The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-22

New York ExpresB.

The sale at auction OF lot Of circus prop.
erty called together q remarkable congrsgs-
ten Of showmen at the American institute
building yesterday. In the cold hall long
row Of empty circus wagons stood along one
side with tho names Of "P. 7. Birnum's
Greatest Show on Earth" Ana "Cocper s
Bailsy's Great Tendon Circul' painted on
them. All about ley tent poles, horse tents,
tier seats, elOphsn! tubs, horse pedesssli,
turning-bars and the like. On benches along
the hall were harnesses of the shcwiegt sort
for horses and elephants, Mardi.gras
costumes, pads and Rddle-cloths and
plunes of the most bO'paRgled and
rssplOndeAt description, the satSlosus end
ing with lot of fireworks that had never
Been usad. But more interesting than the
"sircus" itself WAS the rushing tsgotbsr Of SO
many vidsly-trsyeled shoRmen agents, per-
formers, clowns snd show.bill printers 10
canvass and harness-mskerS, In the crowd
Of about three hundred spectators and buy-
ers wore Adam Forepaugh, john Robinson,
IT,, John o. Brien, John II, Murray, W. @.
Coup, NSse Brooks, one Of the Oldest show.
men IN the business, who began thirty years
ago as q doorkeepsr; Hyatt Frost, Tor thirty
four years with Van Amburgh's shows;
Bachelor j. Doris, PulmRa Brothers, Burr
Robbins. j. l., Hutchinson, of BIrzum'.
show; W. w. Durand, of tbs IondoR circus;
the Sells Brothers, L. B. Lent, George
+. Bailey, John NAthaEs, James u.
Kelly, John H. Murray, W. G. Crum, Chs,.
W. Gaylor, Fred Lawrence, 0. j. Ferguson,
Dan. Shelby, VIVA. Kemp, formerly an old
English clown and now gold.bsAter and
his wife; r. II. Dockerill, the hsHsmsn /;
Fred. Keller, Lafayette Nixon, Willisn
Kennedy, an old clown; Fred Sutherland, j.
w. JuksS, William and Walter Aymer
Fred Couldock,i brother of Charles Coul-
dock, the actor; @. Courier FraHk Whitta.
ksr, G.. B. BunnOll, Frank Middleton, James
Melville, the rider; Charles Mclean, Edward
Perry, John Foster, VIM. Ducrow, A. A.
Stewart and the "Hair-Dyo Brigade" Of the
old.time show moaopolists, known IS the
"Flat- Foot Party" The auotsnesr, Mr.. Van
TSsssl, and two clerks, climbed up ints large
circus wagon for y stand, and the sale
began at 10 o'clock. The 268 lots were
sold by o'clock and at fair suction pricel.
In several instances old junk hardly worth
carrying away was sold quickly where there
WAS any show of contest for it, and in ihls
way lot Of mutilRtsd szd dilApidA!os wax
figures and stuffed Hirdi were disposed OF for
more THAI they were worth. The managers
expected $4,000 from the sale, but the
amount fell som0whst short of thAt. The
principal buyers wS,o Doris Is Bachelor,
John OBFien, Pullman & Hamilton, w. O.
Coup and jackson. The aale WAs really a
clearing away Of. material that sArnum'S
and Cooper & Bsiley'S shows, have no
further use for. These shows have re-
Gently been consolidated under al agree.
msnt which runs 80 years to
perpetuate the name of Bsrnum as "tho
greatest showmsn on earth" 1t il further
understood that in his will Mr.. BOrnum has
provided for the msintanancs OF the show in
the event Of his death before the conclusion
Of tho agreemen Winter quarters have
haen established at Bridgeport, where sup
ply depot will also be maintained, aid 1t Is
proposed to supply other showmen with
hsrses, wild animals and circus property gen
orally. On Wednesday q steel car' from
BArnum's stock were sold to "Old Jehn
Robinsoa's Show" for $4,000, asd at the
same time number Of animals were dl'poi-,
cd of. Messrs. Pulman u Hamilton and
Dan Shelby, Of Buffalo, paid $4,000 for
three elephants, tive camels, o den OF par
forming lions and ton dons Of assorted sn'
imals.