The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-21
BACK HOME AGAIN
M'MAHAN'S CIRCUS GOES INTO ITS
WINTER QUARTERS.

This Time 1t viii BE In the Stewart Iron
works-A Fairly Successful Season Was
Scored Considering the Times-seveo-
teen Thousand Miles Were Travelled and
Frei-h. to the Extent of Thirty Thous-
and Dollars Was Paid-It Wac the Only
Circus of Its Glass That D.dh't Go
Broke on the Road.
i Yesterday a little old man about as
high as the average 2-year-ol6 baby hop
pad off the train at the Santa Fe depot.
His long hair was done Up on the back
OF the head and he had cigar in his
mouth that seemed 10 be as long as HIM
self. He walked up Douglas avenue with
man who seemed 10 be eight feet high
and he had a cigar in his mouth that did
not seem 10 be one incn hong. As re-
porter for the Eagle followed them he
met Joe McMahan and then ne tumbled.
The circus was in town and the two
stranger beings the reporter saw were
the long and the short of il.
1t was McMahan's circus that had
come here, Is il usually does every win
ter. TO go into winter quarters.
The winter quarters this year viii be
the Stewart iron works in the Sixth
ward.
The circus came in yesterday with but
little announcement and as il was taken
from the train and moved to its quarters
it made a strange looking procession.
The Iioness roared like fury and the
good women OF the Sixth ward who were
up cooking breakfast for their lords were
fairly thrown into fits. They peeped out.
saw the procession and for little while
they could not realize where they were
al.
When the animals got into their winter
/ home and looked about them seemed to
be well satisfied with the surroundings.
| The elephants were all chained to the
wall. the lioness and tigress quit roar
ing and the great big snakes curled up
and went to take little snooZe for about
six months or so. The zebra was put
away over by himself where he will have
plenty room to kick, and il anybody
thinks he is not a kicker q visit 10 the
region of his hind feet will convince him
Most of the horses will be sent out in
the country, where feed is cheap. TO be
boarded by the farmers until April when
the circus viii take the road for another
year.
MI. McM30dN : circus Is lne only one
of its class that went out this year and
conquered the hard times. All the other
medium circuses went broke. The fact
that this circus got back home all right
speaks well for the management.
Ii is no trifling matter to manage a
circus and make both ends meet. TO say
nothing about making a big profit. Since
1t ler here il has travelled about 1900
miles and il is said that the item OF
transportation alone amounted to $780,
COO
1t went west from here taking in Col
orado Utah, Wyoming. Nebraska, Ida
no. Oregon and British Columbia. From
there it went down TO California and
came home by way Of Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
The management does not claim that
big profits were made. but that the cir
Gus did not lose anything. The cam
paign usually effects a circus but Mr..
NcMahan was fortunate in travelling
over a territory where the sentiment
was practically all one way and the peo-
pie were not so much concerned that
they could not go to the circus.
All have returned but the bill posters
and they will turn UP in day or two.