The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-02
Charmeat Carnival Admits
Boys, Show When They
CatcBirds To Feed Her
Pets.
oTHRs COMPLAIN
Manage of Wild West Show
and ire-Eater Demand
SalaHs IS - Performance to
Conttue.

The carval business, apparently, is
Just one bme attachment after anoth-
er.
The cafval now showing on the
RichmondAvenue grounds is one OF
the best 3ich ever came to this city,
but that Is not insured it a kindlier
fate. To- {y this company, operated
by l.. B. hckenstoe, Willard Backen-
stoe and Villain Murphy. is in the Gus
tody Of a equity sheriff but the vari-
GUS attrac I've shows will be operated
the remaiIer OF the week.
None otthe various shows at the
carnival ,e owned by the carnival
managemet. They operate on a per-
centage hsis, with the exception of
the Wild Vest show, the manager of
which reeves percentage Of the re-
ceipts Of Is show and, under his con-
tract, shotd receive a salary in addi-
ton. Buthe asserts the salary fea-
ture has ben overlooked and that the
carnival Engagement now owes him
$770. consquently he brought attach
a short the the grounds were over
run with attorneys, deputy sheriffs,
constablesand policemen.
Gnds Prior Claims.
When tie officers sought to attach
the compay's share OF the receipts of
each one the various shows they dis
covered tat the managers Of these
shows hal prior claims against the
company br money advanced for trans
portation expenses into Richmond.
The Offices also discovered that the
Backenstos and Murphy owned very
little of th equipment on the grounds.
In the curse of their investigations
many hariluck stories were uncover
ed. For Instance the woman who has
the educaed dog, a high priced vau-
deville act. AS her former contracts re-
vealed, jol.ld the carnival for a sal
ary of $50 week, but, she says, she
has almost forgotten what money
looks like She stated that the COM
pany owed her $265. Her husband, for
merly Kansas City police officer,
was to receive SIS a week and handle
the advertising but his pay envelope
has failed to locate him.
Boys Catch Sparrows.
Even the snake charmer offers a
pitiful tale of woe. She has been so
shy on loose change of late that her
snakes, peeved by hunger. began to
nibble her. She was finally obliged to
admit boys to the show free Of charge
In return for sparrows they would
bring to her to feed to the reptiles
The company owes her $45, she says,
and her husband has a claim OF SIS
against his employers. Last night. to
add to her troubles. large rattler got
boisterous and frightened a colored
man into Mysteries.
But the human fire eater has the
prize tale of woe. He says he has had
so little to eat of late that his stomach
Is of the opinion that his throat has
been cut. Il have received just fifty
cents in two weeks and last Sunday I
didn't have a bite to eat" he told a po-
lice officer.
The woman who operates the merry
says she has been unable to
collect SIS she loaned the manage
ment last week and last Wednesday
night some one set fire to her cook
tent. destroying 1t.
Yesterday afternoon very angry
looking woman appeared at police
Headquarters and said she was trying
to locate her husband who was sup
posed to be operating a cat joint"
with the carnival. This translated into
English means show where the
public propell baseballs at
rows of dummies. She further stated
that he married her at London, O.,
recently and that he departed hurried
" after she had purchased for him his
equipment. Whether she
has been able to locate him the police
do not know.