Show ELEPHANTS GET LOOSE And a lady Falls from a Wire in Barnums Circus The elephants got loose in the afternoon af-ternoon at Madison Square Garden yesterday and Mlle Mmettaj who slides from the top rf the Garden down a wire holding on by her teeth fell near the end of her journey jour-ney but owing to the precautions taken by thu insn g mont was not hurt Mile MinE tta is a sprightly malden mal-den about 22 year old and dresses in blue and gold At about 3 oclock she bowed before the immense audience au-dience and went through her performance per-formance on the rings Five minutes min-utes afterward she was hoisted to the top of the Garden and a second later came down like a cannon shot suspended by her teeth Four n en in crash hat3 and broadcloth broad-cloth knee Ireechea Stood at the end of the wir9 with J3n extended piece of canvas in ther hands She drove through the canvas so rapid washer was-her descent and crashed up against an iron post One of the men swung his arm around her wait and saved her from death As it was she was quite stunned but managed to bow to the audience before she der arted After the performance the famous Nautch girls gave a private exhibition of their dances The girls dress in picturesque costumes of green red and yellow wrapped around them in graceful folds As the girls retired two East Indians dressed In while I went upon the platform Each carried car-ried a heavy gun eimilar to a blunderbuss blun-derbuss Suddenly one of the Indians In-dians rased his ponderous weapon and a report like tbe thunder of a cannon shook toe Garden Another louder than the firft followed and then a third was heard At this stage of the performance other thunder thun-der as Joud but more ominous startled Mr George Af3tiugstllthe manager of the elephants and upon entering the quarters of the beasts he found Hebe Jabbing one of the pillars of tbe Garden with her trunk and Chief trying to burt sn ea s trance through the Garden walls into Twentysixth str e Arstingstall sprang am jng the beasts and raising rais-ing his whip beat the animals into submission The attachee of the Garden bad tied from the confiufs of the elepbaut8as it was feared the animals would escape The flushing touch to the days performance was given by the beau man of the l uoan1 These people took umbrage at half a dozen gentlemen who laughed at their war > dance and the chief leveling his nptar tbrea ened to transfix Mr W Hamilton Mr Barnums agent Last night many people were unable to tram aUtnisson to the garden The Sioux chiefe t numbering eight beongng to Barnauls show are boarding at present as 212 East Twentyseventh Htrwet but it Is possible they may hav change to other quarters as the Christian landlord threatens to tjdat the lessee a pots blind lady who is thus trying to eke out an honut living unless she turns thew out Her aged father who was employed for thirty years as chaplain st Castle Garden lives with herNew York World |