Show EAGER TO SEE ELEPHANT first one that was brought to the united states aroused the utmost curiosity nowadays when summer in the united states would hardly seem itself without the coming of a circus it Is difficult to realize the excitement aroused by oe the first exhibition of an elephant A now forgotten showman bailey Is said to have imported the first elephant nearly a hundred bundred years ago and the animal vas as a whole show in himself the circus tent had not yet come into being and the elephant was mas shown in barns in the eastern states dates that then held the bulk of the population to prevent the public from teeing seeing the show without charge the elephant traveled from place to place in the night but even so BO the public refused to be wholly circumvented cum vented and small companies gathered with bonfires ready to light when the strange creature came lumbering past on his way to the next town sometimes however the management defeated this intention by sending along the road a horse built up to look like an elephant in the dark and when the bonfire bad baa been lighted and had burned out tbt W real elephant followed christian chris Mci monitor altor |