Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-24
co AS CIRCUS.
Barnum X Bailey Outdone at the Aud
 itorium Last Night.

itorium Last Night. Great was the circus and great was the attendance on the opening night of the much heralded Company A cir GUS at the Auditorium last night. Bar mum S Bailey were really outdone and certainly it was the biggest surprise that was ever sprung on the public or this city. There was a sort of circus odor as you approached the Audltorl- um, and as you entered the corridor you were certain that there was can vas above your heau and you looked for the glaring gasolene lamps and the tiers of seats reaching to the top of the canvass. They were all there, for did not the grand balcony and Carson City and the side galleries make you think of the two ringed circus. There was the menagerie, containing wild ami mals, some of them too wild, captured in the forests, east, north, south and west. Some of those animals had been so carefully trained to the ways of the civilized world that they even present. ed human expressions. Some were not so civilized and they 1onged for the wild woods, and to the woods they will be sent when the circus is over Some had a thirst. and high or low ones, 1t made no difference to them as long as they came their way. They ate rayenously, they drank copiously and they growled and roared glorious iy. Some were old and some were young, but wild they were and we'll they knew it.
 What was that which next greeted your ears? Why, the cry of the hawk CT for the side show Did you go in? Why, of course you did, if you wanted the whole thing. Freaks and mon- strosities, fat women, wild men from Waterville, Hopeville, the Abrigador, Brooklyn, out east, out west, up north and from Waterbury. A collection of any old thing, and all living and breathing
 Next you were startled by the tramp of many horses and out into the ring pranced the gay jockeys and the beau | tful 'jockeyesses.'' Round and round | the circle went the prancing steeds, snap, snap, followed snap, of the ring masters whip. Who was the ring master, did you say? Why, Markus | Hanna Reilly, the world renowned suDduer of animal life, when 1t is dead | What did he wear? Why, clothes, of course. You did not suppose he would do the altogether" Yes. sir. he wore clothes, and they were the real things, too, and if you don't believe it ask the ladies.
 The next came the real thing, "the i Bender Trio" and they can bend to beat the band. "The Bender Trio' is composed of Master Rivers and the two little Shelvey boys of this city. Their | act last night was neat, pretty and one i or the best of the evening.
 Signor Dublin Stout, the Sandow of < the world or any other place, came next. Marvellous was his strength and astonishing his tests. Luckily the floor had been fastened down with new nails, or that that, too, would have ascended in to the air with the other articles
 Then came Leon Morris and his ponies, one of the greatest acts ever performed in circus. No better trained animals have ever been seeen | In this city, and the two wrestling E ponies in their work with John Hedge. | the colored attendant, set the audience [ Wild with enthusiasm. This feat alone IS worth the price of admission.
 Mile Onanag, in her thrilling dash [ through space on her fiery steed, made | the people hold their breath and their pocketbooks. Graceful and dashing. 1 she won the hearts of the public as well as the "Rube." And that "Rube" Will never forget his ascent into air. l Talking about the ''Rubesw they were birds and no mistake. What a splen- 1 did lot of "coppers," too, and how well they did their work to stop the riot
 LaVelle and his trained dogs came next, and that leap for life made by one of the troupe is wonderful He climbs to the top of the building on q ladder erected almost perpendicular ana leaps at the command of his own | CT to the floor below.
 NIX Mc1oy and Tom Whaley in- | dulged in several passes at each other and each needed several infections he Tore and after they finished.
 me performance concluded with | Haa!i Tahar's flying whirlwinds tba | oervishes of the desert. All wera skilled acrobats and it was a fiittine ,oncluslon to very novel and excel [ lent performance.
 IT you did not go last night oo +o. Iighr or tomorrow night; and if von dld go last night, go again to-niebt and enJoy an eyening of good snort