The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-10
aseOWNSU FOR HUGE ELEPHANTS OFFER
 HER LEES WORK
Mrs Anna White Keeps ePetsn Dressed in the Latest
 Modes.
(By Emily Enlnnet-l

;s mt stirred by the sight of a huge aefrc,,s parade. The magnificent spec tae1e seems to awaken romantic thoughts. Of other days when surely, f+ sAaned the circus arrived straight from Fairyland. There was a streak of mystery in it too. One aWoke Just ff,is one morning in the year with the feeling that there was something un- usual in the atmosphere- Was not this the ong-looked-for orward-to-day v1l,ieF,5 for weeks past had been des- played on bill boards fences and old hilildinzs in letters a foot or two tall Ter than one's self and always in con- neetion with the date, was most 1harve 1ous set of pictures which n, made the small boy fairly tremble all over with excitement and adventure and even the airIs, for those weeks at least lonred to be able to poise datntily on one toe upon the back of a pranc1ng horse.
 more magnificent costumes or more wonderful array of banners and of animal trappingsss yet for thiIty-ffve years. when the sGreatest Show on Earth was in the height of it's popu- lls4ity, all this originated in the brain of one little woman, back somewhere 1in the tents.
 Has 4sDressed'' Jumbo.
 Mrs. Anna -vvi1ite-I found her at F4he home of her old time friend, Mrs. Sarah Cebal1os. whom she was visit ling a few days She is small in sta- Eture, and her neatly parted white hair and plain black silk dress, would rather indicate seuuestered life. far From excitennent. then the active and useful one which she has enjoyed. This little woman was known the world over as .sthe animal dressnna- K ' s.tAnd used to make everything Ito it, 2. she said laughings when quee-s ltioned about It She has "dressed" j the famous Jumbo, using a ladder to measure his massive proportions and practically all the other well-known animals have been among her crs- toner's z
 T used to design and make the costumes in sEsthe winter and travel around with the show all summer ia k ing care of thens said Mrs White the other day in speaking of her life work She never came to Bridge- port, but had her apartments in New York Wherek her corps of workers were Her husband was also con nected with the show. Her sllcces- isors are Mrs Emma Talbot and Mrs. Rose Wallace.
 Elephant robes are among the most gor geous and most costly of all circus paraphernaIia some of those which Mrs White has made have cost 5000. Banners too. were among the cate gory, which the little designer had to originate and two of them,s for their exquisite need1ework and clever de- sign away back in T 8, were exhibited sin a large building at 14th street and Fourth avenue, New York. The de- gns on the banners were St. George and the Dragon and the Ma donna and Child. z
 Jumbo Never Laid Down. s@
 Jumbo. said Mrs. White. never laid down and so we had to get a big ladder to climb up on him when we 4< A esthettc flowers were quite the rage so made Jumbo a big cover of black velvet with lilies. and sunfow CTS, and other flowers all over it. remen- Der when the white elephant came over after 1t had been six weeks in England in the Geological there-v
 Mrs. White spoke of MT. Bailey in glowing terms.
 MT BadIey.'' she said, made lots of money and spent lots of money. The him The Man with the gold collar 7 There was never greater man in the circus business than he Of course you know how he came to be associated with MT. Barnurn. Mr. Bailey was with a circus called Coop CT & Bailey that. had white ele- phant which Mr. Barnum was very anxious to own. He offered an enor- I1nour sum for the animal to which MT. Bailey replied:
 
 worth that much to us-' MT. Bar mum was so impressed by his clever l ness that he took him into his own business.
 BadIey,s Idbera1fty.
 sI had full charge of everything connected with the costum es. A certain sum of money was put in the Garfield bank in New York every year and from this ordered everything. Mr Bailey would say:
 all F don't care what it costs so long es it looks we1.
 we always had moral show which vas splendid1y disciplined. Any were fined twenty-five dollars and drinking was not allowed.
 For so large a show we had very few accidents. One of the interest ling incidents of our show career was a balloon wedding Both the pr.fncf- pals of the wedding belonged to the show and as the management wished to have something novel, they sl1E- gested that there be a balloon we'd ding Both the young man and wo- man were Catholics but the Catholic priest would not go up in the balloon go minister went up and they were married before huge crowd of peo- pie. Later they went to a priest and were married over again."
 In her thirty-dve years of experi- ence as the Animal dressmaker,, ,. Mrs. White has had numerous inter- testing experiences. upon which she s-rsw sssxs back with pleasure. She IS e7ea4ng her years of retirement with her daughter in New York City where she views with interest every thing concerning the circus, beca use as she says, ..I naturally have great fondness for the Barnum & Bailey Show
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