The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-19
WAS HERE BEFORE
When Jack" Cousins Was a
Honolulu Pet.
SAME OLD HORSE BACK
Fly yMartin-Circus That Has Travel
ed Man Said to be Better
Than Great LahI Sing.

The man who comes around to the
newspaper offices to Jolly" the local
writer's and make advertising contracts
for Willison's circus, is F. l.. Y. Mar
tin If he remains in Honolulu he will
learn that he is not the only ely" Mar
tin on the beach. This show manager
has been in the business a long time
and he is making his third visit to the
Hawaiian capital. He was here about
II years ago with Woodyear's circus.
which had a tent on the ground now
occupied by the Club stables, Fort
street. The star of that show was
Jack" Cousins, son of the owner and
a fine bare back rider Cousins became
in addition to attending to outside
business, did a clown act. He says he
has fOrsaken the ring to give the young
fellows more chance. Cousins rode the
sorrel horse Sydney. The same horse,
now in the 10Th year of his life in the
show business, is with the Willison cir
Gus, and when he is needed on a pinch
is good as ever Martin says he can
see that Honolulu has changed a good
deal, but he believes that it is a pretty
good town yet.
Alf st. Leon, wife and daughter, all
ring people, also return to Honolulu
with Willison. The st. Icons were
here with Wirth less than two years
ago Alf. st. Leon was trapeze per-
former and general arcobat. Mrs. ST.
Leon is rider and the little girl. who
is fine with a horse now, was just
learning to ride then. There are five
little girls in the show.
This circus has Travelled a great deal
The company left South Africa the day
of the Jameson raid and Martin says
they left just in time Some years ago
they were in Tahiti, and had such
heavy receipts that the local governor
ordered them to leave the country and
enforced his will in the matter. The
ground for the eviction was that the
circus was cOrralling all the currency.
Willison has been in South America,
in England and Europe in India, Cey-
lon, the Straits Settlements, Java, Chi
ma, Philippines, Japan, Australia and
New Zealand. He hopes yet to reach
Hilo. The circus is just now from ia
pan. One day there just before a
parade. Miss WiIlison was riding a
restless horse some distance from the
circus compound. She happened to see
on the ground a small watch. with
chain attached. Calling jinrikisha
man she had him hand the jewelry up
to her The native noticed the ladv
wore here own watch and followed her
In narrow street a lot of Japs set on
MISS W1llison and dragging her from
the horse, took the found" watch away
from her. The affair made one of the
most sensational episodes the authori-
ties over there have ever had. The DO
lice cannot find the watch nor can they
learn who lost it. On another occasion
in Japan, while Dixon was driving six
horses, two natives jumped from the
ground to his seat and bit a piece out
of one his arms before he could fight
them off. At the time the first news
OF trouble with immigrants here, reach
| ed Japan, Martin, in common with
nearly all the foreigners out there
| thought the Islands would surely be
taken by the japanese Martin saws
| the Japanese such as one meets every.
where declare that their country car
get the best of a war with anv coun
try excepting Great Britain. The very
smallest towns in Japan have newspa
pers and it seems as if everybody read.
them. The 'rikisha men and servant
generally are such gossips that ther
are absolutely no secrets in the coun
try
Willison, who owns this show. is al
American. About all his people ar
either English or Colonials. They ar
the best for small circus talent. for tn
reason that do from four or five to