The Prescott daily news., 1908-03-27
TIE OLD CIRCUS MAN'S STORY
 .ha Great Giart's Singing no" Voice Hit the People

x.eatest of all giants, sald the oiu CIT man was the difference between s,s sneaking and his singing voice
 "uis speaking voice was that or
 on of ordinary stature; his singing voice was in keeping with his own gi- rortic size. And we never discov-
 Pod this ourselves until he had been ,.,,b us for some months. not in fact ,,u the end of the first season with us when we'd gone into winter quar- ters
 eye were sitting, the old man, the gant and myself, in that room that I've told you about that we had fixed in for the giant by taking out a sec ond.story floor and so carrying a oround floor room up through two stories to give the giant head room sitting there one evening about a counle of days after we'd come in from the road. and pretty soon we heard the cook. over in the kitchen at the other end of the house, humming a tune: and then the first thing we knew we heard the giant singing it. And singing? Why, you never heard any thing like 1t; and nobody would have believed if he hadn't heard 1t, that anybody could have such voice.
 For comparison 1t was like the roar of Niagara compared to the sound of little waterfall over a stone in a brook. Sound? Why, thought it was going to make the walls bulge and blow out the windows.
 And it wasn't harsh. rough voice. you understand, either; it was a good. smooth voice. not the most beautiful voice you ever heard, but still a smooth, round deep voice of the most amazing volume, vastly greater than anything you had ever dreamed of in a human voice, and it made the old man and me sit up in wonder.
 And when the giant stopped we found the whole circus was standing around outside the headquarters build ing-animal men. canvas men. drivers. the whole outfit had come up to hear the giant sing. and these were men. you know, accustomed to strange things We had s0-odd acres in our reservation. but you could hear the giants voice in the furthest corner of it, and didn't know then how much further beyond; and at the first note Of it men had stopped their work and then they had all come to listen.
 As l was saying to you. you could hear the giants voice all over the res ervation, and I didn't know how far beyond but we soon found out about that The village was only about three-quarters of mile away. and on still nights and when the wind was right you could hear his singing then plainly; and 1t didn't exactly scare the people; they all knew the giant and they all liked him. but they all went 10 bed early. and that wonderful sound coming to them after they had gone to bed did disturb 'em somewhat. And so the old man got the giant not to sing after nine o'clock at night; and that winter he had him practice up on number of songs. which of course ne was going to have the giant sing under canvas in our next season on the road.
 In those days, you know. we used to give concert after the show: send around men before the last act selling uchets Tor this concert; and then when .ne show was over people that hadn't bought tickets would pass out. and those that had would stay to the con cert and sometimes half the people "ouId stay, or maybe only a quarter oi em but whatever we got that way was velvet, and what the old man was gong 10 do was Co substitute for the music and singing We used to give in ,nat concert singing by the giant. And ne didnt miscalculate, for the first s''le the giant sang everybody stayed rom curiosity, and after that they all stayed everywhere. because they wanted to.
 We used to stand the giant up on platform built around the center pole. mi'h the band around him. where 'nere was plenty of room for him and Mhere everybody could see him. And 'ne oahd would play tune through. anu then a flourish or two. and then 'ne siant would sing, with the band ac- companying him.
 G. Ahd he'd get the people from the u, h,s' note. It was wonder just to see .ln standing there, but it was far s,ealer wonder to hear him sing. He aioht make fun of it, you understands: a', M LOOK his singing seriously, and so s u.u the people, for so tremendous '. noice had never been heard before, but was not unmusical, and altogether it he pretty close to being awe-inspir-