Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-25
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4 professional audiencs Of acrobsts,
bareback riders. "eandy butcher .
ssrawbsfry Lemonade men and paate
levelfy experts sat IN Aadison Square
Gar Ism yesterday afternoon, Watching
haTnum's performers 60 throogh their
feheaEsAts in the sAWduse ring. The
snro1z included the picturesQus nQtaQ
and bobtail Of . dozen nomadic eircuseS
which isave New York in summer 20
travel In tbs country towns. On the top
benches . ooleRation Of amiabie Wild
men, In tall hats and black clothes, Who
belonged TO travelling side show picked
their teeth and conversed with some
Zoius, dressed IN the latest spring fash
Ions. who came from a riyaI conooru.
A group OF professional Patagonians,
Aztecs and Australians, wearing dia-
rnond pins and solitaire rings. sat little
further aw y and eagerly scanned the
morning papers.
The actors we're practising in two
rings and on q large wooden platform
between them. The ethereal maid.
who, in an airy costume and an airy
manner, giides down rope by her hair
from the very top OF the center-pole to
the sawdust ring, did il several times, 10
everyDody's satisfaction. The India
rubber man tied himself over and sver
again into complete knot that he
might be sure that he WAS perfect in the
feat. Frank Melville. in pink tights,
rode five gray horses a Ia clothes pin at
one and the same time in one ring, and
George Melville, in the same manner.
rode four white horses in another. En-
ma Lake practised fine English
thor0 ghbred in the feat Of walking
across the ring with his feet straight in
the air and his rider projected out on q
line with the ground. Many Of the
performers tried their acts over and
over again till they got them perfect.
William Newman, the trainer, bear
ing long, stout pole, the size Of small
tree, came into the ring with twelve
young elephants, the largest Of which
were about five feet high. form by
platoons. Double quick. march n
shouted the trainer. The alert ele-
phants executed the orders, and ran
around the ring, raising cloud Of dust. 4
They deployed as skirmishers, marched
by double and triple file, formed hollow
squares, charged IN very solid columns.
and went through the manpuvers OF a
body Of regulars with the precision and
gallant bearing of the Skidmore Guard.
Obeying an order TO bivouac they all
fell to the ground and lay in the dust.
At the word Attention" uttered by the
keeper they bounded to their feet.
Whenever any animal was not prompt
the keeper swung the tree wildly through
the air and hit him. The elephants
then stood on their hind feet. and next
on their heads or their ears. Half a
dozen of them got on a seesaw board
and tetered. One made a misstsp, and
threw the fat little pachyderms all over
the ring. where they rolled N the saw
dust, raising it in clouds, and sendiaR
shayings 70 all parts Of the building.
Madison Square trembled as If It had
been shaken by small earthquake, and
several windows in fourth avenue
pastry shop we're broken. When the
elephants went back TO their stalls the
trainers whip had btep reduced by
constant service to tho size OF a tooth
pick. Conrad" the little Gle hant
clown, bounded into the arena In the
traditional manner OF testers, made a
funny bow, and sauntered around the
ring with ludicrous walk. He had
on blue coat, red trousers, u large
white collar. and tho big cap OF a
German immigrant. he suggested a
Dut0h comedian, and George Arsting-
stall, who trained him. called him
the Menagerie Joe Emmet. he
tetered on q seesaw board with the
clown, throwing that worthy seven or
eight feet into the air every time the
clowns end Of the board went up. The
act ended in the man of the cap and
1aita 1,as,, As,aual okxrVt kftaus, fuat int
clear space and coming down on the
elephants back. Then the two sat at
the table of q supposed inn. The ele-
phant rang a bell for tho waiter, ate
and drank all that was brought him.
and stole bottles and viands from the
clown. The big elephants came out
last, danced dizzy waltz and did va
rioty Of funny things, which ended In
their forming q huge pyramid with tho
keeper Arstingstall standing At the apex
on the topmost elephants tusks.
"Do elephants become attached 70
thsir keepers, Mr.. Arstingstall!" asked
the reporter.
"No. sir; they haven't . particle Of
love for them. We rule them entirely
by fear. We never allow any keeper or
attendant 70 fondle or careas them. II
we did. the animals would take advau-
taee Of 1t TO become unfuly and disobe-
dent and would perhaps strike the ami
able attendant down at the dfst oppor-
tunity.
Jumbo occupied largo stall by him
self. The mother OF the baby Bridge
port" Queen" Who Ii an elephant
widow, and 'Hsbc," . maiden elephant.
have formed an ardent attachments for
Jumbo and Qrovu iuteuseiy Jealous Of
each other. He, strangely enough, IL
entirely indifferent TO them, and prefers
0 spins1er camel Of sedate manners and
advanced years. This strange prefer
ouoe has eauesd great scandal among
the lvsnty-nins olhsr elephants Of the
great ohov.