Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-29
BIG CIRCUS IN TOWN.
A Little Late in Starting, but Made
 Fine Street Parade.

A Alllle 1dte III SIafIlng, put Made
 a Fine Street Parade.
 The biggest crowd that ever col lected on the streets of Waterbury turned out to-day to see the parade of Forepaugh x Sells Bros circus, and al- though it was several hours behind schedule time, still they waited, and appeared to feel amply repaid for all their weary watching when the wag- ons hove in sight. The circus did not arrive in town until this morning, and in consequence 1t was nearly 1 o'clock in the afternoon when the procession came up Grand street and turned down Bank street. It was a gor- geouS affair, and young and old took a keen delight in looking at the great variety of horses and wagons and wild animals, which were as large; if not larger, than anything of the kind ever seen here before. All the shops were closed and immense crowds fiocked in from neighboring towns, so the route was thrOnged and windows, doorways and every other spot from which . view of the parade could be had was occupied, and in many instances sight seers were forced into the streets. 1t was reported that the manage ment was involved in labor troubles, and that this was the reason of the delay in getting into line, but this was denied by one of the company, who informed Democrat reporter that they had no trouble of that character He said Monday was pay day at Bridge port and that some of their help went on a little spree, but that this had nothing at all to do with detaining fhnToa o1,s NrDx Haven, as originally planned He att tributed it to the wet weather.
 The circus is pitched on the West end grounds and had a large attend ance this afternoon at o'clock. It is expected the crowd will be still larger at to-night's performance,w which will begin at s o'clock.
 David Strain, one of the men with | the Forepaugh-S Sells circus, was too curt in answering his boss, man named Rafferty, Monday evening at Bridgeport, and the latter used circus methods in punishing the offender. He l banged Strain over the head a couple of times with an elephants hook and discharged him on the spot. Strain l was stunned by the blows, and when he realized what had happened his head was covered with blood A friend assisted him to the emergency hospital, where Dr Ivers sewed up four l scalp wounds. Strain refused to make | a complaint against Rafferty. He halls l from Peterborough, Ont, and he was last seen vending his way to the cir GUS cars, evidently to beg back his lost l job.
 This morning Superintendent Rei- ! ley organizeda military company with a view to keeping people off the grass i on the green, and the men were on duty all day, and performed valuable | service MT Kelley acted as captain | and was assisted in carrying out his | plan by several employees of the street department. Philip McAvoy, caretak- CT of the green, acted as lieutenant, and he made q model officer John l Downey, yardman, was chief detec- tive, and he showed such skill in that line that he is likely to some day rival l Sheriff Rigney in the business. Clerk James Horigan had charge of the bad boys and was kept busy reading the rules in vogue in the Reform school l to youngsters who persisted in tread l ing on thez greenswar6. It was a great scheme and it worked like q charm. This morning Officer Mclean picked l up boy on South Main street, who had got separated from his compan- 1 ions and did not know where to go. He was taken to the residence of Ma l tron Clark on Leavenworth street, I where he gave his name as Raymond l Allen of Beacon Falls. Supernume- rary Officer Grubb and others triedrto please him, but the lost boy did not | &n %o I<n mn cfn in
 Finally Dr Lodge came along, and on learning what was up thrust q dime 1 into the boys hand, and it did more 1 toward pacifying him than all the l talk one could indulge in in whole | week. Pretty soon after the little l fellow had been taken in charge by | the officer a cheerful appearing wo- man rushed into the police station and l told Chief Egan that she had heard I that he had "a boy that belonged to her. The chief informed her where she could find him and advised her to keep a tight hold of, him during the remainder of the day. Raymond is about years old and a very hand some child.
 One of the best attractions at the cir GUS this afternoon and tonight will be Denny Ryan, one of Waterbury's popular boys, whose act this season is one of the best that has ever been shown in a circus ring. Denny ar rived in town last night, or rather this morning, with his wife, who is also connected with the show. All the of ficials of the circus speak in the high est terms of Denny Ryan and Mrs
 Ryan, and they regard them as two l of the best people connected with the 1 show. here are seven Elks connect l ed with the show who are members of
 Waterbury lodge, and the list is head
 ed by Denny Ryan. The others are James Hagan, A N. Merrick, G. NJ. l Jackson J. G. Wesson, Frank Oakley,
 Joe Bottomley and W. o. German. l The members of Waterbury lodge are not going to forget them tonight ei-
 ther, for the whole bunch is to be pre-
 sented with a floral piece as a token l of esteem from the members of the
 local lodge After the evening per l formance is over there will be n little
 social session at the rooms of the lodge
 on Bank street, where the strangers