Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-03
~" Circus Makes
the Seasons Hit
Big augusta Audience
Delighted Last Night


hibtion OF the art of the slack wire, per-
forming many very difficult feats and
finishing by riding along the wire wheel
which few could ride on a plank 20 feet
wide. l.. J. Davis bewildered the specta-
tors by escaping from a strong box in
which he had been securely bolted after
Officer Mckinney had placed handouts
both about his wrists and about his an
kles and a few minutes later he allowed
himself to be tied up in a paper bag, es-
Gaping without tearing the bag and pre-
senting the bag to his captors with the
top still secured by knotted strings. A
screen was dropped over him while he
was disengag ing himself from his bonds.
Peels Of Laughter from bananas"
bananas" was there, the L of NJ.
bear, Charles Kinsman was his train
er and he persuaded Bananas" whose
diet has been footballs, baseballs and
cinder tracks rather than clown hash,
to do that famous Russian trick, so
that Bananas showed himself truly
The bear that walks like man."
Trainer kinsman and sugar together
yes, and n peanut or two-succeeded in
making Bananas" very excellent
feature of the great circus. Bananas"
was not much on clowns though; he
would have eaten that rolly polly clown
had he come near him-he could hardly
have hoped to hug him.
The Trained Mule
Hee-haw, he was the trained mule:
trained, perhaps, to blunder on occa-
sion and on occasion to go right. Train
err Roy Bodwell led this learned critter
into the sawdust ring, and he danced
he pricked up his ears, he WagSed his
jaw, lie scratched himself. Then the
careless trainer demanded that the
mule pick out for him the homeliest
man in the audience. Hee-haw peered
about, considered few moments, and
then cantered acros sthe ring to poke
his cold nose into the arms of Frank
q harrington, the chief official Of the
~" No one but a mule would have
done it, Directed TO pick for his mas
ter the most beautiful lady in the as
semblage. Hee-haw just as precisely
cantered across the sawdust to the
seat Of Mrs. Charles Kinsman, and
most any mule would have done that
if he had possessed sufficient wisdom
ard a big bump of temerity. Hee- haw
was some mule. He had some trainer,
1t was suspected that he did his pick
ing before the show,
Marceines Boat
Marccl;ne rowed his little boat into
the ring upon a stream prepared for
him by rolly polly clown with gar
den sprinkler Of nursery size. 1t was
his purpose to demonstrate duck
hunt at Merrymeeting bay. He f1oated
his decoys upon lake which had
spouted from the sprinkler and wait
ed. "Quack quack." cried his game,
and he espied a big black one atop
huge rock. After a period of from one
to 20 minutes, he managed to get his
double-harrelled fowling piece loaded.
The first charge missed: the second one
toppled over big black duck but a
moment later the bird flew across the
ring right over Marcelne Perley Law
rence's head and lighted in the arms of
a. ring attendant.
Color Drill
The Patriotic Color Drill" the clos
'IisS 1idiii'el vi tic BTOSTdI1, was
Very beautiful spectacle given by the
ladies Of the Y" Led by Mrs. Melvin
e. Sawtelle. a single file which extend
ed twice round the hall. entered to the
strains of a patriotic march, PLAYED by
the Augusta Cadet Band. which the
circus has acquired. The ladies were
dressed in white with blue and red
sashcs. About their foreheads they
wore star-spangled bapdeaux: the
bandeauX of blue, the stars of gold.
Eaen carried "Old Glory on a small
staff. The file wound round the hail I'M
til Mrs. Sawtelle stood as pivot in the
center of the auditorium and the other
young ladies marched in beautiful for
nations about her. presenting their
flags on high, when at rest. 1t was
most fitting scene for the close of a
most satisfactory evenings entertain
ment.
The Personnel
The entire personnel of the ~" cir
Gus company is as follows:
Ringmaster-Harry c. Jones.
Clowns-Roy II. Bodwell, Charles p
kinsman. Dwight l.. Higgins, Perley
NJ. Lawrence, William G. Bunker, AL
bert Boardway. Albee Ellinwood,
Ulysses G. Merrill. Max Sylvester, C.
Bryce Little, Carroll Hutchins and
? the acrobatic lady.
AniIuals-Mule, Give Sylvester and
Warren Lathe: bear, Smith Cooper;
lion, Lawrence Wakefield: leopard, Ed
ward Packard elephant, Give Sylves-
ter and Warren Lathe: monkeys, Jo-
seph Croteau and Robert Lambert; til
ger, Harold Fisher.
Slack wire artist-Edward S. Les
sarge. assisted by Perley Gay.
Strong man-John Gagnon.
Handcuff king-Leslie j. Davis.
Torch Swingers-Clinton r. Thomp-
son and c. 3. Henna.
Gymnasts on the horse. parallel bars
and high horizontal bars-Clinton r.
L. T. Goodman, Otto VOL, 1
Give Sylvester, George Pepin and c.
b. Henna.
African dodger--CharIes Norton, as
sisted by Frank S. Sprague and Ell
mer Thyng.
Ladies in the Color Drill''-Mrs NJ E.
Sawtelle. Stella Hutchins, Georgia NJ.