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The Southern Railway belt line is still there: and the metal truss bridge is still Bobby the Rhinoceros standing. h was erected in 1892, carrying Highland Avenue over the railroad tracks, and many a spectalOr used it to watc~ circus ends lengthy rhino-less run trains being unloaded below. But, its days are numbered. Judged unsafe, the old brid~e was closed forever to vehicular traffic m under RBBB tent March 1981. The city plans to eventually by Richard J. Reynolds, Ill corn is. replace it with a modern structure. When As best I can determine. the combined that happens the final chapter will indeed For nine seasons, 1936 through 1944, the Ringling-Barnum show exhibited only four have been written in the farewell to the menagerie oft he Ringling Br~s. and Ba~num (4) rhinos prior to 1945. They were: Highland Avenue showgrounds. & Bailey Circus had been without a rhinoc­ "Bill" - A male great Indian rhinoceros. ---cfa--- eros. This was the longest "rhino-less'' This species has only one horn, and its skin is stretch in the big show's under canvas arranged in distinctive folds so that it has an history. That drought, if it may be called armored appearance. "Bill~ was a veteran Take a Kid to a Circus! such, came to an end in 1945 with the trouper when he came to the combined show acquisition of "Bobby~ a male of the two­ in 1919. He went way back to about 1907 horned African black species Diceros bi- with the Baraboo brothers who had him on their Ringling show, their rejuvenated Fore­ paugh-Sells outfit of 1910 and 19 l I and also Barnum & Bailey from whence he came to the combination. "Bill" died on the road with Ringling-Barnum at Ft. Worth, Texas on Sept. 28, 1926. He was the last Indian rhinoceros exhibited by an American circus and must rank as one of the most valuable circus animals of this century. "Bill" (No. 2) - A male of the two-horned African black variety. He joined Ringling­ Barnum at Madison Square Garden in April 1929 and was given the same name as his predecessor who had died three years earlier, the show having gone without a rhinoceros in 1927 and 1928. "Bill" (No. 2) toured every year until his death on the road at Knoxville, Tenn., on Oct. 25, 1935. Photo No. 61-Ringling-Barnum sidewalled menagerie at Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 17- "Lil" - A female African black rhino who 19, 1945. Pictured are camels with giraffes in rear and at right cage No. 85 housing the was on the show for several years as a mate rhino, Bobby. Photo by Wm. A. Uthmeier (Gordon Potter Collection). for "Bill" (No. 2). I have not determined just when she first joined, but it must have been around 1930. She was there for sure in 1931, 1932, and 1933, but died at the end of '33 or early '34. "Mary" - Another female African black, who had starred in M.G.M.'s movie Tarzan and His Mate. Sold to Ringling-Barnum as a replacement for the deceased ··Lil", MMary" was shipped to Sarasota quarters in October 1934. She started the '35 season. but died at Springfield, Mass., on July 5, 1935. As noted above, Ringling-Barnum began its long rhino dearth when it lost both MBill" (No. 2) and "Mary" in 1935. That same year, on June 21. the renowned German animal collector. Christoph Schulz, accompanied by his son Walter, arrived in Boston aboard Photo No. 62-Elephants on Ringling-Barnum lot, Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 17-19, the ship S.S. City of Lyons, with a huge 1945. Photo by Wm. A. Uthmeier (Gordon Potter Collection) sflipment of animals. including eight giraffes and three African black rhinoceroses. Two giraffes would be purchased by the Ringling-Barnum organization. one for the big show and the other for Hagenbeck­ n Wallace, both delivered to the respective circuses during the '35 season. It is the trio of rhinos, however, which are important to this story. Two of them, a pair to become known as ··Mary.. and "Pharo" (or '•Pharoahj were destined for the new Chicago Zoological Park that had opened at Brookfield, Ill., the previous year. There they would become famous as the parents of the first African rhinoceroses born in captivity in the world and the first rhinos of any kind born in the western hemisphere. Their first offspring. a male named "Georgie-Joe" was born at the Brookfield Zoo on Oct. 7, 1941. He stayed there until Photo No. 63-Ringling-Barnwn ring stock enroute to lot at Tampa, FI.a.., Nov. 20-21, November 1943 when he was sent to the 1945. Photo by Eddie Jackson (Gordon Potter Collection) Pittsburgh Zoo where he lived until his death 23 in 1952. MMary~ and MPharo 's" next baby, the second rhino born in the western hemisphere. came into the world at the Brookfield Zoo on Sept. 19, 1944: and it was this youngster, also a male, that ended Ringling-Barnum's near l~year rhino­ drought. Robert Ringling. then president of the circus, was a friend of Ed and Robert Bean, the father-son team who then directed the Brookfield Zoo. When the second rhino calf was born, the big show prexy must have demonstrated an interest. for the baby was named "Robert .. - "Bobby" for short - in hone r of Robert Ringling. George Speidel. Ed Bean's son-in-law. who was also working at Brookfield, was later director of the Milwaukee Zoo, and is currently in the zoo consulting business, recently told me that Bob Bean had the rhino named for Robert Ringling so that the circus would be encouraged to buy the youngster. Plans were made for rhino "Bobby"to join Ringling-Barnum during its 1945 stand in Washington D.C.. the first under-canvas date of the season. On June 4. Robert Bean sent a telegram to Robert Ringling advising that Mr. and Mrs. George Speidel would be bringing MBobby" to Washington on Balti­ more & Ohio train No. 10 leaving Chicago at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday morning, June 5, due to arrive in Washington at 6:25 a.m. on 04BOBBY," the young male two-homed African black rhinoceros acquired in .1945 by Wednesday. Bean asked that Ringling please Ringling-Barnum from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo where ~e had b~en ~orn m.1944. have someone meet the train. This photograph was taken at Sarasota during the wmter of 45- 46. (Richard George Speidel lOld me about his trip with the little rhino. It was only nine months old Reynolds collection) and had never been separated from "Mary", got to Atlanta later that season, the young­ months. That is the very best longevity its mother. The 1ittle fellow was loaded into a ster was receiving prominent press as record for a ny rhinoceros of any species with typical narrow, wooden animal shipping "'Bobby' - Baby Rhinoceros and second the possible exception of a female Great crate with an opening at the front through ever born in the Western Hemisphere". This Indian rhinoceros which died in the Calcutta which the beast could be fed and watered. was the most publicity for any menagerie Zoo in May, 1880 after having supposedly The rhino was put into the baggage car of the attraction since gorilla 04Toto" joined the lived for 47 years in captivity. train. and Speidel rode with it all the way. show in 1941. I believe it was for the next Before closing, it would be appropriate to "Bobby" was very distressed ~y his stran~e season, 1946, that Ringling-Barnum started briefly describe the cage wagons used by surroundings and the separation from his using a familiar, striking rhino lithe drawn Ringling-Barnum to transport "Bobby". For mother. He was particularly disturbed by the by artist Bill Bailey, and undoubtedly based his first two seasons, 1945 and 1946, he change in altitude which occurred as the on our subject. traveled in No. 85. This was a 20-foot. all B&O train climbed the Allegheny Moun­ Rhino "Bobby" was a fine animal and steel wagon. It had been built in Sarasota in tains en route to Washington. The youngster remained a feature of the Ringling-Barnum 1944 as a new hippo den. In order to house uttered plaintive noises, but.by using a gentle menagerie until his death in 1953. Details of the rhino in '45 and '46 the interior water and kindly approach, Speidel was a ble to that tragic event were told to me by the late tank was planked over. Possibly in 1947 and soothe and calm him. C.R. Montgomery, the menagerie boss, and for sure in 1948, "Bobby~ rode in No. 78. Except for the homesickness, "~obb( also by Dr. William Higgins, veterinarian This was an older wagon built back in 1924 was delivered safe and sound to the circus m with the show that year. According to specifically to house the lndian rhinoceros Washington. At the showgrounds Speidel Montgomery, the weather in New York and "Bilr, his preceeding cage wagon having met Robert Ringling, his mother, Mrs. Boston in the spring of '53 was cold and been destroyed in a February 1924 fire at Charles Ringling, and press agent F. Beverly damp, and "Bobby" contracted pneumonia. Bridgeport winter quarters. No. 78 was Kelley. He recalls that .while all th.e . show When the under canvas tour began in retired after the '48 tour. For the next season, officials were pleased with the cond1t1~n of Washington on May 19, 1953, he was 1949, Ringling-Barnum built a new 20-foot the rhino. there was a general air of seriously ill. Dr. Higgins tried to treat him long rhino cage wagon. This was No. 82, and depression. with penicillin. Reaching through the bars of it was transporting MBobby" when he died at It seems that the very day Speidel arrived, the cage wagon, he injected the drug with a Baltimore in 1953. a number of prominent circus offici~ls had syringe stuck between the rhino's rear legs ---cfa- - - been sent to jail to commence servmg the while it was standing. At the next engage­ sentences imposed as a result of the terrible ment. Philadelphia, Higgins contacted the 1944 Hartford fire. The circus officials zoo and sought their advice. By now Speidel met were noticeably upset ov.er this. "Bobby" also had dysentery, and it was Speidel also recalls that the day he arrived. on JOSEPH ROWE TENT decided that he should be fed apples laced ELECTS NEW OFFICERS the Washington lot, local fire officials with streptomycin. Alas, he could not be conducted a test to determine the fire saved. The show reached Baltimore on Jerry Nawrocki has been elected president resistance of the new canvas. He recalls Sunday, May 31, and the rhino died that of the Joseph Andrew Rowe Tent #6 in Los firemen using a blowtorch to test the fabric day. Angeles. to see if it would ignite. Interestingly, " Bobby's" Brookfield par­ Also elected were James DePiro as vice On June 12, 1945, Robert Ringling wrote ents outlived him by many years. The sire president and James Brown as secretary­ to Robert Bean at the Brookfield Zoo ~Pharo" died in August 1967 after more than treasurer. advising that the little rhino had arrived safe 32 years at the zoo, while the mother"Mary" The tent reports continued growth with 54 but that there had not been much publicity went on to set the all-time longevity record members listed on its rolls. for him in Washington. Ringling-Barnum's for African black rhinoceroses in captivity. Plans for holding the 1985 convention in press department went to work on that She died at Brookfield on March 18, 1980, Southern California are currently in the situation, and by the time the publicity boys establishing a record of 44 years, eight preliminary stage. tent officials report. 24 Ringling Show To Be Feted Ma~omanie . Wis .. the site of the rirst professiona 1 show of t he Ringling Brothers. will celebrate the IOOth anniversary of that event with several acti\·ities thi~ vcar. The Ringling Brothers took their "Ring­ ling Brothers Cla~sic and Comic Concert Company" on the road in November 1882. The vouthful showmen chose Ma1omanie for the.ir first appearance for they felt they would be wholly unknown in that little village. Their first profess ional performance was Photo No. 45-Elephants ready for Alice in Circus Wonderland Spee on Ringling­ held in Schmith\ Hall. which still stands. Bamum lot, Allentown, Pa., July 6-7, 1945. Photo by Robert D. Good(Gordon Potter The performance drew 59 people. It took in Collection) $13 while the expenses totaled 525.90. The show offered plays and skits. song and dance and instrumental music. Ma10manie officials have planned a year­ long celebration of the anniversary. schedul­ ing a circus and ca rnival in May conducted by the local school. A ).pecial day for Ma1omanie residenrs will be held in June at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo. The play .. Ice Cream Seven Times A Day". covering the Ringlings early days. will be performed in early November. On 1'ov. 27. a circus show will be held in the Marnmanie Community Building.. - - - cfa- - - FRANZEN TENT ATTENDS SEVERAL AREA CIRCUSES by Robert Schippers The Wayne Franzen Tent #134 started its first circus season at the ZaGaZig Shrine Circus in Des Moines. Iowa on April 26. The first meeting of the year was held after the performance at the Ramada Inn. A month later. the tent met in Cedar Rapids on May 31 to attend the El Kahir Shrine Circus with the George Hubler International Circus performing there. Many friends were made on the show when members of the Tent sponsored free coffee and donuts for all circus personnel. Many circuses were in Iowa this year. but due to great distances to travel and week day ~/t·:: .'.·~ -- dates. these shows were caught whenever possible by Tent members on an individual ~, ·-_.. v, _ ~---•· -·- -·-·- ~~ -.;.. - · basis. The circuses included Carson and Barnes. TNT Royal Olympic, Holiday Hip­ Photo No. 47-Swan bandwagon exiting big top after Alice in Circus Wonderland podrome. Circus Vargas and Ringling Spee, ~llentown, Pa., July 6-7, 1945. Photo by Robert D. Good (Gordon Potter Collection) Brothers. Barnum and Bailey Blue Unit. The final get-together of the season was on the Franzen Brothers Circus lot in Sigour­ ney. Iowa, on Sept. 26. The Tent served a buffet dinner with the Franzen Circus personnel as guests. Wayne Franzen kindly let the tent use the big top for the festivities between shows. A special circus cake was made for the occasion. Later, a group photo was taken of the Tent members and circus personnel. Central Vice President Dale Riker and his wife Evelyn were there for the day. Al Stencell of Canada's Martin and Downs Circus was also a guest. The movie "High Grass Show" which Al brought with him was shown for the fans and circus people between shows. Dec. I, 1981, marked the first anniversary Photo No. 48-Harp and Jesters air calliope with two-horse hitch ready for Alice in of the Wayne Franzen Tent. The members Circus Wonderland Spee, Allentown, Pa., July 6-7, 1945. Photo by Robert D. Good are looking forward to their second circus (Gordon Potter Collection) season in the spring of 1982. 15 Blow Down! A feared circus word brings all together by M. T. Benton discovered that while many of the laborcrew three performance rings. I never got used to being awakened in the m~~bers co~e and go, for the performers The general manager of the circus can­ morning by hungry lions roaring and this is a full-time way of life. Most of them celled the show at once. Through the calm elephants trumpeting. My initial reaction tra~el with their families in trailers, have instructions of the Ringmaster (who assured would always be that I was in a jungle their pets and other accouterment with them, them their ticket stubs were good for a later somewhere in the heart of deepest Africa. and ~ttempt to lead as normal a family life as performance) everyone in attendance was But that's the way it is when you work as a possible under the very difficult circum­ methodically and safely directed to the roustabout for the circus. stances of life on the road. parking area. The wild odors from the menagerie tent Performers' lives depend on their being in Still under the Big Top were many mingling with the frying bacon in the the very best of physical shape, precluding performers, band members. workers. ani­ cookhouse; the cotton candy, popcorn, the socializing so prevalent among the mals, valuable props, and much equipment. peanuts, and sno-cone smells of the refresh­ laborers. They must go into the ring two and The storm continued to get worse and ment stands: and the aromatic bales of fresh three times a day, often in acts which could sev_eral of t.he I0-foot wooden sidepoles hay outside our ~sleeper" were invigorating mean severe injury or even death if their splintered with resounding cracking noises. incentives to roll out and get to work. timi~g is off or they fail to follow precise The loss of support from these poles allowed 1n the summer of 19791 worked on the Big routines. the enormous swaths of canvas to bellow up Top crew of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. All circus people live with certain daily and ~own as the wind swept through the Circus. My primary responsibility was help­ apprehensions - elephants stampeding, a openings. ing put up and take down the canvas for the wreck on the road between show locations, This was one occasion when absolutely no "World's Largest Circus Under the Big fire, trapeze riggings snapping, and difficult caste system existed. Under the general Top." I had handled tenting before, as a Boy weather conditions to name just a few. One manager's directions. evervone - even Scout and as a family camper, but never of the most feared expressions in the circus office pe~sonnel and management - pulled anything near the magnitude of this opera­ vocabulary is "Blow Down!~ There are together m an attempt to save the Big Top. tion. numerous instances in the history of circus There was an amazing amount of order The Big Top is a custom-made, enormous life when the Big Top has been completely within such chaotic and treacherous sur­ piece of material with two main sections leveled with the grim possibility of serious roundings. Even though we could hardly pieced together stretching the size of a damage to personnel, animals, and equip­ hear each other over the pounding rain on football field. At 150-feet-wide and 300-feet­ ment. the canvas and thunder outside, everyone Jong, it is large enough to accommodate On Tuesday, July 24, 1979. I was on my Jabored feverishly yet smoothly. S,000 seats. As the circus program pointed second day of a three-day stint in Toms While some of my crew worked on out, "Eighty-two hundred yards of material, River, N.J., when all of the work crews were replacing the side poles shattered by the almost three miles of canvas. comprise the put on emergency alert. A foreboding weight of water pockets formed on the top of main ingredient. Piecing it all together weather forecast had just come in calling for the tent. 1 grabbed a spare pole and began encompasses use of more than 10 miles of possible high winds, electrical storms. and pushing upwards against the seams of the thread, 18,000 feet of cable. and 14,000 feet heavy rains - a combination which could canvas to clear those same precarious water of rope." quickly spell disaster. pockets. 1 was astounded by the weight of the Costing between $75,000 and $100,000, An additional concern was the particular water. The only way I could move it was by the Big Top, barring a disaster, will last two lot on which we were located. Many circuses holding the base of the pole with my hands to three seasons before having to be are now set up on huge shopping center and cupped between my slightly-bent legs and replaced. Starting about 5:30 a.m., it re­ mall parking Jots where the iron stakes lifting the pole straight up with all my quired about four hours of intense physical securing the ropes to the main tent are strength. I could feel every muscle in my labor for my crew of 25 men to complete a hydraulically hammered into the hardtop. arms, legs, and shoulders being severely set-up. By the time the flag was raised over Unfonunately, the Toms River location this tested. the cook house tent, indicating breakfast was year was in an open field where the ground Most of the time. as I would lift. the water ready, we had always worked up a whopping holding the stakes might easily tum to mud if would roll to the edge of the tent and pour appetite. the heavy rains did come. over the side onto the ground. But occa­ The entire circus entourage involved A light drizzle began falling around noon. sionally the pocket would either roll to one several hundred people, over 40 trucks, and 1 remained in the sleeper playing cards, side into another pocket or divide into two nearly a hundred animals including ele­ keeping a close eye on the cloud formations, separate ones. When the group completed phants, lions. tigers, bears, apes, chimpan­ and praying it would pass us over. Though it replacing the broken poles and came over to zees, and an assortment of others. For eight was nothing out of the ordinary. the rains assist me, we found the best combination for and a half months each year, following and winds picked up steadily throughout the this frustrating task was to have eight or I 0 extensive preparations in the Florida winter afternoon, right up to the 4:30 show time. people pulling on the ropes on the outside of quarters, this entourage becomes the circus There were approximately 2,000 people the tent as two people inside simultaneously version of "On The Road." inside the main tent when the show began. pushed up against the bulging seams. Most Besides my Big Top crew were the Twenty minutes later my worst fears came of the water was cleared in this fashion. performers, side show team, prop crew, true. The downpour burst upon us with a 1 then joined the outside crew as we rushed ~butchers" (concession sellers), clowns, vengeance, accompanied by streaks of light­ to "guy upM the hundreds of one-inch heavy cookhouse gang, band members, and vari­ ning, great booms of thunder, and gale force ropes and cables all the way around the ous maintenance personnel handling me­ winds that whipped the canvas about outside of the Big Top in an effort to stabilize chanical, electrical, and other operations of alarmingly. I immediately ran tothe Big Top the canvas. My hands were raw and bloodied the show. Although there was excellent entrance to see how everything was holding as previous blisters were torn open from teamwork within each crew. there was very up. The torrential rains were coming in pulling on the wet ropes. Although 1 was little mingling among them, especially as far around the primary support poles and along totally drenched from the storm, my real as the performers were concerned. the dozens of tent seams, dousing many of dread was that lightning might strike near us There exists in the circus something of a the patrons. The wind was blowing addi­ as we stood ankle-deep in the muddy water caste system reminiscent of officers and tional rain through the side-wall openings as struggling frantically to prevent a blow enlisted personnel in the military. At first I overhead spotlights and other electrical down. thought it was just snobbery, but I later equipment swung dangerously above the No matter how hard we pulled on the 26 $3.00

MARCH-APRIL 1982 Volume 55- Number 2 Margaret Schroeder Named White Tops Ad Manager SECOND CALL

Marga ret Schroeder or Tucson. Ari7 .. has she serves as a resource speaker on the circus been named by President Jim Saunders as or clowning in the Tucson public schools and REGISTER White Tops advertising manager. Margaret libraries. succeed~ lmmediute Past President Fred R. - --cfa --­ In Reed who held the post on an interim basis. APPLICATION FORMS ADVANCE Margaret might be ea lied a circus fan from PLEASE DESTROY ALL APPLICA­ binh. S he was born in Baraboo. Wis .. and TION FORMS IN YOUR POSSESSION Little Rock, Arkansas grew up in the Chicago area. She moved to IF THEY ARE NOT THE CURRENT July 4~7, 1982 Tuc~on 27 years ago. ONES•. . • (REGULAR - BLUE) ... A member of the Roland C. Butler and (FAMILY - BUFF) ... (AFFILIATE - Save time and money and help Charlie Smith tents. MargareL has been a BURNT ORANGE) . . . (JUNIOR - member of CFA since 1971. the Committee by registering WHITE). NOW She operares an income tax and book­ We are still receiving some of the old ones, keeping service in Tucson. that is until the and it does create some problems, as well as BEFORE JUNE 1st circus comes 10 town. When a circus is in the delaying the processing of the application. area. she attends every performance. She has THERE IS A GOOD INVENTORY OF Advance Registration Fee: served as a honorary ringmaster and honor­ ALL FORMS IN THE SECRETARY'S Adults $57.50 ary clown when Ringling Brothers and OFFICE. IF YOU NEED NEW ONES, Children Under 18 $40.00 Barnum & Bailev Circus is in town. PLEASE NOTIFY THE SECRETARY, AFTER JUNE 1st Possessing a large collection of RBBB AND THEY WILL BE SENT TO YOU memora bilia a nd a la rge clown collection. IMMEOIATEL Y. Adults $62.50 Children Under 18 $45.00 This covers expenses at the DIRECTORS Convention with the exception of DISTRICT ONE: (Maine, New Hampshire. your room and meals. Vermont, Nova Scotia. 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