The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-16

management in the advertisement sets forth a variety of statements saying that if any other show claims to have more railroad cars, elephants, camels' dens and cages, tents, horses, clowns, performers etc, than Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, they deny the state ments in tota. They also state that the capital of the Forepaugh and Sells Bros is greater than that of all the other shows in America combined, and that all that they advertise to do they perform.
 Circus enterprise has undoubtedly reached it's limit in the combined Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers show. The big tent of the Forepaugh-Sells combine has from year to year grown larger and larger, and has heretofore taxed even the visual capacity of cross eyed people; but now that the length of 625 feet and a width of 275 feet has been attained one can hardly perceive any possibility of further extension. Fifteen thousand people can be comfortably seated at a single performance in thls great amphitheater The actual daily expenses, rain or shine, reach the un- precedented figure of $7,20O'
 The Forepaugh show, one of the larg- est on earth, was in 1896 combined with the entire Sells Brothers plant, almost equal it's size, and the combination is stated to be most decidedly the great est unfication of circus features ever seen in one enclosure The big tented affair is directed and operated by the IL. t,a James A. Bailey, now dazzling the Brit ishers with the Barnum-Bailey show; the famous Sells Brothers, Peter and Lewis, and w, w. Cole. who has just returned to American management after ten years career in circus exploitation in Paris, Berlin and Vienna. The gen eral offices and headquarters of the show are at Madison Square Garden, New York The great arenic aggrega- ton comes here fresh from signal tri- umphs in New York Brooklyn and Phil adelphia. It comes intact: every feat and feature shown in those cities will be exhibited in this city
 The menageries of the Forepaugh- Sells establishment are said to be the most phenomenal collections of the kind ever assembled. Among the perform ing animals are three distinct groups of tarined elephants, taught in different schools and entirely unlike. Eight of the largest Forepaugh contingent dance quadrille, which is said to be the most remarkable exhibition of animal training on record. Captain WoodWard's seals and sea lions-the only group of the kind in the world-will rejoice the youngsters especially. Another rare treat for the children will be the unique performance of the baby elephant Cuba and Indian zebra and a group of Hungarian ponies in one grand frolic. Jules Carr's educated grizzly bears are another animal act' sensation
 The equestrian, aerialistic, acrobatic and hippodrome acts are numerous and novel. Most of them were especially engaged in Europe.
 Towering among the host of Tital fea- lures will be Hassan Ali, the Egyptian giant. He is making his first tour of the United States as a feature of the Forepaugh-S Sells show. Hassan Ali is said to be even taller than Chang, the Chinese giant Other novel and aplaZ- ing features occur so frequently in the three hours programme that mere mention of them would occupy ,re space than at command.
 The Inaugural event of '4-Paw-Sells Day" will be the street processional dis play of the combined shows that will leave the exhibition grounds at 9:30 a. m. and traverse the principal thorough fares of the city