Sunday, April 02, 2006

Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth #2


During the second year in the British Isles we see the Barnum & Bailey parade in Scotland in 1899.

Posted by Buckles at 4/02/2006 07:20:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - -

The 2nd bull in line (with the beautiful tusks) is "Fritz." He was perhaps the most handsome of all the B&B bulls of this era. He went on a tear in France in 1902 during the last year of the of the European tour. Bailey ordered him executed and his mounted body was later placed in a French musuem. Earlier in the tour in England Bailey ordered the executions of males Don and Nick. Then when the show returned to America he had Mandarin executed aboard the ship in New York harbor. Mandarin was the sire of the 1880 calf born in Cooper & Bailey's Phila WQ in 1880. Bailey seems to have wanted out of the adult male Asian elephant business.

02 April, 2006 16:49
Anonymous said...

I don't think I care to much for Mr Bailey. He sure could not get away with that today. Why did he just not have the BIG V done? Was that not an option back then. Maybe elephants were not that scarce back then. Its a scary thing to see a male elephant during you know what. Everyone does what they think is best. It sure seems a waste thou.

03 April, 2006 16:06
Anonymous said...

I read they stopped doing street parades in Europe,because people turned out to see the parade,but didnt go to the show.
why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

06 April, 2006 17:31
Anonymous said...

Mandarin was dropped in the ocean near Sandy Hook New Jersey with about a ton of chains and pig iron in the crate with him.
I ask the New Jersey Historical society salavage divers to look for him,but I receieved no reply.

06 April, 2006 17:33

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)