having superficial knowledge Of show
slnng, psoceeded:o weed said fakir:
"Afy liasne Is Geurgo ". Fursma.l, and havo
all the psiveaes. such as sideshnwa, etc. be-
gan tie ehbw business when hoy, years nt.o.
but it's John Foster, the clown, you wn,,t tn
sec: Ho knows all about the o'a'tlms show
And thcreupon was introduced to Gst1,a'dt
Foster. tn general question, Mr.. Foster
reetcd Of Ills "reminiscences after this fashion;
~ went into tic business in 1s+i with old
woriklng ny war up to the cap and bells. Know
pour BI Lake when 10 was killed ID Granny,
Nh. Was with Dan Rico nway back In s4sa..
Is now . fctir-d saIooa-kecper in l'htladelphta.
Mike tApmanl Oh, yes: he wns the. only lew
clown ever heard ot; and, although good
one, he went hack on the profession, and Ia now
2 pawnbrukcr iu Cincinnati. Poor Char
nt much rum ' abSsrd and eat hs throat M
whuu will! Darnltn, In Schenectady, n.
\. Jimmy Keynolds went 70 Australia
to make his fortune attl busted. lie Is now a
coarhman and laying back 10 marry son,n rich
nan's daughter. Sam LHthrop the Kentucky
clown, has long kuce gonc to (b1uel Erlss. 50
has no Joe Pcn,iand. Had cxoer1cuve! l
should rcsnark,-a rich mud varied one. Why,
when went INTO .lse ring circus nnn was
lengue with The devil, Ati.t whose principal cn.-
plo, ment was that OF stealing yollng children.
Hllt now the WOFiu rcEnEuh us differently. l
educated my two daughters to the ll.lncss, but
took them out Ut 1t, mud only short time ago
one OF them married Wal)-strcet operator,
Yes, We hayc souc old-timo pcopto With us.
Rtrtartl lssyers lima for yanra been known
an one Of the leading American eques-
trian directors, not 60 old, but eGunt-
~ rs accomplished as Lev! North.
His daughter Vtula does the u,nrcre act.
George n. Kelly, of Binghanilou, New York.
Ia tsle champion 1capcr Of tho age- The Lcntesi
brothers, Australian acrobate. aro With US, a,ll
Hb0wlea, the contortiunfat, las been travelling
for ,l0U Ycars. Prof. +. s. kupp, tho ieaf1ur OF
nur orchestra, Is q Chicago tpnsl, and Of course
we'll known In this lnttude. ityAtt Frost nrn,
O. j. Fcrton arc the proprlct0rs Of Fnn Am
burgh'a, md ynu can SEQ lor ynuTsclf tlluI they
1layu no suprraunus people. We have modest
H1ti complete slew, md ain to give the people
thu worth ot their money. Salaries} Well.
they aro not us htgh as They uBcd to le but am
pie enough. You sec, In the good old days
when clowns, cguestrtans. leapers, and special
lists got tilcir hundred und two hundred week
they never Ind up my money. Nuw, with
lighter salaries. most every Inan lnya up hts
GMrlings for rainy day. Yus, John Lowlow Ia
with tho Lonlon IL ought never 10 have left
Robinson. lie is popular down south Of Mason
nnd Dixon's Inc, but not known North or
Enst."
And then in resnonhc to the command "ssep
this. way, Mr. Aterrytnau," jolly john Foster
Yaulted Into the ring. tA0utON.
MUSICAL. NOTES.
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