[Newspaper]
Publication: The Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, OH, United States
vol. 4, no. 274, p. 1, col. 6
WESLEY JUKES DEAD.
HE WAS WELL KNOWN TO ALL
CIRCUS GOERS.
The Inventor of Various Mechanical
Automatic and a Fantastic Glass-
blower of Renown
Special Despatch to Commercial Tribune.
CHICAGO, March 14.— Wesley Jukes, business associate of P. T. Barnum, W. C. Coup, John Robinson and other show monarchs, died today, aged 63 years, most of which were spent in contriving and inventing the mechanical schemes that have made thousands of circus goers wonder. He was the originator of the calliope, the automatic chessplayer, the famed Gideon's Band; he built the mysterious Cardiff giant, the Melchoir organ and a score of musical and other automata. For the last few years Mr. Jukes had been a glassblower in a Clark street museum.
Wesley Jukes was born in Pittsburg. At the beginning of the Civil War he, with Major Brunell, established museums in Indianapolis and New Orleans.