From Bill Strong

CHIEF[1], originally uploaded by bucklesw1. I probably sent this before, but in case I didn't. It is marked: The Lucky Bill & Honest Bill Combined Show, in Trenton Neb., on June 12, 1916. The elephants are Chief, Boston, & Trilby. Bill "Trilby" was a well known name in the early 1900''s due to the popularity of the book of the same name regarding a young lady hypnotically controlled by the evil "Svengali". Sort of an "X" Rated version of Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. I have nine Trilbys" in my files, in fact three of them were together on the Ringling Show in 1941, "Ringling Trilby", "Floto Trilby" and "Wallace Trilby". Here is the info on the one listed above in Mr. Strong's picture: GENTRY TRILBY 1902-13 Various Gentry Bros. Circus Units 1914-15 Wm. P. Hall Animal Farm 1916-19 Honest Bill Newton Show (My notes indicate that all three of these elephants died the winter of 1919-20 as the result of a disease contracted while the Newtons were wintering in California.) Buckles