Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-04-27
A GREAT TREAT IN STORE.


Adam Forcpaugh-seiIs Brothers' oonsoIi.
dation TO VISIT This CITY.
Among the callers at this office today
was Mr.. John f. Boyle, press com.
missioner of the great Adam Fore
paugh Sells Brothers. Consolidation.
Mr.. Boyle is an old-time newspaper
man, having served many years as o
practical printer, reporter and editor
upon the leading newspapers OF Buff
falo, Rochester and other Eastern
cities. A desire to sec the country.
! studied at close quarters, induced him
| to enter several years ago the circus
business. Being u gentleman of keen
observation he has gained fund of
| information Of great value, and it has
made him conversationalist whom
| IL IS extremely pleasant to meet. There
| is rather amusing commingling OF
the editor and the Snowman in Mr..
| Boyle He has the bright, breezy style
of man of tho world, who is familiar
with all phases of life, as we'll as the
| style of circus man.
Contrary to the usual opinion, circus
men arc in private usually men of
extreme modesty, particularly regard
ing themselves, but when you come
to speak of their shows you can arouse
their interest, and, in Mr.. Boyle's
case, enthusiasm of the most rro-
nounced type. why" said he this
morning, ''you people do not know
what great treat you have in store.
When you see this Adam Forepaugh-
Sells Brothers Consolidation you will
forget that you ever. saw any other
circus. 1t is just the very biggest
thing that has ever been put on wheels.
L. L.. 4.
world where a show has existed that
control the show business in both
Europe and America. You know what
that means. They just simply take
their choice of the best of everything
in the arenic world. You know Mr..
Bailey owns the Barnum and Bailey
show, and together with Mr.. Cole,
is partner with Peter and Lewis
Sells in this aggregation. Mr. Bailey
has made an English show of the Bar
mum and Bailey exhibition He has
got it over there and is going to keep
it there for good many years-nobody
knows how maryland the result is
that when he gets hold of an extra
ordinarily fine attraction or feature
in Europe he uses it there for a time
and then sends it across the water to
these shores, and our people do the
same with him-interchangin talent.
1t is pretty difficult 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 /
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 poor act in the show from start
to finish--all stars, every one of them
land the best of it is that they cannot
be duplicated in this country. We
have got the finest lot of horses as
} well as the greatest lot of performers
} ever assembled, and more of them. We
} have got the finest lot of animals 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 have got more elephants,
bigger elephants and better trained
elephants than has ever been seen under
one canvas in the history of the world.
] I tell you it is pleasure to be able tc
! come into newspaper office, as l an
now, and to know that the show bach
Of me will make good.
Fright from the very start, at Madi
son Square Garden in New York, thi:
T show has had the finest notices from
the press of any arenic exhibition tina
D has ever been seen in this country
3 and you know the New York papers
i we'll enough to know, that they are no
3 giving praise to a show that does no
l deserve it. The Barnum and Bale.
establishment was the only show tina
8 exhibited in New York, with the ex
ception of the Forepaugh show, for
8 good many years. Everybody said tina
: it would be just simply an impossi
Y bility for any organization to take it
: place, but this show proved it other
: wise. 1t just packed the Garden from
| the time we opened until we closed
4 and good many of the people sale
y that the impossible thing had hap
4 pened. Forepaugh and Sells Brother
Q are just as strong names now as an,
d others that have ever been used il
, that city to attract the patronage o
Y the New York public to circus. Ant
: right while l am on this subject,
Q want to say to you emphatically, an,
without any reservation whatever, tina
y you are going to get the same shoy
n here in every detail-I do not care hoy
y small it is--that was given in Ney
Q York City,"
t And then the genial editor-agen
Il bowed himself out.