The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-12
JAMES A. BAILEY PASSES AWAY
CPCIS NAN DIES AT HIS HOME
~ MOUNT VERNON.
Had Been III q; Fry slpclas ONLY Since Last
TnlrSday-Career Of the Wan Who
Let the job Of EelIboy 10 Join a
Circus and Worked Up TO the Top.

Thursday-Career Of the Mar Who
Lcrt the job cf ERlIboy 70 Join a
Circus and worked Up to the Top.
4 BAILEY, head Of Earnum and Bailey's
Circus. died az his home, the Knobs, in
C~orcoran Manor, late this afternoon. Mr..
Bailey was suffering from erysip elas. He
vas taken i'll last Thursday night after
returning from Madison Square Garden.
l. il, believed that he knew he was going
to die Yesterday. because he called Mrs.
Bailey 10 his bedside and communicated a
message 10 her, Soon after he sank into a
corna and diet peacefully. At his bedside
At tie lime Of his death were his wife. her
brother and sisters-Joseph 7. McCaddon,
who until a few years G was connected
with the Barnurn and Bailey show; Mrs.
Hutchinson and her son. who is treasurer
Of the show; Mrs. DR.. Harper and Mrs.
LarkIn The last Of Mr.. Bailey's family, a
brotAer died a Holly, Mich on January IL.
James Anthony Bailey was BORE in De-
.roit, Mich in ls47, Upon his mothers
death and the appointment Of his brother
in-law as his guardian. which occurred
lust after he had completed his tenth year,
be determined to leave home and make
his own way in the world. At this early
age. when he began business for himself,
the cash assets in his pocket amounted to
less than half a collar, His first engage
n,nr vas with a farmer at SO so a month.
In Pontiac. then a small city Of Michl-
gan. lie became a bellboy in the leading
hotel. Here ne made friends, and am ong
rhe guests came FREQ Bailey, general agent
e. a., I ain f. RnhInGnp Chrome He ua
not long in discovering the cleverness and
valuable business traits Of the boy and per-
suaded him TO accept q job in the advance
work Of the show,
The friendship thus oegun between the
Bailav's lie. When the firm o. Lake 4
Pobinson dissolved Mr.. Bailey cast his
lot with the Lake interest, and so continued
for one year He then lett the circus to
take charge Of the advertising and other
matters or a theatre in Nashville, Tenn.
A few years later he was back in the circus
business with Mr.. Lake, Inc continued with
him until Lake went out Of business in 1859.
During a part OF that year and the whole
Of the next Mr.. Bailey was with the circus
Of Hemming, Cooper, q Whitby, and n
1871 he became general agent for that show.
In lS7? Mr.. Cooper, having dissolved the
firm Of Hemming, Cooper d Whitby, made
Mr.. Bailey an equal owner with himself
and formed the firm of Cooper d Bailey,
DIOTTleLOIS Ol lIIt bTGdl LOIGOl ollON.
Here began Mr.. Bailey's first proprietary
interest in a circus. Cooper d Bailey took
this show all over the world-to Australia,
New Zealand, South America, and India,
finally returning to the United States in
the fall of 1878.
Mr.. Bailey had now distanced all COM
p%etitors save P. 7. Barnum, and he felt
strong enough to give battle 70 this veteran
bowman. Mr.. Barnum was far too saga
cious not to desire to make of such, a rival
an ally. and accordingly, in 1850. the two
exhibitions were combined into The Great
est Show on ! arth."
To Mr.. Bailey at once was given the
harSAst work. and very soon almost the
entire responsibility and management Of
the business BarnMn's Jumbo, as the
public always considered him, is said to
have brought to the show more than a
million dollars, but he vas exclusively
Mr.. Bailcy's idea, with which Barnum
had nothing to do except to receive his
share Of the profits. So were the Ethno-
logical Congress, the White Sacred File
Destruction of Rome, and the other his
torical spectacles.
In December, ises, Mr. Railey married
Ruth Louisa McCaddon Of GAINESVILLE. Ohio.
Upon the purchase by Mr.. Bailey. in Jann-
ary,, 1900, of the Forepaugh circus his
brother-in-law. Joseph T. NcCaddon, he
came partner in that establishment and
also its general manager. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bailey had no children.
About a year ago Mr.. Bailey determined
to ere ct a large mar sion whore he could
store the large cole ction of curios, bror q s
and paiEtirgs which he had gathered in his
travels about the world. He purchased
'twentY-eight acres of LAM in the Che ster
Hill section Of Mount Vernon, on which he
built a house oostirg s75o,o0o. The place
lie ore Of tht largest in Westcheeter county,
and Mr. Bailey had lust succe tded in havir 6
It comrkted ard furnished TO suit his
ideas when his death occurred.
PaIs for the fune raj have rot bten ar
rourccd, but the Ma Olson Square Ga rden
wil! be. closed on the day on which it
takts pla ce.