The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-09


aiken On beard from the wharf, but
we're put on large fat lighters, and
from them h0lsted TO the deck 9th
,liuas. Thus the elephants and oe mels
and horses went on board without
dificulty, none of them Offering any
SERIOUS objections. The smalle: AMI
mals were in boxes made espe Tally
for the purpose, none Of them Icing
confined in cages IN which they are
exhibited. Mr.. Barnum did not lake
along This entire menagerie, because
the Eoglfahmsn are 80 used 10 ft'etng
lions aud tigers and other natives OF
hot countries that those animals ,.ould
have been no novelty In Londo be
conflued himself to the distinc lively
Americao animals, such as white aud
black fallow.deer, buffalo, prairie-dogs,
panthers, aud water-buifalo, the only
ssiorelguers'' taken along, such as the
elephants and camels, being trained
performing animals.
The question of providing so many
flesh heating animals with food during
the voyage was solved BY freezing the
fresh meat in cubical cakes, and then
packing 1t In refrigerators between
layers of ice. Besides the properties,
the FurnessiA carried 200 employees OF
the show in her first aud second cabtns
1 everything being under the charge Of
Treasurer M. F. Young. Among the
irst cabin passengers were Nj. H. L.
!, Watkins, Mr.. Bailey's private secre-
tary Henry Barnum, the chow man.
aqer, who not witbstanding his name,
IL not related to the great American
showman; General Superintendent
Frank Hyatt Master Of Transports
. tIon Byron v. Rose and William
e. Newman, elephant Bill" who has
:. charge of the elephants. In the sec.
ond cabin were large number OF Ia
J. lus, COW boys, freaks, hostIere, grooms,
!. and animal men, and the twenty-one
y colored people of both sexes who COM
~ pose the Jubilee singers. Toe Farnes-
>. ala carried no passengers but members
. of the company, but 1t was necessary
:. to take in some other cargo, because
- the weight of the animals was not
~ suficient to losd her properly. Iu-
~ stead Of going to GLASGOW, her usual
port, she sailed for London direct.
a. This was ouly part Of the great
0' show, The City Of Rome, which sailed
October 10th, carried over 100 OF the
n n principal performers in her arst cabin,
az and great numer of animals. Mr.
We Barnum himself sailed In the E;rurls
IN and MI, Barnum Seeley, his grandson
x, and probable successor. Mr.. aad Mrs
Bailey sailed in the Victoria Augusta
,ai october 18th. The City Of Rome car.
81 ried all the advertising material
tic which is expected to make the En-
lut elishmen open their eyes. It Weigh
ses more than eighty tons, aud will b,
les. matted all over Great Britain. Fifty
is Thousand sheets will be posted 10 Lon
If don alone, and tina: there is ample room
ges there for them is shown by . letter re-
u a csived from Mr.. w. H. Gardaer, tn
on general aeent, Just before the Furnes
hat sia sailed, In which he said of the bill
put posting: est will b. nearly all !adde
he work. some of the bill boards bein
to fifty feet high. No Que puts anythin
UGH In the windows here, but we will sho,
Is them how.'' Thtrty-eight bill posters
I at all in uniform, went over in tho Cit
It it Of Rome, and the advertising paps
ity. they will handle cost $l66, 5000.
lion This trip to Europe has been und.
1el, consideration for some time, but it
.rty not expected that 1t can possibly {
much more than pay the enormous e:
penses, which will be more than $3.50
600 for travelling, besides $l2 600.
.es;. day for the 100 days the chow will r
last main in LONDON. MT. 6aFnum -.
II is he is willing to spend $4,000 to sho
N of the English what an American circ
this is. The sh ow will be given in Lond'
has only, in the Olympia, in Kensingto
bur. building considerably larger thu
ned the old Madison Square Garden, n
and to which additions have been built +
,,uis this occasion at cost of 5000. X
,rm. aIfy's Nero, or the Fall of Rome, b
ssed been annexed to the show, and "
q to occupy part Of the main buildiF
1t is This alone brings 800 performers liz
ATS view at one time, and the entire null
to of Der who will appear In public is II
4 in Excursion trains will be run from
b is parts of the United Kingdom, and
,srty business will open with q parade,
connection with the Lord Maye
procession, on November 9th. B
ence mum and Bailey are large s,ockhold
rday iu the new Madison Square Gard
Fort and they will have the show back
Yves, New York by the middle of March,
huge time to give the FIST performances
MALTA the new building. All the amin
sides and other properties taken across
and ocean were fully insured against
.chor or damage by FIRE or water, and of
little whole vast company, the only rep