The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-10
THE CIRCUS here TODAY.
The Street Parade and the Programme
Of Performances.

The announcement that the Barnum &,
Bailey greatest show on earth" will
give two performances to-day at East
Broad and Bolton streets has been prom
inent on bill-boards and in the newspa-
pers for the last three weeks.
The first order Of the day is the parade
The Barnum & Bailey parade OF this year
is said to outshine all other circus pa
rades In addition to the usual features
of the gorgeous chariots, open dens of
cages, elephants, camels, clowns, ponies,
fine horses, lady riders and jockeys, it
contains long section devoted to a spec
tacular pageant of the rulers of the earth
which is unique in the way of parade
features.
The line of march will be on Bolton,
to DraytOn, to Liberty, to
West Broad, to Broghton to
East Broad, to Bay, to Bull, to CASTOR,
to Drayton, to Bolton and back to the
show grounds The parade will move
promptly at 8 o'clock.
There Will be two performances, one at
2 O'Clock, and one at O'Clock The doors
viii open at l and Z o'clock. The part of
the show in the menagerie tent is given by
the Algerian dancing girls, the Bisknas,
the Dervish, the Australians, the Esqui-
maux, the Soudanese and other members
of the ethnic collection of strange and
savage peoples.
People who do not wish to so early, or
who are too busy to spare the time TO
push their way through the ticket wagon
can buy reserved seat tickets, or gen
eral admission tickets at EstilTs news
store, 2lla Bull street. The reserved seats
of the Barnum show are actually re-
served, and the tickets have numbered
coupons attached, exactly the same as in
first-class theaters.
The show has done a big business since
it began its tour of the south at so cents
admission. At Louisville, Nashville and
birmingham last week the ticket office
had to be closed before each performance,
because no more people could be accom-
modated under the mammoth tents At
Montgomery the seating capacity was
taxed and at Macon on Monday the big
tent was filled, although it rained steadily
and hard all day. The papers of each of
these cities, without a dissenting voice,
pronounce the show the best ever exhib-
tied.
The acrobatic features of the big show
this season are excellent. A study Of
che names on the programme is instruct
ing, as showing what part heredity
plays in the development of the human
body, as we'll in determining the mental
traits. The same line Of acrobatic work
is performed by a family for several gem
erations. Rose Meers, who does jaunty
Jockey riding act in Barnum & Bailey's
greatest show on earth, belongs TO a
family or riders. The equestrian line
runs certainly back to her grandfather on
her mothers side, but pretty Rose cannot
tell how much further. Her mother is
Adele Newsome, a crack rider in Eng
land, and James Newsome, Roses grand
father, was a circus proprietor. Her father
is Hubert Mecrs, a clown in Germany.
Rose herself is English, and she is one Of
seven daughters four of whom became
riders.
The acrobatlc clement he's been made
prominent in the programme of the Bar
mum d Bailey show this season. Hav-
Ing determined to drop the spectacle and
to restore many old-time circus numbers.
Manager Bailey secured half a hundred Of
the best leapers and tumblers in the coun-
try-men and women who can do doubles
and triples ana twisters, and corkscrews,
and backward filings with pirouettes, and
inaugurated the finest contests in these
specialities that have been seen in the
ring The equestrian department
was organized on the same scale with six
teen riders. For aerial acts he secured
the marvellous Eugenes. whose sensational
return act Is unapproachable, the Fam
oras, Long and Edwards, Juliette Nelson,
Maud Arlington, Mile. Vera and other
noted artists. The circus Itself is the best
circus Mr. Bailey ever put out. Yet Il Is
a small part only OF the big show, which
comprises also the menageries, the ami
mai circus, the chronological congress-a
great feature which rs carried by no other
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