WIRTH'S CIRCUS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20411, 4 December 1931, Page 3

WIRTH'S CIRCUS.

INCIDENTS WITH animals. V A hbavt FOOD bill. • ..resting facts about Wirth'a •h i« t0 visit Cbristchurcl ' » George Peterson, who has advance Manager for the & the past 32 years. Con- ? W * t he claimed, wa« required Locations for tbe hire of show *£,■£. .applies of foodstuffs and Nation the 130 mCn aDd <£?£ comprise the circus staff. It JJtw • * eek for day " to ' day cx " to Mr Peterson, every memi*fffc£cn S) from the tiniest the leading "star" knows jflW 7 T his is the daily, menu that attention: —Food supplies for "ffSUb upwards of a quarter ot a iSC-lff;'* for the lions and tigers, a ten hay a da - v for the dc " bran, oats, and carrots horses and donkeys, condensed in tho eif something unusual was always Sig * ith ' hem - OI V mg V' "J «n old elephant wandered «£££«.« . taml P'»>« heeame angry, and scattered himself. The night was the plaster stuck like glue, years ago, at Katanmng, SmAostralia, an elephant mvesti-Mgk-of phosphate in the &ng railway yards, and died Two elephants went for a ii in Hobarfc once, and their &«,stthe circus £SO, for while they smashed up a rival showffitfbition of wax figures. Jumbo, elephants, di«d at InverSj as a result of a cold trip out from MelA" Pet Xion. Bert was a'pet Hon in the show, JSa'Prinee, who caused a lot ot i#--Melbourne four years ago. he was a weakling and was SJsdiiad when th© circus went to £££& A friend of Mr Peter-jf.-iooV'tlie young lion home, and he «n- domesticated that he ran ; I jZjttij. - lioMe and back-yard an even, performed such jobs Sr in tic wood. When the he6ra of it, they objected juMgfadr and Prince went back to is the "show" lion nowhad to pay heavy local fees',and ground rents in the Is England, Europe, and were granted the use and 500 feet of the best to play on. The was that patrons «M%»ited"with a clean sweet show, night £6OO was paid OTH&t® 130 persons connected with an average £SOO was wHiiaWjE'to the Railway Departanimals and men" dnrwould cost £2OO, and there intt I Msy : -'<|th9r incidontal expenses. ——as