The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-25
A CITY MADE OF CANVAS.
The Great Forepaugh-Sells Brothers
United shows Arrive in Town.

| The Great FOrepauEh-Seiis BrOthers
United shows Arrive in Town.
The Forepaugh- Sells United Shows will
| give free street demonstration in Wash
| ington this morning over the following
| route:
Leaving the circus grounds on North
| Capitol and L at 9 O'Clock this morning
sharp, and traversing the following
| streets. AT that hour they will leave the
| exhibition grounds and proceed down NJ
| Street to Seventh; thence to X and out X
| 10 Washington Circle; thence back down
| Pennsylvania Avenue TO Fifteenth Street;
| down Fifteenth Street to Pennsylvania
| Avenue, to Four and half Street; up to
| d Street; thence to Third Street TO X, and
| from there back TO the city OF canvas. The
| Inauguration of the parade will occur
promptly at 8 O'Clock. The afternoon per-
| Torrance will commence at . and evening
| at s O'Clock. The four gates Of entrance
VIII open one hour earlier to allow inspec-
ton of the Geological Garden, and TO those
musicallr inclined to listen to one hour
concert by a symphony band of over sixty
musicians. This world-renowned institu-
ton covers nearly eight acres OF ground
with canvas. The seating capacity in the
main tent, without crowding. is over six
teen thousand. The performances are given
in three rings and two elevated stages, and
an actual one-mile hippodrome track. The
shows have just concluded a remarkably
successful engagement of two weeks and
three days at the Madison Square Garden
in New York City, where the seating ca
pacity of this immense amusement palace
was packed TO its utmost twice a day dur
ing that period From New York City this
institution jumped to Baltimore. where
they exhibited Monday and Tuesday. The
old conservative Baltimore newspapers
have united in prohouncing IL one of the
grandest amusement enterprises that has
ever visited the Monumental City. There
were about / 100 people employed In Civ
ing the shows in New York City and there
will be about l, 100 people employed in CIV
ing the shows in Washington on Wednes-
day and Thursday, as, with the exception
of the execution of one elephant. there
will not be one absent member from the
original roster of the shows.
Since the departure to England of the
Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Forepaugh
and Sells Brothers aggregation has come
to be regarded as Americas big city show
The New York papers have devoted much
space to the clown contingent. There are
twenty-five of them in burlesques and ira
vesties on the fads fashions and follies of
the day. AT numerous times they have the
entire arena TO themselves One OF their
band a palpable burlesQae on the we'll
known bandmaster and his body of must
clans. 1t is said to be ar extremely lu-
dicrous affair.
Another well advertised feature is the
company of nineteen male and female
equestrians in exhibitions of every kind of
bareback riding. A novelty will be the
appearance of two cake walking" horses
There will be numerous trained animals
and the greatest OF these will be Captain
Woodward's school Of trained seals and
sea lions. Their performance is of such
an extraordinary and startling nature that
the New York World on last Sunday
devoted page to a story OF 1t.
Hassan Ali, the Egyptian Giant, said to
be the tallest man in the world, is making
his first tour OF the United States as fea-
ture of the ForeDaugh- Sells show. There
will be numerous and sensational aerial
performances and any number of acrobatic
acts