New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
By TODY HAMILTON

~ ~ noon MaTChand and L started
Well, worked for ten days over
that little beast with the peroxid of
hydrogen mixture and ammonia, until at last we
had it as white snow.
Just how long the bleach would have lasted I
cannot say, but it did last long enough to serve
our purpose. FOrepaughs show was to open in
morning of their street parade we were on hand
and when their parade started, in we popped, little
beached elephant and all, with the sign: An exact
counterpart of FOrepaughs fraudulent white ele-
phant, only better job by better artists
That was signal for war, and it was for the
rest of the season. In vain they displayed the
Endorsement of Professor Leidy and that of a
professor of Ann Arbor Unversitv-Our little ele-
Phant was pointed to, and the rest was laughter
TO the great public white elephants had ceased to
Finally compromise was made and from that
time on the white elephant business was abandoned
1t had cost them about one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars and us about hundred and twenty
five thousand.
The public is skeptica1 and will not accept any
attraction as genuine until it has been proved so.
For instance manufactured freak save in the case
of the Circassian grl-a fake perpetrated by The
London Times has in my memory proved
success. Freaks must be genuine, and to obtain
good collection requires considerable expense:
for wel-established freak will consider a salary
of less than eight hundred dollars a week They
demand prma-donna salaries. Milla Christian
now retired never received less than a thousand
dollars a week, and the same is received by
the ganteSs Ella Owens.
Freaks Popular in England
IN England, owing to the lack of dime museums,
the public is more interested in them than it
is here Our collection raised a perfect furor The
illustrated papers filled with their pictures
and the King himself to them Dwarfs
had of course been SEEN since Barnum made his
European trip with General Tom Thumb; but the
bearded women gasseaters giantesses, living skele
tons, and the rest, all on exhibition at time
that too much for the British public it went
wild over them
Other natural freaks, such as bulls with three
horns, and COWS with three horns and eyes are not
SO hard to find. They not always to be had;
but the other hand they be found in all
countries. Sometimes it will be years before we
can find what at other times will be only too easily
obtained. 1t took years to get giraffe but
then four came at once.
So it is the genuine freak only that it would pay
to exhibit. The public least knows what it
wants, and try to provide it. But our poor
old white elephant! He had done his best for us:
he genuine. and he certainly a novelty.
But, like Bret Hartes Truthful James, his chances
ruined by Chinese cheap labor, to speak.
by sort of near white elephant, and he passed
into tent twenty three"
blue -nosed mandril known to every scientist the
world over is to the great public a painted fraud.
1t insists that its blue nose has been dyed artif-
Cially; that the brilliant rainbow ColOrs-the red,
white, blue, green, and orange-Nhch appear
on its rump at certain seasons of the year and
natural are also the result of dye and deception.
phant is not white enough. What are you going to