View from the Past

Well Behaved Crowd. The manager of the Barnes circus, as he sat leisurely smoking in his in his private car at the depot waiting for the clearing up odds and ends before the train pulled out, remarked to Agent A. F. Stanton that it was the best behaved crowd during the incident of the blowing down of their tent that he ever saw, “and I have been in show business thirty years and seen fires, wrecks and accidents aplenty” He continued, “If the same incident had happened with a city-bred crowd of similar size, people by the score would have been trampled to death.”