West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-09-10
Queer Experiences of an Ag-
gregation Mostly from
Greater New York.
PRESS A9ENT DAZzLRD SIMPLE
SOULS OF PORTO RICO hut
HAD TROUBLES.
ereat Dane Helped 20 Dlsperc Mob
and reek Samples--The Mules.

| aony nas press agent, even II the cltcus
does hail FROM Mexico. and the agent has q
real broadway touch. For instance, wheu
the show first struck the United States island
OF Porto Rico and pitched tents at San Juan,
the press agen, let Il be known all over the
island that the young daughter of Governor
Hunt OF Porto Rico, had fed the lions with
her own hands.
But when the show struck Coamo, on the
great military road, where Il goes over the
mountain, the press agent didn't have time
to pipe anything. lie had to fgh, shoulder
to shoulder with the lIon-iamer to save the
show.
This Expansion process
Chills me through aud through,
For I've been up against II hard
Since met you.
That was what Tony hummed yesterday
a' he enme ashore from the Ponce and
greeted friend on the pier over in Brook
lyn.
"You see. the Constitution followed the
flag all right" he explained, "and the
circus followed the Constitution. That's
where we made the mistake OF our lives.
The circus was too soon. II should have
waited politely and let few New York cops
go down right on the heels of the Constitution
and then after the cops had got used to the
| climate and located all the side doors, IL
would have been time for my great, stupen-
dous and dazzling outfit to have yen,ured
along the military pike.
"why, I'd gwen weeks gate receipts to
have had few Of the Broadway squad
along when we struck Coamo. But twas
OUT own fault. We billed the show as the
great American educational institution, and
the natives. who have got the little red
school house on the hill notion down hard
| and fast, thought We had free graft for
them and that my Observation-Disclosures
hour aerobau aud fearless lion tanners were
walking over their damn old mountain for
their health.
Three hundred people, men, women and
children, came into Coamo from all the
little mountain villages near by TO see the
show, and the riot began the minute we
asked the first native for so cents to 90
through the gate. We explained, through
the only living Alaskan ice eater, who was
born down in Porto Rico and knew the
language, that that so cents entitled a spec
tatoF 10 box seat, but that didn't seem to
mean anything TO them and the row was on.
"The ticket taker, who sometimes does
turn at eating glass. was down and out on
the first rush of the natives and he had the
best chance In the world to bite pieces out
of that mountain while our couniry's new
wards swarmed along his back and over his
head barefooted.
"The FIRST part Of the mob got through
the flap Of the tent without ripping anything
but the hole wasn't big enough for all
coamo to get in at the same minute. They
seemed TO be afraid they'd lose some educa-
ton II they didn't get in early, 20 they tore
out the sides Of the tent and went IN all
together.
Jose Jearles Of Curacao, my eoniortion.
ist wonder, and Ruhno Buslamante. the
hon tanner from Avenue A, New York, got
back TO back and tried TO fight the crowd
both ways. But that didn't do much good.
yelled to Bustamanie TO make the lions
roar, and he yelled back
" Cant; damn things are asleep y
"rhey are the best lions In the world. A
lady could tame them. Why, while we
we're in San Juan, Gov Hunts daughter
but that's another story. As was saying,
the lion would not roar to scare the crowd,
and when the elephant tumpesed. the
natives yelled with delight and thought that
their free education had begun foe sure.
"My cskewalk musical mules could no,
stand the racket broke away and ran over
the mountains, and the trained goats follow.
ed, but, Of course, leaped properly from
efag to crag. Everything Is regular in my
show, no matter what the hardships are.
"rhe crowd vas everywhere. They got
into the ring. mussed the sawdust and
climbed into the aefobat's life.saying net to
rest.
81 asked the Coamo police TO do some.
thing and he seemed surprised. lie wanted
10 know when school would begin.
"Finally Eilena Eugenia and Pablo Teio,
ny serial wonders, got up into a tfapesc
without anybody seeing them and dropped
together into The net. That did some bus
ness for us. When the wonders struck the
ne, sagged IN the middle, and row Of
Porto Rico babies that had been laid along
the edges for nap bounded up into the air
and fell on the sawdust Their mothers
grabbed them and sireskcd for the open.
That helped = lot, for With the women
out Of the way turned ell the help loose
and We dubbed the mob away from the
wreck n our great and dazzling educational
show. The Greet Dane did lot Of good,
too. fie goi samples Of the hind quarters
0f about twenty natives, and Jacinto Rom
ano, the glass ball crack shot man, helped
some By shooting into the air. He filed the
top of the tent foil Of holes, but that didn't
matter much, because the canvas was
ruined anyhow, and from Coamo on the
circus travelled under bare poles.
''Henia Ohio, the only living siren, went
out on the mountain that evening and
charmed back The musical mules with her
voice, % We didn't rcsliy lose anything but
the tcnt."
I.ovandc's animals we're landed a. Brook
iyn and bis performers ~ Ellis Island.