The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-28

plans, he must give place to somebody
who can, for the public is not to be
lured year after year into an erena
where the same trick elephants do the
same tricks; where the dancers wear
the same costumes of the year BEFORE
and the acrobats do not jump any
higher than they did during the previ
Gus season.
So it happens that this year is tc
have some new things in the circus
line.
The engagement next Friday of the
great Adam FOrepaugh & Sells Broth
ers' combined shows rouses the Ques-
ton of, what this season is to bring
forth that will not bore the circus dew
otee of ten or twenty. seasons stand
ing and what will make the circus
worth while. s.t.z.gs
Of ali the new features none has
been so extensively advertised as the
Looping the Loop" on an ordinary BIZ
cycle. Wheelmen have done all sorts
of tricks that seem impossible until
one sees them displayed, but for a
rider to speed with his bicycle path
over his head is something that has
not been tried heretofore. 80
The loop is the track. e9
It's diameter is twenty-five feet and
the incline from which the rider gets
his start is 10 feet long and slants
about As degrees. Mounting his wheel
at the top Of the incline, Diavolo, for
such is the riders circus name, glides
down to the beginning of the loop at
such a speed that he strikes the up
ward curve with a pressure of 900
pounds, nine times his own weight.
The track is. a strife over three feet
WIDE Diavolo circles the inner peri
phery of the huge circle and is conse-
quently upside down at the top and
going at the rate of about 100 miles per
hour.
The time it takes to make the loop,
if the rider is not killed in the try, is
about three and one-half seconds by
actual count.
Another new attraction Of very
different kind is the drill of the Aurora
Zouaves. Until the past two years this
body of amateur soldiers has been
celebrated for it's wonderful maneu-
verings in military shows and tourna-
ments, where it has often astonished
officers of the regular army by its ia
cility in marching and other martial
accomplishments. 1t is made up of
young men from Aurora, ILL.,, where it
was organized fourteen years ago.
The words, Human Birds of Pas
sage" would mean anything to the av-
erage man unless he saw them on the
billboard two weeks before the circus
was due, and even then he would have
to think hard before grasping their
significance. The Human Birds" Of
whom managers speak so affection
ately, are the most expert representa-
tives of those aerial contortionists who
learn to forget there is such a thing as
distance or dizziness when they find a
perch on a trapeze fifty feet above
terra firm. This variety of the genus
avis has heretofore generally flown in
pairs or triOs, or QuartetteS, at the
most. The new wrinkle with the Fore
paugh-SellS circus is to have a flight
of seven of them at a time, and it is
! asserted by the circus agent that never
before in the history Of circuses has a
flock of seven human birds been gath
cred together to delight the public.
These seven birds are members of the
Ryan-Zorella troupe of aerialists.
Numerous acrobatic performances
are announced, but particular atten-
ton is called to the great Eddy family,
seven in number. Handicapped with
evening costumes, the women in long
skirts, they accomplish +he most mar
VelOus gymnastic stunts.
The La Carmen company of wire
| walkers perform feats on a slender
cable stretched high in the air that the
ordinary performer would find difficult
| in performing on the ground.
These are but few of the many
! features announced in preliminary
! proclamations. There will be all of the
| regulation acts that a big circus should
have and many performances that no
| other circus has ever presented.