The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-20
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RoBINsoN.s BIG SHOW
What the People Of Seattle VIII See
Tuesday, July &c.

NAV inc Feopio OF seattle VIII See
Tuesday. July 2s.
Everyone is looking forward to the great
Robinson show. which will appear here on
next Tuesday. As the time draws near
public expectation increases. Nearly 500
people are employed in the various depart
ments. The show travels on its own cars.
and requires eight sleeping cars for its at
taches. 1t requires over six acres of ground
for its huge exhibition tents. The press at
each place in which they exhibit are unani-
nous in pronouncing it to be 1.-THE largest
and best show ever seem" Over Ito artists
appear in the triple circus.
Among the many notable performers
with this mammoth exhibition are twenty
bareback riders, among whom are five lady
equestriennes.
There are also hurdle riders. jockey
riders, menage riders, four, five and six.
hose riders, and boy nine years old who
rides, drives and manages thirty-one ponies
around the hippodrome track.
Exclusive of those named are the many
specialists, embracing aerialists, igymnasts,
acrobats, etc. Many wonderful animals
are in the menageries, the latest addition
to which is the baby albino cub lion, a
pure white animal, and the only one of its
species ever known to have been born. An
other great feature with the Robinson
shows are the wonderful races which take
place on the vast hippodrome track, which
is over 1.l00 feet in length. They embrace
two and four-horse chariot races, fla. races.
standing races, break neck steeplechases,
ludicrous sack, wheelbarrow and obstacle
races, camel and elephant races, greyhound
races, donkey races. ostrich races. giraffe
races in sulkies, monkey races, chiIdren's
nat, hurdle. pony, donkey, jockey, fiat and
chariot races, male and female jockeys and
characters. Over sixty thoroughbred
horses and miniature shetland ponies and
scores of male and female jockeys and boy
and girl riders take part in these wonderful
and exciting races.
The largest and most costly parade ever
given by any show at any time or place
will be the magnificent pageant of the John
Robinson show on Tuesday next, present.
ing to public view fully two miles of gIori-
Gus and opulent splendors; more than / 1000
men, women and children, horses. ele-
plants and camels: sixty gold encrusted,
statue-ornamented cages and Iairs of rare
and savage beasts; twenty wide-open dens,
with keepers calmly seated therein; every
nation represented and appropriately and
artistically grouped on magnificent tableau
cars; mardigras froliques; gorgeous NOV
ing temple of Juno; the revolving temple
of the muses.; thirty-one sun-bright golden
chariots: chariots representing Cinderella,
Little Red Riding Hood, Jack, the Giant
Killer. Sindbab, the sailor, the old woman
who lived in shoe; countless changes and
transformations; grand cavalcade Of cavale
iers and danes; peerless oriental pageants .
monster herd of ponderous marching ele.
plants; droves of camels, dromedaries and,
other led animals; 800 equine models; eight
superb military bands; Independence fife
and drum corps; great steam calliope; col-
ored jubilee shouters; an escort of bril-.
liant cavalcade of knights in giistening
armour, gorgeously ACQUIRED, with
steeds sumptuously caparisoned. In adj
dition to which are the famous heet-footed
coursers connected with the hippodrome.
The Helena, Mont, Journal says Of the
show: 1t is the best that ever visited the
Northwest and the best now travelling in
the country. The performance far exceeds
the promise made on the flaming hand
bills. Nothing is left out. but many agree
able surprises are sprung. The menagerie
contains q collection of rare and curious
animals and birds gathered from all parts
of the globe. The spread of canvas is the
most extensive in the country, and is
simply enormous.
The main pavilion is $50 feet by 500, hav-
ing capacity to seat comfortably 1900
people. The adjunct tents are proportion
ately large.
There are three rings and hippodrome
track-this latter is so feet wide and 1900
feet long. The races that are run on this
track are most interesting and exciting and
elected the widest applause from the vast
audience gathered under the canvas last
Wednesday afternoon.
The collection of horses and ponies is the
rarest, best and largest owned by any COM
bination now travelling.