The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-07-04

Ridge; the Filipinos Band, village and
theatre; the Infant Incubators, where,
surrounded with everything sweet and
dainty, you see the little cherubs, mes
tied in the aluminium and glass cabinet
incubators, just like little chicks, being
coaxed into sturdy life by the aid of
science; and, to conclude the itinerary,
the Herodian Palace, containing the
sacred spectatoriun, Jerusalem and the
Crucifxion Of Christ. This great work
covers an area of canvas four hundred
feet around by sixty feet high.
The greatest animal show in this
country is that Of Frank G. Bostock, on
the Midway. Some Of the animals were
brought direct from the jungles of
Africa. and some from England and
the continent, where they have been on
exhibition. In the first consignment
received were two baby elephants, two
zebras, six lions, five jaguars, six
hyenas, five brown bears, five polar
bears, two sloths from the Himalaya
mountains, two cassowaries, two Aus
tralian ostriches, pair of audads and
one bull yak. This consignment cost
something like $4,000. The last con-
signment included five full grown ele
plants, six sumber deers, five tigers,
fifteen lions, two llamas, three sacred
bulls, one white rhinoceros, two hippo
potamuses, two giraffes, six camels,
two sacred donkeys, and an elephant
called the leopard elephant" because
it is spotted and marked like the leop-
ard or jaguar This consignment cost
100000. The building in which the
performances take place is large and
handsomely decorated. Around it's sides
in their great steelbarred cages are
' shown the animal creation In the
centre is 7O-foot steel arena, where the
trained animals are exhibited, and this
is surrounded by seats for spectators.
One of the features is the performance
of Captain Bonavita, who enters the
arena with 25 full-grown, forest-bred
male African lions and puts them
through series of groupings and feats
! that are thrilling in the extremes.
Another is that of woman, small in
stature, who puts dozen or more snarl-
ing, sneaking, blood-thirsty leopards,
jaguars and panthers, the most danger
Gus and treacherous of beasts, through
variety of feats. One cannot help
recalling the fact that these animal
trainers are short-lived and that they
are frequently disabled. The lion
! trainer had one arm in sling at the
time of our visit
And now, good bye to the Midway
and to the Pan-American. To attempt
/ to catalogue all their attractions would
be worse than futile The reader will
naturally want to go and see them for
himself or herself
Each day of my stay wondered why
! was not asked what l thought of
Buffalo; but this did not happen until
the evening of my departure, when a
gentleman met at the New York Cen
trail station put the long-expected ques-
i ton. In New York the enterprising
yellow journals send their reporters
down to Sandy Hook to interview the
incoming British tourist, and he is first
asked; ''What are your Impressions of
American" Buffalo impressed me as a
busy, substantial and home like city.
1t has a population of about 400, 900, and
is said to contain more railway trackage
within its corporate limits than any
place in the world-and this means bust
ness. 1t has the second harbor of COM
mercial Importance in the world and it
is the eighth city in population in the
United States. 1t has 26 railways, $50
passenger trains daily, and 225 miles of
asphalt streets, smooth and clean as a
floor and shaded by handsome trees
There are numerous parks public libra
ries and clubs. In ride about the city
three of the public school buildings were
passed, one the High school, in which
the conductor informed me there were
1900 students. The great number of
moderate cost but attractive dwellings
amply justify Buffalo's claim to be
considered a city of homes, while with
Lake Erie at her front and the over
whelming force of Niagara at her back
there would seem to be ample scope for
further business growth.
And now after a hot night in Pull
man and few hours spent in Boston
the writer finds himself once more on
the good steamer City Of Bangor, on
which the journey was begun, and the
following morning rejoiced to see again
the rocky and wooded shores of Maine.
What Happened to Wigglesworth.