Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-09-17
THE PROTEAN FOGGARTY.
sketch of Great sideshow Artist.


The proprietor of sideshow. in re-
cent interview with reporter, thus de-
scribed one of his greatest attractions:
Foggarty," said he, was the best Zulu
ever had, and I have had hundred of
'em: he laid over the lot. He entered in
to the spirit Of the thing and did the biz
side with iron girdle about him, and
pizen spear, he lept in dead earnest, he
did. He made it mighty lively for the
keeper to hold him, and he howled SO like
q savage that he skeered the wimmen and
gals to degree that they couldn't help 60
IN to see him. Foggarty was great man,
and he'd talent. He was the best Modoc
chief ever had, O'Finnegan could lay over
him in the green corn dance, and possibly
drest the best; but Foggarty's war-whoop
was suthin sublime. We ned him one sea-
son as Scar Faced Charley, and the next as
Shack Nasty jim; and he did himself proud
in both. And then there want no dam
nonsense about him. He would peel out of
his Injun clothes and 60 and clean the lamps,
and help pack, or do anything Before the
doors opened he'd do canvasman, and
howl at the door, and he'd play the bass
drum or grind the organ with cheerfulness.
IN the street parade Of the big show he was
for five years our Washington, the father
OF MS country, standin' on revolvin' Pc
destal. Then jist as soon as he got his din
ner, he'd help gitup the canvas, and then
skin into his Zulu rig, and after that he'd
peddie lemonade, or do anything to make
hisself yoosful
but woman spilled him. Wimmin
Spite great many good men. We he'd
woman, Biddy McCarty, who was dom the
Clrcassian lady with hair to the heels-you
know em-and sometimes the bearded lady
Likewise she was a Chinese knife thrower;
and Foggarty yoosed to be the Chinanan
she thowed her knives at. Well, Foggarty
-seein' that she was an Irish girl, and he
an Irlshman-cooden't no more help fallin'
in love with her than fire can help burnin'
tow. He got it into his head that, eff he
Good marry a girl with 500 much talent, he
might some day have a sideshow of his
own. And then as time rolled on and they
he'd kids, he Good train em up to the fam
lily business, and do things cheap. He
wanted to be bearded family, or Zulu
he married Biddv, and they went double.
''Biady had will of her own, and be-
sides she would get drunk Rum spiles
more talent in the perfesh than anything
else. She had astrick Of beatin' Foggarty,
and she led him a devils own life It was
at Leroy, N. Y. She had been on as the
Circassian lady, and he'd sold all the photo
graphs she Good, and he'd changed to 90 on
as the Chinese knife the rover from Hang
Fo. Foggerty he'd changed to Chinaman
-Lu Flu, the wiZard-when I diskivered
that Biddy he'd bin drinkin! I warned
Foggarty to look out, for she was ugly, but
he laughed, and said she wouldn't hurt
him, and went on.
You hev seen that act: Foggarty stands
agin board with his arms spread out. and
the Chinawoman throws knives all around
him. She puts 'em between his fingers and
close to his neck and between.his legs Bid
dy could throw knife
it to 60; She he'd talent, as I sed.
But that day she was ugly. She and
Foggerty he'd he'd it hot, and when she
came in tvistin' her queue, Iknowd suth-
in was goln' to happen. She throwed six
or eight knives all right, and then one went
whiz. It took off Foggerty's second finger
on his right hand as clean as butchers
cleaver could do it. And Biddy fired the
rest of the knives at him and rushed out
yellin' BE CORA Mike Foggarty, and Yell
bate me ovef the. head with a tent pin
again. will ye? Yell have one finger less
to do it wild: onyhow.'
Most men would hev abandoned the
perfesh with that finger off, but while it
was bein' dressed, Mike whispered to me,
Put it on the bills that the Zulu chief lost
the finger by English sabor at the battle
where was the battle?''
I hev Foggarty yet; bnt Biddy broke
his heart, and he amt as good as he was.
She run away with the Cannibal from the
Friendly Islands, who Good do the tightrope
and fire eatin' land they are dom hall shows
and the variety business together. He
taught her to do song and dance as we'll
as fire eatin', and she is now Mile Lulu
Delmayne.' They d. society sketches, too.
Foggarty is jest as willin' as ever but the
blow was too much for him. He goes on
with his next season as Zulu, and also
Letters on the Sacred Burmese cattle, and
has part in the wild perarie scene, and
fires the caliope. He can't do Washington
any more, for he has rheumatic and can't
stand an hour with his right arm IN mill
tary coat. He's practisn' to be a lie amer,
but I don't bleeve it'll do. He MY cit
to play the snake, but that is abou ma high
as he'll ever get in the perfesh.'t as
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