The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-12
VAIN THE MENAGERIE IICHED
r,tNrOT AND LIGHTNING EF-
ryfTS ~ PINkS0N'S CIRCUS.
~, o,rrcn. Celebrating MS silver we'd
dln.. Hemlnlsccs jntil Mrs. Dan. Who
,,s,bc Had Heard IL Hefore' Turns
on ne Chs--As TO Triple sOmersAnlts-

on he Cas--As TO Triple sOmersAnlts.
r.ur CIRQUE leapers got together in New
YORK Yesterday 70 sign articles with the
monochrome and celebrate the twenty
trb anniversary OF Dan O'Brien's wedding
10 hottie Collin
l,ayer Is tho spangled person In pink
,gls who turns someIsaults over the
Icing pyramid OF camels, elephants and
b,rsos m the circus II is supposed TO be
.bout the most dazzlngly dangerous thing
,hont circus This thrilling exhibition
.tnsrt,na! proves and slGill, "a the poster
S,th IL il supposed TO have broken many
.,cks and backs Even the four leapers
rbo gathered 10 congratulate Mr.. and Mrs.
o,Rrien--and each is rated as the best In
tho business bar mono admit that no man
V,5nr not even they themselves, ever made
,he triple turn which is the end Of am
btion for every good learer. Man after
man ha4 worked a lifetime TO acquire this
,rick has believed that he had it and has
hon carried away on stretcher alter the
uial.
Johnnie Worland has been credited
With turning the tnck in the old Foreraugh
,,og In 1893. But Dan O'Brien said that
WoHand made only two and half somer-
sau!s IN his flight ever five elephants and
two cames.
Mr. and Mrs O'Bren eat In their front
narl.r last night and received not only the
ieaner,. but all the other circus people OF
,heir acquaintance. Strong men, queens
az the sawdust ring, rapeze flyers and
Roman athletes drank to quarter century
more ior Mr. and Mrs. O'Brlen. An india
rubber man gave a selection on the piano.
and the punch was passed. by the Queen
Of tho Air Late in the evening Dan get
reninisce Leaping isn't the only thing
10 has done In the show business, 80 the
FIST yarn he spun was the tale Of the
bohopolus.
The bohopolus,- said Dan, was our
water buffalo He caught tho itch UP in
Vermont We treated it with new lini-
msat that we'd mover tried before, and II
TUNED him red. Not kind Of eorrel led
Ike red headed girl or bay COW. but
blazing .Si like fresh paint. We felt pretty
bad. until the old man had an idea. He
roped the buffalo of so's the public couldn't
get too blame close. and advertised him
a. a Bohopolus Of Lake Tan ganyika, a
new species OF quadruped just discovertd
by Henry ". Stanley, the world renowned
explorer, and secured by him at enormous
expense You know the lay IL took, too.
Worked lne and helped business. But
that was the most malignant case OF itch
that ever happened. Next t llg you know
the Abysinian ib,x was breaking out In
srots SO the old man ordered us To touch
up the ibt Z a bit. Had an idea Tor a great
scientific lecture about the climate OF
Lake Tanganyika, which turned man,
beast and the vegetable Kingdom bright
rcd
Now, never studied no chemistry. and
I'm blamed II know why il framed up
that way, but the Abyssnian hex turned
o bright yellow, Not plain yellow like
cur dog or Jersey COW but bright, busting
yellow like new gold twenty.
well, the itch went on through the
uenagerie, and next the zebra got it.
Strange thing, but where the zebra was
back the iiniment turned hun red, and
where he was yellow balore IT turned him
aTeguar Irish green.
TO shorten up on the tale. there was
VARIOUS and sundry results produced by
that inimant. The camels were a crushed
strawberry color. The elephants, which
caught ths itch the second week, turned
red ike the buffalo the minute the ini-
msni touched EN- and the Ions was
awful ABOUT the lions. We couldn't get
At EN- TO paint EN- all over like the other
beasts, so We just ran a swab through the
bars and sopped II on EN- where the itch
showed worst Everywhere it touched
It turned en- blue They was spotted like
circus ponies. The original Wallace, our
maneaung Numidian. had a blue pa. Jh
over his eye like a scrapping bull terrier,
and Fitzsimmons freckes all down his
paws. he itch got on his nerves, and
every time he looked at his paws you could
see him regaI ding himself with loathing
end aversion.
'for lille while it looked like the best
hing ever sprung in the show business.
Flakson's Marvellous ChromAtic Menagerie
Of Rainbow Tinted Marvels-why, the old
man used 70 lay awake nights figuring how
he d spend hli millions. But you never can
tell 10 the show business.
You see, IN them days Ohio was a wide
onen State and the liquor oealers' assoCia-
don had an awful long pull. And we pretty
near Undermined the liquor business in that
section.
don't care how much drunk had been
told about the show, just let him come into
the mena gerie tent once and 1t Jared him.
trsl he'd nun bump onto a nnAuve tiger,
glazing out Of his cage pretty irritaIed,
because the itch was getting 10 him con-
SIDERABLE. Ia the next cage, like as not,
would be PINK grizzly bear With straw
colored legs Then he'd whirl bump onto
q rose co!ored giraffe with salmon pink
spots, contor ing himself out OF ali shape
trying to reach an itchy place in the middle
81 his neck with his hind foot. which was
blood red. And when violet colored
troop Of monkeys came scrambling up
ne bars OF their cages, chattering like
h.azer about that cussed itch, nine drllnks
out Of ten made 81 rEight for w. G. T. u.
headquarters which was keeping open all
night on account Of the run on pledges.
lne l4uor daalers couldn't stand for
mat. Il vas paralyzing business. They
got their political pull 10 work and made |
our license fee prohibitive. So We doped |
UP all the remaining animals with our last
botue Of hniment. producing a maroon
dFomedary and a lavender leopard. and !
pulled ont for Maine. We was going 70
u.e our troubles with the liquor dealers as
adverusi sing and draw the church people |
BY million4.
Well sir, this Il a little hard 10 believe,
Diit o. going 10 tell il. anyhow Tho first |
Iight IN Bangor there came an awful thun-
qerotorm. 4 bu'ting big bolt hit the !
hnS polo Of the menagerie tent and we
worked Ike sin for half an hour putting |
out The fire and keeping the animals quiet. |
ana when daylight came the animals had |
iaa'd back 10 their natural oolors. Some !
l,nS IN the electric chemical disturbance I
- tha atno sphere done II. | suppose. At |
east ne Old man bought so Anyhow. we |
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