The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-30
blC SHOW OPENS
 A1 GARDEN AMID l. BLAZE OF GLORY
Barnum & Bailey Circus Dis closes Many New Start
 ling Features

~"~S~~ still some herses-satin necks arched proudly, pointed ears twitching CO., uuettash1y, shiny Hanks g1istening and white names and tails spilling into billowy fluffiness like nothing so much as Buttermilk Falls in the brook back home. E
 ThrougA the gaseiene filled ave- nyes and cross streets from four points of compass yesterday afternoon came the thousands of youngsters ranging in years from to 70, scurry- ing across asphalt beaded with blobs of oil and reeking with the fumes from devil wagon exhausts, lodging between departing skid chains and onco1ntng hoods and radiators, with nary a bit of horseflesh in the clutter save very rarely an ancient hanson caAby's more ancient nag.
 Mechanical standardization, metal Ideally polished transportation effici- ency and fumes of gasolene and oil all combined to try to efface the sprangtime effect of even the bit of budding grass shoots and other hints Of spring in Madison Square; certain ify the endless procession of paint and poiished metal skimming by chased away all thoughts of the almost ex- tinct horse
 Circus Day!
 But suddenly everybody, from the kid of to the bigger kid of 70, was inside Madison Square Garden and it was Circus Day. And even three score and ten years can't dispeli the feet of springtime that gets under lone's skin when Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on the Whole Gosh darned Earth comes to town to make good the shows red, yellow, blue. pink, green, purple. white, black and orange Autographed promises that for weeks had been shrieking from every otherwise sombre barn btll- board, wooden fence and feed store window from Ragweed Junction all the way out the west pike to Kale Durkin's ssawmin and beyond.
 Let the winds blow chi1l-as the winds did blow somewhat chi1lish at times yesterday one flash at elephants swinging from side to side during the preliminary tour of the menagerie, the hippo yawning almost as extravagantly as the Photographer had been promising for weeks it would, the tigers blinking behind the bears, the sword swalOWer swallow ing, the laughing hyena holding its sides with merriment, the fat lady flaming and the peanut man ped fdlinE- one flash and whiff of Circus Day and the weather man and calen- dar may even turn on the snow and still go to pot Pussy willows, one fauc5es, grow aslan4 the brooks and arbutus Is here and Old Bob Brown ir,rl Nae Hzht-alrs we'll with the world
 Only One Trick Motor.
 Also inside the circus-at any rate lnside the Barnum & Bailey circus yes torday-tho automobile still isn't worth . single continental cuss in the world except for white faced clown to climb under, tinker with the mo- tors innards and then turn eighteen terrified somersaults to safety as the automobile explodes ecstatically, splits itself at the waistline of the tonneau and starts away in two directions around the arena, the front wheels headed east and the rear wheels west, whila the dummy person, who every body thinks for an instant iS the clown that d moment before had crawled under the works, shoots heavenward on the end of a rope and then plumps down to the sawdust on his foolish face.
 Maybe some day when the Dayen- ports and Siegrists and Derricks, to- day grandsons and great of the founders of the bareback rid- ing aristocrats among circus families, ara themselves grandfathers and greDt-gTandfathers = perhaps some dim day to come an innOvator lacking a soul will ban the last survivors of the si1very white and mottled ring horses and substitute instead trick .ctAnd6ems in khad and tan putteee in the three ringR
 And on that day doubtless white haired gentleman will take a dose of bich1Dride on the roof of 100 story building. shoot himself with a radium gun and then jump to the street- And the cops win come and say: Sure I know him. His name was Ofr1n Day 'enport. and like his grandfathers be- fore him he was a bird till the horse became extinct saw the a;utomo- piles in the circus myself the other day. I don't blame him."
 HoFses Of All Sorts
 Bpf thanks to heaven and Barnum ! E. Bailey that sad day seems far from approaching. 1nxade Madison Square Garden fhere was reaasurance for the yopuG and old youngsters who had tns< been dodgfng devil wagon after devil wagon out in the streets In- side there were all white horses, all black h0fsez, half black and half white horses. creamy horses the col or Of old ecru lace, mottled horses with gay ribbons bobbing on their nnAAes as they aznbled around the Tfngs and there were bay hunters and En0N white S1aofters that swung the Ohax4OkG Ar0nnd the arena. tanbark and sDe1uG1 earth flying to the winds and all e481at pairs Of hoofs thumping against Manhattan real estate almost AAs loudly as the hearts of the snna1, boys thinning the arena beat against Ss& inner Innings of their Norfolk ~sa EtOn Jackets.
 sfo ask whether the Barnuza &s >1adaey Circus that exploded into Man. haftah yesterday was good circus fs 3a1st the same as asking whether the sun that arose Gut of the LMng Island mist banks yesterday morning was a perfectly E0ed sun. There's only one sta and, sO far as di1igent inquiry re. vea1ed HD t9 8 late hour last night there is only 0aae Greatest Shew on the Whole Dsdgasted Earth. A long time age Mf. BaFHHm and Mr, Bailey de- voted their entire attention te seeing to 1t that this was so, thereafter