Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-13
nAnNuM.s GREAT MORAL SHOW

BARNUM,S GREAT MORAL SHOW Returns to Waterbury After an Ab- sence ot Two Years. A red sky at night is said to be the sailors delight for it IS considered al- most an infallible sign of fine weather. Last night the small boy was delighted to observe the bright streaks of red ln the western horizon and laid his plans accordingly. The great and only Bar num's circus has been having hard struggle with the weather of late and in Waterbury of all other places they hoped to receive the consideration of the weather bureau. For years the cir GUS business of this good old town has been marked down in Barnum's big books in colored ink to distinguish 1t l from common one-horse towns like | Bridgeport and New Haven, which hardly turn out more than %, ,0O0 people 1 t ) see the great neral show. Waterbury always goes them several thousand bet l ter.
 The great show arrived here from Danbury shortly before six o'clock thls morning and was greeted at the station watched the work of unloading with the greatest interest. At the grounds another throng assembled and watched the acres of white tents taking shape with such astonishing rapidity. At o'clock the street parade began, the streets along the line being crowded with men, women and children of all ages and conditions. The parade was probably the longest and most interest ing ever witnessed here. Six open cages of wild animals delighted the young people and the 250 sleek looking horses also received words of praise from all sides. The only fault to be found with | the parade was noticeable absence of music.
 Everybody seemed to be on the streets and good judge of human nature could sift out the chatf without difficulty. Changers from all the country round collected in the shady spots and talked over the prospect of good having season; the peanut vender With the cracked voice yelled himself hoarse: the lung tester was also here, likewise the toy balloon man the woman with the baby carriage and crying infant was also to be found everywhere. On the circus grounds the small boy who had squan- dered his wealth in cigarettes and candy carried water and made himself gen. orally useful, receiving a free pass to the show as his compensation.
 l John Cooper, one of Plnkertons best men, assisted the police in maintaining order. He went among the crowd dressed in citizens clothing and kept the
 pickpockets and fakirs within bounds.
 No Waterbury performers are with the circus thls season, the Pritchard brothers who have been travelling for several years with either Barnum or Forepaugh, being in Europe with Jerry Hurley. another Waterburian. Of the drivers and tent men the Brass city fur
 nishes five, Pete Dolan, Jim Thompson,
 Jack Platt, "Chinny" Lyons and Billy Schaetfer.
 In conversation with Mir Hyatt, the business manager. he said that since | striking Connecticut not one day free
 from rain had been the fortune of the
 circus. The chances are favorable for
 to-day being an exception, and the at , taches of the show are correspondingly
 happy.
 Booths of every imaginable descrip-
 tion occupy any and every vacant spot
 within a radius of a quarter of a mile of
 the grounds. and the unwary passer-by is soon relieved of his loose char ge. Ac-
 cidents have been many some of them costly ones. A horse hitched to spin
 dle and driven by machinist from Wa
 terville, named Pettiger was relieved
 of part of his burden by one of the horse
 cars, the two rear wheels of the spin dle being demolished. A little boy was picked Ep almost under a horses feet
 and scampered off uniniured,
 PEANUT sHUcKs. w. D. Hagar. the popular press agent was around early this morning visiting the newspaper offices. He attended to his duties in the most satisfactory man. her,
 One of the most curious articles sold
 on the street to-day was single eyeglass.
 In the center was staring glass eye
 which gave the wearer a decidedly grotesque appearance.
 An old granger who has visited Water
 bury every circus day for years col
 lected an interested crowd around him
 near Apothecaries' hall after the parade.
 He wore an immaculate white shirt, a
 straw hat of the vintage of '7s and a pair of blue overalls rolled up, displaying
 a broad expanse of unpublished boot. He didn't seem to care whether school kept or not.
 1 Several runaways occurred but no serious accidents are reported. l The band of Moors accompanving the show are thoroughly Americanized and exchanged gags with the boys around
 the show grounds.
 Over seven hundred people from Sey-
 mour, Beacon Falls and Naugatuck ar
 rived on the morning trains over the
 Naugatuck road. A very small dele
 gation arrived by way of the New Eng
 land road.
 l Illness of a Yale Student. Frank D. Leffingwell, post grad uate or Yale, IS confined to his room at New
 Haven by very peculiar illness On l MQnlaN afternAll la tc1al- tL1 S.ss