Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-03
SUNDAY AT THE SHOW.
A Day With the Wonders to Be Found
Under a Great Circus Tents.
HOW A MOTHER ATE UP Her YOUNG
George Coughlan FOndles Young Lion
Fresh From the Jungle.
GREAT MEMS FACES SEEN ON ANIMALS

when the day was broken by the arrival OF
Rarnum's circus and the yells of the small
bows who could not sleep. One of them
even admitted that he had said his prayers
four times in order to keep awake. Still
some people say the circus does not have o
Chris1ianizing influence!
It was not only the boys, but grown men
as well. that had their fancies tiokled.
Since childhood the name of Banum has
carried with it an air of fascination, and
that wonderful man so kept pace with the
growing imagination that to-day his aggre-
cation of wonders carries with it a double
charm. In fact it was carried out yesterday
when Exposition Park was transformed into
a sea of canvas beside which the Exposition
building looked insignificant Why,
the dressing room for the performers in the
RING is larger tEan the main tent of Bar
NUNS famous Flat Foot show" was Is
years ago.
GROWN BEYOND ALI BOUNDS.
Now the main canvas is $50 feet long, and
besides a stage 45O feet long for the pro-
duetion of Kiralfy's ''Nero," it will accom-
modate 10000 people. 1t took 160 cars,
with the assistance of dozen engineers, to
land the show in Allegheny. Besides this
there wore 45O horses tethered in their stalls
and 5000 employees either resting on the
grounds or carefully slowed away in the
hotels
But all Of the glory of the great combina-
tion does not belong to Barnum. A part is
the work of J. a. Bailey. Mr.. Bailey is an
Enrlishman, and. contrary to the general
belief. does not wear his hair ''baccarat"
stvlc, or adorn his scarf with
a paper chip with the image of the prince
craven upon it. He is q short, thin, wiry
man. scarcely as large as cur own miniature
President. He has a hat and an income
out of proportion TO his size, and a red
beard streaked with grey. The beard and
the income fit nicely together, both are
GOLD and silver mixed.
a Sunday with circus is always pleas
ure 1t is like talking to a man who has on
his dressing gown and is smoking his pipe.
EVERYTHING is free and easy, and even the
animals seem to be enjoying a day off 1t
was especially pleasure to visit Barnum's
Yesterday. Last year the fire at Bridge
port destroyed all but the elephants and
TWO birds
FRESH FROM THE yUNGLES.
The entire menagerie is new, and is made
up from specimens rarely exhibited be-
fore, and with a few exceptions none of
the animals have ever been exhibited before.
The old proverb about a new broom sweep
ing clean goes with the menagerie. The
animals have only been in captivity a few
months and the air of the iungles and
swamps is still fresh in their nostrils Each
animal seems proud of his job and does not
have that weary bohemian air of the old
stagers that have drawn out exclamations of
wonder Tor a score of years and feel that
they have had surfeIt of praise and
famine of sleep.
The first object of interest Is q little Shet-
land pony that has only been on the earth
five weeks, and yet is up to all the tricks of
the trade. Manager Perley introduced him
with the explanation, eve call him Nero
because he's always roamin' round" Next
was George Coughlan, the great lion
trainer. He is a pleasant little man of
ahcat the average height. He has won
derfully piercing dark eyes and hair, a
close-cropped mustsche that once was
black, but is now tinged with gray. In
spite of his want of size his apparent
strength impresses one, and little later
when he was rolling over the ground with
two young lions he evidently had need of
every bit of it.
HE FoNDLED YOUNG LION.
Mr.. Coughlan held one up in his arms
and asked the visitors TO feel the weight of
1t. Strange to say no one accepted the
offer, although several of them stroked the
Young animal. There were four of the
young cubs and the mother. Close TO them
was the finest cage of lions ever exhibited
One is the great, black-maned African lion
from which Sir Alexander Pope painted his
famous picture that now hangs in the
National Gallery in London. There are
two others fresh from the wilds of Asia In
another cage rest three beautiful tigers that
still retain all their savage ferceness
One is eight inches taller than the largest
tiger ever put on exhibition. Only seven
months ago he was in the jungle of India
and although he never did successful sea-
son ut tine English capital he bearsth name
Of Sir Gordon Cumming. In fact he was so
large that portion of his tail hung outside.
One of the newspaper men recognizing the
chance OF lifetime beat Wales record and
twisted the ''Tager's" tail land the 'Tager'
he roHred.
Probably the attraction that will draw
the greatest interest Will be the two birds
tha; passed through the great Bridgeport
fire. One is pelican and the other is an
adjutaat bird
BILL NYE WITH WINGS
AT bridgeport both are allowed to wonder
fancy free. They viii fy away miles into
the country, but always return. With the
ci-cuS they enjoy the same freedom. The
adjutant. however, is the greater
Of the two. He has all the airs that his
POSITION entities him to, and if he had
Grand Army button on each feather he
would rot be a whit more proud. He has
dignity of poise and appearance in keeping
with his score of years. His head is bald
aud greatly resembles that of Bill Nye He
has bill about three items longer than the
average politicians liquor account, and he
insists on presenting 1t on every possible
occasion. lie Is quite a collector of but
tons, but owing to his heavy coat of feath-
ers, his collection is not visible to the naked
eve. He has pleasant manner of quietly
stealing up in the rear and appropriating
all the buttons visible.
BEN BUTLER IN LIVING BRONZE.
But speaking Of resemblance there is a
splendid specimen of the rhinoceros FAM
liz and the portion of his visage below the
:-rns is picture in bronze Of the famous
I.--l Butler The cheeks hang in exactly
tii2 same lines as those of the famous Gen
tral and the eyelids droop in precisely the
same manner
One picture that will never be forgotten
is that of Russian she wolf and her two
cabs now six weeks old. 1t is the first ever
exhibited. This wolf family guards its
cubs much the same as a Sultan guards his
harem The wolf mother believes that if
anv orc other than her keeper looks on the
Young until they are month old they are
lost forever. She had four originally and a
stranger happened TO see them. The savage
mother saw him and at once devcured two
of ner cuhS