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IPROBABLY SAVED LIFEIBANDMASTER SAYS HAS ADDEI) \ CAUSE FOR THANKFULNESS FOR LIVING HERE“I feel that, in all probability, I 1owe my life to the fact that I decided to come to Fairfield,” was the t startling* declaration of Prof. Fred s Jewell, director of the Fairfield band, i “Had I not arranged to come to i Fairfield the probabilities are that I ;should have followed my old profes- ^ sion and have been engaged with a j circus band again this year. As the I YVallace-ilagenback circus is the one t 1 contemplated last year joining with 1 this season, the chances are that I i should have been on the train on i which so many circus people met death the other day,” iProf. Jewell’s remarks were called ; forth by reading of the wreck of the * Wallace-Hagenbeck circus train in i which about 80 of the professional t people belonging to the circus were 1 killed near Gary, Ind. lt;Prof. Jewell was well acquainted ‘ with most of those who were killed, * some of them very intimately. »“To read this account of the death i of those people is like reading of a c disaster to your own family,” he said, j j “Many of those who were killed were \ people with whom I used to ride in lt;the same car, and their tragic death j is a shock to me.” j .I Replying to a remark to the effect , that the circus would probably be put t out of business for a long time, Prof. t Jewell said the show would very likely ] scarcely miss a date. I i“It’s with a circus just as with a j newspaper. You newspaper men have a sort of unwritten law that the paper , must be gotten out regardless of fire, ] death, famine or any other disaster; \ I know when a newspaper office gets ^ burned out it becomes a point of honor [ with them not to miss an issue, and i I have observed that they do get the \ paper out, sometimes under difficulties | that would seem impossible to over- v come . ^“It’s just the same way with a circus. ‘The show must go on’ is the \ spirit under which circus people work j all the time. No matter what disaster \ overtakes the show, everyone connect- ( ed with it bends every energy to make j the next date. It’s a tradition, a mat- } ter of honor and pride not to miss a \ show date under any circumstances. ] And, unless the show is wiped out en- ( tirely by some great catastrophe, the chances are that it will fill its booked ( dates. I have seen circuses pull | themselves out of some tremendous • holes caused by wind storms, wrecks ( and fires. Circus performers are as } loyal to their show as newspaper i workers are to their paper, and they ) will go on and do their.act at all | times if it is humanly possible for them to do so.” 1The truth of Prof. Jewell’s statement that the Wallace-Hagenbeck show would lose little time by the disaster was borne out by events—the show missed just two dates and showed the third day at Beloit, Wis., and the performers went “on with the show” despite the fact that many of them were suffering severely with shock and others had no hearts for their acts because of the grief they felt for the death of friends and relatives in the wreck.
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1918
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