New-York tribune., 1885-03-15
THE ELEPHANT GOES ROUND.
BANDS BEGIN TO PLAY FOR MR.. BARNUM.

HIS ANIMAL PARADE-BOYs AROUND THE MONKEYS
CAGE.
The first exclamation of countless children ID
this city as they sprang out Of bed yesterday
was Is it o fine dayf and gasp OF renei iono"eu.
when glance through the nursery winuow Sno"0u '.
though slight sprinkle Of snow covered tne 'ne
sky gave every promise Of remaining uncionuo0 ~
least twelve hours longer. There was ahhs'y' 'o' "
the minds of emany children Of larger growth on
the same subject for wns not Barnums parauo "
take place in the evening II the weather was
Year after year does this triumpha entry INTO Guy
conquered long ago by the glorious Oh ho
Greatest show on Earth" take place, and year aiter
.r 40 ,he vapauished stu flock into the highways to
reet te viotors as they pass The procession was ~
n.uaI advertised TO start from the Madison Square
Garden Mt o'clock. but long before that time did tne
sma boy and his entire family assemble In the heien
borhood and heroically braving all he
attendant on the keen March wind suck the seductive
ta8y and dilate on the expected gories OF the show
The boy who had the circus last year obtained
rank and from the con OF vantage Afforded by
the gutter delighted his admirng auditors with mythea
anecdotes Of lumber and the elerphunts"
Meantime the Garden itself q busy scene. long
stream of citizens being marshaed In through the
eastern entrance to receive torches and
wherewth to light the path of the conquering horde
Attendants were dragging out the huge trium-
phal cara bright with goldleaf and vermillOn.
while gorgeously apparelled musicians and others
we're taking their places inside them. Others
were placing tho barred menagerie Wagons In their
places and poking up the beasts TO make them lively,
while horses Of every color ponies zeDras ana caeis
their Seyy decorated harness placed upon them super
inendent Arstngsa paedly smoker MS cigar ana a.
rected the movements Of his special charges. the ee
phans. who seemed to move obedlent his slightest
nod muttered word Of command. Inc Napoleon
al a. if' if 'sm parade mile long were an every day
occurrence to him, while his brothersenerai' j. L.
Hutchinson, seemed equally undisturbed
At all ready. Twilight nad gwen place 10
dusk aud dusk to darkness and the word was gwen TO
bo"r The torches Jared up. the calcium lights threw
white glare the moving pageant and the rcd ana green
fires color and orsncy to what was already many
hued and brilliant and through the streets by this time
packed with people along the whole route the process
sion took It's way First came the heralds mounted
on prancng steeds and announcing the coming Of the
Allied Armies' then came the band wagon drawn by
six and followed by sixty mounted knights whose
horses reared and plunged at the crowd the lights and
noise of dens Of and lions with their keepers
The psnthers and bears preceded Changing chime OF
bells after which came the noble stations An i'm
tableau OF the globe led another geological col
lection, and then came mounted ladies' and
knsht' galore. racing 'haro.s and chariot
orchestra furnished divers strains OF alleged music
Cames and eagles ntersperso with elaborate tab
lssus OF Santa Claus, the Old dwoman-who-lvcdi ina
Shoe Shells peacOcks and zebras arnessed formed the
next section Then eaue IoTe animals more tableans,
the elephants headed By ChieaiD the caope rendering
night hideous with Its wnoops the chariot drawn by
ten elephants aud finally the ethnol9gcai congress This
svrans, Burmese. sioux Indians and other peculiar
people The jubilee singers anJ crowd Of Sldcd charl
OTIS aBd menagerie wagons bronght up the rear
Owing To the chillinoss Of the weather Mr. BarnuIn
thought the discretion OF staying In his comiortable
home Bridgeport the better part OF vnOr which other
wise might have led him usual 10 review the process
sion from the Metropolitan Hotel His place, however,
the receiving and showing hospitality IN friends
who accepted the invitation to the large paror
of the hotel concerned, was well hiled
by his trusty lieutenant r. +. Hamilton whose stkgy
handsome countenance fairly gowed under the double
influence OF hospitality and the redres OF the passing
snow, whose beauties he pointed out Win
a veracious enthusiasm that was contagious.
The parade moved MadisOu-ave to Forty ninth-st,
10 Fifth-avc aud down through Twenty ninth-st. To
Broadway, down which II went ~ far IA Grand st re
turning by way Of Hudsost and Eighthave To Thirty
along the entire route we're packed with pco-
pie. Broadway for hours being almost I'm
passable. The scene rs viewed from an
upper window in the lower part OF Broadway
unsteady glare of the torches the unearhy effects pro-
duccd 10y the coorcd fires. the waving punes and git
tering aTmOr OF the horseback, the howl- ana
onnOus OF the Gagged animals and the dcafcning
and IN peculiar II took only few minutes
pass bat those few minutes judging from the cNclnm-
heard AL sides, Afforded boundrzs easTactl0h
thousands of spectators who were convinced by
ocular demons stration that Barnum had again"
DESPITE the rush of sgltserrs nom BfOukiyn Nhch "a
matter OF might have been expected the Bridge
authorities made sort of provision Tor their convey
The extra tickct-COlcctOT at the brooklyn eud
went of at his usual hour. which was long before
the stream Of people ceased 10 cross the river.
and his companion left To struggle alone.
IL took at least nye minutes 10 pass through
the gate. and ON reaching the platform
A way lad 10 be elbowed though adensc struggling
To reach already Overlooking ears That many serious
acoldenls did not the fault Oi the Bridge
As II was long and tedious delay fell TO
the lot OF every passenger