The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-02-10
THE WRECK|NG
Of A CIRCUS
WHAT SHOW PROPERTY IS
WORTH WHEN 1T GOES UN-
DER THE HAr11ER
(From The Billboard.)

The Cole Bros. circus went under
the hammer at Cory, Pa. John and
Alf T. Ringing were present and
made number of purchases as will be
seen below. Here is what some of the
property brought:
John G. Robinson bought a baby
camel for $50 and the mother for $275.
The harness was sold to Robinson &
Miller Bros.
The big tent sold for 5000 and a
smaller one for 800.
Jones Bros. bought the large callioDe
for $775.
The plain wagons went from $50 to
$3.50.
The band wagons, good ones, went
for $500 and $3.50. Jones Bros. got
them. They bought the cages and
open dens from $500 to $675.
Two Pullman cars worth IS 900 each
brought 81 400 apiece. Flat cars ranged
from $50 to 1915. Advertising car No.
sold for $775 and No. for $675.
Sixty-foot cars brought from $50 to
S275; elephant and stock cars, $175 to
T4OO.
Ringing Bros. bought BIanch,a "a fine
riding horse for $3.50 and Dora, hur-
ole horse, for $3.50.
Pete and Beauty, the horses that car
ried the riding pony in the Cole show,
went TO Stickney for $3.50.
Maude, the sorrel high-school mare,
ridden by Rooney, brought $40 from
Ringing Bros.
Frank, another black beauty, one of
the best ring horses in the country,
went to the New York Hippodrome,
for $500, while another high-school
actor went to the same people for $40.
The four blacks, which were used in
one of the best acts in the show, went
90 Tony LoWanda, for $40.
Three greys and Pete, went to Frank
McKue for $24O.
Lady, the high jumper, went to
Ringing Bros. for $3.50, while Black
Beauty, the Liberty horse, sold to
f'Bob" Stickney for $3.50, while other
horses of less note, sold at correspond
ing prices, 800 to $40.
Of the four mules used by the
clowns, in their funny ring act, Dyna-
mite and Arkansas, went to Frank
Robbins for $1O5, while Queen and
Maud went to Jones Bros. for $1O5.
The baggage horses, numbering SO,
were held TO the last and here it was
that the brisk bidding took place. It
was estimated that the flock would sell
at an average of $125, but some of them
brought as high as $500. One pair
was sold for $40.
Puss and Tom, the two oldest horses
in the show, brought $675.
The two tigers went to Ringling
Bros. for 81 800, one lion went for 500,
while two others went to Ringing
Bros. for 81 ,O5O.
Nearly all of the camels went to
Bartel, the New York animal man, in
prices from $3.50 to $50.
Bidding was very spirited when the
elephants went, a funny coincidence
being that the large ones brou ght the
smallest prices, while the little ones
sold as the best.
"Queen," age so, to Bartel for $500.
Smaller one 10 Bartel for $575. "Babe"
brought S1,275, and another 300.
The latter two went TO Downie and
John q. Robinson.
A black leopard brought 1915,
puma S125, and the monkeys and birds
brought fair prices.
The whole outfit netted FisS, Doerr
and Carroll Company about $43, 900,
leaving them a net profit on the ven
ture of about $4,000.
Both Alf. T. and John Ringing were
two of the busiest men at the sale.
Most of those with the wrecked Cole
Bros. show have signed with the Yam
kee Robinson show.
It was great gathering of those in
terested in circuses. The country is
prosperous, say the Ringlings, and
everyone wants to see the circus.