The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-29
A GOOD AND BIG CIRCUS
FINE SHOW OF THE FOBEP4UGH- - SELLS BR0THERS' AGGREGATION

Unforeseen Delay ut the Outset Was For
 given After the Doors Were Opened
 Some of the Leading gFeatures-Seatin;
 Capacity Taxed to Its Utmost.
 Yesterday was circus day and Nev
 Haven lived up to it's reputation as be-
 ing one of the best circus towns in tht
 state, for at both the afternoon and
 evening performances the great show
 tent of the Forepaugh and Sells Broth
 CTS, which was pitched in the Hubin-
 ger lot, was packed to it's doors as the
 theater people say. The circus was one
 Haven and will long bemembered by
 all who attended it. There were fea-
 lures, the like of which has never been seen here before and the skill of the artists was marvellous. The riding, tumbling, juggling, feats of daring,
 were the equal of anything seen here in many years and the applause that greeted the many acts was deserving, every bit of it.
 The day turned out to be a good sunny, 'red-lemonadey, peanutty'' day that everybody wishes for on such an occasion and in consequence fully 12,0o0 men, women and children piled into the tent in the afternoon and this number was swelled a thousand or two in the evening, although the seating capacity of the arena is said to be only 12,000. Everybody can get into a circus tent, if he has the price, and if 15,000 people presented themselves they would proba- bly all be placed
 There was delay of over an hour and @ half in the whole proceedings yester- day, caused by a strike of the employees in Bridgeport Monday night after the show in that city. The men were stub- born and after they delayed getting out of that city for about two hours they gave in and in consequence the big freight loads of baggage, animals, etc, did not get to New Haven until after 6:30 yesterday morning. The regular time for arriving in the city is between 8 and 4 o'clock. This put everything back and the parade did not start from the grounds until 1 o'clock, somewhat disappointing the thousands who lined the curbs all along the line of march. The parade when it did go its rounds was a good one and the youngsters and their escorts were well repaid for their wait.
 At the grounds the usual early crowd began to assemble about 1 o'clock and when they got to the tents they found there was nothing doing. It was clear ly evident that the wait would be a lengthy one so the people roamed about the grounds amusing themselves the best they could. The wait was te- dious one but when the band on it's homeward march was heard, announc- ing the arrival of the parade, the faces of all again wore that circus look. It was after 8 o'clock when the doors were opened and from that time until $40, when the band emerged from the side tent for it's go around followed by gailye dressed women, elephants, camels, etc., the people crowded into the place in q steady stream. The show finally opened and for two hours the entertainment was continual. Everybody was pleased with the whole show, which includes many new acts, in addition to those without which no performance would be Minting, the daring cyclist who rides up and down a spiral coiled about one of the big ten poles; Starr, the man who rides down ladder from I1,, t1,A tnr, ,f ta,1 and the ten Picchianis, tumblers, were among the new ones. "Soo sees" band, whose leader looks as much like the great Sousa as the name of the cari cature sounds like his, was there and was the side-splitting event of the day. To one who is apt to look upon that band from the critical standpoint and to view it only as a band, it will be simply a lot of clowns living up to their parts in the circus. But to one who hears the band and regards it in the light in which it is presented, a cari- ,ature, that discordant playing is cer- tainly, a work of art and the exagger- ated antics of the leader are those of a born actor. Anybody can make discords but it takes skilled and clever musi-
 
 The clowns in that band who are chosen as soloists and who are repre- sented as Sousa's cornetists and trom oonists are masters of the instruments which they play. Every one who looks 1t the band in the light of an apt in yenious burlesque of the great marine | 1and canot help roaring at the musi- ,ians and who will have something to augh at long after the circus is gone.
 The acting of the seals, elephants, | horses, and the big bear was wonder | ul, the seals doing feats in balancing | hat would discount the work of the or linary men. The aerial work was sim ply great and not an accident of any | Ifnd marred the performances of the lay. May the same show come again.
 G. K. Goulding, well known news ,aper man of Columbus, O., is press gent for the circus and won the favor if all by his genial ways and manner. He is very capable and efficient press gent Everybody forgave the circus or it's delay when it became known low the show had been hindered in get 1 ing here.