Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
QUENTIN MAKES A H|T|WTY OF A RESIDENT
President Roosevelt Laughs Importance of Voting for Dis
Heartily at His Joke. trict Delegates.
CIRCUS BYY NJ C. A. BOYS lSHONS A PUBLIC INTEREST
Young Garry Out Pro Political Inertia indicative Of I'm
: gram Creditably. healthy Condition.
AL SORTS OF ATHLETIC FEATs BETTER CLASSES INDIFFERENT
Slayer Secretary Republic
ming Track can Congressional Committee
President Roosevelt Laughs
Heartily at His Joke.
CIRCUS BYY. M. C. A. BOYS
Young Performers Garry Out q Pro-
: gram Creditably.
ALL SORTS OF ATHLETIC FEATs
to Raise Funds for
!; the Improvement Of the Run
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ming Track.

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The sacred pAchyderm Of the republican
party was put through its PAGES before
the President last night by Quentin Roose-
welt at q circus given by the boys Of the
u. NJ c. A. In their gymnasium. Queman
figured on the bill as professor Quen-
taene. with his educated elephant Bolivar.
CAPTURED alive in Anacostia." The animal
itself was composed Of Masters Coveil
and stansbaugh. the fore and hind legs
of the trusty beast.
The President, with Mrs. and MISS
Roosevelt, entered the gymnasium soon
after the performance began. and as he
came into the room the boys orchestra
plAyod ''The star Spangied Banner, ana
the audience arose and cheered. the
presidential party took seats at the SIDE
Of the ring, and tho show went on.
Not long after his father had become
pns Of the spectators Quentin appeared.
wf1h face whitehead In regular clown
style, white cloth covering hts hair and
bizarre costume OF bagsys red svafh1ns
the rest Of him Perched precarioasay
on one side Of the top OF his head was
little red hat, shaped like q topper"
The elephant shambled along bashfnily
behind, but eheered up a: soon rs burst
of iauxheer. greeted the &c o. r." label
on each sids OF the, body. Quentin put
the animal through Its PAGES, ana tnen
bexan answering questions about It..
Pretty thin elephant you've got there"
said his interlo0kor.
"sure it's thin." Quentin assented.
els it the republican elephant?
Sure
what will you feed It to got It fat?'
OWE "CQnAis
And the President smiled . complete
appreciation.
! A Varied Performance.
The boys gave a varied performance.
from 1.-THE grand entree Of tho entire
troupe Of $4,000 trained acrosats. clowns.
Wild animals and charlotte. to tho final
Immense, spectacular and enchanting
hoop-la" There was q performance ON
the horizontal bars by Masters GoEton
and Taylor, a comic wrestling match by
Braniard and Clements. and parallel bar
work by Stiefboldt, Davis, J. Gorton, w.
Eorton, Mckinley and Tweedale. All the
athletic performances Interested the Presi-
hsnt, and his applause was generous.
Chase Taylor, instructor IN the boy1 gym
na9tum, took part IN tho fea&s OF akiu
md .ttensth. helping the boys and en-
The young performers did themselves
lrsdit, turning handsprfnss. somersanlts.
10th forward and back. cartwheeis. and
bll tho other tns3de-out tricks that are
Quentin Roosevelt made a second ap-
pearance in a clown act, with two very
long clowns who Appeared to be worried
Wer ouentiu's little red hat, ono trying to
t it with nis hends. until ouentin put him
D deep IN one round.
-Prok Larsn SDils and his troupe OF
hsoc3ously trained animals" was the
tnth number on the program: The troupe
khlte hear, q crane. the "a. o. p" ele-
phAnt and q donkey. Trainer Hildreth
nllsd the white bear out into thu ring
"fsddy!" he cried. -Come, Teddyr'
+, Bet the bear refused to move. The
nA1ner tried again. but IA vain. AZ last
" idea struck MN:
Come. Thsodorer' he called.
And the bear came. And applause came
pom the President and be party, with
eeAninG smiles. for theer was a hit that
bit, end pleased, ct that.
The crane next took the carpet It was
seaa IKE the pesI Of a mountain. Its
lame was Fairbanks. and II danced a
fragment OF . tG. The donkey. named
Maud, efayed At reQuest, but ktcked over
ne trainer when II was called Bryan's
aeed.
Ground and lofty tumbling by Bruner.
Goldsmith, Gorton and Taylor then fol-
owed. q triple human wheel being an I'M
Usual feature introduced. After that came
rowe and Henry, In blackface act
Nth collection Of jokes which seemed q
lumber OF years too old for them.
The Grand "Hoop-La."
The grand 'hoop.la," in which the
erobats joined. jumping from a spring.
oard up to q high. sloping mattress, and
hen turning somersaults. closed the even
ags entertainment.
While this was In progress the presiden-
tai party left the hall amid cheers. the
ater his carriage had started back to the
White House. !;
The entertainment was given to help the
bys raise money to bank or build An
lcline Tor the running track in the gym
tasium.
Washington Williams was rinsmaster.
I. A Cornell led the "Zuzus" Band, which
tas composed OF Masters Bohannon Che
~, Fisher. Hough. Huntress, HUNT.
Eoaugh. Harvey, Moore, Lewis, Gold
NTH. Nelson. Smith, Williams. Sountae
TAs clowns were Masters Stewart. Reu-
r. 7. Chapman. Estey and Salaby.
Observation-Disclosures Kuehn, Duncan.
SchWeitser. Young, Grove and Henry.
Ticket sealers-Aasters Downs and
trench.
Ticket tsjkers-Masters Dealy. Downs
kayfgft and Mulcare.
Cshers-Mastsrs wetzel, Marsh, Brown.
t,andiee. Muiholland. Leetch, Allen.
talker. 6toeveT. Pedddt and Meyer.