The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-06-18

Trick Bicycle PerfOrmance-1n
Slack Wire Walking of Silverton
Family Best of the Kind Ever
Seen Here.
A large crowd present to see the
grand show and everybody was
pleased. AS matter of fact, there
| is not bad or uninterestin9 act in
the entire performance. All of the
old, regulation circus acts are there
and are we'll performed but the
novelties and more elaborate fea-
lures are what attract the greater
attention. claim the deeper interest
and make the audiences faith in
"the circus" 60 up peg or two.
Well. Ordered Arrangements.
And another feature worthy of
comment, is the well-ordered ar
rangements. iTicket purchasers are
kent in line by men who direct
them to the ticket wagon. From
there they gain easy entrance to
the menagerie through the double
gate system. and it is the same in
the manner of direction by attend
ants in the big tent. The unfortu-
nately usual rough element of at
taches is happily missing with the
Sells q Downs United Shows, as
all OF those with whom the aud
fence comes in contact, are polite
and Obliging.
For half an hour or SO before the
doors to the main show opened the
side show did thriving business,
as hundreds were on the grounds
early. 1t is good lot of acts that
this adjunct contains. Then it was
to the menagerie that the throng OF
humanity made it's way. The spec
linens here are in some respects
unusually novel. The little camel,
lions, lioness and bears are sights
not often seen even with the largest
circuses, and are most interesting.
Another animal in the collection
worthy of mention is the spotted
hyena. 1t is said to be the only
one in captivity. The animals in
the collection are as varied as Is
found with the average circus.
From the menagerie it is then a
hurry and scurry to the big tent,
and an impatient waiting for the
performance to begin. After the
band-an excellent One-has enter
tanned the audience for half an
hour or so, the usual grand pro-
cession" begins. 1t is headed by
the elephants and camels, the
riders of both sexes, richly ca.
parisoned, the characters, zouaves,
ETC., following. Then follows the
usual circus programme of bareba ck
riding, trapeze and ring perform
ing, tumbling, slack wire walking,
etc. II is worthy of note that al
= of these midair performances are
done without the use of net un
derneath and are as daring as any
other circus shows.
The Martell Family.
!, The first feature worthy of espe
cial mention was the Martell fam
lily of bicyclists. There are five o
> them, a man, a woman, a boy an(
two little girls, who look to b.
y about and 6 years old respect
. lively. A better cycle act than thi
has probably never been seen ii
Q Frankfort. Their riding is grace
l full, their tricks are difficult, ant
! they are accurately done. One o
: the most novel and interesting
L parts of the performance was tn
n riding on the single wheel. Th'
g two male members of the famil.
= get into an ordinary cart whee
with some of the spokes removed
and whirl around in 1t almost a
rapidly AZ they ride the bicycles
g The slack wire walking of tn
l.. Silvertons is little short of marvel
Y Gus. Two men and a woman per
form on the wire at the same tim
and do some of the most Difficult
tricks. They do cake walk OF
the wire, keeping time TO the must,
6 and going through all the figures o
the walk. The act is finished witt
the woman balancing herself on tn
wire and leaping over chair an
table and reeaining her balance oil
the wire.
Spectacular Zouaves.
The most spectacular act and on
of the prettiest is the drilling O
the Pontiac Zouves. 1t is Difficult
to imagine more of military precis
ion and regularity than they Show
and their whirling movements ar
all easily and effectively executed
The finish to their act is u sensa
tional wall-climbing performance
The trained seals give wonder
full performance. especially tn
balancing, which the animals d
with various objects placed upol
their noses. The Garcinetti famil.
do some very clever acrObatic work
especially the elder female mem
Der of the troupe. The ROschett
brothers do a sensational and ex
citing barrel jumping act. TIL
double bareback riding act @
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