The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-08-17
NOW FOR BARNUM g. BAILEY.
The Really Monster Show they will
Bring to Town,

Barnum & Baily's new Barnum and
London Is shows united is the only show
of any standing giving exhibitions in the
great city of New York. 1t is organized
and equipped there, and its first per-
formances are always placed before the
most critical and exacting audiences in
that city, in Madison Square Garden, a
building 400 by $50 feet. When there
it is visited by the highest dignitaries. of
the country, including clergymen, law
yers, judges, physicians, foreign minis
tiers and statesmen, generals and otfic-
Ials of the state and national govern
ments, ETC., in fact the wealthiest and
best people, for it is the fashionable and
popular resort. The same exhibition,
with all that it contains, that delighted
50O, 600 people there, will all be here to
astonish every one on Wednesday, Aug.
22d, and as all the combined shows will
be here, the BaInum and London never
having divided, a most wonderful expo
sltion will be witnessed. This year
everything is new, and larger and better;
as special features there is the Paris
Olympia Hippodrome, Wild Moorish
Caravan with its real Bedoins, dancing
girls, slaves, horses and weapons, Mar
shall's Japanese, 125 acts, and an army
of performers, all of which is seen in
three rings, on the circular stage, the
race track, and in the artificial lake.
There are talking seals, Captain Boyn-
ton, the water bicycle, and other feals
and features performed in and on the
surface of the water. Two menageries
of wild and trained beasts, museum of
living human curiositIes, two droves of
camels and two ofelephants, Jumbo and
his big skeleton, all the races of the chip
podrome, an aquarium with amphibious
monsters, an aviary of tropical birds,
athletic games and aquatic sports, Jap
anese, Zulus, Moors, Algerians, Be-
douins, and other strange people. There
is real horse fair with actually $50
head of first-premium horses, in sep
arate tent arranged especially for visi-
| tors, and the trained animal department
is the largest ever seen anywhere.
Seven open dens of wild beasts, with
trainers, trotting steers, moose, deer,
and antelope, giraffes, ostriches, and
other rare animals; and 60 railroad cars,
in four trains, are required to transport
the vast amount of paraphernalla.
There are actually 720 people on the
pay roll, which fact conveys an idea OF
| the magnitude of the enterprise, and
among the foreign specialties are many
of an astonishing character. 1t is a GER
tainty that this is the grandest and rich
est show ever organized by these mon
archs of the show world, and one of its
meritorious features is that since the
last great fire everything is new, while
the costumes are simply magnificent:
The street parade is new, too, and valued
at $1,5OO,0O0, and will be seen the
morning of the show on the streets. rain
or shine. All the tents will positively
remain up until o'clock at night, and
the night show is guarante ed to be the
same as that of the afternoon, and al
both every one, particularly ladies and
children, can be assured of every con.
sideration being shown them.