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Those ln,vish1,v illustrated representa- tions of fearful zmtediluvian dinosaurs and their several relations must have `been of the same family as those de- `pioted in the present moving picture. The Lost World." which I note is -sliowing in n Barrie picture housethis `week, so a fairly good idea may easily] 't10ns----Ine (.'ll`(!US. l he gained of the terribleness of those old-time circus billboards. 9 Ana Anni." ah-`I In-nv urill urn ncwnnrnhnv \'2lllil|JlC. l``rom the very first announcement of the coming of the circus. through the medium of immense billboards hurried; 1y erected and covered with streaming `pictures of :.: u,udily-clressed performers -and of the huge unknown and vicious annuals and reptiles, the ordinary Bur- *rie boy of those times gave up most of fats thoughts by day and his dreams by night to the coming. a couple of weeks `later, of that most wonderful of attrac- `tions---the circus. 'Ynnnn Inulahhv illnuh-oi-Ar! v-nnrnqnnfn- auu Ualxlcu u.vvu,y vv Avu . V _ - . . _ . -. I<}ver_vbody used to 9:0 to the circus `then, and it is more than likely that any show in Barrie nowadays, even `with its very much larger population. has not as lavge an attendance asin those" old times. principally because `then ente1*t.'Linments were neither as frequent nor as diversified as` now, "anti therefore were more numerously taken advantage of when the_vWe1'e.a- vailable. AL ,_.,.__ 411..-; ... _ . . A . . _ nnnaani AF `packed and put in smpsnape su gunm- "ly. But every piece of rope used has sewn through its ends a piece of dif- 'fe'rently-colored twine which desig- znates its particular use, and every "pole. stake, section of canvas. re- eserved seat chair and plank is marked as belonging to a certain wagon, and . .this wagon arrives in its proper pos- `ition in the new `show-place, exactly "where it belongs; every single one of the scores of wagons used to trans- port thephysical side of the "show is -stationed with the nicest of consider- ;ation in relation to its contents. Thus at night when the different tents are `taken down, every wagon is found in .-a bee-line with and the shortest poss- "ible distance from that which half an hour later is to compose its contents. Even the big centre noleswhen taken down always point to their wagons, :so no time is lost in turning` around `to the right or left. Each plank or `pole to be carried by the employees `has a red streak painted in its exact -centre so as to immediately show its `true balancing position when lifted and carried away to its location. ---.-.J 4.- ...n in Gian niv-nun . menagerie wmcn` useu b_xit:u' uvvu 1: . er of locomotion fromshow-place to; zshow-place in those eerie night hours; i Most persons seem to think that: the circus, like Topsy, just happen- ned. This is an inborn idea. dating back to childhood. Nearly all of us have within our earliest recollection the memory of a lot that was vacant save for weeds and empty tin cans 4 at nightfall, and bright and wonder- `ful with the canvas foliage of the fairy circus by dawn. It drops in on" our towns, large and small, over night, and over night it folds its `tents, like the Arabs, and as silently ssteals away. - It certainly is a tribute to the ef- f-ficiency of the circus men and their faithful attention to minute detail that the massive tents can be erected or taken down in such a short time .-...u 4.1.... ,.:........ Mean nnnlmd or` un. taken down in sucn a Snort; gun: and the clrcus Itself packed or` _'_packed and put ip shipshape so quick- 1., nm avnrv mece tone `tering_,~rattling circus wagons rumm- ing past him with an indistinct. out- ".ine view of the shuffling elepha ts, '-camels, wild oxen and the rest of t e _ menagerie which used their own pow.- g V... .4! hmnmntinn from 'show.nlace to: :see the circus remembers with event more fondness the days when, as a country boy, oliving alongside the road over which those circuses tra- -velled by wagon from town to town - tvo vernight,- he sat up most of the night e zastride the \top rail of the zigzag` fence just to see and hear those clat- `tering,A-rattling circus v_vagpn_s rumbl- xmy nmaf. him with an md1st1nct.out- THURSDAY, IECEMBER 3, `I525. tcontinuei tr_oin {case 1) cmcus LIFE or THEOLD D/Avs vs wuvynnuuau - nnvbuvu IL- And while those shows or that time were smaller affairs than those of the present-day, there was a much larger proportion of horses necessitated `through having to haul the entire out- fit from town to town as well as big. powerful mules _ doing the [heavier work, and as these overnight hauls were anything from 20 to 40 miles the smaller places, unlike now, had their regular visits of those tented shows. and through that necessity some of those circuses were noted especially for their magnificent horses--all of one color, except" the p`eri'orming" horses, of course..l.KStone s_ Circus used only cream-colored ones, Kemp's had iron- sray 01198. Robinsolfslwere always coal black steeds. while Nixon's for a time were or the piebald variety and `every- _app aranceu e . = a ti! fl`! nKnIln~ `kn whe e created a. 'sensa_,tion upon? their navvtlxvxr we uuu n. uu uuuau |In.HP.`|l:l,5'UH. / There was always an elephant or two` at the rear also. those which had been usedin the circus performance and had left with the last section. to be used. to push out of the ruck any wagon ' which had become stuck or could-pot be moved by the attnchedhorses-`-and it surely was an unwieldy load` that would not move when the big square head and massive body of several tons `of elephant l`hefted it. ~ A_.I ...|.u.. J|.....v. ._-;.-__, - .- , There were usually elephants in the 4 lead of that long procession of wagons, [one of which would always test the istrength Of any weak-appearing ,cul- uvert or bridge before the heavy wagons were sent over.-Everyone must have noticed that an elephant is always careful where it steps. even walking along 81 I3.Ved street. and never loses its footing upon one placeot security until another is gained. and invariably refuses .to cross 9. bridge or culvert without thumping" it with its trunk or testing it with its extended foot to `assure. itself of safety. And in case of any doubt it will retrace its steps and scramble _down the side of the bank. wade the stream and climb the other side to the solid roadway again. Tlgle .shaky_br1dge on.Bradford Street. t Breen s Pump Works. was usually held insuspicion by those elephantsnwho had\to cross it on those passages. / Thorn ulna n1urn{n: an nIn-.I..... .... 4......" I :l L`UIuuu1u\:1` Lue Lurul UL gettlll g up early in the morning and trudging out to meet that show as it rattled on its way to the show grounds in Queen's Park. Nearly every boy--and many of our elders too----was a volunteer member of those reception committees which used to arise at 4 a.m.. by prearrange- ment. getting snoozes through the night for fear he might. not wake up. . and hustle three or four miles out into the country to meet the coming: circus. To our particuIar`g'ang it was the gen- eral practice to tie a string around i your-ankle and then hang" the cord out of the window, and the first one up ` acted as a sort of call-boy, and in turn |visited each member and pulled the lslgnal cord until everyone was pre- pared for the hike out to Fisherman's ;Polnt, the Sunnidale Road or down `by ; the Iron Bridge. depending: upon which ~ way the circus was con}ing--some half- dressed and wiggling into their clothes as they hurriedalong. In those days the` circus did not travel. by train, for the wagons were al_l drawn by horses 'from' one show place to the next one. `And part of the show--the menagerie, sideshows, etc--was on its way to the next stopping place while the circus night performance was still going on and, in case of accident or delay. by washout. broken bridge or bad roads. .it was an impatient bunch of boys roosting upon thetop of some rail fence I fnr fh$|f frfriihrr nnnnn fn I And gllmpsing back to that time when finally the day arrived for the appearance of that circus; he's a. queer old curmudgeon who does11't.eve1yyet remember the thrill of getting up early in the mnvning nn tr-min-inn~ nnf fnx |Th0ug'h from the show way I have, strayed and chosen another track. ,Yet|_invmy musings o1 t'I find myself go winding back: And though too big and proud per- haps` to tag` the circus band. - Yet memories` of that happy time are` ` still at my command. 1 A childish Joy possesses me` though: youthful days have fled, I'm happy when`I see the showbills on the wayside shed. When show day came I'd rob my bank of all its hoarded tin. And bright and early reach the field, to see the show come in: I'd dissipate In lemonade and peanuts crisp and sweet, V And watch the grand procession as it passed along the street, ,'With golden vans and playing bands and steeds with smightly tread. To me `twould bet for grander than the posters on the shed. I'd saddle up the old black niare and strive to learn the knack V Of turning" somersaults and such whi_1e standing on her back, ' One day she ran away with me and nearly broke my neck; She jumped the bars and I fell off. a bruised and bleeding wreck. This dampened my ambitious, but I nursed my wounds and said: "Some day I'll be a rider, have my picture on the shed." For weeks before the show I'd be so ' a.w1 ul kind and good. ' , I'd keep the garden free from weeds and split the kindling wood, I'd start a little private bank and fi- nance it with care, And had I practised it till now I'd be a millionaire. A ' I often wish some guiding star had lured me on ahead With hopeful expectations as those showbills on the shed. v . I never _could pronounce the words] they printed on the bills, . - And often wondered what they meant: I'm ignorant of that still: Thelgaudy colored pictures, though. _ would fill me with delight. ' And With. Joyous expectation I couldn't sleep at night, . So at the first gray streak of dawn. I'd hurry from*my bed, And run to feast my eyes upon the , shuwbllls on the shed. In won an; gnu.-mum u Q-Ian on, In auction sang. the district fair, the dance and ploughing bee, . In bbyhood days were great events, and all attracted me. But the [event of all events which served to turn my head. Was` when the circus bills were pasted on the roadside shed. It .will be remembered. too, 1 that gaudy show; bills were not as cpmmon then as now, -for e\?ery movie an- nouncement from Milton Sills},-The. Sea. Hawk or Doug. Fairbafks The "Three Musketeers,""down to the lesserl important attractions have displays` that would have been of the greatest, ;interest to those old-timers; when a] half-`sheet auction or horse route bill: was`the limit. Therefore the genuine; excitement among old and young when those flaringbills were -pasted up all over town. In more than one way. have; "the movies robbed especiallycountryg people of their simplicity--sha`1l` wei [sa_v?-ot the old days. ' :Most ahy rural doings for me had a. nnuuino nhuvvrn vucu 1., a .L'uu5u-uuu-reixuy _ ed on my grandad's farm: I An salg. .:'lnnnn and Vnlnnnlninn knn bu.UL any lflulful UUlll5 l.Ul.' LIIU vuau a passing charm, T {When 1,, a. rough-and-ready lad, llv-I A11 nn rnv a'vnnn'u fuyvrn-. puurunuu. . ` '1'; addition to the ,ab`o`vo` .n`.z.es. the THE SHOWBILLS ON THE SHED th Phoe, your new Aite ms-'t`o" '1`li`e .5` Examiner. - ` 5 \ ........-,.. cvcu (Ll. taut were were times` ea performing horses. And probablyetoi when one of those old circus elephant the vast majority, of the host of small} het"ds., after a. thirsty 25 or 40 mile. boys who accompanied that parade; hike over dusty roads finally were pi-' from the show ground to its return the` loted over to Kidd s Creek where it. most appealing attraction of all was made quite a pool at the road crossing; that battered, rattling, grinding, clang-I and after splashing around in a. semi-i lng, old steam Amusic-box at. the end. bath drank` so heavily that the creek` of the procession which turned out; dried up half 3. mile or so upstream, _ music the likes of which none of us hadl and then they had to` wait an hour or; ever before--or since---hea.rd, and en-., so until the running water regainedtjoyed. l ' 1 its usual level at that road crossing.>| If the reader is anyway anxious to! v..... .... vna us:-'.I1cu|.l._y. ' i The first grey streaks of dawn found: I this`. wholtemtown hasdtir-fl and finally] the en ire ou reac e t e grounds W iere` 1 the engineers laid out the plans for the }various tents, while the canvasmen be-; gigan drifviing staks, occasiunztillgr mak-' ng a..ent a t e crowd o oys to" keep them at a. safe distance and justg ,as soon as possible the one big idea, g of the small boy was to assure himself 2 :>tfl,a1t fag; ticket to thzlxlt show_ joinitng. p army w o carre. wa. er [for the e1ephant--and' until you have put in a shift at it you have no idea; the vast quantity of water an elephant,; griv1\;orse still. a dozen of- them, can r n . 1 < `Possibly it was its nearness to waterg supplliesit that gage `Queen: Parllf its: popu ar y as a s ow groun . wit one creek running through the park and? Kidd's Creek only 100 yards distant! 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Baku - nun 'nkI4L- '1.-.- - ...3I.I L.-L Ll.`_UlH Lue runway Sllllg. 5 1 Everybody in town was waiting for. ,7 the parade. from the ringmaster org proprietor in the nifty single rig hauled 5 _'by a. spotted. prancing steed : right on; gthrough to the stream calliope, Whose` istrident notes you could heara mileg gaway, in the rear-great gilded wag--j gons: open animal cages with their brave trainers in gold lace and brass; buttons; gaudy, mirror_ed. statuary-`.1 g mounted floats and big canopied, shin- E `ing band chariots; and smaller rigs, with ;cross seats on the flat-topped space; ;carrying the negro and clown bands;i I elephants, camels, and gaily-caparisone [ : ed performing horses. And probably to: 5 . i the _ 3 ilng, ' outL Qever :joyed. - 1 142 n... .......:-.. :.. ....-......-- ..-.--:-.-- l-| vvnnvypI;lD uncru Luu--suu1_etnneS. ,7 v. 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I For the picture in another column ofj ' one of those Barnum Circus parades as it passed The Five Points on Dunlopl St. in Barrie in`1880, and in which are` I shown some of those self-same ele- Lphants for which we boys had only an l hour previusly carried Waterjn those] I old boyhood days of fifty weays ago, the: writer is indebted to Mr. George Sew-I ! rey of Toronto,'a. boyhood chum and al . \ i .. I ; know just how elaborate Were` some of 1 those/statuary-mounted chariots, he can gain some idea of them from the. illustrated front cover of The Saturday` , Evening Post of May 23, .1925, where isome other boy is -depicted as takirfg; ,great interest in the passing of those iwondrously decorated circus chariots,| : just as we used to do. 1*: ,, .1, - A. F .A.MALCOMSON we would stronly ad\}is\ev`that yc->:|1.:;1"1:1-1.1;-e-I PASSPORT ~AND ACCOMMODATION AS` EARLY A` Dnonnnw ..uu.l:....L:.....- ..._.`l A-_n 9, Come and See It vUp-Town Ticket Office Information and Tickets f`lI`IAI'\IA|I llArlIIt\1vnw ulnar: .._--_ MOTHERS WHO HAVE USED BABY'S OWN TABLETS -__- -_-.y a-vvvnvnnvuvuarnllvl` I13 KARL` "Passport applications and full information at _ _ '___-u-vnsrnl II CANADIAN NAT1oNXLRA1LwA` , .~--v--v-u nun u----no-up-1 l On Nov. 19 Rev. A. B. Irwin. formerly I of Thessalon, was inducted as minister ;of Knox United church, Alliston. and Burns church, Essa. Rev. E. J. McEwen lof Churchill,` interim moderator, pre- `sided and the minister was inducted by Rev. Dr. J. D. B_vrne's of Barrie Rev. A. D. Cornett of Barrie delivered I the induction sermon, Rev. D. A. Hats` :01 Bond Head addressed the minister I and Rev. A. L. Atton of Cookstoivvn ad- _ dressed the congregation. merber of one of the leading families in Barrie s social, commercial and ;mI{nicipal life half a. century ago. III`- I..- ...._A..l.___-.1\ INDUCTION AT ALLISTON --..v --..--- vv vv--yum; .(To be continued) 41 DUNLOP STREET Phone 447W, BARRIE. Always Strongly Recommend! Them to Other Mothers. T 1 DA`|"D and RE6'D. I925 As `i 0SSlBLE. _t_h~is'. office. Page Seven _.__..., , .. - 1.01 , gnu. my A-5 van; vum;.u..aa van can 14' -- v--., -7...` n gg-o-ca lll|v\l IAIIJJL unuullw Those billboards which were the me! most prominently located. at least so ""3 l"5 `lld'".t far as the writer was concerned. were ' We W3"9 bl erected at the gore where Elizabeth, `mm how 0118- street turned into Allandale road. and And 93 covered the ramshackle old wooden t"`'aS " its buildings which at that time stood ext 9l3PI lng there: adjoining the corner of Eliza- lght p"fl'm' '35 '0lng `oeth and Mary Streets. both sides`: ml 1 delay b1 and all around the Market Square. l`.b*`d 1.`09.dS- Where the Public Library now stands. lmvilllent boys And during. the couple or so weeks each the top season they were in use they held an I Walling m" that stmgllng Parade t0. interested, goggle-eyed, wide-mouthed come _lt Vl - . y audience of schoolboys for most of the; in time. and mighty little ~attention was wagons, given to lessons either at Public School one of the or Sunday School so long as a boy had: strength weak-appearing to pass them several times each da_y,ldvert bridgebefore leaving a lingering impression. ntil an nlnnhnnf In 0111711175 'Ul(1-LHIIB >L'-1l'UuP5 uluuuuruzs. ' And every old boy will well remember how his hair stood on end as he viewed those lurid pictures of those ferocious animals and wondered if it wasn't really one of those terrible creatures which had escaped from some former- ly visiting menngerie that was really the sea serpent which was so frequent- ly seen in Kempenfeldt Bay hack in` those days. Then, too. he wondered] how they could get a. plank strong } -enough to hold that massive teetering elephant. or if the girl` in the gauzy; -skirt really jumped through a hoop of fire. or if she did how she managed tor keep from catching on fire. PI'II.;\_.. I_lIII...~.-.I..;In_ -u-lain`. nnnn us.` I-LA