Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-07
THE DIG SHOW HERE TODAY,
Barnum q Bailey to Give ENhip'-
tiops nj Head of Clay street.

The big Barnum & Bailey show will
give two performances here to-day. me
-FOUR special trains bringing the immense
combination fiSm- Washington were eex-
pected to arrive at an early hour this
morning. abe tents will be pitched AZ
the head OF Clay street, where many cir
cuses have exhibited in recent years. Inc
cars of both the Traction line and the
Richmond Railway aud Electric Company
20 quite near TO the grounds
The street parade, always a popular
feature with a great circus. is announced
10 leave the grounds about O'Clock ms
morning. 1t will take about an hour ano
q half TO cover the route through me
principai streets, including Broad. Inc
hours advertised for the performances are
and p NJ. 4.
The Barnum * Bailey menagerle Is
claimed TO be the finest collection OF eN-
pensve animals in the country anu IN
cludes a number of rare species nowhere
else TO be found. The wondeliul goiliid
Johanna is the most interesting OF the
animals and probably the most praihy
and intelligent animal ever III SaPpNiiy.
Johanna Is much younger than Chiko, the
first OF Mr. Bailey's pair OF goriiias, put
she has already developed greater inteIii-
gence than he possessed. with her tile
Initiative faculty is strong. and sne GOES
whatever she sees people about her dong,
as If anxious to get in the swim OF
human society. She wears skirts and
house wrappers. sits at the table ana eats
with knife and fork. smokes cigarettes
stirs her teddy with spoon, and drinks
n off like a seasoned old justice But even
moro interesting TO the thinking spectator
than the collection OF animals Is the
group of rare specimens OF humanity lhal
occupies the most prominent place under
the menagerie pavilion. Here are the
Orfssa Twins, Radica. and Doodica, TWO
young Hindoo girls. who are joined 10
gether by a more wonderful living ligd-
ture than the Siamese Twins. Ihey are
very pretty. and are Only ~ years 9In
Here also are the largest and the smallest
OF living humanty-Ella Ewing, a young
Missouri giantess. nearly nine feet tan
andIGreat Peter. the Small. wee mite
OF a IMAM only twenty-five incnes nlsn.
small enough TO SO 10 bed In Miss Ewing S
shoe. 49,
In addition to the other attractions Of
the menagerie tent. fine military band,
assisted by the beautiful young cornet-
aoloist Jesse Miller. gives a high-clas5
concert during the preliminary hour
OF 1.-The circus. II need only be said mat
itSis. the old Barnum q Bailey three-ring
circus. with Rose Wentworth. the Meers
sisters. William Showles, and other favor
lite friders; the Dunhams Silbons, Dun
hars. Potters. and other frst-class aerial
tsts. the Heras. Werts, and OBrien, and
other wonderful acrobats; LaRoche, the
mysterious ascensionist; John OBrien,
with seventy trained horses IN one ring,
besides trained elephants, bulls, bears,
dogs monkeys. hogs. lions. and tigers;
Jeasie Villars and Olga Olschanzky, the
only lady clowns. besides Peter Caban,
Harry IVY entworth. and a score or funny
fellows And IL all concludes with ex-
citing hippodrome races and the great
humping shorses Oxford exhibited by the
Eneiish eauestrienne. Miss Nellie Reid
and~tbe greatest American .horsewoman,
Nine. Marautette.