14 TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS 
but I had no idea, at that time, of entering the 
business. 
The show moved to Penang; thence to Bangkok, 
Hongkong and Shanghai; then to Japan. It was in 
Tokyo that Gaylord had one of his bright ideas. He 
organized, in conjunction with the circus, a Japan- 
ese village, and, when we worked back over our 
route, via Singapore and Australia, we carried forty 
Japanese with us. Twelve of them were performers 
and the remainder were artisans. We had minia- 
ture Japanese houses, in which the artisans worked 
at their trades, such as fan-making, wood-carving 
and embroidering. Also we carried a big stock of 
cheap Japanese goods, which were sold as the prod- 
ucts of our traveling factory. The Japanese village 
was a great success and brought a lot of money into 
the show. 
In September, 1886, we struck Buenos Aires, 
where the show had to buck the Carlos Brothers— 
the big South American outfit—and bad weather. 
During the long tour we had overcome many obsta- 
cles, but that combination was too much. Fryer, 
Gaylord and Fitzgerald decided to disband, and 
most of the properties and animals were sold to the 
Carlos Brothers. 
By hard work and careful saving, I had man- 
aged to accumulate over $8,000; so I was happy 
to head northward. I returned to New York by 
way of London and in December I met Fitzgerald. 
‘A short time afterward we were in St. Louis, where 
