The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-08
ARRIVAL OF THE CIRCUS
THE snow DISEMBARKS HERE
 YESTERDAY MORNING.

A Great Display Under Canvas This After
 noon and Eyening-A Look at Ringing
 Brothers Big Circus and Menagerie-The
 Street Parade To-day Will be Fine One.
 For the first time since 1876 the people of New Haven had an opportunity to stroll about the tents of circus on Sunday, The Ringing Brothers cir GUS, undoubtedly the best In the land, rolled Ninto this city yesterday morning about o'colck from Bridge port. It was in four sections and each section was not small one either. It was about all the powerful locomotives could do to pull the big trains and as one of the firemen said to @ Courier" reporter: q did nothing but shovel coal and rake at the fire from the time we left Bridgeport until we struck the Long Wharf crossing"
 Just as soon as the first train reach ed this city the cars were unloaaed and all the paraphernalia was quickly hus- tied to the circus lot at the corner of Hobart street and Edgewood avenue. It seemed only an instant when the menagerie tent, the dressing, driving and horse tents, blacksmith tents and all other kinds of tents with the cXcep- | ton of the main performing tents were erected. It was an immense spread of canvas, and when the big tents are put 1 up to-day there will be seen a sight such as was never witnessed before in New Haven in years past. Every avail- | able space on the immense lot will be used for tent work.
 Yesterday afternoon few newspaper men accompanied by he press agents spent Sunday under the canvas. There were hundreds of people who devoted the afternoon to spending the day un- I der the sun outside of the tents. This | Is what the newspaper men saw in the big menagerie tent. First beautiful white horse hitched close to the herd of elephants Whenever they are sep ! arated the horse will whinny, and with trumphet the elephants will dash tc their companion and friend and place l him at their head, no matter what the l consequences might be to the horses rider. Then in .he herd is the finest | Trilby, that was even born in this coun- try. She can perform all manner ol feats and has been trained by one o1 1 the women performers connected witt l the show.
 l The geological specimens all through and the 400 horses, from the smalles horse in the world, Prince. to the i'm mense draught Percherons, are tn finest ever seen in the stae of Cennec ticut or any othe state for that matter There is another great feature whscl will be seen to-day, and that is a. cag' with two lionesses and their cubs. Il one part of the cage there is a liones with three cubs seven weeks old, ant | in the other one with one cub fou weeks old. Not far from them and a
 one end of the tent there is Mamie,
 a giraffe, who is wonder. John Gref ten, who has been her keeper since 1884 says she has more intelligence than ; great many people.
 Leading from the left one can see tn finest and most superb den of lion ever placed on exhibition. That Is tn pronounced opinion of Hagenbeck, th
 greatest lion expert in the world. An, then there is no question but that tn people will follow the route of cage and see the Yak, and the gunacnos When one of the latter was asked | it wished to be interviewed 1t resorte to its practice Of self defense ard sri lat the interviewer.
 But one thing that struck the observ
 CT was the kitchen and dining tents l Everything was as clean as wax. Thi is what the workmen had for sur
 per last night: Roast beef with nes
 potatoes, pork and beans, coffee an
 tea, hot biscuits, steam plum puddin
 with wine sauce. The principal pei formers only take one meal at the ten
 and they get the same food as is serve
 to the canvasmen.
 The circus Is an elegant on
 as the press of the ccuntr
 declare. The very best of compl ments have been showered upon 1t an judging from the expressions showere
 upon 1t by the visitors yesterday. tn
 big tent will not be able to hold thos ; this afternoon and tonight who wi clamor for admission. One special fes ture on the admission price which al.
 fers from the Barnum show is ths
 children under twelve years, not min lyears, will be admitted at half price.
 The parade to-day will be as follow
 THE ROUTE OF THE PARADE.
 Start from show grounds, Whale
 avenue to Elm street, to St. John,
 Greene, to Wooster place, to Chapel,
 Sherman avenue, to Elm, to the sho
 grounds. The start will be at abol
 o'clock. The show will exhibit on u
 Hobart lot, near to the Elm City Dri' ing park on Elm street. The afternoo performance opens at 2 o'clock.
 Liberatrs band will not be seen the performance. They appear in Il
 concert only enc hour before each pc formance. Reserved seat tickets ca
 be obtained at Loomis Temple of M