The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-07
MAUD WHISTLES
AND PONY RIVAL
DOES THINGS, TOO
"Caddy,' Another Pony, Shares
the HOnOrs at Circus
Training School.
THEY DO SOME FANCY
STUNTS IN GREEN STREET
Mazeppa Can Count and Answer
Professor Galatians Running
Fire of Questions.
BY E. V. LUKENS.

WUST suppose, you children o
A Newark, that you had an oppor
tunity to assist in training ponie!
Tor circus work, wouldn't you bt
happy? And if there was included {
wrestling mule, whose tricks would
make even Bret Harte's Heather
Chinee" appear as a selling-plater.
could you want anything more?
Into the quarters where Prof. James
L. Callahan puts through their PAGES
the ponies and mule an EVENING
STAR photographer and I penetrated
yesterday and found him busily at
work. AS assistants he had his daugh-
ter Matte and son Francis, the two
Rough Riders" shown among the
pictures upon this page, Maud" the
mule, and "Mazeppa," the educated
mare, are rivals as stars of the school.
"Mazeppa'' can count and do many
things, at which MAUD" is a piker, but
that mule has her doubIy discounted
on the trick proposition.
Let anyone who doubts attempt to
ride MAUD" around the ring of tan
bark in which the equine pupils are
put through their PAGES, and that mule
will give them the time of their lives.
Maud" is averse to carrying anyone
around a ring more than twice. The
third time it's a case of roll, and should
the mules rider not be "a live wire
they are apt to be fattened as thin
as the proberbial clearinghouse pan
cake. Maud is 8 years old, and as q
wrestler no one has been able to down
the critter save Richard Callahan. an
other son of the trainer. It's a sight
worth seeing TO observe MAUD and
young Callahan engage in a bout for
supremacy.
A performance sure to please the
youngsters Is the see-saw trick in
which Maud is assisted by "Silver
Tall and Matte" SILVER Tail and
Matte also figure with Helen and
Francis Callahan in their Rough
Rider" act. 1t is an education to wa'ch
"Mazeppa" counting with her right or
left f~orefoot up to any specified num-
Der, or nodding her head yes or mo"
to questions of Are you a good giri?"
and do you think Bryan could be
elected President" "Mazeppa' can
also waltz. keeping as perfect time to
the whistle of her trainer as do
humans.
There are two tiny ponies-"a pair
of rabbits Callahan called them
among the bunch, and they appeared
to advantage as they posed for the
picture I'm Love"
Their ring training, save for begging
for sugar and a few tricks. has so far
not progressed to any extent but they
arc knowing youngsters, and within
. few months win be numbered among
the star performers.
"Caddy," clear-iimbed and built upon
other pony lines to delight an expert
in equine knowledge, does one stunt
which many a mortal would find d;fi-
cult. Placing q strip of wood twelve
inches long and about half as wide
upon the top of an inverted keg, his
trainer ordered. Get ON your perch
and quickly "Caddy'' was balanced
upon the strip.
Then there are 'Pie Balr' and
Brownie two four-year-olds, and
brandy" and SODA" piebald ponies,
who are in the game TO the limit,
The training school is in Green street,
almost directly opposite police head
quarters.