The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-26
THE HUB TRANSPORTED.


The great and deservedly famous
menagerie. circus and hippodrome con-
solidation, which is TO exhibit In all Its
enormous entirety next Monday recently
scored "a week Of unprecedented triumph
in Boston, after similar buccesscs In other
cities The Boston papers devoted un-
usual space to Its attractions, fair ana
convincing example Of which Is given IN
tho following extracts from an extended
notice In the Herald:
"A good many thousand OF the people
OF Boston went 10 the circus yesterday-
the Forepaugh- Sells circus-and saw q
good many things worth seeing and talk
Ing about. And no doubt many who
went thinking that circus is always q
circus and never notably unlike all other
circuses walked out from under the great
stretch OF canvas when the performance
WAS over with their notions upset so con-
siderably that they will probably go
again, that they may get we'll liked IN
their minds the idsa OF what the circus
of the end Of the century Is really Ike,
and what IL comprehends.
Particularly IL was noticeable that the
clowns could be immensely funny without
resorting to antics or Jokes that might
offend sensitive people In first class
theater. Indeed, there was no feature oil
the performances in the three rings or on
the stage that would not bear the closer
inspection offered by the theater. The cos
tunes, for instance, OF every one OF the
performers and OF the large number ~
attendants as we'll. were notable FOR their
attractiveness, the taste displayed In their
design and for the wholesome cleanliness
that was characteristic OF them, ract
that was widely commented upon.
''In no theater could there have been so
remarkable "a demonstration OF the power
Of men over strange creatures OF the am
mai world as was afforded by the sight
OF the two great, numbering hippopotami
that ronmcd about the arena, unohained,
but instantly obedient 10 the direction OF
men they have come 10 know ana have
learned TO look 10 for direction. This fen
ture of the circus was but one OF many
not heretofore attempted.
Also there was the circus OF the sea
that inspired wonder. and won the ap-
plsuse OF the multitude-Capt. Wood
ward school of trained Alaska sea lions
and seals, that give, at hts direction toe
most aston ishing acts and limitations: the
clowns game of baseball. in which the
ball used was wholly thing OF imagiDa-
ton; the performance OF the herd or
elephants; that dance and do many other
remarkable things; the sensational rid
ing Of a bicycle, both bicycle and rider
sustained as by miracle, upside down !;
these and many other things no less
worth seeing were better seen under the
vast expanse of canvas than they could
possibly have been seen elsewhere-all
this without mention of the horseback
riding in the rings, the races that were
real races, or the performance OF famously
well trained ponies, and sacred Hlndoo
cattle-all this, too, with no word OF
menageries, In which animals OF every
country and many climates are repre-
sented.
Taken in the ensemble, it was clearly
evident TO those who attended the circus
yesterday that, while one circus may ro
semble another in many respects II has
been possible 10 get one together which
coinb bines the notable features OF all cir
cuses, and has many features distinctly
its own -