Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-02
man nature than in the ticket wagon
of the circus.

1 WAGON
of the circus.
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Among the managers that | worked
for while in the business, James A.
| Bailey of the Barnum show was one
that never forgot to be a gentleman
| He seldom lost his temper and I
don't think that | ever heard him
raise his voice to an unnatural pitch
not even when everything seemed to
be going wrong, and he always had
; that same easy, quiet manner, with
smile on his face, when talking of
matters of vital Importance &c the
i show, when many other managers
! that / knew would be excited and
their faces lit up like bonfire. Yet
in his day he was one of the most
successful managers and possibly the
one most beloved by his people The
last visit I had with him was the
summer before he died, and when I
ventured to tell him that | thought
he had better retire, that he had
been in the harness long enough,
he simply smiled and said: "Dace,
there are many reasons why I cannot
retire. I have many men with the
show who have been with me more
than thirty years, who have helped
to make tie show what it is, and if
for nothing more I must keep it go
ing for a home for them AS. for
myself, while I look out for the, ode
tails, I don't allow it to worry me and
I am better contented here than I
possibly could . elsewhere" He
died the following April, when the
show was going on in Madison Square
Garden.
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A few days ago l received The fol
lowing letter from a friend in New
York. l am sure it will prove inter
esting reading and will give you an
idea of the interest that circus PEG
pie are taking in the war: WI
''For an hour yesterday afternoon
Wall street watched Bird Millman,
Barnum & Bailey's famous tightrope
walker, sell war savings stamps from
a rope stretched from in front of the
offices Of j. P. Morgan & Co. tO%the
sub-treasury building. In the same
filmy costume she wears in the circus
tent Miss Millman danced on the wire
to the music of the navy yard band,
and then sat on the thin cable while
hundreds Of persons handed Up their
quarters in return for stamps.
Harry Station, press agent forIthe
Greatest Show on Earth allowed
| the movie men to film Miss Mi4lman.
This is the first time we've allowed
them to take movies Of a Barnun &
Bailey act he said. They've. been
irving to do it for years, but we've
never permitted them to put the cir
Gus on the screen. Today we broke
our rule. This only goes to show
what sacrifices we, are willing. to
make for the cause Of anything that
street early and watched men from
has to do with the war u
! "Crowds began to throng Wall
the circus string up the wire and
test it, Bird Millman is one ofFhe
circus headliners and they were yak
ing good care that no harm SHOULD
come to her. BY the time that Miss
Millman arrived, at 1915 o'clock,
thousands blocked the sidewalks on
both sides of Wall street and filed
: it from Williams to Broad, except
where the police under Captain Dc
car Himmel of the old Slip station
kept a hollow square clear around
the wire The windows Of the Nor
gan, Bankers Trust, Iselin and other
buildings were filled with faces. !;
GA United States marine carried
Miss Millman from her taxi TO the
platform at the end Of the wire ws'ale
the crowd shouted lusty cheers. Miss
Millman did fancy steps on the wire
while squad of marines under Ser
geant Wright canvassed the crowd
for thrift stamp buyers. Then Miss
Millman sat down on the wire, bal
anced herself nicely and called on
the crowd to buy stamps And they
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