The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-06
FoREPAUGH & SELLS SHOW ON
aooDE STREET.
Estimated That 10000 Persons Wit
messed Two Performances Yes
terday-Few Arrests and No
Accidents-Daring Act
Of Diavolo.

The circus has come to town and gone
away and its coming was the signal for
holiday in Montgomery. Great crowds
of visitors were in the city and they
thronged the streets and made merry.
Two audiences of tremendous proper
tons filled the immense tents which were
stretched on Goode Street, near Jefferson
Davis Avenue, and the people present at
the afternoon and night performances left
the great tent feeling well repaid for
having patronized the entertainment
The management of the Adam Fore
paugh and Sells Brothers shows won
friends in Montgomery. The features
which go to make up the circus perform
ance were notably clean and wholesome
Some of them were thrilling. some of
them were instructive and all of them
were entertaining. The menagerie is
complete. This department of the great
show was especially pleasing to the young
folk.
An absence Of rowdyism was observed
both about the circus grounds and in the
city and few arrests were made although
the police department was augmented.
Incoming trains yesterday morning
brought swarms of out of town people
here to see the circus and all country
roads in this County led to Montgomery.
Little boys. big boys, country boys and
city boys were present to pay homage
to the elephants, the clowns and the
whole circus outfit. Their sisters of all
descriptions were there, too, not to speak
of their fond papas and mammas, their
uncles and their aunts.
The streets of Montgomery were crowd
ed as they have not been crowded in a
great many months, and despite the
throngs of people in the streets the pleas
ure of the day was not marred by sim
gle accident. Street cars were crowded
as they have not been crowded before and
many additional cars were operated on
the lines leading circus-ward.
The first of the four trains conveying
the paraphernalia of the Forepaugh and
Sells circus reached Montgomery about
1880 o'clock yesterday morning from Co
iLmbus, Ca. where performances were
given Tuesday. The other trains trooped
along behind and all of the morning an
army of canvassmen, and helpers were
busy transferring the cages, wagons,
tents and other parts of the outfit to the
Goode Street lot.
These circus canvasmen, hostlers- and
helpers, by the way, are an interesting
lot They are not merely human drift
wood according to popular belief. Indeed.
many of those with the Forepaugh and
Sells shows are said to have happy homes
They are simply beset by 1.-THE circus
germ Noah and Calliope Jack for ex-
ample wagon drivers, have been with the
show twenty years. They are sober,
cteady men, Badger, the mahout. or ele
plant driver who cares for the big herd
of pachyderms has been with the show so
long that he has forgotten the date of
his first connection with 1t.
1t is interesting to know that the pay
of canvasmen, bill posters and helpers is
from $40 to $50 month. Half their wages
is handed to them on payday, the other
half is held back, in accordance with
contract they are required to sign. until
the end of the season. Thus, at the be-
ginning of winter the men receive a sum
of money otherwise they might have
spent. OF course the pay of expert men
and performers is much greater, the SAL
aries of some of the performers reaching
the three figure mark for week
The street parade did not get down town
yesterday until 1890 o'clock. 1t was af-
ter the order of the usual circus parade,
but more of 1t, and the wagons, horses,
riders, calliopes and clowns wendell their
way through a vast throng of admiring
people.
From the time the parade left the
streets until 2:3O o'clock, a steady stream
of people thronged towards the circus
gan it was estimated that there were
5000 persons in the big tent. About the
some number was present at night.
The circus features took place in three
rings. on two stages and from a maze of