New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-08
CIRCUS HUSSARS PARADE
Escort Miss Wirth on Horseback
Ride Up Fifth Avenue.
ELEPHANTS EASTER BATH
Sandpaper Rub, Ton or So OF
Soft Soap and Fire Hose to
Scour the Pachyderms.

II YOU were doing your duty looking
over spring models in everything along
Fifth avenue Just before the naughty rain
came down yesterday afternoon you saw
MISC Nav With. Of Australia. and that
funny shake black hat of hers-the one
with the white aigrettes. Isn't ii odd?
Miss With never saw snowflake until
she landed in Hoboken last January.
Then she saw so many Of them that she
couldn't see the ground. That was when
she was on her way To New York TO JOIN
Barnum & Baileys circus and show these
here United states what "A woman can DO
ON horseback.
Yes. sir. Miss Wirth is the greatest
woman rider in the world . She was
born i'm Australia and was raised on a
cattle ranch If you haven't seen her
work in the ring at Madison Square Car
den this spring you have missed having
the chills run up and down your back
ANY one will tell YOU that she turns back
ward and forward somersaults on the bare
hacks of the ponies better than any Iidy
I'm tho whole world Well. sir. that warm
wave we had last Saturday made MISS
With homesick-so much like Australian
weather. YOU know. She could almost get
a Whit of the smelly earth under the pro-
vincial sheepfolds She heard the cali OF
the open again yesterday; that's all ana
she just had TO ride.
The minute she heard 1t she slipped into
that black shake hat with the white
aigrettes, put on her loose red coat with
the blue tdnic bordered with fur over a
blue skirt. and mounted. Then she put
her hands UP to her mouth. like this. and
repeated the cry II reverbeTdted down
through the darksome stalls OF the Gar
den and fell on the ears Of twenty Of Bar
mum & Baileys hussars. who were trying
hard TO forget that II was Easter,
with the real show moving for miles up
and down Fifth avenue. The hussars
leaned to their feet. dressed with alacrlty
and by o'clock they were ready to mount
and ride wherever she might lead them
The gay little sightseeing cavalcade
turned into Fifth avenue at 9th street and
turned north, Miss With in the lead. she
was a mighty pretty equestrian figure. The
greeting given the riders began at the Hol-
land House and continued mp Fifth avenue
mast the Waldorf-A Astoria. Union League
club and the old Vanderbilt homestead.
At SD street rain began 10 descend and
return was made by way Of Madison ave
nue.. II had been Miss Wirth's intention TO
canter through Central Park and 10 sho"
her appreciation Of her volunteer escorts
graciousness by entertaining them at the
Plaza Hotel. and she declared she would
carry out the programme when opportunity
and weather permitted
The twenty-eigbt circus elephants at the
Garden we're taking their annual Easter
hath when the riders re-entercd the build
ing. and onlookers had lots Of fun. First
the huge beasts underwent a thorough
scrapinC with soft sandpap'r to rem"'" inc
callous hide. and then Niagara OF water
descended upon them from fire hoses Two
barrels OF green soap and an equal quantity
~ neatsfoot oil completed the process. Inc
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