Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-23
YANKEE CIRCUS
TRIP WAS FUNNY
PRESS AGENT TELLS HOW MAN
AGER WAS MANGLED BY
SNAKE.
SPANISH GIRL ARRESTED
She Was Smoking Cigarettes in In
neutrality-suspicious. Arrives
In Chicago from New York.
SPANISH GIRL ARRESTED

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full journey from New York the
50 Yankee Circus on Mars" including
chorus girls, stage hands, property
men, dogs, and press agents, has ar
rived in Chicago, in a special train
over the Lakeshore Railroad. The
aggregation is straight from the
Hippodrome in New York and was
in charge of Frederick Thompson,
who was up to his ears in trouble
from the minute the train left New
York to the time it arrived in Chi
cago.
If any one thinks 200 chorus girls,
who come from all the nations of the
world are easy TO handle, he should
have made the trip with Manager
Thompson. They wanted this and
they wanted that, they threatened to
break their contracts if certain
things were not done; and, to fill the
managers cup of woe, a Spanish
dancer was arrested in Elkhart, Ind,
where the train stopped for beak-
fast, for smoking cigarettes.
1t happened that Senorita Pellaro-
ma had finished her dainty repast of
sandwiches, coffee, and "sinkers' at
the depot restaurant in Elkhart.
AS is the habit of women Of her ma
ton, she produced gold-tipped Gig
arctic, and, placing it between her
pearly white teeth, (press agent YER
sion), lighted it. This was an aw-
full blow at the dignity Of the Indi-
ana laws, and she was at once ar
rested.
The train was delayed several min
untes until the wild eyed manager
could make peace with the law and
secure the release Of the pretty sem
orita. He paid the fine Of $25.
The special had no more than left
peaceful Elkhart, than Manager
Thompson began to think that per-
haps his troubles were over. when a
terrible commotion was heard in the
Pullmans occupied by the 200 chorus
girls. The confusion became an up
roar and shrieking women ran
through the train, some fainting and
falling on the seats and others call
ing FOR help.
Making his way through the terror
stricken girls to the rear coach, the
manager found the cause Of th
trouble. In the aisle of the coach
an immense snake was coiled, tongue
out and eyes cleaning. A man
standing on a seat was shooting at
the reptile, but not a shot took ef-
feet.
Manager Thompson braced up and
made a dash at the snake. The rep
tile sprang at him and buried its
fangs in his right hand. The man
ager hurled the big snake the floor
and crushed its head under his heel
Some one had pulled the bell cord by
this time and the train came to a
standstill The doctor dressed the
managers hand and started in to re-
suscitate the fainting chorus girls.
Miss Maud Kimball, known to the
company as the ''school marm," who
owned the snake, was broken hearted
over the loss of her pet. She came
from Omaha, Neb., and captured the
snake on the prairies three years ago
She carried it in large suit case and
no one in the company was aware OF
its presence.
ct am going to sue Mr.. Thompson
for damages just as soon as I get tt
Chicago he declared on the train
Omaha that's the snakes name
was the only pet ever had"
The train arriven in Chicago al
noon, and Mishka, the educated Rus
sian lion dog. the mascot of the cir
Gus, was the first to leap to the plat
form. The elephants, lions and 9th
er animals will leave New York on {
special train today and will reael
here Thursday.
The stage of the Auditorium thea
ter is being practically rebuilt, thai
the circus acts may be given. Tht
scenery and ''props" used in the
performance are the largest pieces 81
used in the world, the dragons being
thirty-eight feet long and fifteen fee
high. In order that the scener.
may be placed in the theatre fifteel
feet of brick and stone above thu
stage entrance will have to be re
moved.
The first performance will be givel
Saturday.