Evening journal., 1890-04-28
LAST EDITION
FOREPAUGH'S SHOWS.
THE MOST COMPLETE AGGREGA-
TloN EVER VISITED HERE.

Crowds of People Witness This Morning. s
Pageant and Attend This Afternoons
Performanoe-An Kinds of visitors In
Town.
Forepaugh's immense shows are in
this city, and the streets, especially
those in the neighborhood of the circus
cents, are swarmed with people. The
mammoth aggregation arrived here yes
teraay morning on special train of
seventy cars, the property of the shows.
The wagons and animals were taken to
the grounds on Lombard street, between
Seventh and Ninth. where a huge tent
WIS erected for shelter for the horses
and men. Nearly 1000 persons were
gathered about the grounds all day.
At an early hour this morning crowds
of humanity began to cengregate along
the line of parade, and at o'clock, sue.
sessful pedestrianism along Market
street was impossible. Every incoming
train was loaded with people bent and
determined on having a big time. The
morning trains from the Delaware road
were filed with human freight.
When the parade was NOV
ing it was a subject of much
amusement to watch the different faces
of the multitude. The farm hand, who
had postponed corn planting; the coun.
try store keeper. who had brushed up his
old silk hat and donned it. the gum
chewing girl, the woman with a baby
coach and two small children, the nippant
dude. the noisy and disgusting colored
woman, ''ye small boy" chippies and
many other common specimens which
cannot be gathered together except on
like occasions.
The parade moved from the grounds
promptly at 8 30 o'clock, and in exactly
one hour the processisn had moved over
its course. and the horses and animals
were being cared for.
In the procession were 200 horses.
from the smallest Chincoteague pony to
the largest Norma stallion, a score of
elephants and many wild animals in
Gagged wagons. Bands of music were
riding at appropriate intervals in the
procession. There were also sixty
Indians, mostly Siouxs, in line. riding
prancing mustangs. The savages were
attired in Indian costumes, and hideous
designs were painted over their faces.
The squaws, twelve in number. were
stylishly wrapped in blankets, and one
OF them rode horse attached to a pair
OF shafts. on which was small platform
covered with canvass In it were her
two papooses
The greatest attraction in the gorgeous
display was a brass band composed of
twenty genuine cowboys, with long hair.
and the customary Western attire. They
rode spotless white India ponies, shoe
less, and diseoursed music seldom heard
from a circus band. They played en-
tirely by note, guiding their prancing
horses, and were seldom obliged to cease
playing to attend to their steeds. The
piccolo player guided his horse with his
knee, and the bass drummer rested his
instrument on his saddle. horn. A large
company Of cowboys followed the band
The indians are in charge of Colonel
Frank Yates, interpreter, who has spent
twenty years on the plains, and knows
everything about the Indian and his
The Gust omary faker, with his stento.
rian tones, was on the scene, bleeding
the "Jakes" and ignorant citizens Of
their last cent. Three stalwart men.
with voices all powerful and an unend.
lng how of language, stood in front of
the side show and told the wonderful
sights within. The police are on the
grounds, working hard to preserve the
peace and keep the eager crowd within
bounds. Up to 2 o'clock no arrests were
reported and no pockets picked.
An arrangement has been made be-
tween the proprietors of the leading
shows in America by which Forepaugh's
IS the only aggregation that will appear
here this season. The combiued Fore
paugh show and the Wild West. which
was presented 153 consecutive times IN
New York city, also did an enormous
business in Philadelphia the past two
weeks. Colonel James E. Cooper is the
proprietor and Adam Forepaugh, Jr..
and John A. Forepaugh. Adam Fore
paugh Jr, was in to-day's parade.
This afternoons program will be re.
peated to night with several additions
After the concert this afternoon. Jack
Carkeek aud Hugh Mcmillan. the cham
pion catch-as catch-can middle-weights
will wrestle.
The engagement in this city promises
TO be one of the most successful that
has ever been filed here. This after
noon the tents are crowded, and the audi
ence will no doubt be decidedly larger.
The police on the grounds are in
charge Of Sergeant Steszer, and a large
force Of specials 6ll the places and are
doing the beats of the regulars.