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Show Death Stills 'Ballyhoo' Of Circus Press Veteran HATTIESBURG, Mm., Nor. 27 -? Dxter Fellows hu told for the last time the wonders of "the greatest ihow on earth." The man who waa known in newspaper office! from coast to -f " "- "'"n'i Nn 1 rr" agent died last night, at the age of M. He succumbed to bronchia pneu-monia. pneu-monia. which serin three days ago, after h had been stricken with typhoid fever, early In October, on his job "in advance" of the Ring-4 ling Bros.-Barnum eV Bailey circus. I Mrs. Fellows, the former Signe Eugene von Breitholtz. almost ex-i hausted by the long vigil at his bedside in a hospital here, was not present when he died. She was under a physician's care today. . Soon after Fellows' death scores of messages began arriving, expressing ex-pressing sorrow at the passing of the beloved veteran of the big top. They came from Fellows' circus friends, theatrical people and newspaper news-paper men throughout the country. coun-try. Fellows had met them on his travels of more than 40 year as press agent for circuses up and down the land. I He started back in 1893 wKen the Pawnee Bill wild west show landed in Fitchburg, Conn., one day without a press agent. He was with Pawnee Bill only a short time before he joined the Buffalo Bill show. His next job was with Ringling Bros., then with Barnum A Bailey, and when the two circuses were combined he remained re-mained as chief press representative. representa-tive. Fellows grew to be almost a legendary figure in the world of the circus and was always welcomed wel-comed warmly in newspaper offices of-fices as he returned year after year with new stories of the spangled span-gled top. His coming to town was gener- DKXTKR Ft I. LOWS Superlative Hunhed ally the signal for the unloosing of superlatives of the wildest kind in the imagination of reporters. As many stories were printed about him. it seemed, as about the big show itself. He estimated he traveled approximately ap-proximately 15.000 miles a year, sometimes ahead of the show and sometimes along with it. How many thousands of circus passes he distributed in newspaper offices during his career is hard to guess. Fellows was born in Boston in 1871, but his family moved to Fitchburg when he was a boy. |