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


The Forepaugh Sells United Shows will
give a free street demonstration in Wash
ington this morning over the following
route:
Leaving the circus grounds on North
! Capitol and / at . O'Clock this morning
sharp. and traversing the following
/ streets. Al that hour they will leave the
exhibition grounds and proceed down NJ
/ Street to Seventh; thence 10 K and out X
| 10 Washington Circle; thence back down
! Pennsylvania Avenue to Fifteenth Street;
| down Fifteenth Street to Pennsylvania
| Avenue. to Four and a 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 g O'Clock The afternoon per
| Torrance will commence at . and evening
| at 5 O'Clock. The four gates Of entrance
! Will open one hour earlier TO allow inspec-
tion Of the Geological Garden, and TO those
musicallr inclined 10 listen to one hour
concert by a symphony band Of over sixty
musicians. This world renowned institu-
tion 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 aud Tuesday The
old conservative Baltimore newspapers
have united in pronouncing Il one Of the
grandest amusement enterprises hat 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
10 be regarded as Americas big city show.
The New York papers have devoted much
space 10 the clown contingent. There are
twenty-five Of them in burlesques and ira
vesties on the fsds fashions and folltes of
the day. At numerous times they have the
entire arena to themselves One Of their
clever conceits is called the 500 See"
band. a palpable burlesQue on the we'll
known bsndmaster and his body Of must
clans Il is said to be an 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 greafpgr ~ these will 10 Cart,fr
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 a page TO a story OF IT,
Hassan All, the Egyptian Giant. said to
be the tallest man in the world is making
his first tour OF the United States as a fea-
ture OF the Forepaugh Sells show There
will be numerous and sensational aerial
performances and any number Of acrobatic
acts.