The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-11-05
T URsDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1891.
A BULL FIGHT IN PROVENCE.
Vivid and Interesting Description o.
the National sport OF the Spanish.

Usually the bulls for the Sundays
bull-iight are brought into The town
from the Camarguc in closed van.
and scarcely any one knows when they
arrive But al rare intervals they are
driven BIZ their Camarguan keepers
through tie streets 10 the stables IN
the amphitheater. In most parts OF
the civilized world all precaution IS
taken 10 keep wild cattle out of the
public thoroughfares; in Provence. to
send them tearing through the towns
is the treat of treats reserved Tor holl-
DAYS. The route they were now TO
follow had been officially announced.
with NJ. lie MARES signature 10 the
proclamation. The greater part of 1t
of course lay along the boulevards.
The whole place was barrlcadcd with
wooden barriers to prevent their
escape down any cross street ana
everywhere shutters were drawn IN
lower windows. and doors were closed,
and shops were Shut, in case they did,
by chance, get loose. Business was
suspended.
By three o'clock, the entire town of
more than 20. 600 people had turned
Lices there was not vacant table.
GAY parties were at every window and
in every pretty hanging garden. The
paths opposite were thronged. and the
market was over. To greet the bulls
the stately, handsome women of Aries
had put on their finest costumes, their
long gold watch-chains hanging over
the Quaker-like shawls aud soft tichus,
the pretty Arlesian cross At their throat,
a tiny square of rich old lace iuclosed
in the velvet ribbon Of their head-dress.
They walked together arm-in-arm on
the wide road, conscious that they were,
as a sight, equal to any other part of
the days show.
Boys already were climbing into the
trees, in delicious tremor of fear and
expectation. But suddenly there
was cry of, "Yc! les taureaux" and
the dancers. hot and breathless. rushed
to the garden ratings. Out on the
Lices people were fleeing in every
direction. springing across the little
ditch by the roadside. jumping up on
the high marble benches.
At the far. end of the boulevards rose
cloud of white dust The next
minuts eight black bulls Numbered
past on Il dead gallop. the foam
streaming from their mouths, guarded
on each side by men. each Que of whom
CARRIED q long trident and was
mounted on a white horse of tie
Camarguc- After them came ut full
tilt men and boys and even women.
From the gardens the crowd turned
and made short cut for the amphi-
theater. From every street people
were running towards it. laughing,
shouting, pushing, painting. All Aries
was racing for one more look at the
bulls.
We reached the front of the main
entrance just in time to see the black
bulls galloping up narrow street, one
or two little in advance, and the
white horses their riders sitting firm
in the saddle. the long tridents in their
hands. They were at the top of the
street. The only way now open for
them led into the stables Suddenly
the barrier fell. Eight bulls were at
large in the streets of Aries.
Every body left. did not wait to see
ANYTHING more. But when, once safe
inside the amphitheater | looked out
were still crowded. and there were still
groups on many housetops; but no one
was on the street.
Gradually the women came back 20
the doors. lifting up the green curtains
and peeping out while they kept the
children we'll behind them. Men
walked boldly about. Then at last we
started cautiously for the hotel. Wild
rumors were abroad. One bull has
gone into the Cafe du Forum. 1t
jumped through the glass of the front
door. The walters and the patron ran.
1t knocked down the tables: it went
ont through the back door" Two
are III the Place de la Republique.
They have got into the Hotel de Vile.
and are mounting towards the man OF
bronze. The clerks have 40 wn."
They are coming here now! Les
tdUrcdur! les tauredur! Then came
precipitate flight.
But the bulls were seen no more that
night. They had gone back to the
Camargue. Eight others, fresh and fit
for combat, were brought in the
covered van to take their places
Preposterous rs it may seem to let a
regiment of cowboys and bulls loose in
this town. "A flourshing city long be-
fore the Christian cra.-there was a
barbarlc plcturesqueneSs about the
grand arrival of the bulls not to be
found i'll the better-rcgulated spectacles
of more serious people. Joseph Pen
neil IN The CcRtHIy