Evening star., 1902-04-30
FoREPAUGH-SELLS CIRCUS.
A Great Parade and Big Audience at
First Performance.

The great Forepaugh-Sells show has
reached Washington and is giving an exhi-
bition this afternoon at 18th and u streets.
The show, which comes from the Madi-
son Square Garden, New York has added
many new attractions. The street parade
today interesting, and thousands of
persons lined the streets along the itinerary
and appreciated the attractions given.
The aggregation of elephants Is perhaps
the greatest ever seen in Washington. The
herd gave a right about movement in front
of The Evening Star building. The trainer
showed that he had the monsters under
perfect control. The big beasts moved with
the precision of an army and obeyed the
commands of the trainer as If they had
been soldiers.
The parade started from the grounds
early in the afternoon. 1t did not reach
Pennsylvania avenue until II o'clock.
A circus attraction is different from any
thing else. Old and young alike appreciate te
an occasion that brings enjoyment. So it
was eOday.
In the Post Office Department officials,
chiefs and clerks were at the windows. Over
at the patent office a similar condition of
affairs existed. In public buildings, in
business houses, everywhere interest in the
parade of the first circus of the season waa
manifest.
Gus parade at the beginning of the season
The newly painted wagons, the gilded char
iots-everything is fresh from the winter
quarters.
The Forepaugh-Sells mana cement has ex-
pended many thousands of dollars in bring
ing together an aggregation of animals
and circus attractions that is better than
has ever before been attempted by any
circus management.
Many of the old-time features of the old
time circus and menagerie are retained, be-
cause there is a demand for them. But
the management has not lost sight of the
fact that there is always a demand for the
new.
This seems to have been the one thing of
all others that predomnates In the present
campaign of the Forepaugh-Sells show
One is brought back to his younger DAYS
when he sees the acres of canvas out at
18th and D streets. The big show reached
Washington on schedule time. Tents were
up on schedule time The Forepaugh- Sells
management has surrounded itself with
capable and experienced men and women
There could not be a failure.
The beginning Of a season almost always
finds things In an unsatisfactory condition
1t would seem that there must be mistakes
and there might be delays. Not so with
big show like the Forepaugh-Sells.
The small boy was in evidence at the cir
Gus grounds this morning. He was there
hours before the first stake was driven. The
combined military forces Of the govern
ment of the United States would be made
quate to deprive the ordinary American
youth from seeing the first circus wagon
arrive.
The Forepaugh- Sells show of this season
Is better than ever. Every seat was occu-
pied at the matinee today Every one who
attended the performance left with the hon.
est belief that 1t was the strongest collec-
ton of features that has ever been given
under a circus tent.
Minting, who rides unicycle, the single
wheel of a bicycle, up and down a narrow
spiral tower, Is indeed a marvel His
work was lauded by the press of New York
during his engagement with the big show
at Madison Square Garden.
The ten Peerless Potters, made up Of the
best four troupes of Europe, are making
ready displayed that they have no equals
as acrobats.
feature that pleased society, which was
| out in great numbers at today's matinee
| was four cakewalking horses. These ami
mais have been trained to initiate to per-
| lection the peculiar dance of the modern
| Ethiopian. To the melodies of rag-time
| these horses prance and assume all the
| pleasing positions Of a person dancing.
| Miss Emma Stickney, daughter of the
| famed Bob Stickney, who for many years
| caused the amusement world to marvel at
his daring bare back horse riding was given
| an ovation. 1t would require a page to tell
/ OF the many new features that the Fore
| paugh-Sells management has brought with
| 1t on this biennial visit to the national cap
| ttal. There Is everything that one could
wish to amuse and instruct.
| Mr.. Peter s. McNally. an old-time Boston
| newspaper man. is looking after the inter-
| ests OF the show. Mr.. Whiting Allen, who
| is renowned as a wielder of adjectives, and
| Is Nle author of the literature of the Fore
| paugh-Sells and the Barnum-Bailey shows
| is in the city assisting in the work