New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-22
HOW TO BECOME A FREAK.
SOME ARE BORN TO THE PROF EssioN.
OTHERS THRUST THEMSELVES
UPON IT.
~ NATURE HASN'T BEEN KIND TO You IN drv
,nc vo,, AN ODD NUMBER or LIMBS OR
uRs,,TE ADoRNMENTs WHERE THEY
orGuT NOT TO BE. YOU'D BET
rrp limp THE BRIDGE

OUGHT NOT TO BE. fo''D bbi-
TER JUMP THE BRIDGE.
"Anv one who has remarked the gregarious ele'
ment In human nature. when MAKES every one
,ger ~ see what the other has seen. VIII not mar
vol at the success which notoriety has attained IN
the show business" said the manager or popular
museum. $4,000
,,s, so much trade and people In our line
n, work are willing TO pay any price for H. To
make no account OF the money value OF the ad-
yertisement, they are delighted 10 hnow mat tney
are being talked about and specu.ated ABOUT ana
N see their names In the newspapers. You see how
HIGH that dome is?' he continued. pointing 10 the
ch.d snace far above the ropes and bars stretched
ocross for acrobatlc performances wei. man
came in here offered &c jump from Its highest point
down to the floor so as to make name Tor hm-
self II would have been certain death. you know.
20 a,,empt t. but he said he had practsed jumping.
knew how to manage and would escape injury.
He begged to be allowed 10 make the Jump ana
was much cast down at our refusal
"rbst man only expected 10 jump once After
having nerformed the feat he felt that he would be
a curiosity worth money 10 see Ihat was the
motive that prompted the woman bridge-jumper the
other day. and now whether she jumped or didn't
she IS equally notorious, ana people "ou'd 20 much
out OF their way to see her
ANYWAY. we business people see that the public
crave amusement of this kind and we delighted
TO crafty them
A TARRED AND FEATHERED VICTIM.
"at the time OF the White Cap agitation. when
there was 81 much talk in the papers about their
outrages man offered to exhibit himself as
tarred and featherei victim just returned from the
West and we let him do IT. Moreover the public
ercoura sed him TO do IT, for they came IN focks 10
see HIM The tattooed woman who was paid 800 q
day was tattooed right here In New-fork but the
work was marveousy well done, and the fairy tale
about her. as told by the Snowman. only heightened
the crowds interes, and harmed nobody. she was
represented In the story as having been stranded on
one OF the Sandwich Islands. shipwrecked with her
husband who put 10 death. Her life was
spared, but she was put to torture. having these
extraordinary characters tattooed all over her body
There were from five hundred to seven hundred peo-
ME at each one OF the twenty-one daily perform
ances at which that tattooed woman was exhibited.
and all were pleased at the show. Tor wnien 'ney
pad ten cents .,-
do many OF these freaks, reinarKaple lor 'a'ious
reasons get fine saares?
Indeed they do. We paid a certain midget ""
week Her father and the family travelled WIN
her and got rich out of 1t. Then that wonderful
oregon horse with the trailing name ana taii was
maid $500 a week for several months. The two
headed negro girl. or girls has made fortune and
/ could mention any number or celebrated ireans
who have profted financially.
Each day we get letters from all over the coun-
try-al the world-offering US freaks OF nature
This one sends a photograph OF sheep having
NTH leg and hoof growing out OF his shoulder
This one sends a COW with horn projecting from
her back Here Is a letter from handless man IN
West Virginia He writes with his toes. and
writes a very good letter. He IL gentleman,
Judge from the tone OF the letter and the picture.
He II undecided whether to exhibit or not, which.
Of course means that he does not know whether
we Will pay him enough. Talent even genius,
nately unfortunate freaks can secure" ~
used reccsses to refresh the showman's mind What
a galaxy not OF beauty. but OF the bizarre ana me
gowns their masculine faces In revolving contrast
to the feminine neck and arms; men without egs
that they were photographed prone upon coqcn,
limp and helpless; men who had starved themseye,,
her remarkable sister with n verltabe horses name
growing upon her back.
MARVELLOUS GUNsHOT WOUND
THAT was clever scheme this fellow devised"
said the Snowman adjusting his glasses 80 as 10
view a likeness. He represented himself as having
a gunshpt wound through and through the body, and
then he fixed up optical deusion apparatus
which made 1t appear that people could look straight
through him. We displayed colored photograph
at the back. and the people could see that picture
what furore there was about a. That was down
on the Bowery. Everybody wanted TO look through
the man with the gunshot wound Then, finding
that the man was such bowling success, "a =
fixed herself up as having been speasss Re.
victim OF cruelty and brutality. We fixed IT for
the crowd to look throush her and she wa; no no
red curtains with a pathetic. rapt look on her face
and the people couldn't get enough Of looking
through her at the bouquet OF flowers displayed at
her back.
People will delight In signs and wonders as long
as the world endures," added the Snowman, and
Just so long will scientists and magicians cater 10
their desires. In Paris there Is institution where
infants are made into freaks systematically as
hour Is made into bread. Those in charge are
skiful physicians II is said. who know Just how
much the human anatomy be crippled and
cramped and distorted without injury to lie. The
babies limbs are manipulated when tender ana
tesaue"
DO freaks live in the museums when not ex.
hibtion?"
Some do-those whose pecuiartles are so striking
that they fear to attract attention We nj ur
apartments for them in the building The others
board all about in various parts Of the city. They
are usually nd ed nd make the