The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-18
(By FAX LUDLOW.) J
"Hark, Hark, the dogs do Vhrk The circus is leaving the town .''

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 The circus is leaving the town
 Every canine in the West End will bark. and howl Monday, for the bis Greatest Show on Earth-Comblneo' with Ringing Brothers, World $ Greatest Shows" will leave town once again for another triumphal tour of the United States, to excite and enter tain young America, and old Am erica, that has to go to show America the animals you know.
 Only Portion Leaving.
 The wiseacres of course, know that only a portion of what really consti- tutes the circus will leave Bridgeport, Monday, but it IS the portion that will make the dogs bark, without any doubt. All those cages and dens with the familiar markings on the fresh white tarpaulins, Wild Animals, Do long string of flats, with the big e1e- phant and camel cars in the front of the train Following in the rear will wagons and a few odds and ends of equipment, necessary to the engage ment of five weeks and day in Madison Square Garden, New York city.
 The last of the train will Joe made up of most stock cars holding the ring and saddle stock, and enough of the heavy draught stock to pull the glided and rumbIing cages and wagons from the Mott Haven yards to New York S home of thes circus. Extra wagons and horses will then be returned to Bridgeport, for another month, when the real working equipment Of the big show takes to the road.
 Perhaps the greatest thing about the greatest show is the remarkable accomplishment of throwing together an immense array of odds and ends and having a beautiful finished pro night Madison Square Garden will be packed and damned with a bowling mass of fight fans to see the Midget Smith-Joe Burman bout. The cen
 of the big arena will be covered with wood with the prize ring, with boxes and ring side seats. Near midnight the cvrowd will file out, probably banning the decisions of the referee and parked around the cor ner in the darknkess will be the silent stream of red wagons, and white horses, heads bowed, drivers appar- ently asleep ,and a restless shuffhng crowd of humanity, trained and with the circus instinct, al ready for the word to get with it.'
 Before the subway trains have whisked the last of the fight crowd from the garden, the great circuc army of 'systematized-confus 9 will be at work. As if by magic the will disappear, and the layer of dirt, deep enough to hold the man-power driven circus stakes, will again see the mnrkyoaky gs o % lights. The Ha cages Wsi will be transported to the front and basement locations. the army of elephants. bulls they call them with the circus, and the humps" meaning the camels, will be parked in the places they know well, in the big deep cellar. The animals must first be put under cover, for mid-March weather is not that of the jungles, to which the ''rare specimenms of the tropics" are accustomed, especially the Blood Sweating Behemoth of Holy Writ
 The circus cannot touch Madison Square Garden until after midnight Monday, and a finished performance must be ready for presentation to a critical New York audience for the considered a months hard work at the Hippodrome or any theatre, must be accomplished in four days-and it will be. for this is just much a and taking it down" day in and day out on the road. Put and take must have originated with the circus. Twice daily rain or shine would be a good motto for a lot of people to follow, in a lot of business attempts. Obstacles, stumbling blocks, distance, floors or famine cannot stop the circus. It's just got to be done twice a day, and seldom in a long season, are more than one or two performances missed
 Great Animal Act
 This year the big show will astound New York with the greatest display of trained wild animal act ever at tempted with a single organization there having been added to the won derful array of last season. whole ship loads and train loads of animals from Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and Cuba. With all the old trainers tried and true, experts from all parts of the world, and of all nationalities have been corral1ed to exhibit their skill under the Barnum X Bailey Ringing banner. One of the feature trainers will be Miss Mabel Stark sensation. of the Pacific coast, where she accomplished the ''impossible'' with the Al, G. Barnes circus.
 Cy Compton, late feature at Polls theatre, will again be in charge of a peppery wild west division. The fla nous Seigrist-Silbon> troupe and the Charles Seigrist organization of aerial ists will be back; as will the hippo drome riders, the chariot drivers, Buck Baker and company with their hucking Fords and motorcycleS; the Orin Davenport and Signor Bagonghi troupes of riders; the famous statue models: trained horses, dogs and po- nies: Winston's trained sea lions; Mile. Bradna and her act beautiful, the Deko. Pianchinni, Jack Hedder, and other marvellous troupes of aero bats. and tumblers; special features. >-ourse Pat Waldo. Spader Johnson. Midget Andrew, ct als. to the extent of 4o-the clowns. The bonus mat ter the Volstead matter, the disarma- ment matter, the peace barley incl dent, the naval holiday, and other events will receive an up-to-iate Kidding by the clowns, aided and rbetted by the ever popular Hart brothers. who have many friends in Bridgeport.
 But Few Changes.
 The organization of the big show will show few if any changes over year ago in the matter of staff. John Ringing and Charles Ringing. the only two surviving of the famous sew %fz ', h. -l~ more or less. but to Charles Hutchin-