The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-29
BARNUM' S ISANGLICIzED
Greatest Show OH Earth Be-
comes English, You Know.
Is CAPITALIZED AT 100000.

shows Headquarters Are to Be Re-
moved From Bridgeport to Stoke
n-Trent-ProVinciaI Tours viii BE
Made In 1899 and 10OO-TOdy Ham,
iItOn's Statement.
When the late Phineas Taylor Bar
mum took the smallest man on earth 10
England and introduced him to ROYALTY
and others, it never occurred to his fer
tile Connecticut mind to incorporate
Tom Thumb there under the limited
liability act as a permanent British in
stltution. He brought him back, and
Tom died an unadulterated American
citizen. So did Barnum.
How different in the destiny of the
Greatest Show. on Earth, the enterprise
which was the creation of Barnum' S
genius In its maturer phase, and consti-
tuted both his monument and his legacy
to the great and gay American people
We have before us the prospectus Of
Barnum d Bailey, limited, com
pany now being foated on the London
market in the ordinary, that is to say,
the non Barnum, fashion The Greatest
Show on Earth is to be expatriated Its
headquarters are to be removed from
Bridgeport, Conn, to Stoke on Trent
Its elephants are to become British ele-
plants, its monkeys British monkeys,
its simultaneous performances in four
rings British performances in British
rings, all capitalized at 94O0, 900, in
400, 600 shares of 81 each The pro-
gramme of its future operations ignores
the continent which produced Barnum.
Provincial tours in Albion are set down
for 1899 and 1900 Then will occur a
continental tour occupying at least two
years. Nothing definite is said in the
purely British prospectus of this now
purely British grand aggregation of its
return at any time to the shores where
repose the bones of Barnum. AS an
American grand aggregation it has
passed, perhaps forever, beneath the
eastern horizon.
1t Is not surprising that the accom-
plished Mr.. Tody Hamilton, whose soul
stirring advertisements have appealed
so often and never in vain to the mag
ination and the pockets of the Ameri-
can public, should attempt to break the
force Of this national misfortune by the
statement with which he has favored
US. We note change already in Tody
Hamilton style The tone is apollo
getic, not triumphant; the adiectives
are at least three octayes under the old
pitch and-will it be believed 2-he re-
fers to Bridgeport as bridgeport.
Conn, z. S. a. " Tody's old American
heart Is not in this proclamation.
1t is in vain that he attempts to dis
miss cheerfully the sadder international
aspects Of the expatriation of the
Greatest Show on Earth by calling it
''the latest gift Of America to England,
adding another link to the friendly
chain binding the two Anglo Saxon
countries together. 1t is in vain that
Tody holds out this vague prospect
1T is further stated that one of thaaa
days the big affair will revisit the
of the free and the brave where the
show was born, reopen some fine spring
day in Madison Square Garden and
make the usual tour of the United
States, but with an absolutely new,
grand and most magnificent show, with
every department augmented. with new
animals, new acts, new attractions,
new everything, to again capture the
plaudits of the people Of America and
reinstate itself once more in their
hearts "
Pathetic indeed is this effort, coming
as it does from one who was so recent.
ly at the head of his profession!
1t only remains for the Wild West
show to recognize at Berlin as the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS e
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., or something
of that sort and to promise to reappear
some in the United States ''to again
capture the plaudits of the people of
America and reinstate itself once more
in their hearts, with the Sioux braves
all smoking long stemmed porcelain
pipes and the Arapahoes slashing with
blunt swords at each others impassive
cOuntenances under the rules obtain
ing just across the river from Heidel-
berg, NV YoEk Sun.
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