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30 T ix c Oillboard SEPTEMBER 3, 1910. CIRC US GO SSIP In This Department Peiformers, Agents^ Managers, : Owners, and Whitie Top Employes in all Capac- ities are Mentioned in a Brief Way. Jethro Almoad. owner and manager of the Jethro Almond B.. B. Sbows, Is on the road MgMlu after a Sve-weeka lay-off In Cbarlotte. K. C. taklne treatment tor a sore le^. The ■bow fa doing big business tiiron^ North Caro- lina, carrying eleven people, two private cars. Taodeville and moving pictqrea are given. Q. W. Punell Is general agent, Ben Bingham, master of transportation; - F. C. Connc7, all- aronnd man; D. B. Lockabay, black-face com- edian; Mrs.; Jethro Almond, leading lady, and im. Jennie Almond, floabrette. ' JSs. Wolf scale's Georgia Minstrels is In. tlie ■nnex wlt^ Jones Bros.' Bnffalo Banch Wild West. He lias a band of eighteen pieces, the roster of which is as foUowsl Boy and Troy' Wolfscale. Wm- Morgan, E. Smitli, Sam G. Beld, B. Teiry. A. A.-Peeples, Miss Carrie Clement, Ulss Mamie McClnre,' MissBessie Hlnton. . Vanderbotg Bros.' Trained Animal Show, ilnee opening their season at Hebron, Wis.. Usx 7, have been playing Wisconsin. Minneso- ta, Sonth Dakota and Iowa to good bnslness. This wagon show carries twenty-five head of baggage stock, ten head of trained ponies, an stepbsnt, four cages of anlmalB and a troupe «C: finirteeD trained dogs. ':BMter of TanderbniK Bros.^' Animal Show. Hairy Wlntermnte and O. W. Hall, Jr., . man- agers; C. M. Black; general agent, with two assistants; Vtank B. Hall, .cqnestrian director; IM. Jolmnii, In ebaxge of canras; Albert .Whit- ' aksr. In chaise of animals; :Tomle Wlntermatc, Jr., stock; Bert Hayzer, pn4)S.; Jack Kmerson, cook. ■The Great' Whlteley Shows left the state, of minols Aognst 2T, after having played twenty- tnv 'StaiidBMn that State. Tbls was the first ■eniMi for .this shoir 'In Illinois, idaylng to ca- : padty - bosliieaB. at every stand. The.- WhUeley Shows will close the season October IS snd go Into winter qnsrters at Bethany, Mo. The performers with* Vanderbnrg Bros.' Ani- mal Show iDclnde Jack Vampner, contortionist and perch; Otto Schwartz, rings and trapeze; Atlee Bros., doable trapeze; Frank E. Hall's performlog elephant; Jargo and troupe of ten trained ponies; Ueino, talking and singinjf clown., . , ■ ■ ,. Following are the performers with Hie-John H. Sparks Show: The Four Valentlnos, the Ml- zeno .Troape of Japs, Alfton Heitttz. head bal- ancer; Mike Cablll and wife, aerialists; the Biding Mayos, . and clowns Joe Sherry, McAllis- ter, Connets and; Heard. After a long, pleasant and prosperoos seasm of five months,'Honest Bill Is moving soathward itoward Kansas, ^e Honest Bill Sliow bas had continnons travel Mtbrongh. the Black Hills of Sonth Dakota and has been In Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. Rank Walker, the'veteran stage eouh driver, or "Bocky Monntaln HaIlk,'^ as be .is more com- monly called, joined therlOl: Banch at Toledo, Ohio, last week, after being laid up in a hospital in Newark for font weeks. Harry F. Link, formerly treasurer of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, snd Henry W. Savage's at- tractions, is now connected with Bsmey txer- ard's Follies of the Day Co. (Western Wheel), in a simllsr capacity. ^ Owing to' the dtfailment of an engine, the Sparlcs show train did not leave Marlowton, Mont., nnta after 9 a. m-v tbe 19th, for their next Btsnd, Boondnp, Mont. ' The Gnstads, globe rollers, are laylav off m Cincinnati, Msl Gnstad being under medieil care. They will Join the M^ .X^ dark * . Sons 'Show again."' . r: .-^ '''m, '.."-,,'.'.-. PERFORMERS WITH BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST AND PAWNEE BILL'S FAR EAST RAY THOMPSON DIRECTOR OF HiaH SCHOOl. HORSES Saasons 1907-1908-1909>1910 • buffalo: B|l.L.'S WILD WE5X PAWNEE Bil.l.'S FAR EAST BERT DAVIS AND WIFE KING AND QUEEN RUBES . ^Huranr Birdseed and Aunt Lndndia" il. Burgower, formerly vltl> Sun Bros., and John and Otto BinsUns, were vlsltora to the S)>arks Show at Harlowton, JIant., Aug. 18. 'The Four Kellys. and LaTell Sisters eDjoyed a fine day with friends with the Sella-Floto Show In South Chicago, 111., Ans. 21. Karl Nelson, balancing trapeze and dack-wlre artist. Joined the James Shelby Showa at Ooort- land, Va., Angnst 22. D. La Bance and his cowboy band, with the 101 Ranch, deserve the applause they reeelTe after every selection. ■ Tbe Hocom family of riders closed with tlie Campbell Bros.' Show, to -Join with the Famous Bobinson Shows. Mr. and Mrs. 6. W. Undy, members of the Sibley Shows, are rioting Mrs. Llndy's parenta for a few days. 'X^aTell Sisters, iron jaw artists, are one of the features with Gentry Bros.' Shows, closing the show. Bing Harris, trombonist. Is witji Emory Dlclc- en'B Concert Band, with the Xankee Bobinson Shows. The Four Eellys, with Gentry Bios.* Shows, have added several new tricks to their wire act. ■ ■ MYLETTE I N DIR E STRAITS. New York, Nt Y., Aug. 27.—Harry Mylette, an old-time clown, who was once Itnown to cir- cos-goers as "Handsome Harry," haa baen com- mitted to the New York Almshouae.- He has been crippled for many years, and when his slender savings gave oat he became a public charge. Mylette received :>llla Injuries at a performance at . which President Oarlield attended. The clown tried to escerbimselt, and In one of his tests, a leap over, three elspbaats, misjudged the'distance and fell,between two of them. Ho recovered sulBcIently to return to tba ring, but was never so clever again, YOUNG BUFFALO SEATS COL- LAPSE. Tassar. -Mich., Aug. 23.—Doting tba eranfaig performance of the Young BnSalo Wild , West Show here last nigbt, the reaerred seat: ssetlon fell. About six hundred persons, Indudlnsr many women and cbUdren ware bnrled beneath tba eel- lapsed seata. Tlie accident created a panic among the other spectators and for severs! minutes the arena was In an nproar. OrdSr was anally restored. No casualties were xmorted, althoogb a number of persona anstalned omlses and aeratefaea. Paul Bracliard&Wife Contortion Hand-Balancing