The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-12
COMING NEXT WEEK.
I he Famous Ferari Trained Wild Animal
Show.

The big feature and principal attrac-
ton in the amusement line at the Elks
carnival next week will be the colossal
collection of trained wild animals pre-
scented, exhibited and trained in the
| mammoth fifty foot steel arena under
the personal direction of its proprietor
Col. Francis Ferari. This particular
exhibition was before the Inaugural
tion of street fairs in America, the
recognized amusement institution of
England, where for forty years 1T sus-
tanned it's established reputation for
exhi biting the largest and costliest
collection of trained wild animlas in
the world. Since its arrival in this
country it has more than doubled its
former size. Its costly massive ex-
terror is in itself worth travelling a
hundred miles to see, for nothing like
| it is on either side of the Atlantic
ocean can compare with it for it's per-
feet beauty. This magnificent front
and entrance cost alone fifty thousand
dollars. built of solid oak and embel-
ished by the master carvers of the old
world with beautiful designs of statu
airy and wild animals these are pro-
fusely and richly covered with pure
gold and upon the massive panels are
reproductions in oil of the worlds best
artists Five hundred French plate
mirrors of unique design are extrava
gantly inlaid over the entire vast ex
terror which measures one hundred
feet in length, twenty-five feet in
height surmounted by domes of great
value and structural beauty. Occupying
the center of the great double entrance
| lisa mammoth Partisan pedestrian that
cost to import from the Paris exposi-
tion ten thousand dollars this equals
in volume and tone forty perfect per-
formers. This magnificent musical in
vention, together with the entire ex-
terror are at night time blaze of
light and glory. Hundreds upon hun
dreds of beautiful colored incandescent
lights add richness and luster to the
scene and the fairy tale of Aladden 8
lamp is almost verified in actuality.
Then comes its startling and sensa-
| tional exhibition of human. daring
and wild animal training. In the CEN
ter there is erected a mammoth fifty
foot steel arena, the animals are trans
ferred from some of the smaller travel
ing dens into this great enclosure and
while therein turned loose with no
combining bars to impede their move
ments, daring trainer enters and puts
them through the most remarkable
| performance ever witnessed. The most
prominent among the greatest trainers
today appearing before the public, is
Princess Delaware, the famous lady
animal educator who was formally the
greatest Euporean feature of the
Hagenback shows in Hamburg, Ger
many. She exhibits this season the
most sensational wild animal perform
ance that could be imagined. After
many months of tireless training that
runs into years. she has succeeded in
breaking for exhibitional purposes in
the great arena, five full grown forest
bed African and Nubian lions, they
are taught to play see-saw like child
rem, roll barrels, leaping objects, form
beautiful pyramids and tableaux pic
lures and walk the tight rope. Madam
Pauline Deere another lady trainer of
great note will enter the arena and
perform with the most treacherous
and ferocious of all wild beasts, South
American panthers and pumas. Fatima
! the Chochee Chochee dancing bear that
has made millions laugh and one of the
cleverest animal actors today in the
world will also be feature. Captain
Ricardo, an old time trainer, hunter
and trapper will with group of great
| Asiatic male and female lions vividly
portray the spectacular production,
entitled the "Lion Hunt" Col Woods
known as the man without fear who
has accompanied the former Prince of
Wales, now King Edward on many a
junlge hunting trips, will enter the
cage of the fercest untamable lion in
the world known as Paul Kruger. Vir-
tually at every exhibition he takes his
! lire in his hands, and gives battle
royal to finish with this untamed
monster. In addition to all these fam
GUS features collection Of more than
| twenty lions is exhibited as we'll as
happy family groups of monkeys,
coons, badgers, dogs and goats living
! together in one cage, together with an
assemblage of bears, wolves, hyenas.
and almost every kind of beast that
creeps or walks. The Col. Francis
Ferari shows are really an educational
institution of the very highest order
and are invariably at every exhibition
crowded to its capacity by the best re-
representatives. of both sexes and little
children. You will certainly not see
the best feature of the street fair and
carnival unless you pay visit to this,
the best and richest of all trained wild
animal exhibitions.