San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-20
AT THE BIG CIRCUS.

Texas Gives the Greatest Show on
Earth a Tremendous Greeting.
The Barnum & Bailey show is to
exhibit here on Saturday, the 26th
inst, and comes Endorsed by the
Dallas Daily News in three col.
umns of communication, from
which the following extract is
made:
elbow are your overtaXed eyes
this morning? is question the
News may pertinently put to some
thirty odd thousand people, OF
every color, class and calling, who
yesterday either poured into Dallas
on trains and by wagons or out OF
its residences, shops and factories,
thronging every vantage point on
the principal streets to see tri-
umphal, cosmographic and wild
beast pageant, whose rare and glo-
rious features would have made
eclipsed imperial Nero smash his
fiddle in enviOus rage. The masses
as we'll as the philosopher Of the
sawdust can certify that there are
shows and shows-big and little,
and good, bad and Indifferent. 1t
is also a self-evident proposition
that there can be but one greatest
show on earth, and both the old
and new world claim that the Bar
mum & Bailey one is justly entitled
to assume and continuously wear
that title. This is why it was spe-
cially solicited to inaugurate the
grand "Olympia" in London, Eng
land, Madison Square garden, New
York city, and the still bigger Chi
cago Coliseum 1t is true that
liberal, strong and enlightened adj
vertising has much to do with its
prestige and a combined state fair
and champion prize fight attend
ance every day and everywhere,
but an equal factor is the univer-
sally demonstrated fact that the
big show faithfully keeps it's big
promises and fills the bill every
time, whether in Texas or before
Queen Victoria. Some of those
who saw it yesterday assumed or
had been told that it would not all
be here. What do they think
now ? If any appreciable part of it
has been left behind, Texas, big as
she is, could not furnish accessible
grounds to hold it, and, in the
words of well known general
freight agent, eff anybody wants
more show they will have to haul
it themselves; we can not"
GAS was proved to Dallas yester-
day with this stupendous enter
prise in reality, assertion and de-
scription alike halt behind actual
presentation, and more worth see
ing is shown than advance herald
ing or after notice can SATISFACTORY
ly compass. Even the eye itself
becomes dazzled and confused in
the vain attempt to focus the over
whelming feast of animate human
and geological wonders, and the
rapid and Titanic flood of feats and
! features in the several rings, the
air, the steel-bound arena and the
miniature lake and upon the ele-
waited stages and hippodrome
track. The show has grown and
grown until it is far bigger and
better than in P. #. Barnum's day,
and seems now to have reached the
utmost limit of transportation and
exhibition possibilities. RecOllec-
ton of transient occurrences are
not always reliable, and in the
present the past is often over
looked. This, added to a kindly
disposition to say pleasant things,
often induces the remark that the
last show was the biggest and best;
but in only one instance will facts
and figures sustain the assertion.
Compare the original, novel, in
structive, and entertaining re-
sources Of all other shows with
those of the Barnum & Bailey Co
lossus and the people say they are
simply not in it,"
sit is worry of remark that in
this show there is no pinchbeck,
no tlummery, no cheap tinsel. In
side and out it is as solid as un-
limited resources can make it,"
With two little children sub
ject to Group we do not rest easy
without bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy in the house, for
the most severe attacks quickly
succumb to few doses of it.
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