New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-25


printing an extra carrying doublccldci statement
from sam on the front page charaotcrzng the plague
yarn If the morning edition the most diabohcal COZ
lection Of falschoods that had ever emanaei from any
group Of joined in what was supposed 10 be Tepu
table business He would post five thousand dollars III
cash with the Mayor Of the town. which would go 70
localcharitics if the State authorities could find single
case Of smallpox or CHAMBERS among the people or AMI
mails Of his show This scuIvy attempt % nlure the
fair name of the Mighty Harlns Show and 10 destroy
its business. Sam said cmanated from the miserable
Wells & Howe outfit AN Elat, onchorse' NANCY
hafstarved collection Of thrcadbac iouthrate people
who had found out that only by eliminating all com
petition could they do enough business 70 get i'"g'
Sans final paragraph read:
# tbc, expect 10 eliminate circus from Merose TO-
morrow. where both shows billed 20 appear sinui-
taneousv they are nonumentaly mistaken. The Mighty
Harkns Show will appear in toto tomorrow or leHas WI"
onoy the finest rough house since she became state
Not only will we play Melrosc. but III make Dct d
900 that we get three times the gross OF our Tun'y
competitor. ("gncD SAMUEL ""NN'''
All the small bows in town. on the promise Of AN adj
mission ticket each were soon at work distributing
these bulletins to every doorstep and to every stranger
IN the streets Sam paid for the composition, and pur-
chased the whole clifton. tccgraphed his statement
ahead to the papcis in the remaining towns on our route
and mailed photographs OF the iNe-thouaH"l- l"E"
stacl, Of cold which he deposited with the Mayor.
Henry Mccain, r., who was reclining luzunousIy IN
his bunk smoking cigarettes and reading French novel
AlcCann positively refused TO dsembark in these oXas
towns until the tents were up Being guest he could
get away with 1t.
Come on yelled It's us TO Melrose.
dragged him to the station barely in time 10 eaten
the only southbound train for hours.
For the love Of Fame, Mike, Fortune, Dcccncy' ana
Mother, DO something, you fcows! was Harlna part
ing Injunction "Don let that bunch OF porch climbers
and we'll prisoners put anything over on you. NmP
EN-, or II whip YOU
A we ratified along through the cotton helds ana
~ oinlcrs took occasion to explain TO Mccain the
orrcryncss Of the Wells & Howe crowd, and how be-
cause they had stopped to the drtics trick in the whole
category Of undcrhand circus schemes, he would PROB
ably see some action on the morrow.
It's about time said he gloomiy. travelling
around with YOU and Harkins IS fine but 1t getting
nonotonous. Tom Most exciting thing I've seen IN a
month was that motion picture Of myself and the noun
tain lion Man alive, do YOU know its October, that
the theaters are opening along Broadway, that up IN
Gods country the leaves turning, the Worlds Series
is over and Football Furs and Crate Fires have ar
rived at their innings Give some action and let us
HE on our merry way, YOU and Dorothy and |; Sam
too. if he'll close the show.
"To hear your lamentable chatter, said |, "one
would conjecture that YOU were the only individual IN
this agricultural region who plned Tor the SghtS ana
drinks and eats and girls and baths Of Yesterday But
you're not I'm as much an added starter in this circus
business as YOU and, for that matter SOS Sam We're
in the same boat the three Of us except that you're too
filthy with money to work. Sans in a tough jam
what with hall the State thinking the shows travelling
pesthouse and sure-fre fight due in AIerose tomor-
row.
And its up to old DR.. Coleman and Old DR.. Me-
Cam to get him out, said Jack Don't see how Bar
mum, Forcpaugh, Dan Rice, Uncle Johnny Robinson,
and the rest OF those guys got along without us
Hello This spcck on the landscape looks like town
Nice quiet place. Restful isn't it, Wonder if that
l.-... ~ NJ 1Il,. O. smith