The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-25
HEV THINGS AT THE CIRCUS
DARNIN AND BAILEY SPRING
OPENING Ar THE GARDEN.

me OpeOIag Parade Ras an the Nest
beautiful IsIrls ln the v ord and Mere
Elephants Than GIras ana Mere hsrses
Than Elephants New Feature Acts.
There we're two things 90 do when one
ven To the opening of the Barnum and
Baby circus at Madison square Garden
laat night. t-the first regular harbinger
Of apring. calender OF no calendar. an
Mears Rial. Davis and Fellows Of the
prees department. put ia. and one was
10 avoid booking straight at the press
department wearing regular evening
clothes with white waistcoats split up
"a ne chin; and the next move was 10
20 INTO the menagerie To- So Baby bom-
hseno. the new horn giraffe. Pat and
Charles the FIRST. the chimps. the three
teeiy lion clubs and the rest of the animal
COLLECTION. which the press department
modssfly announce a. the greatest,
eRregious. Rosh -awfulest. Eol derned.
differing. gorgeous and genial aGgre
CATION 81 animals ever cOrralled hs
all hat.
Bht early in show the great crowd in
ehe Garden thought for a minute that =
tragedy was To happen when Display
No. 4. a Series cf Midair Performances
Of Extraordinary skill got under way.
Elsewhere are told che details 81
how one performer fell thiTty-fvs or
forts feet thereby causing other per
formers then displaying 10 slip and fall.
Bat the remarkable discipline ~ q biG
circus never was more beautifully eN-
hibited than in the next few minutes
after the accident. Ia lees than . minute
and half by actual count the sAwdust
VAS cleared IT disorder and the greatest
shoE- Wa proceeding with Rayety and
gorReousness and blaring ~ hands.
Ioti OF folks never knew that anything
untevsrd had happened.
Before all this trumpeters came in
Rowned beautifully. and before the
truhpeters arrived for the Most Tran-
scendentaiv Beautiful Introduction Ia
The Regular Performances early arrivals.
atruiling around the menagerie. early
learhed that sticky popcorn and peanut
shells play tho deuce with evening clothes.
But on the other hand what right has
ANYONE to- wes- evening clothes at a
circps'
They entered in brave array. With
skiA milk horses supporting lovely
ladies IN Nile green. and the skim Inilks
merged them into steehs with = trace
Of cream color. and neat to these Con
ductor Freddy JewelIs bag hand bray
ing beautifully all the while came rows
and. rows ~ hoFses whose draperies
sho&ed thai there was Just q trace ~
chocolate colonng matter IN gloss that
covered them. From that they ran
shrough ochres and darker yellows the
way back - CHESTNUT horses and finally
splendid Esyptian uasrons followed
aboard floats. Iherc were JOans of Arc
and, Cleopatras wabbling atop perfectly
and Pilot. And following the larger
-ponderous pachyderrns' came a string
OF the other forty-two elephants h,if
all thee lesser elephant lights. although
gorgeously goWned. were riderless. Az
Ringing explained this by saying thai
be had secured only the most heautifui
RIffe VI the entire world To risis the ee-
plants and that there a lacK of most
beautifh girls when une St"pI~d To- Con-
sider how many elephants the circus
Andr IA that ~ntranc- Iarade. winch
Was Featlv a most beautiful mass of form
and color were squads 81 The regular
-cAlico' circus hoFNs with hstSsv CAV
pIurnes and little Tib-tan bows on
PONIES. and PhRmcian- with hann~r~.
and q great regiment ~ Eirls IN cloth
OF gold When al hat fret parade was
over ths.-Caiico hOrse-. siX and eight
abreast. prancec around all the TingS Tor
. whlIs i,s-s 60 give the spectators time
tor nonsat 20 CT hreaih Then all
the par ado got together AGAIN and merged
again a gnas 20 color until The new saw
dust II IN" Garden wGs we'd with velvsts
and calico horS"s and purple plishe~
tall the floor seemed T. b. paved with
Easter eggs.
PAT. the chino llrpened along wear
ing a high has he had picked up IN the
preas deuartInent While the elephants
"A.
Tbs aerIsi persunz VINO caused the one
accident followed ;he elephants and after
these ,au7a tiDwu Archaic acts the
BgrzaCs and thrir kichIng mules who
caused tho heaTiLrsi laughter perhaps
.hesrd IN the Garden ~ they ssnr
Their nsgro riders spinning And FOL
lowing thcse were sotne ~ the SiegristS
and DavenpNrts n bareback riding scts.
for no perfectly good circus during she
past century has be~n complete without
few anon. "rs II the Stcgrist or DaVen-
port family On the Ill.
there were crowds ~ wire performers
all over be- arena moment later. bur
unfOrtunat for most ~ the perform
ers Ia this -displa-' girl ia garnet
gown. Ia belle i"toTia.- Who did her
etunts alone "a the centre ring. soon had
tho crowd Watching her antics Her
workegas the host ever, according to
tho rPomptfIl press agents and for once
circiD Tre-s agent. did MT exagEerate
There were enough ~ the ground and
loftK. not ~ mention the big thrillsra.
aftsn-this 70 satisfy even the most exari-
ing small boy IN the audience The
Great Balloon Horse Jupiter arose IN
the akyline with Mile Carroll riding him.
whiI@ 3upIter stood motionlesa even while
the Garden lights were lOw cred and fire.
works sizzied about him The whizz
vhiFfa.swung high on their narrow wand.
and elzPre we're the mig hIppOdTOms races
A. G9ntepenuh. with the actual finale
thrilfer
Desperate did the final thrill. He
clImbs up among the steel arches 81 the
Garden roof and carefully directs the
eractlon of an inclined wooden slide far
beneath him. When hs thinks u - Just in
the proper position he Jumps downward
more than one hundred feet. lands on his
chsst-lbut gently against the inclined
plane and slides down 10 20 q standing.
smiling position. The man who first tired
the stunt was killed. Another tried and
Nso was killed. DespeTadO got away with
u last night and maybe will to-day and