The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-29
WEARY Of ADVENTURE
R0AMER TURNS WAITER
Harry Moore Was Circus
Acrobat, Olympic Athlete
and Soldier.
NOW HE'S SETTLED
Simple Life Suits Man Who
Fought With Greeks in
Balkan Hills.

Minneapolis. Minn-From being =
circus performer under the big top. a
machine gun expert for the Greek gov
eminent In the Balkan mountains. an
authority on the jungles Of South Ar.
rica, and an Olympic games athlete
10 waiter In Minneapolis cafe is a
cry ana, TO most persons, would
We nighly satisfactory end for a SOL
oier OF fortune. But Harry Moore, at
present a waiter in Schiek's cafe, is n
ci'i"en OF the world and knows its
N"issltudes. Therefore, he is philo-
sophical about it.
re started as n high jumper with n
wagon circus in 1880. He toured Eu-
rope ana parts Of Asia with n big
american tent show. He left the cir.
Gus at constantinople in 1895 with n
hummer or other, adventurous spirits
ana joined the American athletes com.
petihg IN the Olympic games at
Athens.
Things got bit dun after tho
games and so l wandered around a
pit' ne said yesterday. 'In the NEXT
rev years | did most everything that
y man can do from running machine
guns Tor the Greek government in tho
1'aikans to maintaining a ship mar
anime at Nagasaki, Japan.
The Sawdust Call.
But couldn't keep away from the
sawdust and one day, when We were
IN EUROPE again. some property man
,e1t plank standing edgewise on the
landing platform Of our leap. l broke
Doth feet and when they got through
putting silver plates where the homes
ought TO be | was q total loss as FAR
as the circus was concerned. So ri
shipped back to America and wa.
'oallng around Cincinnati one day
When l got a chance to go to Cane
Iown, South Africa, with a hotel svs.
tenn they were putting in.
I'm the next few years / had nj, tho
experiences any man would want. All
the big game hunters came down
mere and to johannesburg to be ont
itted for their trip. I worked into
.iat line l took Kermit Roosevelt on
nus TRIP into the interior while the
colonel was on the Nile, and did ey-
ersthlns from cooking to driving wild
ouil eiephants out of the iungle. We
'ra'hped all over the jungle and w,v
up INTO East German Africa.
me Hagenback animal men used IN
come down and get outfitted for their
TRIPS AT Cape Town and I learned a
part OF the circus business | never had |
any idea OF before. This idea of law
ing out on the veldt trying to steal |
non cubs away from their loving
mothers is no business for a family
man ana, as | had a wife up at New
port Ny, | kind OF figured II might |
ne wise TO ind something a bit safer
80 went back to Athens, The
"reek government was carrying on n |
niue tracas with Turkey and had . |
puI'ch or American machine guns that |
NOBODY knew how to put together. 7
was hlrcd as kind of assistant mas
Ter mechanic, although l didn't know
a iii''chlhe gun from a bicycle, and first
,hihS ! knew | was up in the noun
alns liking the guns that had got q |
niue 100 hot Or clogged up.
Saw Some Fighting.
I saw a few little brushes I'm there
Ihey are always fighting in the NOM.
ta'hs and nobody ever pays any atten-
'ion to it. We used to have more ov
citing times in the big top,
.hut my feet got bad again and 7
collected muscular rheumatism some.
where. couldn't do much Int cool, 7
nave cooked from Calcutta to Ans
.raila and from Australia to Janan
lhen thought I ought to settle dow
ana so did my wife. SO we went oyor
.n'o ,ahada for several years, but the
Mea'her was bad for my rheumatism.
'u, months ago l came to Mime.
apolis and here I am"