Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-06
3ds Sasflts 8erald.
tylsslnIa lNev.l Chronlcle.l

fII0 man, with q tW0-Ounco cane
md s half~pound cluster diamopd
-. oauAo Into tho Chronicle Office
&1 nnkod II the amusement re-
n<rtcR Was IN. Whon the man he |
16oeht was pointed out the stranger
rrnStod him warmly by the hand,
lomSrkIng: 'Delighted to meet
Sou. nlr-really, I am. I've heard
= vou Ct every place I've stopped
- NJ way from New York. l had
osHoh 4 ouFIoslty 10 zee you that I
~ ~ = Reno and took . run up.
Uut tqally I bad expected to ind Q
uaoGh older man, considering the
nafniflcent reputation your dra-
mn{lo and circus criticisms have
given you. All Of our boys told me
d - Bure and see you, IT. I didn't
ct aboard Of anything else In the
town.
"Ah," said the reporter, blushing
IN four colors, "pm glad to see you.
Might / inquire your name?"
AVAIL, here's my card,n said the
no1, handing out . piece of paste.
bcoKd about i've inches square.
You may have heard of me before
clafence De Lacy 6locuun, agent
e The 6ebastian Wan Bueua Vista
CfFous and MepAgerle. This is by
III Tho huRest combination Of gi-
6antic ctrcuses ever put on the
road. We started ont about five
yoarn ago In . small way, with not
ovor four hundred thousand feet Of
eonvaa, only nine tents, and scarce
u fftoen hundred animals, but we
GraduAlly absorbed all the small
}fy nhows. They'd go into bank.
16ptey along the route and we
would buy their outfits. Sebastian,
our owner, IL the most sympathetic
nan on earth. He'd buy their
littis shows and pay double price,
ju1t to help the poor devils along.
Money is OF no account to him.
He's travelling simply for pleasure
and desire to see the great West.
md like to know him." re-
r1nkked the reporter.
ssOh, he knows you-that is by
Ioputation. He has your picture
set in . frame that cost over 500.
He MAS saying to me one night
that whenever business was dull he
Just took q look at that phiz of
yours, and 1t always made him
1ool - happy as il he was Obliged
to turn i've hundred people away
q the door,"
s.How came he to get hold of my
p1ctufe?"
'sOh, he begged 1t of De Murska,
Or M0djeska, or Clara Morris-I
forget which. She hated like thun-
der TO part with II, but you see he
had loaned ths great actress $40, 900
once In Paris to buy q wardrobe
and some jewelry for new piece,
and a. the debt was never cancelled
she couldn't very we'll refuse. But
1 just came In to give you little
Information about our show. al
ways like to give q man all the
points when know he possesses
the talent to handle them In the
right style. Some fellows down at
Reno and Carson tried to pump me,
but didn't propose to let q descrip-
ton OF my show be mangled up by
scrub writer's. Besides, Sebastian
teIegraphed me from New York
last night not to let anybody but
you get aboard Of the first grand de-
sofiption. just mention four miles
Of cages containing wild beasts,
with twelve new varieties of wild
elephants, and a recently discov-
cred monster from Africa, called
the Jabberwock, which weighs
1000 pounds.
ssIudeedv'
ayes sir! and a man like you,
with : fine descriptive ability and
inoxhaustible command of LAM
guage which has made you famous
In two continental
"How many columns do you
wAnt?''
sOh, a. many as you please"
"When will the show be here?"
"Perhaps not for two months; it
takes such long time to move the
animals that our progress across
the country is SLOW"
ssJust 30. Well, our figures for
big cfrcuses like yours are $3.50 a
column caah down, and 80 per cent.
of the gross receipts IL the show is
. success"
The circus agent seemed greatly
affected; "Isn't that rather steep?"
he said.
ut would be, perhaps, for a
small provincial journal like the
New York Herald, or even the
London 7Gmes, but we circulate
such q mammoth edition that the
price is comparatively trifling.
Fourteen freight cars come up
every day with paper for our edi-
tion, which is worked of on five
big Walter presses, lightning
geNred. Our expense for steam
alone, sir, is $1,000 q day. We
have more carriers than you could
pack Into your largest tent. Our
Eastern circulation has been in
creAsfng at the rate of q thousand
= day for the last two years. By
amply cutting down the size Of the
paper an eighth Of an inch our Pro-
prietor has saved enough money to
build four school houses worth for
~ thousand dollars each, and en-
lowed an orphan asylum in each
county In the State. He does ut
run the paper for money, but just
simply for his health and because
he likes the country. Our mailing
and folding machinery would re.
mind you of the Risdon Iron
Works."
"Is 1t In this building?"
HOh no; this is simply the
branch office-the place where we
write up circuses. Our principal
establishment'-
The circus agent groaned as il in
agony and fed from the Office.