The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-11


Itisa Just claim that the name of tho
venerable and most successful of all mana
gers stands high above every other on the
scroll Of honor rs a successful dispenser Of
public recreation, and wholesome, moral
and innocent amusement. Compared with
all others, il is about as radiant sunlight to
pale moOnbcams. lie has furnished fun
and education for three generations. The
gray-haircd grandparents smile as
they remember him, the middle-agcd
20 about their daily toll with
lighter hearts when they know he is APP
preaching and the cherub-world grows wild
with 10y as they dream and gleelully talk of
the blessed hours of unalloycd happiness he
invcnts for them. No man, however inge-
NOUS could write history of the last five
decades without dcvoting a chapter to him.
Rich and cherished at home and honored
abroad. he is the only true and correct
representative Snowman. lie hates char
latanism, detestS vain boasts, the delusive
pledges of small managers who seem to
conceive that promisesart made only to
be broken, andhbhors exaggeration in what
ever form its hydrahcad appears. To his
glory and untarnished honor, he never in
his life advertised feature, act or curiosity
which he did not exhibit 1t is the shame
of nearly all other managers that they have
done this cruel and unfair thing to an UNI
snspccting and too crcdulous public, who
only iorgavc the oifense to endure its
wicked. repetition.
There can be no competition with this
magnificent combination of the four lie i'd
ing shows of the world. As the broad cX-
panse OF the blue ocean is hundreds oftimcs
greater than the little streams without num-
her which mako up its limitless volume, so
il oyershadOws and swallows up all com
mon shows. As aptly remarked by the
New York Herald, at puts an end to all
ordinary circus business II is 80 infinitely
great so grandly stupcndous that
al other attempts " amuso the
puhlic by lesser managers arc
dwarfed and ludicrous. There is dignity
"a TONGA moral element and respectable
ty found about any entertainment bearing
the honored name of the great manager, z,
T. Barnum, that is painfully and conspicu-
.ously absent from any other, Cergymen,
statesmen, professional people and the bet
ter classes, together with the honest and
humber people rush en- masse to witness
his exhibitons In Washington the president
of the United States, members of his cabinet,
United States senators and congressman,
and Sir Edward Thornton, the British
Minister, attended the exhibition, nearly
every one personally thanking Mr.. Bar
mum for the immense amount of recreation
called him ".rhc Kris Kringle of America
and his exhibition "A National Kinder
gartcn" over one hundred distinguished
Statesmen, authors and citizens gave him
and its managers voluntary written en-
dorscment, saying that they had never
seen its like, even in Europe
And they were right for nowhere else
can You see Chang, the Chinese Giant,
nearly nine feet high, General Tom Thumb
and wife. the midget married pair, the
Seven Giant wonders. illustrating nature 5
waywardncss, the laulilcss wild animal
collection from which no one specimen
found in the leaves OF natural history is alb
sent the rcsplendent street pageant which
is brighter and more pregnant IN brilliant
surprises than an oriental vision
the twenty elephants whose ponder
Gus tread makes the earth tremhle
the score ofcamels, harnessed and drawing
golden charots; girailts, 2ebras, clks and
deer. under the passive, influence OF the
rein; 200 champion leapers, riders, tum-
hlcrs, wrestlers, posturerS, and aerial spe-
cialists in bitter battle in their separate
rings for medal and mastery. and countless
good things which we have no space to
spenk of, Think of Il And for one price
OF admission. the same as charged by ordi.
nary shows which every year perambulatc
the country.