Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-05-23
CIRCUS RIDERS SCHOOL.

7-,era is the usual circus rinC in the center
81 tbe harm like building Or two or three
- n the ring ere rows q narrow box
Ill in which the trained h5rses have sneir
I~-- 80, A score or more Of hostlers and
L-l-ers are about the room, making and
keeDing things clean and neat "ltA 'No
,oI5 blast that comes in at the open door
comes also a tall, rather slim, figure, wrapper
in a cloak Of fur, and with SUCH hal anu
g,,ch gloves and such an outfit geneIally as
one might expect TO see on any LADY taxing
her morning walk on Broadway She Is ue-
cidedly pretty as she trips in, closes the door,
-ra.te every one with cheer. soJl lLoIH-
inc - and then trips up flight OF stars 10
her dressing room. But before she disappears
from SIGHT She says: "Please get Bob ready
Rob Is brought out. He is big horse,
more white than gray, and is taken from one
of the stalls which have a numOer very ike
him in color in them. That prompts an m
ouigftive visitor to ass one Of the titled
na,nIa standing round if white horses are the
d-rt ones thre viii train well for circus pur-
poses
MOT bit my boy bays or blacks or
cbes+nuts would do equally vel, but the
riders like the white ones best. Whyl Oh,
because they like to keep up the illusion OF
the ring. See, there's the reason why white
horses are used SO generally"
AS he spoke this professor Of horse educa-
Han pointed 90 a young man who was rub
hing Bobs back with a lot Of fine powder
Ii was powdered resin, and was applied I0-
orally to the back Of Bob and carefully
slr.sd over all the broad back on which the
f. frv who a few moments ago entered would
soon be dancing.
.Tbat's the reason why the white horses
are chosen by riders for their uses. Now, if
the horse was black or bay in color the pow
der would lie in a great pad ike block that
would be plainly visible to every one.
Riders, male or female, dislike to have any
one know that they use resin to help them
keep their feet on the animals back. So
they use white horses to help out the decep
ton
While this explanation Of the petty decep-
ton was being INDUCED in the horse profes-
SORTS assistants had got the mechanic into
trim That mechanic looked more like
gal'oys than ANYTHING else. From the center
OF the ring rose aTonS pole, or mast, which
lot itself in the beams above which served
to support the dressing room floor. Three
quarters of the way up from the bottom OF
the pole there stretched out an arm, which
gave TO the pole t.u gallows like appearance.
4 rope which hung from the end of this arm,
with halter band Of leather added to the
repulsive appearance The arm moved
nO.sll 5ly and oasay about the supporting
posi- is the young lady to be hung on that
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