The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-10-06
FRIDAY OF
NEXT WEEK
THESE HORSES RE As0N
Speech Only Faculty Denied Schu-
mans Wonderful Animals.
Will Be Here October "A.

Speech is the only faculty denied the
wonderful performing horses which
Albert Schuman, of the German circus,
is bringing to America for the irst
time this season to be one of the feat.
ures of Ringing Brothers Worlds
Greatest shows. They will be seen in
johnson City on Friday, October 18th,
when this best of all circuses comes 10
town.
Among the achievements of all the
animal trainers that have ever lived,
here is the best of all. Not another act
of the kind will bear comparison with
it. Albert Schuman is known to be
the greatest trainer of horses in the
world. His establishments at Berlin,
Frankfort and Scheveningen are world
famous. Tourists travel there from
afar to the wonderful performances,
which, until the enterprise of the Ring
ling brothers invaded his amusement
palaces, could be seen nowhere else on
earth. Schuman has made many mill
ion dollars training and exhibiting
horses. In this act is found his master
achievement.
There are fifteen animals in the group.
Their performance is known as the
Brewery act" because they enter the
ring concealed in large brewery barrels
which are piled promiscuously on
large brewery wagon. They are not
discovered by the audience until they
kick the heads out of the barrels and
jump into the ring. They begin their
act by removing the bungs from small
er barrels and filling large glasses with
a beer-like liquor. They sit around
long table and drink toast to America.
All through their act they walk on
their hind legs. They waltz together
in time with the band. They roll each
other around in barrels. One animal
enters the arena hitched to phaeton.
The driver is flirting with his fair
young passenger. The horse takes adj
vantage of time when his master is
not looking and shakes himself out of
his harness. Taking hold of the driv-
ers's collar with his teeth, the horse
tosses the fellow out of the carriage
and jumping in, takes seat at the
side of the astonished passenger.
These animals do many wonderful
things. No act was ever seen in Amer
lea that is anything like it, or any
where nearly as difficult. There is a
great deal of fun in the performance.
The horse, under Herr Schuman's di-
rection, displays sense of humor that
is astonishing. The telephoniag ele-
plants are another novelty in trained
animal features. There are fifteen of
them. They fill all three rings. The
end rings are connected by a telephone
line, with central station in the mid
die ring. Elephants call each other up
and carry on long and animated con-
versations. There is great deal of
humor to the act.
Inere are many other trained ami
mails. Among them are monkies that
ride horses and dogs, ponies that pre-.
sent an amusing act, all by themselves,
human guidance; and mule,
a dog and cat that appear together
n one ring in merry little comedy
scene.
Ringing Brothers are creating no
md of talk this season with their new
European cast of performers. There
ire 375 of them, most of whom were
engaged last winter by the foreign
agents of the show. The morning pa
ade is wonder in novel creation and
'ostliness. The menagerie has been
much enlarged