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ane ee ee ee ne ne oe ae! GRUS ISHERE AND WIL OPE SATUROAY NH It's Barnum & Bailey’s, All Right, But It's Bigger Than Ever Before. NEW ACTS, NEW &c., &c, Madison Square Garden Is Being Turned Inside Out _ Preparing for the Show. Barnum and Rey, Raber” “Leave them bulls alone” “This way for the Greatest Show on arth!” Just Uke apring fever, Haater and @miler institutions, Barnum ead Bailey’ Circus is with us again. | ‘The old call for sawdust glitter. @racking whips, anima! odors, peanuts | ‘and “ely#hunts” is sounding at Madison @aquare Garden, where hoarse confusion Betokens the arrival of this “most @tupendous carnival of modern joy.” (See “cight-aheet” bills.) Out from winter quarters in Bridge- pert, out from the lean hibernating Gaze and into tic fat of reckless joy- @truck ependers rolled Barnum's well- eaown entertainment, landing with full Binety care at Mett Haven yards Batur- Gey night. With hundreds of shouting “wasor becks,” Geftly avoiding the ‘whirling tent peg in the boss canvass- man’s brawny fist, the “bulls” were un- leaded from the “fats” and the wagons @ld to earth ready for the ten mile Bike down from the Bronx two the Garden. Led by “Babe,” “the oldest elephunt live,” the cavalcade arrived at nearly midnight. For eighteen years “Babe” has made the trip down to the Garden, E OF" CHARLIE PAL G. MORSE nn’, moters who wouldn't deceive you for the world and whose sole purpose is to tell yqu for your own benefit what glories @re in store when the circus opens on Saturday. THE SHOW 18 BIGGER THAN WHEN IT WAS BIGGEST. In the first place understand ae a eneral principle that the show this year ie bigger and better than ever. > and when the old lady glimpsed frivol- ous Diana giddying around on the roof he just lifted her trunk and roared, | trumpeted, shouted or whatever elephant ladies do when overjoyed. Most of the other animals felt the same way about it to, for the ten mile hike in the rain was anything but Pleasant, Trumpeting like mad Thank you. Having conceded’ this ques- tion, over which there never was any doubt, the same beling true each year as an axiomatic proposition, see what follows, There will be the great spectacle of Cleopatra with hundreds of dancing iris, Roman soldiers, Mare Antony and the luring Ol4 Serpent of the Nile her- envy of the gents and the despair of the Jealousy, pitiful and poetic, this year with Fidem Wirth holding onto his club of a@ tall whole herd (thirty bulle, gente, count| self, typifying her boast “I died a ‘e led to basement, where| Queen,” and showing ctly how she up and began to “weave” | took the famous “ asp route” to immor- back and forth as natural as life.| tality. Only this year it will be bigger Trunks were unlifted waiting the re-| than ever. membered peanuts, for the beasts must| Last year’s famous baseball game be- have forgotten the show isn't billed ¢o| tween elephants will be resumed, ac- open till next Sathrday. , inked to Trainer Harry J. Mooney, Get that? Not till next Saturday. says all the team members have All day yeaterday the Garden looked | Signed on for the season. “Coco,” the lke a wreck. Planks which were used| Pitcher, got @ late start, developing a for the fight when Dreadnought Smith | S!ase trunk which has worked out all or Battleship Smith (they say he's] “#ht by now, and ‘“Beasie,” the been promoted) gillowed to slumber | catcher, had a “charley elephant” until ‘one perfectly good British champion, |* few daye ago. Otherwise the team is were piled in confusion, having been!" Perfect shape for a gruelling league ripped off the earth floor te make room | #40. Mooney, who can do more with for the circus, Some sawdust which | “PAchyderms" (sce posters) than any ‘atmosphere” for advance |"* ew iBive We Pavers: © 0058 jen tent a slight degree of the real] foot oll bath and a good sandpaperin thing to the place, but it wasn’t until a/ (0-day to limber them up a iltttle. He | few performers obliged that one could | Will not polish them off with a paving| get the opirit. efons, as was reported. Also they must] - » | De manicured, a very delicate operation, | Iimed up in rows and a few practice |*M ® bucksaw, “Babe” has been busy etunts going on around, you will please | DU&ing animal cages around. She has wt down and Meten to words of truth | the strength of forty horses when she| from Dexter Fellows, Bill Thompeon | Pushes with her head (see Fellows for! end “Jay” Ryal, x tro of truth pro-| thls one), and has to be treated now and stick while*making the hurdles, a stunt A Reasonable Plea For The Stomach Ht Your Stomach Is Lacking in Digestive Power, Why Net Help the Stomach De Its Werk? ‘Met with drugs, but with a reinforce- Ment of digestive agents, such as are turally at work in 1 ite analysis shor quires pepsin, anit: the secretion of hydrochloric acid, When your food falls to digest, it ts proof pos- ‘Tablets contain noth- fag but these natural elements necessary fo Gigestion, end when placed at work tm the weak stomach and small intestines, aupply what these organs need. They stimulate the ric giands and grad- wally bring the back to je been teste at found to con- but matural digestives, Chemical La! Telegraphic ad- dress, “Diffindo," London. Telephone No. 12639 Central, 20 Cullum St., Fenchurch Me, B.C, London, 9th Aug., 1905, 3 have analyzed most carefully » vox of Atuart's Dyspepsia Tabiets (which 1 bougnt myself at @ city chemist's shop for the purpose), manufactured by the F. A. Stuart Co, 86 Clerkenwell Road, London, EB. C., report tha T cannot tind miners! poisons then for callous on the forehead, Three baby tigers were born Friday and immediately became members of the| famous orgunization whose quarters elicited the doubtful remark “Well, well! So this ts Tammany Hall" from our dis- tinguished Mayor, Usually cubs of any in that they can be christened in and named after the Mayor and Chief of Police en route, thereby gaining & lot| of free space where it will do the most} good, But not so in this circus, The cubs| will be named once and for ail, and any celebrity wishing to have a tiger named after him had better hurry with his ap- plication, A baby Russian dromedary was born 4@ week ago and I# on exhibition with {ts mother, 4 suffragette, and a name is lacking yet. Golden advertising op- portunity for the Caure, NEW ACT IN BAREBACK RIDING THAT'S GOOD. little May Wirth, who was with us last year doing the most bewildering hair-raising bareback deviltry, has a new one this time, Technically It ts known as the “back-acrows.” All that term jMeans is that little Mise Wirth turns a back somersault from horse going at full apeed and lands neatly on the rump ot a horse following, a thing which it hadn't ought to hard to do if one | were 80 disposed, you consider it the easier it becomes, And whisper, Miss Wirth Is eighteen years old this year too, Sh-h-h! Don't ask questions, You know what the Jaw | is regarding child performers. of course, the ¢hild isn’t elghteen, but that’s confidential, and you're not sup: | used to tell if you know. May is the . Indeed, the more | " | office to-day by Amoryfs counsel, girl of the ed Kuster Jaunt up hen certain m of opinion that they for the purpose for which they are intended. wh ‘There 19 no secret in the preparation of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, Their com- Position is commenly known among phy- siclans, ‘They are the most popular of ail Femedies for indigestion, dyspepsia, water brash, insomnia, loss of appetite, melan- cholla, constipation, dysentery and kin- dped diseases originating from improper @issolution and assimilation of foods, ve- cause they are thoroughly reliable and jo man or child, yepepsia Tablets ure « @ eafe and powerful remedy. Stuart's Kyepepeia Tobdiets will digest your food Qer you when your stomach can't. Oak your Grugsist tor @ fity-ceat box, from step-ladders land demand lbeasts be [slippery awphait | ‘Thiv season marks the home-coming jof the freaks. Back to the old love, the circus, fr of ail kinds have wander- ed this Moving-pleture shows have put {ness all over the country jlady with all her de will be on view, and the several dime-museums out of bus The bearded | ate shrubbe n ta 2 the man behind the partition, and the dog-faced boy and even the living skeleton who came near suicide this winter when he found he had taken on two @enayweights, and tue fet dady, mounted | 1 to be put down when the | for to split themselves on the | Amory | advertise “www WvewMe wourp, ovat es - fe . nee nt cs 0 THE ELEPARNTS * ‘The tail riding is for balancing the bloomin’ beast, y'know. Then there's the wonderful Banana Hound. Truly a strange beast this hound. Sort of Peruvian dog, accord- Ing sto Dexter Fellows, who offered to show the Peruvian Bark as proof. When closely questioned about the an- imal Dexter admitted it was the result of evolution. “During the Pythagorian Age,” said he, “these hounds lived vn bananas, and having no use for teeth, they gradually lost them until now, some millions of years later, the ordin- ary canine teeth are only rudimentary. There is, howev ature's compensd- tion in the prehensile lip which ena! the dog to peel bananas with great ease and deftness.” Ag stated before, Fel- Hows will not prove the Banana Hound exists. He admits it and says that ts auMctont, (Note) There are no African elephants {with the show. Since HE, the Fearless Mooseherd returned from the Sacred Hunt, there simply ain't none left. ‘The giraffe has a eore throat. will all be there for the grand opening on Saturday: John Ducander, “with the largest mus- taches in captivity” will ¢ around the ring on his blooded horse again, the bearded lady, whose yearning glances at Ducander's trailers beepeak a forlorn The kangaroo is going to jump hurdles ‘Tis sald Fidem wil! ride on the tail like a witch on a breom- 2 cajoulated to earn the title “Salem Malessa Cooper, the heaviest woman in the UnUed States, is dead at her home tm Grayson, Ga. For five months following her recovery from a serious fllness | ehe had increased in weight at the rate of almost 10) pounds a month, and at her | death weighed 613 pounds. It took fourteen men to put her in her coffin, Her} neck was a yard around and her’ waist measure was 11 inches, The doctors) could not explain her sudden accession of fat. M. K. Maxwell of Auburn, Wash., on a wager ate fifty eggs, boiled one minute, in half an hour. ‘d of Trade of Pittsburgh has decided to buy the house at the Butler and Penn avenues, in which Stephen C, Foster was born, and present it to the city. J. B, Webb of Lombard, I,, after five years’ work has traced hit family back | to 1300 and revealed 10,000 ancestors and relatives, An Judge Sabath of Chicago was sentencing “disorderly” John Higgins to $0 and costs, which meant a sixty-day Jail term, the two-weeks-old baby of the prisoner began ,to yell #o that the attendants had to stop their ears. “On motion of Baby Higgin e in dismissed,” sald the Judge, and the father went free. Obediah Stone, @ mill watchman at Grosvenorville, Conn, has retired after | Afty-three years’ service, In his regular work he has walked $0,000 miles. | The four months jail sentence of six students convicted of manslaughter in connection with @ fatal hazing in the University of North Carolina, } been changed into a fine by the “convict hiring system.” The boys w “aired” by thelr fathers for their convict term at $176 each and set free. The lowe their citizenship, however, unless it is restored by pardon, Major, a Scotch collie, owned by Ferd. Fortiers, discovered a big boulder «shan turn in the boulevard around the lake at Winsted, Conn. He ran and “flagged” an approuching auto by standing directly in its path barking, T car Was stoped only a foot from the boulder Winsted—Winsted, CONN Yeu, it w A firm at Boyerstown, Pa, laid in a stock of mtee! coMne non oo, but they proved cumbersome and there wasn auctloned off on Saturday an fifteen years sale for them. So they were Mi bid in by farmers at from ten to thirty-five cents for uxe as watering troughs, W. H. AMORY SUES CITY [am oon Ne was Oper pea of his bid FOR $2,500,000 DAMAGES. | "amory say tne comminsion tater ret! peruiors of | th vars Ines for a term of sev- -five’ years, thereby damaging him to the extent of $2,500,000, rguson & Ferguson of No. 41 Park Row attor- | neys for Mr. Amory > | Sel Bad Kaus. | Says He Was Successful Bidder for Street Railway Franchise, but Didn't Get It. A suit against the clty of New York | mO damages alle mustained by Will Hl y| Fined #100 tor use the Rapid Transit Commtasion-, Morris Saal, a butter and e«g dealer, ) MONDAY, WAR Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth Is Now Concealed in Madison Square Garden Om 17,1 firmities of kennel, he 1 anchored nim to his tmissed an alarm, day or night. In career as a fire dog he had many ling experiences and many narrow escapes from death. In the district of Engine 4 the box numbers range from 88 to 7. Fritz knew these numbers. During his career as a fire dog he had his feet blis- tered on hot roofs, his coat marred by | hot cinders and sparks. No fire was too | hot to deter Frits from entering a build- Ing with the firemen. The carcass of Fritz, attired in « fire- man's full dress coat and a service hel- ndreds of school children v and took @ last look at the firehouse ascot. To-morrow morning Firemen Patrick Golden and Rudolph Schwambermer, who we’ members of ngine 44,Company when the dog was acquired, will, by spectal permiasion of ity Chief Hayes, take the remaing of Fritz in @ casket to Scarsdale and In- ter them in the dow cemetery. Later & monument will be erected over the grave. es CYRANO AGAIN POSTPONED. Se Loh rim Will Be # stead, Owing to Mar The Metropolitan Opera House man- | to the iliness of Mr. Martin, who sings | the principal tenor role, the second per- formance of “Cyrano,” scheduled for to-night, had to be abandoned. Instead “Lohengrin” will be offered for the first time this season, with Urlus in the leading role and Madames Gadski land Homer and Messrs, Buers, Hin- shaw ard Griswold. This is thé second postponement of “Cyrano.” An attempt will be made to sing It next Monday night. Ie your nose pinched by your glasses? If so, there is a big and pleas- ant surprise in store for you. Kons Sudion Chip NEVER pinches. LS SY The clips evenly distribute Jit, use only genu on Dec, %, 1802, failed to accept his! Of No, 231 Stanton street, was fined bid of $1,000 for a franchise for a street | $100 in the Court of Special Sessions, | railway from the Battery to Spuyten, Marhattan, to-day for selling Duyvil was filed in the County Clerk's! ess. Dois i# the largest fine in many months on a retail the offel rotten Amory has gained considerable notice because of the numerous sults he has brought against the Metropolitan and! other tr Tn his wry submite a@ ree! ceipt given him by the fhen commission $100, made out to “W. Howland He charges that after having | for bids the commission sold the frane ils on the rotunda of the Clty Hall and that he was the success- tul bidder because he had complied with the terme of the sale by putting ap the CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature a Get Acq uainted EARL & WILSON, Mahere SOLD BY ALL GooD STORK. ARNOLD GRAVES: | Boss PROrERTy ENGINE COMPANY'S their slight pressure so that the eg Hes remain steady under ill conditions. Let us show you what eyeglass com- fort really means, Allached to your glasses, 35 cents. Sold only al our eight stores. MASCOT, VETERAN OF | TWL.St: Stonnis ~ MANY FIRES, IS DEAD Fritz, Canine Pet of No. 44, Will Be Buried With Honors. Oculists and 54 East 23d St., near Fourth Ave. 27 W. 34th St., bet. 5th and 6th Aves, 54 West 125th St., near Lenox Ave. 442 Columbus Ave., 81st and 82d Sts. 70 Nassau St. near Joho St. 1009 Broadway, near Willo’by, B'lyn. 489 Fulton St., opp. A. & S., B’ klyn. 597 Broad St., near Hahne's, Newark. Fritz, a full blooded Dalmatian, the oldest and smartest dog mascot in the Fire Department, died to-day in the engine house of No. 44 Company in Seventy-fifth street, between Second and Third avenues, Old age carried off Fritz, who had been with the company ten years, He was presented to the firemen when he was five years old by Miss Montgomery of Merrick, L. 1. From the moment he entered the en- Famous “Pint of Cough Syrup” Receipt. No Better Remedy at Any Price. Fully Guaranteed. 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