The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-12
The CGHELOPARO SUEEzEO
ATOMIZER AND SALT PORK FIX
FRITZ'S SORE THROAT.

men Are Visible aud You cant believe
All the Circus Tales From New On.
When it was discovered yesterday at the
circus that Fritz had a sore throat Tim Flan-
agan was sent for. This was because Tim
knew where a steplader could be quickly
procured. Fritz is a giraffe. Sometimes
when you have a giraffe that has sore throat
you send out and hire a steeplejack and
give him an Atomizer and hoist him up in
a bosn's chair, but the stepladder treatment
Is more in vogue at the present time for
the reason that the stepladder stands still
while the bosn's chair sWays all around
with the swAying Of the patients head.
Fritz has not been quite himself, for some
,time. Several times Charley Dick, his
keeper, says be ha1 seen him scratching
his nose against the roof and onoe he was
seen snatching a mouthful or two from a
rubber plant that stands just across the hall
from his cage, Charley says that it's al
Ways q bad SiEn when a giraffe begins 10
eat rubber plants. II 81 We that the giraffe
doesn't think his neck elastic enough
and whom he thinks that way he gets 70
brOoding over II, and the irst thing you know
be falls a victim TO melanohoha and you're
ten or twelve thousand do liars TO the bad
though you can get something for the hide.
The first that anybody really noticed
about Fritz's sore throat. though, was
when he sneesed It 10 supposed that
| Fritz tried other means OF attracting at
tention to his trouble and onlV took to
sneezing az a last resort. When a giraffe
sneezes il usually causes some comment;
il did Yesterday. Giuseppe Carlotti. who
has the fruit and lemonade stand privilege
in the m~enagerie room where Fritz stays.
was doing comfortably behind his wares
not far away from the giraffe cage. When
Fritz sneezed Giuseppe woke up and went
and got a tarpa lin When he had spread
this over the stand and had put up an UNI
brella he felt more at his ease.
Then Charley Dick hurried up and as
sured everybody that the steam pipes
hadn't burst, and as soon as the monkeys
had stopped squealing and the hyenas
| with F1tz's throat. He fed him a bale or
| two Of clover hay, which is the only thing
Fntz really ioes. Then he sat back and
! kept his eyes on Fritz's throat. Foot by
foot the hay worked its way down, pausing
now and then 10 rest, but Charley noticed
| that Fritz made harder work OF II than
usual and that the skyline Of his neck wal
irregular. II was quite lumpy. was Fntz's
| neck. Then II was that they sent for Tim
Flanagan and his stepladder
Though Fritz is an intelligent animal
C~harleyIsays they haven't been able TO
teach him TO gargle his throat because II
never has been sore before. And so II was
necessary TO resort to the atomlEer treat
ment. A barrel OF peroxide Of hydrogen,
q force pump, a steady hand and q clear
head are the essentials In this treatment.
Well, after the floor had been mopped up
Charley said he thought Fritz would be all
right as soon as they could put a salt pork
pOultioe on his throat. SO they sent for q
hogshead Of pork and sir bolts Of cotton.
But despite Charley's optimism Dexter
suffering from q long illness. The only
one he knew 10 compare with i was when
George Anger, the giant, was laid up with
~sciatica. What makes II all the more GER
tain that the sneeze was only the intelligent
CRATES way Of letting folks know be was
IN, is the fact that since they turned the hose
on his throat he hasn't Sneezed once.
Giuseppe, the fruit man, says he b sure he
would have noticed il II he had.
Charley Dick expresses the opinion that
a. soon az the CIRCUS gets out on the road
FIlNA WIN hVN bONNoAH NAAAAHO VI 9NOAot Ag
says, is what a sick giraffe needs more than
anything else, As a matter OF fact the
vanderbilt ts on the circus good and strong.
Il always comes when the first Of the canvas
men begin to report. The canvasmen, Of
course, are the chaps who strike the big
tents when The evenings performance is
over and set them up again when the next
town is reached, There is romance in the
oanvasmen, all right. Give a to Dexter
Fellowes. II you don't believe II.
The humble canvasman, Mr.. Fellowes
intoned. lis the unsung hero Of the circus.
All the applause goes TO the gAyly be-
spangled gymnasts who do those nerve
shocking feats far up In the dome Of the
lofty roof where, outlined against unfathom-
able heights, they trip their light fantas-
tic wonders, while far below are heard
the thunden Of the pubio's plaudits.
But the meek and lowly oanvasmAn gets
no applause. Day after day and night
after night from one end Of the season TO
the other they work like Trojans at their
useful tasks. Without them there would
be no circus. Without 'hAir faithful aid
the gymnasts and the athletes would all
exist in vain. And yet nobody sings their
praises. Nobody ever writes pieces in
the paper about them, ~H-n-nobOdy ev-v-
yer, hymns their eulogies. N-n-n-no-
body
Here Mr.. relieves buried his lace in his
handkerchief. II lie a terrible thing TO see
a strong nan weep. DnaA
Nevertheless. the canvasmen are be-
ginning TO report. At the end Of the sea-
son they 20 their ways. Nobody takes
their addresses. Nobody sends them word
when 70 show up. Nobody knows where
they go or what they do. Nobody ever
knows their names. They are known ex-
olusively 10 the circus people by numbers
and by numbers they figure on the payroll.
Yet they are among the most dependable OF
all the folks connected with the circus, and
though they are 20 nameless Happy Jack
Smelling, the boss canvasmsn, knows full
well that some time along in the last two
weeks OF the big shows stay at Madison
Square Garden they'll begin to come in.
They are coming in now every day. When
the show leaves the Garden next Saturday
night there will be $50 Of them on the lob, |
as we'll as about forty @razorhanks,s a.
they call the men who load and unload the
show from its special train.
In preparation for the day when the long
hike begins the manicure parlor down
stairs in the elephant department are getting
ready for a big rush. It's more trouble 10
manicure an elephants nails than a Chicago
drummer's. or course there's one thing
in favor OF the elephants. They don't talk.
But it's q busy Job just the same, and the
orange sticks are being Sharpened with
axes and the cuticle scissors are being