Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-19
WILL DISBAND HERE.
wpaTTHE CIRCUS PEOPLE DO WHEN
THE SHOW BREAKS UP.
oce OF Forepsueh's Agents Tells About
tina Queer Life Led Under
the Canvas

The breaking up OF CIRCUS IL no /
email affair.
Hundreds Of men and women are TO /
he paid of and gotten 10 their homes,
miles and miles away.
The animals are TO be shipped to win
ter.uusrters, and tents aud other para
pbernaIis packed and sent away to be
stored until next year
Fourpsrgh's show, which exhibits in
Richmond the lat of November will dis
hand for the season after the performs
ances given here. More than 900 per-
sons who now constitute its personnel
will thus be distributed around and
$50, 600 will be paid out in salaries.
VERY FAscISATrNG.
There il some peculiar fascination
about n circus, not only TO the small boy
who totes water 10 the elephant but
sIsa 10 the " grown folks" and few men
ever outgrow their boyish tastes for the
show.
Why this peculiar interest no one can
tell. although from the time OF Julius
Cesar. when the circus mGrimUs fur
pi.hed o psstime for 20, 600, down to the
uresent time, masculine hearts have
always been attracted by this smuse-
ment
now MADE Up.
When the show organizes each spring
people gather from nearly every country
on the face OF the globe to take their
places in the gathering that make up lts
fo,R ensemble There are Mezicans
from over the border. antipodesns from
the isles and continents az the sailor says
on "tother side OF which " Aborigines
from the plains Of the West, Celestials
and Japs from the flowery kingdom,
Noors and Milesians, Turks and Arabs,
giants and dwarfs, and other strange
/ freaks of nature In the human race.
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
Circus life presents many strange
phases to the uninitisted by the hetero-
| penous horde Of mortss who must ne
/ cessarilv enroll under its banners Pro-
fessiopals aud others meet in the spring
/ for the first time probably, are assigned
dnties which throw them closely together
for every hour OF the ensuing season, in
which probably they jointly risk their
lives every day. They are billed az
brothers, and they become brothers IN
more senses than one. Let one OF
their number be taken Ill and
that "touch OF nature that makes
the whole world kin comes sponts-
neously to the surface, tender hands
smooth his fevered pillow charitable
hands purchase needful things, hours are
spent ov his bedside by sympathetic
watchers already tired out health aud
happiness are won back by care from
those who a little while before we're
strangers. These things tend 70 cement
q friendship that becomes life-lasting II
many cases. Cupid, the little rascal
ofttimes plays his pranks IN this mimic
world. aud the friendship spoken OF
above grows into love very often ere the
season closes.
HISTORIC INDIANS,
In connection with the show which
dishands here next month there ar'
scouts. trappers, yaqueros, cowboys NC
many of them. white and red, being his
toricai personages. The Indian tribes re
prespnted are Nandaus. DakOtas, Assino
holmes. and the incarnadlne Ogall'
sioux. From the latter tribe comes man,
Custer survivors Black Bull Bear, johi
Grass, Jr, observation-disclosures Man
With.No- Tail Mr. Spotted-Deer, Mr.
Short Horn, aud many others. Sergean
Wagner. the only living survivor OF tn
fateful Custer battle. IL also with tn
Wild West IN person. Colonel Il
ID Yates. who hes spent twenty
6ve Years Of his life amonl
the Indians, acts as interpreter, and tn
souaws aud papooses form an interest
inc study. There is no lack Of euphone
= ous co2nomens among the ladies' an
children. as will be proven by Mrs. Hail
r stones -in-her stomach, Mrs. Hay-in-ner
hair. Mrs Tall-ss-a-pine, sc. The littl
ones from hittle-seven-up to Charlie
Davv WHO is only fonr weeks old, hol'
: their own in making the catalogue d
, names musical and odd.
Z At the close of the season here ever
one of the Aboriyines viii be sent oac
home 10 their tepees. Their meals an
TRANSPORTATION will ne given them an
they viii ne set down among their IN
tutored brethren 10 form the central al
fractions in the campfire gatherings q
tho long cold hesperian winter OF the ia
Northwest.
l FOND or LIQUOR,
a IT is sad but true fact that the nobl
9 descendants Of HIawatha are extremel
susceptible to the thrilling influences
. fire-wster" aud they have to be vatcf
: e1 with the grestest closeness by tn
n showmen TO prevent their Indulgence 1
4 this pleasure. The Government pos
I lively forbids one drop Of liquor BEN
a sold TO them.
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