Saturday, December 21, 2013

1907 Bostock-Ferrari Show #1



These last pictures from Myron W. Organ to my father and written on then back:

"Wilmington Ohio Street Fair and Parade
Wilmington, Ohio week of July 25, 1907"

Also a notation that the living wagon remained at Benson's Animal farm for many years.

Posted by Buckles at 12/21/2013 05:19:00 AM

7 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

Myron W Organ lived in Ohio and was CHS # 200, a fairly early member.

21 December, 2013 22:06
Opa said...

My great-grandfather, W.H. "Dad" Whitlark, was with the Bostock Carnival Company for 6 weeks from Sep-Nov 1899. Later, he was with the Ferari Bros Carnival for 5 weeks from May to June 1904.

23 December, 2013 11:18
Chic Silber said...


What did he do on those shows Opa

& what did he do between them

23 December, 2013 12:00
Dick Flint said...

The living wagon from Benson's is NOT from this show. Benson as a youth worked on the English Bostock show and bought two wagons at the English auction of the show when it finally closed in the 1920s. Both are in Baraboo and I think the living wagon is one of the most significant in their entire collection. It is the only artifact to interpret life on an overland wagon show.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

28 December, 2013 21:59
Opa said...

Chic Sibler, Whitlark was a contortionist and aerialist in a circus career that spanned 61 years (1874-1935).

08 January, 2014 17:05
Opa said...

Chic Sibler, between his stints with Bostock and Ferari, Whitlark performed with the Jack Cassell Balloon Co. for 11 weeks from Dec 1899 to Mar 1900, with Lowery Bros. for 18 weeks between May and Sep 1900, 2 weeks at the Odeon Theatre in Newport News VA in Dec 1900, 2 weeks at the Wonderland Musee in Richmond VA from Dec 1900 to Jan 1901, a 6 week tour of VA from Jan to Feb 1901, 2 weeks at the Bijou Theatre in Norfolk VA from Feb to Mar 1901, 2 weeks at the Franklin Theatre in Norfolk VA in Mar 1901, 2 weeks at the Auditorium Theatre in Norfolk VA from Mar to Apr 1901, 7 weeks with Sun Bros. from Apr to May 1901, 4 weeks with the W.H. Harris Nickel Plate Shows from Jun to Jul 1901, 12 weeks with the James Adams Shows from Apr to Jul 1902, 15 weeks with Whiteley's Shows from Apr to Aug 1903, 5 weeks with Pilmore's Carnival Co. from Aug to Sep 1903, 5 weeks with Word & Co. from Sep to Oct 1903, 4 weeks at the Market Theatre in Toledo OH from Nov to Dec 1903, 2 weeks at Miller's Theatre in Lima OH from Dec 1903 to Jan 1904, and a week at the Bijou Theatre in Hamilton OH in Feb 1904.

08 January, 2014 19:17
Chic Silber said...


Thanks Opa for this incredibly

detailed chronology of his work

As a side note the Odeon Theaters

were named for "Oscar Deutch

Entertains Our Nation" from UK

08 January, 2014 22:02

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