Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-09

tempts to get the partners to talk about
their visitors. / had an idea the whole
party had been together in some railroad
wreck. and 1 wanted to crow q little over
my wife about 1t. Both Capt. Bunker and
Mr.. Bunks were willing enough to talk
about the strangers. but they told me
f1uently concerning Mr.. Drake, who. he
said was retired low, but who had made
q name from one end of the land to the
other as the proprietor of brakes three
ring circus and hippodrome. Mr.. Lighter
was q lawyer in Massachusetts, town,
who had been q member of the legislature
and might have been q congressman If
Re had not voted for dog tax law. DR..
Sawyer, they both agreed. was the most
skillful surgeon of the age.
1t was many days before the complete
story Of the visitors and Of the queer part
ership was revealed entirely to me. Grad
ually picked 1t I'D in small pieces. Some
of 1t from Clark hints dropped by the cap
tain, some from the more loQuacious Mr..
Bunks and some details from the fishermen
along the shore. Then / took Mr.. Bunks
aside one day and told him some of the
things l had learned, and he made clean
breast of it.
Well said Mr.. Bunks on this occasion,
Il never did conceive the necessity for
all this secret business. Now, there's moth
ing so far from me as secret business. OF
course, business is business an / don't
GO around tellin' Tom, Dick and Harry
how l makes a two-headed fish, but with
- iChuos WHY, lIicHuS Is ullleTcut, Ill ally
friends is welcome TO come right in this
room an watch me construct a mermaid
or anythin' else. That's the way this
Emma business looks to me: but the
secret lay. It's mostly professional pride,
l think. because there was a wreck, you
know. Cap'n Bunker has been wrecked
three times. but he don't talk much about
any of them
Mr.. Bunks sat down upon his bench, lit
his pipe, and proceeded again: Back in
SO, the spring of '6S, John Ambrose brakes
mammoth circus was playing just outside
OF Boston. The leading attraction Of the
show was, everybody admitted, Senior Car
valho, the world-renowned bareback rider
and trick equestrian In private life Senior
Carvalho was known as Martin Van Buren,
Bunks, at your service. The second lead
ing attraction of brakes circus was
Madamoiselle Marcini, the aerial beauty,
who took the thrilling leap to the flying
trapeze. She was beauty, too, was Sarah
Cutler; Sarah Cutler was her name when
at home in Trenton. N. J. John Drake had
planned that summer to take his circus up
in Maine and New England, an we were
pretty near ready to start, when one day
trap in Boston an hurt himself consider
able. He had himself carried out to the
show grounds an immediate he sent for
doctor an lawyer. The doctor he need
ed in his own personal business, an the
lawyer was intended to sue the city of
Boston for 100000 damages, with display
lines in all the city papers. an Interviews
galore. In which Mr. Drake said he sued
not for his own sake, but for public wei
fare, an would give all he got to charity.
1.-THE lawyer who took charge of the case
was William Pitt Lighter, an the doctor
was DR.. Arnold c. Sawyer, an besides
'tendin' to their professional duties as con-
nected with John Drake, both of them pro-
ceeded to fall in love with Sarah Cutler
They both come to the conclusion that
brakes case was a most serious one, an
they was on hand most any hour of the
day or night. They even tended rehearsaIs
In the mornin's, an man what tends cir
Gus rehearsals, where the tinsel is al off,
an the ladies and gents rides around in
raggedy clothes, while the ringmaster
STAINS in the center an swears-the man
what goes regular to circus rehearsals, un-
less he has to, is badly in love or he Is
crazy. Those Two gents were certainly in
love, an Sarah Cutters father bought him.
self new big club. Sarah Cutters father
was terror, an the way he made himself
Unpopular with his daughters followers
would made the heavy payrent in the
melly-drama wild with envy. Sarah's IA
Their divided his time between trainin'
pair OF Ions an fussin' with young men
who wanted Sarah. He was equal as en-
phatic with each an all, an would just as
soon use snake whip on a young man
as on a lion. He used to say that the
young men were safer, an afforded more
amusement, because they howled louder.
Waen we were al lready to go north
both Mr.. Lighter an DR.. Sawyer consented
to so with US for a little. I say consented
in order to let them two young men down
light DR.. Sawyer said Mr.. brakes condi-
ton was such that it was absolutely neces-
sary to stay by him for time. Mr.. Lighter
opined that his duty to the poor of Boston
demanded the completion of the suit for
damages at once, an he would stay by Mr..
Drake until all elim'naries were ar
ranged.
"Circuses Travelled different in those DAYS
to what they do now. The quality was bet
ter then, but the quantity was lighter, an
We didn't travel aroun' with any special
cars. On the road we used horses to pull
everythin', an when big jumps was to be
made some stuff went by rail an some by
boat. This time we started lot Of stuff
up to Portlan' by road an a lot more by
rail, an Drake chartered three big schoon-
ers to go 'roun by water. At tho last mo-
ment he comes to the conclusion he would
go by water himself, for the benefit Of his
health, so he takes on another schooner
an tells the doctor an the lawyer they
were in for voyage, which don't seem to
please them much, when they fms Sarah
Cutler was goin' by rail. Drake tells me
I'm to go along with him, cause he wants
soma enc to keep the lawyer from maxim
his will an the doctor from feedin' him
enough medicine to make the dockeyme1 at
of use to his heirs. Then they sent down a
little stuff to put on thu schooner an a cage
with two lions in 1t, an on3 mornin the
four of ,is. with a man to look after the
lions, went down an got aboard.
I'VE sailed out'n Boston harbor on May
Is on that schooner which was named the
Emma The cap'n was Cap'n Cyrus Bun
ker, an he had two sailor men as crew, an
a Portuguese fellow to cook. Durin' the af-
ternoon the wind was light, an we did
whole pile Of tackn'. The weather was
fine an We all spent most of the time up on
deck. The cage with the Hons in 1t was
dashed to the deck forward, an 1 poked
them up pretty often. DIR. Sawyer didn't
poke the lions up. but he poled Mr.. Lighter
a good deal. The doctor was pleasant,
rcun' fellow, even when he was younger,
while the lawyer always had leanin' to-
wards biliousness. We had somethin' to
eat on deck, an Drake swore SO powerful
at the Portuguese cook that you might have
thought you was back under the tents. /
turned in kinder early, leavin' the rest dis
cussin' of the general adaptability Of la
dies in the show business to becomin' good
wives. The lawyer an the doctor was up
holdin' the affirmative. an Drake was con-
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