The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-28
UNDER Thu MAIN TENT
TWO LARGE AUDIENCES ENJOYED
THE .eFASHION-PLATE'' CIR
Gus YESTERDAY
RAIN PROVED NO DRAWBACK
Attention of Young and Old Alike,
and the Programmes Were Elk
celIent-ROugh Riders Made u
Huge Hit With the Patriotic
Crowds.

Huge Hit with the Patriotic
Crowds.
Everyone who had child or could
borrow one went to the circus yesterday
afternoon, and great many people went
anyway. AS a result the capacious tent
that covered the Walter L. Main masto-
don three-ringed circus was crowded
both in the afternoon and evening. There
was just enough rain to add a touch of
realism to the performance, but not
enough to spoil the general enjoyment.
AS usual the pink lemonade and peanuts
were in evidence and the sideshow man
reaped a harvest, but the interest reach
ed its climax in the great professional
entree foreshadowing all the good things
that were to come.
Horace Webb gave series of blood
curdling performances on the revolving
trapeze, while at the ring at the other
end the three La Petit brothers INDUCED
in graceful and difficult evolutions on the
aerial bars Then came display espe-
cially calculated to please the little floks
in James McElroyS sagacious troupe Of
trained ponies, drove of educated pigs
and Joseph Boris trained goats. Fol-
lowing the animals was a tournament of
champion leapers, gentlemen in pink
tights, who turned tremendous single and
double somersaults over pyramids Of eIe-
plants. camels and horses, apparently
without any effort at all.
Miss Maud de Alma exhibited her
trained pigeons and divided the interest
with Miss Royals sldllful trick tandem
driving and "Canandagua," the pony
that rode around on the backs of two
horses. apparently enjoying the situa-
ton. To add to the general happiness
Mr.. Kerslake balance himself on his head
on a trapeze and performed other won
derful and surprising feats that the
Werntz trio tried in vain to initiate in
another ring. Jerry Alton, to keep things
lively, performed upside down on
swinging bar, while everyone applauded.
The sixty-three trained horses, every
one a performer of surprising merit, oc-
cupied the center of the stage and were
succeeded by an exhibition of scientific
boxing by the Deldameads, who were
burlesqued in another ring by a couple
of enterprising and pugnacious clowns.
After them came equeStrienneS, cOmical
clowns, contortionists and the Werntz
family of six members, whose remarka-
BILE gymnaSic featS raised a ripple of
excitement among the impressionable
audience. Three wire acts came next on
the programme, to be succeeded by a
Seires Of mid-air performances, a bur-
lesque on "Trilby'' and most realistic
organ grinder and monk" The trained
mule, "Cyrano de Bergerac," Wed with
the twin mules, Jack" and "Jill," and
then were followed by a burlesque on
Sousa's band by the Main Clown band
After more acrobatic and equestrian spe-
cialties came the races that succeeded In
interesting everybody to the highest
pitch. The congress of rough riders came
in for a round Of applause as the
performed their evolutions in the ring,
and a man made an unsuccessful attempt
to race against horse. Although the
runner was distanced the race was ex-
citing and opened the way for the chill
dren's pony steeplechase, in which mon
key Jockeys piloted the little horses
around the track Afterwards a riderless
horse. raced with another ridden by a
Jockey in bright colored attire, and the
champion jumping horse. Geneva, cleaped
over an assortment of hurdles.
The fat race, run by horses ridden by
ladies and gentlemen riders proved very
exciting, and the four-horse chariot race
brought the large audience to it's feet. %
This was the last number on the regu-.
lar programme, but nearly everybody
stayed to the after-show, of which the
features were minstrels and a grand
cake walk that proved to be most
laughable and enjoyable affair. Alto
gether the Main circus came up to the
standard set by some Of the more pre-
tentious three-ringed shows that have
visited st. Paul.