Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-01
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
Witness the Adam Forepaugh Show and All
Seem Well Pleased.

Early yesterday morning the streets
showed evidences of circus on hand.
The country people were coming IN to
spend the day and make a day of it. The
morning trains were crowded coming
from all directions and it was not a diff
cult matter to observe that it was circus
crowd.
The Forepaugh combination did not ar
rive until nearly 10 o'clock, owing to the
fact that on Friday night they gave a
show at Emporia and the heavy trains
could not make the time expected. There
We're sixty cars with twenty cars in a
train. The street parade was necessarly
delayed until nearly noon. 1t was wit
messed by crowded streets and generally
pronounced to be one of the fin
est parades ever made in the
the city. There was one feature that the
crowd will not forget, and the same may
be said of the police. AS the parade
turned east on Douglas from Maine de-
cidedly looking farmer rig with farmer
driver, apparently fifty years old, wearing
glasses, poorly dressed, came in from " est
Douglas and made some loud talk, kicking
Oh the show and taking the streets, and be
was invited to wait. He finally concluded
he was an American citizen and a tax
payer and made an effort to get through
the line Officer Dennis took him in but
let him drop something like hot 'tater.
The crowd yelled and Dennis proceeded to
get behind a big man to get out OF sight.
Going east on Douglas he met SAM
tary Williams, and Of course the far
mer made another effort to get through
the line, and Sanitary attempted an inter-
view, but found it failure. This feature
of the parade was heartily enjoyed, and it
was not difficult to tell where the farmer .
was for the crowds always yelled.
The afternoon entertainment COM
menced OF o'clock, and was witnessed by
ten or twelve thousand people The great
feature, the Wild West combination, was
the first number On the program, and
proved startling by realistic throughout.
The men engaged were exactly what they
seemed. Thirty Indians from the Sioux
reservation, in the gaudiest and most
hideous war paint and feathers. executed
q blood curdling war dance and massacred
Clusters command with all the reality Of
the actual event
Among the characters OF the Wild West
show IS Sergeant Wagner. who carried the
last dispatch to Major Reno which Custer
ever wrote. He passed through Sedgwick
county into SPINNER and down into the ter
ritory twenty years ago this fall in govern
ment service. He has spent a life in the
west and is quite a conyersationalist.
One of the finest performances of the
whole circus is that of the three Eugenes
H. L.,
exc acts. The performing dogs, the ele-
plants dancing quadrille and the trapeze
leap in mid-air by the pony Eclipse, start
ling features introduced by Adam Fore
paugh, Jr., are without peer III the Cir
Gus ring. Mr.. Adam Forepaugh, Jr., is
certainly the greatest animal trainer of his
time, having developed remarkable intel
ligence in every species of animal which he
has set out to train.
The show represents an investment OF
81, 500, 600, and its expenses are S25, 600 a
week, exclusive of $4,000 paid for the
seasons stock of Autographs and posters.
Salaries OF the 68l employees range from *
for canvasmen to $3.50 week for aerial per-
formers and riders, ordinary tumblers re-
ceiying S25 a week. Thursday is payday
lOI VIC DCIlOIMtISJ GiAu 'oElSuItuy AOi eliS
123 canvasmen whom big Need" bosses.
Two Pinkerton detectives are employed to
watch crooks. The tent is 1856 feet long
and 1S5 feet wide, and seats 1880 people,
The ordinary receipts are $1,000 to a, 600
for each performance, and occasionally
they reach $1,000 to Sl0,O0t
1t may be said that the show seemed to
give general satisfaction and was referred
to as one of the finest that ever visited the
| city. One feature most complimentary
there was no drag, always something &c
ATTRACT and command attention. The
announcer, Mr.. Frank Morris, an old time
! Snowman, had no difficulty IN making
| himself heard by every one and could
| bring in the dime concert in a very
smooth" way.
| The press agent Mr.. J. E. Boyle, is quite
courteous and attentive to his works and
makes it point to give all Information
desired in clever answers.
The entertainment last night was was
witnessed by an immense crowd, seeming
| " larger than at the afternoon. The show
! left early this morning for Winfield.