St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-07-27
What she Forepaugh-SeIls Brothers
Popular Aggregation Has Been
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Adding.
| Judging from the testimony of the eye,
| the great Adam Forepaugh and Sells
| Brothers Enormous Shows United, which
are to visit St. Johnsbury on Saturday,
| July 80. is the most strongly, expen-
| s1vely and stikingly heralded enterprise
| in the world, and, measured by the
quantity and quality of it's announce.
| ments, it has to be. This is the SD year
| of continuous management by those
who directly control it, and that they
| have thoroughly learned what the masses
long and look for in tent entertainment,
| is apparent. Among them for the first
! time here, and, in fact, anywhere except
| under their canvases, will be seen those
| perennial Partisan favorites, the seven
| Bruin Lecussons. These remarkable per-
| formers appear in the only original
| equestrian acts known to the circus for
| the past half century. The Szarvasi
| Frencz Troupe of Hungarian Magyars,
| with unpronounceable names and incom-
parable exhibitions OF their kind, are
| new and novel phenomena of the peculiar
| dances, heroic acrobatics aud mysterious
melodies of their prehistoric race. Da-
vOlo, whose terrific achie vement of
looping the loop" on bicycle has
caused such universal amazement and
comment, is now associated with two
other equally marvellous cyclists; the one
being Prodigous Porthos, who masters
the almost incredible feat of leaping a
fit y .foot-wide chasm on his Wheel and
the other, Cyclone, in his wildly, wond-
rous ascension of the absolutely perpen-
dicular inside circle or The Devils Chin
ney," on his bike. Mons. Hubert, the
extraordinary, arenic French innovator,
among other originalities, leaps from the
ground to the bare back OF his horse
while holding alofl sulky by its thills.
An Arctic feature, which would almost
stagger the Ice Trust, has been added to
the menageries, in fourteen living, full
grown Polar Bears, the greatest number
of these ferocious animals ever seen at
one time by human eye.
The show under consideration was
the first to introduce whole clown
circus, to whose eminent caricaturists
and laugh-makers, are now added the
four Martineks, introducing among other
Partisan hits, the Miser and his Gold,
French boxing matches with the feet,
and other Frogland eccentricities. Here
we have also what may be denominated
a martial new departure in the tented
field. The military section of the street
parade presents representatives, in Old
Glory's triumphs from Concord to San
Juan, clad in the uniforms and carrying
the weapons used in all the intervening
time. So world-famous in champion
manual and drill contests have the origi-
nal and only Aurora Zouaves become,
that little need be said in praise of their
pre-emineut efficiency in arms and action,
reco gnized every where from West Point
to St. Petersburg. Something like one
hundred different eques trian aerial, aero
batic, gymuastic and animal acts are
spread upon the millionaire menu. The
stupendous Adam Forepaugh herd OF
elephants still participate in stately
quadriles and ninuets, and the Sells
Brothers mammoth military tuskers
march and maneuver after fashion to
make the Gar hunger for them. The
horse show is another blood-royal and
fascinating feature, which horsemen unite
in pronouncing unsurpassed. The cake
walk executed by four of them was
acclaimed hy all New York as the crown
ing quadrupedal feature.