Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-02
FoREPAUGH,s CIRCUS.
The Big show Arrives From Bridge
port Early This mOrning-The Route
OF Procession To-Day.

The Big show Arrives From Bridge
port Early This MOrning-The Route
of Procession To-Day.
To-day will be circus day and the amb1-
tious small boy will play truant and crawl in
under the circus tent if he is lucky enough
not to be seen by the men whose business it
is to keep just such boys from crawling in.
The city will be well filed with strangers
and the vendors of peanuts, lemonade, candy
and fruit lay awake last night in golden
dreams of reaping rich harvest from the
hungry and thirsty crowd. The circus ar
rived here from Bridgeport early this morn
ing and by O'Clock the tents had been erect
ed on the Howard avenue grounds where the
exhibitions will take place, the doors being
opened at 1 O'Clock and $50 O'Clock p. m.
and the shows to begin at o'clock and 7:30
p. M. Mr.. Henry Enochs, agent, gives the
following as official: The parade will start at
about $50 a. m. from the grounds and
march through Howard avenue to Columbus
avenue, to Water street, to State, to Elm, to
Orange to Chapel, to Church, to Congress
the parade will be Bogardus and his Indians,
twenty elephants, open cages containing
wild beasts and other interesting features.
This circus has we'll earned reputation as
being one of the best tent shows on the road.
It has a double menagerie, four rings, won
derful performing horse, Captain Bogardus,
the famous shot, and a host of athletes, aero
bats and riders. There are also number of
features similar to those seen in Buffalo
Bills 'sWild Vest show. The whole makes
a performance which contains more attrac
tions than can be readily seen at single
visit.
No man is more widely known on the face
of the earth for any one particular achieve
ment than Captain A. H. Bogardus, who is
to appear here with the gigantic Adam Fore
paugh exhibition. He has visited every
cline where experts with firearms dwell and
has vanquished the greatest marksmen of
the world, never having lost single match.
For ten years he has carried the champion
belt against all corners, and in hundred
smoke-c crowned contests has demonstrated
his superiority over every antagonist and
held in his possession the coveted trophy of
one hundred birds in one hundred fires,
and no other ever shattered 1000 glass
balls with 1000 consecutive shots.
The great marksman stands or shoots alone
and invincible. His matchless nerve and IN
erring aim have been for decade the won
der of the public and envy of his adversaries.
His sons seem to have inherited the unexam-
pied skill of their illustrious father. Eugene
Bogardus hits half dollars, quarters, small
coin and marbles with the rife on swift
horse at full speed, and shooting double,
breaks ten balls in twelve seconds. Edward,
Peter and Master Henry Bogardus, the latter
eleven years old, marvels with the rifle
and perform all manner of fancy shooting
with an accuracy and surprising rapidity
that astonishes those who behold it. The
last named rings a target bell at twenty
PAGES sixteen times in twenty seconds, re-
markable feat. Mr.. Forepaugh and his son
will both be with the show in this city to-
day,