Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-19
A CIRCUS ON SUNDAY
Hundreds Of People Witness the Ar
rival Of the Forepaugh Show.
HOW IMMENSE TENTS ARE RAISED
National Players League Grounds Waving
Sea of Canvas.
ROUTE FOR T0-DAY's STREET PARADE

Colonel james E. Cooper's great Fore
paugh show and Wild West combination
arrived in the city from Altoona yesterday,
and is now located in the National Players
League grounds in Allegheny, where dual
exhibitions will be given to-day and to-
morrow. The show was unloaded at WASH
ington avenue, and from there driven to the
old Exposition Park by way of Allegheny
and South avenue. The show is all here,
enlarged and beautifed and sparkling with
immense springtime successes, with which
it has met in dozen or more Eastern cities.
The work of raising the the tents and put
ting the show in readiness was done yester-
day afternoon. This was quite a novelty,
and attracted plenty of people vino wanted
to 'see the circus built" Quite a number
OF Sunday school classes were short of their
usual attendance, judging from the number
of boys and children who were out. There
were probably 500 people on Monument
Hill, and Southern avenue was lined with
anxious sight-seers. The grounds were not
in the most desirable condition. The sods
have been lifted from the infield and the
ground was so soft that it required 16 horses
to draw one of the property wagons into the
park.
VERY RAPID WORK. 80
It is hard to describe the rapidity with
which circus tents are raised. A couple
hundred men are divided up into squads of
10 to 15 each, and each squad does certain
portion OF the work. Forepaugh's big tent
IL 2OOI400 feet, with seating capacity of
10000. just an hour from the time the first
post was driven yesterday, flags were float
ing from the staffs OF com pleted tent.
One of the principal features of the show
is Capt. Frank D. Yates band of 81 In
dians. There are remnants OF four tribes,
with as many chiefs. There are IL from
Sitting Bulls old band, with Black Bull
Bear as their chief. Short Horn heads the
Blackfeet tribe; Kicking Horse, the Man
dams. and Long Tooth, the Assinniboine
Among the squaws are Mrs. Thunderstorm
"a tough name for a mother-in-law; Mrs
Ant, Mrs. Red Sunset, Mrs. Shot
in-The- Head and Mrs. Hailstones, who can
set type. A little 7-year-old Indian kid ac-
companies the band. He is named Johnny
tender age. Captain Yates, who has charge
of the Indians, is a brother to Captain
George Yates, who fought in General Gus
ter's regiment.
The show as whole is conveyed in q
train o. 80 cars with 4 additional advertis-
ing cars 316 horses, mules and ponies, 16
elephants, 8 camels, 20 cages of wild animals,
430 employees, 75 advance agents and bill
posters, band Of 80 Indians, large circus
tents, horse tents, dining tenls, 60 ring
performers, and Wild West department
with 80 people, under Captain Bogardus.
Colonel james E. Cooper is the sole pro-
prietor. He is a native of Philadelphia, and
was formerly the partner Of Mr.. Bailey, now
Of Barnum B Bailey.
IT COSTS SOMETHING TO RUN 1T.
The daily expenses OF the show are 50, 500
to 81, 900. The contract made between the
late Adam Forepaugh and Mr.. Barnum in
regard 10 division OF territory holds good
for this year. For that reason the Forepaugh
is the only big show to be in PittsburT this
year.
The route for to-day's parade has been
changed somewhat from that published yes
terday, at the suggestion OF the police off,
cials. The following Is the revised route:
Starting from Exposition Park, Allegheny,
at 8 O'Clock this morning, the pageant will
move down Robinson street TO Federal
street, down Federal and across Sixth street
bridge to Sixth street, to Market street, to
Fifth avenue, up Fifth avenue to Wood
street, down Wood to Water street, up
Water to Smithfeld street. along Smithfield
to Liberty street, down Liberty to Seventh
street, and across Seventh street bridge, up
Sandusky street to Church avenue, to Cedar
avenue, up Cedar avenue to North avenue.
along North avenue to Federal street, down
Federal to Robinson street. thence to Ex-
position Park.