The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-18
CIRCUS COMES HOME
 BEST SEASON EVER
Find Country Was Never in
 More Prosperous Condition
MSS SUFFRLG: WAS
 SHOWS B.G-E.T HIT
Men Paid Off Today and Many Leave For HOme-Winter
 Quarters Active

N4Cn dAU OAA AO00y 0I1u Hldhly Leave For Home-Winter Quarters Active
 Miss Suffrage is home after having stumped the United States and part of Canada in behalf of woman's suf-. frage- She returned yesterday with the Barnum and Bailey circus. The Greatest Show on Earth, etc.. which has been featuring her throughout the summer. Miss Suffrage made great hit wherever she appeared. She is the young lady giraffe you know, who was born in this city last winter and christeEed with such Eretentious cere- l mony. at Madison Square Garden in the spring. Miss Suffrage has grown considerably since she left the home of her birth. No, she hasn't grown out of her cutenese, or her sweetness which made her so much loved by all the women folks, but she has gotten to be pretty big girl now and stands nearly half as high as her mamma. Her owners claim that she was one whole show during the season and she not only advertised the show but she did much to advertise Bridgeport. All the employees of the circus were payday there was much rejoicing and big happy crowd of happy-go-luclzsr
 
 The big show closed it's season in Meriden, Miss, on the 12th of this month and headed for Bridgeport. It had a fine run in except for a few and Syracuse, where it ran into snow and ice and suffered the inconvenience from the warm climate of the south to the chills of the north. Officials at
 the the winter quarters today stated that with which the show has ever been favored.
 i we encountered very few storms: our fusiness was the best ever and through our very extensive facilities for handling things in systematic along like clock work said one of the officials. Our stock returns in a most excellent condition It is amaz- annals are in such good condition they could start right out again. It lpast. Our seasons work was just as strenuous far our route was large one. but circus management like ev- fection which eliminates much wear Texas brought out the largest that state. I guess Texas did better for us than any of the states in which we showed The season though was fine all the way through. We went from here to New York where we had good run and after playing the New England states we struck out 1 for the west and showed to big audi, ences all along the route. We went into British Columbia where we had q
 good run don't hesitate & to say say average. The conditions in the coun-. try were good. We never fell shy of ! sufficient help; though other M eirouses crops were so good many of the e1n- p1oyes of other cireufses were induced than any other company and have ai- ways been able to hold our help long CT because we treat them we'll. Our food is better than what Is usually hs n9ed out to circus employees and we find 1t pays us to do this much better by our help because it holds ssWe had anticipated that perhaps our trip this past season wouldn't be as successful as we world like on ac- count of its being presidential year country was very prosperous and that the usual unsettled and dull times of a US this year We didn't figure in al single mishap. We didn't strike the we showed in Practically every em- ploye who started out with us came in with us yesterday. There wasn't a single Gearh.''
 | The show equipment will be stored
 for the winter until it Is time to be- gin putting 1t in repair for the next season; the men will lay off for cou- pie of weeks and then settle down for the usual winter work. The whole show made up Of four sections, came Tn yesterday. the first section at S:3O a. n1.: and the last at s:15 last night; The first section. known as the dead eection'' contained the wagons. flat cars, coaches and road stock. The section contained the menagerIe; the third section the flats and general service parapherna1fa and the fourth section. the s1eepers and other stock The fact that the circus had return ed and that today was payday didn escape the enterprising merchants of this city. Throuehout the day sales men from the local mercantile houses were onto their jobs and early visitors to the winter quarters. seeking orders Clothing merchants who seek the pa tronage of the employees were on hand as usual with their wagons of ner- chandise and the scene about winter hea dauarters was a busy one. with little groups of men. counting over their nopey as it was handed over to them. There were farewells and handshakes as the ernployes bade one another good bye with the parting l words .'I'n see you next summer" etc: Many of them headed for local clothing stores, barber shops and batf1s to get cleaned up. Most of them have New York or Boston as their destina ton. There are about 400 who quit employment today while about ~ao others remained to do the winter work etarted out with the show are back There were many family reunions in the city last night and today as the families, returned to their local homes.
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