Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-23
a GREAT SHOW.
w. w. Coles Racing Hipp0drOme,
Menagerie and Circus.
win visit ClarksviIIe Friday, Sept. 20.


Mr.. Cole is one of the youngest managers
in the country. and as brillantcampaign
er he has no superior. He is courageous
End enterprising, and each succeeding eff
fort of his is a vast Improvement on its pre-
decessor His com bination this wear SIM
ply an immense affair, constituting an ex-
hibition OF magnitude, magnifcence, and
variety of attraction quite without prece-
dent. In one show, and for one price ofad-
mission, is given what DIR. Cole very prop
erly and without exaggeration terms
"A TIDAL wAvx OF ADJUSTMENTS"
1t includes. to speak in general terms
hippodrome in which the ancient Grecian
races are represented with all the vividness
of reality; doubl ring circus in which the
most notable achievements OF the arena
are exhibited;a collection of wild beasts
of surprising interest not only to the
geological stadent but to every adult and
child in the land; and pageant of ma
tions of glittering magnificence. Taking
these various departments separately, it is
hardly possible for us to speak of them in
detail, so innumerable are the features of
interest. For
THE HIPPoDRoME,
we may mention that no less than one
hundred thoroughbred horses are required,
and a very large corps of ladies and jock
eys drive the Olpmpian chariotsa and COM
pete for prizes in hurdle races around a SUI
perb track one-eighth of mile in circum-
ference. Four-horse and two-horse chart
OTIS, Asiatic elephants, and Bactrian cam
els, pony-riding moneys, and educated
donkeys, all appear on the track in contests
either intensely exciting or extremely
Imaginable.
THE CIRCUS
performance will introduce twenty-five of
the most daring and accomplished male
and female equestrians, two of the most
entertaining clowns on the continent APP
pearing alternately in the two rings. These
rings, we may note, will be within the OBJ
long track, devoted to the hippodrome per-
formance. To the circus and the hippo
droIne is added Mr.. Coles New York and
New Orleans Equestrian and Geological
Exhibition, spectacular drama of the Rev
olution, Centennial tableau, representa-
lions of Revolutionary battle scenes, and
an exceedingly Interesting museum of Rev.
dictionary relics.
The main tent, to be occupied by the hip
podrome and double circus, will be four
| nunureu ISeL long Dy TWO hundred Wlue,
and half a dozen other tents, each in itself
a large one, will be subordinate to this.
| We cannot begin to enumerate the attrac-
| tions of
THE MENAGERIE,
| but important among them are the crystal
den of performing reptiles, immense ana
condas and boa constructors, all under SUBJ
lection to a African snake charmer and ex-
hibited free in the street procession; the
largest known elephants, a magnificent
specimen of the giraffe; the largest and
rarest specimens of Abyssinian lions; the
largest white polar bear to be seen in any
travelling show; the first and only black
leopard from Central Java exhibited in this
country; Egyptian crocodiles; Malayan ta-
pirs; the Senegambian zebra; the African
Gland; and a multitude of other interest
ing and rare specimens from every zone,
altogether comprising magnificent col
lection of the finest representatives of the
animal creation. In the aquarium, mons
strous living sea lions are exhibited, we be-
lieve the only ones travelling. They are a
great curiosity, and ivnite universal atten-
ton. The almost innumerable troupe of
horses, ponies, and other performing ami
mails, we can only refer TO in general terms,
| leaving our readers to judge for themselves
when they witness
THE STREET PARADE,
display maintained to be unprecedently