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, ,, i .WJ mtrail. . mMIn- Along the l'aclflc coast the China- inen- men ore among the firm friends of the ► a circus people. Like the Indians, they ,.r', *,t cu- nre good patrons of this particular nm, hi Lite show. In San Francisco at least 0.000 u' ' aeil China men saw the circus one season. ahprJ rm Some of them earae In conches drawn Annum l»y handsome horses, and they sat in j-——-boxes. Mongolian inerchants worth **hilt; their millions gave matinee parties, the ger men wearing richly embroidered gowns ~ M. f**6 and the women clad In costly silk cut on. not in the form of dresses but oh a rsferei B. nmn wears his broadcloth. At one WO- matinee given In the California city the 8,000 Chinese and fully 2.000 Japs at-ver tended. The remaining few rf thespectators were Americana The Chi- I rJ ©* naman Is os undemonstrative as theIndian. He expresses bla appreciation PhU* » as 0f the performance by attending timo e ft after time. 1**»the “probably tho ytrangcst mixture of u* Uw1 people that ever attended a circus was °®$\* ver found beneath the tent of our show onel°o* day at Tucson. A. T., when Indians,■in,J Mexicans, greasers. Japs, negroes, Chi- |ofie 0namen and a few' American cowboys (errill fairly packed the big canvas arena aud j*jh sat promiscuously mixed over the blue range seats. Though the Chinamen and In- raent 1ID* dlans are undemonstrative, the cow Its virc-punehers,.Mexicans and negroes made 130.000llla* as much noise that day as was ever 18®dbaf a made at a frontier massacre. Tlie cow- a«fJ x boys yelped like a pack of coyotes I Vi when ft me. Noble rode tho bucking j ‘ .j ^horse, the Mexicans yelped at every uj® act, and the negroes laughed at tho Gcorid0 clowns till the earth shook. That night I also the cowboys and greasers turned the prodt B-W: town Into a shooting gallery, emptying Jerarited***** their revolvers at the stars and mani- \ last i°testing their sorrow at the departure of Po*8®re*d the circus by licking up all the refresh-~ mcnts In the town.-Cleveland riain ord*lniprovlnjr the Old nonfiieai.Jelame. Fanmr whlffiefroe-Since yew got eOc.
Newspaper Details
Wilmington Evening Journal
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Mon, Aug 12, 1901
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Fred P.
OH, USA 08 Jul 2020
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