The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-26
EvERYBODY's HOLIDAY.
When Forepaugh's Red Wagons, Big
Elephants and World of Wonders
Come to Town-SeattIe's
Big Circus Day.

Something exceptionally great and grand In
the line OF tented exhibitions may be conf
IDENTIFY expected OF the Adam Forepaugh shows
when they exhibit in this city on September s.
There has never been any dispute OF the fact
that Adam Forepaugh's show property he's
always been the finest and costiiest in this
country. IL was the pride of the famous show
man that his cages, wagons, tableaux, cars,
chariots etc, were the most completely built
and decorated of any used in the show business
he insisted upon them being as finely finished
as the finest private carriage No other show
man had ever such fine horses or SO many of
them HIS menagerie, as matter of incontro-
Vertioe TACT, was always the finest collection of
animals and his herd of elephants in both
numbers and sIze and in training, was without
an equal at any time And above everything
else he priced the fact that his name was a V ery
synonym for solidity, genuineness aad integrity,
and II was 30 regarded by the public But he
went the way oil all flesh after q brief illness
When he realized that his last tour on earth was
made, his one wish was that his great show
should continue-his name still live There
was but one man who had the ability, the ex-
perience and the capital necessary TO keep the
property intact, and indissoluby with it the
name OF Forepaugh, and that was Mr.. James T.
Cooper. And so the great Adam Forepaugh
SHOWS passed into his hands in its entirety. Not
only the property remains but many additions
thereto have been made by Mr.. Cooper during
the past winter
Ever since his boyhood Adam Forepaugh's
only son, Adam, ir., the ruling spirit in the
trained animal and circus departments of the
Forepsugh shows. As a trainer OF elephants,
a
Phenomenon. Among show people he is gener-
aHy-lt might be said universally, as his fame is
world-wide-regnrded as never having had an
equal in the handling of those animals His
talent Is by no means confined to animal train
ing, for he 10 the inventor of more arenic novel
ties than any other man living He was the first
equestrian director 10 go to Europe and bring
back with him the finest performers to be found
In the circuses OF Europe, and every large Euro
pean city has Its permanent circus. He Is still
the equestrian director OF the Adam Forepaugh
shows, just as he was for years during his faith
ers life, go that the shows are the same in every
material essential. Mr.. Cooper, however, has
introduced many new ideas into the shows, most
OF them based upon the plan OF making the cir
Gus so popular an institution that one visit a
year Is not sufficient but, rather, there should
De permanent ciFcuses in this country well az
IN EUROPE. To do this, he regarded as the first
thlng necessary an Improvement in the com
Tort OF the audiences and in the tone of the
SHOWS The queen of England finds delight in
Attenolng the circus. Mr. Cooper would have
the Aasm torerangh shows 80 conducted and
50 attractive that visit 10 them will be a pleas
ure to the queen OF every American household.