The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-04-08
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Is coming West next summer with his
Roman Hippodrome aud Worlds
Fair. This is what he tells report
er about it:
My daily expenses in New York
are about 50, 1000, and they will be
one-third more in the summer; last
summer | sent to Boston new tent
500 feet long by 800 feet broad; /
have / 800 men, women and children
in my employ, $50 horses, including
800 blooded race horses and ponies.
and camels. English stays
and stag hounds, ostriches, &c.; The
cost of the tent, seats built for $4,000
persons, and transportation of the
with its entire parapher-
malta, by rail to Boston was over $5O.-
900; yet though We were there but
three weeks, We were more then reim-
bursed, and there was handsome
surplus. Our two daily performan-
ances attracted more than $4,000 peo-
pie, thousands coming in the cheap
excursion trains run expressly for us
on all the roads leading to the city,
and we were often compelled to turn
away visitors for want of room. Now,
with two of these immense tents-so
that we can keep one Of them continu-
ally ahead-we can move the entire
Hippodrome on 125 cars, built ex-
pressly for us, nearly twice the usual
length and including horse palace
cars, which enable our horses to lie
down and rest while travelling to all
the larger cities in the Eastern, Mid
die and Western States, even if we
can stop but one day in a place. Just
look at the enormous magnitude of
the undertaking. Besides moving
the tents, horses, animals and all per-
tanning to the Hippodrome, We put up
berths in the passenger cars in which
nearly all the 1900 employees lodge.
We carry cooks and cooking tents
and provide meals for all but about
$50 Of the company, who go to the
hotels; we have stable huts for
our horses and ether animals {;
we have our own blacksmiths
to do all the horseshoeing and
wagon and chariot repairing, and an
army of carpenters and builders, some
Of whom precede the show ten days
to erect the seats. Add to all these
the men and women who have the ex-
elusive charge Of the wardrobe and
two frst-class bands of music. Why,
our dressing-room tents cover more
ground than an ordinary circus
does"
eve shall have Donaldson with
us to make daily balloon ascensions,
with car to carry up ten or twelve
companions, and his services, with
the cost of filling the balloons, will be
$500 a day. We carry all the chart
OTIS and the paraphernalia for the
great Congress of Nations. Our ward
robe cost more than 100000, and is
larger than the combined wardrebes
of all the places of amusement
in the United States. We have
over seven thousand different
suits, including three hundred sets
of real silver armor. You remember
the magnificent jewelled armor that I
exhibited in the windows, corner of
Broadway and Fourteenth street, New
York, and which required the contin-
ued SERVES of several policemen to
prevent the multitude from crushing
in the windows. These armors are
worn in our representations of the
courts of Russia, Japan, Egypt and
China, and some of these most heavi-
ly jewelled cost $4,000 each. This
immense wardrobe enables us in the
larger cities to give variety of spec
tacles, with daily changes Of pro-
gramme. Our Roman chariot races
are revived reproductions of those in
the Colosseum centuries ago, and the
charioteers are Amazons. The liber-
ty races of forty wild horses turned
loose are repetitions Of. the famous
carnival races of Rome and Naples.
In the Roman standing races, the
riders stand on bareback horses.
Then there are hurdle-races by ladies,
flat races by English, French and
American jockeys, with the best blood
ed race-horses from Europe. Races
by camels, ridden by Arabs, and
races by elephants, ostriches and
monkeys. We give, too, Indian life
on the plains, in which appear scores
of Indians, with their squaws, pap
pooses, ponies and baggage. They
encamp, put up their wigwams, hunt
real buffaloes; give war-dauces, pony
races, foot-races, against horses, lasso
exploits and during riding at full
speed, by Indians and squaws. Real
Mexicans, riding their famous MUS
tangs, surprise the Indian camp, and
re-enact the scenes of the western
border. Our English stag-hunt is a
perfect picture Of the sport itself, with
one hundred and fifty ladies and
gentlemen in hunting costume, and q
large pack Of English stag-hounds
following the stag. This alone. is
worth coming miles to see. These
are only some of the leading features
Of the most colossal travelling exhi'
bitten ever undertaken, and no othe,
,nan IN this generation will attemnt