Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-06
IT WAS SHOW DAY
And Everybody Was on Hand-Einest Performance Ever Seen in
 This City.

It was show day in Birmingham, and ev- erybody- and Barnnm & BaiIey's greatest show on earth was also on hand. It is al- most incredible to believe, but there were people in this city yesterday who had trav- eled 205 miles for the purpose of seeing the two greatest wonders of the nineteenth century, the Magic City of the south and the greatest aggregation ever presented under canvas.
 Much had been promised on the bill boards and through the columns of the AaE- HERALD and other papers, much was ex- pected and much was seen. In fact and without exaggeration Barnum & Baiiey's two performances in this city were far be. yond anything ever witnessed or thought of by the pleasure loving people of this dis trict. At the afternoon performance the full seating capacity of the countless array
 of seats, piled tier above tier, was taxed to the utmost and the night performance al- most the same.
 It is safe to say that fully 20, ,0oO witnessed
 a first class menagerie, complete in every
 department; an ethnic department without single omission, in itself more than
 worth the price of admission, and three.
 ring circus unexcelled for daring aerial
 feats, skillful equestrian acts, acrobatic
 features of the highest order, and for clean-
 liness impossible to be criticised. For the
 first time in the history of Birmingham ring performance was given during which the audience was not infested with horde of peanut and circus lemonade tyrants. Another most commendable feature was the more than courteous attention paid to patrons by the little army of ushers, who
 spared no pains in seating the 2Oo0 persons who held reserved seat checks, and those who were less fortunate had to depend on these efficient people for good positions wherefrom the entire performance could be seen.
 The introductory to the performance was countries, with people ffon all parts of the world in the procession. This was greeted with applause, but when the band struck up 'Dfxiep as the inlrod dhctory to the ap- pearance of Uncle Sam and America gen uine southern yell was heard, which was a 1 fitting tribute to the efforts of the mansg | CTS of the show.
 This feature was followed by acrob atic feats of startling daring of the Bark Ben-
 Achmet family. comprising fsthsr, mother.
 two daughters and ason. They were with out doubt excellent, and could not be im- proved upon.
 The aerial work of Rose Wentworth, Mile. Vera and Alfredo Nelson, the Mexican boy wonder, elicited the warmest praise. The dancing horses, one of whom, coal
 black, was worth his weight in silver, were the delight of the ladies and chiidre D !,
 and then too, the hugo ungainly elephants in their efforts, to gay nothing of the dogs, | pigs and monkeys, could not be downed. | Rose Meers, tho greatest female bareback rider, won round upon rou9d of applause
 for her work, while Showles and DsAi ott were way beyond the so-callsd greatest bareback riders.
 The three Eugenes in mid-air, suspended between the canvas roof and the hard ground on slender trapeze wires, gave the
 most startling exhibitions of trapeze work ever seen by the oldest circus patrons and | were treat to behold.
 | There were others, too many in fact to dwell upon, but they were there and the good work they did was not unappreciated.