The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-24
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 TUST when 1t was raining the hard
 est yesterday afternoon George 0 Augur. the boy giant, feet inches high, and Ernst Roman, the old midget, measuring 42 inches from shoes to hat, walked down Fourth avenue under the same umbrella. The giant carried the umbrella and the midget held to the slack of the mammoth trousers about six inches above his knees. When they ar rived at the Madison Square Garden to call on old circus friends the midget looked like a rat that had fallen over board.
 whats the matter, Ernst?" asked Au- gus, who is nicknamed ''Gimlet;" didn't I hold the umbrella over you?"
 q guess so,'' said the 42-inch-high old man, ''I looked up twice, but I haven't been able to see it yet"
 The big Barnum & Bailey show finished arriving in town along about the small hours of the morning, and from day break until late at night the men were at work getting the big arena in shape and making the animals feel at home.
 Performers, trainers and freaks were hosts at parties all over the neighbor- hood. George, the giant, gave his feast at the Hotel Preston, where he treated a party of the side show people to a planked steak with frilled potatoes that looked like Cleopatra's barge Harry La Pearl, the clown, who was married in his makeup at the clowns dinner last season, came in with his wife, and after finding the spot in Ring where he was mar ried he did two flip Hops in memory of the occasion.
 Phil and Mat Kennard, both admitting that they are clowns. were unpacking their trunk all the afternoon. Some of the articles in the trunks were two suits of clothes made out of horse blankets, nine seltzer bottles Ooaded for comedy) one gross of bladders for beating across the head, one barrel of clown white, eight pounds of rouge, two comedy wigs con taining blank cartridges to be exploded with a property axe and two brand new slap sticks, which they had whittled from the raw hickory during the cold and long winter months.
 Fred Egner came In reading last J over to his boarding house asking them to take up the carpet in his room and put sawdust on the floor as it made him feel more at home
 John Ringing was in the centre of the arena. watching the wagons come in, and remarked to Ali T. Ringling:
 'If your scrap book filters in the press department use as much ping mimeo- graph ink this season as Brother.A Al has used red paint on the wagons, there won't be room enough in the papers to print stuff about the Mexican war. s
 The press staff all looked wise. Whit ing Allen, who has been in the circus business since he joined W. c. Coup in 1872. has joined out" again. He was leaning on Jay Riall, who told how three gas stoves had to be put in the cage with the chimpanxee, Chimmie Fadden, SO he would not catch cold on the way down. Somebody asked where the gas came from and everybody smiled.
 While this was going on Dexter Eel lows, veteran handshaker, wrote the fol- lowing for his book of sawdust sonnets {. "Talk about your music, s And your gorgeous organ peals, Of symphonies and operas
 That to every sense appeals; But give to me the harmony ~ That through my being tseals, The rolling roar and rumble of the cir GUS wagon wheels
 By this time the boss handed out the supper checks, the rings were all in shape and tine elevated platforms ready for the balloon horse. The first performers to test their apparatus on the aerial end of the bill were the Leamy ladies, who looked as fresh and peach-like as any thing that ever came from the orchard.
 Toto Segrist was there next and with his troupe, ststred rchearsals last night on their big up-in-the-air act. Tho band