Show THE RACKET AT THE CIRCUS Observer Talces a Few Points from the Motley Crowd Present HOh yes said an oldtime Salt Laker those employes and loud talkers connected I con-nected with Barretts circus are the politest po-litest circus followers I ever saw Why Barrett must have selected them entirely with the view of gulling the public by soft blandishments for their manner I bland are so guileless and language so I that they impressed me as being almost I phenomenal If this new departure tends to increase patronage before long we may expect to see the managers of circuses when they visit our city open the performances with prayer The ab sense of the usual cut and dried ribald jokesbringing reproach upon the management man-agement as well as the clowns that utter themwere either purposely or inadvertently I inad-vertently omitted thereby agreeably disappointing dis-appointing a long suffering public Thats all right remarked a sallow faced attorney but I think the gross insults they Imposed upon the delicate nostrils of refined people by allowing those hawkers to dispose of the worst brands of stinker cigars and then allowing al-lowing men to smoke them in the faces of ladies and childrena number of whom became deathly sickbrings disgrace dis-grace upon the management which this circusloving people will jiot soon forgive 1 And they didnt do all they advertised adver-tised put in a gentleman from the country coun-try Why my dear deluded suburban friend remarked a city hackman did you ever hear of everything they claimed to do having been done at a circus I have been to every circus that came to this city for the last twenty years and from my own experience I would advise you to never expect Ipor than onehalf they advertise ad-vertise to do then you will not be disappointed disap-pointed C Oh dear gasped a bluelooking Main street merchant I expect I will have to discharge some of my clerks The circus will clean out all the cash that has been in circulation in this city for the past two months It is an actual fact that people will stand off their grocer and butcher and spend the money to go to the circus If something dont turn up soon to liven business we will have to put up our shutters Ive been in business here for twentyfive years and 1 never saw money so scarce before 0 > I That reminds me remarked a clerk in a wholesale establishment not far from the Coop that a number of my young I I lady friends claimed that it was not fashionable fash-ionable to attend the circus and they had no intention of going Under the circumstances I hardly felt warranted in asking any of them to accompany me and took some small children instead Imagine my surprise upon entering the I menagerie tent to find that most of those who had been denouncing circuses and circusgoers had preceded me and in i many instances were escorted by small brothers in lieu of elder escorts I dont blame them much for changing their minds but I have lost all confidence in their sincerity when they bitterly denounce de-nounce arenic displays T Id like to have had the job to clean out the whole dd lot of them peanut and prize box pirates growled an old Bingham miner Their monkey chatter of Nice sweet cold drink and Prize in every box actually sets my teeth on edge Just as a fellow got interested inter-ested in some particular feat that was being performed in the ring one of them howling citric acid and aniline peddlers would loom up between me and the performers per-formers and Id feel like breaking a few of the ten commandments and the colored col-ored water peddlers head at the same time II |