The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-31
PUTTING A CIRCUS ABOARD.
PtRT or THE WCiDDON AGGRE-
GtTION NAY SAN TO-DII,

II 81 Car Circus and Int ends to Try III
Luck in Europe. where American Tent
shows Of the Three Rims Sort Draw
BiE CrOwds-LORding the Animals.
/ The }. T. McCaddon International Shows
/ will set forth on the high seas to-day seek
! ing an argo-v in France. II II a new circus
! II il going to France TO compete with the
Buffalo Bill Wild West show and will travel
through the same territory as Col. Cody :
aggregation into Switzerland. Everybody
who Is interested in the business end Of
cirCuses has an extreme interest in the re-
suits Of the fight
Joseph I. McCaddon is brother-in-law
Of James A Bailey, the proprietor Of the
Banum 4 Bailey and Buffalo Bill shows
and half owner Of the Sells Bros. and Fore
paugh shows When the Barnum 4 Bailey
show went on its long visit abroad which
ended last year Mr.. McCaddon was the eG-
ecutive mana ger Of the trip. There Is a
belief among circus fcna' that Mr. McCad-
don thought several ye,rs ago that Mr.
Bailey was going to retire from the circus
business and turn the business over TO his
brother-in-law Mr. Bailey, however. hung
on to the lines and seemed quite avorse to
letting anybody else take them from him.
WhereupOn Mr. MCCaddon started out on
his own hook. He bought the Sig Sautelle
show a. a nucleus. That was a twenty
car circus. with an unusually good
menagerie.
Around this beginning Mr.. McCaddon
has hui II up a siNty-seven car circus. tShow
people measure a circus by cars, just a.
grocer measures potatoes by the pe'kD
The work Of collecting the show has been
going on for many months. Everything
that the circus Is to use abroad had 10 he
prepared on this side, down to the tent
pegs The cars in which the apparatus
and animals are 20 be carried and the sleep
ers for the performers have been built with
the latest possible devices for economizing
room and at the same time giving the most
possible comfort.
Mr. McCaddon's experience abroad has
taught him that an American circus will
prosper better there than any other show
that travels There are no tent shows on
the Continent, all the foreign shows exhibit
in arenas. with y hich every town Is pro-
vided. The three ring circus under canvas
is a novelty " hich brings out the crowd
most wonderfully. The greatest difficulty
in Mr., McCaddons way this year was 10
get together a thoroughly repr sentative !
American circus under existing conditions.
Not only have the Ringing Bcothers in
the West been making a general enlarge I
Dundy have had a prehensile claw out 1
for anything that was drifting at large, |
and-as the lawsuit over Mr. Slivcrs Oakley !
is taken 70 show-for some things that .
were supposed TO be tied in other folks 1
back yards. The shows have all been /
fighting tooth and nail for attractive per
forVers and for men competent 10 fll
positions ~ rinR managers and ticket .
window cashiers There i no business in
the world where experience Is more valuable
than.in an tinerant circus
Mr.. McCaddon's circus has been gather
ing in Hoboken near the foot Of Sixth street
for more than a week. A large installment
was shipped from this city on the Vader-
land last Saturday. But the animals and
the red wagons will 90 on the steamship
The ship has been chartered as a Noahs
Ark. For three days the animals have
been going aboard, sometimes two by two,
hut more often six and seven at time.
There were crowds Of big boys and little
boys and not a few full grown girls lined
up around the circus camp at the pier yea
terday watching the embarkment cere-
monies
Apparently the animals thought they
were going to be seasick They didn't care
to 60 aboard at all. But they went. II any
one thinks il Is fun to shove n zebra up
from behind when the zebra
doesn't want o go up, there may be job
for him in Hoboken early this morning. .
Certainly the vacancies came thick and fast
as one longsnoreman after another tried
the job last night.
The elephants as usual, made most Of
he trouble Elephants do not care much
Tor ships. and still less for gangplanks.
They want something more substantial
under foot. SO huge crates are made and
he silly brItes are coaNed into them and
boxed in. Then the crate is slung into
hammock and hoisted bodily up to the
ovel Of the steamers deck and swung
aboard
Ten elephants went the airy way over
he side yesterday, and were set down on
he decks amidships, where they will re-
main all the way across the ocean. The
ions and tigers and hyenas and such were
dung up in their cages. They didn't care
or the aerostatics, and said so in tones
which set all the dogs along the Hoboken
waite rfront to barking.
The show will sail to-day IL the loading
= completed, a. il seemed likely to be- The
y performances will begin in Paris just as
Don as the show can be whipped into shape
Il rahearSals.