Barnum and Baileys circus European tour in United States

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Barnum and Baileys circus European tour
Hamburg, 1900.
Hamburg, 1900.
Typecircus
Founded1897
First elephant arrived1897
Last elephant left1902
Closed down1902
Country United States
Related persons
Owner 1897-1902: James A. Bailey
Directors 1897-1902: Joseph McCaddon
Assistant Directors 1897-1902: Henry McCaddon
Zoological department
Directors 1897-1902: George Conklin
(menagerie superintendent)
Veterinarians 1897-1902: T. F. Stanton
Elephant department
Elephant Superintendent 1897-1902: William Newman
1897-1902: George Bates
1897-1902: George Beattie
Elephant Trainer 1898-1902: Harry Mooney
Record history
History of updates2025-04-19: text more structured
Latest document update2025-04-19 18:58:09
Description

Barnum and Baileys circus European tour, United States , was founded in 1897 and the first elephant arrived in 1897. The last elephant left in 1902.. Barnum and Baileys circus European tour closed down in 1902.

Casualties

1 casualties
  1. 1902-06: elephant trainer George Bates attacked by Fritz. Fritz went for Bates, his keeper, in Tours. George Bates Survived. Fritz was hung on Baileys orders on 11th June 1902.

Specified info for Ringling locationsRingling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus 1919-2017, shortened RBBB, or Ringlings today, was a 1919 merge between Ringling Brothers Circus (1884 - 1918) and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1888 - 1918). Elephants owned, residing and performing with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus can be found at several different locations, which have been divided up for clarification of record keeping and to give a better idea of herd identifications. They include:

Comments / pictures

1897-1902


1897: James Bailey took his circus to Europe where, on December 27, 1897, he began a tour across the continent that lasted through 1902.

Eighteen elephants, ten large and eight younger, were under the supervision of elephant superintendents George Conklin, George Beattie and George Bates. In total, six elephants died during the tour and none of the four males displayed returned to the United States.

Records about Barnum and Baileys circus European tour from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
Barnum and Baileys circus European tour in United States United+StatesThey took 18 elephants to Europe, 10 large and 8 small. Of the three men in the lighter uniforms, the one at left is William Newman ("Elephant Bill") and the one in the center is George Bates standing next to Mandarin". There were 4 big males: "Fritz" at left is easy to spot, at the extreme left partially hidden is another Tusker "Don Pedro" and the 4th male "Nick" was Tuskless. All four of these males died in Europe.

Among the 6 females were "Gyp" (Gypsy) dating back to the early 1870\'s with P.T. Barnum as well as "Babe" and "Columbia" the latter now is 18 years old.
The punks were "Pilate" (male), "Chief" (male), "Queen", "Juno", "Coco" (tuskless male), "Bessie", "Mary" and "Ruth" (yes this is "BabyRuth" later owned by Wm. Hall). These young elephants were added in the early 1890\'s and not to be confused with Pilate, Chief, and Queen of the 1880's.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

1897-1900

Touring in United Kingdom


Records about Barnum and Baileys circus European tour from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
1898: Harry Mooney was hired while Barnum & Bailey was making its European tour (1898-02) and remained with that show until the Ringling-Barnum merger in 1919. He then went to Australia.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Barnum and Baileys circus European tour in United States United+States1899 Inventory, McCaddon collection at Princeton University

Barnum and Baileys circus European tour in United States United+States1899 Norwich, UK.

1900-1901

Touring in Germany and Austria

The circus opened in Hamburg on April 15.
Barnum and Baileys circus European tour in United States United+StatesBarnum & Bailey Europe tour, Berlin, 1900. Tusker is Fritz, trainer is William Newman.

25th of November until the 24th of February 1901 they played in Vienna, and had a Winter pause in Vienna from the 25th of February until the the 6th of April 1901. The german tour closed 30. August 1901 in a town called Leer, close to Hamburg.

1901

After Germany the circus went to Holland and Belgium


1902

Toured France and Switzerland

On the end of October 1902 they went back to the US.

References for records about Barnum and Baileys circus European tour

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2026). Barnum and Baileys circus European tour, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2420. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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