Lost Birmingham by Beverly Crider

Author:Beverly Crider
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Miss Fancy, circa 1914.

The owner of a stranded circus had to part with some or all of his collection of wild animals. He had managed to reach Birmingham and put on several performances just off First Avenue, North, in the vicinity of 22nd Street.

The Birmingham Advertising Club was putting on an industrial exposition, the first attempted here. The promoters felt the need of something more than mill, factory, furnace and mine products to draw people to their show. News of the stranded circus reached them, and of “Miss Fancy,” the big elephant which had paraded the streets of Birmingham just a day or two before to the delight of the thousands of children and grown-ups, too. Someone conceived the happy idea of buying or hiring Miss Fancy for the industrial show. Her owner received the proposition with an open mind and eventually a trade was made in which the ownership of Miss Fancy passed to the Advertising Club.

When the show was over the question of Miss Fancy’s disposition arose. The Advertising Club realized it had an elephant, if not a “white elephant,” on its hands and that she had an appetite in proportion to her size. A place in Avondale Park was fitted up for her and the quest for other animals to keep her company started. In the 16 years since that event Birmingham has made a fairly creditable start towards the building of a zoo.

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