The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
CIRCUS PEOPLE
NEW YORK CROWDED WITH
 HUMAN FLIES"
Their klnd-Students of Human Nature-Old Circus Manager Tells of His Experiences
 in the West.

Within the past week a peculiar class l of people has fiocked into New York
 human fiies' who walk on ceilings. dar- | ing horsemen and women. reckless | trapeze performers. acrobats, clowns, and | men who eat glass swallow bayonets | and fondle VenomouS snakes; for the cir | GUS season has ended and these folk who disport themselves strangely for the public that, must be amused, have been thrown out of their regular employment says The New York Sun.
 While many of these freaks and per- l formers are well paid. few of thep have | laid by enough money to support them during the winter months. Therefore as soon as their tents have been folded and | the animals taken to their winter quar- ters, these attaches of the tented shows look for something ot do.
 Almost any day one may run across some of them in the agencies that pro- vide specialties for all kinds of shows There are always new vaudeville troupea that must be made up and frequently a man or a woman who can do a good turn and find a place with a company that is appearing in a play" If the play as or. iginally written does not have a part for such a persCu, If he or she be a reaTv good "artist," a place is made Then there are the hundreds of museums all over the country that are always on the lookout fo" something rare. So the per former or the freak does not have great deal of trouble in "booking' for the winter months.
 Another class that is thrown into the cities when tho season of the circus classes is composed of those who travel with the tented shows but are not part of them tho red lemo" and top balloon vendors and the less vociferous but more dreoded pickpockets. confidence men. and "shall game" operators They are ever busy too. When they come to town they seek the rendezvous of fellows of their fix ard ply their trade whenever and wherever possible but the brightest and most prom ising day for them Is when spring comes and the circuses start again on their tours throuFh the country,
 Students of Human Nature.
 Persons who travel with clrcuses have splendid opportunity to study human nature Everybody. alnost goes to the circus-city folk. country folk. back woodsmen, negroes. Indians. cowboys and Chinamen.
 We travelled in the far west this year" said an old circus manager to a reporter few days ago. You ought to see how performance goes off in Arizona. One of the warrnest times we ever had was at Arizona City. way down at the Mexican border. The cow punchers and Mexic qna and negroes made as much noise as was ever made at a frontier massacre. The cowboys yelped like a pack of coyotes when Mime. Hckley rode the buckinT horse. the Mexcans yelped at every act and the negroes laughed at the clowns till the earth trembled. That night the cowboys and greasers turned the town Into a shooting gallery. emptying their revolvers at the stars and manlfestine their sorrow at the departure of the cir GUS by licking up all the refreshments in the place. It was always a won 7er to me where the lazy greasers got their money to attend the circus. Fellows who never paid a debt in their lives and who never bought round of drinks anG whose an. pearance indicated their impecunIositv would show up at the ticket wagon ana plank down their 50 cents without faIter- ing. To tell the truth. 1t always cau~es me to wonder when see the crowds pour Ing Into the tents But to think of these things is not business.
 But speaking of circus-goers. the wild untutored red man of the plains has got every one else beaten to death. The