New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-28
THE CIRCUS is COMING.
NONE OF ITS WONDERS sURPASs THE
FRENZIES OF ALLITERATIVE AL
FRED. ITS PRESS AGENT.

With the orocus and the daffodn and the modest
violet and the outpourines from the heart OF the
simple poet who sings of vernal things. comes also
the circus. AS surely the hillsdes in the coun-
try turn tinlidly green before the chill of the
March winds has fairly blown away, just so surely
do the bboards of the city blossom into all the
cclors there are, employing az. their wondrous tints
and shades to herald forth the wonders of the
tented city At or about the season OF the
year. when the young mans fancy is doing its
annual leaning in amorcus direction, the circus
press agent shakes off the sloth sluggish winter
sharpens up all his old pencils and some ones,
orders inexhaustible supply Of stmulants. in
Guiding it is suspected dope" of the strongest
and most Oriental. shuts himself up in a thought
proof room and cogitates most horribly The latest
products Of his seasonable frenzy have just been
torn from his reluctant hands and given 20 a wait
Ing world The glories sings he, of Adam Fore
paugh and Sells Brothers United Shows. which
will display themselves at the Madison Square
Garden for sixteen days. beginning on Wednesday
evening next.
Apparently The press agent possesses an unshake-
able confidence In apt alliterati lrtf aid" for
he has rid his teeming brain of a generous packet
Of phrases that reduce pitItul and whimperng
estate the authors OF Round and round the ragged
rock the ragged rasCals ran" and that other
favorte Of the strawberry festival and the baked
bean supper which rocounts the performance Of
Peter Piper with reference to quantity OF picked
peppers. Listen. il you doubt. 10 the far rolling
wor6s Of Alliterative Alfred.
DEED OF DAREDEVIL DIAVOLO
First o; all he blazons forth the renown entirely
prospective as yet, Of the danger deridlng and
death defying desperate. daredevil Diavolo" who
loops the loop on a bicycle This wondrous person.
ladies and gentlemen. "dashes daringIy down a
distance OF hundred feet until his wildly vhirl-
ing wheel strikes the closely coiIing concentric
circle OF the loop. DeliCately and daintiIy but cool
~ and calmly. he steadily swerves his wheel and
the tremendous momentum gained in the dizzy
descent carries him up and. a rate OF one hun
dred miles an hour. around the inner periphery OF
the upright ring. Man and wheel turn complete
somersault in midair. Emerging from the loop the
intrepid Davoo continues TO circle the arena pass
ing in close review the bewildered and weIInieh
delirious spectators"
There now!
One risks nothing in saying that however hair
raising Is the feat Of danger deridng and death
defying desperate, daredevil Diavolo II = as
nothing 10 the thrilling chronological gymnastics OF
the awfuly agile and attractively Alternative
Alfred. who thus celebrates his stunt OF course
II IS extremely desirable to witness the delicousy
dangerous deeds OF Diavolo Alliterative Alfred
haze pretty exciting eyenng BY oG 3q bo G1n
and reading what Alfred has to say about il
But Alfred has only just started in when he gets
though with Diavolo lie takes another pun at
"Stupendcus spectacle Of splendor in the streets
Inc miles or moving massiveness and magnihcencs
by countless eiecfrc search ana sac
making the night gioriSus and the parade superb
Here also. among other spi sndors. says Alfred
and hundreds OF handsome horses and the
music Of many military bands will smte the
smiling sky. The last four words Alfred's
but II IS impossible TO read his luscious langorous
language without getting sympathetic
ALFRED TAKES ANOTHER DOSE
Here Alfred pauses long enough to take another
dose from the hypodermc needle, and when this
begins 10 get in its work he writes Of all kinds OF
real genuine exciting thrilling races in the huge
heroic hippodromes," wild. savage and untamable
beasts who have their native habitatlon upon every
n very and V, oil
tiger. which be found in massive dens Sc
cuTely confined, and with them a monster hppo-
many others of the oldest of natures creatures all
have their home with this astounding asserlblace
reader turns the trembling page he behods:
Princes and princesses OF the peripatetic pedals.
and go roller skating stts"
After rolling another pill, Alfred turns his at
tention 10 the humorous features. VI the show. He
calls the attention OF the doWncast ana Smt-
ten Of fortune the coming colossal congress OF
clown curers." and tells of tons Of telling
have beneited thereby They arc he AYERS a
phenomenal phalanx of phantasticaI phuriousIy
phunny phellows. silly and sedate short and stout
smile securers scott free" and "lcvaI legion
OF LONG and lean laugh liberators let loose; In a
simply surprising series of skits. scenes scream
oceans Of happy laughter for the ships of Joy to
Now these appear to be the final words OF AL
lucrative Alfred for they appear on the last page
of the announcement What became of Alfred is
If he knew whero 10 ind him he would Of a
surety hasten TO his home and hold his hand and
are no doubt, exceeding wonderful but are they
half as wonderful Alfred himself? If thew are
Alfred writes proudly that not a sentence used in
last wears circus literature appears in the Dres-
anywhere else There is onl" one AIliterative Al
fred.