The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20

The present is the twenty-fifth consecu-
tive annual tour of the great Forepaugh
show proper. The added Wild West exhi-
bition embraces all and every great feature
that has made this frontier show so popular
over the entire country. Under my per-
sonal management it was exhibited
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE CONSECUTIVE
TIMES IN NEW YORK CITY,
and also for protracted season on Staten
Island, in the harbor of New York. For
this season, in addition to the realistic pre-
sentation of the stirring scenes of frontier
life, such as the
ROBBERY OF THE OVERLAND MAIL-CoACH,
lassoing wild cattle, riding bucking horses,
cowboy sports attacking settlers, scenes on
the prairie, in camp, corral, fort and rancho,
pony express riders, etc, there will be pro-
duced the great national, military frontier
spectacle, illustrating
GENERAL CUsTER's LAST RALLY,
or The Battle of The Little Big Horn" in
which one hundred fifty genuine Indians,
scouts, trappers, soldiers and frontiersmen
will appear. This will be presented exactly
as exhibited before tremendous and wildly
enthusiastic audiences for four months in
the city of New York. A great historical
object lesson is also placed before the pres
ent generation in the vivid representation
of the perils of early western emigration as
portrayed IN the
ATRoCIoUs MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE,
which is realistically exhibited in the Wild
West department of this colossal aggrega-
ton. The
MAMMOTH MENAGERIE AND TRAINED WILD
BEAST SHOW
is exhibited in separate tent, in Difference
TO the feelings of many who are averse to
visiting circus, and every Christian parent
N tl,.;,
children to this mammoth collection of rare
animals and birds including living speci-
mems of the wonderful and now seldom
seen hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros and
sea-lion, trained tigers, leopards, an entire
herd of elephants and other rare and costly
animals, thus aifording to the
YOUTH OF VERMONT
the greatest and grandest object-lesson in
natural history it has ever been their for
tune to have placed before them.
THE MAGNIFICENT mPPoDRoME,
with its nearly quarter-mile track and all
its exciting trotting, running, standing and
chariot races of imported thorough breds,
can not but prove source of genuine pleas
ure to the people of state which has pro-
duced such noble specimens of equine
beauty, endurance and speed as the world
famed Black Hawk, Morgan and Morrill,
horses.
THE TRIPLE CIRCUS
is running over with novelties and in it can
be seen everything new and attractive in
| the spangled world. To witness the won
derful horse " Blondin - walk a high rope,
! or the pony Eclipse Jump from the
trapeze swings, under Adam Forepaugh
| Jr.'s direction, is alone greater attraction
| than all the circuses in the world can pre-
sent. The same can be said of his
GREAT HERD OF PERFORMING ELEPHANTS,
who do everything but talk. 1t would fill
a volume to recount all the pleasing, new
and novel features of this the greatest of all
shows.
POSITIVELY NO OTHER GREAT TENTED EX-
HIBITIoN WILL COME TO YER
MONT THIS YEAR,
and it is an indisputable fact that no other
! show advertised TO visit this state this sea
son, excepting mine, has any Wild West ex,
hibition, anything worthy to be called q
menagerie, any herd of performing ele
plants, any trapeze or rope-walking horses
or anything whatever new or novel; and
further, no tented exhibition advertised tC
appear anywhere in Vermont this season
Excepting mine) was ever seen or heard OF
in any of the great cities Of the country
and the only arenic and geologic exhibition
worthy of notice or patronage that will visit
this state this year is the
UNITED FoREPAUGH AND WILD WEST Ex
HIBITION.
The people of Vermont have seen the
great Forepaugh show in years past. 1t is
not a stranger in their midst. Ii first cam,
into the state years ago, before circuse,
travelled by rail, and two hundred horses
pulled IL over the Green Mountain State
piloted by Carlos Farnsworth of Fairfax IN