St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
THE CIRCUS.

THE CIRCUS.
The Barnum & Bailey show paid
a visit to st. Johnsbury on Tuesday,
and was greeted by big crowd of
people as usual, many coming in by
team and train from surrounding
towns to "see the elephant" and
hear the lion roar.
The parade, which began its
march up Eastern Avenue at 10 a.
m., was fine one-about the best
of its kind ever seen here. The horses
were in splendid trim, showing
excellent care; the large number
of cute ponies were especially adj
mired full delegation of huge
elephants carried themselves with
ponderous dignity; the open cages
of wild animals, each cage contain
irg keeper, excited considerable
attention, and a special feature
in which the younger portion of the
spectators were interested was the
long line Representations of histor-
ical scenes and Mother Goose" in
cidents. Everybody voted it an ad-
mirable parade, with plenty of mu-
sic and containing not few new
things. 1t moved up Main street to
Winter, thence down Summer to Cen
trail and down Main to the fair
ground, giving the crowd ample
chance TO view it.
The rain interfered seriously with
the attendance at the afternoon per-
formance, but did not affect the
quality of the entertainment. The
show was undoubtedly the best ever
seen in St. Johnsbury. There was a
good variety in the menagerie and
the animals looked sleek and fine.
"Chiko," the gorilla, attracted a
great deal of attention and amused
the multitude with his antics. Be-
sides the animals usually seen in the
menagerie there was giant rhinoc-
eros with two horns, a big hip
popotamus and kerry cow.
The circus performances were of a
high order and many equestrian
feats were executed never seen before
in St. Johnsbury. The bare-bacb
e ridirg elected much praise and sew
e eral of the riders jumped from the
ground to the back Of a running
i horse. The audience is always in
terested in trained animals and there
e was a great variety of these per
!, formances. Two herds of trained
elephants were shown simultaneous
i ly with the little clown elephant
i whose tricks amused everybody. Tht
n tenth display in the programme in
Il cluded trained dogs and goats, Prof
Welton's trained cats, pony anc
monkey and some Russian bears
i To many this exhibition of th'
Z wonderful intelligence of animals
j was the best part of the show. Th'
v aerial acts, the acrobatic feats ant
the japanese jugglery were all good
: The hippodrome contests are never
II old and the races by the fleet ant
y handsome horses were full of excite
II ment. A wonderful exhibit of Ions
and high leaps were given Th'
leaping horse with Mr.. Queensbury
on his back cleared six foot hurdle
= handsomely and then took lont
jump of over 10 feet. The per
formance closed with the presenta
t tion of Kiralfy's Columbus" Thi'
Il is produced on a magnificent scal'
!. with all the costumes historically &C
curate. Artists were sent to Spair
!. to reproduce the scenes at Palos, sc
that the scenery at Tuesdays per
t formance was absolutely correct
q The whole spectacle presents series
of realistic tableaux and professions
5 far grander than anything before
J., attempted. Columbus" is fitting
D close to the greatest show or
q earth"