Cheerful Gardner #4

With the mighty Al G. Barnes Circus in 1922, Babe Gardner with "Barney", "Tusko" and "Vance". At this time my father was working for Bert Noyes on Haganbeck-Wallace and at 18 even got to work an end ring elephant act but the word was out that Gardner was the man. In mid season he blew and went over to the Barnes Show and went to work for his life long hero Cheerful Gardner. He even made the move with Gardner to the Corporation the following winter.