, 1884-05-24
COLES CIRCUS.
A Fair Performance in the Pouring
Rain.
The Tent Crowded Both Morning
and Evening.

w. w. Coles colossal circus made its
advent into CHEYENNE yesterday morning
at about $50 o'clock, being brought to
this city on a special train from Sidney,
Neb., where it held forth night before
last. Although it was very early in the
morning when the train arrived a large
crowd of curiosity seekers soon gathered
at the railroad ground for the purpose of
seeing the elephant" The work of
disembarking and proceeding to the
grounds chosen for the purpose of the
show-the north end of Warren avenue,
beyond the City park, for some reason
was rather slow in being contaminated
owing to the fact that a large proportion
of the work force employed are new in
the business and unused to quick and
active work such US is required by %institu-
lions Of this kind. For the same reason
the work of raising the mammoth tent on
the circus grounds was a very slow process
and it was not until 1910 O'Clock in the
forenoon that the procession was ready to
move from the grounds on its marching
review through the city. In the mean
time a large number of people had been
gathered upon the principal streets
to witness the procession, while many went
up to the circus to see what was going on
there. Carriages were flying hither and
thither all the forenoon giving quite a
lively appearance to the city, while most
of the people who had come out to see
the sights congregated at or near the Post
Office corner. The procession, when it
moved from the grounds, came down
Warren avenue to Nineteenth street, and
from thence proceeded to Ferguson street,
thence to Seventeenth street. From
there the cavalcade went up that street to
the Opera House corner, thence up Hill
street to Nineteenth, thence to Warren
venue again and back to the place of
starting.
The afternoon exhibition commenced at
, o'clock, and was attended by about
twenty-five hundred people. The after
noon was a very dark one and be-
fore the show had fairly commenced
a very severe thunder shower broke over
the city and very soon torrents of rain
which descended had d~ampened the ardor
of everything and everybody and turned
the streets into channels of mud and
water. 1t was SO dark in the mammoth
tent where the performance took place
that one could scarcely see across from
one side to the other of the huge canvas
covered corral. Thus it was that the
management met with much difficulty in
giving its first exhibition. The perform
ance, on the whole, was a very creditable
one considering the difficulties. There
We're some features of the show that were
very fine indeed, among which might be
mentioned the trapeze performance, the
bicycle riding and the performing lions.
The other features of the show were good
but did not excel in many particulars.
The menagerie was a very fine one, the
collection of animals being the best,
though not the most numerous, of N
that has been placed on exhibition in this
city for several years. The monster
elephant was a source of considerable
attraction, but the white" elephant was
not strictly alabaster in hue. The lions
were a magnificent group while the col
lection of all sorts, called the: Happy
family, " attracted the attention of all as
being an amusing curiosity well worth
contemplating. The wax figures repre-
senting a large number of noted men of
the nation were viewed by almost every
body with great admiration and was
really quite a wonder to behold. In the
evening the performance was repeated
though not to as large an audience as that
which attended the show in the afternoon,
and at its close the usual concert was
given. The colossal show was again on
wheels and en- route for Greeley before
4 O'Clock this morning.