The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-29
HERR toby HAMILTON IS HOME.
HE'S BEEN 3 YEARS AND = DAYS
AWAY FROM THE TENDERLOIN.
And that's = Long Time SUt lie and
tho Greatest show Parai, zei the Heads
VI Europe, Crowned ami Otherwise
--Triufnphs Of Bailcy's TeratoIo gist.


aboard the North German Lloyd stoam-
ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. after a
sojourn OF Ave years and two days Che
kept accurate tally) among the efTete. A
group Of reporters at the bottom Of the
gangplank greeted him with their college
cry:
How do you like American"
Opening his valise with the skill Of pres
,idigitator. Herr X. r Hamilton Cha,' =
The way his name appears Oh the passenger
list drew forth flaming poster long as a
homeward bound pennant. and said;
"Them's my sentiments
Tbs poster apparently was made up
chiefly Of xyz's. and the reporters said
they didn't recognize the language. Herr
Hamilton thereupon explained AZ he wound
up the poster with the assistance Of Il stan
Of saloon stewards, that the language was
Magyar and was a translation from Ham
iItonian American. made by one of Baiey's
seven continental llnguists. Of descrip-
lion of the greatest show
After customs inspectors had declared
that there Wa iln duty on the poster a. a
work of art Herr Hamilton unbpsomed
himself. He said he understood that there
Was a marvellous -gridiron" building in the
1enderloin or Whereabouts that had gone
up since he had rubbed off his provincial
corners on the languages and dialects of
Europe: also. that there had been some
political changes.
Five years and two days" SAID Herr
Hamilton, lis a long time 20 he awav from
tho Tenderloin. I'm mighty glad 70 be
among people whose language have been
making an effort TO understand for the last
fifty years or more.
We paraly1ed the crowned and other
heads Of Europe by the unprecedented
aggregation. &c (see small bills and posters).
The French went wild over us The Min
lister Of War took official cognizance of our
coming and ordered out part OF an army
corps. Dean. who is the advance agent
went with me into Paris. We put big ads
in the newspapers and told the editors
that we wanted column and page notices,
the kind We get in America you know
They said il wasn't the custom of tho co,ln-
try. that they'd give us Jo,ting About
Town. or something Of that sort. We
argued through seventeen interpret en-.
and they said at last that so long a. We
were treated that way in America it would
be almost breach of International courtesy
not to hunor Va.
One paper gave Tia two pages with illus
trations That set the rival papers L-going,
and before we got out Of Paris. where we
played seventeen weeks 10 packed houses,
The papers were getting out specia. supple
inents on our assurances thai IL was the
wav We were treated in America We
had $50 cavairymen and LOT OF infantry
nd l.
lived 30 long abroadN guarding us to pre-
vent the enthusiastic populace from crowd
s IA in without seeing tine ma" at the box
We paid 10000 for the Gaerie des
Machines (get on to that Accent ard then
mad to put up $50 900 more for a sewerage
'ys,em and an electric lignt and heating
plant. It was a good invest ment We
Iurned tho whole business over 10 the French
municipality and since then thew have
Jeen using the big hall--,he grandes, in
Europe, being 400 feet long-tOr games
and shows and contests Of all sorts Now
I Andrew Carnegi" would only h. up u
NJ on his library gifts and give a building
ike the Galerie des Machines (got il right
b" second time boys - he NY ul New
York for the encouragement of athletics
and-well, the greatest show-all America
would rise on its hind legs and call him
blessed
1
10y our three.ri ed circus & We made
ihefn open their eyes and marvel az our
trains of American freight and passenger
cars and our altitudinous posters. We had
10 build special bill-tpards for the posters
The name of the show was he only Amer
lean language on the posters. All the rest
was translation Of the most picturesque
Of our own descriptions of the marvels of
our mutt itudinous arenas
The French treated us handsomely One
theatrical agent who wanted to help u- out
Of pure professional philanthropy sent
me letter asking mo 10 mail him ten Of our
posters 80 he could tick EN- UP on the dead
walls OF his town, We didn't do IT, As We
couldn't AFFORD 20 pay postage on ton.
But didn't We astoDish the Germans and
the Ansti1anS' We couldn't 90 TO Spain or
Russia because the gauge of their railroads
didn't ~ our cars. That's VIII ! didn't
have chance to study Russian az spanish,
] regret that couldn't look at n translation
of ono Of our posters in Russian describing
the Creates showovitch on earth,kv. But
We were ALWAYS n bread r,,are show
All the German imperial family, the
nobility and the military geniuses Of Ger
many saw the show and Inspected our
rolling stock and our mel hoes of unload
ing and loading our live stock. The mill
tary men were struck dumb seeing VS.
take from the cars 400 hors' in seven min
utes. II was smpl" enough matter
The horses are trained 10 leave the cars
through two open doors. and the doors of
all the cars are opened simult sneously
That's the way the Germans are going 10
unload their cavalry horses in fu,lne
The folding tables in our living cars
also tickled the fancy Of the Germans. [
tell you. We taught EN- few wrinkles. and,
In turn. we got some things worth knowing
from them.
we had gorgeous time in Hungary
The Duke Frederick think that's his
title; you'll And him in the Almanac de
Gotha, and il YOU don't il doesn't matter,
he's all right attended the show seven
times ~ Budapest, Inc Hungariars
are great. people. bu, their laneungo il
UNIT for publicat ion. When | FIRST struck
budapest J realized that | was a for
eigner, All the names on the shops Logan
with the las, letters Of the alphabet and
they we're all topsy-turvy. John Smith
was Smith John. | looked az the signs a
few minutes and then went into saloon
and got hungarian highball to keep up
my spirits
At Vienna thero was only one place
nlg enough for the show. II Il call II
te f2tunda, Mr.. Bailey wanted il. but
the kmDprOr's rpDreseptatiy, Said. Il, !.