The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-06-25
A QUIET CIRCUS DAY |!
The Fakirs Kept Close to the Show
Tents.
THE TOWN FREE OF THEM
IF Any People Were VictImized They
Kept the Intelligence TO Them
selves suits Brought for
Wages.

The people of Shenandoah who read the
newspapers and keep posted on the events
of the day showed their good Judgment
by needing the warnings given by the
HERALD and avoided the circus fakirs
yesterday. The sharpers got almost a
general cold shoulder Their only victims
were few Polish, Lithuanian and Hun
garian people who no doubt cannot read
English and, therefore, failed to re-
ceve the benefit of the warn
ings. They were cropped in" on the
shell game 1t should also be stated that
the police force also did excellent service
in saving the people from imposition. One
fallir tried to amuse the people at the cor
uer of Main and Centre streets, but de
sisted when Chief of Police Tosh said he
would lock him up in cell for several
hours and have him fined afterwards. The
fallirs gave the town a wide berth after
that
The people who did fall victims to the
sharpers at the circus grounds said nothing
about it and there were no lawsuits.
Justice Lawlor had five suits on his docket,
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people alone were interested Four of the
suits were instituted by four negroes for
wages and one by white man, who was
employed as driver of the siX-horse team.
Constable Phillips made repeated efforts to
find the manager Of the circus in order to
make service Of the summons and attach
ment but failed The other suit was one
instituted against the manager by a canvas
man for assault and battery, but Policeman
Lee was unable to find the manager The
canvas man had an ugly cut across the
bridge of his nose, but several townsmen
said he was deserving of no sympathy, as
! he was drunk and conducted himself in an
indecent manner at the circus.
This morning Constable Thomas Boland
went to Ashland to serve the summons and,
attachment on the circus manager in the
suits for wages.
The chasing of the fallir from the corner
has led to a suit between Chief Burgess
Burns and Chief of Police Tosh and the
latter has furnished $500 bail for a trial at
court. Itappears that the Burgess claims
the man who was driven from the corner
had license from him to give a side show
at the corner in order to advertise the
circus and he claims that Tosh interfered
with him in the performance of his duty
by ignoring the license and driving the
man from the corner Justice Cardin
heard the case and Burns says he will take
it to court to have test made as to the
precedence of authority. Chief Tosh
claims the man was circus fakir and in
view of the Pottsville developments he
was justified in taking the course he did.
The circus people We're not as bold in
their games here as they seem to have been
in Pottsville. The only men who operated
openly were the shell-game men, and they
hugged the circus grounds. The tlim-ham
game was attempted at the popcorn STALL
but whether successfully or not has not
been learned, A newspaper man went to
the stand and bought five cents worth of
popcorn. He rendered tifty-cent piece to
the vender, who asked if the newspaper
man didn't have bill, adding that he
wanted to get rid of some small change
"Give me the change, or my half dollar, 70
the newspaper man retorted, whereupon
tine veuder gave the change with the
whispered remark, "Thats all right; say
no more about it.
The attendance at the circus last night
was so large that the people crowded upon
the rings Many parts of the ring per-
formances were very good.