The Osceola times., 1882-05-06
position; but Bolivar was firm. Coaxing

position; but Bolivar was firm. Coaxing
gave place TO intimidation and severe
castigation, but still his elephantic ma
length, after four hours of stripes and
blows, reinforced by rope and tackle and
prod, the enraged brute meanwhile
charging against the heavy brick walls
of his stable like mad, and rending tine
air with bellowings of pain and rage,
Bolivar came forth, shaking with anger
that he had permitted himself to be con-
vinced against his will.
But Bolivar's stubborness was only the
beginning of the matinee. The Gagged
animals, sluggish during Information,
began to take on something of their ma
tive ferocity at sight of the noisy dem
onstrations on every hand. Lions and
tigers and panthers paced up and down
in their lairs, lashing their tails, and
now and then giving vent to rumbling
gutteral. When the shifting box, in
which they are conveyed to the wagons,
came opposite their cages, their feelings
found vent in horrid snarls and roars
and desperate attempts TO wreak ven
geance upon those about them. Ropes
and chains and iron bars were brought
into requisition, and the brutes harrass
ed until they were driven into the shift
ing box, or, this failing, dragged by
sheer force of arm. The box vas then
swung by rope and tackle against the
wagon.cage, the grated door of which
had meanwhile been raised, and the
foaming beast urgently solicited from
behind with prods and crowbars to 60
into the cage. In most cases this last
transfer was easily accomplished under
the skiilfui management OF John Fore
paugh adams brother. the intrepid
lion-tamer. The ferocious Berlin tigress,
who killed her keeper at the German
capital two years ago, persistently ie-
fused to be moved until molten mass
of hot iron at white heat, borne by four
men, was thrust into her cage from be-
hind. 1t moved her with the rapidity
OF ia missile from a catapult.
These exciting scenes somewhat de-
layed the work of transportation, but by
o'clock in the afternoon the last ami
NAL had been loaded up and started to
the cars. At the Centennial siding
where Forepaugh's trains were waiting
to receive these uncounted tons Of ami
mate freight; all was hustle and busy
less than fifty.one cars whose combined
been built by the Snowman, and with
these he travels 10 distant parts of the
land without draft upon the relling
stock of any railroad, save for engines.
Sixteen cars are devoted exclusively to
baggage-wagons and chariots, thirteen
cars to wild beast dens, ten cars to stock,
five cars to elephants, five cars to sleep
ing apartments, one car to private bag
gage and one to ponies. Four cars have
been added since last year, in part for the
accommodation Of nearly one hundred
people more than were employed last
season, and in part for the transporta-
ton of added tent accommodations.
Last year seats we're provided for 10000
people; this season provision has been
made for no less than 1900 under one
canvas.
Under The supervision of Master of
Transportation Robert Black, the work
of putting on wheels animals and bag
gage and the infinite number of traps in
1ispensable to circus, was yesterday
dispatched with amazing rapidity. An
army of workmen, numbering about
250, is required for the handling Of these
bulky properties, and with each hand at
the right spot at the right moment, all
under the strictcst discipline, the three
trains required for transportation are
reighted in just two hours. The train
bearing the tent appurtenances, heavy
baggage, wagons, etc, and numbering
about fifteen cars, has on several occa.
sions been loaded in the almost incredi.
bly, short space of twenty-five minutes