New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30
THE CIRCUS CHANGES BOROUGHS.
IT TOOK ITS MYSTERIOUS PASSAGE ACROSS
THE BRIDGE LAST NIGHT.

The short stay Of the circus in Manhattan ended
last night and it's shorter stay in Brooklyn will
begin to-rnorrow-hat is TO say rs shorter period
Of exhibition. It's actual stay is supposed to have
begun already. Not that there Is any certainty
about IT, For years IT has been the custom Of the
managers of the circus TO invite newspaper men
70 see the circus cross the Bridge on the night
after the last performance at the Madison Square
Garden
II has been the custom also for the papers to
print accounts OF the crossing OF the elephants
and the cages full of other animals. They were
good accounts too in point Of literary merit, but
in point Of fact they much drawn from the
Imagination as The Jungle Book" For the pro-
cession was never known 10 cross the Bridge tii
long after the papers had gone 10 press ana no
newspaper man ever saw II cross since the Gays
whom the Emperor Nero withdrew the light OF his
countenance from the circus because the actors uu
not get killed fast enough 10 keep him awake.
A man who was connected with an evening paper
o,ca said that he saw the circus crossing the
Bridge as he on his way TO oegm MS ia!
work but nobody ever believed him because the
circus always crosses on sunday morIhhs anu
evening papers are not printed on sunday. II Is d
nifty too that nobody ever saw 1t who could give
q ,rue.worthv account OF IL to the world, because
Il &c time for some person not given to roinahclhs
to confirm or deny what the instructive chHure"
books used to say about the haDits oi e'ep'""''
with regard TO bridges .
books used 10 say tnat ihe cioP"A''' w."
senst,tve about his weight. and would never cross
n bridge unless he sure that II w11 d H tbe
him When an elephant comes 10 pi IL
books said he tests II with his foreleeI ~ ne
thfnks that IL IL safe, he walks over ~ ne I'm,
that n &c not he wades sw1ms the river ~
why will not somebody sit up some hsn.' ~ ~ &c
interests OF science. and find out Whelhei sls
true9 How interesting IT would be 10 SEE tIe Ter
phants trying shake the BrookIyn Ii,sc doun
fhetr forefeef and then cautiously waking uUmi,
Frankfort-st and wading or swimming '"e i1e''
River! a.. oo,rso q, Madison
That the circus finished It's course a, odao n,spt
Square Garden last night there can pe ITO ~ tbe
A Tribune reporter saw that. he also saw y, ne
cages containing the animals pusheo ~ 9 nuta he
basement nv the elephants. An elephant pu.s Us
head against the back end Of the cage ai,o push.
three or four men guide IL by the pore IN S w.
up il comes One OF the elephant men eS,I 20
reporter 10 notice that the elephant was ~
put his head against the framework OF 'hs oH,gg
although II was covered with canvas, hnowIi.s
well tbat II bv an accident he should push against
a panel he would break II In and waste nIs .ha
The cages were brought up ana placed IT, nnnaS
arena while men busy taxing ooWn .ne ne
ratus az the acrobats When they were ieaus ~.
horses were nut TO them and they were oIaUIt 80
into Fourth-aye and headed towarc ,he Dii uss.
Some tine before tomorrow they VIII al ~ aGa
the Bridge, unless the elephants decoe 10 .ensct
Probably they will all be there before TINS cons" ,ii
entious account IL read. This is thing thaI wiz
OF time 10 think II over, and VIII not soIne ga
BIOLOGIST please make up his MIND 20 u aneaS - ~
sit up and watch next year and nnd OUT II - -
really SO II would he no matter II the account ot
II were not printed till Monday, IL II were Only
trustworthy account In the end