The Portland daily press., 1890-08-05
FoREPAUcH's GREAT SHOW.
A Fine Street Pageant and Ex-
celient Circus.

forepaugh's Multitudinous Maryels struck
nortland on one of the mosC oppressive days
tnat has been chronicled in this city. The
mercury was high, the air was full Of
humidity. and people were bathed in
perspiration. From an early hour the
country people gathered in town, crowding
the sidewalks and door.wavs on the route of
the parade. They came by cars. in wagons
and on foot. They were attired In all sorts
OF costumes from the city style to the most
nondescript of apparel. They came singly
and In whole families from father to baby.
Mingled among them were the citizens, who
also secured good vantage positions in
windows that fronted on the parade They
all looked flushed and hot but evidently got
well paid fer what they came to see.
1t was about ten o'clock when the parade
began. First came the gaily caparisoned
band chariot drawn by four Norman
stations. Then came gaily attired ladies
and gentlemen right behind the band
There were lords and ladies. couriers ana
courtiers, prophets and praetors, seers and
sages, fairies and falconers, medieval
knights and May-day maidens, poets and
and hoy dogs, lancemen, archers, sportsmen,
ladies fair, modest maidens, dairy maids and
waiting women, strolling players and circus
riders, and, in word, royal retinue. All
the horses were gaily bedecked. There
were grand tableaux cars representing
Neptune and his court, all kinds of gilded
birds and animals. Forepaugh's twelve
superb Arabian stations, Cleopatra's barge,
Roman chariots each drawn by four
splendid horses, the Goddess of Liberty,
open cages of wild animals, the trainers of
of the lions and tigers riding In the dens
of their pupils, lady aud gentlemen jockey
riders, and troop of cavalry that takes
part In the Wild West show. There were
cowboys on bucking bronchos and as they
rode through the streets they gave an Illus
tration Of cowboy sports and pastimes by
throwing their sombreros and handkerchiefs
on heground ahead of them and picking them
up with ease by STOPPING from their saddles
as they rode by them swiftly. There were
trains Of elephants and camels. the old
Deadwood stage coach, Capt. Bogardus the
great rifle short, and last but not least the
big following Of Indians, with their squaws
and pappooses.
The two performances Of the circus were
most extensively patronised. Nothing but
circus could do 1t and after all, what is
Older and more honorable than the circus
1t was In vogue in Pagan Rome before
the Christian era
Long before this hemisphere was dis
covered the circus was the amusement of the
masses. and pageants called out the people
OF Rome. The circus was powerful even in
those distant days Good horsemanship was
something to be proud of, and excellence In
athletics was a pass to the favor of the
court. In those times physical excellence
was deemed higher attribute than mental
superiority and, although the circus had not
attained anything like the grandeur and all
comprehensivsness it has today, 1t was still
the amusement above all others sought by
the people. To particularize the features of
Forepaugh's circus would require more type
than could be set in week. Adam Fore
paugh, Jr's, trained horses and elephants
were marvellous in their manipulations; the
Fisher Brothers, the worlds greatest
trapezsts, held the audience breathless with
attention while in succession came the ex-
citing chariot and fiat races by the ladies !;
hurdle. and horse back riding by Josie
Ashton and Annie Carroll, the expresses of
the arena; Hollis and Willett. the monarchs
of the turf. Special mention is made of
Matte Jackson's superb Fat racing and
Mile Tourmour's wonderful trapeze acts.
All the Wild West features were splendidly
executed and gave great deliget. The Last
charge Of Custer" in which the scores of real
Indians and the troops appear, is
marvellous sketch. 1t cannot be described
In cold type. 1t must be seen,