The Billboard 1901-04-20: Vol 13 Iss 16 (1901-04-20)

ee ee — ee RRSP AD ARS 16 DOs ot HOt b Will It Come to This ? Now that showmen are building palatial homes, roval furnishings, and indulg ug in the fads and foibles of the ef fete aristoerney, it is possible that) trey may next take te Asterizing their names. Ilere is what they would look like. ihe you recognize them? t Elliott Wallace. Vv. Emory Franklin, . Patrick Pagan. » Marion Burk. generally Waldo Peekham, Everett Cory Franklin Robinsen, Gilbert Robinson +. Washington Aiken. Emerson Batley. . Edison Cooke, ht. Graham Ball. M. Flannery Coyle, J. Patricio Fagan. 1. Sells Barrett. A. Tennyson Kingling. W. Lawrence Main. W. Fillmore ¢ oly. (. Coe per Wilson. G. Nathatiel Robinsen, W. Elijah Pergusen. J. Dunbar Harrison H. Lawrence Harrison. t Warren Peekham. W. Harrison Gardner. . . I \ J I 1 ‘ J J ‘ A Grand Ovation. The world-wide fame of Ringling Bros.’ as caterers to the public and as proprietors of the “World's Greatest Shows Was Tully sustained at the annual opening in Chicage at the Coliseum, Wednesday night, April I), She atcendanee was large, the perform anee lhoevery respect frst citiss ana arcisciie and the muiitude intensely enthusiastic in ther demonstrations of approval. The show is a marvel of quanticy and qualiny. very aet went with a dash and proncieney tout indieated the tireless energy of the Kinglings in maintaining the high standard Whieh has always been their ambition te Htehieve. All the costumes were bright and hew The performers seemed to have their hearts In the work, and it can be truthfully stid that trom beginning to end there was net a hiteh of any kind. One feature that attracted attention was the splendid music of the band of thirty men under the leader ship of George Gauwiler the Coliseum preved to be an admirable place for a cir eus performance, The walls were draped with hundreds of American flags and bunting of the same colors was artistically placed around the bodes, The natriotic decorations took the fancy of the crowd. Old timers sighed in vain for the canvas covering, the sideshow With its flaring pictures and leather-lunged “splelers,” the blatant venders of popeorn, lethonade, neanuts god balloons, until the circus commenced, and then ferget all about the things they longed for and en joved each and every act. The funny clowns kent everybody in an uproar by their ridiculous antics and shared honors with the acrobats and the elephants ‘The features of the circus this season are the Garcinettis and Tacoma Family, acre bates; A'bert Cranda!!l and his mule, the performing elephants, the Holloway Trio in Wire-walking, and Mme. Marantette, with her juswping horses and pontes. Where everything was so nearly perfect it would be unfair toe particularize, al though the Holloway wire-walkers and the De Coma acrobats, the sixty-one horse act an@ the elephant act were the feanittes that stood out, if possible, a little more brifWant ly than the Others. The editor of “The Billboard’ had the pleasure of attendfng the opening performance, which was a cri umph complete and deserved. Hardly less hotable than the #nitial performance of the Ringlings’ Cireug was the great parade on Monday night preceding the epeulen of the show. > It looked very much as if a dozen fall festivals were ip progress in Chicago when Ringling Broa® Circus swooping down upon the great anefropadis, parading its principal streets, nettally took it byosterm. Prompt ly at 7:30 o'clock the parade’ moved from the Collseum out along Wabash avenue; then It preceeded along Jackson boulevard, Ilalsted street, Madison street, Clark street, North Clark street, Indiana. street, Wells street, Chieage avenue, State street and Sixteenth street, thence back. to the Coliseum building, and all along these six nillawS of travel the ostreets were Jommed with people, and n high state of felleity prevalled.. Custamera left stores, spectators deserted the theaters, parents leading 2) i —— ~ = ie 2S DAA PaDeD wir war ev UD Ub OPER eo VE SEVUTYy« S64 14 OO OH OD EVE 4 A) ‘ their children came for and all stow! charmed by glided along for an hour niles both ways, the pageant that before them. An o'd lady fainted in the midst of the crowd at the corner of Jackson boulevard und Hatsted street, and was rescued from the mass of humanity and taken to her the police of the Harrison Street Station, whese wagen happened to be pass ing at the time. The parade was a novelty in that it was spiek and span new. Last year Was the most prosperous season with Ringling Bros, that any cireus saw, and, in eclebration of this phenomenal success they home ley have provided a complete new ecireus for the present season In the Chicago open ing, whieh, by the way, was the proper Place for its debut. everything appeared to he new except, perhaps, the skins of the ahttacs In its lengthy deseription of the great show the Chicago Inter Qeean says: “Ey ery het one has seen a cirenus band wagon. but many ever saw such an affair as the THE BILLBOARD the other day. She says in substance that in October, 1800, while traveling with her husband's cirews, she was taken iil in Cali fornia and obliged to remain there. Sie al leges that her illness was due to ill treat ment by her husband, and that he left her on an allowance that is a mere pittance, al though he is worth 3100.00, which he timaissed as much through her efferts as through his own. She says his conduct toward her has been such that she can not resume marital relations with him, and asks for the setting aside of his petition, and that the divorce be granted to her, with alimony. In addition to this, Mrs. Main has caused to be issued a court order restraining Mr. Main from disposing of his circus, home, property or investments that she be lieves he has made without her knowledge. * Main home in Geneva is the finest in the county, and she asks the court to give this place and its furnishings to her. It will be remembered that Mrs. Main secured a temporary injunction against the Walter L. Main’s Show. When the case came up for hearing before Judge Caldwell last Friday, the court dissolved the injune tion, but allowed Mrs. Main $100 and Soo a month alimony pending the tinal disposi tion of the suit. The dissolution of the in junction will enable Mr. Main to open his show at Geneva May 4, as had been announced. Shows, Take Warning! I see in a recent issue of “The Billboard” that you take notice of the result of “the war on high cireus license” that was waged in our State Legislature, and which was put so forcibly by the champions of public entertainments, that even those who were in faver of a prohibitory license, in the end, helped by their votes to carry the amend ment offered by Mr. Henderson. There were some strong points made by those L. H. GRANGER, General Manager of the Chas. Lee Shows. great imported band wagon, drawn by ten magnificent Which led this parade. When the great military band struck up “Marehing Through Georgia’ the general opinion was that the band wagen alene was “werth the price of admission.” Sut it seon forgetten, ty otren horses, was as it was followed by twen of ferocious animals, their keepers sitting in the cages with them and keeping them moving with their whips. In these open wagous was every sized animal, from a guinea pig to a hippopotamus. There was a cage of magniticent lions, and others containing hyenas, leopards, tigers cages and wildeats. What pleased the boys most was a baby leonard. and what fascinated the girls was “Gertie,” the hippoepetamus, weighing 4.800 pounds in her stocking feet But some of the occupants were interesting on aceount of their indescribable ugliness.”’ The Main Divorce Case. Mrs. Main’s attoruveys have tied up the Walter Main Shows good and tight. One of the advertising cars needed repairs, but he cou'd not move it without first giving bond in the sum of $10,000.) Mr. Main has appealed to the court, alleging that so far his preparations ty take the read have cost him S100,000"5 owhich wilh be lost in the event that heads tet allowed to go out. He also states That he Has’ paid $40,000) for printing, w Deh will be a dead loss if he is not permitted to use dt, Mrs. Watter L. Math is in Geneva. Her health is very poor, and parties who have seen her say she looks very thin and frail, Everybody agrees that she has excellent atiorneys, “The Billboard” invites subscriptions to a fund to ald her in paying court costs and attorney fees, Every subscription will be acknowledged as soon as it is -recelved and promptly applied to her relief. The cross-petition of Mrar Mala was died favering a low license, why the various counties should not be allowed to put a higher mands, 1 doubt license on shows than the State de very much whether those themen who championed the cause of the tent shows had ever thought of the excessive tax impesed on them in the past i their attention was called.toe the matter, and, seeing it, went to work to remedy the evil, thereby advancing the spirit of liberality of the people of this good old State towara all legitimate enterprises. Now, I gen hope with this beginning of favor toward the shows, the managers and owners of them will purge their rosters of all fea tures that are objectionable to refined people, and allow no games of chance or anything of the kind, by which the people are robbed of their money. If they will look well to this, they can help those of us who are working Tor their interest, and the time is not far distant when even more liberal legislation can be secured in their behalf. | offer this as a prediction, and feel justifled in making it. If any cireus visiting this State this season, will prominently advertise the fact that no games of chance nor anything will be allowed by which their patrons are deprived of their money by illegal means, and if any patron of the show can substantiate the fact to the satisfaction of the management of the show that he has been robbed on the show grounds, the management will stand ready to make such loss good—if this is done, the number of neople that would attend every performance wou'd be the wonder of ail. Having BAA bern and reared among this people, Row their feelings on this mat ter. It & h acknowledged fact that the people lit section do not attend shows as they would if they were assured they would not be rebbed. We must acknow!l elge that a great deal of this prejudice (and fear, we might say) has been brought ahout by the shows themselves by allowing (and winking at) and carrving along as a part of them all Kiuds of gamblers 5 and sneakthieves whose business is to pick up all they can. If this is allowed, no better results can be expected for the future. But if the people are assured, and it is proven to them, that they can attend these plices with no more danger of losing their money than at any other place, this territory will be a ““Mecea™ for the tent shows. I sincerely hone the shows that come this Way this season will not tear down what has been done for them so recently. Cireensboroe, N.C. J. W. GRIFFITH, Colvin Gives Advice. —— Doe E. DD. Colvin, of Chieago, was in Geneva, O.. a few days age. One of the papers there gave him a column complimentary notice, and the genial “Dee unburdened himself on the opportunities of young men of the present day. On this topie Mr. Colvin said: “I think the young man of to-day has as iaihy opportunities as did the boy of fifty years age. If he will hustle, business sucwill be his. Every boy should know what he wants to do in life when he is 16 years of age. The average young man of today is vacillating. He should make up his mind what he wants to do, and go to work and accomplish that end. There is a place for every bright bey. The trouble with the average boy is that he wants to fill too many olaces. There is plenty of money to be made by men of the right de COSS termination and spirit te combat discouragement and go ahead with the struggle. We hear a goml deal of the strenuous life; there is something in that, but a great deal more in stick. I say te the boy, ‘Stick! stick! stick! ”’ Sells’ Mansion Sold. Mr. Peter Sells has disposed of his palatial mansion at the corner of Buttles and Denison avenues in Columbus, O. He exchanged ft for two business blocks down town. The house he sold was a veritable palace. It was beautiful inside and ont. Mr. Sells and his daughter will spend the summer at the various fashionable watering places, probably Saratoga, Atlantic City and Waukesha. Next winter they will oceupy a cozy little flat, lavishly furnished and decorated, in Columbus. Mr. Sells’ health is steadily and he looks better every day. improving, Tent Show Routes. BARNUM & BAILEY—Budapest, THungary, April 7 to 21: Szekesfehervar, Hungary, April 22: Pees, Hungary, April 23; Eszek, Slavonia, April 24; Ujvidek, Hungary, April 2: Zombor, Hungary, April 26: Szabadka, Hungary, April 27 and 28: Hodmezo Vasarhely. Hungary, April 20: Szeged, Hungary, April 30 and May 1: Nagy Beeskerek, Hunwary, May 2: Nagy Rikinda, May 3; Temesvar, Hungary, May 4 and 5. BONHEUR BROS! Okla., May 1. BUFFALO BILIL— Madison more, Md., April 22-23; SHOW. Augusta, Square GarWashington, D. C., more, April 22 and 23; Washington, D. C., April 24 and 25: Richmond, Va., April 26; Norfolk, Va.. Avril 27; Lynehburg, Va., April 29; Clifton Forge, W. Va., April 30, (afternoon); Ilinton, W. Va., May 1; Charleston, W. Va... May 2: Ironton, O., May 3%; Circleville, O., May 4; Cincinnati, ©., May 6 and 7. SAM DOCK'’S KEYSTONE SHOW-Ft. Loudon, Pa., April 20; St. Thomas, April 22: Williamsen. April 25; Foltz, April 24; Sylvan, April 25; Big Pool, Md., April 26; Kasiesville, Pa., Anril 27. GEO. S. ELY'S) SITOWS Ill.. April 17 and 18; April 19 and 20. THE HARRIS NICKEL PLATE SHOWS Chicago, Hl, April 20; Kokomo, Ind., April 22: Marion, April 23: Hartford City, April :‘ Urbana, 0., April 25; Coshocton, April 26. HARRISON BROS.—Tusenmbio, Ala... April 16: Corinth, Miss., April 17: Tupelo, Miss.. April 18: Holly Springs. Miss., April 1%: Bolivar, Tenn.. April 20; Jackson, Tenn., Avril 22; Milan, Tenn., April 23; Paris, Tenn., April 24; Clarksville, Te: o., April 25. LONG BROS.” PALACE SHOWS—Westville. Mass.. April 17: Janesville, Miss., April 19; Williamsburg. Miss.. April 20. RHODA ROYAL SHOWS—High Point, N. C.. April 16: Greensboro, April 17: Reidsbore, Anril 18; Danville, Va., April 19 and 20; Milton, April 22. ROBINSON SHOWS—Colnmbia, April 27; Portsmouth, April 29; Irenton, April 30. RINGLIN SHOWS—Chicago, Il... April 10 to 27: Defixace, O., April 29; Mansfield, O., April 30. SELLS-GRAY SHOWS-— Talladega, April 18; Birmingham, April 22 SUN BROS. Portsmouth, Va... April’ 17 and 18; Norfolk, Va., April 19 and 20. TEETS BROS. CIRCUS—Grayson. Ky.. April 30; Olive Hill, May 1: Morehead, May 2; Mt. Sterling, May 3; Winchester, May 4, WALLACE SHOWS-—Teru, lud., April 27 Carbondale, Murphrysboro, IIL, Ala., : i4