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knopnujAidsis.'8-no3dwar mu; *2,( is ni in n mar AdaThe Circus Season. j ValePREPARATIONS FOR its INAUGURATIONALREADY INDER WAT—GOSSIP ABOUT nn.f THE Bin SHOWS WHICH Witt, TAKE Vfttilthe road next season. ,_;____[ twoCircus men all over the country ni*o I beginning to bestir thrmselves, although wcn1 still their steel-railed highways arc he-1™?5 leaguercd with snow banks and a footof frost bafllos tho sharpest tent stake moron low lying lots, which form the ^ar^ base for the transitory sawdust strewn tne rings. In another month the advance comlers will be fairly started on their r*10'season's journey, taking up the march of Nal!life—and all their life Is a march— Slel: where they left off last fall when the °*B shows went into winter quarters. There | 19 are hundreds of them of all classes and degrees in (he profession. They are *,n soldiers of fortune* everyone, the Gascons of ( of America, with their faces ever turned *old towards tlio morning. And though many of them retain memories of the days when the circus business was not a giant, grasping, swindling, iron-bound rnonopl oly, their best word is always for the company with which they have last taken service. The first man started out in ■ January, and ho goes around the country e*er looking it over. March 1 tho railroad is A contracting agents start out. They devote themselves exclusively to tho railroad*. About March 16 tho contracting agents start, whose duty It is to arrunge for lot licenses, bill-boards and cu hotel». March 25 the first advertising „f car starts out, followed by three or four t'BV others a week apart. Tho newspaper The men start about April first, an I the shows Coi open generally during tho Inst week in nn,j April. According to their two year's 0f (, agreement, Forcpaugh and Baraum di- gh0 vide up tlio dominion, of the United Stales and tho Canadas. JForepaugh stays Kast and linrnum West this yoar,, ,l10 “‘lend line” is drawn from the fortyseventh parallel south to Pittsburg, to the Mississippi, and south to the gulf of Mexico. Forcpaugh opens in Philadelphia April 20, and shows through Pennsylvania, and then the New England states.Harnum opens in New York at Madison Square Garden, March 29, shows there a month, then n week in Philadelphia, two days in Haltimore, two 1,1 Washington three more In different points between Washington lor and Wheeling, W. Va., after which diveJ'® kool8 T°st a* far as Wlehita, son. Kas., northwest through Minnesota and ,|jT(3s- ” isconsin, and south Into Texas. These r|ntj two shows will be colossal in their pro- f|Cr of Iorlions» Forepaugh's will require fifty.|ly five cars for transportation and Barnum’sy. a^°ut l,le same. Other shows which ud re^u^,e nbout twenty ears each for trailer l*0lt'°n »rc tho concerns W. W. Cole, lw John K. Doris, Sells Bros. S. IL Bar-rett Co., John Kobinson, Burr ltobbinsand I rank ltobbins, will engineer small w \shows. Thoro is some doubt whother tho forA —-1_____ « . ... *ulit-11-IIIteAPoucil I0-minit-a-oridlisofwr ho to or in3t-c-irs t’scele.nd10afte war decIIFebtheKerElistwewhlt;to 1E tot) wifi forJWnorett 11101 abo J vorlt; und fon to tVan Amburgh show will come West this I alir year. They wintered at Amenia N. Y.J s ras I and it was run as a wagon show last year andir- by Hyatt Frost, taking in tho smaller ich towns* Mr. llniley, of Cooper Bailey,•re one of tho proprietor* of the Great Lou-of don show in the days when Morgan, tho iod smartest bare-back hurdle rider in the ms country, was with it, and Moloch went Hid daily into tho cage of Bengal tigers in thowJ ring and put them through their pacesmd and lately a partner with Barnuui, hasas sold out his interest in tho show this year,ow He lias been prominent in circus circles i —mn as a proprietor for many years. Among a Pins the agents who will be missed this year 'of i* Andy” Springer, who was general no advance agent of Barrett’s show. Sum-ley mcr and winter is one to him, for he diedon- in Chicago last week, lie was an oldtimer aged 05. Years ago he was a mem- j *■her of the now-forgotten circus firm of1 touting, Springer Henderson, and a ”big circus proprietor, but tho show wentto pieces, as most circuses do soouer or later.Another agent who died at tho Briggsro-F.ns,rinsedchi]fid por tioi horTJ'JtunMil ft) ofscu1eylt; bit wa at Kuin lres ed. ele
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Brewster Standard
Brewster, New York, US
Fri, Feb 26, 1886
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