Barnum vs Bailey Some 60 years ago when Bar- Bar Barnum's Barnum's num's urns circus held undisputed sway way as the biggest amusement en- en enterprise enterprise in the world the great showman howman had bad little cause to pay attention Mention to several small rival circuses which which sprang sprang up for they usually kept their distance The time came however when one ne of them headed beaded by a young oung Irish Irish rish merican named James A. A 10 Bailey threatened Barnum's pres pres- tige For one spring day in the Bailey menagerie a baby elephant was born This baby elephant immediately became a greater attention than all of Barnum's colossal and Bailey began packing the crowds in which the big shows show's attendance fell off Chagrined be be- beyond beyond beyond yond words Barnum wired Bailey an offer of for the baby elephant Instead of selling Bailey had prepared and displayed enormous posters bearing a facsimile of Barnum's Barnum s 's telegram to which he added in box car letters This is what Barnum thinks of Baileys Bailey's baby elephant In I n desperation Barnum then of of- offered offered offered to take Bailey in as his partner and Bailey accepted Thus Barnum and Baileys Bailey's greatest show on earth came into being