Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-05-24 | Page 6 | Floto Tried to Buy Lot of Green Horses

f , - - Sal VJ1 ek t V W I a. "I Tank'!.' Wakefield, the famous traveler trav-eler tor "VTllsqni That's All". is la Zioti. Ha says the Floto shows coming here tomorrow Is the cleverest, up-to-date outrt ever seen In the cirrus line. Then he tells this -comical story: y. ' "Otto Floto, who Is busy Just now getting: up novelties for his circus. Is exulting, in the thought of being: able to secure the greatest novelty in horses ever seen on the road. , . "Floto wrote to a dealer In horses, asking- Tor twenty large white draught horses. The dealer wrote back that although al-though he had several hundred horses to select from, whit horses were hard to .procure.' Would not fine blacks or sorrels do? - "Floto wrote back - that what he wanted was novelty in the -horse line, and white waa the thing: to have. . "The dealer replied: ' "I can't get white horses for you out of those I have on hand, but I have a new -consignment of .600 or 600 green horses coming: on In a few days and I may be able to select .you1 some,, and they can be broken in to pull." ; -. . "Floto jumped at the chanee.r '-'- -- "That would be better ' than white ones," he wired, "Send me .forty of the rreen ones." : .-, , . "Floto is waiting: for the horses,' but is a little nervous over the matter, fearing: fear-ing: the dealer may turn the bargain over to some rival circus man." , The Floto shows parade tomorrow morning: will, give evidence of vthe prosperity of the enterprise. Two exr hlbltions will be given here." ' . ' . ' "HANK" -WAKEFIELD. I