New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-11
THE CIRCUS SEASON AT HAND.
GREAT MORAL SHOW GREATER THAN
EVER
HARD TINES HAVE 80 EFFECT On ITS TREAS
URY-sOME OF THE STRIKING FAT
TRES or THE AGGREGATION
+ BRIDGEPORT.

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People may dispense with The Injuries Of life in
these hard times. but the necessaries they must
have. and first among the later in season. Is
the circus Conscious Of the ever-present want in
this direction. Mr. Bailey. the managing partner
OF The Greatest show on Earth" which Is also
a Great Moral Show" and is especially designed
to teach the youth Of America that there are more
things in heaven and earth than are dreamed OF IN
their Biographies has got that aggregation all in
order for the usual summer campaign OF educa-
ton. and it is about ready to start ont from the
Bridgeport winter quarters. Yesterday the season
opened The annual parade or newspaper men
"eventuated" at Bridgeport The band-wagon came
forth in all the glamour Of Connecticut req pant
to receive the score of visitors who came up from
New-York on one OF Professor II. i. "Tody Hamii-
tons personally conducted" tours. The six white
horses gave their annual imitation of 'prancing
stceds" and Byron Rose the veteran master OF
transportation of the circus world. himself al
justed the lre-cscapes by which the chariot SIDES
are scaled and conveyed the party out 10 the
winter quarters OF the show.
There are clrcuses and crcuses but the Great
Moral Snow IS the only original circus on the
block and this year II Is going TO BE- even more
so than usual. Panics may come and panlcS may
60 but the treasury over which Mr. rlsh preslueS
with unfaing cheerfuness knows not depi'lol'
and the preparations for the season OF 1874 nave
been made upon the usual lavish scale. on Mon
v. 70.
down upon the New-York fold. cleaning III more
than Assyrian purple and gold. The features OF
novelty In this seasons prospectus are TOO h"''e'
Gus and soul-stlrring FOR description by any one
not having the circus vocabulary az MS pen po.s;
The street parade Is 20 be expanded ana eapoid'er
until IL stops just one degie" snort oi t1uorauo U
wheels with Charles vs. entry INTO Nlt"t.P ~.
an advance guard. Columbus and his wcarIsonle
pageantry have been relegaied 10 the oDscuIIf iyI
Wmrrs Fair and in place thereof the circus proper
win be restored ia pristine glory and Grand
is guaranteed to be more amusing than the W ASH
ingon article. though OF course even MI. na,,fS
"a great variety Of freaks as are on exhibition al
the Capitol ,,,.- $3.50. ~ ,.roo,-., under John
O. Brien's experienced eye, were shown 10 the
visitors in the practice ring YESTERDAY tr-eh,y
of ali the old iayortes OF the Former circus CONS
age IS promised The little lady with lace petu.
coat the piebald horses IN short al mat Was pzs
80 the Old and most daring Of the ne" VIII jazz
The circus lover AT Madison square Garden ne
spectacle Of the premiere eqpes,nsnhS W
dancing on the back OF a horse IN me uilsy nsn
OF the winter quarters Is OF eoutse Us ~,t
the accessories OF spangles and gaslght ana pam
music but the wonderful agility OF me gGG.Y.
women was all the more apparent IN yesterday
performances under the former conaiuSns -
Linda Jea. Miss Eftie Dutton ana MISS , ibs,
women OF strong and flexible UNDERSTANDINGS car
accomplish on hoTseo Naypo r' lane weaving tn,
many -colored ribbons about tne POI. ~ we Ens
that the young men and malens ~ M''''v H"s
land were wont 10 DO. singing
The maypole dance very pretty tune.
Ne dance = the olAng Of our wooden shooh
8, tho DAYS before the Puritan suppressed THIS
along with Charles ana various olnsr IL, ,ns"'n
tons Frank Melville gave hne exhib''ioh u
bareback riding on trick trotting horse
over i'm the animal house the Ethnolokica Congress
was in session In Committee OF the Mhoe on I'M
s,ate Of their union. Trainer Albert Stadler occu
Mod the chair and welded the Savel ~ inc SNAP
81 a whip about twenty feet long Two sh.aS,
lions. George and Joe sat on theh isspsrss ~ ~.
proceedings Marcel ana Lulu' enormous He,n ,,
bloodhounds trotted about ana assisted IN ksyp,i,'
order Leopards and partners shari.u. III NJ,
ard "a little bear completed the constellation &c
tbe loud cracking OF Stadler's whlp inc ahiuiaI
went through nearly an me besp FOUND himself
he top of the pyramid. with "a Hons nose "l,hli
about four inches of him on either sue ne "sp
copously and let out sou M leave home an,
seemed to say: "Oh, why ulu ie"'" "'D 49,
mother for this - .,.,, ,,,,i. coon
which rocked not o. danger ne a'e sds",. io,,
other things fed to him by the generous he"spap
men and never winked. When Coroett, tm n, nor
pugnacious OF the ieopards took nnou.n .U mo
| rIr ont OF the small Of his back. Max was mo
arily embarrassed. but he climbed Jauhtly !"
| the top OF the cage as soon as reedseu ny III
| ever-ready whip OF the trainer ,,,. >,
nartment is larger this year than ever before ah'
George Arstingstall. who Is again with MT Baiey
after a wear : absence. has the little elephant BAD
| Ruth trained waltz ana 90 the Iockstep VII
| two shetland ponies and two German mastins. IN
| vearllng elephant TOdler Is too young To do any
thing but wiggle his trunk and look solemn IN
| tigers and panthers In the menagerie had "A trea
| In The shape OF live sheep and goats. IN
| big cats seized the poor little wooy intruders b.
| the nape OF the neck upon their first appearance
| and the sharp teeth OF the carnVora cut throug
| their cervical vertebrate In short order. The mora
| OF this IL that the lamb has more show II
Bridgeport than in Wall Street.