FITZGERALD BROS CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4879, 17 November 1894, Page 2

FITZGERALD BROS CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE

Mr, John Morns; tlio astiifo' arid energetic managw ofFitigcraldßtos,, whoso monster circus opens at Mastcrton next Sa'turday„is n'oiy.hcro miikirii 'amiiMmeats for his big show. Mr Morris has been at the business sinco boyhood, and in » wonderfully short 1 tiihb ''after his arrivaljii a tojvh,;'pbsters of .the usual glaring cJi'atacTpKatldrn', iKe; walls, the aiAngctocnts'nro ln'Wll swing, for tho quartering of the iitun'crous company, niid'foraging of tlio liorsci,'' tlio''feeding °V f :'%...!• 'Pw. !ihcj tigers and toasts; of prey,' 'thb' 'location Pf,; scope ;pf i opcratioiis, and ' tho thpjisand 'and ono,anan£emerits that .» tosjttWi'of 'so, enormous a Character entails. That Mr Monis is a,' first»class hand is' proved by his'long connection with'fhepreseht firm; 'Of .the show itself litttynccd. be, said, save' tliat it is colossal in';, ,Nono but 'eighteen carat'artists' aro mplbyed by this fiii'. '' Mr' Ban fttzgcrald' himself rccOTbs'the'highijst kudos' whcrbVer ho gbes for" his'•■'training; 1 of the l ahimah, withoiit whip or shbut, : or tho' slightest discordance:Thtf animals : tieir jlioy like it, and delight in ~, their nint'elfigcnce .cwcifc' of .V littWincd reins to M'i^;.KTOT'i(iM' , M''freo and un£cKcrca, yet so'well disciplined aro .• thethat'';' ®; ! kcoident Mphe «• j'.of'' tho f 1 speota'tor?. ■ The traveUiiij{'2pQ is'afi cdu'catiofiil factor of 1 variety : seldom seen ; outside a flrsMlass mcnag. • «ie. ttitHtow aro tMwntaffijig act'tßb,isarvsUous tumbling, the olcrcrncss of the clowns, tlio of tho ladies, who number thirty, last but not least,-Iho grand! final steeplechase, whidhrivals anvtliiiig to bo' scen on a * nffifaficft JVa picMfor this show a '■'> WW pot fioalop,>, >;> >-% -liWvph-V <■ *■ '■