The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
A GREAT TREAT COMING.
Torepaugh-sells Great Circus Will
Soon Exhibit Here.

Among the callers at this office today
was Mr.. John E. Boyle, a press commits
| sioner of the great Adam F~orepaugn-
Sells Brothers consolidation. Mr.. Boyle
is an old-time newspaper man, having
| served many years as a practical printer,
! reporter and editor upon the leading news
| papers of Buffalo, Rochester and other
| Eastern cities. A desire to see the coun-
| trv. studied al close quarters, induced
| him to enter several years ago the circus
| business. Being a gentleman of keen OBJ
| s~ervation he has gained a fund of infor-
nation of great value, and 1T has mace
| him a conversationalist whom it is ex-
| tremely pleasant to meet. There IS a
| rather amusing c~ommingling OF the editor
and the Snowman in Mr.. Boyle. he mas
the bright, breezy style of a man OF the
world. who is familiar with all phases OF
life. as we'll as the style of a circus man.
Contrary to the usual opinion, circus
men are in private usually men of extreme
modesty, particularly regarding tnem-
selves, but when you come to speak Oh
their shows you can arouse their interest,",
and, in Mr.. Boyle's case, enthusiasm OF
the most pronounced type. Why, SAID
he this morning, you people do not know
what a great treat you have IN store.
When you see this Adam Forepaugh-Sels
Brothers consolidation you will forget
that you ever saw. any other circus. 1t IS
Just the very biggest thing that has ever
heen mt on wheels. 1t is the first time
in the history of the world where a show
has existed that is controlled by the same
people who control the show business in
both Europe and America. You know
what tina means. They just simply take
their choice Of the best of everything in
the arenic world.
ssYou know Mr.. Bailey owns the Bar
mum and Bailey show, and together with
Mr.. Cole, is a partner with Peter ana
Lewis Sells in this aggregation. Mr..
Bailey has made an English show of the
Barnum and Bailey exhibition. He has
got it over there and is going to keep it
there for a good many years-nobody
knows how maryland the result is that
when he gets hold of an extraordinarily
fine attraction or feature in Europe ne
uses it there for a time and then sends
It across the water to these shores, and
our people do the same with him-inter-
changing talent. 1t is a pretty dif1cuit
thing to say much about this show until
YOU have seen it, without being accused
of too much enthusiasm, but you just
wait until it comes here and see If what
I have told you is not true. 1t will be the
biggest thing you or anybody else ever
saw in the circus line. There is not a poor
in the show from start to finish-al1
stars. every one of them-and the best OF
II is that they cannot be duplicated in
this country. We nave got the finest lot
of horses as well as the greatest lot of
nerformers ever assembled, and more of
them. We have got the finest lot of ami
mails in the menagerie and the greatest
number of them that has ever been seen
in one show, and when it comes to ele-
plants, we nave got more elephants.
bigger elephants and better trained ele-
plants thar has ever been seen under one
canvas in the history of the world. l tell
YOU it is a pleasure to be able to come
into a newspaper office, as I am now, and
to know that the show back of me will
make good.
fright from the very start, at Madison
Square Garden in New York, this show
has had the finest notices from the press
of any arenie exhibition that has ever
been seen in this country, n you know
the New York papers well enough to
know that they are not giving praise to
a show that does not deserve it. The
Barnum and Bailey establishment was the
only show that exhibited in New York,
with the exception of the F~orepaugh
Show. for a good many years. Everybody
said that it would be just simply an inn
possibility for any organization to take its
place. but this show proved it otherwise.