Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-20
NOT A FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
ONLY 81 500 TAKEN IN At THE CHAR
ITy CIRCUS PERFORMANCES.
Manager Of the show Claims Tie Is
Out Large sum, and the Local
Charities VIII Get brt
Little Cash.

II the estimates given last night are near
the truth, the charities which IL was hoped
would be greatly benefited by the late
Charity circus will be disappointed. Ac-
cording to Manager Harry L. Feicht. OF the
circus, and a member of the local com
mittee. the receip,s from the three per-
formances given will not exceed 81 500 Mr.
Feicht said last night that he himself had
lost 5000 on the venture.
The charities Interested In the circus are
nine In number--the Provident Association,
the Nursing Association, the Childrens
home. the Keeley League, the Mayors
Charity fund. the Good Samaritan day
nursery. the Kansas City day nursery. the
National Council of Jewish Women and the
Hebrew Relief Association. Assuming that
this rough estimate given last night is
fair one. II will be seen that each organi-
zation's profits will not be large. II any at
all The Charity circus management is to
be given 40 per cent Of the total receipts,
and the rest Is 10 so to the charita-
bile institutions above named out of the
charities share must come their expenses.
which which IL was said last night, are pretty
q bill of 500 for the use Of the lot at Fif-
teenth street and Highland avenue must be
which were used at the two night per-
formances lie said also that last nights
Though many OF the objects used during
the circus were donated. and many of the
Sara6e seTSs Tnfed wSap Were Ss o the Is
ceints is made the charities viii not he re-
Bad5p FOR the tmf , and Eainis, Which nave I'VE
poor financial showing Said he.
in cities of but 5000 inhabitants and have
done far better than 1 haye done here; !
don't know what was the matter. but
dif not take hold as 1t ought to have done.
Eyesty6ody Eye body seems seems to haye been eager to
by fair crowd. The events which evoked
Mir Conway r Holmes beautiful mare.
Lady ReX the daring riding Of Jockey
IS bs ana nc hs VIE and tSe sk9f
Rex was ridden by Mr.. Thomas Bass. OF
Mexico; Mo-, and she was cheered to the
the band, and her pacing. were very pretty
and won her round after round of applause
stallion. "BlTe Eyes" was " at the circus
ths SECTION Of country; ana presents VS.: a
white nose and clear blue eyes. He has
been ridden many mes by Trainer . Bass;
Snd r Ra sven han more ba gieyer b than ma
number OF times. Ia and Blue Eyes" has Gre
ated the greatest enthusiasm whenever
the country expressly for the circus.
Mr. and Mrs. Marks gave a fine exhibit
white stations, Asteroid and Comet. which
they rode, seemed to enjoy the hard-cap-
ping and catcalls even more than their
riders did. The Cowboys" did a great
deal of rough riding and shooting, so much
so that II seemed If the place had
been turned into a frontier town for the
time being. just as one of them was pre-
pairing for the "buckinC bronco" exhibit
ton his horse threw him and broke away.
He was pursued by at least dozen cow
boys, all of them on foot. He made n
jump into one of the rings and before he
was caught three men came near dislocat-
ing their necks on the rope which encircled
the ring. The thrown cowboy was assisted
into the dressingroom by two of his COM
panions. but IL was soon found he had
only scratched his arm.
The famous elephant Nit created con-
siderable fun. He was made of rubber,
apparently, and inside of him were two
men, who raised his legs and tapped his
ears and trunk. He was accompanied by
a clown, who produced a bottle from which
both he and "Nit' drank. The two stag
Eered off TO the tune of 'Razzle Dazzle"
Mr.. "Biny" Gault the clown. proved very
attractive at first, with his jokes and his
topical song, but on his second appearance
his voice failed him and he was Obliged to
retire quite ANONYMOUSLY amid howls of
''Loudern' Louder" The performance
was followed by a special performance par
tcipated In by Lon Hale, Tom Hayde,
Billy Murphy and others.