Show World (June 1909)

THE SHOW WORLD 13 S, 1909. [loUT PEOPLE OWTHE CIRCUS WORLD p K Tryon is--'press agent back itli tie Gollmar Brothers show. Harr y Chase left Chicago recently , join the Ringling Brothers show. Mr and Mrs. Walter L. Main will . -at home” at Geneva, Ohio, after fiifljey” Buchanan travels with the aukee Robinson show as manager in Sifsautelle headed the parade of . 101 Ranch Wild West at Cortland, Y recently. George Rich, a veteran circus man now .manager of the No. 1 car of , e Campbell Brothers show. Si Perkins, first assistant boss can- a nd about 30 workingmen Jarnum show at Warren, Pa., . _ inlay. Pearl Golding has a souvenir postal , r (j stand in the Hagenbeck-Wallace lenagerie, which is proving popular i*ith show-goers. W. E. Ferguson, who recently suc¬ ked Ed Brennan as general agent ,f the Norris & Rowe show, was in IHrecently. George Roddy, manager of the N o. car of the Norris & Rowe show, en¬ titled a , number of billers of rival ented enterprises at Calgary. A. G. Barnes is said to be wearing 1* pleasant smile these days. His riends account for it by the big busi- less the show is doing in the west. Fred M. Hall, press agent, back rith the Two Bills’ show, was united i marriage June 12. The name of he lady is not given in the advices , shich.reach this office. ] A. B. Bainbridge, press agent back M 101 Ranch, enjoyed the day Adams, Mass., as that is a spgfiing center and Bainbridge is nterested in aeronautics. Buffalo Bill entertained the veteran ictress, Mrs. Annie Yeamans, during he Brooklyn engagement. Mrs. Yea- mans began her career as a rider with circus when but 14 years old. Pawnee Bill and Major Burke wit- essed a performance of the 101 Troy, N. Y., June 9. “Ne¬ ill” and Samuel J. Banks ir circus men in attendance. Coyle, who is taking things 1 his home at Weedsport, N. looking fine, according to Ed >, who received a call from the Jg railroad contractor at Syra- about six weeks ago. I. S. Potts is back in the circus busi- ss and has chkrge of the billing of ickay’s European circus, which JUS In Detroit, Mich., June 29, for a feck’s engagement under the auspices f the Detroit lodge of Elks. | Carl Hagenbeck, who started with pis father’s few animals and $600, is Epow said to own $150,000 worth of jKrajssd and untrained beasts. He is lis years of age and has been deco¬ rated by the kaiser. i,l Edward Cullen became connected western railroad about five weeks before his death. He was taken i'Bl at Seattle and was rushed to Cin T ii einnati in care of an attendant. He is survived by a wife and one daughter. C. Smith is general manager of the Smith Greater Shows, E. K. Smith is 1 general director; Chris Smith, busi¬ ness manager; Anna Smith, treasurer; JfcssieSmith, secretary; W. S. Cherry, general representative; William Jud- s|ns Hewitt, special agent, and Louis (Washburn, advertising,agent ! ; Doc Waddell put the Lambrigger c%tld 'animal show indoors this spring t»d avoided the wet weather which otas been such a drawback to tented The three weeks at Co- H^KOhio. were most successful, »e writes, and-the Detroit stay is be- f®g greeted with big crowds. “Doc” ^’S the’, climate is not what it was Wien. Dan Rice and Van Amburgb over the pike and he predicts P*t the .large tented enterprises will -eventually get to showing in buildings Whil the first of June. H. L. (“Buck”) Massie, who was contracting agent with the Sells-Floto show in 1907, arrived in Chicago Mon¬ day morning, having attended the Shriner’s convention in Louisville. He left the city Wednesday. Mr. Massie returned recently from England where he had been resident manager of sev¬ eral of “Chet” Crawford’s rinks. G. M. Wells, who went abroad with Col. Cummins’ show, is now in charge of the Llandudno (Wales) skating rink. He was formerly manager of the Dublin (Ireland) rink, which closed recently. Dave Jarrett, car manager with Sells-Floto, saw the Norris & Rowe performance at Vancouver, B. C. Floyd J. Pike has the band with the Tiger Bill Wild West. Mrs. Beatrice Valentine, a member of the Jackson family of bicyclists, died May 26 in Jersey City. Doc. Parkhurst is boss convasman with Mike Welsh’s show. Orrin Davenport is cantain of the baseball team with the Barnum show. Ben Miller is lithographer on the first car of the John Robinson show. HORACE WEBB. COLE BROTHERS ADOPT COMING SOON BILLING. Calgary, Can., June 15. The Cole Brothers have placed a large billing corftract with Lindsey & Walker, of Winnipeg, to cover the principal cities in the northwest two or three months in advance. Cole Brothers are billing on the Norris & Rowe and Campbell Brothers shows, and has an opposition brigade in this country now. Cole Brothers are bill¬ ing “Coming Soon,” although they are not in this country till August and Oc¬ tober. Norris & Rowe and Camp¬ bell’s advance must be in bad shape, for they are billing in this section like wagon shows would bill. HARRY BOTTS DEAD. Shamokin, Pa., June 14. Harry Botts, three feet eight inches in height, died here last week. He had filled comedy roles in circuses and theaters for a quarter of a century until 1904, when he had his back in¬ jured. He was 45 years of age. ANOTHER BRIGHT IDEA STRIKES DOC. WADDELL. Detroit, Mich., June 17. Doc. Waddell has another of the clever ideas for which he is famous. He goes into a city and secures some building controlled by moving picture men with a view of keeping out op¬ position. He gets the building at a reasonable rent, and it always proves a good location for the Lambrigger show. At Columbus he had a build¬ ing controlled by Seas & Young, of Detroit. Here he has a place leased by the Casino company. ADVANCE CAR DAMAGED; EARL WEBB INJURED. Denver, Col., June 16. Earl Webb, program boy with the No. 1 car of the Hagenbeck-Wallace show, was injured in the Denver yards when a yard engine threw the car into a sleeper. Both cars were taken to the shops for repairs. Within ten hours the circus car was again ready to travel. G. C. Wodetsky, contracting agent of the Gentry Brothers, was in St. Cloud, Minn., recently making ar¬ rangements for the show to appear there June 22. E. C. Talbott was in La Crosse, Wis., recently and perfected arrange¬ ments by which the Parker shows will be there week of Sep. 27-Oct. 2. It will be the “Con” Kennedy organiza¬ tion. There is a fair for four days that week but the Parker show will remain in La Crosse the entire week. Ida Miaco was the guest of Vera Haas when the Hagenbeck-Wallace show played Dubuque, Iowa. Miss Haas is the correspondent of this pa¬ per at that point and formed Miss Miaco’s acquaintance when the latter appeared at the Bijou vaudeville thea¬ ter in that city two years ago, doing ' her contortion act. _ . John Rippel has disposed of his in¬ terest in the Rippel Brothers show. Ed Burke, who has been laid up with rheumatism, has comoletely re¬ covered and left Chicago Monday for Springfield, where he goes to con¬ tract for the Barnum & Bailey show. CIRCUS BILLERS ARE VICTORIOUS IN SPORT. Hagenbeck-Wallace Baseball Team Puts It Over Rawlins, Wyo., Team The Hagenbeck-Wallace billers have organized a ball team with Jim¬ mie Eviston as captain and played their first game in Rawlins, Wyo., Sunday, June 6, being pitted against the local team. They won by a score of 5 to 4. The score in the last half of the ninth inning was 4 to 2 in favor of the locals when the billers came to the bat. Bucher singled and went to third on Keegan’s double, Eviston waited for four wide ones and filled the bases and then Peck Higbee came to the bat and smashed the first ball against the right field fence and Bu¬ cher, Keegan, and Eviston trotted across the plate and on to the car cheering madly. W. T. Hanley, the press agent, arranges the games for the Sunday towns. The line up is as follows: - _ , F. O. Rossman from Battle Creek, Mich., right field. . Pat Keegan from Santa Rosa, Calif., center field. 'Ch^s. Secor from Albany, N. Y., left field. Peck Higbee from Dayton, Ohio, third base. Ed Bucher from Canton, second base. , Joe Comte from New York, first base. Harry Leslie from Seymour, lnd., shortstop. Zona Cope from St. Louis, Mo., catcher. Jim Eviston from Peru, lnd., pitcher. With Foster Burns, A. Farrar and Harry Miller to make a fuss for the boys. The fuss is heavy around Mil¬ ler’s seat. The car billed Rawlins by torchlight Saturday night. There were no routes. THE BUSINESS STAFF OF THE PARKER SHOW. Ottumwa, Iowa, June 17. The number one Parker Shows, un¬ der the watchful and ever observing eye of Con. T. Kennedy, is here this week. The staff this year consists of Con. T. Kennedy, lessee and general manager; E. C. Talbott, traffic man¬ ner; A. A. Powers and W. M. Mose¬ ley, promoters; Elmer Walters, press agent; Thos. Warren, treasurer; Frank Noethen, secretary; A. U. Es- lick, band leader: Bert Hiatt; lot sup¬ erintendent; Robert Bromley, train¬ master; A. A. Spencer, chief electri-« cian, with corps of assistants, and Roy Cramer has the orivilege cars, three in number, with “Mulligan Night” in evi¬ dence at regular intervals.—WAL¬ TERS.