Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-27
Big Crowd Enjoye
Very Good Show.
Daring Act Of DiavoIo Is :
Nerve Racker.
Prodigious Porthos Also Perform. :
Hair Raising Feat-CIowns Were All
Funny-Many Pleasing Features and
the Days Events.


afternoon. and those who missed m,
show in the daylight took it in at
night. 1t was just the kind of a day
for going to circus-bright and sunnv
and hot. The last all understand
about, without having a word moro
said on the subject. Besides il was a
good show and that added To the
pleasure of the day, for there's q lot
more in circus day than just going and
seeing the show. To be sure the show
is the main thing, but one sees the
crowd and that is no small part of tho
enjoyment to be derived. There is
more different kinds Of people. more
varied styles of dress, people from
more different walks and stations OF
life to be found i'm circus crowd than
in most any other gathering of people
it is possible to assemble In this re-
sreCt it is way ahead of the country
fair crowd. Again there is the street
parade and it is always a source of
pleasure and then there comes the pea
nuts. pop corn and the lemonade of diff
ferent cOlOrs. These are last. but by
no means least. as any one who ever
really took in 4 circus understands.
According to schedule the trains up
on which the Forepaugh and Sells
Bros. circus is transported from place
TO place. should have reached Augusta
about 4 o'clock, or earlier, on Tues
day morning. AS is usually the case.
it didn't get here until nearly O'Clock.
The two trains are exceedingly heavy
and the haul from Bangor, where the
show appeared on Monday, is long
one, which accounts for the delay in
arriving here. From the time that the
first train arrived in the Augusta
yard up to the departure of the last
one. this morning, sometime after mid
night, the circus people We're busy. It
was instructive to watch the manner
in which the cars were unloaded and
the way in which the big tents were
put up at the grounds. At night it
was equally as instructive to watch
The shows was taken to pieces. packed
up and loaded upon the cars for trans
portation to the next show town.
Owing to the lateness of the trains
reaching this city the big street parade
was late i'm starting, so that it did not
leave the grounds until 1880 o'clock.
1t moved over the advertised route and
was witnessed by a crowd which filed
the sidewalks and overlooked upon the
lawns. fences and doOrsteps for, the en-
tire length of the rOute"It can be safe
ly said that no better street parade
was ever seen in Augusta that that of
Tuesday. The wagons, harness, were
all clean and bright, while the horses
were well grOomed in every respect.
The people too. were clean and there
was none of the slouchiness about
them so frequently seen in circus street
parades.
And right here let it be said that
there is no more noticeable feature
about the big show than it's people.
They are all young, good looking and
have a prosperous appearance. which
would indicate that they are not
picked up from the sums Of the big
cities.
Outside of these mentioned features
the parade was pleasing. for it con-
tanned much that was interesting and
which. though having been seen be-
fore. has the charm of always appear
ing new. Away back years ago in the
first street parade which We ever saw
there were elephants. camels. male ana
female riders. not so many, perhaps,
as in yesterdays. cages of animals and
a steam caliope, but it all seemed new
and novel. yesterday. just as on that
hot summer morning in the years
which have gone. never to return.
when the good mother took us to town
to see the circus. That is the good
thing about circuses. they never grow
old. No feature of the parade was
more taking with the crowd than the
"rube" wagon at the end of the line
This was a hayrick filed with hay in
which rode three as clever acrobats
as one could wish to see. all dressed in
the regulation "rube" costume. They
performed stunts all along the route.
1t was a good circus, as remarked.
There was two hour Of solid enjoy
ment under the care4es for the big
crowd which went and. while one
wouldn't have cared to have attended
both performances the same day. they
could stand it on an average of once
a month during the summer and always
be entertained. In the big tent, which
will seat ten thousand people. there
We're three rings and large stage.
was going on in each Of
these every minute and it kept the
eyes busy endeavoring to follow the
whole show. After you had done this
for a time you gave 1t up and devoted
your attention to one at a time. There
We're SO many good things presented
for the entertainment Of the parons
of the show that it IS impossible to
even mention the great part Of them,
though each and every one richly de-
serves a lot OF adiectives being said
about them. The best THAT it is pos
sible is to mention tpe most conspic-
uous of these.
OF the first Of theseeis the act of the
Seven Lecussons. They performed in
the center ring. Briefly they drove in
to the ring in a Partisan brake drawn
by four horses. while one of the
young women drove the rig about the
ring at lively pace the remaining
seven did all kinds oftacrobatic work,
upon the backs of tte horses, in the
brake and on the grd1ad. They stood
upon one anothers Ahoulders in the
brake and three twfst1Fs landing upon
tho Eorsac apS &la,, ra%orca1 tho thiuO