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      I was sittin\u2019 in my library in my cozy little floor over my theater last Sunday noon, writin\u2019 up an installment of my reminiscences, when a visitor was announced. \u201cI can’t see anybody,\u201d I called down the pipe, annoyed by bein\u2019 disturbed, for it is one of my cast-iron rules never to be interrupted by anythin\u2019 or anybody when writin\u2019. \u201cHe says he must see you,\u201d called up the attendant, usin\u2019 the name of one of my oldest and most intimate friends, who knew all my habits. \u201cLet him come up, then,\u201d I cried, in answer, knowin\u2019 that something unusual must be the matter, or my friend would not have taken the liberty of disturbin\u2019 me. And up he came, puffin\u2019 and blowin\u2019 with haste and excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cHarry,\u201d he says, as he entered the room, \u201cput on your coat and hat and let us be off\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cNot if I know myself,\u201d says I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cYes, yes,\u201d said my friend; \u201cget ready to start off at once, and I’ll tell you why while you are dressin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cWhat on earth’s the matter?\u201d I asked. \u201cIs there going to be an earthquake?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cMore interesting than that,\u201d says my frien; \u201cJumbo’s goin\u2019 to get married.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cJumbo married?\u201d I repeated, in a dazed sort of way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cYes, and I have a special invitation for you to attend the weddin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cThen I accept the invitation,\u201d says I, makin\u2019 no further ado about startin\u2019 off, puttin\u2019 away my writin\u2019 materials and puttin\u2019 on my street traps on the double-quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       I had just been readin\u2019 about Sarah Bernhardt gettin\u2019 married and had been regrettin\u2019 I hadn’t been at that \u201cqueer\u201d weddin\u2019. But here was the weddin\u2019 of a bein\u2019 greater than even Sarah by at least nine and a half tons, and the weddin\u2019 would be even \u201cqueerer.\u201d It was Easter time too, just the time to get married in, and Sunday, just the day to get married on. So I fixed myself up regardless, put a little extra oil on my hair, got my women folks to put a flower in my button-hole out of respect to the groom that was to be, and started off on a Fourth avenue car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I reached the churc\u2013I mean the circus\u2013about two o\u2019clock and found a large and devout and varied assortment of fellow worshipers already assembled, such a collection of worshipers as no other establishment could boast of that Sunday, embracin\u2019 men-about-town, doctors, politicians, dramatists, hotel men and newspaper, men particularly newspaper men, more newspaper men than I have ever yet seen at any one time and place together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jumbo’s Arrival in New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Everybody was just as I entered engaged in shakin\u2019 hands with Tony Hamilton, the gentleman who had charge of the invitations, and who was more popular just then in New York than President Arthur. Arthur couldn’t pass a fellow into the circus, and Hamilton could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The invited guests arranged themselves in a very democratic manner. It was not a weddin\u2019 apin\u2019 the follies of fashionable society. Although in very high life, anywhere from eight to thirteen feet high, still the weddin\u2019 was in all its arrangements conducted on a scale of Moravian simplicity. It was almost a Quaker weddin\u2019, especially as the guests were particularly requested to make no loud noise, and not to disturb the animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Some of the spectators of the ceremony took seats in the boxes on the floor; others sat in the auditorium above the rings; some seated \u2018emselves on cushions or barrels right in the ring, and others perched \u2018emselves on the vaulting boards used by the acrobats in their ring performances. These last had to stand up, balancin\u2019 \u2018emselves to keep from fallin\u2019 all the time, but then they had the best view of the marriage ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To tell the truth, very few of the spectators kept their places for any length of time, but followed the bridal couple about. And this reminds me that, in due course of time, Hebe the blushin\u2019 bride, was introduced to the expectant spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      She was led into the track, and was at once received with several rounds of hearty applause, which she gracefully acknowledged by wavin\u2019 her trunk. Jumbo was then sent for, and, I presume, informed that the bride was ready and waitin\u2019, for in a few moments the enormous bridegroom made his appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Hebe stood meekly and modestly in her natural bridal toilet of drab, near the Fourth avenue entrance. Jumbo advanced from the Madison Square side, clad becomin\u2019ly in black. He seemed calm and cool and majestic as usual, as if he was used to gettin\u2019 married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But he quickened somewhat his pace as he saw and approached his expected spouse, who was, however, female enough not to \u201clet on\u201d she was expectin\u2019 him, but pretended to view his approach as a matter of indifference, though one could see her little eyes twinkle with pleasure and her big ears flap just a little nervously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Seein\u2019 Jumbo gettin\u2019 nearer and nearer, Hebe, female like, pretended to avoid him, and walked away from him, around the track. Jumbo followed, as in duty bound, raisin\u2019 slightly his enormous trunk in air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Hebe walked, the sly puss, slower and slower. Jumbo walked, the cunnin\u2019 dog, faster and faster, till at length the lovers were within reachin\u2019 distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Then Jumbo gently extended his trunk and tapped Hebe lovin\u2019ly on the back. The lady quivered with delight, but kept on walkin\u2019 along the track, as if nothin\u2019 had happened, or was agoin\u2019 to happen\u2013a thorough woman of the world\u2013I mean female elephant of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It was a novel love chase, and was not only witnessed but participated in by the invited guests and friends of the high contractin\u2019 parties. The spectators followed the lovers about the arena, Sheridan Shook takin\u2019 a great interest in the movements of the lovin\u2019 couple, as did Collector Robertson, Lewis and Jerome Leland, of the Sturtevant House, kept close, as a sort of a guard of honor, to the groom, assisted by Captain Fowler and ex-judge Jones, while Col. Tom Knox watched with manly interest the movements of the bride. In the bridal cortage were also noticeable the huge dramatist Connolly, the \u201csmall\u201d wit \u201cBricktop,\u201d the genial ex-manager Charles Fulton, Colonel Livermore, General Carroll, Colonel Spencer, \u201cCigar\u201d Brown, and others of more or less note and agility. These gentlemen climbed and jumped, as the necessities of the situation required, with a vigor and readiness that was very credible to their arms, legs and feelin\u2019s, and very expressive of the sentimental interest they took in this tender occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      After a half hour or so of love chasin\u2019, the bridal pair stopped\u2013at least Hebe paused, and Jumbo paused beside her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Now jumbo used his trunk to advantage. He like a true-hearted elephant lover, wound it around his lady-love\u2019s form, glidin\u2019 it gracefully over her neck and body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Nor was Hebe altogether idle with her trunk. She began to respond to her huge lover\u2019s elephantine advances. She raised her trunk with delight, and then she lowered it, lettin\u2019 it fall gently, as she did so, on her lover’s breast or back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One never knows how gracefully elephants can use their trunks till he has seen an elephant weddin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Having befondled and betrunked each other for a while, the enamored beasts were started off by their keepers, who acted as groomsmen and bridesmaids, on another love chase, which terminated at last in the weddin\u2019 ceremonies, Rev. Dr. Barnum officiatin\u2019. At this moment Jumbo looked uneasily around, as if fearing that someone might remind the reverend gentleman that there was a \u201cslight impediment\u201d to his present marriage, in the person of his once dearly beloved Alice, his still-living English wife. But a wink from the expressive left eye of Barnum, who is above all petty social prejudices, like Henry Ward Beecher in the Astor House marriage, reassured the conscience-stricken monster, and the ceremony proceeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Prof. Artingstall gave the bride away, and Dr. Quackbosh, Dr. Mulford, Dr Doremus, Dr. Reed, Dr. Wynkoop, and Dr. Clarke King recorded the happy event, while the hungry lions and tigers (who are never fed on Sundays) afforded by their occasional howls and roars appropriate music for the weddin\u2019 march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      As the ceremony proceeded I could almost fancy I heard Miss Hebe singing, \u201cDon’t You Remember Sweet Alice Ben Bolt\u201d–I mean Jumbo. But jumbo didn’t seem to remember Alice worth a cent, and he and Miss Hebe were made one elephant, and went off apparently as happy as human beings, under similar circumstances. The new married couple will go on a quiet wedding tour the ensuing week to Philadelphia and the adjacent villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It was a peculiar and picturesque weddin\u2019, the like of which had never been seen on the American continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      After the auspicious nuptials of Jumbo and Hebe there was a regular love feast at the circus, and at one time almost a duel between two of the male admirers of the same adipose and amiable female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It was, after all, but an exhibition of human nature on four legs instead of two, by the ton instead of by the pound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Writin\u2019 of elephants reminds me that it is one of the modern improvements to have elephants and wild beasts at a circus. In old times the circus was one thing and the menagerie was another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The old Zoological Garden on the Bowery, opposite the old Bowery Theatre, was the site of the first regular menagerie in New York. There the great wild beast-tamer, Van Amburgh, gave his first exhibition, which soon became one of the sensations, rages and crazes of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Van Amburgh’s great feat, which he was the first to attempt in this country, was the puttin\u2019 his head into a lion’s mouth. There was no deception about this terrible feat. Everyone could see him put his head between the wild beast’s jaws, and everyone went to see it and shuddered while they saw it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One man used to follow Van Amburgh around between New York and Philadelphia, and everywhere else he went. This man had an idea that,sooner or later, the lion would bite the lion king’s head off, and he was determined to see this part of the performance when it came off. Van Amburgh heard about this man and it made him very nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just how it would have terminated no one could tell, but the man himself caught a bad cold, sickened and died, to the infinite relief of the lion tamer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isaac Van Amburgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Van Amburgh, also, introduced one very startlin\u2019 feature into his performances. He would lie down in the middle of the rin, and then a panther would pounce down upon him from an openin\u2019 in the ceilin\u2019. This was not only a very sensational, but a very dangerous feat, particularly dangerous to hte spectators, in case the panther should have taken it into his head to pounce on the audience instead of Van Amburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The cages of lions, tigers and Panthers in Van Amburgh’s show were fixed up with scenes to represent jungles and thickets. In this respect the old wild beast shows were much more excitin\u2019 than those of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      After Van Amburgh had retired from the Zoological Garden on the Bowery the place was turned into an amphitheater under the management of Rufus Welch. McCollom, Petite Louise Wells, Derlous and others took part in the ring performances. Coleman, Mestayer and Smith appeared in negro extravaganzas. McFarland performed his somersaults at the rate of 311 somersaults in a single week, and the performances concluded with comic harlequinades, such as \u201cOld Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat.\u201d Such was a circus in the olden times, and as such it differed altogether from a menagerie and just as much from a circus nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Van Amburgh first appeared at the regular New York theatres in wild beast pieces at the Richmond Hill and the old Bowery. Miss Medina wrote a piece for him called \u201cThe Lion King; or, The Forest Monarch.\u201d In this play he did some \u201cMazeppa\u201d business, ridin\u2019 a horse up a rocky pass, and just at the right moment a royal Bengal tiger would spring out upon him and there would be a sham fight, which, for a while, would be awfully real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Van Amburgh probably had more knowledge of and more control over wild beasts than any other man who ever lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A woman called Tuthill used to ride and exhibit with elephants some time ago. She was very plucky and very active, and needed all her activity and pluck. She believed elephants to be very treacherous beasts and capable of being managed only by fear. She acted out her belief, always kept a sharp knife in her hand ready to \u201cprod\u201d the elephants whenever they misbehaved, and always kept her eyes and limbs ready for any pranks on their part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Once an elephant who had been \u201cprodded\u201d took a chance to get even with her, and went for her to trample or to tusk her to death. By wonderful agility she managed to get out of the monster\u2019s reach, and then it came her turn. She had the brute punished till he \u201csquealed.\u201d From that time on the elephant and the woman were the best of friends, and the beast was as obedient to her as if she was his employer, and as careful of her as if she was his daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: Hebe had given birth two years earlier to a baby sired by a different elephant, Mandarin. As can be seen from a contemporary report of the same performance that Harry saw, the event was not publicized or marketed as a “wedding.” Jumbo had arrived in New York just days before, and it is more likely that this was just an experiment to see if he could socialize with the other Barnum elephants without incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Van Amburgh and Tuthill (and perhaps all) trainers of wild, undomesticated animals used painful punishment to control behavior.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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