The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-04
2 FRIENDS OF LIQUOR 1T is CIRCUS DAY.
Great Forepaugh- SeIIs
Shows This Afternoon
and Tonight on Cam
erOn Field.

Today is the day the small boy has
been waiting for these many weeks.
And (speak it in a whisper) l Wouldn't
be surprised if his daddy had the date
marked on the calendar himself. It's
circus day, the biggest holiday Of all
the year. Something sort or maglcal
about it, isn't there. Makes SlugglSIl
blood course a little faster, and, after
it is all over. makes a fellow feel a
little better for the living. Common
ground for the high and low and a
pretty good place to see an eXempll-
ficatiOn of the American spirit OF nd
crafty. But to the subject.
The circus is coming to town today
the great Adam Forepaugh and Sells
brothers Enormous United shows.
Rather neglected US last season, was
out West for the summer. Great
many new things the show has got
since it was last here. The advance
announcements call it a feature
show" and the pictorial posters bear
out the statement. Big acts and many
of them-that's the promise made. A
thrill minute through a three hours
programme this afternoon and tonight.
Lots of novelties and among them
performances that have never before
been seen in this country until the pres
ent season of the circus.
The two biggest thrillers promised
are the feats of DiaVolO and Prodigi-
Gus Porthos. Diavolo's performance
has been the greatest sensation in the
circus world since he first fooped-the
loop on his bicycle with the Fore
paugh- Sells show. Other shows have
sought to secure an imitatOr, but with
out avail. But this devil DiaVolo
must look Wei to his laurelS this sea-
son, for Prodigious Porthos has as lit
tie fear Of death as the loop-the-loop-
list. Porthos is sort of a human fly
ing machine. He rides down a steep
incline on his bicycle and shoots off
into space like a rocket, bridging
chasm fifty feet wide, hurdlfng the
backs of ten elephants, alighting on
i platform ten feet high and then
riding down a short incline to the
ground. 1t is said to be the most pic
turesque bicycle performance ever at
tempted.
Numerous features from abroad
that are to be seen for the first time
are announced Among them are the
Seven Lecussons, in their wonderful
melangc of equestrian and acrObatiC
acts, entitled "On the Way to the
Grand pix Race, Paris, introducing
a four-horse park, brake. both animals
ana NSIlClE DellS uIlllZcu III tire
phenomenal performances given. The
Szarvasi Frencz Troupe of Hungarian
Magyars, whose almost prehistoric
acrobatic dancing and musical per-
fOrmanCes have never before been
seen outside of their native land. The
four most popular and versatile of all
French clowns. the Martineks, whose
freaks and follies are added to those
Of nearly half a hundred clowns from
everywhere. Mons. Hubert the most
original and amazing of all bareback
jugglers, accompanied by his cham
pion equestrian dog, and among whose
phenomenal feats is included jumping
from the ground To the back of his
horse While holding up sulky by its
thills. and balancing a park cart OF
his chin, after presenting q remarka-
bic juggling program therein. The
Eddy Family. recognized as stars of
the first magnitude J. in every great
arena, and who now for the first time
introduce their new and original aerial
stage acrobatic act-a feature never
heretofore attempted.
OF champion riders there are two
score or more, and included among
them are the champions of all coun-
tries and all schools of equestrianism.
The Aurora Zouaves, the best drilled
soldiers IN the world. who created a
furore in Madison Square Garden,
New York, continue as one of the big
features.
Persons who enjoy the thrills that
come from aerial sensations Will have
their fill. The famous family of Fly
ing JordanS have returned from a
worlds tour TO become a feature of
the circus. Their flights, Dives ard
somersauts from traDeze to trapeze
and to the hands of one another way
up underneath the dome of the can
vas are said to be sufficiently hair rails
ing for the most exact. Then there
are the aerial Lannon'S. who perform
wonderful stunts on a slender cable
high i'm the air. These are but few
OF the aerial sensations.
And speaking of clowns There will
be two score of them and they come
from all countries and represent every
school of fooldom.
Many features have keen added to
the already big menage~ie. A collec-
ton of fourteen full-gIoWn Polar bears
viii be an original and novel feature.
No show ever before exhibited more
than one. There are a score of ele-
phants-big and little-and included
in the number are the famous Fore
paugh dancing elephants and the Sells
Brothers drill elephants.
OF course there will be a street pa
rade, and it viii be quite a brilliant
pageant representing as it does the