The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-12
ITS TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
Tho Forepaugh show Some Of II
Wonders and Sights.

Tho Forepaugh Show Some Of Itu
Wonders and Sights
Youth will have its fling when the great
Adam F~orepaugh shows appear here on
Thursday. August 81. rhsre il one ~rejuye-
nator which su' passes physic, by-gone tales
and all other things hat fire young blood
quicken the flowing food in old mems
veins. 1t is the circus. Men may come
and mon may 90, hut the rippling brook of
pleasure will fiow on forever. But the cit-
Gus has its ages Nc we'll IN men. Ii shows
the telult Of experience, OF the growth Of
taste for things. polite and refined, and in
the case of Adam F~orepaugh's shows, il
general reports be true, and they doubtless
are, SO many novelties and improvements
over the oldan-time circus that it, too.
it still ietaina all the attractiveness of
the old. What would the old boys
who read this have thought in the DAYS
when the little one-ring show, with its few
performers. its "clatfering," webbing seats
with peanut peddlers clambering over them
they had been permitted to peer into the
future and see the Forepaugh shows as they
will be here-a yeritable city OF canvas
made entirely lmpervious to rain; comfort
able seats with backs, each~ numbered, and
to be occupied only by the person holding a
SoupoA tAGASt pcuIiIlR tlc COiIchEOuQllH
number; every emplove in Il neat uniform
from head to heels, and positively non of
them allowed upon the seats under any pre-
text unless they are ushers showing people
their seats; four great rings and a vast
stage within Il tent fully twenty times as
large as the one that then sufhced. The old
boY-then young-would not have believed
such q vision could ever become a reality.
And yet it has: and while men may prate
about the good old, and palmy days OF the
%theater, they cannot do 80 i'll reference to
the circus. True, they may say that in
those days they could see everything going
on. while now. i'll the Forepaueh shows,
there is SO much that they can only see a
part; but those same men perhaps enjoyed
their fried steak and pumpkin pie at the
country tavern better than they do the
elaborate menu of the palatial hotel of to-
day.
So much for the magnitude and attract
lveness Of the great ~Forepaugh showsin the
abstract. .
In materials the Forepaueh shows, now
solely owned by Mr.. James Z. Cooper, still
the best of all the accumulations of
twenty-eight years, made by the late, Adam
Forepaugh in person, and still much more
superiority Of the Forepau9h me-
cling collection of animals has never
been disputed-and that. too, has
been augmented by several very rare spec
linens Of curious animal life since it was
last seen here. Adam Forepaugh, DR., the
only child of his famous father, WAS for
years the equestrian director of the shows
and he still holds that position. as we'll rs
the fame attaching to his own name as the
greatest subjecter and trainer of wild ami
mails and horses and elephants the world
has probably ever known. In former times
the man who would entera small cage on
wheels containing one or two lions was re-
garded as a hero. Now Colonel E. D..
Boone, a Kentuckian, but for the past
twenty years tho marvel of all Europe, has
surpassed the widest dreams in the subjec-
tion of lions. He turns five of the feline
monsters into q steel circular cage forty
feet in diameter, and enters it accompanied
by Mile Carlotta and his mammoth boar
hound and an attendant. These intrepid peo-
pie drive the lionsin harness, make them ride
tricycles, skip the rope, and so on; feed
them raw meat, and then all lie down
among them in peaceful repose. The Han
lon-Voltets, the worlds greatest aerialists,
who commanded $3.50 for seats in the
frst-class theaters during the past dra-
matte season, have now the room in which
to make their full startling flights through
space. There are sixty-seven other acts
upon the programme of the circus-all
frst-class, and SO equal in merit that they
cannot be particularized in the space avail
able.
OF course the parade will be a gorgeous
affair, but this one is promised to be some
thing really extraordinary in splendid
pageantry.