New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
THE CIRCUS NEIT WEEK.
1T WILL FOLLOW THE WILD WEST AT THE
GARDEN FOR A SHORT PERIOD.

Some of the boys have been wondering. in all the
| storm and stress of the Wild West. where the cir
was in. Let no youthful heart be
troubled The circus is coming in just in its usual
place Its usual place is the Madison Square Gar
| den and 1t will in there soon as the Wild
| West goes out-that is TO say, the Wild West will
retire next Saturday night and the circus Will be-
| gin moving In at the same time or perhaps a little
sooner. II will be ready To he seen by the public
| on the evening of the following Monday. Its stay
| this year will be short-ony two weeks being set
, down for IT, II is making its start little later
than usual, and the weather. il is hoped. will he
tempting by the end of that period and the circus
will ready betake itself to tents, instead of
d roof
Some people think that the circus is not just
what il when they were young That is be-
cause 1t long ago that they were young
that they cannot quite remember If they will look
| over little of the circus literature of this year
they will find out their mistake. 1t is all new. and
yet nothing sounded more circusy- 'Tody
Hamilton himself could not write any finer Eng
lish than the person, whoever he is. who has
dipped his pen in the midnight oil TO tell the coun-
try what it is to expect from this years circus.
Three publications have been issued thus far one
of them is entitled "A Pan-Continental Combina-
ton Concentration and Consolidation" The other
bear the title. namely. The Adam Fore
uauch and Sells Brothers Twentieth Century Col
ossus.' But they different in their styles
If they had been written by different authors.
One is for the Youngest readers and Is in the form
instruction. The other is of more advanced sort
and bears its cover picture of a brass statue
bestriding the world. 1t would be pleasant
to quote extensively from these three works, but
space will permit only extract. This will be
enough however show the literary spirit which.
to a greater less extent, runs through ALL and 1T
must be admitted that writer who do this
can probably anything. 1t appears that the
work is intended for circulation chiefly outside
New-York City, and the gifted author says
In Consolidation Perpetual In Union Indvisihle
Will BE Brought Your Very Doors Intact in All
their Illmitable immensely: Every Act that New
York Applauded. Eyery Feature that me MetT9po
Marvel Every Sensation that Startled Huge
Gotham Every Element and Entity That Enthused;
Amphitheatre of Madison Square Garden VIII Be a
Part and Parcel of the ProdiSious Performances in
this City.
Now If there is anybody who thinks that the cir
Gus has degenerated will he kindly inform the pub
lic through these columns what circuses had 10
say for themselves more than this in his day?
The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus
arrived in town yesterday and went into camp at
Ambrose Park South Brooklyn. The show, with all
its men. wild animals horses chariots. cages,
trucks wagons apparatus. furniture, properties.
costumes and whatever else goes to make UP a
circus reached Jersey City in the morning and
the transfer to South Brooklyn was at once begun.
1t was terrific job. for the way thither, across
ferry Manhattan. over the island across the
bridge and through Brooklyn took about four
hours for each wagon and the circus people were
certainly tired lot of when the day was
over and IL was not over till we'll into the night.
The elephants We're taken by a special ferryboat
from Jersey City directly to Ambrose Park. but
almost everything else went by the route already
described.