Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-02
Waco Curiosity Shop.
Barnum Don't Split.

Mr.. Chas. Stow, generel press agent
of the great Barnum show, which will
exhibit here on Thursday, Oct 4th,
paid his respects the News sanctum
yesterday, and among other things
said:
"The baseless assertions made by one of the
lank he-gossips of Van Buren, in my hearing,
while temporarily there, suggest the necessity
of plain statement to your readers. Said this
sapient arenic authority; "You can bet yer
life the hull of the Barnum show amt comm
down here. iii was i. wouldn't show at Rus
sellville. It's split up, and part of its gone
towards Nevada, or into the Injin Territory -
And thus he wagged his asinine jaws in the
face of the fact that we conspcuously publish
an offer of thousand dollars reward for salts
! factory Identification of any person maliciously
circulating the report that Barnum and the
London show yer was, is now or will at any
time during its southern trip be divided, the
Van Buren, sage to the contrary notwithstand-
| ing and all others of his opinion included
| The fact that we do not show at Russellville is
not divided. 1t is l65 miles from Fort Smith to
Little Rock, and we cannot run our three big
special trains of sixty,foot cars that distance
, in single night. and reach here in time to
make parade and give an afternoon perform
ance. Not unfrequently, for this reason, we
are compelled to stop at smaller places like
|
Once for all, and although betting is said to
be poor argument, will wager $1,000 to 500,
and place the money in the hands of the bust
ness manager of the NEWS, that neither the
Barnum nor any other similar exhibition was
ever divided. his injurious impression has
| the mercenary lies circulated by lot of monte
banks who in order to defeat magnitude and
character with which they could not honestly
contend have filled the ears of the gullible with
Us sertiOns that our show was ut times divided
Secondly, because the same mountebanks ad-
vertse lot of features and attractions they
never had; and people, instead of approaching
| that fact, say they sent part of these mythical
wonders to some other point
In the nature of circumstances it Is utterly
impossible to divide show and exhibit its
fractions in different places at the same time.
You might just as well talk of splitting your
great cylinder press with an axe, and running
Let me ask you this. Did you ever know OF
hear of our show being advertised to exhibit in
two different towns on the same day? Never!
Do not the newspapers wherever we show una
nlmously compliment Ourincomparable magni-
tude and speak of the presence of every feature
as advertised? Is not the only complaint even
made against us the novel one that our show Ii
too big, and that we give too much for the
money?
| If any section of this country is worth visit
ing at:all it is worth taking the whole show to
lift Is not, we don't 20 there. Mr.. Barnun
has thedeserved reputation of being the geates
and most liberal Snowman that ever lived
and fairly entitled to just as much for the
money as are those of New York, Chicago, st
Louis, Kansas City or anywhere else, and the.
will get it every day and every time from Mr.
Barnum.
In short, the whole great show will be gvel
here and everywhere Instead OF being misle'
by the idle reports referred to, which II uncon
tradicted are liable to do us both gross njustic
and injury, let everybody come and witness tn
splendors of the free street parade and the
will wonder where we found room to store any
thing else, If we left ANYTHING behind.'