The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-28
A NOVEL BULL FIGHT.


The Victim Takes the Offensive ant
Causes Panic Among the Audience.
The world of fashion betook itself to.
day to Deuil, near Enghein, to see 6
real bull fight in which the bulls were
to be killed. 1t was to be, moreover
a patriotic bull fight, as Robert Felix
a Landais was to be the first torero
LIaverito and Lagartillo were not tic
be so forward. The performance was
greatly advertised, and meant to draw
"a haute canaille"-a name to which
society, as representa- by the White
Carnation, is, 1 fear, entitled-and it
must be said that the bait was greed
lily snapped. Special trains. We're or
ganized, as for Chantilly on racing
Sundays. All the ''mondains," all the
sportsmen who wanted to tlout the
president by absenting themselves
from Longchamps, all the elegant
women, who seemed to sniff with de-
light the butchery of bulls from afar,
all the riffraff from above and below
all the people who We're curious to see
what a patriotic bull fight on Spanish
lines was like, FASTENED to Deuil.
The circus was packed from the
boxes to the topmost round of seats.
The circular gangway behind the pail
SADIE was so thronged that nobody
could move in it. Instead of two rows
Of high paling, as in Spain, there was
only one row, and it was not very high.
In Spanish arena the bull, when
greatly leased, may jump over the row
bordering the arena, but not over the
second. He rushes round between the
two palings until he comes to a gate,
which is thrown back. 1t stops his
course, and, in flying back, opens
wide way to the arena, into which the
bull again goes.
Expectation was at its height to-day.
Robert the champion of France, did
not wear the fiat Spanish cap, but
Pyrenean beret slightly on the side of
his head. He and Llaverito and Lag
artillo We're greeted with deafening
cheers, The bull, a fine animal on en-
tering at once rushed at the two tor
eros, who jumped lightly aside, and
then at picador armed with a lance.
A chuIa drew him off by fiourishing a
red cap before his eyes. The bull
wanted to get away, and cleared the
single paling at a bound A panic en-
sued. The animal bllndly rushed
along with head down and horns for
ward. He cleared the excuse for a pal
isade in the front of the boxes, enter
ed a gangWay. and climbed the first
and second rows of seats. Fortunately
he was only bothered and stupid, and
not Infatuated. The shrieks, the rush
ing people, suddenly brought him to
his Senses and he stopped short and
looked good humoredly about but
terrified lady caught him by horn
and another raised her parasol and hit
him between the eyes with it. The
poor animal broke away again, and |
finding his way down a passage, es-
capped into the field in which the arena
stands. 1t was filled with cycles The
bull tossed a lot of them about and
was sitting down to quietness when
he found himself pursued by plea
doris, chulas. matadors, and toreros, |
gendarmes and policemen, the latter |
armed with revolvers. Again the bull |
made off. There was a general dis |
charge of pistols, but 50 wild was the |
firing that the wonder is he only was |
got entangled in a wire fence |
and fell, bull fighter then stabbed |
him in the neck, and there was an end |
TO the poor toro.
The bull was from the pastures Of |
he Duke of Verogna. He was named |
Romito, and was black, powerful and |
ong horned. Romto was one of those |
pulls that Craze with sheep, and are |
luiet as lambs unless leased Before |
t left Spain it was taught to associ-
tie the 'Marseillaise," and Carmen" |
With teasing, which shows that bulls |
AN receive a kind of musical educa-
ion. Both airs We're played yesterday |
before the door of the toril was swung
lack and Romito bounded into the
lrena. The music, it appears, was on
lis nerves when he leaped across the
,alisade into the laps--of all people
# a butcher and his wife 1t is stated
hat the bull fights which are an
bounced to take place next Sunday at
lnghien will be prohibited Let
er in London News.