Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-08-15
Troubles Of the Circus.

The Walter l.. Main circus encountered
difficulties during their visit to this place
Sunday and Monday until it must have
seemed as though the lid OF Pandora 6
box was of entirely.
First, the streets, having been lately
dug up to install the sewerage system,
were too soft for the heavy wagons, one
OF which sank to the hubs on South
street Sunday morning and required the
hauling force of ten pairs OF horses to
drag it out OF the sand. Monday night,
when the circus was being reloaded ON
the cars, another wagon buried its wheels
in the dirt covering the sewer ditch at j.
l.. Moses on Highland avenue and was
finally boosted ont by couple of ele-
plants that accompanied their labors
with terrific bellowings. Quite stget, Ia
of the concrete gutter on the South Main
street hill was broken to pieces by the
teams, and all of $50 will have to be ex-
pended by the village to repair the dam
age to the streets. The license fee of $40
paid by the company to the town appears
to be a rather inadequate compensation
for the privilege OF having circus come
here, especially as none of that sum is
available for the bills which the village
AildoN httt III NtsNoIluk lliS hNdNS.
Sunday night, John III. Thompson,
colored retainer OF the circus, was arrest
ed for intoxicaticn and lodged in the
lookup. As he was unable to raise his
fine, be was escorted to Chelsea Tuesday
morning for little outing IN the country
of 20 days.
Manager Wilson Hennessey of the cir
Gus, who had tried to corrupt the official
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by bribery, to which he resorted in an
effort to protect some pickpockets from
molestation, was escorted out of this
town by Deputy Sheriff M. II. HGzen of
South Royalton Monday and taken on the
l 20 p. m. express to Windsor to answer
the charge made against him. The
states attorney placed him under bonds
of sf00 to appear at Windsor county
court, and he furnished bail.
Deputy Sheriff j. F. Lamson served pa
pers ON "Col." Stanley Lewis, buying
agent OF the circus, who had failed to set
tie bin OF $3.50 for pair of shoes and
some cloth bought of +. l.. knight of
Waterbury, where the show held forth
Saturday. The "colonel" was laboring
under the delusion that an advertising
blanket on one of the elephants in the
parade was worth as much as the shoes
and cloth, but was soon cC nvinced of his
or or and extricated himself from the tolls
of the law by tie payment of 80.
At II o'clock Monday forenoon, the
cattle train backed down the sidetrack,
on which the circus train was standing
near Salisbury's mill, and struck it with
such force that the dining car of the cir
Gus climbed onto the car behind. As IL
slid back to the track, two fat-bottom
cars in front ran under and threw it off
the trucks.
| In the dining car at the time were four
men, all of whom were badly injured
I The cook, George Boyd, from Pennsyl-
vania, was wounded ON the right side of
his head, had his hip and spine hurt.
and also received some kind of a blow
across the stomach. A second man sus-
hurt, and two others were injured in the
short ribs, one being struck on the right
side and one on the left.
Boyd was in such a serious condition
I that he was removed to M. 7. Merrill's
nearby on Weston street and the next
morning went to the sanatorium for
treatment. His three fellow victims were
made as comfortable as possible in a
sleeping car OF the circus and went on
with the company. Drs. G. w. Scott
and l.. A. Russlow dressed the wounds,
and the circus doctor took charge of the
three patients left in the train.
Ladies' hair work. Mrs. II. II. Bean.